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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Working on my project

Currently, I am working on 2 projects, one of which, I decided to do by my own choice. The first project, is a painting, made on hard w
hite paper, which consists of the skeletal structure of hands in different positions, with a relatively wide range of media, to enhance and give more structure and dynamism to the painting itself, such as tissue paper, almost entirely covered by bleach, black indian ink to make the outline of the hands, and acryllic colours of very unusual colours:




The second and most important project, consists of the sculpture of the skeletal structure of a hand coming out of a quilt or some sort of similat fabric, on which, circular shapes would be drawn so to represent a very peculiar gate I saw between Via del Corso and Via Nazionale, which was characterised by an excessively rich quantity of geometrical shapes and lines. My intention is to draw those circular shapes using Batìk, on white cotton, and then dye it in a dark colour (such as dark blue or dark purple), so as to create a contrast with the pale white of the skeleton. Below, some pictures of the development of my two projects and how they are gradually evolving:

L'Image et L'écriture- Raymond Poulet

A couple of days ago, I was re-reading a french magazine of art I bought during Christmas holidays, called "Univers des Arts"and discouvered many unknown artists, and the one who struck me the most was Raymond Poulet. His paintings are inspired by Oriental art and contain a wide range of colours, as well as geometric lines and shapes, dynamism and words ("L'image et L'écriture" in fact means "the image and the writing").
For example, an amazing painting known as "Un jour de plus" contains a short text written in vietnamese:

"Each morning, when I wake up, I thank life, for giving me, another day in which to love"

Here's the link to his official website if you want to discover and learn about his other paintings, as well as sculptures:

http://www.raymond-poulet.com/

Power and Pattern: my two chosen words

Here are some pictures I took of the interesting pages did so far on my workbook which relate to the 2 new projects I am working on: the first, is the skeletal structure of a hand coming out from a quilt with circular patterns drawn on it ( to represent the patterns of a gate located between the Colosseum and Via del Corso) and the second, is a painting of the anatomy of the skeletal structure of a hand in different positions. The other drawings and sketches are just different ideas for a final project. The materials I used to create these skecthes were the following:
-charcoal
- black indian ink and bambu sticks (of different sizes)
-Photoshop
-highlighter
-dark blue pen
-tissue paper
-coloured ink
-acryllic paint
-bleach

Pics from Rome

"Rome is but nature's twin, which has reflected Rome
We see its civic might, the signs of its decorum
In the transparent air, the firmament's blue dome,
The colonnades of groves and in the meadow's forum."
- Rome, Osip Mandelstam


Here are some pictures I took when I went to Rome in these last weeks:
-The second and third pictures, I took the day the "Futurama" exhbition in Rome was inaugurated, and the effect of the strikes of light and the "movement" effect of the camera, make the pictures even more interesting
- Most of the other pictures show some typical 'views' of Rome, although I decided to take the pictures with different effects (black and white, negative effect and seppia)