Royal Academy of Arts Visited!

Ok so this morning i went to the Royal Academy of Arts to see those two exhibitions, mixed emotions to be honest, somethings were better than others.
Anish Kapoor was a bit of a disappoinment for me to be honest, after paying £8, a whole £8 more than the Tate i was expecting good things. To add to the misery i wasnt even allowed to take photos of the few things i liked. The sheer scale of some of his work amazed me, but i went there to be inspired by sculptures that explore space but i left more confused than anything. one piece named 'shooting into the corner' had an interesting concept, there was a cannon projecting 20pound pieces of red wax at 50mph through a doorway and into the corner of the following room. Although a good concept the clay was projectd with little force to make a dramatic live piece of art that the pubic could enjoy at 20minute intervals, instead many people would be cramped into a small space, built up with excitment as the artists helper preped the cannon only to be met wit a load bang and a second of undramatic flinging of red wax. Yes i did i liked the concept but i did dislike just as much! The live act doesnt rightly portray the reasoning behind the art, the Academy states "the drama of Shooting into the corner takes place in a space set apart, rather like a boxing ring, a ritual arena in which a symbolic act of violence is allowed to occur", yes it does portray this but for me its just not strong enough, but then again i wouldnt say my thinking patterns are the same as some of the wacky artists and art critics out there!

Anish Kapoor

Focus week: Royal Academy of Arts

So for focus week i had a look at some exhibitions that would interest me, while online i found two exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts in central London. 1 exhibition was for Anish Kapoor, and the other was named Paper City: Urban Utopias.
Anish Kapoor has become one of the most respected and influential artist of his generation, gaining international acclaim, for his works exploring form and space in the medium of contemporary sculpture. I thought it was time to see what the hype was all about!
Secondly was the Urban Utopias exhibition, after seeing some images online i was interested in some of the landscapes portrayed, i might as well go and see this while im there!

Helloooooo Yr 2!

Well after a long time away from studying im back for my second yr! was really happen that i didnt have any retakes during summer, but i have forgotten some of the skills that i learnt last year, looks like i got alot to do then! happy days :D

Tutorial with new design.

Basically i decided it was not time to muck about any more, so i went and done some serious thinking with respect to this project..I found something that would be ideal as a focal point in my proposal, the Castle like building! Then i decided to have a look in the library for some precedents, and got cracking with throwing some ideas onto paper. This is definitely the approach i should have taken last time..I had my tutorial and Ed&Bridget seem to love my proposal, Bridget in particular says its a million times better than my last one. I need to work at a closer scale now and get into some serious detail, and prepare myself for my second tutorial on Tuesday 5Th. Then i got to get myself ready for my presentation, getting worried now! But i think if i do my work all should be well...

Final presentation, or was it!

Ok so basically today we had our final presentation for this project and lets just say it did not go well at all. I felt that my idea was fairly good, but clearly that was not a feeling shared by my tutors! Im really upset over that but i do understand why they were so straight forward. I should have known better myself, but i was jus naive in the sense i thought i can get away with some standard work! I failed to do any useful research that would help me with my work and the whole project lacked direction. Shame really i thought it looked pretty cool!

Any way i now find out that they are not impressed at all and have given us an extention of a week. Not a joke though, they seem pretty clear with the fact they want us to work a lot harder. I definately aint going to waste this opportunity.

Sustainability Report finished!

Wow another late squeeze, i do not know whats wrong with me..I once again left this written work to the last minute! Not proud of myself at all..I need to take this alot more seriously next semester, and you want to know how i feel about this report? Words can not express how pointless i feel it was! Like it makes any improvement to any of my other works! I feel i should have still paid a bit more attention to the report i do not want this to be the downfall of my year...my report was well written but i do not know if it had enough context to get a good grade but im confident ill pass the module and it will definately be a lesson for next year!