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)
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[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