work rest play

[mollykins]

for my art exam, we've been given the title work rest play and we have to find artists that do pieces that involve all three, but everyone in my class is struggling to find one . . . any ideas, its not cheating, just asking people for a name that could intrests them and possibly inspire.

[craft1948]

Have a nosey around this site molly........you can filter by painter/subject etc....I'm sure Picasso has paintings covering all these....although you may need to read the paintings description to appreciate that......

http://www.worldgalle...ablo%20Picasso-2.html

[Lowenadler]

I'd check out Peter Bruegel the Elder. He might fit the bill. Famous paintings include "Children's games", "Netherlandish proverbs" and "The peasant wedding". You'll find a good introduction in Wikipedia. Good luck with the exam. Media URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder
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[mollykins]

its a ten hour exam and we get 8 weeks to prepare, but we have to have at least artist and have our work inspired by them and explain how our work links with theres.

thanks lowen.

[mollykins]

he did some intresting work, but not my style, plus we have to have our work in their style and do transcriptions of their work, he's a good artist but not that suitable.

[vulcan]

how about Toulouse Lautrec ?

[mollykins]

most of his paintings are of half naked women and i'd have to do something similar so i'd have to have primary resources.

you're given a title in this case work rest play and 8 weeks to complete the project.

you need:

title page
mind map of ideas
primary and secondary images
an artist that does something relevant that you like
then you come up with pieces to do with your title and inspired by you're artist
do media trials and other specifications of the final piece
make a final piece and evaluate it (10 hours if its an exam to do these two things)

and 8 weeks to do them all for an exam or 10 weeks for coursework

[mollykins]

primary and secondary pictures of any objects that on the mindmap or of any artwork that could come under the same title.

[saxy_jag]

You could do worse than check out the work of Victorian artist Ford Maddox Brown and his contemporaries. The Victorians were big on social narrative in art.

William Powell Frith is worth a look too. He painted great panoramic crowd scenes, for example at the races or the railway station, featuring a the whole gamut of society in one scene.

[mollykins]

again, good ideas but the style they're painted in is so detailed that i couldn't possibly do a transcription or something in that style.

I'm not brilliant at painting and drawing but because of my 3d work and the written aspect of my work, i got a 'a' on my mock exam.

what about an artist that does 3d artwork? or an artist that has an easiesr style to recreate?

[swedeheart]

Peter Worsley perhaps? Not a fan of his style myself, but... http://www.peterworsley.com/Index.html

[Canary42]

Part 1

Vermeer (Johannes Vermeer of Delft, 1632-75) might make an interesting example.

For the work category you have quite a choice, with his “professions” paintings of The Astronomer, or The Geographer, or The Lacemaker as well as domestic work with The Milkmaid

For play there is the Lady Seated at the Virginal, Lady Standing at the Virginal, Woman with a Lute, and The Guitar Player.

For rest, a slightly more tricky category as you need to define exactly what rest is, but you could certainly use Officer and Laughing Girl, The Glass of Wine, or some of the well-known portraits such as The Girl With a Pearl Earring, Girl With a Red Hat, or the background figure in The Girl With Two Men (or even the girl herself who is possibly having her “rest” disrupted by the other man. Finally in this category you could use A Girl Asleep.

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[Canary42]

Part 2


Any decent Vermeer book should include most of these (his existing works actually are very few, and those mentioned here represent a substantial extract), but to aid your research I list the sources below :-

The Astronomer - Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Geographer - Stadelsches Kunstinstitut und Stadtische Galerie, Frankfurt

The Lacemaker - Musée du Louvre, Paris

The Milkmaid - Rijksmuseum Amsterdam

Lady Standing at the Virginal - National Gallery, London

Lady Seated at the Virginal - National Gallery, London

Woman with a Lute - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Guitar Player - Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, London

Officer and a Laughing Girl - Frick Collection, New York

The Glass of Wine - Staatliche Meseen zu Berlin

The Girl With the Pearl Earring - Mauritshuis, The Hague

Girl With a Red Hat - National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

The Girl With Two Men - Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum Brunswick
(also known as The Girl with the Wineglass)

A Girl Asleep - Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

For my reference here I used Vermeer, by Martin Bailey in the Phaidon Colour Library series ISBN 0-7148-3463-7 - more details at URL http://www.abebooks.c...artin+Bailey/Vermeer/

The Wikipedia entry mat be useful (titles differ for some paintings)
http://en.wikipedia.o...s_by_Johannes_Vermeer

Good Luck with the exam :)

[mollykins]

hmmm . . . is there a well known artist that makes canvases with chinese/ japanese lettering etc?