Part 5 - Plan of Action
Having gone through my previous studies I came up with a mindmap and had a few artists that I wanted to explore at the Tate Britain. I was interested to see a Henry Moore Sculpture as we had done a Moore Drawing in Part two of the course. I planned to do a tonal study of a sculpture, and then in contrast I planned to do a colour study of a David Hockney image. I found artworks by Moore and Hockney by researching the Tate Britain website, and I was interested in how doing tonal drawings from a sculpture would compare with colour studies of 2D could inspire me within a Gallery setting.I also came across an article, about the best works to see at the Tate Britian:https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/display/modern-and-contemporary-british-artOn this page there was a breakdown of 14 rooms. Two of them featured my chosen artists, as I discovered that they had a Room called Full Colour which featured lots of Pop Artists including David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash. The Tate Britain also had two rooms on Moore, so I selected the room that had the thumbnail ‘The Reclining Figure’ which was the shared room with Frances Bacon. I also used this article to select 2 more works. As I the Moore sculpture was also the thumbnail used to advertise this room, I thought it would be fun to then explore two other rooms and draw the thumbnails for those rooms. This took me outside my comfort zone as they focused more on the abstract or and the grid for image generating. My first wildcard choice was Wilhelmina Barns-Graham’s Glacier Crystal, Grindelwald from the room Fear and Freedom. The second choice was Denis William’s Painting in Six Related Rhythms from the room Construction. Some of the keywords that I generated in picking these 4 works included:Barns-Grahams= Abstraction, Rhthym, colour, composition, social influencesWilliams = Abstraction, Grid, Sequence, PatternHockney = Pop Art, Colour, Play on Reality, Social influences, ConsumerismMoore = Figurative, Abstraction, Historical influences, Mark-making