Viktor Cebergs; Public artist

So this guy came across more as an engineer than an artist, he was so professional and business minded. but despite what i think, he is an artist; a painter and a sculptor he even studied at Uni.

Site specific art is his business, he mostly works for councils and RSL’s. he likes to work with pine and steel but has also done work with ice and snow. he seems to be very much inspired by nature, for example there is his seed pods and those “fire sculptures” i’m not sure if i understand those…but maybe that’s just me.

I never thought of public art as a business, but apparently there is a lot more to consider than just what your going to put into that space, you also have to consider public safety as well maintanace of the art itself, as well where its going, who will be around it and council regulations. thats just far too much business for me.

I was really impressed with the work he did in Sweden for the Ice hotel, it’s beautiful and just down right incredible, everything in that hotel was ice, right down to the chandeliers and cups! i also loved his work for the Japanese snow festivals, in short this artist in a suit was very interesting..it helped that he didn’t fumble around with what he was saying, so even my brain didn’t have to fight to pay attention.

all in all it was pretty darn cool.

Chance…

well this lecture was done completely on chance, we learnt about some artists who had chance in common with their art, and then we watched a movie….

Sliding doors…. it was really bad…. i don’t really like chick flicks at all, but this one was annoying, going from one reality to another, only to end up getting hit by a van and then meeting the guy she loves anyway! the hell…. in the end it didn’t seem like there was much point to the movie, if only to show the “what could happen if” scenario, it was clever but it defiantly could have been done better, maybe as an action thriller or something, that would be pretty cool 😀

Australian war artists

this was a pretty good lecture, it was really fascinating to learn about them and how they couldn’t paint or draw faces or how secretive they had too be in the camp when they drew wounds and scenes in the “hospitals” that drawing of the infection was so realistic it made me feel a little sick… i really liked the huge landscape battle scenes, they were really cool…

one of the artists was really good at drawing scenes as they happened, like soliders coming out of helicopters or marching, those were really impressive.

i feel bad because i can’t remember the names of the artists, but i can say that i really liked this class, it was very interesting and the art was very honest and likable.

Micheal Buckley

oooh i remember this guy… this was the multimedia guy who made short films, none of which were any good (to me anyway) i’ll admit the oldies playing screamo would have been pretty cool if it was a comedy thing…then i found out they were serious…. seriously?

i remember one film about a guy wearing some cloth over his head, and he met people and a cat and they drank and smoked….it didn’t make any sense what so ever… i tried really hard to watch and appreciate but it was very hard, no really it was.

i did sort of like the last one about his son in hospital, that one was okay… but majority of his work i just didn’t understand, and i find it hard to like something i can’t understand….

Rick Amor

Rick is a painter and a sculptor, and as i recall we had to draw one of his paintings in drawing class 😀 i remember mine didn’t look so good….

i guess i kinda like his paintings they were alright, i didn’t like his sculptures to me they just looked like oddly shaped rocks… on the other hand i do like his prints they look alright. I’m not entirely sure i was at this lecture, since i can’t seem to recall much of this guy.

all in all i guess this guy is pretty cool, wasn’t exactly half bad 🙂

Clarice Beckett

Clarice was a landscape painter who seemed particularly fond of painting fog or mist…

I’ll admit that i actually liked her paintings, they seemed like and odd in-between of surrealism and impressionist…well to me anyway, different but likable… i’ll admit i haven’t really got much to write about here, its pretty much already said.

her work was pretty cool, and i liked it….even though i can’t really say why i liked it, the colors, the fog the actual landscape…i just don’t know, but its the thought that counts right?

Damon Kowasky (can’t think of a clever title)

Damon Kowasky has given me a sneaky short cut into the world of archeology (of which i love so much) since i never really had the smarts for it, it seems i can still be employed as an accompanying artist 😀 yay!

anyway aside from Damon’s adventures (of which i am oh so jealous) his art is actually pretty cool, and i really like his technical drawing style. i love how he draws buildings and cars he seems really confident with himself in the way that he can draw lines in a single stroke.  well i really like his landscapes and how he draws them in odd perspectives, but i really like his archeological sketches, its just so cool to think that i could one day do that ^___^

Richard Stringer likes bees

as the title suggests, Richard Stringer really seems to like bees…. I’ll admit i really liked the bees on the Eureka tower, they were pretty cool and they were really big too….

i didn’t however like his wood and paper works they were really weird, ah no i lie i liked the one called “the rising trident” it was pretty cool, and I’m really surprised that it stays standing, it looks so ill balanced.  i also liked some of his mini bronzes, some… others were…well different, like the “skinny man” or the “ear on a plate” the heck was up with that??? the “flowering tree” was alright at least it was nice to look at.

anyway summing up, out of all the sculptors we have had, i prefer Richard though some of his art is beyond me, at least majority of it is appealing to the ocular senses. 😀 (that makes me sound smart haha)

Plates of painted fish

Lewis Miller’s art is strange but i kind of like the way he paints on plates, to me it almost looked real (but then again i didn’t have my glasses that week…) either way he is talented, even if i don’t like fish.

most of his work is inspired by Dutch still life (which put simply, was started by some Dutch guys in a pub showing off their mad skills by painting foods and flowers) he is also a realist, which I like very much. realism is a good way to learn.

I believe he won an Archibald prize, and I think it was for one of his miniature paintings, I do like how he painting on the copper and brass, it made for some interesting colours.

Lewis Miller also toured in afghanistan during the war, I find it strange and kind of strange and horrible that governments still try to paint war in a glorious way….

well either way, Lewis Miller paints pictures of plates onto plates and I think he’s kinda okay. 😀

That’s a big fence…

Christo, well what can i say about this guy that his … um art, doesn’t already say. it’s pretty simple he likes to make huge statements and at the same time completely bankrupt himself, i can understand dedication to you’r art, but isn’t that going a little far?

And when you consider the fact that he often finds himself penniless and the fact that most of his …art… does not exist for very long and in fact none of his work is standing today at all! is it worth it?

The running fence for example, it cost him everything to build…money and time, he had to go to court, he had to convince people to let him build it, he paid people to do it and then after what i guess was months (it felt like years on the documentary) of building and exhusted effort, the whole structure would have only been up for as long as a couple of months (if that!) well what ever, he seems to think its worth it.

I’m not sure i can appeciate his wrapping of things and calling it art…i don’t personally see the connection, but that could just be me. I do however really like his sketches, he is very talented in that respect and it’s a shame that next to his wrapping and really big fences his sketches get nought much than a glance over.

I think I’m sitting on the fence for this one (HA I had to throw that in somewhere 😀 )