Thursday 19 January 2012

Thursday 12 January 2012

Barbara Hepworth

"Full sculptural expression is spatial - it is the three-dimensional realization of an idea, either by mass or by space construction. The materials for sculpture are unlimited in their variety of quality, tenseness and aliveness. But for the imaginative idea to be fully and freely projected into stone, wood or any plastic substance, a complete sensibility to material - an understanding of its inherent quality and character - is required. There must be a perfect unity between the idea, the substance and the dimension: this unity gives scale... Vitality is not a physical, organic attribute of sculpture - it is a spiritual inner life."
"'Abstract' is a word which is now most frequently used to express only the type of the outer form of a work of art; this makes it difficult to use it in relation to the spiritual vitality or inner life which is the real sculpture. Abstract sculptural qualities are found in good sculpture of all time, but it is significant that contemporary sculpture and painting have become abstract in thought and concept. As the sculptural idea is in itself unfettered and unlimited and can choose its own forms, the vital concept selects the form and substance of its expression quite unconsciously."

Anna Pavlova

Peter Callesen was heavily influenced by the most famous ballet dancer Anna Pavlova , in-particular to the piece called the dying swan. The swan being symbolic to the pure , the grace and the delicate beauty whereas as he used the duckling to symbolize his personal struggle and frustration at himself.     Peter Callesen dying swan Anna Pavlova dying swan

Wednesday 11 January 2012

Peter Callesen

Drawings and Monoprints
Various sizes, series with The Dying Swan. Ink, pencil and watercolour on paper.
The Painter III, 2008 
Acid-free A4 115 gsm papel, acrylic paint and oak frame. 53 x 40,5 x 7 cm
Transparent God, 2009  
Acid-free 140 gsm paper and glue. 350 x 450 x 170 cm



Picking expanding foam as my object , I started to look at self assembly and negative space.

Tuesday 10 January 2012

Object and select

Foundation final piece

photo

This project was based on the title finding human forms out of inanimate object ranging from looking at the human form itself separately, Forniphilia and everyday objects. Looking at artists such as John Chamberlain and David Blazquez.