Text

Mike Winard

‘Beasts Abstract Not’ 2012. project in which a text by American poet Joyce Kilmer was written directly onto the walls of an enclosed space. The text describes how “man’s use of symbols to make sense of the world around him separates him from roughly a million other species and the other hundred and ninety-two different kinds of ape and monkey”.

PRINT

Block Printing

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns. This is preformed by carvings made out of wood and then pressed into ink and then paper to create an image. 

An Artist who uses this technique is Hiroshi Yoshida who is a Japanese artist.

Hiroshi Yoshida (1876-1950), entitled ''Kumoi Cherry Trees''

Printing Plates

The plates may be made of metal, plastic, rubber, paper, and other materials. This technique is created by carving fine lines into either piece of material and then pressed into ink and then paper. I find the technique very difficult and time consuming.

Albrecht DürerGerman (1470-1528) Knight Death and the Devil



Movable Type

Movable type is a system of printing that uses movable components like letters to reproduce documents e.g. books. This became very handy in the 14th century to create more copies of the bible.

Johannes Gutenburg 1450

Curtis Kulig

Love me 
I find this piece very captivating because I love the way the artist has used a florecent lighting to make the words "love me" pop out. I love the messy, drippy background I think it gives the piece character and a kind of gloomy feel to it. I also like the way he's used something very simple but made the work quite complexed. I just found this piece very interesting and eye catching to me.

Love me (steel)
I love this sculpture and the way the lighting has been set out which i think helps make the sculpture stand out more and give it a nice tonal effect. I like the way the artist has made the piece look like its dripping. I also like the colour of the sculpture it reminds me of train rails.

Love me
I love this piece because of the size and i like how it really stands out. The way he did this piece was he filled a fire extinguisher with paint and sprayed it onto a wall. I also like the top of the letters how it looks a bit blurry and faded. I just really like how big he's made this piece.

http://arrestedmotion.com/2011/08/openings-olson-olson-recine-ass-nyehaus/

http://artobserved.com/2011/10/ao-on-site-new-york-skullphone-and-curtis-kulig-at-mallick-williams-co-through-november-8-2011/

http://livingproofmag.com/2010/12/curtis-kulig-love-me-sculpture/