SIGURD BRONGER – GOLDSMITH ART, COMTEMPORTARY JEWELLERY

“Stay curious, and a pure idea will automatically come to you.”

—Sigurd Bronger

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This artist is the one my tutor recommend, the materials that Bronger uses in his work is quite interesting. I found this book in the library. Also, I’ve been read an interview by Olivia Shih, she asked him,

” Your signature work is known for its generous dosage of readymade and surrealism, coupled with a sense of absurdity. Do you approach everyday life with a similar humor? “

The Bronger replied,

Yes! Very often I do. I look around and often find myself in absurd situations. Each new absurd experience teaches me more about myself—through how I react and how I behave.

For some reasons I like the way he answer this question. For artists, everyone has different way to get their own inspiration. Also, every time we create our own work is like we get into a brand new environment which allow us to gain more knowledge by doing it.

SIGURD BRONGER: IN BETWEEN

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WENDY RAMSHAW – JEWELLS FOR PAINTED LADIES

“The artist goes through states of fullness and emptiness, and that is all there is no mystery of art.”

– Pablo Picasso, 1954

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Today is the first day that I upload my blog after my MA project Task 1 submission day. Recently I’ve been read some books in order to gain more knowledge about jewellery and metalwork. There is a jeweller called Wendy Ramshaw, British. Her work is really impress me, one of the book named Picasso’s Ladies, which introduces plenty of her work. It is really intriguing. The reason for this are Picasso is one of my favour artists. Secondly, some of Ramshaw’s work contents the idea of my MA project. Therefore, I found it is exacting to appreciate her work.

The guild of jewellery designers [British Made Jewellery]

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SIMONE’S ROBOTS

Simone’s robots

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On 25th February, I found this awesome video from social media. Simone Giertz, an inventor from Sweden. She spends most of her time building awesome robots and running a Youtube channel about robotics (Giertz, 2015).

It is really fascinating to know that other young generation also interesting in robots. She has become one of my inspirations since the date I saw her video.

CHANGE YOUR FACE WITH LIGHT

On 29th February, I found this video on Facebook. It is really interesting to me, because in this modern society art is not only able to be expressed via picture, it’s able to combine with technology to create something even more creative.

PERPETUAL ENERGY MACHINE

On 1st March, I searched this video from the internet. The idea of the moment is created by magnet. Therefore, the moment will never stop if the magnet keep setting next to it.

MARBLE MACHINE

On 3rd March, I watched this video from social media. This machine is really interesting, it requires plenty of mechanism skills. By turning the lever to create the beautiful sound, moreover, it is able to create a song.

SEE THE SECRET MECHANISM SKILLS

Inserting the key into the lock, see the secret mechanism skills.

MECHANICAL STRUCTURE AS FORM TO CREATE SMALL KINETIC SCUPLTURES AND WEARABLE FORM – DUKNO YOON

Mechanical structure as form to create small Kinetic sculptures and wearable form

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The videos below shows that how his work move, also he recored how he made his work via video as well. It is a brilliant idea for artists to record the work via photos or videos. I used to recored all my processes of jewellery making. It is an interesting experience, but also lead me think nowadays people’s living style are completely different. Things always have two sides, it is really hard to distinguish what is the norm of right and wrong. Also on the way how we see things, everyone has different view sides, it’s really subjective. Can you tell ” Is bad art art? Is bad art bad? ” (Ratajski, 2010).

Take Yoon for example, the way he creates his art is really interesting. Also, the way he explores his journey also interesting. He combines two different aspects, structural form and mechanical form to express his Kinetic crafts.

Source: beadinggem.com. Images by Dukno Yoon.

TRANSFORM NAGETIVE TO POSITIVE – PEDRO REYES

Transform negative to positive

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During the period that I was absorbing the inspirations from some artists, I found this artist, Pedro Reyes, Mexican, he used negative imagine to present positive. Gun, in most people’s imagination represent negative weapon. However, Reyes used guns to create some lovely instrument.

When I read the introduction about his work, let led me think about my MA project. My project may be too simple. Sometimes the art work may look simple, but there must have some meaningful ideas behind of it. Simple visual communication but meaningful, or complex structure buy meaningful. What is art exactly? In my views, good art supposes to lead the audience think, the art supposes to be thought provoking.

Source: dailymail.com.uk. Images by Pedro Reyes.

COLLECTING OBJECTS TO PORTRAITS – MICHAEL MAPES

Collecting objects to portraits

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The reason why I collect this artist is because his work is really stunning, and it could be one of my design inspiration. Especially he used plenty of different objects to create portraits. Mechanicsim requires a lot of details in the work, therefore the idea of collecting different objects could be a good idea  for me to look at.

” Deconstructing photos of actual paintings by such masters as rembrandt and nicolaes eliasz pickenoy, mapes recreates the original picture piece by piece, using countless collage materials and even biological findings like eyelashes and hair. the painstaking detail is almost unimaginable; tiny fragments carefully positioned on the tops of pins are complied closely next to each other. ” (Designboom®, 2014).

 

Source: Desognboom.com. Images by MICHAEL MAPE.