Danny's Chair

Milgi staff are great, this chair was created by Danny Connor, he created it on Photoshop and with a graphics tablet. I love the humor in this piece, the chair looks fed up. Charlie put it quite perfectly, She said the chair was "fed up with its monotonous life". Though if humans wasn't so lazy and didn't want to sit down all the time if wouldn't exist so it needs to stop felling sorry for it's self (ha).  No it's quite clever creating work showing how a chair may feel every day instead of a chair looks like, I like it. 

Danny's street style is always very clever and from what I've seen of his work its "my kinda style!" just because there's a lot of skulls, zombies and taking the piss. He's been really helpful with this project, he's advertised it on his blog (http://danny-connor.blogspot.com/) and obviously drew this great piece for me.

Thanks Danny!

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Chloë Read's Chair

This was drawn by Chloë Read, looking at her work on her Tumblr this chair is nothing like what she normally draws. This paintings are very colourful and expressionist,  they are all quite beautiful. though saying this you can see the similarities between her work and this chair. They both flow and they are both... well "cute" I hate this word but its the only word I can think of to describe Chloë's work.

I really love this chair it's very child like and I love the blue on the seat and the heart, like a lot of the chairs I've got so far this very simple but very effective.

Chloë's Tumblr

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Charlie Chair Art

This is Charlies work for my chair project. She's been so much help for this project asking every one she knows to help me out too, I can't wait for her to come back from Cornwall too see what she's done over there. I love Charlies drawings, it's so simple but all the lines and two types of ink pen really works well.

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My Chair Art

 

I started painting chairs, these were only quickly done. I'm not a huge fan of these pieces I could do a lot better, I may when I get some more paper.  I think these paintings need to be darker, they were only painted with water colours so they would come out quite light. I may either add some ink to these or just start again and use ink (I like ink).

 

I had a better idea about putting all the art pieces up, I was thinking of getting sticky pads then sticking pins though the front edges of each work so it looks more modern. also I have about a million pins from doing fashion for 4 years. 

 

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Chair art

So I'm starting my own exhibition for a project in uni, and for the museum project I found the room in my university it's huge, dark and has beautiful wooden floors. The only problem is that I now need to fill the walls from head to toe in pictures, paintings, photography and digital work of chairs. So I'm walking every where to find wonderful people to help me out, I've already got my boyfriend, friend and her cousin to draw me some Chairs but I need a lot more.

Charlie created me a poster to help me out which I loved but when I went into Milgi to take a photo of it it was lost with all the other posters on the wall. So I took it down and created a new one which is much more colourful. I think I do like Charlies (bottom photo) a lot more then mine (top photo) but like I said it was lost on the wall with posters of orange and and blue.

I did try to make my hand writing look like charlies  but I think I failed. Oh well it will do the job.

If your interested in sending me your work, please do. I will blog and exhibit every piece of art work I got as long as it's of a chair.

If your interested just comment below.


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Brothers Quay

Speaking of Jan Svankmajer, I may as well talk about some people who were hugely inspired by him. The Brothers Quay are twins who work with stop animation which is, believe it or not much weirder then Jan Svankmajer.

If you've ever watch the youtube video "Salad Fingers" you will know that uncomfortable sensation when watching something as spooky as the Brothers Quay's videos. The style of these stop motions remind me of my mother, as the lady of the bed has long black hair and dresses similar to my mother when she was creating her own art.


Just a quick video



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Jan Švankmajer

Dimensions of Dialogue Part 1

Dimensions of Dialogue Part 2 and 3

Jan Švankmajer is an artist who well known for his surrealist animations. I first saw his work when my friend sent me his Alice film (though the whole film isn't on youtube) which I fell in love with straight away, it has many elements I love in the film, such as animal skulls, old fashioned toys and random events happening. But the videos above called "Dimensions Of Dialogue" are my favorite video's I've seen of his, they have a very political story behind each of them and they are very clever.

Jan Švankmajer has inspired many modern artist and film makers today, you could probably guess who they are. Such people as Tim Burton, Terry Gillian and another amazing artist's the Brothers Quay.



This "Punch and Judy" based stop motion, is quite funny but uncomfortable at some parts. I am in love with the murdering Punch as he steals the gold from the house, as if he feels guilty. I also love the church like feel as each puppet is put in the coffin.

I would really love to own Jan Švankmajer on dvd, every single one of his animations. Maybe one day!

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