the action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, especially in a political context.“he was opposed to closer political or economic union with Europe” Similar: unification uniting joining merging merger fusion fusing
HISTORICAL the uniting of the English and Scottish crowns in 1603, of the English and Scottish parliaments in 1707, or of the parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. singular proper noun: Union
a state of harmony or agreement. “they live in perfect union” Similar:unity accord unison unanimity harmony concord agreement concurrence undividedness
a marriage. “their union had not been blessed with children” Similar: marriage wedding partnership pairing alliance match
2. a society or association formed by people with a common interest or purpose. “members of the Students’ Union” Similar: association alliance league guild coalition consortiumcombine syndicate confederation federation confederacy partnership fraternity brotherhood sorority society club group organization trade union
BRITISH an association of independent Churches, especially Congregational or Baptist, for purposes of cooperation. 3. a political unit consisting of a number of states or provinces with the same central government.
the United States, especially from its founding by the original thirteen states in 1787–90 to the secession of the Confederate states in 1860–1.
“California is the fastest growing state in the Union when it comes to urban encroachment” The northern states of the United States which opposed the seceding Confederate states in the American Civil War. singular proper noun: Federal Union; singular proper noun: the Federal Union
South Africa, especially before it became a republic in 1961.
BINARY OPPOSITION
Binary opposition – a pair of related terms or concepts that are opposite in meaning.
Binary opposition originated in Saussurean structuralist theory in Linquistics (scientific study of language) According to Ferdinand de Saussure, binary opposition is the system by which, in language and thought, two theoretical opposites are strictly defined and set off against one another. Using binary opposites can often be very helpful in generating ideas for a photographic project as it provides a framework – a set of boundaries to work within.
below is a mood board with my thoughts and interoperations on Union
Deciding what to do
I want to follow an art movement for my project as an art movement is like a union of artists, writers, sculptures and photographers coming together to create a style/movement.
However I am finding it hard to choose one as there are a few I like, so I narrowed it down to my top three:
Surrealism
Romanticism
Tonalism
Out of all of them I feel like choosing romanticism as we did it in year 12 with landscapes and I really enjoyed it because I really like landscapes and like to photograph them. Tonalism was a close second because I really like the overall aesthetic of it, however preferred romanticism a bit more. Surrealism looks fun but I feel like I won’t end up doing as well on it because it looks really complicated to do and I don’t think I have the right level of creativity for it at this moment in time.
David Hockney is an English painter, print-maker and photographer. He is considered one of the most influential artists in the 20th and 21st century as he was a huge part of the Pop Art movement in the 1960’s. Hockney was best know for his paintings of swimming pools and portraits of family and friends where most of which was made when he lived in California. His style ranges from painting, drawing and printmaking to video, photography and stage design. In 2004 Hockney returned to England, where he began living in Yorkshire. Quickly becoming fascinated by the Northern Countryside and seasonal change he created a series of landscape paintings which consisted of using different mediums such as charcoal, oil paint, water colour and digital sketches.
A Bigger Splash 1967
Hockney was greatly inspired by Vincent Van Gough – who was an Impressionist Painter, where he used similar techniques and styles. They were both greatly influenced by Nature, describing it to be like finding endless joy and inspiration.
Impressionism
Developed in France during 19th century, an ‘on the spot’ style was created. Subjects included everyday life and landscapes. It wasn’t a depiction of real life, instead it was an ‘impression’ of what the person, light, atmosphere, object or landscape looked like to them.
‘Endless subjects are found in nature,’
~David Hockney
In photogrpahy you arent really looking comapred to painting
Painting allowed Hockney to express strokes of colour which were highlights and shapes that go unnoticed. This idea when you paint one stroke your looking and noticing the other stokes of colours, meaning that you are always seeing more which creates this ‘exiting feel’ stated by Hockney.
Photography – Joiners
During the early 80’s Hockney began experimenting a new technique called photo joiners, which created a new way of visualising photographs. With his interest in optics, which was a scientific study of light, – transmission and deflection, he expressed this further in this technique, experimenting with familiar subjects family, friends, landscapes and interiors. The images create different yet engaging compositions which never fail to draw you in. This method is like a mosaic pattern, piecing together the photograph to form a cohesive, whole image. This reveals various perspectives of the photograph. The fragmented pieces alters you perspective of the subject, ‘Hockney’s joiners disrupt conventional viewpoints, inviting a different exploration into the intricacies of perception and representation.’ This idea that each photograph represented something different, firstly from its unique name to the expressive, broken up layout, which perhaps represents the narrative of photograph. Having explored different types of layouts, it closley reminded me of piecing a puzzle together, where you have the missing pieces which could be the most important or the least important.
