I was thinking of,
linking all the art I will see in Paris this week
(yey I can't wait!!!),
with death or one of the 5 senses
(probably touch or sight).
I will go to the Père Lachaise cemetery,
the Louvre,
the Musée D'Orsay,
Musée Rodin,
Centre Pompidou,
but also in some very unusual streets,
such as the Rue Mazarine where there is this creepy face
sticking out of a wall
next to the window of a house.
XD
but I am still thinking about it...
its not a definite idea,
just an
idea.
Thursday, 9 April 2009
ART EE IDEAS
I had three ideas for an extended essay, although I couldn't discuss them earlier:
1)the first one, would be to interview two artists who I recently discovered searching on the net, who are Mark Halsey (England), an artist who concentrates on abstract effects, as well as dynamism and patterns:
http://www.markhalsey.com/gallery/gallery.html
and Paul Wright (England), an artist who studies the structure of the human visage and environment by using very powerful and striking colours:
http://www.modernartistsgallery.com/artistdetails/73_PaulWright.php
2)I am going to Paris and thought that maybe I could compare Impressionism with Post-Impressionism (my favourite art styles)
3)Link art with special effects used in movies (although in this case, I must research further because it's an idea which popped in my mind just now)
1)the first one, would be to interview two artists who I recently discovered searching on the net, who are Mark Halsey (England), an artist who concentrates on abstract effects, as well as dynamism and patterns:
http://www.markhalsey.com/gallery/gallery.html
and Paul Wright (England), an artist who studies the structure of the human visage and environment by using very powerful and striking colours:
http://www.modernartistsgallery.com/artistdetails/73_PaulWright.php
2)I am going to Paris and thought that maybe I could compare Impressionism with Post-Impressionism (my favourite art styles)
3)Link art with special effects used in movies (although in this case, I must research further because it's an idea which popped in my mind just now)
Wednesday, 1 April 2009
.ChErNiCk & LiJuN.
For this month, I focused on two artists, whose works have interested me a lot. The first one, is Saul Chernick, an artist whose works display unusual images of landscapes, skeletons, human beings and animals, and many of them, such as The Predator's Waltz (http://www.maxprotetch.com/main.html?id=231&show=4) are quite terrifying and disturbing. His works are all only in black and white (probably ink?) , but some of them have backgrounds of very light, smooth colours, creating a sort of unifying link with the black outlines of the drawings.
The second one, is Fang Lijun, an artist whose works mainly display bald, egg-headed, 40-50 year-old men, babies and human figures with backgrounds of skies and infinite fields. In most of his paintings, humans lose all their seriousness and they convey to the viewer, a sense of irony, joy and humour, displayed in a very original and unusual way. His paintings contain very bright colours (light blue, red and orange especially) but also very misty and sad colours, creating a significant contrast with the joyful men.
The second one, is Fang Lijun, an artist whose works mainly display bald, egg-headed, 40-50 year-old men, babies and human figures with backgrounds of skies and infinite fields. In most of his paintings, humans lose all their seriousness and they convey to the viewer, a sense of irony, joy and humour, displayed in a very original and unusual way. His paintings contain very bright colours (light blue, red and orange especially) but also very misty and sad colours, creating a significant contrast with the joyful men.
Le Squelette d'une Main
'Le Squelette d'une Main"- The skeleton of a hand
So, after a short-term period in which my obsession was De Chirico's works, a new one has arose. I am fascinated by the anatomy, all the details of the human body, and particularly, the skeleton of the human being. It is evident that the 2 new projects are both based on the skeleton of the hand, but I tried to modify it's usual appearance on Google.images or anatomy/biology textbooks. By doing these 2 projects, I tried to enhance its structure, to develop a sense of power and terror, but also to display it in different and unusual ways: the painting of the movements and positions of the hands I decided to do with acryllic skin or muscle-related colours, such as red, brown, pink, also to confuse the viewer's 'view', as well as to demonstrate that each thing, each object can be seen in variuous ways, in different perspectives. The small-sculpture of the hand, I decided to paint with yellow and white-chocolate colours, especially because I would like to create significant contrast between the dark colour of the quilt and the bright colour of the hand. To do the sculpture, I first of all drew an outline of the hand and had it cut out for me. Then, I started to work on the complex bony structure of the hand with clay, which then I covered in modroc, as I did with my previous sculpture of the anorexic woman. I painted it in white and then decided to enhance the darker parts by using light and normal primary acryllic yellow. Below, are some pictures which show the way the sculpture of the hand has developped since the day I began it, which was approximately 1-2 days ago:
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2.
3.
So, after a short-term period in which my obsession was De Chirico's works, a new one has arose. I am fascinated by the anatomy, all the details of the human body, and particularly, the skeleton of the human being. It is evident that the 2 new projects are both based on the skeleton of the hand, but I tried to modify it's usual appearance on Google.images or anatomy/biology textbooks. By doing these 2 projects, I tried to enhance its structure, to develop a sense of power and terror, but also to display it in different and unusual ways: the painting of the movements and positions of the hands I decided to do with acryllic skin or muscle-related colours, such as red, brown, pink, also to confuse the viewer's 'view', as well as to demonstrate that each thing, each object can be seen in variuous ways, in different perspectives. The small-sculpture of the hand, I decided to paint with yellow and white-chocolate colours, especially because I would like to create significant contrast between the dark colour of the quilt and the bright colour of the hand. To do the sculpture, I first of all drew an outline of the hand and had it cut out for me. Then, I started to work on the complex bony structure of the hand with clay, which then I covered in modroc, as I did with my previous sculpture of the anorexic woman. I painted it in white and then decided to enhance the darker parts by using light and normal primary acryllic yellow. Below, are some pictures which show the way the sculpture of the hand has developped since the day I began it, which was approximately 1-2 days ago:
1.
2.
3.
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