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Stills I took from one of Ryan Trecartin’s art films.

I learnt about Ryan Trecartin when I was draw to an image of his in the creative writing Pop art workshop and I had to make some writing around his work. 

After the workshop I decided to research into Trecartin’s work more it really inspired me. He makes the most eccentric and out there art films and they were really interesting to watch. I took the stills in the post from one of his videos as I thought his use of colour and editing was a great source of inspiration for the film work I want to make. 

I love the overlap of videos that you can see in the third photo and I also find the how the video layered onto of another film in the last still appears. Im keen to move my art practise responding to popular culture into film and Trecartin’s work helped to inform the start of my new practise.

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Found my mums copy of David Hockney’s ‘A Bigger Picture’ a collection of his work and writings in what has turned out to be a very interesting read that has taken up a lot of my time in lockdown! 

I was especially interested in how he created his films of the countryside as again I think it helped inform my own film when creating a response to art and popular culture.

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Since Ive been home, I was looking through all of my Dads books and found and interesting one on notable artworks. These were some pages on Roy Lichenstein I found; the book gives a concise description of the work with some background of Lichenstien and it was interesting to learn a more about an Pop artist who is also such a large household name.

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Interview With Photographer Maisie Cousins

The young British photographer talks about what inspires her to create intensely visceral images that challenge the standard of beauty.

Interesting article on Maisie Cousins; I especially enjoyed how she describes texture and why she is drawn too it in her beautiful Pop art imagery.

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Maise Cousins

Maisie Cousins is an incredible contemporary Pop artist and photographer that I rediscovered over the course of my time at home in quarantine. I had done a photo series based on her work for my Art Level and I found some of my old work whilst Ive been home. Finding her work again was so useful!! I wanted to create an art film but due to Covid-19 I am now back in the countryside but still wanted to make something. Maisie Cousins beautiful saturated Pop Art images of flowers and liquid and flesh really helped inform my latest experiments in film.

I really love the consistency and texture that you can see in her work and wanted this to translate into my own. As well as this the use of pastel pinks, shades of mint green and bright blue fit well with the colours I have been drawn to throughout this project. Moving forward I would love to experiment further with film and photography influenced by Maisie Cousins or maybe using the stills from the film clips I have and reinvent them into a 2D piece of work.

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The Re’Search (Re’search Wait’S)

 A Ryan Trecartin film that inspired me a lot in the terms of the possibilities of editing my own film. Originally I wanted to look at skating and my interests as a consumer living in Salford but as Ive come home Im going to have to rethink my Pop Art film. 

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Ryan Trecartin: Any Ever | MoMA

Exhibition. Jun 19–Sep 3, 2011. MoMA PS1 presents Any Ever, the New York premiere of the artist Ryan Trecartin's (b. 1981, Webster, Tex.) 2007-2010 body of work, produced in Miami with collaborator Lizzie Fitch and contributors ranging from friends and fellow artists to working child actors. MoMA PS1's first-floor Main Gallery will be devoted to the nonsequential series of seven movies, which are structurally conceived in two parts, one consisting of a trilogy, Trill-ogy Comp (2009), and the other a quartet, Re'Search Wait'S (2009-10). The movies are interconnected spatially via networked viewing rooms and materially by characters, semblances of plot, and formal, recurring motifs. Having emerged from the 2000s as an innovator of ecstatic new frontiers in art and cinema, Trecartin has been influential within the art world and among a broader, intergenerational set of thinkers and cultural consumers. Consistent with his work to date, this latest series mines emergent evolutions of identity, narrative, language, and visual culture for content, and propels these matters forward as expressive mediums, through darkly jubilant and categorically frenetic formal experimentations.

This was interesting to look at as it includes the photos of Ryan Trecartins’ exhibition space in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Its exciting to see how an artist who works mostly in film can still create an engrossing viewing space for his audience. The way that the space mimics the sets in his videos I found created a very absorbing and experimental show space. 

His work is unlike anything Ive ever seen before and his commentary on popular culture through these highly over saturated and noisy videos shows a massive variety of what can be created and deemed Pop Art; its far away from the super flat paintings of Murakami who has also heavily influenced my work.

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Alex Katz is not only an amazing painter but a very interesting artist and person and I found reading this article about what inspires him, the work he's till making at such an old age and his thoughts on the art world incredibly interesting. 

“You know, pretty girls, flowers, you can’t be serious. I refuse to make sincere art. Sincere art is art that relies on subject matter to carry it. An honest painter is one who doesn’t paint very well. And it shows!” 

Above is a quote from Katz responding to criticism about not creating serious art. I really resonated with this and I like the idea of making art for the sake of art.