by Patrick | Feb 19, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography
My Workshop experience Understanding workshop experience of nearly 100 years ago without access to original sources is difficult. My own experience probably stands in stark contrast with that of a student at the Bauhaus. Life would have been very different for a...
by Patrick | Feb 9, 2019 | art, Design, drawing, education, painting, photography
Death of a Dream In looking back at how the Bauhaus influenced and guided my own artistic, design and teaching practice I have come to realise that in the UK the art colleges are dying. The students are as bright and clever as ever, but the system is inimical to the...
by Patrick | Feb 2, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Op Art, painting, photography
Part Three – Colour and Albers In addition to Schlemmer’s rules on the body through his life drawing classes ( and Griselda Pollock presents a coruscating analysis of this in feminist art history), there are other guidelines that create constraints to kick against,...
by Patrick | Jan 25, 2019 | art, art as language, Design, drawing, education, Lifestyle, painting, photography
Art school in the 1960 has been mythologised by succeeding generations. I understand that, and also those who say if you can remember it you weren’t there. That myth paints a picture of institutions that had no rules, but that is completely wrong, and it is because of...
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