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[pamelaaminou]

Sugimoto's Monochrome Mastery: A Black and White Perspective

For the past few weeks, Sugimoto’s exhibition has been at the top of my must-visit list. Having previously encountered his work solely through online platforms, the desire to immerse myself in his art firsthand became irresistible. As a devoted black and white fine art photographer, stepping into Sugimoto’s exhibition at the Hayward Gallery felt like entering a realm where time stood still, and…

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[princesswind]

{ 𝕷𝖔𝖚𝖎𝖘𝖊 𝕭𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖎𝖘 : 𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔚𝔬𝔳𝔢𝔫 ℭ𝔥𝔦𝔩𝔡 } ℍ𝕒𝕪𝕨𝕒𝕣𝕕 𝔾𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕣𝕪 i. 𝕹𝖊𝖊𝖉𝖑𝖊 (𝕱𝖚𝖘𝖊𝖆𝖚) 𝟣𝟫𝟫𝟤 ℂ𝕠𝕝𝕝𝕖𝕔𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝔼𝕒𝕤𝕥𝕠𝕟 𝔽𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟, ℕ𝕖𝕨 𝕐𝕠𝕣𝕜 ‘𝒲𝒽𝑒𝓃 𝐼 𝓌𝒶𝓈 𝑔𝓇𝑜𝓌𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓊𝓅, 𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓌𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓃 𝒾𝓃 𝓂𝓎 𝒽𝑜𝓊𝓈𝑒 𝓌𝑒𝓇𝑒 𝓊𝓈𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹𝓁𝑒𝓈. 𝐼’𝓋𝑒 𝒶𝓁𝓌𝒶𝓎𝓈 𝒽𝒶𝒹 𝒶 𝒻𝒶𝓈𝒸𝒾𝓃𝒶𝓉𝒾𝑜𝓃 𝓌𝒾𝓉𝒽 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹𝓁𝑒, 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓂𝒶𝑔𝒾𝒸 𝓅𝑜𝓌𝑒𝓇 𝑜𝒻 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹𝓁𝑒. 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝓃𝑒𝑒𝒹𝓁𝑒 𝒾𝓈 𝓊𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝓉𝑜 𝓇𝑒𝓅𝒶𝒾𝓇 𝓉𝒽𝑒 𝒹𝒶𝓂𝒶𝑔𝑒. 𝐼𝓉’𝓈 𝒶 𝒸𝓁𝒶𝒾𝓂 𝓉𝑜 𝒻𝑜𝓇𝑔𝒾𝓋𝑒𝓃𝑒𝓈𝓈. 𝐼𝓉 𝒾𝓈 𝓃𝑒𝓋𝑒𝓇 𝒶𝑔𝑔𝓇𝑒𝓈𝓈𝒾𝓋𝑒, 𝒾𝓉’𝓈 𝓃𝑜𝓉 𝒶 𝓅𝒾𝓃.’ - 𝓛𝓸𝓾𝓲𝓼𝓮 𝓑𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓰𝓮𝓸𝓲𝓼 ii. 𝕴𝖓 𝕽𝖊𝖘𝖕𝖎𝖙𝖊 𝟣𝟫𝟫𝟤 𝔽𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕥𝕚𝕠𝕟 𝔹𝕖𝕪𝕖𝕝𝕖𝕣, ℝ𝕚𝕖𝕙𝕖𝕟/𝔹𝕒𝕤𝕖𝕝 𝙸𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚎𝚗𝚌𝚎𝚜 𝚊𝚗 𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚟𝚊𝚕 𝚘𝚏 𝚜𝚞𝚜𝚙𝚎𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚘𝚗; 𝚊 𝚍𝚎𝚏𝚎𝚛𝚛𝚊𝚕 𝚘𝚛 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚝𝚙𝚘𝚗𝚎𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚝 𝚞𝚗𝚏𝚘𝚕𝚍𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚘𝚏 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚖𝚎𝚖𝚘𝚛𝚢. 𝙴𝚊𝚌𝚑 𝚜𝚙𝚘𝚘𝚕 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚝𝚜 𝚊 𝚍𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚌𝚝 𝚖𝚘𝚖𝚎𝚗𝚝 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚒𝚖𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚊𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚜 𝚝𝚘 𝚊 𝚠𝚑𝚘𝚕𝚎, 𝚠𝚑𝚒𝚕𝚜𝚝 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚝𝚑𝚛𝚎𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚎𝚍𝚕𝚎𝚜 𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚝𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚒𝚗 𝚝𝚑𝚎 𝚙𝚒𝚗𝚔 𝚘𝚋𝚕𝚘𝚗𝚐 𝚏𝚘𝚛𝚖 𝚜𝚞𝚐𝚐𝚎𝚜𝚝 𝚙𝚘𝚜𝚜𝚒𝚋𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚝𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝚘𝚏 𝚛𝚎𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚗𝚎𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. . . . #louisebourgeois #letsdolondon #haywardgallery #southbank #southbanklondon #visitlondon #southbankcentre #needleandthread #sculpture #sculptures #art #monday #mondayart #london #londonart #theazventure #londongallery #londonartgallery #londongalleries (at Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/CdVlA_jKsKQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lukasnovo]

Very conrete-y corner at Hayward Gallery.⠀

[arthistoryhelena]

hello! this is just my first post to get started - I always feel it’s easier once you’ve made a start, no matter how small.

this blog is to pursue my own interests in art history 🎨🎨🎨 but also to consolidate on what I learn in class. occasionally I will put my own art/photography on here (as I have done with this post) 😮, but it will be mostly other people’s stuff.

