Concluding this semester

With the assessments underway I thought it would be a good time to look back on what I have learnt over this semester, overall I would say it has been the most successful semester at Uni in terms of how I have developed, I have went from using only primary colours due to the inspiration of Mondrian to drawing realistic large scale organic pieces and to progressing onto expressionistic abstraction.

De Stijil and Bauhaus were definitely large inspirations for my pieces but a new interest in Suprematism and Wassily Kandinsky has helped my confidence with bigger pieces, canvases and 3D work, using different media and being less precise with my work and using movement more, I still have a large interest in the idea of Neo Plasticism and "Form before function" in the words of Peter Behrens (teacher at Bauhaus) but my ideas have expanded and so has my colour palette, when i started to blend colours and create new shades it made me more interested in using a larger range of hues and tones rather than block colours. I think in the next semester I would definitely like to continue on to my 3D work which I really enjoyed but as of yet I haven't came to terms with how to make a piece stand alone in a room.

I would also like to look more into expressionism and the fourth dimension, I think its time to move away from Mondrian and Van Doesburg and leave my triangles in the second year.

Below shows some work I created in the last few weeks of the semester when I became interested in the wild and vivid work of Kandinsky, which is a few pieces I showed for my assessment.