Our second visit to York Art Gallery involved looking at Vanitas paintings. These use symbols within the painting to represent learning and time – particuarly how little time we have. In the galleries we identified this in paintings by the use of skulls, egg timers, dead animals and fruit. This was a popular form in […]
Today we visited York Art Gallery for the first of two sessions with Griselda. The theme for the day was ‘portraits’ – in particular ‘pose’ and ‘expression’. We looked at paintings in the actual portrait gallery and studied two in more detail – what could we see in the paintings? What could we detect about […]
Today we discussed what ‘Ethics’ are or what the term actually means. It’s difficult to define exactly but the term covers many ideas about, for instance, right/wrong, public and personal values, the influence and role of society, religion, law. There are also many other things to discuss when talking about ethics – these ideas are […]
Today we had our introductory session at YNiC – thanks to Sam and colleagues for doing such a good job with the presentation and demos. We also handed out a short question sheet on what was covered today. Some of the answers will be used to provide supporting information for the exhibition when it opens. […]
This first session introduced the project team, the project itself and the background in terms of portraiture, MRI, Ethics and work we have done before as a team. The presentation is available as a pdf here.
