Samantha Everton - Vintage Dolls Exhibition at Dickerson Gallery...

Vintage Dolls is a show of thirteen carefully staged and immaculately produced photographs that explore themes of childhood, the uncanny and enchantment. Set in a world somewhere between dreams and waking, haunted girls inhabit strange rooms alongside shadows, wolves, dolls, and forests, where they morph into princesses, witches and prisoners.

Vintage Dolls is a successful exhibition showcasing Everton’s skill in theme, composition and production and proves her insight in to the power of childhood symbolism. Most interesting about the show is the way it demonstrates, either deliberately or by accident, the power of the child in art. That we as visual creatures, having come to know the world through our own childhoods, relate so strongly to these symbols. The image of the child runs far deeper than aesthetics or titillation and is a subject that demands our full and proper attention, requiring the viewer to exercise a more thorough process of self reflection as to how we should react to depictions of children within contemporary culture.



Masquerade
Pigment ink on rag
900 x 1080 mm

The above image has a very simple but effective lighting setup. A main fill light filling the scene from the right. As well as a warm (summerish) light gently flowing in from the rear windows.
I really like this image for the use of the props and the nostalgic feel it gives the image. The idea of fresh faced young girls and these old fashioned, rusted objects they are interacting with. I also dig the green wallpaper walls/floor and its relationship with the yellow light, looks beautiful.


Dark Bloom
Pigment ink on rag
900 x 1080 mm

The image above has a lighting setup consisting of a soft fill light from the left of shot. There is also flash placed behind the pram. The simple composition in this image really works well. The power of childhood symbolism is really displayed in this image with the young girl dressing in womens clothing and pushing a 'child' in a pram. A child that is physically to big for the pram...a lot underlying themes are going on.

'Peter Fitzpatrick: Je toto lokální, nebo národní zvyk?' Exhibition at CCP...

Peter Fitzpatrick spent five months in the city of Prague Czech Republic as an artist, tourist and observer. The characters that he has created in the studio are taken from the streets of everyday Prague.

Instead of taking a camera into the public space Fitzpatrick packed a trusty Tesco A6 Note Book and a pencil to document what he observed.This action was to combat against the increasing abuse a street photographer experiences from their subject or the authorities. On Fitzpatrick's return to the studio, memory and his basic lead scratchings came together to reconstruct a faithful depiction of his subject. As with the nature of photography there were some technical glitches that are rendered in the final images. Like double exposures his memory and notes overlap, diffuse and merge, yet the images retain their photographic truth.

The way Fitzpatrick exhibitied work was original and really effective. He printed his images on blank wooden doors. he did this with UV cured ink jet prints. The doors were then simply put up against the gallery walls. The relationship between the way the prints were exhibited and the concepts and themes present in the images worked really well together.

Colour Theory - Light Research Assignment...

What is Light?
Light is the basis for the sense of sight and for the perception of colour.
It is electromagnetic radiation of a wavelength that is visible to the human eye.

What is Electromagnatism?
Electromagnetism is the physics of the electromagnetic field, a field which exerts a force on particles with the property of electric charge and which is reciprocally affected by the presence and motion of such particles.
As it turns out, what is thought of as "light" is actually a propagating oscillatory disturbance in the electromagnetic field, i.e., an electromagnetic wave. Different frequencies of oscillation give rise to the different forms of electromagnetic radiation, from radio waves at the lowest frequencies, to visible light at intermediate frequencies, to gamma rays at the highest frequencies.

Explain why Euclid was known as the father of geometry.
Euclid wrote Optica, in which he studied the properties of light. Euclid postulated that light travelled in straight lines and he described the laws of reflection and studied them mathematically.
He is the most prominent mathematician of antiquity best known for his treatise on geometry 'The Elements'. The long lasting nature of 'The Elements' must make Euclid the leading mathematics teacher of all time.

Briefly explain Empedocles philosophy.
Empedocles thought that everything was composed of four elements; fire, air, earth and water. He believed that Aphrodite made the human eye out of the four elements and that she lit the fire in the eye which shone out from the eye making sight possible. If this were true, then one could see during the night just as well as during the day, so Empedocles postulated an interaction between rays from the eyes and rays from a source such as the sun.

Why is Ibn al-Hasan considered to be one of the most distinguishing and prolific mathematicians in the medieval tradition? What were his theories on light, colour and vision?
Ibn al-Hasan is recognized for his experiments on optics, including experiments on lenses, mirrors, refraction, reflection, and the dispersion of light into its constituent colours.
He studied binocular vision and the Moon illusion, described the finite speed of light, and argued that it is made of particles travelling in straight lines. He was also the first to reduce reflected and refracted light rays into vertical and horizontal components, which was a fundamental development in geometric optics.
As he conceptualized the essential principles of pinhole projection from his experiments with the pinhole camera, he considered image inversion to also occur in the eye, and viewed the pupil as being similar to an aperture. Regarding the process of image formation, he incorrectly agreed with Avicenna that the lens was the receptive organ of sight, but correctly hinted at the retina being involved in the process.

Isaac Newton performed some experiements on light and used them to explain that white light was made up of a mixture of colours. How did he do this?
In 1666 Isaac Newton first proposed and demonstrated that white light was made up from a mixture of coloured lights.
If white light is passed through a prism, a band of colours called a spectrum is produced. This splitting of white light into its component colours is called dispersion. The order of the colours within the spectrum is always the same. A second inverted prism placed next to the first can be used to reverse the process, combining the coloured lights to make white light.