Make do & Mend
Why are we working differently in school this year? The reason we have to work differently this year is because of a very contagious virus that can kill and spread if we are careless so thats why we are social distancing.
We work normally but when we leave and enter class we always have to be in straight lines and put on hand sanitisers every time we enter or leave a class. Artists are good at solving problems because we could make art out of it even if we are restricted theres always something to make art out of. They are good at solving problems because they are creative so they can easily think of away around the problem and artist are quite good at what they do so they could make helpful art that help encourage us. The phrase "make do and mend" means to re-use something old or something that we think we might not get any use out of like recycling.
In order to take a photograph you have to make choices. What choices happens when these choices are made for you?
I would tell someone to always follow their principles they have when it comes to taking a photo.
- I will take a photo in a area with good lighting.
- I will take a photo that looks good from any point of view.
- I will take a photo of any material that i can use.
- I will not rush when take a photo.
- I will follow all rules in the area when taking a photo.
- I will plan out of what and when I take photo.
- I will take a good photo at any opportunity.
- I will decide what can stay in a photo and what has to go.
- I will make rules for photography.
- I will follow these rules.
I would tell someone to always follow their principles they have when it comes to taking a photo.
Take a picture of a person stepping on a camera in front of a skate park or graffiti.
the most famous panting in the world - the mona lisa
Marcel Duchamp and Kensuke KoikeHere is some information from Wikipedia about this work of art:
"French pronunciation 'ɛl aʃ o o ky' is a work of art by Marcel Duchamp. First conceived in 1919, the work is one of what Duchamp referred to as readymades, or more specifically a rectified ready-made. The readymade involves taking mundane, often utilitarian objects not generally considered to be art and transforming them, by adding to them, changing them, or as in the case of his most famous work Fountain simply renaming and reorienting them and placing them in an appropriate setting. In L.H.O.O.Q. the objet trouvé "found object" is a cheap postcard reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th-century painting Mona Lisa onto which Duchamp drew a moustache and beard in pencil and appended the title. The name of the piece, L.H.O.O.Q. is a pun the letters pronounced in French sound like "Elle a chaud au cul", "She is hot in the arse", or "She has a hot ass" "avoir chaud au cul" is a vulgar expression implying that a woman has sexual restlessness." This has to do with ready made because the meaning of ready made means: "By simply choosing the object and repositioning or joining, titling and signing it." so he is signing it with a new name and even though there is not much of a difference its a new picture. |
KENSUKE KOIKE
Kensuke koike was a Japanese artist who makes a lot of ready-mades and is know for the work he has done with a lot of his ready mades and they are quite unique and creative he also makes stop animations with his ready-mades and he show that you can do a lot with other pictures.
My Response:
I tried to make a picture mostly like Kensuke Koike but I believe it also has some inspiration from Marcel Duchamp but I mostly tried to put in what i thought fit in with the pictures, I just did what came naturally and here are some of the pictures that i maneged to create using my imagination.
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I think what went well in taking and making theses pictures in that I was able to come up with ideas on how to use the photos and make them unique and i also tried to make one blend in with each other and make it seem natural in a sense i also tried other ideas like adding more people or using more interesting backgrounds and over all i think it went okay.
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I do believe there is some room from improvement in these photos I feel as if i could've been more creative with some of the ideas and i could have used things that worked more well with each other as well on the fact that i could have come up with different ideas of ways to cut and i should have cut cleaner so it didn't look as messy.
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We used pictures from a certain book and we took out the pictures and made pictures by cutting it and reforming the pictures to make something new and from our imagination. these pictures were random but unique and we tried showing our understanding of ready made by making these bizzare pictures.
3D > 2D > 3D > 2D
matt lipps
Matt Lipps creates large scale stages for cutout elements of images from old photography publications some of them recognisable as the iconic photos or images of well known artworks others are family portraits or other anonymous snapshots which he arranges in three dimensional arrays and then re-photographs.
The body wants to live
-- Matt Lipps
Daniel gordon
Daniel Gordon was born in 1980 in Boston, Massachusetts, was raised in San Francisco, California, and lives and works in New York. Described in a 2014 New Yorker review as an artist who makes Matisse look like a minimalist Gordon creates works that dissolve distinctions between collage, photography, and sculpture.
2d turned into 3d images
tabletop sculpture
editing pictures
collaborative instruction collage
prison photography
This video talks about Klavdij Sluban's experience taking photos in prison and what it was like and he talks about how the prisoners were confused about the photos but got used to it eventually which I found interesting because their prisoners their bad people so I wondered why they would let him take pictures so easily.
The short documentary showed me that being in prison is like this whole quarantine situation but worst but i feel like even if he said the prisoners let him take pictures so easily there might of been trouble with he guards or with someone and i also feel like he might be limited in each prison because once he gets all the pictures he can he cant really take anymore.
Nicolo Digiorgis’ Prison Photography
Prison Photography is a collection of photographs taken by the inmates of the Bolzano-Bozen Penal Institution during a weekly photography course taught by Nicolo Degiorgis over a period of 6 years, between 2013 and 2018.
