Wangetchi Mutu

The colours are quite subtle and there are not many colours in it. There is a lemma on the illustration. Mutu has added some parts of the human body, this balances out the Co, ours by adding different tones.

The glasses and the leg act as a focal point and look like they might be very important. Because it is not clear at first what is going on, by out do not notice the details.

Mutu uses a mixture of organic shapes and man made materials.  The sunglasses and fashionable shoes with the fact that the woman leg is not very thin which makes me think that she is trying to make comment t about on society,  that society is very discriminatory.

The eye looks bruised, this could mean that people are willing to do anything for fashion or that she has been in a bad relationship.
The collage black line looks a bug like a spine. The bigger eye was put out of centre so that it would look in right place, compared to the legs. Most of Mutu pieces are to do with politics,  women right, race, sexual identity and international fashion industry.

She uses magazine imagery with painted surfaces and found materials, Mutu’s elaborate collages mimic amputation, transplant operations and bionic prosthetics. These collages creates provocative juxtapositions of the female body.
She was born June 22 1972 in Nairobi Kenya.

It is very abstract and some parts are realistic like the background.
The message might be that it does not matter how fashionable you are as this illness could happen to you.
The work give me mixed emotions because I do not know what she is trying to get across. It is confusing.

I did a response of her work at the left side on the same page. In my response,  it is a man's two legs playing football. I am saying that women can play football too. The eyes are not balanced,  they are out of scale and they look directly at you. I have given  her a bear because I want to say something about diversity and about the way people judge women as weak.

The reason why I research this artist is because I like her use of ideas in her work. Looking up at her and the reason why she creates her piece helped me to come up with the message of a woman wearing a horror mask which have a power of making her possessive. This mask which I could be making is only meant for men to wear only.

http://rogallery.com/Mutu_Wangechi/mutu-biography.html

http://wangechimutu.com/
http://nasher.duke.edu/mutu/art.php

clay health and safety

• What is COSHH; it is the control of substance hazardous to health
• What is the main hazard when working with clay; it is dust-silica-respiratable, crystalline silica (RCS)
• How can it affect your health;  it can lead to silicosis, lung disease.
• How can the hazards be minimised? You will have to wash tools equipment, surfaces and hands after wash. Recycle clay, slurry bin plastic bag sealed up, clay dried out in kiln room. The room should be  well ventilated and when filing wear a mask felting. 

Properties of materials used and how it affect what you do and how you do it

Plastic clay, it is soft moldable and damp. In this condition you can press thing into it.when objects are pressed into the soft clay it can leave in an impression.

Slab built cylinder vessel, it is leather hard but you have to Keane it yo harden slightly to stand up in a cylinder shape. You can roll it out when it is soft.  Left to hard  to roll into cylinder.

Slip decoration,  very wet and runny. You have to apply slip with a brush. It is use to attach pieces together also.  And let it dry to scratch into it. Thus technique is called sgraffito.

Glaze, very wet and runny. It can be apply with a brush or pour on so that it sits in all the indentations but the excess runs away.

Chapman Brothers

The Chapman brothers  grew up loving horror movies which they produce within their art pieces. They make works so that they could achieved a shock expression, anger and fear within the viewers. Their most infamous work hell was destroyed in 2004 in fire work where newspaper held it as an act of god but the Chapman started a new one. They produce their artworks to engaged with the world rather than expression. The audience looks at their works brutally which can  make them think that the brothers had a very bad childhood but they only produce pieces influencing them with movies and their dreams. They want the viewers to produce some kind of humanist surrealist where in natural fact the things are practically human. They do prints and painting, materials like watercolours. The original piece ‘fucking hell’ was lost an east London fire, which destroyed Charles Saatchi’s stored art collection. In the newspaper people said that it was an act of God ridding the world from these sadistic models.

They are the young British Artists (YBA) a group in London in the early 1990's. They were part of the 'sensation' this was a collection of contemporary art owned by Charles Saatchi which first took place on the 18 of September to 28 of December 1997 at the Royal Academy of Art in London and later toured to Berlin and New York.

In this outstanding, disturbing, dark work, it contains nine cabinets arranged in a swastika formation. Inside the cabinets are ten thousands of 2-inch high figures. Most figure are dressed in Nazi uniforms, performing ‘egregious’ acts of cruelty.  The name of the work is ‘fucking hell’ which in 199 shows the audience with combination of historical, religious and mythical narratives. 

Looking far away you will not see all the time consuming details but when I looked closer the first thing that got to my mind is gruesome because of the muted red colour representing blood lying all on the floor. Makes me feel anger and sorrowful for those innocent people who were hopeless to save themselves. At first watching the video of the work in full details, close up, the muted trees and the forky sky made my body to shiver giving out a clue of this piece been mystical and extremely violence.  Also it immediately tells you this is the kind of things you could find in horror films. Bodies been brutally shattered into pieces on the floor is very voem making a person wanting to vomit but yet you can’t stop but feel intrigued and raged at the same. 

The pigs eating the part of the rotten, gruesome, wrinkled bodies makes me want to cry and ask myself who in their right could do such a piece of artwork so brutal and without feeling sick to their stomach?  The slightly muted bodies shows that they are fresh while the darker ones shows that they have been there for so long. Again seeing those broken bodies makes the viewers to imagine the terrible terrific they must have been through-making us upset that we weren’t again to help them, we blame ourselves and feel guilt overwhelming us.

