3. Barbara Hepworth
Pelagos ('sea' in Greek) was inspired by a view of the bay at St
Ives in Cornwall, where two arms of land enfold the sea on
either side. The hollowed-out wood has a spiral formation
resembling a shell, a wave or the roll of a hill.
Hepworth wanted the taut strings to express 'the tension I felt
between myself and the sea, the wind or the hills'. She moved
to Cornwall with her husband Ben Nicholson in 1939, and
produced some of her finest Sculpture in its wild landscape.
4. Henry Moore
Recumbent Figure 1938 is a large sculpture of a reclining female figure
carved from a rectangular block of Green Hornton stone. The sculpture
was commissioned by Russian émigré architect Serge Chermayeff (1900–
1996) in 1938 for the grounds of Bentley Wood, his house in Holland,
Sussex. In 1955 Moore recalled that Chermayeff:
‘wanted me to say whether I could visualize one of my figures standing at
the intersection of terrace and garden. It was a long, low-lying building
and there was an open view of the long sinuous lines of the Downs. ‘
The sculpture did not need to be on the terrace at ‘Bentley Wood’ but it
fitted in well.
In Tate Britain the ‘Recumbent Figure’ sits easily within the gallery’s
environment.
5. Peter Lowe
Peter Lowe has constantly used simple (as opposed to complex) arithmetic
forms to layer and develop his work, which he then might subject to an
ordered change.
‘Diagonal Grey Relief’ is one of the first group termed by the artist ‘Volume
and Void’.
This work – painted a grey monochrome – is formed from the rational and
structured placement of positive and negative space side by side which
means he has cut out squares within the main square shape and layered to
create a 3-D piece.
The missing square are the negative space and the solid and layered are the
positive space. The layers spaces represent growth.
6. FN Souza
Francis Newton Souza, born in the Portuguese
colony of Goa to Indian parents, was brought
up as a strict Catholic. In 1949, having become
a well-established artist in India, he moved to
Britain. After six difficult years living in London,
he began to build a considerable reputation as
a writer and painter.
This piece ‘Crucifixion’ 1959 oil paint of board,
moves away from the image of Christ as a
blonde white man and shows him as a dark
skinned man with the wounds and blood of
crucifixion
7. Frances Bacon
‘Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion’ by Frances Bacon which he later
related them to The Eumenides, vengeful furies of Greek myth. Bacon typically drew on
various sources, including photography where he tried to recreate the sense movement
and brushstroke direction . The exhibition of the work in April 1945 coincided with the
release of the first photographs and film footage of the Nazi concentration camps and for
some it reflected the pessimistic world brought in by the Holocaust and the beginning of
age of nuclear weapons.
8. King Crimson
King Crimson are an English rock band formed in 1968 in London.
The band has had over 20 different musicians in the line up as they
went through numerous formations. The constant member of the
band is Robert Fripp. The band disbanded in 1974 and reformed in
1981 and produced 3 albums in 4 years and then had another dip
for 10 years until Fripp revived the band again in 1994.
The band has influenced lots of other bands such as Nirvana and
even Iron Maiden.
The album cover was painted by Barry Godber, a computer
programmer who died after the album’s release. It was the only
album cover he designed and Robert Fripp owns the original
painting.
11. Another artist that I have looked at is Jim Phillips who is a skateboard artist for the skateboard company ‘Santa
Cruz’.
Jim Phillips artwork appears on skateboard, surf boards, rock posters and has produced books of his art and
designs.
Jim Phillips was the major influence for my hand and King Crimson design because the palm of the hand has
an open mouth that appears to be screaming.
The King Crimson ‘the Schizoid Man’ painting of the was intriguing and haunting and I saw a synergy with the
open mouth of Phillip’s ‘screaming hand blue’.
The cultural influence of art on such play items as surf and skateboard is a playful but significant art form. The
technology in the application of the art has gone from simple tattoo art to highly illustrated art and actual
photographs.
12. 3
I have hand drawn the
hand of ‘screaming hand
blue’ with the face of the
King Crimson ‘Schizoid
Man’ and plan to do a
triptych of monochrome,
blue and crimson .
13. Photoshop the King Crimson ‘Schizoid Man’
on to the figure of the middle painting of
Francis Bacon’s ‘Three Figures at the Base of
a Crucifixion’. This is the mixture of two
abstract pieces to make an absurd image.
Francis Bacon’s painting is turned in to an
Hieronymus Bosch style image (‘The Garden
of Earthly Delights’ and the ‘last
judgement’ panel)
14. 2
The Recumbent figure
with a mask of the King
Crimson after the style
of Marcel Duchamp’s
Mona Lisa with a
Moustache. The aim of
this was to juxtapose
the cartoon face of the
‘Schizoid Man’ with the
smooth abstract form of
Henry Moore’s figure.
15. My Intensions:
1. To create a triptych of the ‘Schizoid Man in the Hand’ in monochrome, blue and crimson
I shall draw freehand the hands and face of the Schizoid Man and colour with acrylic paint.
2. To create a 3-D sculpture papier-mache with a mask of the King Crimson ‘Schizoid Man’ made from card
and fixed to the sculpture. The papier-mache would be newspaper with a thin wash of yellow ochre over
to leave the newsprint exposed. The mask would in the style of Peter Lowe to create a 3-D layered effect.
