Collage idea for a painting.

Sculptures

Following a lecture from Maria Zahle. Artists taken from Phaidon Book: Unmonumental.

A groundbreaking survey of contemporary sculpture by 30 of today's leading artists.
Essays by Richard Flood, Laura Hoptman, Massimiliano Gioni and Trevor Smith.

Rössler

Jaroslav Rössler was a Czech avant-garde photographer of the first half of the twentieth century. His work has only recently become known outside Eastern Europe but he became established for his fusing of different styles, bringing together elements of symbolism, pictorialism, expressionism, cubism, futurism, constructivism, new objectivity, and abstract art. His photographs often reduced images to elementary lines and shapes that seemed to form a new reality; he would photograph simple objects against a stark background of black and white, or use long exposures to picture hazy cones and spheres of light.

Collection

Above: image of a view across the living room of a British House of the Future, circa 1956. The visionary approach of futuristic living 1980, followed the belief that a house was a particular place, which should be suited to its location, able to meet everyday requirements and accommodate its inhabitants individual patterns of use. The one bedroom town house, containing a central garden ajoined within it also consitsted of interiors that included a sunken dining table, plastic niche surrounded dressing room table and a thermostraticaly controlled sunken bath .

The last image is an approved 15 storey office building for the French Alliance on Clarence St. Sydney. The last project and design of widely recognised Australian architect, Harry Seidler. Also shown is the image of Seidler's suburban home, regarded as Australia's most outstanding example of a house built in a Brutalist style. The house which emerged, it's make up and underlying design was totally different and divorced from the traditional way of standard suburban living. It was designed by both him and his wife Penelope Seidler and went on to win the Wilkinson Award, RAIA in 1967.

My Sketch Study

Atlas Sheet

During the early sixties Gerhard Richter met and began to work with artists such as Sigmar Polke, Konrad Fischer-Lueg and Georg Baselitz. Their work and Richter's in particular began to have an impact in Germany, and eventually international art circles. Richter's beliefs are credited with refreshing art and rejuvenating painting as a medium during a period when many artists chose performance and ready-made media. Together with Polke and Fischer-Lueg, Richter formed a group called the Capitalist Realists. The Capitalist Realists were satirical, often deriving subject matter from print media. Richter began to see art as something that had to be separated from art history; he believed that paintings should focus on the image rather than the reference, the visual rather than the statement. He wanted to find a new way of painting that would not be constricting.

John Baldessari

October 2009:

Pure Beauty,

Tate London.

London, United Kingdom

October 13, 2009 – January 10, 2010.

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona,

Barcelona, Spain

October 17 – November 21, 2009.

Marian Goodman Gallery Paris.

Paris, France