I don't know how I should do this.
I am trying to show background links and the stories behind everything, but I also want to keep up to date with media attention, news and gossip.
I think the best way to show this is to use three exclamation marks as the title.
Today, Patrick Wolf's third album- 'The Magic Position' was released. I imagine it may do quite well. I picked up two of the common three free London newspapers (The Metro, London Lite and The London Paper) Patrick Wolf's album was reviewed in both of these.
Last night I met up with my friends in the band 'Foals'. (I'll speak about these properly later and the links with them and Patrick) They've been asked by Peaches Geldof herself to play her birthday party alongside Xerox teens and Patrick Wolf. The boys have said for me to go along with them. I'm unsure of dates of this but I'll keep it posted.
Foals' myspace is:
http://www.myspace.com/foals
5. The Family
First off I thought it'd be good to start looking at people which were around Patrick for most of his life. His family.
Patrick's dad was a jazz musician, I've searched 'patrick wolf's dad/ father' and other guesses for hours on Google and cannot find a name for him.
However, I do know the name of his Mother. The first I heard of her was a while ago when Patrick had left a message on his myspace saying that his Mother had an art exhibition at The Residence Gallery and that he'd see everyone there for the private view. A public invite for a 'private view'.
Imelda Apps, an artist, the mother to Patrick Wolf and Jo Apps and the wife of... a jazz musician, is an ex- student of Chelsea College of Art.
Patrick's dad was a jazz musician, I've searched 'patrick wolf's dad/ father' and other guesses for hours on Google and cannot find a name for him.
However, I do know the name of his Mother. The first I heard of her was a while ago when Patrick had left a message on his myspace saying that his Mother had an art exhibition at The Residence Gallery and that he'd see everyone there for the private view. A public invite for a 'private view'.
Imelda Apps, an artist, the mother to Patrick Wolf and Jo Apps and the wife of... a jazz musician, is an ex- student of Chelsea College of Art.
2. Painting by Imelda Apps - Patrick on last day of June 2004You can find her website here:
http://www.imelda-apps.co.uk
Jo Apps, Patricks sister is another musician in the family. She is a singer and instrumentalist. She plays clarinet aand sings for Wolf, among other things. She has sang on Venetian Snares record 'Dance like you're selling nails', played bass with Capitol K and recently released her own single- 'A Kausikan'. As well as d.j'ing. Her myspace address is:
http://www.myspace.com/joapps
This is the family.
There are so many other links to go through, I'm unsure of the best way to do so. No matter how awful everyone thinks it is, it is by no doubt an amazing source to use for things like this. It's Myspace. It can bring out the worst in people, but becase it is so public it means making links like these is easy.
http://www.imelda-apps.co.uk
Jo Apps, Patricks sister is another musician in the family. She is a singer and instrumentalist. She plays clarinet aand sings for Wolf, among other things. She has sang on Venetian Snares record 'Dance like you're selling nails', played bass with Capitol K and recently released her own single- 'A Kausikan'. As well as d.j'ing. Her myspace address is:
http://www.myspace.com/joapps
This is the family.
There are so many other links to go through, I'm unsure of the best way to do so. No matter how awful everyone thinks it is, it is by no doubt an amazing source to use for things like this. It's Myspace. It can bring out the worst in people, but becase it is so public it means making links like these is easy.
4. Artist- Patrick Wolf
1. Photo of a friend, me and Patrick Wolf from 2006Patrick Wolf (born June 30, 1983 at St Thomas' Hospital, London[1]) is an English singer, songwriter from South London. Wolf plays many instruments including harp, harpsichord, guitr, piano, autoharp, organ, theremin, ukulele, viola and violin. [1]
There is a more information about Wolf's time making music, from the age of 11 on his Myspace, which you can find at:
http://www.myspace.com/officialpatrickwolf
Wolf who is friends with musicians all over London has toured with Bloc Party, and has recently been announced to tour with The Arcade Fire.
