Week 1: Dissent and Resistance

Dissent and Resistance 

Aim:
To develop research skills by exploring a variety of primary and secondary sources (original and interpreted research material). And to then apply that research to practice through the development of continuous reflective practice.


Tate Modern:

Tate Modern

Tate Modern is a modern art gallery located in London. It is Britain's national gallery of international modern art and forms part of the Tate group (together with Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tate St Ives and Tate Online). Tate Modern is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in the world. As with the UK's other national galleries and museums, there is no admission charge for access to the collection displays, which take up the majority of the gallery space, while tickets must be purchased for the major temporary exhibitions.

To find out more about Tate Modern, visit: http://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-modern

Yellow Curve

  Yellow Curve

 Here, is an image of one of the display at Tate. A yellow curve produced by Ellsworth Kelly in 1996. Ellsworth is an American painter and sculptor who was influenced at the development of minimalism, hard-edge painting, color field and pop art. He explored colour and shape or 'form' and was interested in how we experience his art physically. His yellow triangle doesn't represent anything other than what it is. He said that the  space he was interested in was not the surface of the painting 'but the space between you and the painting'.

Personally, while figuring what the display reminds me or what it makes me feel, I came to a conclusion that it can't possibly be just a yellow curve,that, it probably has its own  history or hidden meaning to it. Like for example, I thought that it could be a missing piece from a jigsaw puzzle that had a round shape providing the curve. And, somehow or another, Ellsworth found this rather interesting or it provide a  significant meaning that's why he has decided to produce it.

More information- visit:

• Yellow Curve- http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/kelly-yellow-curve-t07403
• Ellsworth Kelly- http://www.theartstory.org/artist-kelly-ellsworth.htm

View from the Window

View from the Window

This display caught my attention as I thought I was looking through a window inside a plane but it was in fact a window from a house, just not from a plane. 

This display is called 'View from the Window' produced by Marie- Louise Von Motesiczky at Vienna in 1925. The oil painting on canvas depicts a view of roofs and facades seen from the artist's fourth-floor flat in Vienna where she lived during the first half of 1920s.

More information visit:

• View from the Window-http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/von-motesiczky-view-from-the-window-vienna-t04849 

 Purification 

This image is one of the part of the display that I have taken a picture of. Purification is produced by Barthelemy Toguo in 2012 made from watercolor and graphite on paper. The vast, banner-like watercolor painting is covered with a sequence of human figures interwoven with handwritten sentences taken from the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 'Purification was born from the response to sufferings endured by various groups of people around the world.
Toguo said 'I have unrolled my vision in a nightmare frieze: human beings are abused, tortured, amputated, beaten to death... Man must regenerate his own culture... He must operate a purge over himself and purify (himself) from his crimes and horrors'.

I found this display rather upsetting in a way human beings are being treated like animals, showing no mercy towards each other. I thought that , we must be very lucky to have  live a life without experiencing what those people have experienced back in the day.