Research: bologna children's book festival

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Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed at Freud Museum

Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed at Freud Museum

Curated by Philip Larratt-Smith

The Freud Museum London is delighted to announce an exhibition of works by Louise Bourgeois. Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed will show original documents from the artist’s recently discovered psychoanalytic writings, as well as drawings and sculptures, in the house of the founding father of psychoanalysis. Following its first showing in Latin America, the exhibition has been re-imagined for the unique setting of the Freud Museum London, which was discussed as a venue by Louise Bourgeois before her death. Appropriately, in the final home of Sigmund Freud and his daughter Anna Freud, this exhibition will explore the artist’s complex and ambivalent engagement with the theory and practice of psychoanalysis.

this seems like it would be interesting but more importantly, it is not unrelated to the subject of my final major project :nostalgia and the past combined with the effects of aging and use on objects and people and the beauty in the result. (see Japanese philosophy Wabi Sabi)

David Shrigley- Brain Activity at Hayward Gallery

David Shrigley's outlook on art and life seems to be very whimsical and un-serious which i like. it is a little bit shoved in my face though. 
'Death: The Most Serious Sad and Sometimes Feared Subject'

David Shrigley- Brain Activity at Hayward Gallery

illustration research - Oliver Jeffers and Sara Fanelli

 Oliver Jeffers



I love this work because of its playful feel, but also because of the cohesion between text and image that Jeffers pulls off so well. it echoes the childlike style while also being stylised and sophisticated.

Sara Fanelli


This work is similar to the work of Oliver Jeffers in that its integration of text and image is almost seamless. The images here are more symbolic whereas jeffers' work is very obvious and objective.

LinocutBoy

final outcomes

 These are some final examples from which i will choose a final piece. i like the effects that photoshop has given them; the contrast is a lot more obvious and so the images stand out a lot more.