As I explained in my previous two posts on the subject, I’ve really been enjoying creating artistic responses as part of the required assignments for my Coursera course in art history. The final one was based around Velazquez’s work, Las Meninas, which you can see here. It’s a complicated work, featuring a circuit of gazes, […]
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Responding using Art 2
As I explained in my post last week, I’ve been working on assignments for an online course about art history, and trying to use these assignments as a springboard back into artistic practice. For the second assignment, we were instructed to choose an object or an image, turn it into something else, then turn it […]
Responding using Art 1
I’ve been doing an online course through Coursera for the past few weeks, looking at how artists and animators can use an awareness of art history to enrich their own practice. This is partly because I teach Contextual Studies at work, and also because I miss art historical practice. My undergraduate degree is in art […]
