Research ~ Art 180. Personal Project.

I have listed artists which I have researched during this project, along with a brief description of the artists working practice that his been an interest to me.

Eva Hesse - 'Art without end' Book

Eva Hesse (January 11, 1936 – May 29, 1970) was a German-born American sculptor known for her pioneering work in materials such as latex, fiberglass, and plastics. She is one of the artists who ushered in the postminimal art movement in the 1960s.

Hesse's' studio works

I think in the beginning she was just playing around, small experiments, ideas of doing things in piles - large and small scale.

'Studio leaving' pieces/experimental/little/pieces/molds to make pieces out of/unresolved/unfinished/undefined pieces.

She sometimes experimented with pieces that had no end (product) in sight. Some of these objects became parts of other pieces.

Hesse's experimental works, pieces that become pieces, always exploring and experimenting and the construction of works are all relatable to my practice.

Robert Rauschenberg - assemblage works. My interest in this artist is the use of found objects. Famous for his combine series of collages between 1954-1962, he extended the conventions of collage, incorporating trash; urban debris, bottles, clocks, radios, clothing, wire, newspaper.

Kurt Schwitters - collage. Schwitters had a coherent artistic sense to the world around him. A German and Surrealist famous for his 'Merz' pictures: 'Das Unbild' 1919.

Georges Braque - collage/layers. Braque used shreds of mixed media to produce actual effect of paint, papier colle. Layered on canvas with paint added later. 'Fruit dish and glass' 1912.

Pablo Picasso - collage/objects.

'Still life with chair carving' 1912. Attaching pieces of cloth with carving pattern to oval shaped painting.

Romare Beardon - Layering.

Fragmented forms, freely combine ideas and shapes. 'The Calabash'. Cultural reference in a modern accessible way.

Robert Smithson - Photography.

Land art, natural materials, decay, geology, entropy.

Site and non-site. Putting objects into the land, eg mirrors

Interest in time, natural entropy.

Andy Goldsworthy - photography.

Natural, organic use of materials from the site, eg twigs, rocks.

Relies on photography to record the finished site work before it naturally decays/erodes.

Linus Bill and Adrien Horne - Photocopying works of 'sculpture' made from 2D paper. (Zine - Sculptures 2012)

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Ben Nicholson.

Ben Nicholson was a British modernist painter who made abstract drawings and paintings that feature lots of squares, circles and rectangles. They are very simple and flat. He often looked at things in the real world (such as his cat Foxy) and transformed them using abstract shapes.

Ben Nicholson OM 1924 (first abstract painting, Chelsea) c.1923–4 Tate

The first abstract painting Ben Nicholson ever made.

This picture is painted on canvas, but he later painted onto wooden boards. He would use a razor blades to scrape back the paint so that the pictures look weather beaten and old, as if they have been eroded by time.