Hockney’s Visual style greatly interests me as it opens up your interpretation of his work meaning that it can be percived differently for different people. For some layouts I noticed some pieces were missing, or arranged in a particular which was how Hockney wanted you to see the image, which perhaps reflected the story in the image. This unusual yet very attractive style is what I want to experiment with further – This idea of missing parts that are fragmented/ slightly edited and adjusted that don’t fit perfectly together, opens up your interpretation of what the message or narrative is truly telling you:
Raymond Foye Looking At BrooklynDavid Hockney
Canal And Road, Kyoto David Hockney
At the early stages of Hockney’s joiners during 1980, he was dissatisfied by the current photographs presented to him, expressing them to be limited and confined to a single perspective. From this, Hockney was inspired to experiment with new ways of capturing the importance of ‘time’ and space’ in a way that closely reflected human vision and experience.
Hockney’s joiners transitioned through various styles from moments of people within environments to landscapes. However the landscapes reveal much more as they express a type of reality that is unknown or perhaps aren’t used to.
Inspirations for the Joiners:
Hockney’s Initial inspirations came from the way we perceive the world around us – not a frozen, single moment but as a complex, amalgamation of views, perspectives and moments. Hockney thought a typical photograph only expressed a limited, static view of a subject, which is what lead to Hockney’s joiners style as this represented multiple perceptions of the way we see things. This expresses the theme of union differently to what we would normally perceive it to be. A new way in which the photograph is distorted and fragmented, broken up into pieces that are never the same as before which show how they unite back together as neither is the same.
David and Anne on the Subway, N.Y. Nov 28
Gregory Reading In Kyoto
An evening at Christopher’s, Santa Monica
This process involved Hockney taking numerous photographs from different angles and perspectives, each focusing on various details of the scene. Then piecing them together like a jigsaw puzzle but without intending to blend them back into a traditional/ original photograph. This creates an interesting, in-depth feature as the photo is broken up creating a fragmented, distorted look, but is pieced back together – expressing imperfection. Hockney embraces this imperfection, through the overlapping and disjointed edges of images which shifts your perspective and scale. This method highlights, giving contrast between time and viewpoint all within the same space, which changes your perspective, making you see the subject in a new way.
Composition. Colour. Perspective.
Composition, colour and perspective are three very important elements of Hockney’s photographic joiners. Each one expressed a different type of movement, whether that is visually or how we perceive a feature. These features are what guides the viewers eye through the image expressing narrative and movement. I like how it isn’t obvious what the subject is, instead your eyes are gradually lead to it through the fragmented, imperfect pieces.
The pieces create a non- linear sequence meaning that the placement of each image isn’t ordered in straight lines, instead it is disjointed and broken lines- which reflects they way our eyes move across the scene, rather than from a single glance.
Colour harmonises the overall composition or draws attention to specific areas- which is used to create mood, depth, and emphasis.
Perspective is the most dramatic change expressed throughout the photo, as your eyes are constantly changing with the direction, the images are distorted. Photographs are taken from multiple viewpoints, then re-constructed expressing multifaced and angled images which is different traditional and Hockney’s original single-viewpoint images. Therefore this offers a more holistic and immersive experience of space and time.
Non- linear Narratives
‘I was always aware that cameras do push you away, I was trying to pull you in.’
~ David Hockney
Hockney’s style became quickly influenced by Cubism. This idea that multiple perspectives are brought together, overall producing this a-symmetrical imperfect photograph. Whilst this also produces a narrative through a non-linear sequence. The movement that is produced through expressed the scene.
The photogrpah is shot in a subway car, so it is underground meaning the only light source is coming from light in the tube and lights on phones. This creates a warm effect as the light is reflecting off the warmer tones of what people are wearing, signage/graffiti, seats and walls. This then leaves the dark tones to form shadows and contrast, as it blends into the background which leads us down the train – into the distance – the middle of the photo.
The contrasting features creates texture, as the uneven forms of patterns lines and shapes are expressed.
