by Patrick | Apr 28, 2019 | art, art as language, drawing, education, Environment, Lifestyle, Op Art, painting, photography
A while ago I wrote about seeing art around me. Probably a major part of that vision is my training and 50 years of experience in the art and design business. It is not a secret world though, but one that everyone can enjoy. Picasso talked of the child like innocence...
by Patrick | Apr 24, 2019 | art, education, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
Those who were staff and students in the Bauhaus are known as ‘Bauhäusler’. The last leader of the crew was Mies Van der Rohe, appointed in 1930. Mies remained in Germany until civil architectural work dried up as the economy shifted onto a war footing, leaving in...
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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