Sketchbook

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Still from West Side Story (1961)

After going to a large party I didn’t feelt comfortable at, I’ve decided to look at the theme of social pressure and large groups

Still from Disney animated movie “Mulan” (1998)


[Media Experimentation and Technical Development] Taking inspiration from that screenshot from Mulan, I’ve decided to look into other works related to spirituality and use colour in a very blended way. >> Make the figures who are exerting social pressure to appear as a fabrication of the mind maybe? I need to work on blending colours and also painting the strokes in a more fluid manner to really grasp that spiritual aspect Both of these pieces are oil paintings

“Moonlight” (1900) Symbolist Values and Ideas •Incorporate spiritual value into life --Sex, Love, mythology, fear, anguish Prevalent Themes -Humiliation --Cosmological humiliation (earth and man are a not at the centre of the universe - a new discovery during the Symbolist Movement (1800s)

Review of Experiments: I need to work on painting with a brush and also blending colours as some of my colour blending is off. I like the textu I like the texture of oil paint and the movement of that Symbolist paintings have. --feels ephemeral


Theme: ORDER IN DISORDER Nov 2015

Jenny Saville She a contemporary British Painter who is predominantly known for her large She’s scale portraits of nude people. She’s got a very patchy technique and oftendistrots the portrait she’s painting which rovokes a sense of disgust. Her subjects begin to appear as though they’re slabs of meat as opposed to people. Her paintings are large scale for the purpose of intimidating her audience. Her work is largely related to feminist themes of questioning the objectification of women and societal beauty standards. >>>I want to use her technique but perhaps adopt it in my own style with palette knives since I’m not as apt with painting with a paintbrush.

Kazimir Malevich Founding father of Suprematism which focuses on non-objective reprsentation. The focus is on gemoetrical forms as opposed to figurative painting “the supremacy of pure artistic feeling”. I want to demonstrate the chaos of the mind and will need to consider the relationship between colors and how shapes contrast each other depending on their arrangement, color and form.

source; tate.org Kazimir Malevich Suprematism (1915) State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

<<< Visual analysis of Jenny Saville’s “Rosetta”

in Acrylic

Curves conflight with the quadrilateral shapes! Different colors contrast to compliment each other. I often find myself living in my head too much despite my calmn demeanor. I want to depict my mind in a way outside of objective representation because there isn’t really a way of depicting thoughts in an objective form. I think using color and geometry could be a powerful way of demonstrating an abstraction of my thoughts.


THEME: ORDER IN DISORDER [ technical skills + experimentation with media] Nov 2015 <<< This is a portrait I did in Jenny Saville’s Style using acrylic but should probably have used oil in this piece instead as I had issues with acrylic drying so quickly. What needs to change though? I don’t like how flat the painting in acrylic and brush looks. The portrait is going to need to create a stronger contrast against the suprematist shapes.

I tried out this patchy style of painting but with oil paint and a palette knife. -I’ve decided to keep the technique of using blue and red/pink tones for shadows and highlights as opposed to just using black or darker flesh tones. I’m more conflident with painting with a palette knife and also prefer the texture it creates







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PHOTOSHOOT #1 Here I photographed my friend Tora. I like the ones against the purple tinted wall more as it compliments her hair.






Does it look too generic when it’s centred?



Artist’s Analysis: Raoul Hausmann

October 2015

Theme: Fear and Joy

This piece is entitled “The Art Critic” by Raoul Hausmann, a key member of the Berlin Dada Movement. This is a collage piece made out of found sources and lithography (printing). An anonymous man acts as the centre subject matter. he stands against a background of printed text. His facial features are altered/scribbled in red. A cut up banknote is pasted on the back of his neck and stamps are printed on the man’s body. He is holding a brush resembling a spear and on the right side is a woman and a silhouette of a man against a black and white photograph. Lines are straight for the most part (the crosses at the chest) but where the eyes and mouth are cut out, they’re replaced by scribbled features in red. The shapes in the piece have rather hard edges as they’ve been clearly cut out and assembled together. IN terms of the colour, it’s generally peachy and orange besides the banknote, the faces and the background the silhouette is set against. The head of the subject matter is larger in proportion to the body its pasted on. Materials which generally encompass positive space (text) is used to mage negative space in the silhouette. The space between the foreground and the background feels undetermined. Emphasis is placed on the face of the man. This is not only due to the scale of the face but also the composition of the piece. The disproportionate combination of the head and the body makes the scale appear a little confusing especially against the text. When focusing on the head, te figure is dominant against the font and when focusing on the body, it’s submissive. Asymmetrical balance is adopted with each area of the piece difference. The combination of pieces of different colours and scale creates the illusion of flat space where depth is undetermined. The title of the piece itself indicates that the source of inspiration is “the Art Critic”. The figure is identified to be George Grosz based on a stamp on the torso of the subject. The positioning of the banknote at the neck of the subject is indicative that money has an influence over the art critic. The subject’s eyes and mouth have been cut out and replaced by scribbles in red. This piece acts as a response from Raoul Hausmann towards the art world over the corrupt and capitalistic influx of Art during the 1920s and whether the Art critics have the capabilities to decide what is art, and with isn’t. As well as embodying a general fear over the reliability of those in charge. This feeling was very apparent in the society given the date of the piece (1919-1920, post-war period). The Berlin Dada movement was more focused on political art and making political statements than other forms of the Dada movement especially because of Germany’s war torn and chaotic environment following their loss at World War 1 and the Treaty of Versailles (1919).

Elements of Hausmann’s Work •Face or head is larger in scale/size •Revolves around prosthetics •Machines etc become associated with humans •Text is mostly just letters but not full phrases •Plays with scale •Orange/warm colour scheme

Effects of His Work •Touches upon topics in a more satirical tone •Relies on a lot of symbolism so it causes you to dig deeper to assess the message of his work •Art became a platform to criticize politicians with the Dada Movement.

Very bold and THICK. This is an example of typography asso-‐ ciated with the Dada Movement. (source: dadaart.com)




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