“Much Ado About How to Become a Famous Artist” is my first animation movie. I wrote the whole script and produced the animation together with Nikolaus Cieslinski. The movie was made in cooperation with the VisionLore Group, a Polish animation company. They designed the visual characters. It is a humorous view of the modern contemporary art scene in the XXI century. It is based on my experiences as a female fine artist, a painter. I still think that the mastery, the technique and the talent are more important than the contemporary concept that “expressing yourself” is all that counts. Everybody can express their own feelings in their own particular way. You don’t have to be “fine artist”, you don’t have to have any “technique”. Following that principle everyone is an artist as long as they “express themselves”. But is that ART? I don’t want art to be elitist, but art should be about the truth, the good and the beautiful. And yes, there are some objective criteria for these categories.

Very often I dream very unusual, weird and surreal dreams. Probably it is not unusual. According to the neurologists and the sleep-scientists we are dreaming similar dreams. Most of us just can't remember them. I do, I do remember my dreams very often. I often put down my dreams on paper in writings or drawings. I memorize and repeat them time after time. I don't allow them to escape from my unconscious memory before they are for sure printed very well in my conscious memory. Of course I am only bothered with the most unusual, impossible, shocking or surreal dreams. Probably I am awakened during the stage of dreaming. That explains why I do feel groggy, confused and irritable most of the time when I wake up. That could explain the fact that I often remember my dreams. It could be also genetic; my mum always remembers her dreams too. I found something very fascinating in New Scientist (2 February 2013) about black and white and colour dreams. According to the reports from the 1950s most people dreamed in black and white. This seemed to change over the following decade. By the late 1960s the majority of people in the west seemed to dream in colour. According to Eva Murzyn, University Derby, UK, it has something to do with changes in broadcasting. TV burst into colour at about the same time as the transformation of dreams from monochrome into technicolour. It is very peculiar phenomenon. I should ask my parents or they remember their dreams from the time before the colour TV. Here is one sketch for a huge oil painting, based of my dream -vision-illusion.

Technological advances change the way people live. [gallery link="file" order="DESC" columns="2" orderby="title"]

Sketches are a part of my life. I do lots of sketches for my paintings and illustrations, just to improve my skills, to practice. I often make sketches in the train, especially when I have to travel for a long time. People who are in a deep sleep are very good models for drawings. One and a half years ago, when waiting for surgery in a horrible kind of environment (the University Hospital in Poland, Lodz - horror) I made an excellent surreal drawing. It was really weird, I just had to get rid of and share my feelings and the dread that I experienced on one sheet of blank paper.  I did it totally unconsciously.  I am busy now making bigger sketches for the final work. It will be an absolutely brilliant painting, and a huge one. I have lots of used sketchbooks from different brands. But I think one of the bests are the Moleskines one. I really love them. I have one very tiny, perfect for travels and trips. But most of the sketches I just made on sheets of papers, napkins, tickets, book pages, bills, toilet papers or whatever I have on hands. Recently, I did a few drawings for the Poetry Magazine Akant (a Polish magazine). Most of the images that I present here will be published in Akant, 2013-1 Quarter. [gallery link="file" columns="2" orderby="title"]

[caption id="attachment_1012" align="aligncenter" width="440" caption="Objects created by Nicola Jaberi"][/caption]

Neoreplicants brings together the results of a partnership between Exeter Phoenix’s annual Digital Art Commission and the University of Exeter’s Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing (CALM). This opportunity gave thirty South West based visual artists the chance to explore the possibilities offered by the emerging technologies of 3D printing to their art making practice.

The Exhibition is taking place from November 16th 2012 till January19th 2013. Here is the image of my finished object Mobile King Midas in Reverse presented at Phoenix in Exeter. [caption id="attachment_1011" align="aligncenter" width="385" caption="Mobile Kind Midas "][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1010" align="aligncenter" width="550" caption="Mobile Kind Midas by Kasia B.Turajczyk"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_1009" align="aligncenter" width="550" caption="Mobile Kind Midas in colour"][/caption]

