Studio/ Research: BVA 316 - 29/05/2019 (One-on-One week 13 Agenda and Research information)

One-on-One Week 13 Agenda

1. Meaning of Blogging 
2. Research on some relevant artist on Fairy Tales
3. Artist that uses QR code to exhibit his work. 
4. Rough drawings for Illustration (planned to get print by the end of nect week/beginning of the second week) 

Research: Essay Mapping 2

-      resources and references 

Meaning of Blogging

Another general study of blog usage, based on a survey of 212 bloggers and with a broader scope, including bloggers both as producers and readers, showed that ease of use, enjoyment, knowledge sharing, and social factors are part of bloggers’ motivation to continue to use blogs (Hsu and Lin, 2008).

The first step in analysing the interviews was to look closer at how the researchers talk about the different functions of their blogs.

The blog can be used to disseminating content, expressing opinions, keeping up–to–date and remembering, writing, interacting, and creating relationships.

(Kjellberg, 2010)

Dread & Delight: Fairy Tales in an Anxious World 

An art exhibition that exhibit art work based on fairy tales story. The purpose of this exhibition is to explore ideas of beauty, security, danger, and acceptance.In recalling specific stories, some of the artists have embraced their promises of change and championship of the disenfranchised Others are lesser known and provide an opportunity to explore the rich breadth of the fairy tale tradition.(Grinnell College , 2019)

Natalie Frank’s Grim Fairy Tale 

(Epstein, 2015)

The art guide finished the tour with two unknown stories from the Brothers Grimm that aren’t well known in pop culture today. One of the stories is known as “All Fur” or the original German title “Allerleirauh.” It is a story of a king who promises his dying queen that he will marry the most beautiful woman after she has passed. 

The king unable to find the most beautiful maiden other than his own daughter, the princess, decides to marry her. His daughter will only accept his proposal if he gives her three dresses and a few furs. After he does this, she flees the kingdom the night before the wedding. 

The princess is in the woods when she is discovered by a king of another kingdom, and, not knowing that she is a princess, he makes her his servant. Each night she dresses in one of the three dresses that her father had given her, and attends a ball where she dances with this new king who she has met. 

For three days, the princess dresses in each of the three dresses only for this new king to fall in love with her, but every night she keeps fleeing the ball after it’s over. By the third time he places a golden ring on her finger so that he can find her when she runs off and he will know it’s her. He learns that she is one of his servants when he sees the ring on her finger that he put there and in the end, he marries her. 

This tale is recreated by the artist Natalie Frankin three portraits created with the use of color chalk on paper. Frank’s color chalk is bright and colorful, she also recreates the father’s appearance as that of a donkey which could be symbolizing that the king is a ‘jack—’ for trying to marry his own daughter. The final portrait is of the princess removing her disguise that hid her true face, as it fades away from her face to reveal her beauty. (Spinella, 2018)

The story plot got me interested as the plot is quite similar as Cinderella. Would like to see how the artist Natalie Frank convey the fairy tale into herown word and style.

Natalie Frank: 

She explore fairy tale subject by the Grimms Brother, based on the interests in women’s bodies, sexuality, violence, and everyday transformations.

Frank also wanted to convey a sense of the original collection’s recycling of several basic story types through different characters. “So ‘All Fur,’ which is one of the stories about incest, contains the ‘Cinderella’-tale type,” she says. “I wanted to show that source, and have that degree of repetition throughout the book.” We’ve excerpted it below, Natalie’s drawings and Jack Zipes’s translation of the story “All Fur.”

Natalie Frank, All Fur III, 2011-14, Gouache and chalk pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist

Natalie Frank, All Fur II, 2011-14, Gouache and chalk pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist

Natalie Frank, All Fur I, 2011-14, Gouache and chalk pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the artist. 

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1.     Cinderella II, 2011–14
Gouache and chalk pastel on Arches paper, 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm)
Courtesy of the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; Promised gift of Kathleen Irvin Loughlin and Chris Loughlin

2.     Cinderella I, 2011–4, Gouache and chalk pastel on paper, 22 x 30 inches (55.9 x 76.2 cm). Courtesy of the Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; Promised gift of Kathleen Irvin Loughlin and Chris Loughlin

Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm 

(The Drawing Center , 2015)

How fairy tales is being view today by artist. 

-fewer still have systematically interrogated the complexity of these tales and the way in which they address social and sexual mores that continue to have relevance today. 

-Natalie Frank: The Brothers Grimm will present twenty-nine drawings out of a total of seventy-five images dealing with thirty-six tales. The drawings are executed in gouache and chalk pastel—the first time that Frank has worked exclusively in this medium—producing both gritty and luminous surface effects. Engaging the intersection between body and mind, reality and fantasy, the series can be seen as a contemporary, feminist reimagining of a symbolist legacy. 

Artist with QR Code 

Tony Taj (Vagus, 2011)

QR codes are becoming increasingly popular in the world of art. Though most often used in marketing, the codes hold a great appeal to those looking to engage and audience on a more dynamic level. Artists, for instance, are beginning to use the codes to connect with their audience, opening up a new avenue of interaction. The Internet is one of the most valuable tools for artists today as artists can use it as a medium to expose their work to a much broader audience.

QR codes and triggered content in museum spaces – in 2018 

(Curtis, 2018)

Any other museum digital people getting an influx of requests for QR codes to put in galleries recently? No? IS IT JUST US?!

After thinking that QR codes had died a death a few years ago, over the last few months we’ve had people from lots of different teams ask for QR codes to trigger content in galleries, for a variety of uses such as:

§  Sending people to additional content to what’s in an exhibition, to be used while in the gallery e.g. an audio guide

§  Showing the same content that’s in the exhibition but ‘just in case’ people want to look at it on their phones

§  Sending people to content that is referenced in exhibitions/galleries that needs a screen but doesn’t have an interactive e.g. a map on Know Your Place

In my project, I think it is the best to try it out. Who knows it might work. My idea of incorporating QR is to promote my art and exhibition in the most convenient and easiest way. 

Works Cited

Curtis, F. (2018, July 6). QR codes and triggered content in musuem spaces - in 2018 .Retrieved from Transformation - digital and beyond: http://www.labs.bristolmuseums.org.uk/qr-codes-triggered-content-museum-spaces/

Epstein, I. (2015, May 7). Natalie Frank's Grim Fairy-Tale Art . Retrieved from Vulture : https://www.vulture.com/2015/05/natalie-franks-grim-fairy-tale-art.html

Grinnell College . (2019, January 31). Faulconer Gallery Exhibition Explores Fairy Tales in a Anxious World . Retrieved from Grinnell College : https://www.grinnell.edu/news/faulconer-gallery-exhibition-explores-fairy-tales-anxious-world

Kjellberg, s. (2010, August 2). I am a blogging researcher; Motivations for blogging in a scholarly contect . Retrieved from First Monday : https://firstmonday.org/article/view/2962/2580

Spinella, R. (2018, November 14 ). The Art Tales of the Brothers Grimm.Retrieved from The Carolinian: The finest source of UNCG news : http://www.cristintierney.com/attachment/en/5374ea09a9aa2cc9708b4568/News/5c0954d7c7db50482045eaef

The Drawing Center . (2015, February 3). Natalie Frank: The Brother Grimm .Retrieved from The drawing Center : http://www.drawingcenter.org/download/media/155/

Vagus, s. (2011, September 11). Tony Taj incorporates QR codes into his paintings to engage a wider audience .Retrieved from QR code press : http://www.qrcodepress.com/tony-taj-incorporates-qr-codes-into-his-paintings-to-engage-a-wider-audience/854945/