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Black - E Gallery (Previously named Blackie)

I have never previously gone to the Black - E gallery I didn’t no that it was open I thought it was being refurbished. I did go and see a piece there during the biennial (a paper house) but I thought the artist was just using a derelict space.

Combination between a contemporary arts centre and community centre/youth centre.

The building was once a wooden chapel built in 1811 which then burned down in 1840. 18 months later it was rebuilt as Great George Street Congregational Church and then opened as the Black - E in 1968 as the UKs first community arts project by Wendy and Bill Harpe with help from Sir John Moore.

It was opened to bring children in and to encourage them to experiment and have the courage and confidence to go out and make something of them selfs. The doors are open to anyone who wants to get involved.

The building is in the progress of being refurbished at the same time as running. I hope while they are doing the work they don’t cover up all the aspects of its previous life because its a very interesting building and very large. The main area which need to be done up is what will be the entrance there is going to be large sliding glass doors into the rounded staircase which is similar to the atrium at the Guggenheim with the stairs spiraling up the sides. This area will also be a gallery space.

The Black - E has various methods of funding city council, independent charity, arts council, donations and charges to people using the spaces for functions ranging from around £50 - 100 for a babies christening to £9000 for a large corporate conference.

The Gallery used to be called the Blackie which originated from the colour of the church, the stone was covered in grime and smoke the mixed race communities that helped open it up helped to also choose the name. They were unhappy when the name was forced to be changed slightly to Black - E. People were questioning wether it was racist especially in America.

In the main exhibition space were the work was on the wall was large and mainly lovely sets of chance drawings and collages done by the communities including children as young as 6 and as old as 70.

Talk by Stephen Clarke

John Baldessari at the Tate Modern

Pure Beauty

Active Artist for 50 years

Based in Los Angeles since 1960s

one of the most influential artist of his generation

Pioneer of conceptual art

Text and Image art combined

California

He has problems with being categorized or pinned down to a place

California Map Project Part 1, 1969

Artists shouldn’t be labelled on where they come from.

Mexico Boundary Project (detail) 1969

Very successful in New York and Europe

But recognition was slow in California

Artist in California stay there and don’t take there work to other places (stuck in a rut)

Text Work

Tips for an Artist to Sell, 1966-68

Acceptance - important for the sale of art work

The place where you live might not support you as an artist.

He’s not a Californian artist, his work is not about California but he is based in California.

He called him self an Abstract Expressionist but his work does not represent this but he does talk about it in his work.

Artists can be identified in many ways for example age, location, gender etc.

Painting of the rules of painting.

Clement Greenberg, 1966

Could be a minimalist or a Pop Artist

Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles 1960. The Place to be and show your work in California

Ed Ruscha - Standard, Amarillo, Texas, 1962

Baldessari - Econ - o - Wash, 14th and Highland, National, 1966

His studio was an old cinema

He cremated the work because he couldnt sell it then he put the ashes in little boxes which then became pieces of art.

Takes place at the rise of conceptual art

de materialization of the art object and to some extent the artist

Marcel Duchamp had his first Retrospective

A Painting by Dante Guido, 1969

A Painting by Helen Morris, 1969

Who’s is the art - his for the idea or the person who painted it?

Joseph Kosuth - Main figure in conceptual art practically wrote the manifesto

Titled (Art as Idea as Idea), 1967

John Baldessari - I will not Make any more Boring Art, 1971

Works from photos and records with photos

I am Making Art, 1971

Mixing up Painting and Photography

Wrong, 1966-68

Photography and text mixed together became essential in his work.

Teaching - He became an art teacher to make a living even tho he doesn't enjoy it at first, but he decided to use it to his benefit and makes work on it.

CALARTs - Institute of Arts set up by disney in California. Film School

His influence comes from his students

He then starts to work with film and film stills

Script, 1974

People read from the same script he then looked at how different people interpreted it differently.

