Lisa Stansbie King Midas 2004. Film Still. Developed from Delacroix's painting Liberty Leading the People (1830)‘Modern and contemporary artists have continued to engage with questions of history and its representation in a context in which our sense of history is inevitably filtered by the concerns of politics, gender, post-colonialism and ecology’
David Green History Painting Re-assessed (2000)
This project is aimed at developing a relationship between History painting/Old Masters and Contemporary Art. You are being asked to deconstruct the ideas, contexts and visual language of a painting in order to create a new art work.
Using the painting as a point of departure you are to create a piece(s). This can be in the form of drawings, mixed media, sculpture, photography, video, painting or performance. You only have the period of the Easter holiday for ‘making’ so be adventurous but realistic.
While undertaking the artwork you are to document the different stages that the pieces goes through, showing ‘evidence’ of the decisions you have made. This should be in the form of digital images. When the piece(s) is finished photograph the final piece.
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Part Two: Fictional Writing
During the holiday you need to collect as much information as possible about your selected ‘old master’ artist and the particular painting you have chosen. When constructing the blog in the workshop you will be asked to write in diary format as if you are the artist.
It may be useful to research other artists blogs if you are unfamiliar with the format of a blog.
Contemporary Contextual References for creating an artwork:
Glenn Brown, Thomas Struth, Tom Hunter, Yinka Shonibare, Andy Warhol (Last Supper), Duchamp (Mona Lisa), Adi Nes (Last Supper), J. Ariadhitya Pramuhendra (Last Supper) Peter Greenaway, Tim Bailey, Jeff Wall, Cindy Sherman, Martin Greenland
