Fine Art Lucinda

• 2012-04-17

  

  My exhibition at ljmu SU

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  Exhibition

• 2012-04-15

  Charline von Heyl is a German born abstract artist based in New York. This show at the Tate Liverpool will be the first major exhibition of the artist’s work in the UK. Featuring forty two of her large canvasses and a number of unique works on paper, the exhibition explores von Heyl’s work from 1990-2011. 40 large canvases are displayed through the exhibition are grouped in similar style formats. The exhibition demonstrates the artist’s eclectic approach to painting; she employs unconventional painting methods such as masking, layering, distorting, filtering and cloning effects to constantly reinvent her style. While walking round the exhibition it is a little frustration to find little guidance as to the paintings meaning but I feel interpretation is the artist’s intention. A large proportion of the work is made up of contrasting colours and shapes but I preferred the pieces made up of charcoal and paint blended and smudged to create eerie shapes and lines, I felt the black and white contrasting shapes made more of an impression of the lines and therefore meaning. It was also this reason why I liked the paper pieces, which were prominently montages of images but again I like the simplicity of the black and white pictures and lines.

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  Chat roulette is simply what it is titled. One person logs on with webcam and chats to a randomly selected person who is also logged on across the world. You can then skip to new people or stay and chat. These people are always random and always strangers. These are just some screen shots of Luella on the site. This was a really interesting experiment, where I gained a wide variety of response to my personality and attitude.

  I think just in the screen shots you can see the expressions and response I have responded to different comments and reaction.  While doing this I wrote down characteristics I wanted to portray to keep myself in character.

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  Chat roulette is simply what it is titled. One person logs on with webcam and chats to a randomly selected person who is also logged on across the world. You can then skip to new people or stay and chat. These people are always random and always strangers. These are a few screen shots of Luella on the site.

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  I have now created a twitter account under this name which I wish to pursue rather than the Facebook account which is harder to gain friends. I plan to work on this over summer gaining followers and response as I cant gain this quickly and for the reaction or response I am after I need multiple people. This will also be a better option as I only have to have a display picture, where as Facebook is more about photo sharing, and as this is a fake person I wont be photographed in my friendship group as I normally would.

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  This is a screen shot of the Facebook I have created under the character of Luella. I have began by adding pages such as Britney spears and twilight. I have then edited personal information directly the opposite of myself. I began adding some of my own friends then also random people too. This is a fairly long process as not many people have accepted very quickly. I have had some online response such as messages but nothing interesting.

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  Continuing with looking into the response I gained from the online dating account I decided to draft some responses that I would have replied if I were to have said exactly what I thought. These then took on the form of typography/ collage artworks.

  I like producing these types of pieces but I feel I need to create something a little more interesting, possibly performative as this is more a project along side the work.

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  Luella Barker

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  Cindy Sherman has built a name as one of the most respected photographers of the late twentieth century. Although, the majority of her photographs are pictures of her, however, these photographs are most definitely not self-portraits. Rather, Sherman uses herself as a vehicle for commentary on a variety of issues of the modern world: the role of the woman, the role of the artist and many more. It is through these ambiguous and eclectic photographs that Sherman has developed a distinct signature style.  As an art student in college, Sherman set out to study painting until one day, when she realized that she had enough. Sherman has said that she felt that ” , there was nothing more to say through painting. I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead.” And this is explicitly what she did. In retrospect, Sherman has expressed that she never could have succeeded as a painter, stating that she is unable to react to painting in anything more than a visceral way. Lacking the critical connection needing to proceed with painting, Sherman turned to photography.

  After Sherman’s 1976 graduation, she decided to move to New York City to embark upon her career in art, Sherman began taking photographs of herself. These photographs would come to be known as the Untitled Film Stills , perhaps the most well known and recognizable work of Sherman’s career . In these photographs, Sherman places herself in the roles of B-movie actresses. Her photographs show her dressed up in wigs, hats, dresses, clothes unlike her own, playing the roles of characters. In each of these photographs, Sherman plays a type, a self-fabricated fictional one.  For a work of art to be considered a portrait, the artist must have intent to portray a specific, actual person.

  The idea of creating a personality or persona  drastically unlike my own, will allow me to delve further into telematic communication, similar to that of The Yes Men. I plan to create a person opposite to myself by developing a new set of characteristics and transforming myself.

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  The Yes Men are a culture jamming activist duo made up of Jacques Servin and Igor Vamos. Through actions of tactical media, The Yes Men primarily aim to raise awareness about what they consider problematic social issues. To date, the duo has produced two films: The Yes Men (2003) and The Yes Men Fix the World (2009). In these films, they impersonate entities that they dislike, a practice that they call “identity correction”. The Yes Men operate under the mission statement of telling the truth and exposing lies. They create and maintain fake websites similar to ones they intend to spoof, which have led to numerous interview, conference, and TV talk show invitations. They promote the belief that corporations and governmental organizations often act in dehumanizing ways toward the public.

• 2012-02-29

  

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  Telematic Art;

      Late 1970’s, Alain Minc & Simon Nora began using the term Telematic. It is a term used to describe computer transmission. Roy Ascott, a British artist and theorist first began talking about telematic art in the 1990’s to describe art work that engages in a communicative form. These could be seen in internet or mobile any form which is interactive focusing mainly on human interaction.

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