2-6-3 Contextual Focus Point

2-6-3              Contextual Focus Point Michael Fried’s essay ‘Art and Objecthood’ was first published In 1967 in ‘Artforum’ in response to Donald Judd’s essay ‘Specific Objects’ and Robert Morris ‘Notes on Sculpture’. Take some time out from your practical work and read the essay. Reflect on any resonances with your own experience of making in...

2-6-2 Reading Points [Katherina Grosse in Conversation]

2-6-2           Reading Points [Katherina Grosse in Conversation with Jonathan Watkins] ‘Katherina Grosse in Conversation with Jonathan Watkins’ (2002) in ed. Myers, Terry R (2011) Painting, Documents of Contemporary Art, London: Whitechapel Gallery and The MIT Press, (Myers, 2011) Grosse opens this piece by noting her habits she has when beginning a work, such as...

2-6-1 Exercise 1.5 Painting in the round

2-6-1    Exercise 1.5   Painting in the round Jessica Stockholder in A world undone – Works from the Chartwell Collection, (Youtube.com, 2014) The video opens with Jessica Stockholder saying the following -” I like the way that colour is both ephemeral and embodied”.  She thus sees colour as a transitory and an abstract a physical...