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George Wylesol

Objects in space, odd sense of movement, tension

Saul Steinberg

I’m going to look at this with fresh eyes in a couple of days.

Initial five outcomes. I am pleased with the concept, but I don’t think the visuals are there yet, I don’t know what is / isn’t working though so tomorrow’s tutorial should help. The colours are soft again, I don’t know if that is suitable. I enjoyed creating digital content.

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World shapes for the objects to be within. I created digital outlines because I wanted them to seem solid and accurate. I enjoy the three-dimensional values these bring

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Objects on and around each other

add photos (scan)

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Otto Dix 1948 works

Anne Redpath Window in Menton , 1948

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http://www.theartstory.org/movement-cobra-group.htm

Cobra Artworks. (avant-garde art movement which began in 1948).

The CoBrA group was a short-lived but highly influential artist collective formed in Paris. Named for the three northern European cities that its founders originated from - Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam - its approximately thirty members became known for their vigorously spontaneous, rebellious style of painting that was heavily inspired by the art of children and the mentally ill. With their intuitive methods, loose, gestural marks and strong colors, CoBrA artists have used of some of the techniques of New York School style of the same era. Yet CoBrA art is more political, and is more sensitive to the huge devastation of the European cities and people after World War II. Their democratic approach to viewing and making was inspired and further expanded what we now call Outsider Art.

The one preceding movement that the group did consider worthy of attention was Surrealism. As enthusiastic advocates of spontaneity in the art making process, CoBrA artists were especially interested in pushing the boundaries of the Surrealist idea of 'automatism', a technique that required a maker to surrender all command over their art making by allowing the unconscious mind to control their hand as they worked.

Surrealism (movement starting in 1920′s)

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/surrealism

Surrealism aimed to revolutionise human experience, rejecting a rational vision of life in favour of one that asserted the value of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s poets and artists found magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional.