Yorkshire Sculpture Park Visit

Today I visited Yorkshire Sculpture Park with my graphics group to help my research as I am creating  a symbol for that place. I took pictures of some of the sculptures and looked into the artists as this could help with my symbol designs. We also had a lecture looking at symbols and what makes them good. I like the symbols with a good use of negative space such as FedEx, Food writers and Tour de France. When creating symbols I will look at negative space, silhouettes, angles and shapes.

 Bob and Roberta Smith
Art Makes Children Powerful 2013
This expresses Smith's concern with the diminishing role of the arts and design in schools and his opposition to former British Education Secretary Michael Gove's proposed removal of Art from the GCSE core curriculum in England. It aims to raise consciousness against the establishment and appeals for political action.

Niki de Saint Phalle
Buddha 2000
In 1994 Saint Phalle began to paint less, increasingly working with sculpture and mosaic techniques. As shown in Buddha, she used mirror, glass and stone to create vivacious, glittering sculptures on a monumental scale.

 William Turnbull
Large Horse 1990
Large Horse takes the shape of the adze, an arched, axe-like tool. Turnbull reworked the figure of the horse though out his career, reducing it to its basic form. Turnbull offers a new interpretation on the theme of the horse in sculpture. Large in scale, the work conveys a graceful innocence, suggesting movement more than power.



Jonathan Borofsky
Molecule Man 1+1+1
Jonathan Borofsky believes that his role as an artist is to ask questions about human life. He has created many works for public spaces, arguing that our view of art should not be limited to the experience of looking at a picture in a gallery. 'Originally, I was fascinated by this molecule idea because of the simple fact that even though we appear to be quite solid, we are in fact composed of a molecule structure which, in itself is mostly composed of water and air'

Joan Miro
Miro has many sculptures in Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Miro was keen that his works be shown in the open air and especially in a natural setting where the experience of them is altered and heightened not only by different light and weather but also by seasonal changes to the surrounding trees and plants.

Julian Opie
Galloping Horse 2012
Opie's work investigates the idea of representation and the means by which images are perceived and understood. Galloping horse uses reductive process to reinvent the classical equestrian sculptures frequently seen around cities. 'There is a poetry where nature and people meet technology. The scrolling of LED numbers on a currency exchange board can be like sunlight sparkling on water.'

Poppies : Wave

 

I also liked all the colours and shapes of the many trees throughout the park, I will experiment with a leaf shape for the symbol.