What is Art? Discuss...

With what could we scour distant memories of long-forgotten civilisations were it not for the creation of “Art”? From the masters of the Renaissance to the intrusive work of Lucian Freud, the Art World is simply beguiling. I cherish the opportunity to immerse myself in this evocative environment. This blog will serve to express my own views on this unique world in a manner that will explore, criticise and enlighten all things art-related, both old and new. In the words of Susie Price: 'I like Art.'

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© Marcus Foster, Untitled, c. 2010, Steel, 240 x 210 cm. Untitled (2010) is a paradoxical reinterpretation of a hot air balloon. Displaced from the sky, the structure is manufactured into a cold, bulbous form that contests its associated weightlessness. Burdened by its own mass, the structure is wrenched to the floor by the gravitational pull of the gallery space. The object ‘combines familiar ideas with a sense of the futuristic’ in a process of industrialisation. No longer buoyant, the form commands the space in which it is exhibited by taking on a sense of the monumental. Certainly, one of the most striking pieces displayed in Part Two of the Newspeak: British Art Now exhibition being held at the Saatchi Gallery at the moment.

© Marcus Foster, Untitled, c. 2010, Steel, 240 x 210 cm.

Untitled (2010) is a paradoxical reinterpretation of a hot air balloon. Displaced from the sky, the structure is manufactured into a cold, bulbous form that contests its associated weightlessness. Burdened by its own mass, the structure is wrenched to the floor by the gravitational pull of the gallery space. The object ‘combines familiar ideas with a sense of the futuristic’ in a process of industrialisation. No longer buoyant, the form commands the space in which it is exhibited by taking on a sense of the monumental. Certainly, one of the most striking pieces displayed in Part Two of the Newspeak: British Art Now exhibition being held at the Saatchi Gallery at the moment.

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