Artists of the Month

AS Fine Art - Grace
Grace has mixed plaster and mould to create this piece of artwork

A2 Graphics - Natalie
These images are created by projecting different colours of light onto a students face.

AS Graphics - Sarah
Experimenting with typography using cutout images

A2 Fine Art - Grace

Study from a collage



Forgotten Spaces - Wins second prize

Congratulations ‘Forgotten Spaces’

Congratulations to Art students who entered an Architecture competition in association with The Royal Institute of British Architects at Sheffield Hallam University. Despite stiff competition from undergraduates as well as other schools and colleges, they successfully secured second place and won £750 worth of resources for our Art Department.

The brief was entitled ‘Forgotten Spaces’. Students had to identify a ‘forgotten space’ within their local community, and come up with designs to re develop it. Our students chose The Belvedere and re designed it as a modern, communal Arts/Theatre centre complete with an amphitheatre. Their final designs were stunning and included a scale model as well as drawn visuals. Judges were extremely impressed with their innovative design and use of space, and said that it was a hard decision choosing between first and second place. Students enjoyed the Awards ceremony, meeting the Lord Mayor and mixing with the other competitors. Local newspapers took photographs and our students thoroughly enjoyed their 15 minutes of fame. Hopefully, the first 15 minutes of many more!

Well done to our budding student architects. This is a real achievement.

TRCreative Prints/Postcards and Notelets for sale. Below are the prices for these products. Please contact the art department if you would like to purchase any of these products. Thankyou

El Lissitsky


El Lissitzky - was a Russian Artist, typographer and designer.  Was a known figure in the Bauhaus and Constructavist movement. El Lissitzky was a Russian born artist, designer, typographer, photographer and architect who designed many exhibitions and propaganda for the Soviet Union in the early 20th century. His development of the ideas behind the Suprematist art movement were very influential in the development of the Bauhaus and the Constructivist art movements. His stylistic characteristics and experimentation with production techniques developed in the 1920s and 30s have been an influence on graphic designers since.

Image by DrbexlSize Unknown
1968, Plate 40



Image courtesy of Tate modern Victory Over the Sun

Lithograph on paper
image: 512 x 428 mm
on paper, print



Tracey Emin

A consummate storyteller, Tracey Emin engages the viewer with her candid exploration of universal emotions. Well-known for her confessional art, Tracey Emin reveals intimate details from her life to engage the viewer with her expressions of universal emotions. Her ability to integrate her work and personal life enables Emin to establish an intimacy with the viewer.

Image by Jeni Rodgers

Tracey Emin, Hotel International, 1993

The quilts are composed of swatches of fabric that are culled from her clothes, curtains and furniture, so the materials – as well as the words and images – tell her life story. It is also interesting that the refined craft of needlework is used to deal with themes of sexuality that are often brazenly vulgar, which acts as a brutal contrast between material and subject.

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio - Arrogant, rebellious and a murderer, Caravaggio's short and tempestuous life matched the drama of his works. Characterised by their dramatic, almost theatrical lighting, Caravaggio's paintings were controversial, popular, and hugely influential on succeeding generations of painters all over Europe. Below is the Sacrifice of Isaac, oil on canvas.

Image by Carulmare

CARAVAGGIO
The Sacrifice of Isaac (detail)
1601-02
Oil on canvas
Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Alexander Rodchenko



Image from Cea

Alexander Rodchenko -  (1891–1956) was a Russian artist and graphic designer. He was one of the founders of constructivism and Russian design.

Gerhard Richter - Painter

Gerhard Richter is a German painter who's career has spanned five decades.  He has produced a diverse range of Artwork, from photorealist paintings to large scale abstract pieces.  He has also worked in photography and sculpture.  His whole body of work can be viewd on his webite here:

http://www.gerhard-richter.com/

Here are some of Richters large scale abstract pieces.  They are made by draggin paint over the surface of the canvas several times to create layer upon layer of paint:

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Abstract Painting 780-1 by Gerhard Richter

Abstract Painting 780-1, 1992, oil on canvas by Gerhard Richter
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[ R ] Gerhard Richter - Abstraktes Bild (1992)

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[ R ] Gerhard Richter - Abstraktes Bild (1992)

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Gerhard Richter: January, December, November, 1989

Art from Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA.
Image by Vileskogen

 The image below illustrates the size of the pieces:


Reflecting

Image by Baggyjumper

 This piece is from a series of works where he worked onto photographs with paint:

Gerhard Richter style painted photograph-roller coaster big dipper blackpool

Image by AlisonQuine

 This series was created from small photographs or newspaper cuttings:

Gerhard Richter @ Tate Modern

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Gerhard Richter @ Tate Modern

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Artists of the Month - November 2011

This months Artists have all produced some excellent work. Well done to the following;

AS Graphics Becky M artist study

AS Fine Art Becky R manipulated photographs;

A2 Fine Art Tarna M print experimentation;

A2 Graphics Sam H typography;

Forgotten Spaces Competition

The Forgotten Spaces competition was run by Sheffield Hallam University in conjunction with the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) open to professionals where the challenge was to redesign a ‘forgotten space’ within their community.  This was such a success they have opened it to schools and colleges in the local area - which is a fantastic opportunity for our students who are interested in Architecture!  A team of 5 students – Sam L, Michael L, Katie E, Alex H and Louise H went for a workshop with 2 current students on the BSC  Architecture and Environmental Design and BSC in Architecture Technology.  Suki and Anna explained the project, showing us some amazing slides and images but quickly moved onto redesigning a forgotten space there and then in the classroom.  The students had to think about light, (natural and unnatural), what the space would be used for and who would be using it.  They were taken through the design process step by step and left with loads of ideas to redesign our chosen ‘forgotten space’.

TRC students with Anna and Suki, current students at Sheffield Hallam University

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We were picked up by Bev (perfectly on time!) and enjoyed a very uneventful return journey to college where we discussed thoughts and ideas of what we could do with the project.  So keen were the students 3 of them started immediately, dropped off at the Belvedere (our ‘forgotten space’) to take photographs ready to work from.  Luckily, the redevelopers were in and allowed them to take some exclusive photos of the interior!

Inspired and enthused by their trip, they will be coming in over half term to work on their ideas and prepare their submission.  A big thank you to Suki Sehmti and Anna-Marie Hobenael for their brilliant workshop and we can’t wait to start working on it!

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer is a multi-disciplinary Artist famous for his large scale paintings, installations and sculptures.  He also uses mixed media and found objects within his work.



Anselm Kiefer au Grand Palais By dalbera

Scale is extremely important, the large imposing paintings relate closely to the large and imposing nature of his scultpures and installations:

Anselm Kiefer, Antwerpen By bnnvs

Anselm Kiefer Sternenfall

Anselm Kiefer's Sternenfall Falling Stars at the Grand Palais Paris, Monumenta 2007
by stunned

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Anselm Kiefer
By jwpriebe

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Anselm Kiefer
By jwpriebe

framed boats

extract from a painting/sculpture by Anselm Kiefer
By Feuillu

By Feuillu

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer's "Breaking of the Vessels", in the St. Louis Art Museum
by clio1789

Anselm Kiefer au Grand Palais

By dalbera

Anselm Kiefer au Grand Palais

by dalbera

anselm kiefer @ hangar bicocca in milano bis
by pieceofplastic

Christo and Jeanne Claude

Christo and Jeanne Claude are collaborative Artists who specialise in creating large scale installations and sculptures in site specific locations.  They are most well known for wrapping their chosen subjects, whether they are trees or buildings.  More of their work can be seen here:

http://www.christojeanneclaude.net/



Wrapped - Christo and Jeanne Claude, Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park Riehen Switzerland 1997 - 98
Image by derpunk



Wrapped - Christo and Jeanne Claude, Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park Riehen Switzerland 1997 - 98
Image by derpunk

Wrapped - Christo and Jeanne Claude, Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park Riehen Switzerland 1997 - 98
Image by derpunk

Wrapped - Christo and Jeanne Claude, Wrapped Trees, Fondation Beyeler and Berower Park Riehen Switzerland 1997 - 98
Image by derpunk

Wrapped Reichstag/Verhüllter Reichstag

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Berlin, June/July 1995
Image by Gertrud K.

Wrapped Reichstag/Verhüllter Reichstag

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Berlin, June/July 1995
Image by Gertrude K.

Francois Marie Banier

Francois Marie Banier is a French multi-disciplinary Artist famous for painting, drawing and writing on photographs. All images appear courtesy of http://thefreaksofnature.wordpress.com/ thank you!!

Courtesy of the freaksofnature blog

Courtesy of the freaksofnature blog

Courtesy of the freaksofnature blog

Courtesy of the freaksofnature blog

Courtesy of the freaksofnature blog

Courtesy of the freaksofnature blog