Brutus killed Caesar, 1976

Sequence

Photo comparison becomes his unique style

His main work comes when he is in his 50s

Cindy Sherman

Appropriation

Embed Series - Ice Cubes - U BUY BAL DES SARI, 1974

Craig Owens - Art critic who explores the relationship between the artist and the gallery and asks who is responsible for the meaning of the works.

Modern Art Remixed at the Tate Liverpool - Week 3 - Workshop

Dictionary of Avant-Gardes - Workshop

The task is to create a dictionary of words relating to 20th and 21st century art and culture with your own small defenitions. Refer to works in the Tate exhibition. The words can be personal opinion as well as intellectual art terms.

A -

B - Boundaries - Artists are trying to break any boundaries and labels put on them.

C

D

E - Experimental - Specific areas of art are classed as experimental for example film and digital art.

F

G - Ground Breaking - What might be groundbreaking to one person may not be to the next so its hard to give a definition or example.

H

I - Impact - Many pieces of work were depentent on the shock factor and after a while people were not affected by the shock factor because it became the norm

J

K

L

M - Mathmatical - The use of exact measurements, shapes etc are being use for example Bridget Riley’s Illusions.

N

O

P - Price Tag - Many meanings behind works where hidden behind the price tag.

Q

R

S - Society - Many led be small artistic or social based groups, challenging traditional art and also present society.

T - Temptation - Use of something to interact with but then making it so you can’t.

U

V

W

X

Y

Z

Work in Progress, Un Finished.

Modern Art Remixed at the Tate Liverpool - Week 3

DaDa and Surrealism

Dada Manifesto - New York, Paris, Barcelona etc

After World War 2

Young artists angry about the world, the war

Not made there mark yet

Spontaneous, chaotic

destroying systems involved with capitalism

The impressionists looked dated

Active demonstrations - noise concerts, violent, horrid

Big difference between rich and poor

Made to go and fight, seen death and destruction

reacting against this

no interest in pretty images

destruct anything to do with capitalism

DaDa - Yes Yes

Hobby Horse

Naivety

Hugo Ball

Tristan Tzara

Marcel Janco

Hans Richter

Jean Hans Arp

Sophie Taeuber Arp - DaDa Head, 1920 (destructing the bust)

Cabaret Voltaire - Puppetry, poetry, dancing etc

make the art as ugly as possible

Anti - Art, Aesthetics etc

Hans Arp - Collarge with Squares Arranged Accordingly to the Laws of Chance, 1916-17

Chance, Irony Games, Word Play, Manipulation, Loss of Meanings

Marcel Duchamp - LHOOQ, 1919

Picabia - Portrait of Cezanne, 1920 anti establishment, or normal art

Man Ray - Cadeau, 1921-63 everyday object made viscous and useless

Marcel Duchamp - Fountain, 1917

By product art as an art

Duchamp was a very talented painter which was less known, could paint anything needed a new way forward

fed up of art institutions choosing what art is and what can be displayed

Signature forms the art

Open exhibition - but the fountain was not aloud to be exhibited

R Mutt - Also stands for poverty

Readymades - put forward to symbolize something else

you pay for the name of the artist

artist began to choose what art is

even if he didn’t make it the change and signature made it art

very powerful at the time

questioning everything

marcel protested why it wasn't exhibited which was part of it

Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel, 1913

distributing everyday things in a new way

DaDa movement 1919

George Grosz - Toads of Property, 1920 more figurative

Ecle Homo Series, 1923

Explosive attacks to the establishment and capitalism

Capitalists - lust, sin, pollution, money

juxtaposition between rich and poor

Bourgeoisie

Photo montage, collage

Hanna Hock - Beautiful Girl, 1919-20

manipulated beings

Duchamp - The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, 1915-23

Bachelors on the bottom

mimicking something in your head

DaDa became norm and the artists began to become minor celebrities

the group started to dissolve

most challenging period of art - yet freedom began and art as an idea

DaDa had a rippling effect everywhere and on everything

Literature became fragmented

Ballet Russe - Parade Ballet was classed as high art

Andre Breton started 1924 Surrealism Excluded Reality

Artists in revolt against society

Freud important to surrealism, sexual desire drives everything, objects have gender and identity. symbolizing death repression a form of depression.

