Had my presentation today
I finished my presentation No.2 out of 5 today. I feel alive again finally. I hate it when I am too late on everything and I hate it even more if it's not my own fault. Our Prof gave us our topics 3 days before the library closed over christmas, new year and everything. It opened again on monday, haha... So this one was really difficult to finish in time. I did not sleep very much these days.
And I won't do it in the next weeks, because I have a presentation left for every week and an additionally I have to write the minutes for one of my philosophy courses.
I am sooo happy when this Semester is over, I can tell you!
But what i wanted to say is, that I'm going to read and comment your last entries if possible, but I can't keep track with everything these days like I want, because I need sleep maaan!
And I want to show you a little bit of what I was working on, because I think this artist my presentation today was about is one of those I think most people would like.
I don't want to bother you with my presentations about ancient graves and such (although I know much more about classical Archaeology than about art) but I think I might post about artist or topics I think could be interesting for most of you.
So my topic today was Andy Goldsworthy, a Land Art artist born in 1956. He's british and that what one would call a nice, likeable natur-boy.
My boyfriend said about his art that he reminds him of a boy playing outside with nature, as all young boys do.
I think this is a quite nice comparison.
Land Art is a genre that came up after Second World War and is all about working with and in the nature. It has a lot to do with Environmental Art and most of the time this art is ephemeral. But there are also longer-lasting installations.
But nature, changes and time plays a very important role in Land Art.
Andy Goldsworthy began working this way when he was a student of art, sometime in the seventies and he still does now.
He works with natural material only, like leaves, earth, ice, snow, wool, water, stones and flowers.
He makes small, spontaneous works everyday and takes pictures of them directly after. And he makes big remittance works. Really big ones.
But he still says the most important part of his work is that he makes on a daily base and in a small scale. Those are a way for him to gain a better understanding of nature. His nature, the land and mankinds relationship to land. He refuses to use any other material than what he finds outside and his only tool is a knife. he works with what he finds, snow and ice in winter, flowers and stones in summer and leaves in autumn etc.
He has a repertoire of typical motifs that resemble nature and are full of spiritual thoughts, like holes, serpentines, cones, spirals and such. But he is not limited to them. For him the energies are important that lie within the material and a place. And the changes that work with his art. He leaves them at the outside and watches them decay or change into something different than before. Except for his few inner-building installations. If you became interested in this nice guy or his poetic art, than you should search for the movie rivers and tides. I know this is on youtube also. it shows a year of his life and work and you can see him working on different things in different month. He works in any weather, on every day and his work is so beautiful and moving, I can really recommend that movie.
I really felt with him when one of his works broke down 4 times in a row on one day and he always started again from the beginning.
But I also got a few pictures for example:
Himself:
He got an Elvis Tatoo on his arm...
Holes:
Ice
(This is on the northpole actually...)
Other work:
And I won't do it in the next weeks, because I have a presentation left for every week and an additionally I have to write the minutes for one of my philosophy courses.
I am sooo happy when this Semester is over, I can tell you!
But what i wanted to say is, that I'm going to read and comment your last entries if possible, but I can't keep track with everything these days like I want, because I need sleep maaan!
And I want to show you a little bit of what I was working on, because I think this artist my presentation today was about is one of those I think most people would like.
I don't want to bother you with my presentations about ancient graves and such (although I know much more about classical Archaeology than about art) but I think I might post about artist or topics I think could be interesting for most of you.
So my topic today was Andy Goldsworthy, a Land Art artist born in 1956. He's british and that what one would call a nice, likeable natur-boy.
My boyfriend said about his art that he reminds him of a boy playing outside with nature, as all young boys do.
I think this is a quite nice comparison.
Land Art is a genre that came up after Second World War and is all about working with and in the nature. It has a lot to do with Environmental Art and most of the time this art is ephemeral. But there are also longer-lasting installations.
But nature, changes and time plays a very important role in Land Art.
Andy Goldsworthy began working this way when he was a student of art, sometime in the seventies and he still does now.
He works with natural material only, like leaves, earth, ice, snow, wool, water, stones and flowers.
He makes small, spontaneous works everyday and takes pictures of them directly after. And he makes big remittance works. Really big ones.
But he still says the most important part of his work is that he makes on a daily base and in a small scale. Those are a way for him to gain a better understanding of nature. His nature, the land and mankinds relationship to land. He refuses to use any other material than what he finds outside and his only tool is a knife. he works with what he finds, snow and ice in winter, flowers and stones in summer and leaves in autumn etc.
He has a repertoire of typical motifs that resemble nature and are full of spiritual thoughts, like holes, serpentines, cones, spirals and such. But he is not limited to them. For him the energies are important that lie within the material and a place. And the changes that work with his art. He leaves them at the outside and watches them decay or change into something different than before. Except for his few inner-building installations. If you became interested in this nice guy or his poetic art, than you should search for the movie rivers and tides. I know this is on youtube also. it shows a year of his life and work and you can see him working on different things in different month. He works in any weather, on every day and his work is so beautiful and moving, I can really recommend that movie.
I really felt with him when one of his works broke down 4 times in a row on one day and he always started again from the beginning.
But I also got a few pictures for example:
Himself:
He got an Elvis Tatoo on his arm...
Holes:
Ice
(This is on the northpole actually...)
Other work: