Video about an exhibition of the art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp

[William Overington]

https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/673

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jKnqBa15JA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophie_Taeuber-Arp

The video contains some really nice framed art.

Can this inspire new art made using Affinity products that will be posted in a thread in the Share your work forum?

William

 

 

[William Overington]

The exhibition at MoMA is a touring exhibiton and has been at Tate Modern previously.

https://www.tate.org.uk/search?q=Sophie+Taeuber-Arp

William

 

 

[William Overington]

Here is feature like Google street view of an art exhibition.

https://kunstmuseumbasel.ch/de/ausstellungen/2021/sophie-taeuber-arp/virtueller-rundgang

Google translate has

virtueller-rundgang

as

virtual tour.

William

 

[v_kyr]

And what does this thread and Q ...

3 hours ago, William Overington said:

Can this inspire new art made using Affinity products that will be posted in a thread in the Share your work forum?

... then overall have to do with Affinity related ressources and contributions ?

Maybe the forum misses some "user based news and infos section" or the like where such things would better belong to !?  

 

[William Overington]

7 hours ago, v_kyr said:

And what does this thread and Q ...

... then overall have to do with Affinity related ressources and contributions ?

 

The actual wording is a foillows.

> Resources

> Share your custom brush, textures and other resources with the Affinity community.

So what is a resource?

Does a resource need to be something such as an image that can actually be added into a document, or can it be something that could inspire the applicatiojn of an Affinity product, such as a video and text about an artist and that artists art?

Also, in that descriptive sentence, how should it be read? For example, should it be read as

> Share your (custom brush, textures and other resources) with the Affinity community.

Or should it be read as

> Share your( custom brush, textures) and other resources with the Affinity community.

Or should it be read as something else?

Clearly, if the second one, then that needs to be read in the context of "as long as that is legal", so, for example, it would not be right to add as an attachment a proprietary font or a proprietary image.

However, a link to openly published content that could inspire some readers in the application of Affinity products seems to me to be fine.

The backstory to this thread may be of interest.

I have subscribed to a number of mailing lists. So from time to time I receive an email about something. I am subscribed to mailing lists for various art galleries, sculpture gardens, Winsor and Newton, the Jane Austen centre,and some French châteaux.

Yesterday I received an email from MoMA, the Museum of Moden Art in New York.

The email was about an exhibition of work by .Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

I had not known of Sophie Taeuber-Arp and her work previously.

I read and I watched the video.

I thought that I would like to try to produce some art influenced by the framed pictures shown in the video.

I thought that a thread in the Affinity forum would be good. Hopefully some other readers might produce some art in that style too.

So instead of first producing some art then posting it in the Share your work forum with links to the video that had inspired it, I decided to start this thread promptly so that I would not get a start on others in having a go at producing some aret in the style of Sophie Taeuber-Arp's art. 

 A factor in this is that, at present and perhaps never, I am unable to produce art in te style of the drawn art that some people post in the Share your work forum.

Yet (I like to think) I am quite good at thinking of ideas where I can apply what I term devolved precision.

So when I saw those framed pictures I thought of the drawing tools for shapes that are in Affinity Designer, I thought that I had a reasonable chance of producing something new inspired by those pictures.

So, the prospect of a framed print of original art.

 

7 hours ago, v_kyr said:

Maybe the forum misses some "user based news and infos section" or the like where such things would better belong to !?  

 

Yes.

If the moderators agree to the suggestion and add a new forum, they could move this thread into that forum.

William

 

[William Overington]

15 hours ago, William Overington said:

Can this inspire new art made using Affinity products that will be posted in a thread in the Share your work forum?

Yes.

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/155334-art-inspired-by-the-art-of-sophie-taeuber-arp/

William

 

[v_kyr]

On 1/7/2022 at 9:57 AM, William Overington said:

The actual wording is a foillows.

> Resources

> Share your custom brush, textures and other resources with the Affinity community.

So what is a resource?

Does a resource need to be something such as an image that can actually be added into a document, or can it be something that could inspire the applicatiojn of an Affinity product, such as a video and text about an artist and that artists art?

Also, in that descriptive sentence, how should it be read? For example, should it be read as

> Share your (custom brush, textures and other resources) with the Affinity community.

Or should it be read as

> Share your( custom brush, textures) and other resources with the Affinity community.

Or should it be read as something else?

...
...

Yesterday I received an email from MoMA, the Museum of Moden Art in New York.

The email was about an exhibition of work by .Sophie Taeuber-Arp.

I had not known of Sophie Taeuber-Arp and her work previously.

I read and I watched the video.

....

Yet (I like to think) I am quite good at thinking of ideas where I can apply what I term devolved precision.

So when I saw those framed pictures I thought of the drawing tools for shapes that are in Affinity Designer, I thought that I had a reasonable chance of producing something new inspired by those pictures.

So, the prospect of a framed print of original art.

...

 

Well IMHO the above is no real Affinity related resource in the common meant way here at all, for me that's actually just some information about some museum online exhibition and some thoughts about possibly adapting a technique to Affinity nothing more. It's no resource anyone can actually make any use out of in Affinity, it's no Affinity template, style, LUT, brush, macro or even a sketched way how to apply something like the referenced link shows to Affinity. - Where the later would then probably even better belong into the forums tutorials section.

If everybody posts only thoughts and ideas here into this forum section, without any concrete presented Affinity adaption, then this forum category would be full of such topics without any real reusability yet, which would also make it harder afterwards to search after real reusable Affinity resource contributions and finding those!

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I thought that I would like to try to produce some art influenced by the framed pictures shown in the video.

I thought that a thread in the Affinity forum would be good. Hopefully some other readers might produce some art in that style too.

So instead of first producing some art then posting it in the Share your work forum with links to the video that had inspired it, I decided to start this thread promptly so that I would not get a start on others in having a go at producing some aret in the style of Sophie Taeuber-Arp's art. 

 A factor in this is that, at present and perhaps never, I am unable to produce art in te style of the drawn art that some people post in the Share your work forum.

I personally would have expected such a thread more in the "Affinity on Desktop Qs" and if somebody then creates something out of that as a (re)usable Affinity app resource (an art style template or what ever) then posting that one here into this forum section as a resource.

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If the moderators agree to the suggestion and add a new forum, they could move this thread into that forum.

Can't decide or tell for that, but it might be something to take into account for the forum in generell here then, so if there should be also some user editable forum section (similar to but more common/general than "News & Informations" etc. ...) which is then more appropriate for such common informations/thoughts/ideas, which aren't yet really Affinity related resources but maybe if someone creates something like those with and for the Affinity apps.

However, actually I would let @Patrick Connor decide whether this thread belongs in here into this category or not!

[William Overington]

I feel that it woud be good if @Alfred and @Ali and @Wosven and @walt.farrell and @AdamStanislavand @PaulEC joined in this discussin please.

There is a thread

https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/155334-art-inspired-by-the-art-of-sophie-taeuber-arp/

Art inspired by the art of Sophie Taeuber-Arp

William

 

[PaulEC]

Thanks for the invite to participate, William, but to be honest I don't think I could add anything to this thread. I am really not very keen on, nor knowledgeable about, abstract art. (I'm much more at home with the Pre-Raphaelites, who were probably about as far away from abstract art as you can get!) 😁

[Ali]

No, I'm not really into this at all. Sorry, William. Just so that you know, I will contribute to threads of yours IF they are of any interest to me or I think I can offer something helpful. Otherwise, I won't. Happy Sunday!

[William Overington]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eeNqNHIThs

Tour of the exhibition "Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Living Abstraction" at the Kunstmuseum Basel

William

 

[Ali]

Why are you shouting?

[PaulEC]

[William Overington]

On 1/9/2022 at 2:48 PM, Ali said:

Why are you shouting?

@Ali

Hello Ali, I have only noticed your post a few minutes ago. I am following this thread, so I missed it.

I probably copied the text from the Museum's website and pasted it i this thread. I cannot find from where I copied it at present.

I have just found this page.

https://kunstmuseumbasel.ch/en/exhibitions/2021/sophie-taeuber-arp

That page includes a link to a 20 page PDF document guide.

Also there are audio pieces. It says headphones but I have just tried one on my home computer, a laptop, and it plays in English here without any need for headphones.

There is also a 2021 performance video using performance replicas of the marionettes.

William

 

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