I'm thinking of writing my assignment on John Coplans, mainly focusing on his photography as it relates closely with my own work. We were asked to chose work that was readily available for us to see in person which works weel for me as there are a pair of Coplans photographs currently on display at TATE Liverpool.
"In 1980, John Coplans went back to being an artist, he said that he couldn't possibly catch up fast enough by returning to his original medium, painting... So Coplans, always impatient, reckless and driven, turned ferociously to photography--which, curiously enough, he considered a nearer neighbor to sculpture than to painting. Quickly, he made the medium his own;...When Coplans died in August at 83, his big photographs of Stonehenge-ish portions of his own aging but defiant body rested in the collections of major museums around the world."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_10_91/ai_109667922/
"In 1980, John Coplans went back to being an artist, he said that he couldn't possibly catch up fast enough by returning to his original medium, painting... So Coplans, always impatient, reckless and driven, turned ferociously to photography--which, curiously enough, he considered a nearer neighbor to sculpture than to painting. Quickly, he made the medium his own;...When Coplans died in August at 83, his big photographs of Stonehenge-ish portions of his own aging but defiant body rested in the collections of major museums around the world."
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1248/is_10_91/ai_109667922/
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