Types Of Making

Marloes ten Bohomer is a Shoemaker who stretches her pattern and wets her leather to help her mould the shapes she requires.

She started off by studying Product Design. This helped immensely within her career as she believes in re-thinking shoe making – therefore combining her Product Design skills with her Fashion skills. She tries to keep all her manufacturing within her studio as self-production is important to her.

I find her work inspiring, she constantly tests the function and look of conventional and non conventional shoes. Her designs come across as they have no limits.

 

Shauna Richardson is a Crochetedemist, who creates crocheted animal pieces by doing freestyle crochet over a solid form. She does this by only one stitch but in many directions and ways.

“Anything can be art”

 

 

Matt Durran is an Artist, Curator and Glass Designer who uses his skills to help within the Medical world. He uses casts made from silicon of patients noses t bend the glass over and melt in a kiln. This is then used as a mould for patients that are awaiting surgery.

 

Stephen Wessel is a Flute Maker, he experiments in making a light weight flute by using different materials to see what works well and looks visually the best. He does all this by hand using very traditional methods.

“Making is life to me, it’s what I do”

 

“As a Soul Maker I have complete control over every aspect of it and know every bit intimately”

 

“Always room for the craftsman”

 

(The Power of Making (V&A, 2011))

http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/videos/p/power-of-making-chef-jacquy-pfeiffer

 

Black Mountain – Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)

He is an American pop art printmaker and photographer, his original name being Milton Ernest Rauschenberg.

Rauschenberg realised his passion for art in 1947 while he was in the US marines, when he had finished his time in the marines he moved to Paris to study at Kansas City Art Institute and Academine Julian.

After only a year in Paris he moved to America where he started his time at Black Mountain College, while he was here he was influenced by Albers to do the complete opposite to what he was taught, developing Rauschenberg’s artistic style.

He mainly focused on questioning the relation between art objects and everyday objects. He would use a lot of everyday items within his work such as heels, tennis balls and tyres.  The work he exhibited was sometimes influenced by his travelling and the practical art work he did while he was around the world visiting different countries.

Later on in his career he started to experiment more with materials like aluminium and plexiglass, this again developed his ideas and thought processes.

These are a few examples of his work, each using slightly different style;

 

(Hoarfrost, 1974)

 

(Monogram, 1959)

 

 

 

 

(WaterStop, 1968)

 

 

 

(Retroactive)

Out of the pieces I have chosen to show, this piece is my favourite due to the layout of the piece and how many pieces have come together to make one piece. Each section of this piece is interesting, capturing your eye more and developing more thoughts and feeling within you as a viewer. This piece even though 2D is very textured and has dimension, this is probably due to the printing technique he chose to use.

 

 

 

(Canyon, 1959)

Bauhaus: Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)

He started out in Odessa when he was a child, where he learnt to play music and draw.

However his family wanted him to become a lawyer, which he did in Moscow in 1893. In 1896 he gave up his career in law to dedicate his full time to painting and art. He was greatly influenced by the exhibitions he saw at this time, giving him enthusiasm for his work. In 1896 he attended a private painting school, ran by Anton Azbe.

 

‘Holzschnitt’

Kandinsky started off his painting career in black and white which is very far away from what he did later on in his career, that was full and bold in colour. In 1908 he settled in Murnau which stimulated his landscape drawings, which is where his idea of spots and line forms developed.

‘Park of St Cloud’

This piece I really like due to the vibrant colours and how textured the piece is. The colours blend really well, and does give a realistic feel. The warm colour use definitely illustrates Autumn well, making you yourself all warm.

‘Blue Rider’

‘Old Town’

From 1901 onwards he organised a lot of exhibitions to show off his work along with work from other phalanx members. During the war Kandinsky’s style varied from half – abstract idiom, impressionist landscapes to romantic fantasies. Apart from his art work he also wrote books and articles on art and line and form. in 1922 when he returned to Germany he accepted an invitation to join Bauhaus where he taught and developed his theories. His work was very symbolic for example, the circles he used he saw as romantic.

During 1926 and 1933 he painted over 450 pieces, which unfortunately most were lost due to the Nazis and the war.

” I remember that drawing and a little bit later painting lifted me out of reality”

(Kandinsky reflecting back on his work when he was older)