Art I Like: Andy Goldsworthy

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Andy Goldsworthy is a Scottish environment artist. These partially submerged pieces are great. They look like drawings. I only stumbled upon the second piece now, while I was looking for an image of the first, it's perfect. Reminds me of the drawing I just did that I showed in the previous post.

Mountains & Glaciers

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Reference Material: Old photographs of glaciers. The first image shows a glacier in Canada. The second two images are Alaskan glaciers. Those photographs are from a 1946 LIFE magazine article which, advices me that the Alps and Himalayas have the most glaciers but Alaska has the best glaciers. That is informative, unbiased advice.

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Art I Like: Barbara Knezevic

Heavy weather structure, umbrellas (Dunnes Stores style no. 6489), thread, dimensions variable, 2010.
Photo:Miranda Driscoll

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 I came across this recently, I really like it! Perhaps because it is black and glossy and reminds me of coal mining and is minimal and is angular. There is a lot to like.

Copyright the artist, please visit website here.

Iceberg

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Icebergs; source material. I love how triangular the first one is.

Images found here and here.

Black Magic

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Stones; source material, raw materials. Black.

Hi-ho, Hi-ho, it's off to work we go (Miners Strike)

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Since I have an interest in mining with it's political and social connections and since mining is in the news again (New Zealanders trapped this time) here are some images from the UK mining strike. The strike took place 1984-1985, around about the time I was born, in a not so dissimilar economic climate to today.

Oh and an example of some great advertising from Saatchi when he was known for this and not for art...

 

All images were obtained from a google search, please click on the image to find source, No copyright infringement intended.

Coal Mining and Me

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 I have a growing interest in mining and all it's sociopolitical drenched history. I know Chilean miners are what people are into lately but these are Ukrainian. The portraits were shot by photographer Gleb Kosorukov and I think they are striking (silly pun) images. They are also serving as part of visual reference for a series of performance based images I am working on.