In narratives of class culture and taste-Tuesday tutorial.

Today we looked at a number of contemporary artists through that wonderful you tube mechanism on the Internet.  The first example was by Thomas Byrle, which was a beautiful multiplicity of 'minute' glasses with a branded lager logo upon the side, arranged in a painting to look like a large glass of branded lager.

Another piece of work from art that was originally inspired by Chuck Close, is from Robert Bechtel, and his piece called "near Ocean Avenue" 2002.  This is an example of super realism and is a painting made with oil on canvas.  A group of artists that practice super realism do their work through mechanistically gridding up a photograph in order to reproduce a mediated view of it, but by taking especially great detail, so that it almost looks like a photography piece in itself

Carol Boves is an artist who creates shelves in her workspace, but then uses the shelving to change the arrangement of art pieces to that it suggests that a number of items are running simultaneously stop this causes you to look at or very things, but seeing them as complex.  Another example of this sort of work a B in Carroll's piece "La traversee deficile", (2008) which is actually highly sized bronze peanuts.

The extra large peanuts plays on the fact that scale itself is an important element.  The transition from one scale to another makes an everyday object the new worldly one.

Mark Bradford, an American artist has created a video which is available through YouTube, and he explains the difficulties of wearing a huge dress with hoops in it, whilst playing a game of basketball.  He engages with the difficulties of how we approach much of our life, and the everyday activities we undertake granted.  Nevertheless we all still work towards "taking the shot".

Laura Simmons used an opportunity to film the Merrill Streep during her visit to video Hawaii.

Another player in this space might be Jeff Koons.  On the Internet site "Art:21", he discusses money and value, and what it means to him with regards to his art.  He has a workshop style Atelier to create his own stuff, however he implies a number of different craftsmen to actually deliver the work.

In reflecting and thinking about how we use our own studios at the Huddersfield, I genuinely do agree that we should also be working collaboratively.  I also believe that we should be working on a number of different projects or pieces, "on the go" at the same time.

William Kentridge is another illustrator who created Felix in Exile, an animation that we have watched before.  William Kentridge is an artist who has a sociopolitical conscience.  The content is particularly moving when it is placed in association with the appropriate music score.

Another artist I need to look at would be Mark Titchener, and his work entitled "I want a better world, I want a better me" (2008) - (Above). I should be able to find this on the art:21 website, which is a series of 3 to 4 minute vignettes.