Contextual
David and Anne on the subway depicts the inside of one of New York’s iconic subway cars. Hockney mimics the spherical perspective of the human eye, layering the photographs over one another, which creates an in-depth view of the passengers and details of the train Hockney is traveling in. His reference photographs used for his early painting work, frustrated him, as they didn’t present life in the way a drawing or painting did. So Hockney moved from the ‘static,’ ‘lifeless’ and ‘frozen moments,’ brought from single viewpoints, to piecing them together which produce multiple perspectives. This is effective because the disjointed, un-smooth, overlapping pieces mimic’s the train rattling through the tunnels, and the abrupt swaying of those within it. I find this feature really effective – as it enhances the visual aspects of the photograph, creating unique movement and bringing a unique form of depth,- this is expressed through the same way for the actual image. As the photo of the image isn’t obvious straight away as we are initially distracted by the fragmented, disjointed yet reconnected parts that are pieced back together.
The vibrant yet warm tones of colour are enhanced and brought to life through the overlapping as new compositions, shapes, patterns, lines and texture is revealed, creating unique leading lines. This itself creates a much more interesting image, as new features are being revealed all the time showing off different effects. Upon this, shadows are emphasised from the subjects as well as the surroundings – the invisible details within the train such as the edges, backgrounds, textures of patterns and signs/ symbols. So through this effect of joiners the disjointed images moves the shadow around, breaking it up, and forming new shadows in places. This connects us in different ways which draws us in creating depth as the leading lines created from this leads you in closer.
Show how each person is different, expressed through their behavior, characteristics and features. This could be how they dress, their style, presentation compared to their social interactions with one another.
Explore the features or moments that make people unique. How they express themselves through their emotions shown through bold make up and expressions being captured by a camera. This will reveal this unfiltered, imperfect look that people express showing you their true reality. Then how people are brought together again socially.
Create Montages of of people, posing in different ways then merging them together which will create this montage of emotions that reflect their reality.
People and their Place:
Capture two photos then edit them together- placing on top of each other. This shows the unique relationship someone has with their environment as two sides of their life is revealed. This shows union as they unite and connect together through different sides of their life for example; a hobby, memory, particular place, or a relationship with another person.
Streets alone to nights out:
Looking at the environment within the streets and people social interactions their behaviours – perhaps expressed through their emotions and feelings to the streets for example graffiti / street art. Looking at street wear, styles of people, how they dress to then their behaviours and characteristics. Documenting the process / leading up to the streets at night, like getting ready, makeup, to the night out – social interactions and how people are united.
The word ‘union’ signifies the act of joining together, forming a cohesive whole from different elements. It can refer to relationships, communities, politics and more. A union represents strength in togetherness, emphasising the idea that combined efforts can lead to greater impact.
Union in photography can be captured in many ways. For example, you could capture physical things intertwined or connected, reflections, symmetry. Oppositely, you can record the contrast and tension with in unity and division.
David Hockney was born on the 9th of July 1937 in Bradford, England. He is an English painter, draughtsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer who became well known for his involvement in the Pop-art artist movement. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His early worked focusses on landscapes, portraiture and still life but as technology evolved so did his techniques where he was able to implement new methods and technologies to his artwork which moved him to also take in interest in photography and not just the artist side.
The artist’s style ranges from collaged photography and opera posters to Cubist-inspired abstractions and paintings of the English countryside. Hockney has many art pieces of swimming pools where he makes them abstract and more unique to his own artistic style. he is renowned for his own takes on perspective and use of colour which make his work noticeable and very obviously belonging to him. David Hockney uses the artist movement of Cubism in his artwork and photography. Cubism is a movement that was originated by artists such as Pablo Picasso. It presents photos in unique and abstract ways by breaking objects down into geometric shapes. Cubism is able to show multiple perspectives where it is able to give many viewpoints to the photo giving the viewer an opportunity to interpret the images in the way they think is correct for them. The movement steers away from realistic views and creates images you wouldn’t be able to capture without further disfigurement and so it mostly focusses on shape and structure. Though Hockney may not fully link all of his work to cubism he definitely manages to create artwork with the fragmented and abstract affects. he is able to deconstruct his photographs to make them more complex and interesting to the viewer. He created these fragmented images by taking many individual photographs and turning it into one piece.
