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More on Memory
I have recently come across a book entitled Contemporary Art and Memory by Joan Gibbons. Reading through the introduction it occurred to me that here were a lot of my thoughts written in a far more readable manner than I […]
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Is It Nearly Finished Yet?
“I believe that the quintessential task of every painter in any time has been to concentrate on the essential […]I had to wipe out details.” Storr(2002)p293 So said Gerhard Richter. Luc Tuymans was of the same mind when he […]
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Memory
Luc Tuymans has said; “It’s more about memory and mimicry, about (re)constructing what might have happened.” Dexter & Heynen(2004)p8 In her write up for an exhibition catalogue in 2004 Emma Dexter stated; “Tuymans uses these indirect means to explore not […]
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Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in East Germany on the 9 February 1932 but escaped to the west in 1961 just before the berlin wall was built. He refers to himself as a visual artist. “Richter has produced abstract […]
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Luc Tuymans
Luc Tuymans was born in Antwerp, Belgium in 1958 and began studying Fine Art in 1978. In 1980 he lost faith in painting and spent two years working with a film maker and producing his own short, experimental films. When […]
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Presentation for space in the Degree Show
Put Me In A Corner This image is taken from the web site for the Royal Academy for the Arts summer exhibition 2017. The summer exhibition has been taking place every year since 1769. It is always hung in this […]
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My Work This Semester
I have been looking at the way the Snapshot aesthetic has affected the work of many contemporary photographers and painters and will be posting blogs about some of them later. Now I am going to talk about the work I […]
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Snapshot Painting
I have recently been playing with an idea that I call Snapshot Painting. I don’t know if this term has been used before, I would have thought it would have been but I haven’t found any direct reference to it. […]
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Contemporary Painting
One of the first things we did when starting the BA in Fine art was to look through the book Vitamin P which has an introduction by the American art critic Barry Schwabsky who has some very interesting things to […]
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Untitled blog post from "Groping in the Dark"
Punch Fine Art – definition into a search engine and numerous sites will pop up on the screen, one of them www.Visual-arts-cork.com has a paragraph headed “Problems of Definition” which concludes “Because of this[…]it is almost impossible to define or […]
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Untitled blog post from "Groping in the Dark"
“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish? Son of man, you cannot say, or guess, for you know only A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, and the dead tree gives […]