Hans Belmer - Plate 9 of Les Jeux de la Poupee (The Games of the Doll), 1949

Naivety, childhood next to a man on the bed horrid connotations

Change the way you think/see reality

Freud’s theory of the unconscious

negativity getting low and boring

positivity become to arrive

Jean Miro

Dali

Picasso

Hans Belmer had a theory that a lot of people were abused as kids - Chapman Bros

"beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella" quote by Isidore Ducasse

the sewing machine was female and the umbrella was male, Rape and prostitution

Max Ernst - Men Shall Know Nothing of this, 1923 (poem on the back)

dedicated to Andre Breton

Rene Magritte - The Reckless Sleeper

Things on you mind

Dali - Pushed out - Metamorphosis of Narcissus

his farther told him he was his brothers reincarnation

he represented women as rotten fruit and decaying things

he was frightened of women but desired them

The Lugubrious Game, 1929

Impeccable painting however strange the subject was

the surrealists didn’t like him becoming a celebrity and disowned him

Magritte

Man Ray - Lee Miller, Neck, 1930 (erect penis shape)

Meret Oppenheim - Fur Covered Cup and Saucer and Spoon, 1936

items of fetish, unaccessible yet they were everyday

Became glamourous and daring

Modern Art Remixed at the Tate Liverpool - Week 3

DaDa and Surrealism

Dada Manifesto - New York, Paris, Barcelona etc

After World War 2

Young artists angry about the world, the war

Not made there mark yet

Spontaneous, chaotic

destroying systems involved with capitalism

The impressionists looked dated

Active demonstrations - noise concerts, violent, horrid

Big difference between rich and poor

Made to go and fight, seen death and destruction

reacting against this

no interest in pretty images

destruct anything to do with capitalism

DaDa - Yes Yes

Hobby Horse

Naivety

Hugo Ball

Tristan Tzara

Marcel Janco

Hans Richter

Jean Hans Arp

Sophie Taeuber Arp - DaDa Head, 1920 (destructing the bust)

Cabaret Voltaire - Puppetry, poetry, dancing etc

make the art as ugly as possible

Anti - Art, Aesthetics etc

Hans Arp - Collarge with Squares Arranged Accordingly to the Laws of Chance, 1916-17

Chance, Irony Games, Word Play, Manipulation, Loss of Meanings

Marcel Duchamp - LHOOQ, 1919

Picabia - Portrait of Cezanne, 1920 anti establishment, or normal art

Man Ray - Cadeau, 1921-63 everyday object made viscous and useless

Marcel Duchamp - Fountain, 1917

By product art as an art

Duchamp was a very talented painter which was less known, could paint anything needed a new way forward

fed up of art institutions choosing what art is and what can be displayed

Signature forms the art

Open exhibition - but the fountain was not aloud to be exhibited

R Mutt - Also stands for poverty

Readymades - put forward to symbolize something else

you pay for the name of the artist

artist began to choose what art is

even if he didn’t make it the change and signature made it art

very powerful at the time

questioning everything

marcel protested why it wasn't exhibited which was part of it

Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel, 1913

distributing everyday things in a new way

DaDa movement 1919

George Grosz - Toads of Property, 1920 more figurative

Ecle Homo Series, 1923

Explosive attacks to the establishment and capitalism

Capitalists - lust, sin, pollution, money

juxtaposition between rich and poor

Bourgeoisie

Photo montage, collage

Hanna Hock - Beautiful Girl, 1919-20

manipulated beings

Duchamp - The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, 1915-23

Bachelors on the bottom

mimicking something in your head

DaDa became norm and the artists began to become minor celebrities

the group started to dissolve

most challenging period of art - yet freedom began and art as an idea

DaDa had a rippling effect everywhere and on everything

Literature became fragmented

Ballet Russe - Parade Ballet was classed as high art

Andre Breton started 1924 Surrealism Excluded Reality

Artists in revolt against society

Freud important to surrealism, sexual desire drives everything, objects have gender and identity. symbolizing death repression a form of depression.

