Carlos Fernandes-Temperaments, Environment and other stories

In the first year i start to make a few prints, always in the subject i chose for the first year, People, Trees and environment.
It seems very important to me all this three subjects, as they become from my influences and worries about our World. As i say before i will start with print, what i have done and why in this course ( such a fantastic course) but i will explain that later. In print i was following a few artists in my research, to reach the better one it was difficult but everything, has solution. This monoprint “the scream” it was one of the first prints i had done. “Print D- version IV, 1997. IAN MCKEEVER it was one of the artists i was very interested, and i could say even give me the influence to make one artwork very interesting. This print A woodcut monoprint originating from a series of ninety-six woodcut monoprints illustrating twelve images depicted in eight different variations.

The design was incised into a block of plywood with a chisel or large nail. The block was then cut up using a jigsaw and the separate pieces individually inked using three colours, brown, yellow and black printing ink. The blocks were reassembled to pass through the printing press. The print is in mint condition and stored mounted.

It will be strange if i don’t talk about my journey in the World of print, i will show now part of my long journey.

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Sir Eduardo Paolozzi 1924–2005 British sculptor, collagist, printmaker, filmmaker and writer. Born of Italian parents, he attended Edinburgh College of Art in 1943 with a view to becoming a commercial artist. After brief military service, in 1944 he attended St Martin’s School of Art in London, and from 1945 to 1947 he studied sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. In the late 1940s he made various sculptures inspired by Surrealism, and also produced a number of collages, which blend the incongruous juxtapositions of Surrealism with Paolozzi’s interest in images of modern machinery.Paolozzi’s career was the more remarkable for its unpromising beginnings. His parents, immigrants to Scotland from the remote Italian province of Frosinone, ran a small ice-cream pariour in Leith where Paolozzi was born. Although seemingly destined to inherit the business, he liked drawing so much that he thought of becoming a commercial artist. His ambitions soon became more elevated however, partly as a result of his determination to make his name in a country which he never regarded as entirely his own.He was also a highly original printmaker some of whose collage-based silkscreened images are among the finest examples of pop art – the style he was instrumental in shaping.

Now i will show the work i have done with the influence of Mckeever and also in my concept.

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In this print the process it could be called very fun because it was done in a few hours and for me lino cut is a very interesting and never ending process of printing. Print could be where i will stay for the future, because i like all the process involving printmaking, i use to say print is magic, we never know exactly what happening with the colours or ink, it’s one kind of art very interesting. And in continuation about my first year of course. There are more artists i can include in this blog, which i think they were the most important for me in my research, as example, one of the artists is CHRISTOPHER LE BRUN

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Christopher Le Brun is a painter, sculptor, and printmaker. A graduate of the Slade and Chelsea Schools of art, his work makes patent his strong attachment to the imagery and emotional address of Romanticism and Symbolism.

Talking about prints without talk about one of the best visits i had done during my course the visit to Firstsite in Colchester to see the Exhibition from Nigel Henderson and Eduardo Paolozzi.
Two artists that they could change the World of print and his conception with techniques they had used for doing they artwork, i will show after the resume about that exhibition, could be the photos don’t have title because, i didn’t took the name of the works done by them.
Nigel Henderson & Eduardo Paolozzi
This movie it is a presentation from the work from Eduardo Paolozzi, one of the artists i was more focus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRvHA57UGpU

Firstsite announces a ground breaking exhibition to explore for the first time the history of Hammer Prints, the Essex-based, applied art collaboration between celebrated artists Nigel Henderson (b. 1917, d. 1985) and Eduardo Paolozzi (b. 1924, d. 2005).

