For my second in-class project I want to do another painting (smaller this time) that is a separation of the canvas and also a separation of nature and a man-made scenario. An example of this is a painting I did about a year ago called "North Pacific" (seen below). I really just like the aesthetics of comparing humans to some aspect of nature and the world around us. I'm not entirely sure how to explain it, but it will make more sense when I can paint it.
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For my first home project this year, I want to do something to do with photography because I just got a new camera that I'm really excited about and I want to do something with it. Recently, I got to see some of the work by artist Virgil Ortiz, who is really amazing and cool so that was really inspiring. I'll put a picture of some of his work down below. Anyway, my concept is to create a story through makeup and photography etc. and then document it for my project. I have some preliminary sketches that I'll include in my next post, but that's all I got for now.
Pictured here are some preliminary starts to my project...as you can see I changed from my original idea of photography to a found object sculpture because I felt like it also encompassed my desired content and the theme of humans in their environment..but I'll talk about that in my final post. Basically this is just an update on how things are looking in the beginning stages of the painting process and giving you an idea of what's to come.
For my home project I want to do something that connects humans to our environments, whether referring to the natural world as a whole, or simply our day to day surroundings. I've thought a lot about how I might turn this into a sculpture piece and I want to do something involving photography and specifically a series of photos. I'm hoping I can create a series of photos illustrating comparisons between the human body and natural phenomenons or something like that but without getting too specific I just know I want to document and illustrate the role of people in their environments as the main theme for my work.
Concrete sculpture “Mirr”, bronze, 1936 Jean Arp is associated with the Dada and surrealism art movements in the early to mid 20th century. His work largely consisted of abstract sculptures made of metal, concrete, plaster or even papier mache. He studied art in both France and Germany during the times of both WW1 and 2. He then moved to Switzerland to avoid the war front and continue with his art. His art is largely non-representational, though it is said he drew inspiration from nature.
Questions: 1. What artists (if any) do you think have drawn inspiration from Arp? Who do you think Arp was inspired by? 2. How do you think the medium of Arp's work correlates to his content? 3. How do you feel about non-representational work? Do you think it still functions as a work of art? Note: I wanted to include a video for this post, but they were all in German, so here's a website that helped me out with research http://www.theartstory.org/artist-arp-hans.htm Unfortunately, I can't post a picture of my current painting because I think I'm going to start over due to the fact that it looks very similar to another painting in my class. I need to think of more ideas and start from scratch.
Kusama was born in Matsumoto City, Japan in 1929 where she studied Nihonga painting, a very formal and rigid style, but she was soon drawn to the more experimental art scene in New York, where she moved in 1958. She produced paintings that specialized in minimalist abstraction. She returned to Japan in 1970 where she began to write surreal short stories, but she soon began to return to her art, which became more surreal as well. She created very intense, dizzying installation pieces that were often just rooms full of mirrors or psychedelic polka-dot patterns. Over time, her old paintings as well as her newer works became dominant in the New York art world. "Priestess of Polka Dots"
produced over the second half of the 1960's Kusama produced installation pieces like this that were surreal and psychedelic because she based them off actual hallucinations she had and she wanted to make them tangible. It includes mirror on all sides of the room in order to give the appearance of being infinite. sources www.urdesignmag.com/art/2015/10/12/yayoi-kusamas-exhibition-at-the-louisiana-museum-of-modern-art/ www.gagosian.com/artists/yayoi-kusama more info about Kusama, her process, and her affect on the art world www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRZR3nsiIeA 1. What elements/ principles does Kusama emphasize the most in her work? How do these contribute to the content of her work? 2. What makes Kusama's art so unique? How was her work perceived by the art world? 3. What artists do you think Kusama shares characteristics with? Who can you think of that might have been inspired by her? Finally finished my self-portrait and I'm very happy with how it turned out!. I had to keep aditing my face but I think it's as close as it's going to get to the photo. I learned a lot about how to draw from a photo instead of just copying a drawing and it's a little harder than I thought, but overall a fun process and a good result!
I've made a little more progress on my portrait recently. I've shaded most of the neck and added some to the hair. I've also made a few small edits to my face and I think it's starting to look more like me. I have to be careful though and build up value slowly so I don't make things too dark too fast, which was a problem in my last drawing.
So I finally got my pictures to work and upload so I can make a post about my second week of progress! I started out doing some detailing with a charcoal pencil and then moved on to the charcoal chalk. I worked on the face first, altough I think I may need to make some changes to it in order to make it look more like me. The shading process is difficult also because the mark-making style that I'm copying has only really been used on a full figure so it's a little hard to translate that into a face.
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