Gerhard Richter

"Gerhard Richter (born Dresden, 1932) is one of the world’s greatest living artists. Since the early 1960s he has tirelessly explored the medium of painting at a time when many were heralding its death. He has produced a remarkably varied body of work, including photography-based portrait, landscape and still-life paintings; gestural and monochrome abstractions; and colour chart grid paintings. In autumn 2008, the Serpentine presented 4900 Colours, a major new work comprising bright monochrome squares randomly arranged in a grid formation to create stunning sheets of kaleidoscopic colour.
4900 Colours comprises 196 square panels of 25 coloured squares that can be reconfigured in a number of variations, from one large-scale piece to multiple, smaller paintings. Richter developed a new version especially for the Serpentine Gallery exhibition: 4900 Colours: Version II, formed of 49 paintings of 100 squares.
4900 Colours is in the context of Richter’s design for the south transept window of Cologne Cathedral, which replaced the stained glass that was destroyed in World War II. Cathedral Window, unveiled in August 2007, comprises 11,500 hand-blown squares of glass in 72 colours that are derived from the palette of the original medieval glazing."
I guess in a way we are exploring a similar concept.....a painting derived from a palette of our own colours?...Maybe!

Just a Quickie....

just came across this image looking on the web. I think its a great way of displaying box canvasses. Just a quickie for ideas. No need to discuss for a while yet. :)

Gerhard Richter

This was a painting i found by Gerhard Richter. He has come up in our group conversations many times which made me look into his work a bit more. I love his style and technique and i want to adopt the texture of his paintings within mine. Obviously he uses many colours which unfortunately is against our group rules. However, i like his work and feel it is a great technique to adopt. 

Sorry about the size of this image i clicked small but its being funny!

Cy Twombly

I am as always drawn to Cy Twombly's work and given that we are going to be painting it is a good excuse to look at his work again. Also his work is driven by humanity and the perspectives of!!! I.e. painting perspectives! I certainly agree with you Claire about the aura paintings, and am not keen, but as you say it seems to be the way painting portrays human aura's ...which makes me want to keep well away from that approach. I am inclined to take my lead from Twombly and work towards an introspective...but not.... nostalgic, romantic view of
human .....or in this/our case..... a feminine perspective.


This particular work (The Rose) is his latest...currently (which I why I used these images) at the Gagosian London.

Twombly works subjectively and I think with a subtlety not found in other, more renowned abstract expressionists of his time who err on the side over dramatising.
Well....that's just my opinion!!

Identity ....

I've just found this website : http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity/ This paper looks at the concept of Identity from a philosophical point of view, it's quite wordy, but goes into lots of depth and different ideas!

Another idea that I've just had about the whole concept of Identity, came when I just typed Identity into google and it cam up with a web site on how to cope with Identity theft....I could feel my brain starting to kick into gear.....what a cool idea would it be if we had eough time to do this......we could attempt to swap our indenties with someone elses in the collaborative group, it could be an interesting thing to experiement with........

It's Identity theft in a completely different way! Think about it, when you hang out with certain people you may pick up or relflex parts of their personailty, with out even thinking about it. It's a fairly safe bet for me to say that everybody on this blogg knows someone who cheers them up with their cheery nauture, or someone that sets you on edge because of certain types of behaviour!

Anyway, have gone off on a complete rant, will try to post more constructive things from now on!

Bex x x x

spiritual psychol - bablity

I've just been having an interesting read up on the internet on Auras, so i thought I'd just copy and paste some of the websites up and you can have a poke yourself!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aura_(paranormal) interesting overview, but not to be relied on, due to Wikipedias nature!

http://www.reiki-for-holistic-health.com/auracolormeanings.html this one has colour defintions, could be handy.

http://skepdic.com/auras.html just plain funny!

Bex x x

Everybody at large!

I've decided to head home earlier tomorrow, things that I need to get sorted at home! I'm sorry for any inconvience for everyone! Will see everybody soon :) xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Identity

Colours: Red, Grey, and i think Gold :)
Star Sign: sagittarius
Gem Stone: TurquoiseBirth
Flower: paperwhite narcissus
Chinese year : Dragon
Element: fireI think this is it!

xxx

Questions Questions

Have any of you ever played the question game that goes something like this?

