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1 comment February 23, 2009
End event celebration
Hi Guys
HaPpY NeW YEAR, I hope you had a relax two weeks, below are some pictures of the end event which took place in December.
Add comment January 8, 2009
dIGITAL iNTERIOr
Review: An English Interior – John Kindness
I went to see this exhibition at the Foundling Museum. John Kindness was inspired by the engravings of William Hogarth and Dudley D. Watkins’s ‘Desperate Dan’ comic strips. There was original artwork shown by both these artists. Hogarth is significant to the Foundling Museum because he was one of the original supporters of the Foundling hospital which took in children whose mothers could no longer look after them.
The exhibition featured hand painted wallpaper which gives a feeling of originality as no one image can be the same. This gives John Kindness’ work as sense of exclusivity. He uses subtle colours in muted tones, dark blues and browns. I think these colours reflect the underlying sense of sadness felt in these paintings. The colours were based on an early English wallpaper fragment in the V&A museum. Dull colours were used so as not to tax the eyes. I liked how the border brought two very different ideas together, lace patterns and rubbish, to create something more abstract. The border is important because it is a regular pattern against the irregular images giving something for the eye to focus on.
Hogarth’s pictures were a social commentary on the people of London. Kindness, work is more comedic, less serious and isn’t as personal to him as the people of London was to Hogarth. Kindness demonstrates originality to put these scenes on wallpaper, just like Hogarth was experimental in his engravings. Hogarth links to Desperate Dan as an early version of satirical art much like an early form of a comic strip.
Kindness uses a round painting technique with circular strokes, not linear. His images are quite graphic in style and content. He doesn’t paint any detail on the faces this takes away from the person’s identity. It could be argued that it is dehumanising them and by doing so makes some of their violent actions, especially in the Desperate Dan inspired works, seem less serious. Kindness’ pictures tell a story they remind me a bit of some frescos I have seen depicting a monk’s life in churches in Italy.
by Hannah Leddy
Add comment December 3, 2008
dIGITAL iTERIORs
An English Interior, a review.
I was quite looking forward to the trip to the Foundling Museum as I’d never been there before. I found out that it stands next to the site of a building that became a home for abandoned children and was known as the Foundling Hospital. The guy who set it up was a sea captain called Thomas Coram.
The museum contains some of the furniture from the Foundling Hospital and also a hole load of coins, hazelnut shells and buttons that were left by mum’s of the children.
The exhibition we saw called An English Interior, was by the artist John Kindness, he had designed wallpaper. His designs were inspired by the work of William Hogarth and the Desperate Dan cartoons and consisted of large pictures edged with a border. You could see the resemblance with the Desperate Dan cartoons in his pictures, though there wasn’t so much detail, particularly the faces. The borders to the pictures were designs inspired by lace patterns and photographs of rubbish taken out of the river Lee in Hackney. I felt a bit irritated when I found out this because when ever you hear about Hackney in the news, it’s always something negative and I think it’s a great place to live!. Surely he could have found something more positive in Hackney to be inspired by.
Anyway, the exhibition was okay but I wouldn’t want his pictures on my bedroom wall.
Io Swift Wolf
Add comment November 27, 2008
