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Many artists, crafts people & designers are fascinated by
openings and their viewpoints these provide.
Charles Hardacker & Edward Hopper have made paintings
looking into & out from rooms.
Henk Van Rensburgen takes photographs peering through
openings into bleak deserted places.
Andy Goldsworthy created openings in many of his site specific
sculptures & Barabara Hepworth created pierced, organic
forms.
Study appropriate sources & produce your own work inspired
by OPENINGS.
Charles Hardaker
THE THINKER
Charles Hardacker & Edward Hopper have
made paintings looking into & out from
rooms.
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Charles Hardaker
Charles Hardacker & Edward Hopper
have made paintings looking into & out
from rooms.
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Charles Hardaker
The light traveller
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Charles Hardacker & Edward Hopper have
made paintings looking into & out from
rooms.
Charles Hardaker The shelf 1934
Charles Hardacker & Edward Hopper have
made paintings looking into & out from
rooms.
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Charles Hardaker
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Charles Hardacker & Edward
Hopper have made paintings
looking into & out from rooms.
Charles Hardaker
Charles Hardaker NEAC RBA
Charles Hardaker was born in 1934. He studied at Birmingham College of Arts
and Crafts and after completing National Service in 1955 he spent three years
at the Royal College of Art in London, (Queen's Scholar) ARCA 1958.
He became a member of the New English Art Club in 1969 and The Royal
Society of British Artists in 1984. He paints still life, interiors, landscapes,
philosophical/scriptural subjects and portraits.
He has work in the permanent collections of the Tate Gallery, The Guildhall of
London, the GLC, the National Library of Wales, the Institution of Civil
Engineers and numerous private collections in the UK and overseas including
the USA, Canada, Japan and Greece.
Major commissions include paintings of the BP Oil Terminal Sullom Voe, the
Kielder Resevoir for Northumbria Water, murals for the Howard Hotel, London,
the building of the Channel Tunnel for Eurotunnel, two cycles of paintings for
Townley Hall, Ireland based on the Seven Days of Genesis(7 works) and the
Gospel of Thomas(11 works). Has recently finished working on the murals in
fresco for a country house near Oxford.
He has had five one-man exhibitions to date, two in San Francisco and three in
London. He has been a finalist in a number of competitions including the
Hunting Prizes and the Lynn Painter-Stainers prize and has completed
numerous portrait commissions.
He exhibits at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, with the New English
Art Club, the Royal Society of British Artists and at various other galleries.
In 1996 he wrote of 'Still Life : Vertical Structures, and Three Times Three' (in
the Tate Collection and featured bottom right), ' it forms part of a series on a
theme (or rather multiple themes) which is still developing.......Motives for the
paintings in general (as much as one dare to define them!) are architectural
and philosophical in that the basically cubic container form has been connected
with the cube/earth symbol in Plato's "Timaeus" . But also 'things as they are'
is as important as any intellectual idea so that the paintings retain strong roots
in things seen'.
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Edward Hopper
Charles Hardacker & Edward Hopper have
made paintings looking into & out from
rooms.
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Edward Hopper
Charles Hardacker & Edward Hopper have
made paintings looking into & out from
rooms.
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Edward Hopper
Charles Hardacker & Edward Hopper
have made paintings looking into &
out from rooms.
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Edward Hopper /
“Shirley” photography by jerzy palacz
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Charles Hardacker &
Edward Hopper have
made paintings looking
into & out from rooms.
Edward Hopper
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“Shirley” photography by jerzy palacz
Charles Hardacker & Edward Hopper have
made paintings looking into & out from
rooms.
Edward Hopper
Charles Hardacker & Edward Hopper have
made paintings looking into & out from
rooms.
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French architects O-S
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created this temporary installation at
Hotel Saint-Côme in Montpellier,
Zimoun_2012
Domison
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graphic Design StudioPaprika , strikes
at Christmas shop window Domison in
Montreal.,
Domison 2009 |1
Joel Millerchip
Two By Two / Eye Candy Festival
Collective: Brothers of the Stripe
B.O.T.S was invited by Eye Candy Festival
to create a postcard book and take over an
empty shop for two days. During the twoday take over the collective set up shop and
created a cardboard box installation that was
used to create a stop -gap animation.