Genre Photography Treasure Hunt
I decided to collect a series of photographs using a list of instructions:
- The view through a window
- Your reflection in a shiny surface
- The back of someone’s head
- A small object shot from a low angle against a plain background
- The palm of someone’s hand with the word ‘help’ written on it
- A smile
- A plant growing in the wrong place
- A cracked paving stone
- A pile of clothes
- The creases in a bed sheet shot from above (with nothing else included)
- A close-up photograph of a computer, phone or television screen
- A map
- The spine of a book
- The inside of a fridge
- The sky
- Part of a fork
- The sole of a shoe
- The ceiling of your bedroom as you are lying on the floor
- A photograph of a photograph
- A glass of water
virtual new york school trip
From screenshotting pictures of New York on a computer I`ve learned that New York is quite a large and lively place that has many tourist attractions and is definitely like the way its showed in a stereotypical American movie
experimenting with a found photograph
- Hold the photograph in one hand and photograph it with the other
- Take a photograph of your finger pointing at something in the photograph
- Take a photograph of your photograph with light reflected on the surface
- Take a super close-up photograph of your photograph (so that the edges are not visible)
- Photograph your photograph in an unusual location
- Photograph your photograph inside a book
- Photograph your photograph peeking out of someone’s clothing
- Put the photograph under a chair leg. Take a photograph of it
- Cover the photograph so that only a small part of the image is visible. Make a photograph
- Ask someone to hold the photograph in front of their face. Make a photograph
- Write a message on the back of the photograph. Photograph it
- Photocopy your photograph (enlarge by 300%)
- Photograph the photograph on top of the photocopy
- Make a paper aeroplane from the photocopy. Fly it. Photograph it where it lands
- Scrunch the photocopy into a ball (image on the outside). Photograph it
- Submerge the photograph in water. Photograph it
- Tear the photograph in half. Place the two straight (untorn) edges next to one another and make a photograph
- Tear the two halves in half again. Place all the straight edges next to one another. Make a photograph
- Place one piece of the torn image on the palm of one hand. Photograph it
- Throw all four pieces up in the air. Photograph where they land
google street view bingo
mindmap
blindfold collagesin this project we decided to make a photo collogues using blindfolds so we couldn't actually see what we were doing or what we were making and we also gave our selves different amount of time to make them in, we had a 15 minute time where we were blindfolded and a 2 minute time where once again we were blindfolded and a final 10 minute time where we could see what we are doing. here is some of the photo collages we made during that time:
10 MINUTES Sighted:Over all I believe that the outcome of the 10 minute time picture could have not not been made if it weren't for the 17 minutes I was blindfolded and I was cutting up pieces of paper I could not see and that exact reason is why I don't think this picture would have been made if we didn't do it blindfolded at first because I would definitely have not cut pieces of paper that randomly.
personal projectsIn my personal project I am making a photoshopped sculpture using pictures to make the actual sculpture then I would take a landscape picture and Photoshop the picture in that landscaped photo. But for now I'm first making a practice sculpture out of cardboard to see what to do and what not to do.
When making this sculpture my hardest challenge was making it stand up and i realised my first problem was that I need to make it balance because it kept falling over to the left so i decided to add a cardboard tube to the middle which made it stand up better but it still kept falling over so then i decided to give it feet which made it finally balance. now that i know what to do to make it work I'm going to next make maybe a more different looking sculpture but I m going to make it out of photographs I took.
Afterwards I decided to start taking pictures that Im going to use to make the actual sculpture and here they are: After taking these pictures I now had to narrow it to 10 pictures for that's how much I actually need but I may have used more and to do this I decided to use my favourite ones to make the sculpture.
my first step was making the legs and i used tape to hold it together then i added feet which i didn’t originally intend but it was really hard making the legs stand on their own so i added them and then that was the first part of the sculpture completed.
Afterwards i decided to add the lower half of the torso which i made using super glue then stuck to the legs using tape and at this point i decided to compare it to my previous prototype sculpture to see any differences between the two yet and i notice that despite not being finished its already quite big compared to the prototype.
now my first priority was to finish the torso which i made exactly the same way I made the lower half of the torso but when I attached it, it started to fall over and lose balance so I added a paper pole in the middle of the chest which i made the same way i made the legs just smaller then afterwards i made the arms which I thought would cause balancing problems but it didn’t and I also decided to leave one of the arms dangling a little bit to make it look more human-like.
After all I had to do was put on the head and it was complete and i decided to compare it to the prototype and notice it was a lot bigger but mostly because of the head i also felt like it had a lot more personality then the prototype mainly because of the fact that it was made out of pictures so it had a lot more colour and it really felt more artistic because of those pictures and it felt somewhat real.
When thinking about my project i wanted to make something creative and not another boring piece of art but I wasn't quite sure how to do that and all I could think of was taking pictures and re-arranging them in a certain way but then came the thought that when we look and hold things their usually 3D but in a picture everything is 2D so then i thought what if you could make a 3D picture that you can actually hold and touch and then i remembered a time in year 9 when we made photo sculptures and then i finally decided what I was going to to do for my project but first i wanted to make a prototype to see how I should make this and what i should and should not do.
Along making these sculptures I thought about what kind of of pictures I should take, what kind of pictures would make sense for this project so at first I decided to limit myself on the pictures I could take and decided i could only use pictures I found outside but in still wanted a sense of pictures of things man made and i got the idea to combine nature with things made by man so as you can see in the pictures the legs are made of a picture of iron bars and the head is made of a picture of metal but the rest of the body are pictures are of nature except the torso which is actually made of both I thought it would be a good idea to mix the both into one body part so on one side of the torso you can see construction work but on the other side you can see pictures of flowers and i purposely did this to confuse people, so people would question and ask why I decided to mix both nature and man-made pictures.
The final outcome of my project came out as expected. I did everything I was planning to do but I feel like that I still could've done more and I even had some ideas of things I could have done to make this project more creative for example one of the ideas I had after I made the pictures was to take another set of much fewer pictures maybe even just one but then I was going to Photoshop the sculpture into that picture and Photoshop the sculpture to make it seem real, to make it seem like it was actually in that picture but because of time I wasn't able to do this idea.
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