Chatsworth House

Chatsworth house held many portraits and paintings of both famous and infamous people from century's ago. Although they generally all had a same style of painting technique to them, they had subtle changes through the time periods.

 This painting reminds me of a scene from a Harlot's Progress when she is awakening to her maid and the police are coming to arrest her. The general pose this lady is making is similiar to the pose in Harlot's Progress.

 King Henry the VIII

Tad blurry, but the woman in the painting reminded me of a how a Harlot may be represented. 

General painting of 3 women and a man.

A Bible Scene within the Chapel of Chatsworth. 

Another Bible Scene on the Chapel's wall. 

One of the many wall paintings; what intrigiues me is how did the make the wall look so realistic and 3D? Just the idea of how many hours these sort of paintings took makes me queasy.

18th Century Wigs

We were tasked with creating a wig of the 18th century in Costume on Friday; I experimented with creating a sort of parting within the middle and then a large beehive sort  back to the hair. I think I could've made the back bigger to allow people to percieve the wig as a harlot's. I based the wig loosely on Emma Hamilton, a famous harlot of the 18th Century.

Laura Ellen Bacon

Along with Barry Flanagan at Chatsworth, tucked away at the top of the hills was Laura Ellen Bacon's woven artwork. Her installation called 'Woven Space' has been at Chatsworth since 2010 and has aged over the years to a reddish woven sculptures. Laura constructs these on the site to position them where she thinks it would create the best environmental effect. I prefer Laura's sculptures over Barry Flanagan's as they interest me more with the shapes and natural materials used. The installation as a whole I find more interesting to look at compared to Flanagan's. 

Barry Flanagan - Beyond Limits

On Thursday we had our trip to Chatsworth to see the both the House, Gardens, and the Art around the entire Chatsworth Estate. Barry Flanagan's Beyond Limits exhibiton was on show currently in the gardens. I find these rabbit sculptures quite simplistic and mundane compared to other artists sculptures. I enjoy the way he's used the materials to create these, but they're just not the sort of sculpture that I enjoy to look at. They also don't seem to have any sort of meaning to them in my opinion, they're just 'there'.

Life Drawing - Outdoors

The other life drawings from before the downpour of typical English weather - the wooden hut is shaded, but the proportions of the side are wrong compared to the rest of the drawing; this is probably because I kept drawing with the paper at an angle.

The other life drawing of a leaf from a nearby bush - I tried not to heavily detail it and instead sketch it more as I'm used to sketching and perfecting it until it's almost identical. I wish I'd kept the original lines instead of rubbing them out, old habits die hard I guess

Life Drawing - Skeleton

Today we did some life drawing of skeletons after the huge downpour meaning would couldn't sit outside and sketch. I chose to do just the teeth and the fabric as I struggled with the positioning of the teeth the last time we drew the skeletons. I think I'm slowly improving, but I need to start doing more rough sketches rather than perfecting them all the time.

Harlot's in the Bible

Apparently there are many Harlots in the Bible, all within different texts and parts of the scripture.

Mary Magdalene was suggested to be a whore within society, the Bible doesn't adhere to this view of her.

There are a few notable harlots in the Bible, the first being in Genesis 38; taking place in 15th Century BC, the woman was dressed as a temple prosititute (or a woman that was a temple prosititute). This story, so to say, is about a woman who is left childless after the man she married dies; as the Levirate law was in action, the next brother must marry her to give her a male child to carry on the genes. This brother hated the deceased brother and would never give her a child, even though law's permitted it. The Father of the brother's promised she would have the youngest brother, when he came of age but that promise was broken; the woman then deceived the man by dressing as a temple harlot. In return for her services, he gave her a deposit of luxuries that he owned. After the act, she left and when the signs of pregnancy started to show she had the evidence she needed to show there was a legal father of the twins. 

The Woman deceiving the Father of the Brothers.

Chatsworth Visit Prep

Chatsworth Visit Prep

 

 

 

The "Beyond Limits" exhibition by Barry Flanagan is going to be at Chatsworth on Thursday - these bronze hares are scattered carefully across the gardens are the main attraction currently showing at Chatsworth.
 

 

Other exhibitions such as the 'Masterpieces from the Devonshire' collection are being shown, specifically the Rococo series they have. These pieces were created near the time that A Rake's Progress was, giving me another view of some Art that was created close to the same time period. Maybe a potential artist could be noted down from this exhibition.
Here's some more information on the extra exhibitions going on: http://www.chatsworth.org/art-and-archives/exhibitions



The Spiraling Technique

The Spiraling Technique we learnt in 3D last week; it's mainly used to make taller structures that are stable. Some examples would be the old roman pots that are found underground.