JOE HULL ART

Here is what I've been up to for the past 6 weeks: I have produced several pages in my sketchbook(s) and have created a few pieces inspired by my artists work. Specifically, I have done many spin paintings using different mediums inspired by Damien Hirst. I have been focusing on optimising my blog as much as possible, to the point where I can produce art through my blog posts as much as I can my sketchbook. I feel that this personal approach to my blog will keep me motivated to work. I've found that organising my pictures in Krita (the free equivalent of photoshop) and saving that as a JPEG with a white background completely eliminates the frustration of organising my pictures in Blogger directly, which was a MASSIVE hindrance to my work flow during first year. Also producing little illustrations, GIFs and videos have proved to be very helpful and fulfilling to complete, switching between these mediums provides many avenues of experimentation so as to most effectively sh...

LEAMINGTON SPA ART IN THE PARK 2018 Art in the Park is a festival based in Leamington-Spa to celebrate art and music over the duration of a weekend. I decided to go along on the Saturday to collect some inspiration for my coursework. There were lots of stalls and people selling artwork, so I was able to collect business cards and have conversations with these people and learn new things about their creative process.

John Singer Sargent/ Vs /Damien Hirst/ Vs /Joseph Cornell Artwork Symbolism Damien Hirst is widely acclaimed for his use of religious imagery through his use of symbolic items such as a skull bedazzled in Swarovski crystals and sawed in half animal corpses preserved in formaldehyde. His big statement pieces also earnt him a good deal of fame, specifically 'A Thousand Years' which seemed unusually dark for him at the time, as he had only just come out with his spot paintings at Freeze. A Thousand Years shows two compartments of a box, in one side where flies are hatched from a box and in the other a fly killer suspended over a rotting cows heads; Hirst has said himself that the piece represents a God, that you go into the fly killer and die by chance. While Hirst's work is heavy in symbolism, Cornell's is much more simplistic. His surrealist style (although he does not like to associate himself with the surrealist movement) box collages contain Victorian br...

FRANCIS BACON His father was a racehorse trainer so Francis Bacon grew up in a stable yard despite being asthmatic and experiencing frequent difficulty breathing in the dusty environment. This becomes apparent in his chilling use of mouths and his fascination with depicting the human scream.  Bacon was often  beaten and abused by other stable hands on his father’s request. This may have been where he began to confuse pain with love. His family  moved to London at the outbreak of war in 1914. His f ather viewed him as a disappointment and threw him out of the home for being homosexual-he sent him to live with an older man who the family considered to be ‘good company’ for Bacon, who was abused by the older man and taken to live in Berlin with him. Bacon says ‘after Berlin, I was completely corrupted.’   Bacon returned to Britain in 1926.   In 1927, he frequented Paris and Berlin-being fond of the nightlife. He found Picasso’s 1927 exhibition (G...