Ben Roberts

Steve Mcqueen

While watching the news I saw Steve Mcqueen for 12 years a slave which has been nominated for a Oscar, this is a big thing because if he get an Oscar he will be the first Person to get both Oscar and Turner Prize.
Researching his inspiration shows that he is massively inspired by Buster Keaton.

Metamorphasis

‘Metamorphosis: Titian 2012’ – featuring new work by contemporary artists Chris Ofili, Conrad Shawcross and Mark Wallinger in a unique collaboration with The Royal Ballet.

This multi-arts project, part of the Cultural Olympiad's London 2012 Festival, draws on the powerful stories of change found in Titian’s masterpieces, revealing how these spectacular paintings continue to inspire living artists.
A multi-faceted experience celebrating British creativity across the arts, ‘Metamorphosis: Titian 2012’ brings together a group of specially commissioned works responding to three of Titian’s paintings – Diana and Actaeon, The Death of Actaeon and the recently acquired Diana and Callisto – which depict stories from Ovid’s epic poem ‘Metamorphoses’. The three paintings, displayed at the heart of the exhibition, are seen together for the first time since the 18th century.

Conrad Shawcross

I remember robots and lasers being in metamorphosis

Chris Cunningham

After wanting to do a music video I thought i should look at Chris Cunningham and found out that he use to work in prosthetic and makeups for films and one of his biggest piece so far.

Some exploration

From looking into A Rakes Progress music/bands I have found a band called The Rakes Progress

And an album called The Rakes Progress by Unterm Rad

From there i looked at Unterm Rad and found out that it means Beneath the Wheel which is german novel written by Hermann Hesse

I then looked at Unterm Rad Music and found a band called Silent Poem

Cage The Elephant - Come A Little Closer

I found this music video really interesting with the animated world around the band members. I found the video because i like their music and thought i would have a look at what they have been doing recently remembering that they did really interesting videos before.
I like how the band are chrome-keyed into madness and this gave me an idea of making HUGE funny props and chrome-key me with them into a video and make some sort of music video for A Rakes Progress.

David Hockney masks

As I looked into David Hockney I found out that he had done lots of designs of masks.

David Hockney

David Hockney's version of Rakes progress that he designed

Behind the scenes of the Hobbit

After watching the second part of The Hobbit I wanted look into the making of it more in depth, this video showed me alot .

Behind the scenes The Hobbit

More props from The Hobbit

Really interesting facts about the film

Prop artist WETA

Harry potter on set

Brick in my yard are a youtube channel that look into youtube

I worked with Will, Nud and Liam to make a joint painting using each person as different parts of the silhouette. I was the bottom left. We then painted parts of the Rakes progress around it showing the madness and craziness in Tom Rakewells life at the time. We also gave each other one minute to draw an item before we moved the the next painting. I think it worked pretty well but maybe the center could have been given a border not blend in to the background too much.