Hans Belmer - Plate 9 of Les Jeux de la Poupee (The Games of the Doll), 1949

Naivety, childhood next to a man on the bed horrid connotations

Change the way you think/see reality

Freud’s theory of the unconscious

negativity getting low and boring

positivity become to arrive

Jean Miro

Dali

Picasso

Hans Belmer had a theory that a lot of people were abused as kids - Chapman Bros

"beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting table of a sewing machine and an umbrella" quote by Isidore Ducasse

the sewing machine was female and the umbrella was male, Rape and prostitution

Max Ernst - Men Shall Know Nothing of this, 1923 (poem on the back)

dedicated to Andre Breton

Rene Magritte - The Reckless Sleeper

Things on you mind

Dali - Pushed out - Metamorphosis of Narcissus

his farther told him he was his brothers reincarnation

he represented women as rotten fruit and decaying things

he was frightened of women but desired them

The Lugubrious Game, 1929

Impeccable painting however strange the subject was

the surrealists didn’t like him becoming a celebrity and disowned him

Magritte

Man Ray - Lee Miller, Neck, 1930 (erect penis shape)

Meret Oppenheim - Fur Covered Cup and Saucer and Spoon, 1936

items of fetish, unaccessible yet they were everyday

Became glamourous and daring

Modern Art Remixed at the Tate Liverpool - Week 2 - Workshop

Looking Beyond the Visual Workshop

Gaining skills on how to look at art and to think about weather we are drawn to arts because they are more ‘beautiful’ than others.

The tutor picked us all a piece which we had to work with so we didn’t go to one which we like or already no its meanings.

We were not aloud to read the blurb about the piece but we were aloud to no who made it, its name and the date. We only have 15 mins to answer the questions the idea is to be quick and decisive

My piece was:

Well Done! - Bill Woodrow, 1987

http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ViewWork?cgroupid=999999874&workid=66720&searchid=19005&tabview=image

1.What can you tell about the work without reading the blurb, what was going on in the world when it was created?

2.Look at how the piece is made, why do you think the artists used the materials?

3.How does the size and shape effect how you view it?

4.Is there a message wanting to be conveyed to the audience by the artist, what do you think the piece is trying to tell you?

Africa - Kenya

Important that the work is two sided needs to be viewed from both sides.

The frying pan was cut up in a way that can still be recognized as a frying pan but also so it can make up the meat/african countries

Rustic made of everyday materials which represent the types of materials used in these kinds of countries yet they would probably never get to eat a steak

Exploited african countries represented by the crate its standing on, the crate looks battered and used. Materials represent the make shift life people live.

The size is very realistic a life sized campfire.

The process your looking at is frozen mid way through cooking.

One side you see a piece of steak and on the crate its just a number represent that we don’t know where are food is coming from.

On the other side is a map of Africa and on the crate it says produce of kenya which shows the exploitation and kenya up in flames.

Th piece makes you think about everything you use everyday.

‘Well Done! comments on the exploitation of Africa by Western governments, corporations and financial interests. The silhouette of Africa, cut from the base of the frying pan, has been painted on one side to resemble a piece of bacon. The image implies that Africa (supported by the workers of its tea plantations) was a particularly juicy piece of meat about to be devoured. Africa continues to be the poorest inhabited continent. According to the United Nations, the poorest 25 countries in the world are all in Africa’ Taken from the wall in the Tate.