Ink Developments Towards My Final Piece

X- RAY Images

Today, art historians routinely use x-rays to see beneath the finished surface of paintings. Caravaggio's 17th century masterpiece "Adoration Of The Sheperds" reveal rough sketches of 'under drawing' and discover changes that the artist made during the painting process. I attempted to recreate my own x-ray images, I layered two drawings on top of one another to give the impression that there were underlayers. To ensure the under layer came through, I used a lightbox. I like the depth this technique created, giving my photo a dimensional quality. It mergerd shape and line together, boosting the photos visula impact.

Research And Response

'Phantom Recorder' - when a limb is lost, the mind often develops a phantom senstaion. Thhe Pahntom Recorder sytem projects a cold and damp sensation onto the skin surface, triggering the brain to halluncinate a phantom. The recorder allows the nerves to recreate the sensation of the telescoped phantom hand, the fourth feet or the split arm.

These are a response to the Pahntom Recorder photo. I stumbled across the Phantom Recorder in a magazine and thought it had relevance to my project. I was interested in amputation and wether there was sensation in the arm socket when the arm had been lost. Visually, i liked how the photo projected an eerie quality. the limb being replaced with a glass bubble contributes to the distorted disfigurment the body already holds.

My Detailed Drawing Inspired By Erwin Wurm

Erwin Wurm

My own photo

This Photo was inspired by Erwin Wurms work. I was interested with the idea of manipulating the body to create something quite surreal. Erwin Wurms work presents a series of shots showing bizarre forms that we gradually realize are human bodies, twisted and tangled in thier completely non functional clothing.

Tracy Emin And Louise Bourgeious

Tracy Emin and Louise Bourgeious 'pregnant belly'

I visually responded to 'the pregnant belly' with water colour and ink. i was interested in how the body functions and how pregnancy conencides with the Lunar months. I was suprised to find out the the female body clock relies on the moonlight to regulate the menstrual system. I was intrested in exploring a functioning body in juxtapostion with my other artists who portaryed images of dysfunctional bodies.

Zhang Dali

I tried to recreate the hanging body effect. In these photos I have covered the face in a black jumper to insinuate the lack of ackknowledgement immigrant workers get. Hanging the bodys form rope reflects the lack of control we all have in our current society . According to Zhang Dali these people represent the immigrant workers in rural areas of china. To cast them in resin is a way to recognize thier existence and contribution to the chinese society.
I like how he hangs the immigrant workers upside down to indicate the uncertainty of thier lives and thier powerlessness in changing thier own fates.
Zhang Dali Chinese Offspring ( 2003)

My Visual response to Dalis work.

Associative Writing

My photos are a response to Hans Bellmer's distorted figures. I created a doll like clay sculpture with exaggerated limbs and growths forming externally, particualary through the arm sockets.
Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer and Ed Ruscher are artists that inspired the idea to work on top of photos. Text enhances a photo' intentions, manipulating the audiences reaction, ensuring that the artist achieves the desired effect.
I really enjoyed this task and felt it helped to develop my own understanding of my photos.

Project 4 : Hans Bellmer

Hans Bellmer ' La poupee' ( the doll) 1935

My detailed painting in response to Hans Bellmer.

Photo response and visual annotations.

Hans Bellmer inspired my photos. I emphasised body parts, bulking out joints. This gave the photos a distorted quality, creating a similar Hans Belmmer doll like feel to the photos.

Hans Bellmer constructs surreal doll like sculptures, with a perverse sexual twist, with explicit body parts on show. His dolls are a symbol of childhood, feminity, sexual fanatsy and political victimisation. His dolls, with thier distorted bodys have an eery quality. The deformed limbs and extra body parts give off a sense of surrealism.

Rachel Whiteread Response

Rachel Whiteread 'Building Blocks'

My response using air drying clay. I Have inprinted everyday objects onto the surface of the clay.

Rachel Whiteread states "one doesn't see the object, only the air that surrounds it". I like the idea of focusing on the space that surrounds and object in comparison with artists who solely focus on how objects invade space. Whitereads work is inspirational because she is able to manipulate space without entirely filling the space.

Reasearch into different peoples perceptions to space.

I asked people to psyically show space through thier hands. I then asked them to draw their interpretation of space. I did this activity to gain an insight into different perceptions and to see how thiers compared to mine.

I believe that the use of space within an art gallery has an impact on the viewer and everyone experiences a different response due to thier individual relationship with that space.

Ernesto Neto

My response to Enesto Netos 'Circleproteitemple'. I am ineterested spatial dynamics. How spatial alterations transform the relationship between people. i ws particualry ineterested in Ernesto Netos work. I like his intention of bringing people together, stimulating interaction. He encourages people to interact with his work, making them active participants in the art work.

'Circleproteitemple' 2010 by Ernesto Neto

Lynda Benglis

Here I have my detailed drawing and painting and a polyfiller experimentation. The texture and compostion of these pieces was inspired by Lynday Benglis. When I went to the Tate Modern, I went to the 'Energy And Process' Exibition. The display looks at artists interest in transformation and natural forces. I was drawn to Lynday Benglis 'Quaurtered Metor' placed in the corner of the gallery space . This piece has been transformed from foamy globs into solid masses of metal. I love the way the lead folds over itself, forming clumps of smoothness. In my opinion it has the resembelance to cooled lava , it also projects a sense of movemnt, with the impression that the lava is flowing downwards.

Victor Pasmore

Victor pasmore 'Stromboli' Original image.

I visted Tate Moderns collection and came across Victore Pasmore. I was drawn to his piece named 'Stromboli', which in my opinion had resembelance to flowing water. he achieves fluidity and movement in this piece with his skillful printing technique. In response to this i have tried to recreate the same movement. I have experimented with oil and water and have photographed it and i have also worked with balsamic vinegar and oil on card. i found that the oil seperated from both liquid forms and created this beautiful flowing effect. i loved the way that every time you jogeed the liquid form, new shape would appear and alter.