Peter Callesen and response

Peter Callesen

Peter Callesen builds hand crafted paper art, which as you can see from the photo, he has cut out a hand and made the remaining pieces into a skeleton hand. He creates these complex designs which no one can compete with because it’s so amazing how he does it.


First Impressions
my first impressions on this piece of work was that I thought it was outstanding because it’s nothing you'd see every day when it comes to origami, which I think is another level of origami and it's interesting because it makes me think how did he do that and why.

What materials and processes have been used?
 In this photo I can see a white A4 piece of paper  with a wooden background and on the A4 paper the artist has cut out a hand and folded it down and made that hand into a skeleton hand using the same paper

Background information
The title of the artwork is white hand the art work is unknown to what year it was produced, but I'd think it'd be around 2005/2006

meaning
I think this work is about age because it could relate to how life is short and so by having a healthy looking hand turned into a skeleton hand shows it. it makes the viewer think on one side how good this artist is at his work and also what is the meaning towards it, which is what I like about it.
The feeling I get from this work is that it amazes me on how talented Peter is.

what do you think of it
What I particularly like about this piece is that its folded into a skeleton hand this is because I would find it so hard to make because I know they'll be some rolling up parts to do but what gets me is that how he gets so much detail into it our of the same paper. if i could change one thing about this artwork, it would be to paint on some blood to give it more of a mysterious meaning to it in which the public will have so many ideas on what it could mean.

last thoughts
my thoughts hasn't changed as much because it's an unknown piece in which I can only explain my views

compare

http://www.langorigami.com/art/monumental/monumental.php
this artist is called Robert J Lang like Peter Callesen he works with paper too but Robert creates life size origami as you can see in the photo. the differences between these two is that Peter Callesen creates more of handheld and framed work, peter creates more of a meaning full behind the work, Robert J Lang creates life sizes pieces, he also creates for people such as the orchestra of DRUPA. the similarities between these two are that they create origami pieces that has human like features such as the two photos that I've collected.




putting the artwork in context
timeline of origami

year of 1440
The earliest evidence of paperfolding in Europe is a picture of a small paper boat in Tractatus de sphaera mundi from 1490. There is also evidence of a cut and folded paper box from 1440.^[4] It is possible that paperfolding in the west originated with the Moors much earlier, however it is not known if it was independently discovered or knowledge of origami came along the silk route.

The folding of an Origami crane from the first known book on origami "Hiden senbazuru orikata" published in Japan in 1797.


year of 1954
The modern growth of interest in origami dates to the design in 1954 by Akira Yoshizawa of a notation to indicate how to fold origami models.^[5] The Yoshizawa-Randlett standard is now used internationally. Today the popularity of origami has given rise to origami societies such as the British Origami Society and OrigamiUSA. The first known origami social group was founded in Zaragoza, Spain, during the 1940s.^[6]

The photos below show the response I have made from the artist Peter Callesen. Using his technique I have taken a photo of my brother and made it into a stencil, looking at the shading from the photo I drew it on a piece of paper. It was tricky to pull off and so I completed it by making a few adjustments making sure that at least most things were attached to the paper so that I could fold it over to the other side making a negative expression.

http://mediacenter.dw-world.de/english/video/#!/228169/Danish_Paper_Artist_Peter_Callesen/Program=7555

                                                                                      

Experimental mark making

this are my experiments on mark making, meaning that i used objects that would be in a house hold such as the objects i used were a comb, brush, tooth brush, net, foam board and a spatchula, also I used the spatchula and the foam board to create an object for this experimental mark marking piece because I thought that since we're experimenting on objects that we hardly use I might as well mix two things together to create something new

this is the first page of my experiment where I used the tooth brush to create that turtle shape, which I found it weird because I would never used a tooth brush to paint and because of the brushes stems it was hard to control where I was meant to be going.

this is the foam board that I used in my experiment, which was fun for me because I decided to use two colours orange and blue, this made a nice effect on what way I would use the foam board, like as you can see I did a cross, so that it over layed the other colour

for this experiment I used a tooth brush and a foot massage stick, as you can see I painted a turtle with the tooth brush, which made this affect by giving it a swipe look to it, with the foot massage stick I painted with different colours and created some rainbow effect

as you can see I used a plastic net, which I painted different colours on top and during the painting the colours changed by mixing up because they were that close

as you can see I used a comb to create this image, i sued the stems part to make the green and yellow lines and used the back part to create the black patterens