Hockney has been inspired by many artists. Pablo Picasso has one of the biggest influences in Hockney’s life and oeuvre. This profound admiration is eloquently expressed in two significant works from this series: The Student and Artist And Model. These prints, produced during a time when Hockney resided in Paris following Picasso’s death, offer a visual dialogue that explores the depth of Hockney’s sense of indebtedness to one of the 20th century’s most revolutionary artists. Hockney found himself in a city with a rich artistic heritage that had been the subject of countless artworks. Hockney chose to honour the individuals who contributed to its vibrant art scene. Man Ray, an American who had made Paris his home for much of his life, became a natural subject for Hockney’s work. Richard Wagner, Known for his complex operas and innovative compositions, has been a lifelong influence on Hockney, influencing his professional endeavours such as the stage designs for Wagner’s Tristan Und Isolde in 1987 and inspiring his personal ‘Wagner drive’ initiative.
Hockney is well known for his work that were labelled ‘Joiners’. This was his closest link with the cubism approach. The joiners series was created by Hockney using multiple snapshots from one picture and creating it into one image altogether. He took simple photos and turned them into disfigured art pieces which created the cubism affect and they became fragmented and unusual. Many people would describe his type of work like this as collages which is where pieces of the image can be seen to be set out in little pieces. this can be done in a usual art way where cut up paper is replaced onto another piece in the same layout but usually with some sort of overlapping affect. Hockney changed this norm and changed certain perspectives of his image where he might increase the size of a part of an and keep the rest at different sizes to create the collage affect but not in its usual way.
This image is an example of one of David Hockney’s joiners. In the image, it depicts a scene of an older woman asleep on a chair in where may be her own house. Hockney has taken this image in different sections as you can see some colour difference in certain fragments of the image. For example the fragment showing her arm looks more purple that the top of the woman’s clothing where her head is. Hockney has made the woman the focus of this image but hasn’t failed to represent the woman’s surroundings as has extended the image so that we can see out of the door behind her and get abetter understanding of her environment. Hockney’s joiners are usually seen as visual representation of time as a sequence of fragmented moments. the idea of fragmented time is prominent in this image as it could be representing the time the woman has left and how fragmented that time may be. as well as this is could be representing the woman’s age and possible fragments of her memory she has left as she could possibly slowly be losing it. the fragments of time could also represent being forgotten and how when the lady passes only fragments of her will be remembered as time passes on. The colour in this image isn’t focussed on the woman and only surrounds her. Hockney has made sure to add in the pop colours such as the blanket on the woman or the painting leaning against the wall. however the dark clothes of the woman and lack of colour that is actually on her could also represent how time is catching up to her and how it begins to fade away and all the colour is only just left behind.
“The action of joining together or the fact of being joined together, especially in a political context”
or
“A society or association formed by people with a common interest or purpose”
Mind map:
Mood board:
When I think about the word ‘union’, the initial idea that comes into my head would be the human connection, yet I feel this idea would be too stereotypical and original. Instead, I will be exploring ‘union’ through surrealism. Here are some examples:
Within my ideas for my photoshoots, Union makes me think about how things work together in order to function. For example, nature, body parts, and human relationships and connections. My idea is to present union through the combination of intangible and physical objects or body parts. I chose to do this as I feel it is interesting and unique from other types of union photography.
Cubism is an artistic movement lead by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. Cubism focuses on geometric shapes being used to depict humans and other forms. Overtime the geometric aspects became so intense that they sometimes overtook the represented forms, creating a more pure level of visual abstraction. Though the movements prime era was in the early 20th century, the ideas and techniques have continued to grow and are used to inspire works created today.
Pablo Picasso
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) was a Spanish painter and sculptor, and is well known for his involvement in the Cubism movement. Picasso is seen as one of the most influential artists in the 20th century, with his ability to produce works in a wide-range of styles made him well respected within his lifetime. After his death his value as an artist and inspiration to other artists has only grown. Picasso is without a doubt going to be referred to as one of the greatest artists of all time.
Picasso’s most famous painting is Guernica, a large 1937 oil painting. It is regarded as one of his best-known works. Art critics have described it as the most moving and powerful anti-war paintings in history.
Georges Braque
Georges Braque (1882-1963) was a major French painter. He is mainly known for working alongside Picasso to create the cubist movement. Braque was not only a painter but he also created collages. Braque’s cubism pieces were based off of landscapes, These paintings were scenes which were distilled into basic shapes and colours and they inspired the French art critic Louis Vauxcelles to coin the term cubism, by describing Braque’s work as “Bizarreries cubiques”.
Houses at l’Estaque is an oil-on-canvas painting by Braque executed in 1908. It is though to be a highly important Photo-cubist landscape, it may even be the first one.
The First Era Of Cubism
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque first met in 1905, but it wasn’t until 1907 that Picasso showed Braque what is considered the first Cubist painting, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. This portrait depicts five women and draws heavy influence from African tribal art, which Picasso had recently been exposed to at the Palais du Trocadéro, a Paris ethnographic museum.
