Ella's Fine Art Foundation Degree

Nottingham Lakeside Arts is The University of Nottingham's unique public arts centre and museum presenting an eclectic programme of music, dance, theatre, visual art, special collections and family events all year round.  Nottingham Lakeside Arts was established by The University of Nottingham in September 2001, when the Pavilion housing the newly built Djanogly Theatre first opened, adding to the University’s pre-existing arts buildings of the Djanogly Gallery and Djanogly Recital Hall. (view of the main entrance of Lakeside Arts) And so on the 14th of December, we travelled to the Lakeside Arts in Nottingham to take a look at the art works in the exhibition and  to gather some inspiration for our own works that we will be creating in the future. To get to the exhibition, we arrived by tram to then walk through the grounds to the exhibition, where inside there were sculptures, drawings and prints created by Sophie Ryder. She is renowned for her large-scale open-air sculptures of a

Photography is the art or process of producing images by the action of radiant energy and especially on a light sensitive surface (such as film or an optical sensor). It is an application and practice of creating durable images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light sensitive material, like photographic film. It is employed in many fields of science, manufacturing (such as photolithography ), business, as well as its more direct uses for art, film and video production, recreational purposes, hobby and mass production. Photography can be an art form, but not all photographs are created to be artworks or as forms of artistic expression. It took time for photography to be truly recognised as a valid art form. However, in the present day, many art museums and art galleries now exhibit photographic artworks.   Photography art is photographs that have been created to be seen as artworks. They have been developed specially for

Conflict and remembrance art emerged as an art form produced by artists who responded to consequences of war. Contemporary artists such as Diana Forster and Willie Birch work creatively in this genre to gradually introduce difficult histories to their audiences. Both of these artists have a unique way of expressing history in different art forms, such as street art and sculptures. Any colour of each conflict and remembrance can mean something different, as colours are used to express emotions, it can be a powerful tool in representing conflict. Using contrasting shades can be a really simple and effective way to show turmoil as opposing colours can show a clashing of feelings and emotions which created symbolism in artworks. A simple example of this would be to think of poopeint wires being represented by colours as different ends of a spectrum or clashing colours. Using contrasting colours like this would show two opposing sides of reason, creating something for the viewer without t

A portrait can be either a photograph, painting or sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person. In which the face and its expressions are predominant. The intent is to display the likeness, personality, mood and even the patriarchal status. But in photography, it is not considered a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the painter or photographer, in order to most successfully engage the subject with the viewer. Most early historic representations are clearly intended to show an individual era of rulers, and tend to follow idealising artistic conventions, rather than the individual features of the subjects body, though when there us no other evidence as to the rulers appearance the degree of idealisation can be hard to assess. The art form of portraiture goes back to at least ancient Egypt, where it flourished from about 5,000 years ago. The uses of paint, sculptures or drawn portraits were the o