Challenging Genres

I watched a conversation (on a video sponsored by the Dulwich Picture Gallery) between the artist Tom Hunter and Filipa Pereira-Stubbs, the model for the image taken 25 years ago. Hunter spent [...]

I watched the BBC programme by Simon Schama, ‘The Power of Art’, featuring Mark Rothko. The show featured the series known as ‘The Seagram Murals’, which are on permanent [...]

LO1: Compare the theoretical features, characteristics and histories of different photographic genres In this assignment, I feel as though I have made progress in my appreciation of genres; [...]

Ian Cocks. ‘Death of Another Woman’. 2023

Brief Choose an image from Art History which you will visually respond to and reflect on your choice on your learning log (you might initially choose several before narrowing it [...]

Introduction There is a requirement to reflect upon my work based on the university’s Assessment Criteria, and each Unit’s Learning Outcomes. For this first Assignment, I will [...]

Brief Read the chapter ‘Photography and the Art of the Past’ in Hope Kingsley, ‘Seduced by Art: Photography Past and Present’ (2012), to read about comparisons between [...]

Brief Choose two images to compare and contrast in a short piece of writing. Briony Campbell – The Dad Project The foreground of this simple untitled image shows the leaves of a white lily [...]

Brief Choose a suitable image for each of the four genres. Make your analysis of your chosen images, including both the denotation and connotations of your selected images. Portrait The internal [...]

Reflective summary How might I adopt some of the strategies employed by the artists considered below. Gregory Crewdson Strategies adopted include detailed advanced planning, minute attention to [...]