I would also like to add that I am committed to decolonising the traditional history of art that focuses on white, middle-class, straight, able-bodied, European men and excludes pretty much anyone else. this may be difficult as I am most of those things (definitely not a man though) so in no way is this blog meant to speak on behalf of those groups who have been excluded from historical narratives. however, I hope the platform I offer will be inclusive and integrate artists so that they are viewed with the same respect given to ‘great masters’ like Monet, Da Vinci, etc.

I will also try and make this accessible in the way that I write it so art history stops becoming a discipline full of a narrow group of privately-educated individuals who are overly academic and come across as pretentious. this makes art history seem exclusive and misses out a lot of valuable narratives and experiences of art (you don’t have to like all art and it defo doesn’t have to change you as a person every single time!!!)

general format of the info in this blog will be as follows:

Artist (date), ‘Title’ [medium]

place of origin

movement/style

subject

key formal characteristics

socio-historical context

my own comments

anyways: the photo on this post isn’t just here for decoration!!

Helena De Gorrequer Griffith (me!!) (2018), ‘Plastic bags & plants 1′ [digital photography, colour]

South London (my back garden lol)

This was part of my Fine Art A Level, where this photograph formed part of a triptych in preparation for my final piece

Supermarket carrier bags cover plants in your average back garden, which are then illuminated. The translucent bags conceal the form of the plants, but then the light gives some (but limited) clarity on what is underneath the bag.

The composition is arranged in a triangular shape to suggest a supernatural, eternal element, and (obviously this would be clearer in comparison with the other photos) the colours are centred around the primary colours. This is the blue composition. There is a stark contrast between the dark and the light in this photo (chiaroscuro) which places the focus on the plastic bag and the plant, isolating it from its surroundings. The sharpness of the texture of the plastic bag is also explicit, which contrasts with the blurred forms of the bluebells beneath.

This was made during my last year at a Catholic Sixth Form, so lots of my work was affected by religious imagery. The use of a triptych was common in my work (I also like the number 3 so that was p influential ngl), and, in this particular photograph, the shade of blue resembles that worn by Mary. The use of a triangular composition to point upwards in reference to heaven was also influenced by this. Growing up in an age of consumerism but also mounting concerns about the environment, this set of photographs was a comment on the increasingly disposable culture of capitalism, where the aim was to have more stuff for the sake of having it, regardless of the consequences on the environment. This photo could be interpreted as nature being suffocated by humanity’s greed, but also the emerging concerns about the environment which were becoming clear (this was the age before Greta Thunberg, but a storm was a-brewing). This contrast of man vs nature can be reflected in the textures of the plastic bag that appear sharp and rigid placed next to softer textures of flowers and natural forms, producing a symbolic conflict of interest.

It has been a while since I’ve gone back and explored this, but the pieces I produced from this are works I am very proud of (they’re on my wall in my bedroom). Particular influences on this work are Huang Xu (the photographer, not the gymnast) who does a lot of photography around the theme of pollution, and Andreas Gursky, whose exhibition I saw at the Hayward Gallery. I liked his work so much that I bought his book last year, and I really like his whole portfolio. The works that particularly influential were photographs that focussed on the theme of consumption and digitally manipulation to give the idea of immense sizes (huge buildings, endless shops, massive crowds) but also isolating them so that they are the sole focus of the composition. I really like producing photography (I do it as a hobby for my Instagram and for the bants) for my artwork as I feel it’s more immediate and I always enjoy editing colours/contrast etc to turn the photo into what I originally saw in my head. However, I also really love the painting side of things, so love the combination of using photography as a source of inspiration for painting. It gives me an opportunity to play around with colour and form in a different way, and it is also really satisfying to see a finished painting. I’m lucky I can paint fast, though, because I do not have the patience to spend hours and hours on a piece - if I didn’t have this I wouldn’t be half as bothered about art.

[rey-zorro]

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[m35art]

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Hicham Berrada, Mathematical Omens, 2019. #hichamberrada #structure #mathematics #algorithm #m35art #haywardgallery @hayward.gallery (at Hayward Gallery at Southbank Centre) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzd4_EGj88N/?igshid=1fd507obu5liu

[strodefad]

An excellent day in London with the UAL level 3 and BTEC Art Foundation Diploma Students, now all working on their level 4 Final Major Project.

‘Tracey Emin’ at the White Cube Bermondsey, great gallery and exhibition, lots of discussion and apparently Tracey herself was in the gallery, according to students who are sure that they saw her. Then walked to the Thames via Borough Market and past the old Clink Street prison and Operating Theatre. Then into the Hayward Gallery for Kader Attia - terrific show ‘Museum of Emotion’ and the Dianne Arbus photography retrospective, both inspiring. Then an hour in Tate Modern before all back onto the coach to Somerset. A great way to conclude the term.

[jonhigham]

Diane Arbus, Hayward Gallery. I was very keen to see this gifted New York photographer  who was only 48 when she took her own life. She clearly immersed herself in her subject matter and with her subjects. Obviously some superb photography on show. I loved the medium format work in particular and on some prints the rough edges around the shots and focus - thoughts turned to the setting up my darkroom. I don’t wish to overkill any photography for my project with the same exactitude I put into my digital work for clients, but put the importance on the subject and message and above all embrace the accidental.