Watching a video of him explaining this piece of art I also understand that the world we live in is very cruel mainly people and starts to fear about if we really know who we are in this world. Because if we truly we won’t be hyporiate and talk about stopping violence and ending war where these things are something we ourselves do every day to one another. When we murder someone through the act of violence we form a social bomb. Empathises is about suffering , having the experience of denfiction of people who are suffering more than you are. Learning to understand what you have in life and what someone doesn't have. So looking closer at this work, although it will ragged people and shock them but studying it really hard you start to understand the meaning behind the work of how far people will go in this world with their sinful ways to make each other suffer pains.

 We start to know that we are our own demons that make one another suffer. Although we will represent ourselves as kind creatures but deep down we are our own nightmares, we can never be cruel of our horrific beastly joy of destroying lives. 

There are curved, jagged lines in some areas mainly the buildings where the lines are going in different directions, creating movement and details. Some of them are thick making them appear strong while other are thin but yet stands out really well because of the thick lines in front and behind them. There are random, uneven holes, presenting that this place is run down, dirty and abounded for a very long time. 
The compositions are  everywhere, taking all the space so that the objects could be packed, as place of no escape, you feel trapped and imprison. Some of the  skeletons have few well known cartoons character faces, suggesting although this art work appear strong and dreadful, people will see humours in it to lighten the moment a little. Having some of the pieces extremely close together with people doing terrible things suggest this place was never save for anyone, everyone where for themselves trying to survive but no matter how hard they try to live, at the end everyone bodies were broken and turned to corpse where no one could recisizuqe who is who.

In their work they produce pieces which are destroyic  showing that all works of art are desytroic by their very natural. Make work of art that don’t patches themselves as idea or idealisms.

http://whitecube.com/channel/in_the_gallery_past/jake_chapman_on_fucking_hell_2008/

What truly engages me are their agonizing ‘simulations’ that are happening before my eyes, it makes draw closer to them and try and figure out the terror looks in their eyes, their twisted bodies surrounded in chaos and frenzy.

Dinos Chapman was born 1969 in London while his brother Jake Chapman was born 1966 in Cheltenham.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_FwnHypFgk

Maurizio Anzeri

Born in Loiano, Italy in 1969. Maurizio Anzeri studied Sculpture and Graphic Design at the Camberwell College of Fine Arts in 1996-99 and at The Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2002-2005 getting an MA in Fine Art and Sculpture.


Artist Statement

I work with sewing, embroidery and drawing to explore the essence of signs in their physical manifestation. I take inspiration from my own personal experience and observation of how, in other cultures, bodies themselves are treated as living graphic symbols. I then use sewing and embroidery in a further attempt to re-signify, and mark the space with a man-made sign, a trace. The intimate human action of embroidery is a ritual of making and reshaping stories and history of these people. I am interested in the relation between intimacy and the outer world.

“I put tracing paper over the photo and draw on the face until it develops. ……When I begin the stitching something else happens, drawing will never do what thread will.”

Kang Seon Jun

Seon Jun has used only monochrome colours within this photograph. The colours with in them complements each other well. The dark background makes the subject to be seen more clearly. The legs and the hands  out are creating movement. The arms are curved and legs quite straight.  The hands looks creepy as it remind me of multi  spiders arms. The face are out of focal as they are blurry making it difficult for anyone to see because of the technique used.

I did a response of the artists work using the same slow shutter speed technique he used. I have used colours within my but the hands and the twisted head looks very disgusting and creepy. Some hands are straight and bent in different directions creating, again movement. But I have used a black background so that the model's skin could stand out well.

Stacey Page

The colours on this piece is quite vivid especially the blue which seem to stand out really well, contrasting with the white and blue. There impressive, defined details of stitches in various direction, creating fur. Although the face is animaltic looking a bit scary however the model smiling in the photograph shows that there is still a soft side of this animal. Some of the stitches lines are thick and bold making them appear strong while others are thin. There are curved lines and different shading giving out tones.

 Stacy Page works in small scale as she said she could take her time to do it  and it doesn't take too much space for her and the collectors.  She uses old vintage photographer to create new images. She explains that her is about, "It can come from naturally occurring conflicts. One example would be the inner versus outer being. This conflict entails simple observations one might have about themselves regarding fashion, status, ego, and avatar.”

http://www.staceypage.com/

http://flavorwire.com/320005/stacey-pages-absurd-and-wonderful-embroidered-portraiture

Hinke Schreuders

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2014/08/embroidered-images-hinke-schreuders/

Hinke Schreuders start off with an old vintage photography and illustration of models doing fashions fro the 1950s, Amsterdam-based

Hinke Schreuders begin with a vintage photography and illustrations of models sporting fashion from the 1950s. She put rich layer of hand-stitched embroidery, beading,, lace and flourishes of ink to the whole new images which can be unsettling and enthusiasm. This is one of her images of a part ongoing series called 'work on paper' which started in 2008. Schreuders said that, “subtly confuse notions of feminine vulnerability and reinforce the position of embroidery as an artistic medium,”

Another use of thick lines making the circular and half moon shapes appear bold, and strong. Also the artists have played around with scales. Schreuders had made some circles look large the rest small, the reason for this is because she wanted all the design to fit on the photo. having so many shapes moving in different direction in stitches, creating movement with so much defined details inside the shapes make the whole piece to look quite busy. But result of this piece is very fascinating although you can not see very much of the model's features and quite elegant. The colours are subtle, they stand out really well against the dark background.

Looking closer at this piece I just realized that the circles are all in the shape of daisy flowers, giving the the woman a very femininity appearance.

         Comprise.

Scheduers and Stacy Page are both uses old photographs and are textile artists. In this piece of artwork I got of Scheduers looks flowery, pretty along with limited and muted colours while Stacy Page work I got contains combination of muted and vivid colours. 

Both artists have thick and thin lines stitches. Page has curved bold lines in her work I got while Schreuders has whole and half circles filling the vintage image.