Land is a valuable commodity. There was a time when the distinction between urban and rural landscapes was clear. Urban areas were a testament to man's progress and commerce. They could be seen as industrial and technological advancement, busyness and bustle compared to the slow paced rural idyllic life portrayed within Romantic art which has …
Exercise 2.5: Text in art
It's interesting how our mood and the weather affects our perception. I'd read through this exercise and wondered where I was going to go, to do it. Nursing a cold and walking in dismal grey weather, I walked to the end of my road to go to the shop. It's quite a quiet road. At …
Exercise 2.4: Is appropriation appropriate
Firstly I am going to say, as far as I'm concerned, anything goes. That's not to say that we will agree with or like everything that is presented as 'art'. It must however have it's freedom of expression. Appropriation art or the art of appropriation is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little …
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Exercise 2.3: Typologies
Definitions Typologies (www.dictionary.com, 2020) Topographies (www.dictionary.com, 2020) Sean O'Hagan's article on the 1975 exhibition "Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape", is a commentary on the 'aesthetics of the banal'. It's interesting that in Part one of this unit, we were looking at early photography which was generally topographic in nature. There was a desire then for …
Exercise 2.2: Explore a road
1. Exploring a road 2. 'The Way' The Father, 'Tom', a middle class Optomologist, Conservative and despairing at his wayward Son who has dropped out of College and good professional prospects to 'Travel the World'. In the early part of the Movie we see him playing Golf with his 'medical chums' and makes the comment, …
Exercise 2.1: ‘Territorial Photography’
Summary of Essay by Joel Snyder Initial ideas on the 'character' of Photography from it's 'invention' in 1839 was one of puzzlement as to what Photography was and how it stood in relation to other image making practices i.e painting, drawing. The photographic prints were seen as machine made. Photographs were seen as mechanical and …
Landscape, Place and Environment 