Colour

Thks is frustrating the life outta me... shadows and shape angles etc..  again I need to know my medium better.. More work needed but improved 

More life

I feel I'm getting better at the form and shapes... confidence so much better but still not good enough... need to draw more.. 

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Oldrich Kulhánek (P)

Oldrich Kulhánek










I came across this artist when researching my hand sketches. I was lost for words at the beauty of this mans work. The movement and tone he captures in the human figure is so accurate and you cant help but feel a sense of ore.

My opinion, my conviction, is that in his work an artist should give an account of himself, and of the time and place he inhabits. The artist should reveal the pretence (or lies) of the establishment, unmasking what is happening to man and showing how man is manipulated and dehumanized. The artist should present an account of the soul of his contemporary.

Oldřich Kulhánek

should give an account of himself, and of the time and place he inhabits - This I like, for me it makes perfect sense. After all I tend to keep all the objects I find. Today while out walking I picked up a bucket with no bottom...... !!

Anyway back to the Czech painter and printmaker - studied - Prague Academy of Applied Arts, which gave him the foundation of this early artistic way.

University offers the study disciplines of painting, illustration and graphics, fashion design, product design, graphic design, ceramics and porcelain, photography and architecture.


He looks like a jolly old fellow, doesnt he, however I read that he was arrested by the secret police for some prints that claimed he had disgraced the representatives of the communist countries (in particular his images of the face of Stalin) and this had ended up in a court room drama... This for me I guess does go with what he spoke of keeping with the times, place etc. I dont know much on history but I believe the country was within confines with regards to expression or thoughts against the communist dictatorship until 1989. So with that said any art like that would of been frowned upon.With freedom to travel after the fall of the communist party Kulhanek visited the states giving talks and workshops.

One of his many accomplishments is that he created the designs of the new Czech Banknotes, which was a commission that came with a great deal of prestige. He has also become one of the principal designers of Czech stamps, which has included designing a stamp of the present President of the Czech Republic: Mr. Václav Klaus, among other Czech personalities








He was renowned for his extraordinary command of the human figure. In his hands, the figure became the outer manifestation through which the viewer could, themselves, experience the inner struggles of his subjects. Imagine being able to conjure up images in your head on this sentence, never mind execute them down on a work.













I can't help but love his feet work.

In my work you can find parts of the human face, pleading hands, raw hands. For me, the symbol is a way of expressing the age in which I live, the place where I live.

The human face is my symbol. The human face with its lips stuck together, the human face disappearing in torn scraps of paper.

Oldřich Kulhánek

Oldřich Kulhánek, died in 2013 he was also the President of the Hollar Foundation which celebrates its 100 yrs anniversary this year 2017, its aim was to build on old traditions, to support the development of modern Czech art and to achieve the technical excellence of graphic work.









coin celebrating 100 yr history.

abandoned

Abandoned

So what does one thing of when the word abandoned comes to mind.

I guess left and alone is one of the first things.

My poor wee dog was left in a rehoming centre, I find myself looking at her and wondering about her history. Where and what has been her story before ours.

Abandoned for what or why! For whatever reason I guess it doesnt matter as she has ended up with my family, but funny how the wondering still reappears.. Like a need to know. 

 Below are some images I quickly found on my phone that may or could fall into the word abandoned.. 

Hope, I liked the idea of this one.. The times a day lately Ive felt like Ive abandoned all hope... 

Tower I've past for 15yrs and always wanted to go to...  Stopped here with dog for a wee break and got to see the patter.. 

Religion I guess I have always wanted to believe in something and yet for some people they lost it years ago. To believe in something more than ones self for me I guess is strange,  its only now at the age 34 I'm beginning to see the bigger picture and world.

The waking up covered in blood pic lol. Such a fright I got this morning and yet he was non the wiser.

And so we come to another place I'd seen and wanted to visit. On my walks I pass this abandoned house and with this theme I guess it gave me the need to go and see up close... YES!!

Next to a river I think it could of been an old water house or something. It is in  the middle of a wood and is small to be an actual house.. Plus the concrete level it sits on makes me think it had a purpose.

I like the pattern left on the brick

I didnt think it safe for me to actually go into the building what with the floor being covered with leaves and the concrete bit hidden below. but as I stepped a foot in I took some photos. Notice the tiles in the far corner too... had thought they could have photos put on them or something

This blue piece if wood I did bring home with me. The detail in the wood I liked and the distressed look. It is rotten but character. The old nails it has showing I thought I could hang photos down from it of the house itself. I had thought of David Hockneys images, and had envisioned something along those lines for a final photography piece. Who knows

Something like this

The below picture Had also reminded me of the hockney's photomontage when I was on the road on holiday.

my image

hockneys

I will for now continue with the photography of abandoned.