Erwin Wurm...

Discovering this artist today my overall opinion of the artist and his work is generally positive. I think that this piece specifically works really well as a whole. The simplicity of the piece being really just a bag on a person's head I really like but when I looked closer the stage and what I think are tennis balls I think help the piece as well. Furthermore the piece I think has a surreal aspect to it which is one of my favourite types of art.

Following on from the surreal nature of his pieces I think this piece demonstrates that exactly to an extent. The angle of the woman's body coming down slightly from the right and eventually getting larger at the bottom, it just works, its a great pose. With it getting larger it also sort of contrasts with the sharp, thin pointy pencils she's obviously about to sit on. I like the colours as well the neutral, non vibrant tones of the woman's dress, skin colour and even the background of the piece and the slightly brighter more vibrant colours of the pencils are lovely.

One thing that my lovely teacher (Andy) told me about this piece is that to create it the artist set up two buckets and said "stand in one of the buckets and put the other on your head." Therefore depending on how the individual stands, sits or crouches even the pose and overall image will be different, suggesting that the form of the person or stance is the actual artwork rather than the obvious bucket on the head. What I like about this piece of art however is how its almost like people who don't do art perhaps are actually helping creating these interesting pieces and with such ease. So overall I think that this artist is really interesting, I really like his slightly surreal approach and how with some pieces he even gets the viewers of his art actually in the art. Although its a small part of his art I also like how he actually presents his work, the colours, the poses of the primary subjects, the little raised stages: I just like it.