These paintings focus on wheels,cogs and machines. they are painted by Chap Isham. They are painted in watercolour on paper.Monday, 22 February 2010
Knitted Toolbelt by Theresa Honeywell. Who says tools need to be made from metal??Check out her kitted motorbike too!! www.theresahoneywell.com
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Work Rest Play - Play Skating
Hendrick Avercamp A Winter Scene With Skaters Near A Castle 1608-09website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hendrick_Avercamp
Work Rest Play Rene Green Printed Textiles
Renée Green, In collaboration with The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Mise-en-Scène: Commemorative Toile, 1992 (detail), Hand silkscreen on cotton sateen, Width: 57 inches,
Work Rest Play Pieter De Hooch
Pieter De Hooch A Woman And Her Maid 1660-61More paintings by Pieter De Hooch http://www.abcgallery.com/H/hooch/hooch.html
Jan Vermeer Mistress And Maid 1667http://www.essentialvermeer.com/vermeer_painting_part_one.html
Work Rest Play - Eating And Drinking in A Cafe
Edouard Manet Corner of a Café-Concert 1878 - 1880weblink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet
Work Rest Play - Rest / Play Visiting Zoo
Pietro Longhi Exhibition of a Rhino At Venice 1751
Pietro Longhi wikipedia webpage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietro_Longhi
Wednesday, 10 February 2010
Work Rest Play- Sculpture Duane Hanson
The Traveller Fibreglass 1988
The Tourists 1988
Queenie Bronze and accessories 1988
The Flea Market Vendor fibre glass sculpture 1990
Work Rest Play - Work LS Lowry
Here is the original of the Coming From The Mill Painting by LS Lowry
Lowry webpage http://www.pamalam.co.uk/L%20S%20LAWRY.htm
Here is an artist copy done by Rolf Harris
Work Rest Play - Work : Tailors Shop
The Tailor's Workshop. 1661
Quiringh van Brekelenkam Interior of a Tailors Shop 1665
Monday, 8 February 2010
Work Rest Play Factory Work
Laura Knight - Ruby Loftus screwing a breech ring 1943
Laura Knight website http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Knight
Work Rest Play - Experiments Joseph Wright Of Derby
Joseph Wright Of Derby An Iron Forge
A travelling scientist is shown demonstrating the formation of a vacuum by withdrawing air from a flask containing a white cockatoo, though common birds like sparrows would normally have been used. Air pumps were developed in the 17th century and were relatively familiar by Wright's day. The artist's subject is not scientific invention, but a human drama in a night-time setting.The bird will die if the demonstrator continues to deprive it of oxygen, and Wright leaves us in doubt as to whether or not the cockatoo will be reprieved. The painting reveals a wide range of individual reactions, from the frightened children, through the reflective philosopher, the excited interest of the youth on the left, to the indifferent young lovers concerned only with each other. The figures are dramatically lit by a single candle, while in the window the moon appears. On the table in front of the candle is a glass containing a skull.
Work Rest Play David Teniers The Four Seasons
great set of seasonal paintings in the National Gallery
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/david-teniers-the-younger-winter (great zoom facility)
Monday, 25 January 2010
Early in 1940, during the London Blitz, the artist Henry Moore noticed long lines forming outside the Underground stations. One evening, instead of driving to his home in North London (which was destroyed a few months later by a bomb), he took the Underground.As the train beaded north, Moore saw people lying in the stations and mothers undressing their babies on the platform. For Moore, this subterranean scene of civilians seeking shelter from the bombing was a revelation. "Even the holes out of which the trains were coming seemed to me to be like the holes in my sculpture,' he later wrote. "...There was tension in the air. [People] were a bit like the chorus in a Greek drama telling us about the violence we don't actually witness."
When Kenneth Clark, director of the National Gallery, saw the first of Moore's Underground drawings, he urged his friend to document the shelters for the War Artists'Advisory Committee. Moore, who had been gassed at Cambrai during the First World War, reluctantly agreed. Clark described Moore's figures "lying helpless deep in the earth, as if wrapped in winding sheets rather than blankets." Francis Bacon commented that the drawings looked like knitting with the needles pulled out.
Moore never drew in the shelters. "It would have been like making sketches in the hold of a slave ship,"he said. To jog his memory, he jotted down notes. "Remember figures seen last Wednesday night (Piccadilly Tube)." 'Two sleeping figures (seen from above) sharing cream-coloured thin blankets (drapery closely stuck to form). Hands and arms. Try positions oneself."Moore often spent the entire night below ground. At dawn he returned to his studio where he committed to paper what he had seen. He drew on cheap notebooks with pen and ink, crayon and watercolor. Of the shelter drawings, Clark wrote that they"will, I am certain, always be considered the greatest works of art inspired by the war."
More (or should that be Moore) of his Air Raid Shelter sketches - http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk/matrix_engine/content.php?page_id=3145
Henry Moore Foundation website - http://www.henry-moore-fdn.co.uk
Sunday, 24 January 2010
textiles inspired by Natural homes.
This flamingo is made by txtile artist Abigail Brown. She has also created beautiful textile pieces inspired by bird nests and houses. All of her work is very 3D. www.alison-brown.co.uk
These brightly coloured nests are made by recycle inspired artist Alison Harper. These pieces were made with everyday objects and materials. She created them with students when she went out into schools and colleges to run workshops. www.alisonharper.net
textiles inspired by Natural Homes
This piece is created by a batik and print artist called Robin Paris. All of her work is inspired by nature. www.robinparis.co.uk
Textiles inspired by Natural homes.
These are a series of nests created by a textile artist/ quilter from Canada called Kirsten Chursinoff. She has also created lots of pieces inspired by birds and other wildlife. www.chursinoff.com
These nests have been painted by Susan Hostetler. She has painted lots of birds as well as their nests. She is an eco artisit who works in mixed media. You can see lots of detial in the way the nests have been "woven" together by the birds. www.susanhostetler.com
textiles inspired by Natural Homes
Lovely 3D textiles by Tamar Mogendorff include birds and sealife such as this Clam. to look at more of the work go to www.tmogy.com
Textiles inspired by Natural homes
Gaint Clam like head piece by Stephen Jones for designer Giles Deacon in Spring 2009. (very Rainbow!)
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