CCS Visual Notebook

As I mentioned before, I'm currently working on my A5 CCS Visual Notebook, which contains all of the main topics discussed in our studio's Thursday CCS seminar with Susan Halvey. As part of the seminar, we were asked to create this notebook filled which was visual in nature. Here's a few of the artists discussed in our seminars:

Damien Hirst

For The Love Of God

2007

Diamond covered platinum skull

171 x 127 x 191 mm.

This skull is encrusted with 8,601 diamonds and it's asking price was £50 million, which would have been the highest price ever paid for a single work. The pear-shaped pink diamond in the forehead is the skull star diamond. It's price cause uproar, and others stated that his works are all stunts. John Lekay accused Hirst of plagerising his piece "Spiritus Callidus #2", and Hirst has more than eleven others pieces which are said to be plagerised from other artists.

Marcel Duchamp

L.H.O.O.Q

1919

Color reproduction of the Mona Lisa altered with a pencil

7¾ x 5 in.

Duchamp haas drawn a moustache and a goatee upon this reproduction in 1919. Underneath the Mona Lisa are the letters "L.H.O.O.Q", and when these letters are pronounce in French ("Elle a chaud au cul) it translates as "She has a hot ass"! It soon became one of the most famous acts of degrading a famous work of art. It is a piece that is said to be "Anti-Art"

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I have a video of the shadows of my geometric pieces hanging in front of my wall, so hopefully I can upload that tomorrow, but I still have to decide what sound to include in the video. I'm looking for something subtle, something that adds to the atmosphere of the video, rather than taking it away.

More updates soon!