Monday, 17 September 2012
Sunday, 9 September 2012
Research/poster idea/material for images
Women, Sport and Society in Modern China: Holding up More than Half the Sky - Dong Jinxia - Google Books
It is women athletes who have excelled and they have been accused of using enhancing drugs. Male athletes do not seem to be using them?
Use for poster details gender/drugging and the Olympics.
It is women athletes who have excelled and they have been accused of using enhancing drugs. Male athletes do not seem to be using them?
Use for poster details gender/drugging and the Olympics.
Poster information - controversial political /Mexico and Art as part of modern Olympic Games
The Tlatelolco massacre, also known as The Night of Tlatelolco (from a book title by the Mexican writer Elena Poniatowska), was a government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968, in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas in the Tlatelolco section of Mexico City. The violence occurred ten days before the 1968 Summer Olympics celebrations in Mexico City. In response there is a contrast between raised arms at crossing the finish line in the stadium and the felling of protesters. A photograph of a model crossing the line and then being shot would perhaps highlight the terror caused that day.
Art competitions formed part of the modern Olympic Games during its early years, from 1912 to 1952. The competitions were part of the original intention of the Olympic Movement's founder, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin. Medals were awarded for works of art inspired by sport, divided into five categories: architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture.
The juried art competitions were abandoned in 1954 because artists were considered to be professionals, while Olympic athletes were required to be amateurs. Since 1956, the Olympic cultural programme has taken their place.
Art competitions formed part of the modern Olympic Games during its early years, from 1912 to 1952. The competitions were part of the original intention of the Olympic Movement's founder, Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin. Medals were awarded for works of art inspired by sport, divided into five categories: architecture, literature, music, painting, and sculpture.
The juried art competitions were abandoned in 1954 because artists were considered to be professionals, while Olympic athletes were required to be amateurs. Since 1956, the Olympic cultural programme has taken their place.
steroid abuse photos/ poster
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| possible sculpture idea for a 'doll' |
1- <http//:Flikr.co./photos/muscleMAM> 2- <http//:Flikr.com/Flikrtoys (created with fds)>
This imagery though extreme leads me to a project of a poster as a controversial topic for print workshop or digital art.
Controversial now but not in Ancient Greece was the perception of women and the limits to their viewing of and participation(even in doping) in Olympic Sport. My poster would emphasis this by listing the many doping options of Ancient Greece. When women were allowed to compete in ownership of horses or in the Heraea would they also have doped themselves?
* In general, doping issues were played down at this 2012 Olympics. See further research below
poem and textured painting
Blowing past a static gaze
As if Hera blew her legs
over hero-shadows. Her flying feet,
her pearl-shining momentum
obscures my steadfast stare.
To shame me of my flesh and blood
NB
My interest here is to create an ethereal figure glympsed as someone who mocks me. a 'pearl-like shine' needs development and the background will be made on board with worked in oil paint mixed with plaster or texture medium to create an opaque interest. I could do glazes over the whole when finished to look like it is farther away. Her strength in this sketch comes out and denies the ephemerel look that I wanted. A further study of glazes and method in painting will produce I hope the 'obscurity' of antiquity. Her image is wholly imagined and it seems(rather I have not found so far)there are not pictures of these racers from the time.
Reference - Collingwoods theory of aesthetics abbreviated in Aesthetics the classic Reading, edited by David E. Cooper. 1997: Blackwell Publishing,Oxford. pgs 261-262
When Berenson (speaking of Cezanne) speaks of tactile values, he is not thinking of things like the texture of fr and cloth, the cool roughness of bark, the smoothness or grittiness of a stone, and other qualities which things exhibit to our sensitive finger-tips. (bu t) ...but of motor sensations such as we experience b y using our muscles and moving or limbs. ...imaginary motor sensations. ......In short: what we get from looking at a picture, or even stride about the gallery; what we gewt from looking at a picture is not merely the experience of seeing, or even partly seeing and partly imagining, certain visible objects; it is also .....the imaginary experience of certgain complicated muscular movements.pg 261
Sketch for textured painting
Sketch for a painting series - Heraeas for Life ( title to be finalised later)
This quick sketch catches movement and effort of those movementsMaterials would be oil paint on canvas
Size to be determined but large running off the large canvas would be best!
Brain storming
Initial ideas x2
- 1- POSTER -make a visual aesthetic semblance of the paradigm; does the end justify the means? There is a controversy of taking anabolic steroids to improve performance versus the consesquences of that gain. I envisage making a large steroid capsule or of sketched ideas using the pill within the finished piece. A poster of forms of doping with photoshoped images and conceptual use of words and images.
- 2 - PHOTOGRAPY make a visual photograph series of crossing the finish line - try to visualise the moment in terms of how a personal achievement elevates the human spirit. Can I make a statement visual or conceptual on how the human spirit if it has a significance is highlighted in physical competition. Analogies to failure visual represe ntation of failure could make a comparison. I could imagine consequences of not having the Olympics - does it have a significance?
- 3 - PAINTING/PRINTING/SCLULPTURE make sketches using the colours of ancient Greek vases and imagined figures painted on them. Paintings of Heraea runners thought to create a shard of ceramic or resin which represents a piece of our history but has a relevance to our modern spectacle of the Olympics. Comparing moral and aesthetic aspects of the Ancient Olympic agenda to our perhaps more commercial and now global coverage of the Olympics. This comparison should lead to a visual imagined contrast of form. Research on Olympics
- Plato on Women and the Family chapter Part Six The Republic, 1987. Translated by Desmond Lee; Penguin Classics, Penguin Books.
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