Art By River

  Awesome tiny bone collections found in Hopkins Nottingham   Doll parts and marbles  Collections of random things but they don't really have much meaning  Still, pretty  with everything neatly in boxes  aesthetically pleasing but not everything fits neatly in boxes

  Tristram Aver Exhibitions curator around notts museum's and galleries for 16 years Tristram knows Nottingham well and local artists. He completed a fine art degree but decided not to pursue a masters. Has worked in every gallery in Nottingham besides The Contemporary. Working with turner prize winner artists. The castle is over a thousand years old, Grade 1 listed site. It recently had 32million referb. Deer park and Williston hall also connected. (bryon is not a legend, (Newstead) He is a very naughty man!) Tristram spoke to us about all the exhibitions he has put on (mostly in Nottingham Castle) alongside showing some of the work of these artists which was really diverse and so many different styles shown. I found it really interesting on what a curator has to go through and provide for artists. Some exhibitions facing complaints or controversy and giving us an idea of the relationship between the castle and contemporary and how it is received.  Tristram took us into his person

  Collections Barbie Dolls Barbie doll collector Bettina Dorfmann owns 18,500 dolls and holds the Guinness world record for the largest Barbie doll collection since 2005. Dorfmann received her very first doll in 1966 when she was 5 years old and has been collecting for over 30 years.  uncanny valley.  dolls are empty shells.  small human replicas.   creepy Isla de las munecas  The island of the dolls Located in Xochimilco canals near Mexico city, an island covered in hanging, mutilated or decapitated dolls. over 3000 dolls.   1950s, Julian Santana Barrera. deand girl in lake with doll. he collected since to warn off evil spirits 

Wow what a chat we had today! I have always wanted to know what art my lecturers make behind the scenes and today Tom shared that with us as a group. He shared his art journey from his young scoundrel days. Sneaking into art colleges to teach himself, avoiding actually signing up and paying for the course, found a space and started creating. Breaking rules while looking like a main boss from The Lost Boys? Go on!! I felt inspired by the creative craziness, no care for others opinions, he likes to express his art and brain thought processes fully! You will be involved and immersed before you've even realised it. Whether its shouting about his passions in the streets with a loud megaphone, asking you questions in brightly fun coloured suits while pushing paraphernalia in a wheelbarrow, sailing down rivers and upsetting mundane fisherman or jumping into creative installations in an abundance of museums and galleries. This was so much fun and a beautiful insight as to who is not only t

Wolfgang Buttress. The Hive. 2015.  Created at first for the UK Pavilion at the 2015 Milan Expo but moved and is now situated in the gardens in Kew.  Wolfgang created this stunning piece of contemporary art that stands at 17 meters tall constructed with 170,000 aluminium parts, it has 1,000 Led lights, gives of musical notes performed in the note of c which is the same key as a bee sings in. Beautiful.    This impressive construction won a Landscape Institute Award. I find honeycomb so very aesthetically pleasing. It pleases my odc in art. Tidy lines and equal spaces? This simple looking design would look cool as some illustrated background or of course for printing.   The Hive | Kew Wolfgang Buttress

Critical Studies Essay on Authority What makes an artist an artist?/Who makes the rules around here? In our current contemporary society there is much more of an open approach to exactly what is considered to be Art. How do people own that title of an Artist? and to be recognized as one? Must every budding creative go through years of training before they are seen as a professional artist as apposed to a keen amateur? Modernism, new materials and new approaches are now defining what art is and this revelation is opening up to more and more people. I am interested in looking at this Naive Art style with artists who have left a legacy, who have made their marks on this world even though they have never studied any art training. I wish to also explore those artists whom have worked in such a way that hits the Naive Art criteria, these artists wanting to work in this style themselves even with an art educated background. Naive Art Characterized by a child like perspective and simplicity. O

Transgression and taste Transgressive art =  found in any art which is considered offensive or has shock value. It is an explicit rejection of traditional.  Exploring transgressive themes threatens our sense of cleanliness and propriety.   Transgressional works share some themes with art that deals with  psychological dislocation and  mental illness. You can see e xamples of this relationship, between social transgression and the exploration of mental states relating to illness, included in many of the activities and works of the  Dadaists ,  Surrealists, and Fluxus -related artists.     Dread Scott Born; 1965 Chicago, Illinois (58) Awards; Guggenheim Fellowship 2021 and  United States Artists Fellowship in 2020 Dread Scott's Flag. Protesting the current state of America. He exhibited his piece "What Is the Proper Way to Display a U.S. Flag"  A collage hung on a wall features coffins and South Korean students burning the American flag. Below this is a ledger sat opened u

Peter Goodfellow.  Illustrator on War of the worlds album cover British. Middlesborough. Born 1950. Died 2022 (73) Completed a degree course at Central school of art in London 1967- 1971 Started freelancing in the 1970s illustrating book jackets working on Arthur C. Clark`s Tales from the white hart.  In 1978 Goodfellow created works for sci-fi king Phillip K. Dick, designing some of his book covers. Goodfellow then found his big one with Jeff Waynes War of the worlds. Creating the most beautifully eerie landscape scenes for the album cover of the production. Goodfellow also wrote a book alongside David Starkey, Roger Scruton and Duncan Macmillan published on 30/09/2015 called Treason of the scholars where he slates contemporary artists Tracey Emin and Damien Hirst by claiming they are destroying the quality of the craft. Rude. It is a shame learning this as I really appreciate the scenes he painted for the War of the worlds album cover and inside book but I also appreciate Tracey Emin