In 1954 Henderson and Paolozzi registered a limited company ‘to purchase, sell, manufacture, hire or act as agents for the sale of textiles, statuary, ceramics, furniture and photographic equipment’. During the 1950s, the artists designed eleven patterns that were printed as wallpapers and textiles, and used to decorate ceramic wares. Their collaboration merged the ethos of early twentieth-century modernist initiatives, such as the Omega Workshops (1913–19), with a post-war aesthetic that the architectural critic Reyner Banham referred to as ‘New Brutalism’. Describing their initiative as an ‘attack’ on ‘the craft field using the silk-screen’, they employed a combination of techniques with photographic and appropriated imagery, and their designs show the influence of contemporary art movements from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Hammer Prints wallpapers were manufactured by Cole & Son from 1955, and the Lancashire firm, Hull Traders, printed their textiles to order from 1958. Silk ties, headscarves, ceramic tiles, lamp bases, tiled trays and tables were produced in workshops at Landermere near Thorpe-le-Soken, where the two artists lived from 1954.
http://www.firstsite.uk.net/
Perhaps it was also one of the must important visits i had done because it changes my mind, with such a good quality of works i had seen in Firstsite, and also all the history between the two artists.
As seeing here there is a fantastic world around the printmaking, i could say , yes i took influences from the work of then, but not only because while i see the work of Eduardo Paolozzi and Nigel Henderson i start to think, perhaps to do beautiful art, i need to lost all my fears about art, yes it was what i start to do in this course don’t be so tense, but my Journey still go and i have much more thinks to show like my prints as conclusion from all the influences from artists and as well from my feelings, emotions, and state of mind, all important in my developing of skills.
All my work during my course i will show in a separate post, this because i have a lot of work to show.
and as well i have another movie when me and all the other students, in the beginning of our course, it is only because we can make the things better, if they are funny to see and appreciate.

It was very interesting and funny also, but all my course it is till the moment, one of the biggest challeng in my life, but as well funny also, which is a detail very important.

Perhaps will be good to start with something inspirative. Everything it was starting in London, in a visit to Coulthard Museum.
And for that nothing better than a movie, the photos i made during my visit, maybe they were not so good but anyway, there is the movie:

It would be strange if i don’t start from the beginning to do my resume about painting, and all my intense fight to reach my aim in painting but suddenly i start to quit a little bit with painting, but i still painting, this slow down in painting it was because i find out i am better in print and sculpture and it will be where i will be focus, but let’s start to talk about my Journey, to be sincere it all start in the Tanks in London, art Gallery made with the Nuclear Bunkers, it was very powerful, and crucial in the way to start to see new kind of art.
And the visit start to see the artists:Susanne Lacy ” The Crystal Quilt”
Lis Rhodes ” Light Music”
Sung Hwan Kim ” Temper Clay”
Juan Downey ” Plato Now”
And also all of the other Artists shown or perfoming in “The Tanks” they are all Key Works.
All of them they have beatiful artwork.

I post this about the Tanks here in this post because it was all about painting after the visit.

photo from the tanks

“The tanks”
Acrylic on canvas 2012
Carlos Fernandes

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Jackson Pollock

Autumn Rhythm: Number 30 (1950)
These two paintings from Jackson Pollock are a demonstration of what it was his work and the art of dripping in Autumn Rhythm as with many paintings of him, he began it a linear framework of diluted black paint which in many areas soaked through the unprimed canvas. It was visible and very important for his work the balance between control and chance that Pollock maintained throughout his working process producted compositions that can have much calm tranquility as some works by Rothko.

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As i show here Rothko and Pollock can have a big relationship, could be not so visible but both of then they have very peaceful artworks, and both influence me, how i can explain it was not a influence it was more like open a book and reed the answers for, the better way for my artwork.

But all this journey it was a very demanding field (painting), i used to do paintings but i never think how difficult sometimes it is to find the right subject and define it in a proper way, but anyway i had to find solutions for my study about painting, there was a mysterious and sometimes strange for me.It was a long way till now in painting but nothing better then start to explain my journey

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Peter Doig it was one of the artists i was focused, because of all his paintings some of then doing in the way i use to paint, not aggressive a very soft way we remark on his paintings

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I will try to explain my installation and why? this installations and if there is a relationship between all my work for degree show

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In my installation the main purpose is to represent temperaments in the shadow of the faces i will hang on the ceiling and also on the ground. Before i say something more could be better if i show also the two artists where i took more information and where i also had a deep research, they are Cornelia Parker “Cold dark matter 1991” This artwork from Cornelia Parker it could be called fantastic and for me it was one of the reasons for i start to do my installation.Not because of anything in particular, but more because of the splendid manifestation and representation of shadows.
The work from Cornelia Parker it’s a very good example from what i was studied in the last two years. Cornelia Parker burst, quite literally, into the public eye in 1991 with ‘Cold Dark Matter: An Exploded View’. This ordinary garden shed, blown to smithereens by the army and then suspended in mid-air, marked the arrival of a major force in contemporary art. Parker has since made a body of work that includes performance, her exploring themes of resurrection, death and abandonment through photographs of prison walls, suspended bits of wood casts of cracks in the pavement. But there plenty of different works from Cornelia Parker that could catch your imagination with such beautiful works. Cornelia Parker: ‘I’ve always been happy to sleep with the enemy’ words from Cornelia in a interview Nicholas Wroe