In this photo you can see I experimented on with a Brush, in which I used to make these smudge circle effects and also printing down on the paper with the yellow paint





In this photo you can see I combined the foam board and the spatchula together, with the colours of blue, green, orange and black you can see it blends and forms a shape of the turtle necklace in the photo underneath








the is my final experimental mark making painting, of a turtle that is part of the turtle necklace

Summer Project - Window

Ice cream tissue; this tissue I collected from the Masci (via marcello lucarell via *road*) (Ice Cream place). This meant a lot to me because we go there every year and the workers know my Zio Franco (uncle Franco) and Zia teresa (aunt Teresa) and so they know my family. Most years I take the tissue to remind the fun times we've had at that place. The reason why I took it this time was because that it was our last day with my cousins in their area. They had to go to work in the morning and the parents didn't, so it was nice to have everyone around the table joking around and having fun.

Burn newspaper - this was the first time I was going to go for a jog and being me, I did it at the wrong time, but I was fully prepared, I had my new running shoes, litre of cold water, the right kit and a planned running track to where I was going to go. As I came the church  up the road from of nonna's house, I stopped to take a breather because the roads aren't flat, they go up and down, so it was tiring. So I stopped and drank some water and looked around me and I saw the burn up newspaper, which looked interesting because I thought It was relevant to what I felt at the time, which was hot because the newspaper was clearly burnt.

turle necklace - the turtle necklace came from the beach, which was funny because obviously me and my family are having fun playing in the sea and my dad starts to get his swimming gogles out and goes deep into the sea and so the necklace gets caught on to his foot and you can see he panics and starts to flipping around trying to get it off of him like a fish, then when he does he laughs and spins the necklace around his finger and throws it and it hits my little brother's head (Piero) then I took it off of him and put it in my swimming trunks pocket

as you can see there are photos of my family members and cousins which I took on the iPad 2 and some drawings of some photos that were took in the holiday. the reason why I used the iPad 2 for my camera was because it was always on and when ever I'm on it my family members are around and so it was a big help, but then again Mamma, Zia and Nonna hardly like taking photos, even though Papa was a photographer back in the day. then again I managed to take some photos of them, for my cousins it wasn't a problem getting photos from them because they know about the iPad 2 and so they just took it from me and had their own fun by taking some photos with the photo booth app, this app made everyone come together because it's just fun and funny to play with, I used that app when I went to one of my relatives house, it brought us together by the fact that I haven't seen my relative in a long time and we hardly spoke because obviously she hardly knows English and I can just about speak Italian and so we had some fun because the app makes effects to the photos and which we all loved

 close up of the photos, as you can see the middle photo me and Papa causally having fun taking photos of silly faces, we always do this because it's fun and funny to do, even the year before that we went camping somewhere in Italy and my dad was playing around with the camera because he was bored and it was getting kind of dark and so I crept up behind him and made silly faces and he'd always look how the photo was each time he took it, then when he saw me in the background he laughed and said "lets take more" and so I thought why not and did some more silly faces which he joined in.

the photo underneath it was a photo of my brother (Marco) which he took before the actual holiday and because he didn't come to the holiday I had to show my relatives of what he looks like now and so I thought I'd show them a funny one of him then a normal one. I drew on the Mario costume when I was in the square in Arpino and I randomly drew it on with the art app on the iPad 2 and once I finished, I showed it to the people around me and they laughed at it saying you should put it on facebook

these are the left over photos that I had to rearrange the photos to look presentable to the public, if had a religious theme to it because from where I'm from there's about three churches, it's a bit obvious that their religious, so I thought since the photos are from Italy I thought I'd dedicate the layout

the tissue from the top right has a smell of the pasta that I had, that sent of smell has a memory of Nonna making home made pasta for everyone and it was a good time because all of my family was there.