The Magic Position, his third album, is to be released this Monday (26th Febraury) the album includes guest vocals from Marianne Faithful and friend, Edward Larrikin (singer of band Larrikin Love). His sister- Jo Apps features on the album with backing operatic vocals. Apps is often onstage with Wolf when he is touring, adding vocals and being in charge of electronics from her laptop. Apps is musically talented as well, I will speak later about her in a blog entry specifically written about her.
The family which Wolf has been born in to are an incredibly creative family. Again I will I'll save this for later as this is an introduction to Patrick.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Wolf
There is a more information about Wolf's time making music, from the age of 11 on his Myspace, which you can find at:
http://www.myspace.com/officialpatrickwolf
Wolf who is friends with musicians all over London has toured with Bloc Party, and has recently been announced to tour with The Arcade Fire.
The Magic Position, his third album, is to be released this Monday (26th Febraury) the album includes guest vocals from Marianne Faithful and friend, Edward Larrikin (singer of band Larrikin Love). His sister- Jo Apps features on the album with backing operatic vocals. Apps is often onstage with Wolf when he is touring, adding vocals and being in charge of electronics from her laptop. Apps is musically talented as well, I will speak later about her in a blog entry specifically written about her.
The family which Wolf has been born in to are an incredibly creative family. Again I will I'll save this for later as this is an introduction to Patrick.
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Wolf
3. My decisions part two
The main, and nearly only medium I am truely interested in is concept and ideas. I love drawing and photography. But without the concept there they just become something which is 'pretty' to me. There's nothing wrong with liking something because it is pretty, but I've come to the conclusion that there is more in life to liking something because it is pretty/ nice. It seems too easy to be nice and it's just quite meaningless and shallow. I like thinking and I want to be stimulated by work and things going on around me.
My 'favourite' artist who I absolutely adore for the concepts behind her work is Sophie Calle.
I have decided to use Sophie Calle and her concept work as the medium for my work.
Now that I have briefly spoken about what/who I am interested in studying and why I feel that I should explain who these people are and what they do and how I am going to use them to study.
My 'favourite' artist who I absolutely adore for the concepts behind her work is Sophie Calle.
I have decided to use Sophie Calle and her concept work as the medium for my work.
Now that I have briefly spoken about what/who I am interested in studying and why I feel that I should explain who these people are and what they do and how I am going to use them to study.
2. My decisions part one
I am going with my initial idea of the 'artist' I would study for this project.
The artist is Patrick Wolf.
In the past couple of years I have grown very fond of his music. More recently I have met him on a few occasions and know of him through friends and know people who he is friends with. Through friends of friends.
When this project was explained to us we were told to think of a spiders web, with cross overs and links. Some spiralling on to each other for a long time, some with loose ends. Patrick Wolf seemed like not only the most interesting person for me to look at, but also one of the most interesting people I could think about. There is a lot of links he has to a whole 'other world' which is happening in London which I love looking in to. I feel using him as a starting point will bring a whole lot of links.
From this I have been thinking about the institutions I would be most interested in looking at. I think the way I'd like to look at this is to do it in the style of a spider web, with one starting point, central to this and spirals coming out. Institutions would then include clubs which he has d.j'd at, parties he has attended, places he has played at, etcetera.
This would work with journals as well. Rather than looking at journals, I want the decision to come from the 'artist' being in the journal. These journals could range from Dazed and Confused and I.D to NME, music reviews in newspapers- local and worldwide.
I still need to think some more about what medium I will use to present my work. I already have one idea in mind, I'd just like to think about this idea some more and what would work best with what I'm trying to present.
The artist is Patrick Wolf.
In the past couple of years I have grown very fond of his music. More recently I have met him on a few occasions and know of him through friends and know people who he is friends with. Through friends of friends.
When this project was explained to us we were told to think of a spiders web, with cross overs and links. Some spiralling on to each other for a long time, some with loose ends. Patrick Wolf seemed like not only the most interesting person for me to look at, but also one of the most interesting people I could think about. There is a lot of links he has to a whole 'other world' which is happening in London which I love looking in to. I feel using him as a starting point will bring a whole lot of links.
From this I have been thinking about the institutions I would be most interested in looking at. I think the way I'd like to look at this is to do it in the style of a spider web, with one starting point, central to this and spirals coming out. Institutions would then include clubs which he has d.j'd at, parties he has attended, places he has played at, etcetera.
