Research and Communication skills

Task 1&2

 

Picture of Joe Tilson artwork entitled ‘Clip-O-Matic Lips 2’ (1967)

From the book Pop Prints, Arts Council Collection, The Southbank Centre and Marco Livingstone (1993) Page 21

 

Source found on website Art UK, Joe Tilson sculpture ‘ZIGGURAT’ (1963)

Photograph Credit: Walker Art Gallery

A quick search online showed me that ‘TATE’ archives held a lot of information on Joe Tilson and his artwork.

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joe-tilson-2043

 

Summery

To start this task, I looked through a few books and magazines I had at home but didn’t find anything too interesting. I then went to the library and looked at some art history books, I finally picked up a book on pop art prints, I found a few of the pictures in the book inspirational (lots of Andy Warhol) but I liked the Joe Tilson picture the most. I really liked the artwork I think because it was quite different to the rest of the art in the book, as it was a photograph that had been slightly photo shopped rather than a painting.

The book had very little information on Joe Tilson so a quick internet search showed me that he was a very influential artist during the 1960s Pop art movement, he was also a sculptor and print designer. I then decided to google imaged search ‘Joe Tilson Sculptures’ and found a picture of a piece of his called ‘ZIGGURAT’.

From this in the in the details of the picture I saw the link of the website the picture had originally come from, this took me to the website artuk.org which I found from looking through the website a bit that it is funded by the Arts Counsel England, who also provided the picture for the pop prints book I originally looked at. This gave me confidence that the website was a reliable source that I could trust.

Again, this website didn’t offer much information as it was just for showcasing. I again googled Joe Tilson and found the TATE archive had lots of information on the artist. It was from this archive I learned that the ‘Clip-O-Matic lips’ picture was part of a collection Tilson produced. Also, that he was friends and worked with many other famous artists at the time such as David Hockney. Tate is a very well know name in the art and design community so again I knew it was a source I could trust to give me relevant and reliable information on the subject.

Overall, I enjoyed this task, I feel that it has really helped me broaden my use of the internet when it comes to researching a subject, I also liked how it made me look at an area and artist that I had not really researched in the past. Before I hadn’t really thought of using archives as a source of information or taken much notice of if a website was reliable and trustworthy, this exercise now given me some useful sources and links I can look back to for future projects and research tasks.

 

Bibliography:

Pop Prints, Arts Council Collection, The Southbank Centre and Marco Livingstone (1993) Page 21

https://artuk.org/discover/artists/tilson-joe-b-1928 – Art UK website

http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/joe-tilson-2043 – Tate archives