This piece went against every rule of tradition Western painting and was a huge leap from his previous blue and pin periods, which were far more representational and emotional. Due to this Picasso was hesitant to display this work to the public and it went unseen until 1916.
Braque, who painted in the Fauvist movement, was both repelled and intrigued by the painting. Picasso worked with him privately on the implications of the piece, developing together the Cubist form. Braque is the only artist to ever collaborate with Picasso, and over a period of two years, they spent every evening together, with neither artist pronouncing a finished work until agreed on by the other.
Braque’s response to Picasso’s initial work was his 1908 painting Large Nude, noted for incorporating the techniques of Paul Cézanne as an influence. This painting kickstarted the first era of Cubism, known as Analytical Cubism, which was defined by depictions of a subject from multiple points of view at once, creating a fractured, multi-dimensional effect expressed through a limited palette of colors.
The term Cubism was first used by French critic Louis Vauxcelles in 1908 to describe Braque’s landscape paintings. Painter Henri Matisse had previously described them to Vauxcelles as looking comprised of cubes. The term wasn’t widely used until the press adopted it to describe the style in 1911.
In 1909, Picasso and Braque decided to move their focus from humans to objects to keep Cubism fresh, starting with Braque’s Violin and Palette.
Others Join the Cubist Movement
As the movement grew wider in popularity others joined in. Polish artist Louis Marcossis discovered Braque’s work during 1910, and his Cubist paintings are considered to have more of a human quality and lighter touch compared to other cubist painters work.
Spanish artist Juan Gris remained on the fringes of the movement until 1911. He distinguished himself by refusing to make the abstraction of the object more essential than the object itself. Cubism represents a significant proportion of his life’s work as he died during 1927.
The second era of Cubism
By 1912, Picasso and Braque had begun to incorporate words in their paintings, this evolved into collage which dominated the second era of cubism, this era was known as Synthetic Cubism. This phase also included flattening the subjects and brightening the colours.
Braque further experimented with collage, this led to his creation of the papier colle technique. This technique can be seen in Braques 1912 Fruit dish and Glass, a concoction of wallpaper placed within te gouache. The introduction of collage broadened the form’s colour palette further.
Sculptors also explored Cubist forms. For example the Russian artist Alexander Archipenko first publicly showed his pieces during 1910.
Orphic Cubism
Orphic cubism was an offshoot movement formed in 1913 by French painter Jacques Villon and his brother, sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon, this branch embraced even brighter hues and augmented abstraction.
Robert Delaunay is considered a primary representation of this wing, sharing similar architectural interests as Leger, which can be seen multiple times in his cubist depiction of the Eiffel Tower along with other notable Parisian structures.
Cubism: World war I and beyond
Cubism was effectively halted by world war I as a number of artists including Braque, Lhote, de la Fresnaye and Legar, got called up for duty. De la Fresnaye was discharged during 1917 due to tuberculosis however he never fully recovered, he attempted to continue making art but died during 1925.
By 1917, Picasso returned to his practice of injecting more realism into his paintings, though his refusal to be pinned down to one type of art meant that Cubism reappeared in some works over the years, such as The Three Musicians (1921) and The Weeping Woman (1937), a response to the Spanish civil war.
Cubist Influence
Although Cubism never regained its place as an organised force within the art world, it influenced future art movements such as Futurism and Abstract Expressionism. Cubism also influenced other forms such as literature, music, photography, film, and graphic design.
How will cubism influence my project?
I will be studying the photographer Mandy Barker, who creates collages by combining photos of litter which she has found from beaches across the world. This links to cubism as it is the idea of combining different things to create a new thing, a collage.
‘Joined together politically, for a common purpose, or by common feelings.’
Cubism
Cubism is an early 20th century art movement, particularly expressed in paintings and was the starting point for many abstract styles. Perspective was key, from starting with a single viewpoint to then experimenting with simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes and collage. Invented by Pablo Picasso and George Braque’s, they brought different views of a subject together which resulted in paintings to appear fragmented and abstract. This idea of breaking photos apart to creating different fragmented pieces, then re-joining them together was aimed to show different viewpoints which gives a sense of three-dimensional from. The different viewpoints shown through the fragmented yet abstract art creates a type of union. Each section is joined together in geometric forms, with little use of colour. This alters reality as your expressed with new emotions and feelings found within the new format of the image.
