# 7

hayward gallery, haunch of venison, royal academy

fine art now (and our last rotation wooo). our project is entitled "epic tour" exploring cultural identity. we were asked to bring in a 3D domestic ornament on our first day, and i brought in a touristic lamp in the shape of a gondola! the fine art studio was much larger than i expected, and was divided into 4 sections/rooms. within each room there was different 3D structure made up of 2D and 4D imagery which we were asked to draw from. i decided to take certain sections of each structure instead of drawing the structure as a whole.

this week i visited the hayward gallerys "move, choreographing you" exhibition. what i loved about this exhibition was that it was extremely interactive, and each piece invited you to touch it, play with it and even move it.  the exhibition was made up of installations and sculptures by renowned visual artists and choreographers, aiming to explore the relationship between visual art and dance. there were many scheduled live performance art, but unfortunately not on the day i visited. 

following on from that i visited the haunch of venison. the smaller rooms included "transmission - 3 young artists from london", and "loud flash" an enormous collection of british punk art taken from newspapers and flyers, but the main artists work that was being showcased was that of tom wesselmann. this painter, sculptor and printmaker is regarded as one of the leading figures of american pop art and the haunch of venison was lucky enough to hold the title of the most extensive exhibition of his work to date in the uk. what i enjoyed the most about his works were the larger pieces, that used assemblage as well as collage. 

a long trip around the royal academy's "treasures from budapest" left me quite disappointed. even though their collection of paintings was extremely vast (ranging from paintings by raphael and goya, drawings by durer and da vinci, landscapes by claude and canaletto, to impressionist works by renoir and monet)  i was hoping to see more of the works of egon schiele, as advertised ... being an admirer of his work, and as his drawings were the main images on the billboards and flyers "european masterpieces from leonardo to schiele" there was only one of his drawings there at the exit to the exhibition.

tuesday led us into an independent project "carnival of the street". i chose to go to oxford street to photograph a busy area, with a passing procession of human figures. my main focal point was a traffic light. i really enjoyed taking these photos on a fast shutter speed to get the feel of  a moving image. when i printed the photos out for class, my printer ran out of ink and gave the photographs this pink ghost like quality to it. i decided to scan them back onto my laptop and create a little gif/animation. heres the result!

thursdays studio time was dedicated once again to the 4 structures in the 4 sections of the fine art studio. we were instructed to stand in a circle around the structures, focusing on a small section. we had to draw that section on an acetate sheet, 3 times, each time moving one step to the left or right. max (the tutor) also introduced us to more artists who worked with animation including david lynch (6 men getting sick 6 times) and william kentridge. 

quick linear drawing from friday on A1 paper and further image based experimentations with a cardboard box.