{"id":83,"date":"2013-11-14T19:26:42","date_gmt":"2013-11-14T19:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2014-05-18T12:23:23","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T12:23:23","slug":"artworks-1991-2000","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/?page_id=83","title":{"rendered":"Artworks 1991-2000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this decade I concentrated on printmaking and\u00a0photographic polyptychs (both two- and three-dimensional), in a desire to shift the focus\u00a0of\u00a0 much modern and contemporary art away from the irrationality of Dada and Surrealism (extreme use of metaphor)\u00a0towards greater realism (use of metonymy). This polarity in culture was encapsulated by the novelist and scholar\u00a0David Lodge\u00a0by\u00a0contrasting\u00a0Dylan Thomas with Philip Larkin. Reading Lodge&#8217;s book<em> <em>Modes of Modern Writing<\/em><\/em>\u00a0in 1992\u00a0gave me confidence in\u00a0my\u00a0long-standing\u00a0bias\u00a0towards figurative art, in\u00a0both senses: 1)\u00a0depicting the human figure and\u00a02) depicting objects in the world.\u00a0If this interests you, the arguments\u00a0are set out in\u00a0more detail in the\u00a0&#8216;Education&#8217;\u00a0part of the &#8216;About Me&#8217; thread of this website, and in the\u00a0&#8216;Ideas&#8217; thread (see the section called,\u00a0&#8216;David Lodge: Metaphor and Metonymy&#8217;).<\/p>\n<p>The photographic polyptychs of this decade\u00a0were exhibited as a group at the Lighthouse Media Centre in Wolverhampton in October 1998,\u00a0at the same time as\u00a0I began\u00a0a two-year part-time\u00a0M.A. in Fine Art at Cardiff School of Art and Design. On this course,\u00a0I\u00a0experimented with\u00a0 a wide range of genres, including\u00a0 video, installation and performance art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this decade I concentrated on printmaking and\u00a0photographic polyptychs (both two- and three-dimensional), in a desire to shift the focus\u00a0of\u00a0 much modern and contemporary art away from the irrationality of Dada and Surrealism (extreme use of metaphor)\u00a0towards greater realism (use &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/?page_id=83\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":40,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"onecolumn-page.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/96"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bernardvanlierop.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}