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Tobias Putrih
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Henk van Rensbergen
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Henk Van Rensburgen takes photographs peering through openings into bleak deserted
places.
The idea behind Henk 1- Openings
van Rensbergen's
expeditions is simple:
explore the urban
jungle. Why travel to
far-off natural jungles,
when there are far more
interesting places in
your own
I was born on august 22nd 1968 in neighbourhood Brussels, Belgium.
abandoned places, just
At age 16 I got my first camera and waiting to be explored.
at 20 I made my first photos at the Van Rensbergen sets
Buda Marly plant (and got arrested off, looking for
straight away).
abandoned hospitals,
Professionally I've been a pilot since overgrown industrial
age 22, first on the Boeing 737, then complexes, or urban
767 and also the airbus 320.
palaces, ravaged by the
I flew as a captain on the a320 until driving rain, overgrown
Sabena (Belgium's national carrier) with weeds, decorated
went bancrupt in 2001.
with grafitti. The
Now I'm flying the boeing 767 for
resulting photographs
ArkeFly (Tui Netherlands, dutch
are unequalled - beauty
charter company), flying to holiday
meets decay.
destinations.
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Henk van Rensbergen
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Henk Van Rensburgen
takes photographs
peering through
openings into bleak
deserted places.
Henk van Rensbergen
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Henk van Rensbergen
Henk Van Rensburgen takes photographs
peering through openings into bleak deserted
places.
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Henk van Rensbergen
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Henk Van Rensburgen takes photographs
peering through openings into bleak deserted
places.
Henk van Rensbergen
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Henk Van Rensburgen takes photographs peering through openings into bleak deserted
places.
abandoned-places.com
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--------------Old buildings, abandoned hospitals, industrial palaces overgrown with plants and trees,
the remaining walls decorated with graffiti, smashed windows, rain dripping through the roof...
These places have become hard to find, difficult (or illegal) to access, dangerous to explore ...
great to spend the day !
--------------Today, the pyramids of the industrial revolution just uselessly stand in the way, they're a scar in
the landscape.
The deafening noises have been replaced by silence, but if you listen carefully they will tell you
their story.
Abandoned hospitals where you can still smell the anxiety of the ill,
where you can hear the coughing of the TBC infected
and where once doctors and nurses walked through the shiny corridors.
A 100 years old hotel, standing proudly at the waterfront, arrogantly overlooking the beach
and fiercely withstanding all the storms of the past century, a decayed symbol of wealth for the
rich.
Why are abandoned places so attractive??
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy created openings in many of his
site specific sculptures & Barbara Hepworth created
pierced, organic forms.
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Andy Goldsworthy
Andy
Goldsworthy
created openings
in many of his site
specific sculptures
& Barbara
Hepworth created
pierced, organic
forms.
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Barbara Hepworth
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Andy Goldsworthy
created openings in
many of his site
specific sculptures &
Barbara Hepworth
created pierced,
organic forms.
Barbara Hepworth
Andy Goldsworthy
created openings in
many of his site
specific sculptures &
Barbara Hepworth
created pierced,
organic forms.
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Barbara Hepworth
Andy Goldsworthy
created openings in
many of his site
specific sculptures &
Barbara Hepworth
created pierced,
organic forms.
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Barbara Hepworth
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Henry Moore
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Andy Goldsworthy created openings
in many of his site specific sculptures
& Barbara Hepworth created pierced,
organic forms.
Rene Magritte (Surrealism)
Time Transfixed 1934
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Surrealism
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Salvador Dali (Surrealism)
Metamorphosis of Narcissus
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De Chirico (Surrealism)
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Vermeer
girl reading a
letter at an open
window 1657
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Theatre designers create sequence of
viewpoints for the audience to
experience from the opening of the
stage curtain.
You could take a play and translate it
into a sequence of two or three 3-D
models describing various scenes
within the play.