This week, we visited the Tate Modern and captured a lot of reference materials. It was my first time using Reality Capture to process model data, which was very interesting. Meanwhile, I was also keeping up with the progress of my group project (rigging).
‘Untitled‘, Ibrahim El-Salahi, 1967 – Tate: Oil paint and enamel paint on hardboard
“El-Salahi combines African and Arab cultural motifs with elements of Arabic calligraphy. Here, strange animal and plant-like forms, faces, and skeletons emerge from the broken calligraphic lines and morph into mask-like, totemic figures.
In the wake of Sudan’s independence from colonialism, El-Salahi looked to his local environment for inspiration. He developed a distinctive visual language later identified as the ‘Khartoum School. He stated, ‘I wrote letters and words that did not mean a thing. Then … I had to break down the bone of the letter.”(from Tate Modern)
Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002 – Born and worked France)
Tirage 1961
Shooting Picture
Plaster, paint, string, polythene and wire on wood
“To make her Shooting Pictures, Saint Phalle filled polythene bags with paint and enclosed them within layers of plaster and chicken wire that created a textured white surface.
She invited spectators to shoot at these constructions, releasing the paint. Saint Phalle considered these shootings to be performances, or ‘happenings, which she saw as integral parts of the work just as much as the finished product. This one was shot by North American artists Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns. Saint Phalle stopped making these works in 1970, explaining ‘ had become addicted to shooting, like one becomes addicted to a drug.'”(from Tate Modern)
Salem Arif Quadri 1949 – Born India, works India and UK
Landscape of Longing 1997-9
7 works on wood, muslin, acrylic paint and oil paint
“Landscape of Longing refers to Arif Quadri’s interest in spiritual quests and journeys. It evokes a map seen from above. Arif Quadri describes the work as ‘a celebration of life with all its inexplicable mysteries’. He relates the painted forms to the sinvous strokes of Islamic calligraphy. The shapes between and around each form are important to the artist.
They suggest figurative elements such as female and male figures, or pods and birds.
Arif Quadri is influenced by texts ranging from Sufi writings to work by Dante, the 13th century Italian poet.”(from Tate Modern)
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