STRUCTURE

To pay attention is our endless and proper work.Mary Oliver(American poet b 1935 - )

Brainstorm/Blue Sky Thinking/MindmapCall it what you like or what ever someone

else says we should call it… Ideas come when you are actively thinking about stuff… it’s your job to think.

Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from

Watch Steve Johnson guide you through the origins of ideas. You can cultivate ideas

Ideas are put together from thinking about stuff, thinking again and then joining up your thinking and acting on it.

VERY BRILLIANT IDEAS

Steal Like An Artist: Austin Kleon at TEDxKC

This is the bit were your teacher asks you to look at other artists work and make connections. You don’t need to reinvent the art wheel, you can take ideas and build on them, push ideas in other drections. It’s your job to do this and make things that are visually interesting. If someone else has already done it how are you going to move the idea on.

Blackout Poetry

Vladimir TatlinMonument to the 3rd International.Vladimir Tatlin - Russia's legendary dreamer

Pneumatic Tatlin

For Tatlin And the Hopes of All the Ages

Watch this film to find our about Tatlin. Watch the links below to see how artists are still inspired by this work over 100 years after it was made.

TOP TIP… What the expectations are

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i) Who? ii) What?

A) Why are artists, 100 years later still drawn to this work?B) What was the wider context in which this work was made?C) What kind of resonance does this monument have in the 21st century?

iii) Why?

Good practice would be to find out about Vladimir Tatlin and what he was up to with his Monument to The Third International.

iv) MAKE YOUR OWN VERSION OF TATLIN’S TOWER

Alastair MackinvenET SIC IN INFINITUM

Et Sick In Infinitum, 2008. Oil on canvas.

Et Sick In Infinitum, 2008. Oil on canvas.

Penrose Stairs/StepsThe Penrose stairs or Penrose steps, also dubbed the impossible staircase, is an impossible object created by Lionel Penrose and his son Roger Penrose. A variation on the Penrose triangle, it is a two-dimensional depiction of a staircase in which the stairs make four 90-degree turns as they ascend or descend yet form a continuous loop, so that a person could climb them forever and never get any higher. This is clearly impossible in three dimensions.

Penrose stairs

M.C. EscherAscending and Descending.

Alastair MacKinven,Andway Isthay Oreverfay2008, Oil on canvas. 205 x 205 cm

An idea taken from mathematics made visual via an etching reinterpreted by a painter

Rachel WhitereadCharity box, cast object

Rachel Whiteread, Embankment.

TASK 1Take cardboard boxes and make a structure from them out in the corridor space. Use tape to stick boxes together.

Ai Weiwei

TASK 1a Look over Tatlin’s Monument to the 3rd International again.

Vladimir TatlinDan Flavin

A version of the sculpture in the courtyard of the Royal Academy.

Take the boxes provided and make your own homage to Tatlin’s Monument The 3rd International. Make a structure that gives you height as well as volume.

Vladimir Tatlin Retrospective

TASK 1b Look over Tatlin’s Monument to the 3rd International again.

Make an interesting structure with the boxes. Use tape to attach them together. How will you make them balance. How will your structure be a homage to Tatlin’s Monument to the 3rd International

TASK 1c

Make

*Choose other kinds of materials to make your own structures/stacks…and document them via drawing.

Martin Creed makes structures (stacks using cardboard boxes as well as other objects).

MARTIN CREED BOXES

Cardboard boxes are pretty much at the bottom of the totem pole in terms of possible art materials. They are cheap, disposable containers for other things. Rauschenberg has said he tries “to act in that gap between” art and life, and there's probably nothing more everyday than a cardboard box. He uses them “as is,” with their stains, tears, marks and worn labels revealing their history and creating a patina of wear and age.

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG BOXES

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst, Mother and Child (Divided), 1993,Glass, painted steel, silicone, acrylic, monofilament, stainless steel, cow, calf and formaldehyde solution. 207 x 322 x 109cm

Let’s borrow from Damien

TASK 2a.

Let’s cut up cabbages and draw their interior structure, paying extremely close attention to nuances and colour.

Take your Red Cabbage drawing/painting/photosand use them to develop:i) Poly tile prints ii) Etchingsiii) Monoprints

HOW CAN YOU MAKE THIS INTERESTING? Your job is to think about this bit.

TASK 2b.

Juan Sánchez Cotánca. 1602, oil on canvas 68.9 cm x 84.5 cm

Laura LetinskyUntitled #54, Hardly More Than Ever series, 200231″ x 26.4″Archival Ink Print

Making an Art historical reference. 1602 to 2002. Separated by 400 years. However, both artists use the sliced melon and reveal its structure.

Look at the piece by Juan Sánchez Cotán. Think about how you might use it as a starting point, a stepping off point to work that includes cut vegetables.