Saturday 18 May 2013 10.00 BST
when i show all this photos it’s only to remark how important it was the work from Cornelia for my studies. But there are much more works from Cornelia, which ones i really have a special passion

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but i will show more work from Cornelia only with the purpose of shown something really beautiful and provocative. I try to show a video from Cornelia but all of then are to big for this blog.
This is another example of the work of Cornelia and all the mysticism she bring to her work. Could be not fair if i didn’t say i think i was fall in love with the work of Cornelia Parker.

A few more photos from the progression of my work.

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And now another artist where i had make a big research and it was from Christian Boltanski, my idea for the figures could come from the work of Boltanski

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The work from Boltanski could be related to live and memories, it is different from what i want to do in my work with the figures, where i want to represent, something like people faces, people temperaments, which i try to describe in the shape of the figures.

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In this work ” You see, but you don’t “, perhaps is where it will be visible a little bit of my influences in Salvador Dali, but it could be and for sure it’s not only Salvador Dali give me influences, there are other artists, also during my course i had a few works to be done about for example two artists, Doug Aitken and one piece of his work And it is very funny because my research about Doug Aitken it was made in the second year. But also Anisha Kapoor it was helping me in my idea to work with the broken mirrors Another superb work from Anisha Kapoor, who also give me the chance to find out different way’s to do my work. It is different from what i want to do because my work will be with broken mirrors, but the idea is similar, because in my work the key topic it will be what you don’t see, because the broken mirrors don’t aloud to see clear image.
And more photos from “You see but you don’t”

ENVIRONMENT
It will be very important to start talking also about the artists where i was, in the right words more time, they were the 3 artists for my dissertation, Joseph Beuys, David Nash and Andy Goldsworthy, as i start to make mention of then.

Fat chair shows the importance the materials had to him and maybe the contrast between the materials or natural elements and it starts to be visible that his intention was to provoke the viewers into a discussion about the work done, evident from his words “My initial intention in using fat with was to stimulate discussion” Durini, Lucresia. (2011)
Beuys in his works he was always trying to provoke the viewers with the works made from materials with a strong relationship, from happenings in his live. Beuys it an artist, who had transformed the World of art with his concepts as, this because the work of him change the way to see art also, but i will give some examples
In this two different works, (different perhaps only the shape, because the concept could be the same ).
This blog post will be a i mentioned where i will explain all my work for the degree show and more,
it will be where my conceptions get shape. In this work i show now “The stage”

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Also i have a interesting movie from this artwork it’s a interesting movie.

I hope the movie will explain how i had done this artwork.
But as i said i have more work to present here in this blog, now i will show perhaps a controversial work and surrealistic, but it is what is going in my brain try to provoke in a good way the viewers.

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This work it consists in a metaphor of what it was not done or unfinished, like if somebody can not reach his dreams his ambitions, and i use the two objects, because they make me remember some people don’t reach their dreams. It could be a little bit surrealistic but perhaps is the better way to provoke the viewers.
I try to explain my conception with my work, and as well my words. Another work , his still in progression will be “Mysty”

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In this work could be more visible my intention in work together with different materials (Organic) to do my artworks, it seems to be very important all my research in diverse artists, it was good to reach my truly intentions and all my influences with other artists. In the work “Mysty” i want again to provoke the viewer in stabilize a relation between all the existing materials or elements in the World.
More work in the state of progression

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More works for my degree show, and it could be vidible how i start to be passioned for the organic elements and texture.
Perhaps will be good also to talk or to start to talk about influences.
DAVID NASH and the Land art

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This are examples from the work of David Nash, and they are, for me they were the works where I was more focus to do my research and as well my future work, which consists in work with the organic materials.