This would work with journals as well. Rather than looking at journals, I want the decision to come from the 'artist' being in the journal. These journals could range from Dazed and Confused and I.D to NME, music reviews in newspapers- local and worldwide.
I still need to think some more about what medium I will use to present my work. I already have one idea in mind, I'd just like to think about this idea some more and what would work best with what I'm trying to present.
1. 'What is an artist'?
Is a 'musician' an 'artist'?
I 'googled' the word artist these are the definitions of an 'artist' that I have found:
'1.a person who produces works in any of the arts that are primarily subject to aesthetic criteria. 2.a person who practices one of the fine arts, esp. a painter or sculptor.
3.a person whose trade or profession requires a knowledge of design, drawing, painting, etc.: a commercial artist.
4.a person who works in one of the performing arts, as an actor, musician, or singer; a public performer: a mime artist; an artist of the dance.
5.a person whose work exhibits exceptional skill.
6.a person who is expert at trickery or deceit: He's an artist with cards.
7.Obsolete. an artisan.
—Synonyms 1. Artist, artisan are persons having superior skill or ability, or who are capable of producing superior work. An artist is a person engaged in some type of fine art. An artisan is engaged in a craft or applied art.'
'1581, "one who cultivates one of the fine arts," from M.Fr. artiste, from It. artista, from M.L. artista, from L. ars (see art). Originally used especially of the arts presided over by the Muses (history, poetry, comedy, tragedy, music, dancing, astronomy), but also used 17c. for "one skilled in any art or craft" (including professors, surgeons, craftsmen, cooks). Now especially of "one who practices the arts of design or visual arts" (a sense first attested 1747). Artistic first recorded 1753; artistry 1868.'1.
'An "artist" (one skilled in a fine art) can also be an "artiste" (public performer), but an "artiste" is not necessarily an "artist." '
'Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. An artist can also be unofficially defined as "a person who expresses themselves through a medium". The word is also used in a qualitative sense of a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.
Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of 'high culture', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography and music — people who use imagination, and talent or skill, to create works that can be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics will define as artists those who produce art within a recognised or recognisable discipline....
There is no consensus about what constitutes "art" or who is, or is not, an "artist". Often, discussions on the subject focus on the differences between "artist" and "technician" or "entertainer," or "artisan," "fine art" and "applied art," or what constitutes art and what does not. The French word artiste (which in French, simply means "artist") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer .'2
I think the last definition (from wikipedia) of 'artist' is the best. I feel that art is a personal interpretation. I read something along the lines of 'Art is art if who has made it has called it art', at the time I was unsure if I agreed with this statement. I think with good reasons behind the art being called art then this is true. Without this thought and concept however, I feel it's all a bit of a con.
Footnotes:
1. "artist." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 21 Feb. 2007..
2."artist." Antonyms. Answers Corporation, 2007. Answers.com 21 Feb. 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/artist
I 'googled' the word artist these are the definitions of an 'artist' that I have found:
'1.a person who produces works in any of the arts that are primarily subject to aesthetic criteria. 2.a person who practices one of the fine arts, esp. a painter or sculptor.
3.a person whose trade or profession requires a knowledge of design, drawing, painting, etc.: a commercial artist.
4.a person who works in one of the performing arts, as an actor, musician, or singer; a public performer: a mime artist; an artist of the dance.
5.a person whose work exhibits exceptional skill.
6.a person who is expert at trickery or deceit: He's an artist with cards.
7.Obsolete. an artisan.
—Synonyms 1. Artist, artisan are persons having superior skill or ability, or who are capable of producing superior work. An artist is a person engaged in some type of fine art. An artisan is engaged in a craft or applied art.'
'1581, "one who cultivates one of the fine arts," from M.Fr. artiste, from It. artista, from M.L. artista, from L. ars (see art). Originally used especially of the arts presided over by the Muses (history, poetry, comedy, tragedy, music, dancing, astronomy), but also used 17c. for "one skilled in any art or craft" (including professors, surgeons, craftsmen, cooks). Now especially of "one who practices the arts of design or visual arts" (a sense first attested 1747). Artistic first recorded 1753; artistry 1868.'1.
