Life Drawing 22.2.2012 - Callograph Plate

I really enjoyed todays lesson and starting a new project. Today we started  making are Collograph Plates, we used diffrent materials such as string, cardboard, wallpaper in-grains and netting. We then cover'd it all in PVA glue and let it dry.
Also today we had to creat 6 life drawing on Alison

George Condo Essay

George Condo was born in 1957 – concord, New Hampshire. He is an American contemporary visual artist working in the mediums of painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Condo made the term, Artificial realism, ‘the realistic representation of that which is artificial’, Condo’s work has been influential to many artists of his generation and the generation that followed him, including Nigel Cooke, Sean Landers, John Currin, Lisa Yuskavage and Glenn Brown.

Condo’s first public exhibitions took place in New York in various east village galleries fromm1981-1983, during this time he worked in Warhol’s factory in the silkscreen production, the then moved to Los Angles and had his first solo exhibition. He then made his trip to Europe, Condo moved to Cologne, Germany where he met and worked with several artists from the Mulheimer Freiheit group, including Walter Dahn and Jiri Georg Dokoupil, and then had his first European solo exhibition in 1984. While still in Europe Condo met and began working with American art dealer Barbara Gladstone and in 1984 he had a simultaneous two-gallery exhibition in New York at Pat Hearn and Barbara Gladstone Galleries. Condo then met Keith Haring back in New York, then they both remained long life friends until Haring’s death of AIDS in 1990.

RENEWABLE ENERGY.

Renewable energy is energy that can be re-used or is never ending… this energy is made from natural resources, some of these resources are things that we don’t take for granted, things like wind, water, solar and geo-thermal.

Wind can be used to power windmills, which generates electricity.

water energy also known as hydroelectric, is made by water running down a big dam, the water and its fast current then hits the turbine, the turbine spins and transfers energy up to a big power house to be distributed to houses.

Solar energy comes from the sun, the solar rays hit solar panels and it create electricity, these solar panels can be found on houses or in big solar panel fields.

Geo-thermal energy comes from heat, which comes from the earths core. The heat is then transfer up big pipes under the ground and through to stations, which then turn it into steam. Altogether renewable energy is a good thing and is helping the planet a lot.

But there are a few bad things about renewable energy; one of these things is that the wind turbines create noise pollution, which could get annoying for the people who live in the countryside, they also fill up a lot of space, which could be used to create houses, but that problem as kind of been fixed and resolved by now putting then in the middle of the ocean. Another bad thing is that to create hydroelectricity you need to make a dam, this means flooding a valley, which could destroy habitat and wildlife.
If re-newable energy didn't exist then the first thing to be effected would be the fossil fuels, because people would be more dependant on them, and we would run out of them a lot more quickly.

GREENWASH.

Greenwash is a growing problem for the public and they don’t even know it!

Greenwash is a thing that Advertisement Company’s do to make you believe that their product is more environmentally friendly than the rest of the other company’s and therefore make you by it because you feel bad for hurting the planet, and also want to lower your carbon footprint.

You can find Greenwash on things like food packaging, posters and much more, and it not even real. It’s complete false advertising, and the UK advertisement agencies are getting more and more complaints every year. The way they get you to make you buy it is by using different strategies, like using fluffy and nice words, another way is by using pictures with green flowers coming out of things like airplanes, cars, busses ect.