In order to get inspiration for our trio pieces, we visited the Tate Modern art exhibition centre. I am not very artistic person, and do not usually enjoy going to art galleries so was slightly pessimistic about the trip. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find that there were several pieces of art that I could find a deep meaning to, and which spoke to me in terms of getting inspiration for theatrical ideas. Below are the five most inspirational art pieces that I came across and why I liked them.
Title of art piece: Condensation Cube
Artist: Hans
Haacke
Materials made of: plexiglass, steel and water
Themes of piece: nature, simplicity, serenity, control, beauty, entrapment.
Why it inspires me: There
is an overlap in form between physical and biological systems. I think it is
very clever how something can be static, yet moving at the same time. Haacke
wanted to create something inanimate and animate, and this is a clever way of
allowing the spectator to witness nature happening in a controlled, scientific
environment, which is what I really like about the piece.
Potential ideas for theatrical works: minimalism, butoh, portraying human innocence in its most raw form, not created to impress.
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly
Materials made of:
oil paint, wood
Themes of piece: experimentation, dimensions, clash,
harmony, discord, repetition, vibrancy, perspective.
Why it inspires me: I love
the way that depth is played with and how “any colour goes with any other
colour”, as the artist wanted to demonstrate. I like the idea of something
becoming different based only on perspective, and how things go naturally
together without human intervention or over thinking.
Potential for theatrical work: a still image that reveals different things when looked at from different angles.
Artist: Nam June Paik
Materials made of: acrylic paint and pastel on
printed paper
Themes of piece: distortion in the media,
experimentalism, true vs false, sugar-coating real stories, injustice,
shallowness, anger.
Why it inspires me: This
piece is again very minimalist but portrays an important message. The childlike
paintings over the newspaper of smiling television screens suggests how that
the true messages that need to get through to the public are distorted by the
media and the power of television as a disseminator of information. It suggests
that the real stories are overwritten by the things that people ‘want to hear’.
I have found this a common issue in contemporary society and think this piece
of art symbolises it perfectly.
Title of art
piece: The Bigger Picture
Artist: Colin Blakemore
Materials made of: canvas, wooden frame
Themes of the piece:
paradox, harsh reality, minimalism, intensity, anger, passion, violence against
nothingness.
Why it inspires me: There
is no disguise here - all that is displayed is a canvas locked in a frame with
a slash in it, exposing what is behind: nothing. The sheer minimalism that this
piece contains is very interesting to me; the idea that an artist can make such
a bold statement from so little on a canvas.
Potential ideas for theatrical work: acts of violence revealing that we are all the same underneath and all have the capacity to be evil. Possibly involving masks?
Title of art
piece: Burn Hole
Artist: Henk Peeters
Materials made of: scorched plastic
Themes of piece: space, time, human intervention in
the world, destruction, hatred, passion, anger.
Why it inspires me: This
piece strikes me as being a representation of our solar system, yet shows how we are so small in the grand
scheme of things; the white of the paper is much more dense than the scorched
plastic. The fact it is scorched perhaps shows how human intervention in the
world is ruining things, destroying the natural beauty until it will cease to
exist.
Potential ideas for theatrical works: something to do with human destruction - the themes of anger being the cause of pain and suffering in the world,
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