Tuesday 10 April 2007

Art Attack!

I finally surrendered to the onslaught of the blogs but that's not the reason for the Art Attack title for my first ever entry.

Rhi over at Daring Cardmakers set a challenge this week to make a card inspired by a piece of art. Great challenge Rhi, thanks!

I toyed with a few ideas and finally settled on inspiration from Antony Gormley (sculptor of the Angel of the North, my screen-namesake). I saw Domain Field at the Baltic a few years ago and loved it. I visited three times and what I loved about each visit was the difference the light made to the exhibition. So I wanted to play a bit with that idea.

Here's a glimpse of Gormley's work (photo from the Baltic website):


Almost 300 volunteers posed for him - a full body plaster cast made a mould for each figure and then a team of welders 'filled in' with square section steel bars. Visitors to the exhibition could wander around within the space.

I took the basic construction method as inspiration, using matchsticks coloured with silver acrylic paint since my welding's not up to much! I found the exhibition provoked a really strong emotional response so I've used a strong emotional word for the card:

I've made a stand at the RHS of the card so that there's no back to it and you can see straight through (so you're looking at my wall there, not a stripe on the card!). If the light is strong enough, it throws a shadow image onto the surface behind, too.

Thanks for the dare - I had fun with this one!

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10 comments:

Gillian said...

OH WOW!!!!... I am completely AMAZED at this piece Angelnorth.. your interpretation is Thilling to see!..


Congratulations on your blog, I look forward to calling often :o)
And I so adore your banner.

BondGirl said...

WOW WOW and more WOW, what a great interpretation of the piece, and I bet it is even more stunning in real life!

congratulations on the leap into blogdom

Tracey said...

Wow, love this interpretation! Stunning work - hope to see much more (you put me to shame). Welcome to Blogdom too.

Tracey x

Jukie said...

Well done on your Blog!

And you art is truly inspiring - I love your interpretation of the orginal piece, I imagine that the shadow created by your piece is just as effective as the actual object.

Rhi said...

Oh wowee wowee wow! I love Anthony Gormley's little clay figures, they really affected me when I saw them in a gallery. I love the piece you've chosen and I bet its even better in real life. Your card is just AMAZING! Such a fantastic interpretation.

Wow!

Welcome to blogland :)

Rhi x

Lynne said...
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Lynne said...

Welcome to Blog-dom Joanne.

This is a fab card - an amazing take on the dare, well done.

8D

Wendy - Anntaurus said...

Hey Joanne - I love what you did with the dare, fantastic!

Welcome to Blogging - I hope you enjoy!!

Sheila said...

Fabulous card and what amazing inspiration you had........I love The Angel of the North and those figures are stunning.

Andrea C (Frog) said...

Love the card Joanne well done.

Andrea xx