Research Sketches Task 1 Seminar

http://eleanormacfarlane.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/task-1-outline-research.html

Some thoughts from the MA group:

Becoming the artist by reframing and reappropriating other people's paintings - by seeing them
What I state for these is that the original is the reproduction, the digital image
The digital process - still painting
Documentation of found paintings?
The choices of framing - art - conceptual control
Interesting debate
Make painterly
Rename - new existence
Definition of a painting being pigment or pigmentation on a surface?
An expanded definition of painting
Something familiar for people to connect to - abstract markings of pigment
Emphasising the eye of the painter, not hand of the painter
Doesn't matter whose hand
Eye in editor and selector
Rauchenberg
Force people to look
Is a painting really its function?
they do everything that an abstract painting does
what is painterly?
Ways of seeing
Texture - always implied
Only ever going to see as I show - untextured
Digital / flat / no scale - a barrier?
An imagined painting
Link - reproduction - Vermeers
Massive or no value
Interesting narrative about it as a fragment.

Reflection

Great to share and glean ideas from the group. After last assessment and other stuff, I am a bit more determined to share work and ideas in progress this year. Raised interesting issues, and actually articulated for me some of the thoughts I'm getting to - especially about making these found paintings through the artists seeing rather than the artist painting. All about seeing, recognising, framing, taking, processing.
My big thought about this is that the original is not the found painting itself, but my image of it. I would not cut the walls and put those parts on display. It's the very lack of texture and substance, and those ideas about the original and reproduction which intrigue me, as well as finding hidden treasures in plain sight.

Amelia
Colour diaries paintings. Different flatness, depth - light to same range
Titles - sayings
Horizontal / vertical - show together? So different!
Following the order - allowing from within.

Sarah
Lines, empty signboards, grids, semiotics
Mushrooms - Heather Barnett - kinetic, mute

Jennifer
Audience invent the film from props, etc.
Mirror audience
Gaming narrative - myth - oral tradition
Always slightly different
Reward based - dripping addiction

Alexa
Recipe book
Image scraps
Figures in space - Bacon - same context
Bookness - relate to narrative but not comprehensive
Process of making images - static / spontaneous
Interchangeable paintings - sequence - structure
stripping away to reveal
So light yet so dark.

Reflection

After three years together, it's great to see everyone's work developing, and to know so well where those ideas have come from, and how they have been formed. Everyone's work is becoming deeper and more interesting, and often still surprising.

14th November 2013