Sunday 28 January 2018

Easter Island Heads on Easter Island South Pacific.
 What many who see them do not realise, is that the Heads are Fragments remaining after the original sculptures were buried by the descendents of the people who made them


Archaeologists discovered what was buried beneath the ground
So have you ever stood still and wondered what is beneath your feet? Wondered what you are walking over


NEWGRANGE Burial Mound and Temple Southern Ireland 

Newgrange Burial Mound was constructed in 3200 BC and is 5000 years old, older than Stonehenge. It was forgotten and thought to be a small hill until 1699 when the entrance and tunnels were rediscovered and opened up. There are similar hills and mounds around Newgrange and on the Salisbury plains near Stonehenge. The Neolithic people didn't leave a map or a list





Closer to us in time and geographically is London. 2000 years of settlement, sewers, power, water, covered over rivers, layers of the underground. And this is just the stuff we know about. When they dug the first Thames pedestrian tunnel in 1820's workers became ill coming into contact with bacteria trapped
in the mud under the Thames for thousands of years
Thames Tunnel is a underground tunnel now





The Ordinary World Beneath our Feet: ‘Underground’ by David Macaulay











Friday 26 January 2018

Slave Ships deplorable transport of captured people from African and into Slavery in America and Europe





Freedom and or limitations


Painting by Vincent Van Gogh inspired by an earlier image by Gustav Dore

 Newgate Prison Yard Gustav Dore 

Panoptican Freedom and limitations




Jeremy Bentham 18th Centry English Philospher very interested in the concepts of right and wrong
Designed the Panoptican a circular prison where the prisoners were permanently isolated and watched from one central control tower. He described it as a mill forn grinding rogues honest

A Level Art Exam - Winged Figures

Freedom And or Limitations






Winged Figure of The Republic Hoover Dam Arizona USA



Jacob Epstein Winged Figure Coventry Cathedral

A Level Art Exam - Birds Eye View Paintings

Freedom And or Limitations


John Falter Birds Eye View Painting




Georgia O'Keefe Sky Above Clouds series of paintings


A Level Exam 2018

Freedom And or Limitations

Robert Mappelthorpe Figures and Negative Space contained by a shape







Cornelius Cornelisz Van Haarlem



Thursday 25 January 2018

Alberto Giacometti - Figure Sculptures




Alberto Giacometti 1901 - 1966
Swiss Sculptor, Painter and Print Maker
His figure sulptures were made using plaster and plaster bandage over a wire frame which were then cast into metal