In a gazebo I installed a huge prepared board. Painted in white/grey colours. I prepared lots of clippings from magazines, photographs, postcards, painted CD's, old clothing, garbage, plastic packaging, pieces of textiles, metals etc. There were also paints and brushes for those who loved to paint. First I asked my visitors to consider how they were feeling at that moment, on that day. Then I asked them to use some of the available materials which best represented their mood to add their own contribution to the installation. Most of the visitors really liked the idea and were happy to be creative and to make a contribution. Some people didn't like it or just had not enough time or were not in the mood to do so. Some visitors had bad luck with the weather and didn't like the idea of making a short trip in the pouring rain through the muddy and wet garden. As you can see the installation isn't completed, there are lots of empty spaces. Maybe I should conclude that it became what it became. I had great expectations about the end result and I looked forward to the different and interesting contributions of my visitors. But unfortunately there were not enough people to take a part in making an complete object. I have an ambivalent feeling about the end result. Actually I can't see the installation as a finished one. It is a beginning of something promising and interesting but there is no end. The question 'what is your mood today?' remains a mystery. Or maybe the empty spaces are saying a lot about the mood people were in during the two weeks of the Devon Open Studios event? Work for a psychologist? Here are the images in general and in more detail. Thank you to all of you who took part of it and also thank you to all of you who didn't. [caption id="attachment_978" align="aligncenter" width="550" caption="Installation \'What is your mood today?\' 2012"][/caption] [gallery]

I am very excited to present my first 3D object, created and printed. I took part in a Digital Art Commission 2012.  It was a  results of a partnership between Exeter Phoenix and the University of Exeter’s Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing (CALM). The myth of King Midas, the man who was cursed (and blessed) with the ability to turn anything he touched to gold, has inspired me to make my 3 dimensional 'King Midas' Mobile-Hand sculpture’. In the original version of the myth the hand of King Midas would have just touched the phone and turned it into a gold one. In my concept an opposite reaction happens. The Mobile Phone causes the transformation of a normal fleshy hand into a golden one. The stone is changing too, it is in the process of becoming a nugget of gold . The mobile is cursed like King Midas, and is synonymous with all the positive and negative aspects that mobile phone technology has brought into our lives. I do use a mobile phone, but only when I really need it. People who are having lunch or dinner in a restaurant or bar, simultaneously talking into their mobile phone whilst eating makes me sick! It is the same on public transport, busses, trains, trams. I am not interested in their private life. Why do I have to be forced to listen to it? To created the 3D image this programmes have been used: ZBrush and 3DS Max. My original idea and ideally end project will be as such: the golden stone and the golden hand printed in a golden colour metal. If it is not possible I can paint it in gold, no problem. The mobile phone will not be printed. I will use a real one. It will be placed into the hand. Next steps:  I will paint the stone and the hand gold. The stone will be in the process of transformation into gold. It will be half stone / half golden stone. The phone will be painted in a horrifying kitschy bright colour. My object was printed by Centre for Additive Layer Manufacturing (CALM) - Business Technology Centre, University of Exeter They used their EOS P100 laser sintering machine running white nylon. [caption id="attachment_937" align="aligncenter" width="550" caption="Mobile Phone Midas in Reverse - final "][/caption] [caption id="attachment_972" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="The Idea - my hand growing out of stone "][/caption]

This is very unusual blog post for me. Normally I only write about my own new work, my events and my exhibitions. I think it is time to make my blog more personal and intimate - from now on I will also share with you my personal thoughts about art, craft, technique,  the art world and other artists in general. This blog post is about Nelson Mandela the artist, scammers selling Mandela's "lithographs" and more. Can every one become an artist? Maybe, especially if it happens that the person is a celebrity! A few days ago Jim sent me a link to an online gallery which is selling Nelson Mandela's art, his sketches it says. It also happens that this gallery, Artisan Direct Ltd., also represented me in the United States (until last week!). I went to their website and checked the art of Nelson Mandela. Not bad for somebody who just started to draw and paint. I probably already painted better when I was a 7 year old girl. But he is Nelson Mandela and I, I am Kasia Turajczyk. According to BBC News and Gary Arseneau's blog the saga began in 1999. To raise money for his charities, Nelson Mandela endorsed an art scheme devised by his friend and lawyer Mr. Ayob. The first works were of Mandela's handprints, with the outline of Africa in his palm, which were produced in 2001. Then in May 2002, Nelson Mandela began a series of sketches with the subject Robben Island. In the company of a photographer, Grant Warren, he revisited the island. Images of his cell, Table Mountain from the beach, the lighthouse, church, quarry, guard towers and many other scenes were photographed. There followed six prints of different views of Robben Island, sold as a limited edition with his signature. It is claimed they were based on rough sketches by Mandela which were 'enhanced' into colour lithographs. Artist Varenka Paschke, granddaughter of apartheid-era Prime Minister P.W. Botha (link to Wiki), is said to have created the final works from which the prints were produced. Publicity releases said that Paschke 'tutored' Mandela. Here is the first interesting thing to note. Lithographs are not prints made by others. Lithographs are original works of visual art created by an artist and would never be trivialized by being reproduced. Mandela's works should be sold as prints. Limited edition prints signed by Mandela, or unsigned as the case may be. On April 2005 Guardian published an article "Furious Mandela sues ally over art sales"