Inspirations & Mood-Board
Pablo Picasso: Focus on portraits, broken up image to create fragmented, new reality.
George Braques: Scenario or moments captured, distorted – we don’t know straight away what is being shown, makes you look closer showing you a different reality.
Jean Metzinger: Loose blocks of colour fitted together creating a loose effect. Similar effect to cubist style yet colours are arranged in an orderly way of a geometric pattern that aren’t loose strokes of colour.
‘Reducing everything to geometric outlines, to cubes’.
~Louis Vauxcelles commented on George Braque’s paintings.
Other Inspirations:
Cubists aim was to show you things for what they truly are , not what they look like. They did this by emphasising the flatness of the picture surface by breaking down pictures into geometric shapes resulting in this fragmented look. By placing things in multi dimensional forms alters your perspective, showing you things from different angles which ultimately reveals this inner-life of a subject as its different from what we are used to seeing. Exploring ‘form’ and ‘space’ further emphasises this concept of how things on a two-dimensional canvas were highlighted compared to the three-dimensional effect of the distorted image, which further creates a sense of reality as a perspective we are not used to is expressed.
‘Cubism is a revolutionary new approach to representing reality’
In response, by capturing people I know/ have a relation with in particular environments or scenarios/ moments, then capturing multiple diverse angles, which reveals different perspectives will reveal this new reality, shown through an abstract, direct approach. When capturing photographs; portraits, landscapes, people in environments or objects, instead of one singular snapshot, I would take lots from multiple angles (zooming in on areas to create depth) which will show you different perspectives of the subject. Further editing using Photoshop to collage/ fit the images together which will create this illusion of images as it isn’t a perfect or clear photograph, instead areas are fragmented and distorted in ways which alters you perspective on things and change your reality of what you are shown.
Initial Ideas:
Landscape – Merging two images together, experimenting with contrasting colour or black and white.
Final Photobook – Sections, broken up pages which lead up to the ‘final reality,’ This will create an interesting, engaging fragmented effect which will lead up to the main image, altering your perspective showing you new realities.
Fragmented, join effect – experiment with different layouts – overlapping, merging, perfectly aligned – David Hockney
David Hockney: Distorted images pieced back together
I like how the simple names perfectly describe the scene and environment.
David And Ann On The Subway, N.Y., Nov. 28
My Mother, Los Angeles, Dec
Christopher Isherwood Talking To Bob Holman
Expressionism
Expressionism is a modernist movement, or style of painting or poetry originating from Northern Europe in the beginning of the 20th century. The artist or writer seeks to express the inner world of emotion rather than external reality, creating a subjective perspective. Using loose strokes and expressive marks of colour fit together expressing a mix of emotions leading to evoking types of moods and ideas that the artist is feeling. The typical portraits and landscapes we see are transformed into an illusion of colour of dramatic expressions which imitate the artists inner feelings and emotions. This shows the artists own reality and how they percieve certain situations compared to how we look at them. Except their reality is expressed more clearly as their feelings are expressed through the expressive marks and layers of colour used. Compared to cubism different views are brought to the photograph as they are fragmented and distorted, then placed back together. This opens up our interpretation of the particular image as the artists reality is not obvious straight away, it is only evident when you look deeper and closer you see the full picture (reality).
We are straight away drawn to the colourful, exressive, loose marks of colour that are formed together creating a very picturesque, aesthetic image. This instantly lures you in, noticing texture which is a symbol of the artists feelings and mood which therefore evokes feelings and emotions within ourselves as viewers. For myself, the lines and curves of marks expressed by the individual strokes of colour, epxresses emotive feelings of being surprised and amused as new forms are constantly being revealed to us as we figure out the artists type of reality. Perhaps the the warmer tones of colour eg, yellow, orange, pink, red or pale colours signify happiness as they evoke positive emotions compared to the cooler tones of deep blue, navy, green and dark red. This also sets the type of scene the image is portraying whether it is a message or story and if it’s either positive or negative. Each feature is united, as they complement one another, expressing types of contrasting emotions expressed through the particular story of the image.
Photo shoot ideas:
Landscape, – seascape (different times), villages including people.
Portraits
People together in an environment – people I know mixing with strangers.
Unfiltered
Unusual perspectives of people where they are unaware of camera – eg, conversation, getting ready to go out
Artists:
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner: Expressionistic style, defines materialistic values with conventional attitudes of people. Shows unfiltered and filtered ways of how people are united.
