First Impressions
- Looking at the artists inspired me to develop my own art and the direction I could take it (example Tracy Emins)
- Analyzing artwork of objects used in interesting composition shows that humans don’t need to feature in artwork to become art or tell a narrative story.
- Disney Exhibition was insightful showing off an famous animation studio but also how certain characters were made were interesting.
Developed Response to the Workshop
This Workshop looked upon what makes objects artwork. We analyzed how different artists presenting meticulously placed objects into ideas that the audience can speculate and almost relate to in their own ways. As well as how those objects interact with one another too.
One artist I was drawn to was Tracy Emins artwork called Bed. This was an early artist shown but I was shocked at the honesty her artwork shown. In my own personal artwork I want to present perfection and clean lines however the Bed Tracy made was chaotic and was intentionally showing the imperfections of life that I try to avoid showing. This artist alone shed light of a new side of art I was not aware of just yet and that I might bring to my own artworks in the near future.
With this look at objects as artworks there was an assigned task to observe a gallery in London looking at the ‘Objects’ used to tell a story. I ended up choosing The Wallace Collection Inspiring Walt Disney Exhibition. In this exhibition I found plenty of examples of using objects as artwork such as creating the inanimate object characters. They used the design of an elephant based porcelain vase taking the idea and innovating the object into a character.
Something that caught my eye was how they presented some of these artworks, some objects were in glass cases to preserve the integrity as if they were prizes as they were in Walt Disney’s eyes but now is prized objects to the audience viewing this exhibition. There is also some books that are lined up, this is akin to the fairy tale aspects of Disney stories as they all have a fairy tale wonder to them. One presentation I was baffled at was the frames of Cinderella’s dress changing was displayed on the wall frame by frame, this truly gave an idea of how time consuming and large this animation took bringing that honesty back into art and presenting even the separate frames shows transparency between the audience and the animators.
Looking upon the Workshops ideas I believe the exhibition could have done a better way of bringing that wonder that is associated with Disney as most of the sketches were just framed onto the walls. What I believe could be improved is the flow of the artworks could have some sort of arrows with information on them to guide the audience to have a more interactive feeling.
Overall I enjoyed this workshop as I got to realize the raw ideas that an artist can present in their work as well as the placement and usage of everyday items can influence and create art itself without needing a person or living being to be the stem of that artwork.
