Wk1 class notes - ideas and assessments.

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This project is about finding and exploring a focused and specific question related to one's practice. It can be related to our BVA 203 Research project, doing the same theme and ideas but it will be more focused on art criticism and the theory of art making and viewing.

For this project I am interested in:


  •  doodling and automatic drawing. So I can research the theory of these techniques which are used to express the subconscious and as a method for developing ideas/work. (Making).


This leads me onto:


  •  researching artists who employed these techniques who were abstract painters and surrealists. How were and are they viewed/reviewed?  For example how do different viewers read Cy Twombly, (artists, the public and art critiques).
(Even if I need to explore old art movements I still need to research people who are doing and talking about it today).

For this theory project the main difference will be making environmentally friendly artist materials:
  • I am interested in making my own paints out of naturally sourced materials that have a low carbon footprint. Some of my doodles for research class have been of toxic looking acidic landscapes. What would be the anti-thesis to this? I feel guilty at using toxic materials to make this, but that can be part of the metaphorical message.

  • What are the hot topics in New Zealand about environmental issues and what are lesser known ones?

  • Will this project be emotive, will I do just abstract/expressionist paintings or incorporate realism?




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