High-profile buyers of the prints include Oprah Winfrey, David Beckham, Bill Clinton, Samuel Jackson, the Sultan of Oman and Prince Charles. The prints are sold at the Touch Of Mandela gallery in the exclusive Sandton suburb of Johannesburg and in Cape Town and London. Marketed as limited editions, the lithographs were sold round the world. Half of the proceeds were to go to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and the other half to the Nelson Mandela Trust. Ayob was the chairman of that trust and two of Mandela's daughters are on the board. Ayob claims the trust's funds have been fully accounted for. The works are appealingly gentle depictions of the island. Buyers all over the world queued for these pieces of Mandela magic. Mandela was unhappy when it became clear that far more than the original sets of prints were being sold. He stopped signing them and withdrew his endorsement two years ago, said Bizos. But the prints continued to be sold.

I found more even interesting information about this topic on Garry Arsenau's blog:

So, did Nelson Mandela actually create the drawings that were reproduced and misrepresented as original works of visual ie. lithographs? Not according to the South Africa "the truth" published July 14, 2006 "fraud" article by Sue Williamson. In part, the reporter writes: " The first {Struggle} series, the hand series, was drawn by graphic designer Tish Roux based on concept sketches by Hugh McCallum in 2000. In July 2001, Nelson Mandela traced over the pictures and hand-wrote a statement to accompany them: 'I draw hands because they are powerful instruments, hands can hurt or heal, punish or uplift." Tracing someone elses' work does not qualify as drawings by Nelson Mandela.With or without intent, Nelson Mandela participated in this fraud. Whether Nelson Mandela understood the -fraud- he was involved in or not is an explanation not an excuse but that all changed when his interest, reputation and money were threaten as documented in dozens and dozens of subsequently published articles. Here are excerpts of just two of those articles. On April 13, 2005, the South African BusinessDay newspaper published the “Madiba artworks sold after approval withdrawn - Bizos” article by Political Correspondent Vukani Mde. In part, the correspondent wrote: “ISMAIL Ayob, Nelson Mandela’s former lawyer, reproduced the former president’s signature and attached it to artworks that he marketed as genuine “Madiba art,” Mandela’s advocate, George Bizos said yesterday.” Yet, on the Touch Galleries Managing Editor Richard Lubner’s website, under the subtitle “Nelson Mandela - Artwork,” wrote: “Original sketches and limited edition lithographs created and signed by Nelson Mandela will be available for sale.”

Now as everybody knows Damien Hirst (Damien Hirst controversy artist) didn't and doesn't make most of his art works himself.  Actually scurrilous rumours maintain that Damien Hirst can not in fact paint or draw very well.  If Hirst can be a great artist (conceptual artist) then why not Nelson Mandela? All this information brings us back to the Artisan Direct website. How is it possible that such an unknown art agent can start selling Nelson Mandela 'sketches'? Sketches, that is the word that Artisan Direct is using to describe the work of Mandela. Once again the implication is that these are individual, unique works of art, created by a living legend.  Do you suppose that is in fact the case?

From Return of Peter Pan series. When I was just a little girl my granny and my mammy sung for very often to me, especially in the evenings when I couldn’t fall asleep. I think I have been suffering of insomnia from the early foundation of my life as a human being. My granny Kazimiera had a wonderful voice: gentle and nice. She really could sing. She sung lots of old, regional nursery songs but also lots of adult-sad-songs. However they never helped me to fall asleep. In opposite to my granny my mum couldn't sing very well but she knew more contemporary songs and a few lullabies. . One of them was a weird one. About a doll which was always angry and unhappy and full of pretensions. There was also a song about a dark blue sky and Mr. Moon who went for a walk, surrounded by millions of stars and he was singing……: let’s go and play the clown and the doll….. The text didn’t make a lot of sense to me when I was younger but I would always remember it because of the visually powerful presentation: the dark sky and the beautiful walking moon. I imagined the moon wearing a tuxedo, shiny shoes, high topper and a golden walking stick. And the text of the song suggested it very strong that I was the doll, with two cute dimples and very often in a bad mood. After all these years I decided to paint the image from the lullaby. And here it is; the visual representation of a song and my memories from the past. [caption id="attachment_950" align="aligncenter" width="593" caption="Lets go and play The Clown and The Doll "][/caption]

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