Sources visited: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/margarete-1981-by-anselm-kiefer-saatchi-collection-970630.html http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/sep/28/anselm-kiefer-royal-academy-review-rembembrance-amid-the-ruins http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4ad87118-3f42-11e4-a861-00144feabdc0.html#slide0 I admire Kiefer in a way that he uses materials and scale. He is an Continue reading →

My second chosen art work is ‘Marilyn Diptych’ by Andy Warhol. Warhol was a King of the Pop Art movement Continue reading →

“I pursue no objectives, no system, no tendency; I have no programme, no style, no direction. I have no time Continue reading →

Sources visited: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/richter-abstract-painting-809-3-ar00027/text-online-caption http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/9606489/Why-is-Gerhard-Richter-worth-21-million.html http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2015/contemporary-art-evening-auction-l15020/lot.37.html http://www.gerhard-richter.com/en/art/paintings/abstracts/abstracts-19851989-30/a-b-courbet-7555/?p=4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF6EluMNR14#action=share http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExfNJDh4K1g http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2013/nov-2013-contemporary-evening-n09037/lot.22.html http://www.gerhardrichterpainting.com/ http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/22/gerhard-richter-tate-retrospective-panorama ‘From the mid 1980s, Richter began to use a Continue reading →

Sources visited: http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/article/anselm-kiefer-a-beginners-guide http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibition/anselm-kiefer http://www.saatchigallery.com/aipe/anselm_kiefer.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/5NTy5fTgm7JYYq6sRQM0SGp/anselm-kiefer-at-the-royal-academy http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1995.14.41 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlm5tgistqA Notes: ‘Kiefer is one of the most important artists of the last Continue reading →

After Gemma Marmalades lecture series: ‘The Enlightenment to Postmodernism: A chronological tour’ I began to understand what modernism was and Continue reading →

Sources visited: http://www.eykynmaclean.com/exhibitions/andy-warhol-flowers http://www.warhol.org/ArtCollections.aspx?id=1572 http://www.sothebys.com/en/news-video/videos/2013/10/Floral-Fantasy.html http://www.gallerywarhol.com/andy-warhol-flowers-1964-FS-II.6.htm https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/pop-art/appropriation http://www.moca.org/pc/viewArtTerm.php?id=2 http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/a/appropriation http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/tate-debate-when-appropriation-homage-and-when-it-plagiarism http://arthistory.about.com/od/glossary_a/a/a_appropriation.htm http://revolverwarholgallery.com/andy-warhol-art-appropriation/ http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/45836-art-is-what-you-can-get-away-with http://farrells.people.cofc.edu/Farrell/Warhol/English/Web%20Site/Main_page.html I chose to look at Warhol’s Continue reading →