photos in a nice formation with the objects around it including the bracelet that I bought at the seaside, tissues of smell due to having pasta, broken wood off of a tree

inside the window shoot, as you can see there's my dangling photos and Aaron's photoshop work on the right

tissue from a small pizza place in Arpino, piece of wood from a a tree near by the pizza place, another burnt newspaper and photos 

 

completed window, full of memories of my holiday in Italy

Gallery visit TATE Britain

these are the photos I took when i went to TATE Britain and looked at the famous painter Turner and other artists from the 19-20 century

JMW Turner 1775-1851

The Garreteer's Petition

exhibited 1809

oil on wood

the poet in this genre subjected is illuminated in a pool of light, his pen poised awating inspiration, the theme was expressed in verse Turner wrote to accompany the painting

Inspiration, however has not been forthcoming. the squalid attic room attests to the poet's porverty, and his next line, according to Turner's verse, is'long-sought'

while Turner sympathised with the Romantic suffering of the poet, he has also introudced an element of satire. The paintingemulates the stel of Turner's contemporary and rival, David Wilkie

JMW Turner 1775 - 1851

Self Portrait about 1799

Thought to have been painted on the occasion of his election as an associate of the royal academy, this self protrait presents the twenty-four-old Joseph Mallord William Turner as a rather dapper and self-condifent young man a strong and direct light, perhaps a metaphor for the light of intellect and inspiration, isolates him against a dark background, withnone of the attributes of an artist- brushes, palette, easel or canvas - we are left to consider him as an individual.

very few likenesses of turner were made from life. this is his only certain self-portrait in oil

Henry Monro 1791 - 1814

Henry Monro was the son of Dr Thomas Monro, a collector and host of the famous London ‘Academy’ where the young Turner copied and studied drawing. This picture won a premium of one hundred guineas at the British Institution in 1813, the year before his untimely death. The Institution was keen to promote historical painting by British artists.Henry VIII humbles his over-mighty subject, Cardinal Wolsey. British painters had led the Romantic fashion for historicism and painting subjects from the national past. Their pictures were to influence French painters like Paul Delaroche, who were interested in the evolution of constitutional monarchy.

James Barry 1741- 1806

King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body

of Cordelia 1786 - 8

This large paingint demonstarates the new imaginative engagement with Shakespeare as literature among ambitious artists of the 1780s, Barry shows the savage tragedy that concludes kine lear, with the made monarch despairing over the limp body of this daughter Cordelia, and carnage all around. this brudtal scene was censored in stage versions of the play at the time Barry has returned to Shakesspeare;s poetic originaltext, and has painted in an epic high-minded style to match

John Opie 1761 - 1807 

Portrait of a Lady in the Character of Cressida exhibited 1800

After his death in 1807, Opie became removed as a quintessential Romantic artist, A self - taught painter from the west country, he became known as the 'Cornish wonder', this painting is an example of his practice of using portraiture to explore emotion, character and performance. the subject is the heroine of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida 1602, a play of love and betrayal during the siege of Troy by the Greeks 

                                                    
                                                             John Craxton 1922 - 2009

 still life with Cat and Child 1959 tempera paint on board 

still life wit Cat and Child was probably painted in the latter half of 1959 on the Greek island of Hydra, where Craxton was staying with his friend, the artist Nicolas Ghika (1906 - 1994) 

John Craxton

                                                                        1992 - 2009
                                                              hotel by the sea 1946

                                                                 oil paint on canvas 

Hotel by the sea was painted in the summer of 1946 on the island of Poros. this was the artist's first Greek landscape and was completed in the studio from drawings made on the site. it was included in his solo exhibition in December 1946 at the British Institute in Athens.

                                                             

                                                            John Craxton 1922 -2009
                                                               Alderholt Mill 1943-4
                                                                   oil paint on board
Alderholt Mill in Dorset was the home of the designer E.Q. Nicholson who was, with Peter Watson and Lady Norton, one of the main supporters of Craxton in his early years. Craxton wrote to Nicholoson in 1942 'that all the best pictures that I have done have been done with you, down at Alderholt

                                                        Frank Dobson 1888 - 1963
                                                        Sir Osbert Sitwell, Bt 1923
                                                                        Bronze

                                                           Jacob Epstein 1880 - 1959
                                                 Portrait of Iris Beerbohm Tree 1915 Bronze