mid july

7/15 reading through the prunella clough essay closely, with some images I searched for here..

Still Life with Yellow Marrows (1948), Prunella Clough

The Derelict House, Laurence Stephen Lowry

The Red Bridge, Laurence Stephen Lowry

[ Clough’s preference for this terrain emerged early in her career. In the catalogue essay he wrote to accompany her retrospective at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in 1960, Michael Middleton observed that Clough “paints these things . . . because she is tough-minded, non-escapist, determined to identify herself with the realities of a world shaped by industry, science and technology”. 71 Clough and Carr deeply admired the painter Laurence Stephen Lowry, whose work provided a precedent for the serious consideration of what Clough sometimes called “urbscape”. 72 Describing several paintings by Lowry that she had seen to Carr, Clough lingered on “the lighter, more open of the two big ones—which has that good strip of shed tops at the bottom and a railway arch. How inexhaustive [sic] his invention is in such detail!” 73 Lowry’s industrial subject matter was a key aspect of his appeal, but his incorporation of observational detail was equally important, and it was this that Clough would carry into her still lives. ]

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https://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-27-spring-2013/you-can-kiss-lichtenstein-you-cant-kiss-us

Gerard Deschamps

3 Lichtenstein = One Deschamps 1965

Assemblage made from Japanese banners

220 x 200 cm

https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-modern/exhibition/sigmar-polke-history-everything

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https://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/tga-200511-4-3/photographs-taken-by-prunella-clough-as-source-material-for-artworks

[ This sub-series contains photographs taken by Clough as source material for artworks, including many early photographs of industrial sites and later photographs of London streets. The sub-series also contains postcards, including of Lowestoft, Walberswick, Southwold, and Great Yarmouth, which were also used as source material. ]

7/18 zoë's book recommendation

7/19 started screenshotting from pewdiepie's gameplay from the last of us 1

collecting images of studio for prunella clough proposal

7/18 zoë's book recommendation was brilliant, will look more into it and the artists/research around it online...

7/20 more screenshots from the last of us pewdiepie gameplay (one of the rare tranquil scenes, giraffes roaming around..)

7/22 teletubby/bagpuss/miao miao/thunderbird/

some things that olive showed me which I found quite intriguing.. might collect some imagery from these..

bagpuss

thunderbirds (also they're making a remake which looks really good)

7/23 jimmy

I was thinking about jimmy, the taiwanese illustrator's books I grew up reading who is a really famous author and artist in taiwan. I came across this essay in mandarin and seemed to have really interesting points that I half understand in this language... http://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/13411592.pdf

I think the essay also referred to michael sowa's work in relation to jimmy's.

7/23 trying sketching from life and image on procreate

7/24 meeting with information regarding prizegiving etc.

7/25 finishing up that small pencil drawing & starting this other one because I'm really inspired by looking at pictures of desserts... tried a rough grid thing...