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* * * * *  Let us know if you want to get involved or submit work for any of them! * * * * * Painting Workshop - as promised!... Everyone welcome!! Every Thursday 6pm-9.30pm in reynolds room B1 ICSmart are running FREE painting workshops on a drop in basis for members to prepare work for the Exhibition of 26th March. There will be no art tutor present, but the time, space and art materials are provided for use by members, and other members will be around to offer advice, ideas and feedback on work. Materials provided will include acrylic paint, paper, brushes, charcoals, chalks, pastels, inks. However, if you intend to paint on canvas for the exhibition, you will need to provide your own canvas, as well as any additional materials you require. Canvases can be bought easily from Cass Art on High Street Kensington. The exhibition's theme is 'Metamorphosis and Other Short Stories...' and is based around the novel by Franz Kafka. We are looking for people to reflect upon observations from everyday life in the way that Kafka did in his stories, and produce a piece of work that is a narrative of that observation using visual art where Kafka used literature. For more information about art drop in sessions contact Kathryn Watson, and for further details of the exhibition, get in touch with Laura Tucker. See you there! * * * * * Please find below some more infomation regarding the above exhibition in March. Happy reading! Metamorphosis and Other Short Stories Studying medicine often distracts us from our ability to be engaged in art. Our minds are made hungry for time in which to be creative. Either we have ideas but no time to see them through, or we take time out to make art, but sit and stare in bewilderment at the blank canvas and lose sight of the point from which art begins. 'Metamorphosis and Other Short Stories' is a theme that establishes a framework for us to be artists from start to finish. Visual art and literature have frequently been intertwined throughout their history, and the way that we are taking Franz Kafka's collection of short stories as a theme for our art reflects this concept beautifully. Kafka was a German-speaking writer born in Prague in 1883, who lived a turbulent life up until his death in Vienna aged 40 years, from tuberculosis of the larynx. Kafka wrote three highly-praised novels during his time as a writer: 'The Trial', 'The Castle' and 'Amerika'. However, his short stories have arguably caught more attention as 'Metamorphosis' has inspired the writers of many films, stage productions and animations. 'Metamorphosis and Other Short Stories' is an important theme to us, as each short story in this this collection of short literary works is a documentation of something observed from everyday life. Kafka takes his inspiration from the world he sees around him, describing everything from a day trip into the mountains to the plight of a hunger artist. The way that his stories evolve takes the reader from the introduction to a familiar concept along a journey of his thoughts about how it fits into a grander scheme of things. In doing so, Kafka catches his readers in a whirl of mystery as he rapidly skirts from depicting reality to deftly sketching a fantastical world. His stories could be read by someone with a common-sensical mind and they would appear to be a documentary of life, producing words that explain something entirely in-keeping with general human experience. However, if read a second time, or by a person who is akin to thinking more philosophically or abstractly, his stories take on a new light, a fantastical light, a light that runs in another direction from general human experience. It is this fantastical element that is enchanting to his readers. With this in mind, under the theme of 'Metamorphosis and Other Short Stories' we will be working on art in a way that reflects Kafka's short stories. By spending our spare moments looking around us at the intricacies of the world that passes us by, we can see something that is beautiful, or intriguing, or complicated. The next step is to hold that moment / though / vision in our minds and develop a story about how it fits into our own worlds. Then we will be in a position to create art in a way that tells the story of what has inspired us about an encounter with a mundane subject that is able to have surprisingly captured our imaginations. In this way, our art will both document our surroundings and be enchanting. A current exhibition at the Tate Britain of the work of Peter Doig rings of a very similar sentiment to our theme. Perhaps Doig was not thinking of Kafka at the time, but it is said that he is 'inspired by the flow of things seen everyday... but suffused with strangeness his pictures seem worlds apart'. His paintings are certainly enchanting and invariably tell an intriguing story. So this is our aim, to create a piece of visual art that tells the story of something seen everyday, using art as a narrative for what we would otherwise hope to describe with words, and to impress an idea of wonderment on the people who absorb our art. ******** Here is a list of Kafka's work, from wikipedia. Any other info can be searched for on the internet, or found in his books/ essays about him etc. Two Introductory Parables
The Longer Stories
The Shorter Stories
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Exhibitions held by ICSMart last year include: