Week 2 and Week 3 homework
Week 2: 20 photos that tell some sort of narrative:
The narrative I am showing is made up of random things I noticed during my day that I decided to take pictures of. It shows the type of things that tend to catch my interest
Week 3: Visit a gallery or other venue/spaces around London and find work by artists who use objects in their work. Tell us why you have chosen this artist and why you have responded as you did.
I went to the Tate modern to see if anything there would move me when I saw ‘the black wall’ sculpture by Louise Nevelson. She uses objects that she found around New York city in order to create a piece that she can create a narrative with. This piece made me stop and look at it. I felt drawn to it. It seems to represent how chaos and discord can be rearranged into something with order and meaning, and a purpose other then what it was made for. The fact that everything is painted black in order to match each other reflects how we change parts of ourselves in order to fit in with the society around us.
Louise Nevelson was born in the Poltava governorate of the Russian empire, but she lived in Manhattan with her family. This sculpture reflects her habit of being a collector and her connection to the neighbourhood of Manhattan. She would collect objects that she found and has incorporated them into her sculptures in different ways. Her dramatic sculptures paved the way for female artists as she showed that it wasn’t only men’s artwork that could be large scale.
1988, reconstructed 2011