'An "artist" (one skilled in a fine art) can also be an "artiste" (public performer), but an "artiste" is not necessarily an "artist." '
'Artist is a descriptive term applied to a person who engages in an activity deemed to be an art. An artist can also be unofficially defined as "a person who expresses themselves through a medium". The word is also used in a qualitative sense of a person creative in, innovative in, or adept at, an artistic practice.
Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of 'high culture', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography and music — people who use imagination, and talent or skill, to create works that can be judged to have an aesthetic value. Art historians and critics will define as artists those who produce art within a recognised or recognisable discipline....
There is no consensus about what constitutes "art" or who is, or is not, an "artist". Often, discussions on the subject focus on the differences between "artist" and "technician" or "entertainer," or "artisan," "fine art" and "applied art," or what constitutes art and what does not. The French word artiste (which in French, simply means "artist") has been imported into the English language where it means a performer .'2
I think the last definition (from wikipedia) of 'artist' is the best. I feel that art is a personal interpretation. I read something along the lines of 'Art is art if who has made it has called it art', at the time I was unsure if I agreed with this statement. I think with good reasons behind the art being called art then this is true. Without this thought and concept however, I feel it's all a bit of a con.
Footnotes:
1. "artist." Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1). Random House, Inc. 21 Feb. 2007.
2."artist." Antonyms. Answers Corporation, 2007. Answers.com 21 Feb. 2007. http://www.answers.com/topic/artist
The beginning...
Contemporary Art and Critical Writing: HAA 1906
I am excited by this project.
We have been set the task of developing 'a general knowledge of contemporary art and its representations and criticism.' We are to 'build a specialised portfolio of investigations and critical writing both collected by you (us) and written by you (us)'
The portfolio and discussion is to be based on the following:
- A private/ commercial gallery including artist run spaces.
- A public or National Gallery, or Public Art Project.
- One artist. The artist is to be tracked through professional life, exhibitions, statements, cocktail parties etcetera.
- One art journal.
- A medium
The 'artist' may be a group of artists, a fashion designer etcetera.
The first thing for me to think about is:
- What makes a public institution.
- What public institution excites me the most.
- What artist excites me the most and who I would enjoy/ get the most out of studying.
- If I am to stick with what I already know and am interested in and develop this further and learn more, or if I am to run with a new/ different idea.
-I have a few ideas, in which i will carry this out.
I want the medium which I study to almost form a piece of work itself.
I want to use the way I study and present ideas to take on the medium's role.
For now I will research and I shall update as soon as I have more knowledge on what it is I want to do.
I feel this is a very exciting project which I potentially can learn a lot from and have fun with, therefore to not mess it up from stage one would be a good idea.
Time, research and not rushing is how to resist downfall.
I am excited by this project.
We have been set the task of developing 'a general knowledge of contemporary art and its representations and criticism.' We are to 'build a specialised portfolio of investigations and critical writing both collected by you (us) and written by you (us)'
The portfolio and discussion is to be based on the following:
- A private/ commercial gallery including artist run spaces.
- A public or National Gallery, or Public Art Project.
- One artist. The artist is to be tracked through professional life, exhibitions, statements, cocktail parties etcetera.
- One art journal.
- A medium
The 'artist' may be a group of artists, a fashion designer etcetera.
The first thing for me to think about is:
- What makes a public institution.
- What public institution excites me the most.
- What artist excites me the most and who I would enjoy/ get the most out of studying.
- If I am to stick with what I already know and am interested in and develop this further and learn more, or if I am to run with a new/ different idea.
-I have a few ideas, in which i will carry this out.
I want the medium which I study to almost form a piece of work itself.
I want to use the way I study and present ideas to take on the medium's role.
For now I will research and I shall update as soon as I have more knowledge on what it is I want to do.
I feel this is a very exciting project which I potentially can learn a lot from and have fun with, therefore to not mess it up from stage one would be a good idea.
Time, research and not rushing is how to resist downfall.
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