Gregs Art Blog

Richard Long has a very unique way of working which I haven't seen before. We were shown a video in class showing an example of Richard Long's "A line By Walking" work. The man in the video we watched was called Dr James Fox, he drew a straight line on a map in which he tried to accurately walk to try and replicate Richard's work. It was a little harder than he thought as he had to climb over a lot of obstacles and avoid cold ponds. He ended up in the middle of some woods and he felt very underwhelmed with the whole experience, just like I was watching it.   This is a screen grab from when James Fox first starts out his attempt A Line Made by Walking 1967 This image shows an example of his work. He would walk back and forth following the same line until the grass was flat and catching the light of the sun. For me, I don't quite see what he achieves by doing this apart from getting exercise. He explained it as sketching the portrait of the coun...

Since diving into the world of surrealism I have had a lot of names thrown at me who are relevant to the kind of photography I aim to produce. Man Ray is one of them, after reading up on him I can see why people thought that I'd be interested in his work. I found out the he was a significant contributor to the DaDa and Surrealist movement. One technique that id like to focus on is his work with Rayographs which actually inherited his name once he perfected the technique, originally referred to as Photograms. Other artists have used this method such as Robert Rauschenberg and Gyorgy Kepes which I didn't know about until I did research. Rayography I was told about this method after asking about Man Rays work in class. I was told about a few other artists who have tried this also but Man Rays images were the first ones that were shown to me. I have a desire to try this which is why I have purchased some light sensitive paper. Man Ray started out as a commercial photographer ...

David Hockney is one of those artist who I hear a lot about in class. His impressive joiner photography is a very clever and unique way of producing an abstract image. I have tried this technique's quite a lot recently with success. I don't feel like I've done enough research behind this technique and his work in general. So I've decided to focus on him for one of my 5 photographers that we are to focus on for our photography unit. Something as simply as this work space has been given a lot more dimension which creates more information for the viewer to absorb  Ive read that his famous joiner photographs occurred accidentally. He didn't like the wide angle lenses as they seem to have a distortion he thought, which must've pushed him to take these individually images and join them together. This accidental method occurred when he was doing a painting of a living room and he decided to take polaroid photos of the room and glue them together. Possib...

I"m not that familiar with Tommy Ingberg but recently I have dived into the world of Surrealism with my photography. What I like about surrealism is the idea of creating something that no one has seen before or even thought of. I want to shock people and create a sense of wonder at the same time. After reading up on Tommy's I found a similarity between me and him. He got decent grades in school and he went on to start a safe non-challenging normal life with a boring job. He only did photography as a hobby just like me with my drawing. I didn't get any satisfaction from doing this as I was being told what to create. I can image that this would feel similar to him in this situation. Once I started college again I felt more free to do what I want and pursue the styles I wanted without being held back. Tommy's photo's transport me to this dream like world where I want to keep exploring. The level of surrealism here is something I hope to achieve myself. you real...