1) If you were a car what car would you be? (I'd be a ford mustang)
2)If you were a flower which one would you be? ( I'd be a rose, methinks)
3)If you were a drink which one would you be? (JD and coke)
4)If you were an animal what would you be? (an Elephant)
5)If you were a dog, what breed would you be? ( an afghan hound)
6)If you were a classical God or Godess, who would you be? (Athena)
7)If you were a famous person who would you be? (Melvin Peake)
8)If you were a Disney charater what would you be? (Snow White)
9)If you were an era, which one would you be? (Victorian)
10)If you were an art material/tool what would you be? (I think acrylic paint)

Just a few here.......have a go at anwsering them yourselves, it could help people to produce a your painting :) and for us to learn a bit more about everybody!

Bex x

One more....

This piece is another which popped up in my research. I am posting it on here because this to me is a typical aura painting. Is the aura a circluar shape? That seems to be a popular choice when painting auras. I don't particularly like this painting but i think its good to establish what i don't want to achieve when painting my group's auras. As a group have decided to establish one colour within our paintings which looks more closely at personality as opposed to this piece.

Artist's Work

This was a painting i found of an artist who paints peoples auras. The artists name is Michael Puya. The colours and strokes are subtle yet striking. I like the light pastel shades which create a mystery within the painting. This is a starting point to look at when painting my group members auras.

Artists

post art when you can that relates to all the themes and ideas we are playing around with.

The Box idea

delving into our identity further, by the week of the 13th we shall create as a point of discussion a box containing objects that reflect our personalities. there is no limit to the size of box or the amount of objects (within reason) (approx.. shoe box size) these will hopefully form a depth to our work and an developing collaboration conceptually.

happy boxing

Collaborative Practice Rules

You must use the predominant color of each person including shades of this color, with only 5-10 % trace of another color.
You must not use the following materials, packets , text or anything recycled.
As a guidline only we have dicussed the use of textiles incuding beads buttons threads and safety pins.
The main media shall be paint with up to a 30% inference of another media type
No artists signatures on the front as yet as we are all part creators.
On the back of a single piece write who it portrays and who created it.
If we individually have ideas relating to the project they must be discussed at least via the blog before execution.
These canvas will be finished and presented to each other by they 14th of April

happy creating

identity

Colours: Royal Blue
Star Sign: Leo
Gem Stone: Ruby
Birth Flower: Sunflower
Chinese year : Rabbit
Element: Fire

Identity

Colours: Purple and Burnt Orange
Star Sign: Aries
Gem Stone: Diamond
Birth Flower: Honeysuckle
Chinese year : Dragon
Element: Fire

Looking at Identity

Colours: Lemon Colours
Star Sign: Libra
Gem Stone: Opal
Birth Flower: Bluebell & Large Roses
Chinese year : Dragon
Element: Air

Agenda

Hi fellow artists, this is a rough guide that has been set up so each collaborator is aware of deadlines, weekly tasks and absent collaborators. 

Monday 23rd March -  PLAN OF ACTION for this week. Ideas and (Create blog DONE)

Tuesday 24th March -    Discussion of ideas

Monday 30th March -     Begin Making   (Charlie away from 31st - 9th)

Monday 6th April (Easter) -   Clare away 7th - 11th April

                                                     Charlie away 9th - 13th April

Tuesday 14th April (Easter) - Charlie away 13th April

Possibilities of involving other collaborators?

Monday 20th April - Clare away 19th - 22nd April. Charlie, Bex and Suzanne can meet.

CONCLUSION TO WORK, Exhibition? (Connie) Final piece.

Monday 27th April - All meet and begin Presentation

Monday 4th May - Work on presentation Presentation

Monday 11th May - Run Through Presentation

Tuesday 12th May - PRESENTATION 

Friday 15th May - Collaborative Sketchbooks Deadline

The Beginning of Painting Perceptions

Hello,

Five of us are about to embark on a collaboration looking into how both people are perceived and perceive themselves through the chosen medium of painting. This will act as a spring board for our ideas to develop and isn't prescriptive or restricts us to any particular paths we want to take. The essence of our work is the focus on how well we collaborate together. Our group is formed through friendship and complementing Belbin Team Roles. The five main artists of this project are as follows; 

Bex Earley - Plant

Charlie Barnes - Resource Investigator, Shaper

Clare Nattress - Implementer, Resource Investigator

Susanne Davies - Completer Finisher

Tara Brown - Co-ordinator, Shaper

We welcome all thoughts and input into our project. 

Collaborative Practice

Welcome to Painting Perceptions

Welcome to Painting Perceptions