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Deadline Day

I have finally finished the whole of my FMP! Completing the exhibition was really fun and I am so please with the way my work looks. Particularly the headline background I think this looks incredibly effective. Overall, I really nice way to end the project.

Shout out to the tutors for their guidance. 

07/06/18

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The Conceptual Meaning

Therefore, for my final resolved piece I intend to create three pieces of artwork. Each with a mask paper mached on sinking into the background. The face most emerged from the cardboard with the headline on that caught my eye and was the initial idea for this project. “CHILD BURIAL”. 

Once the paper mache is dry, I intend to paint onto the pieces themselves, as influences from Richter and the Miaz Brothers. As the mask reveals itself from the background, the painting will become less abstract and more facial tones and features will be prominent, the headline will lay against the eyes of the mask. Representing the headline being all that we see, the second piece will have mere letters as the mask sinks back and again the third piece having no letter and the face only just emerging. 

The idea behind this being that we only read the headline and then sink back into the rest of the news and everything becoming a blur again. 

03/06/18

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FINAL IDEAS- FINALLY- MY RESOLVED PIECE!

I decided to initially look back over the research I have already done and through my sketchbook and think from there. My thoughts all lead me to look at both local and national newspapers, seeing if anything was jumping out at me. Sure enough, one particular headline caught my eye, “ CHILD BURIALS”- Which immediately made me think that the children had been murdered or abused and the murderer was caught and justice for families, my trail of thought continued down this path.

However, in actual fact the headline was reporting the victory on the reduction of cost for parents burying their children and inome cases, parents were going into thousands of debt and getting loans with huge amounts of interest on just to be able to bury their child. 

This really made me think. I simply jumped to a completely wrong conclusion about an out of context headline. I originally had no intention of reading further into the story either. And asking around family and friends I found most people read headlines and don’t look into articles further. Ironic really, the purpose of headlines to draw the audience in yet all they encourage is reading out of context short sentences. 

02/06/18

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EXHIBITION IDEAS- (slightly late)

I have looked into a few possible ideas on how to best present my work for the exhibition. However, this, in turn, became quite tricky as I needed to pitch for me exhibition space before I knew what my final resolved piece was going top be, or if there was going to be one!

Looking through my work I made rough ideas of how much work I want to present and how much more may be added. I soon realised that brainstorming my final piece alongside pitching for my exhibition space was going to go hand in hand.

After figuring out that the most amount of work I would add to the work I already have were three pieces, I looked into ideas more thoroughly, as shown in the sketchbook page above.

In conclusion, I decided to keep my exhibition space very open, leaving two boards to present my work and working with it to present my work and I feel this is the best option for my work at the current stage in my FMP that I am at. 

28/05/18

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Katrien De Blauwer

This is my favourite piece of her work. I love that this piece could have taken a couple of minutes to do and complete yet its so powerful but also simple. Something I hope to try and create myself.

27/05/18

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KATRIEN DE BLAUWER

The three pieces above are from Blauwer’s, “Dark Scenes” exhibition. Although the subject matter doesn’t necessarily relate to my project directly, I am inspired by the style of her work. Simple yet busy. I like the style in which the photo’s have been taken. Specifically not just a direct image of a man or women but instead from a different perception all together.  Then layered with the calming tone of brown to add a slight contrast, yet one that compliments the photo’s themselves.

I would like to try and incorporate a similar theme in my own work. Maybe using a different layering pattern or background colour, as well as adding newspaper pictures, clippings and headlines to relate to my topic itself. I definitely need to brainstorm this idea further, but it’s something I intend to work on.

“I like to think of my collages as small personal histories. A union of autobiography and impersonality where I become a neutral intermediary. Without being the author, I integrate them into my own interior word, a world I’m revealing in the third person”.

27/05/18

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My Work

This is my own abstract yet in a way realistic to life take on the Miaz brothers and Richter’s work. I like the way the background blends into the foreground ye tI think this still needs development and work.

I feel like a 2D approach for the final part of my project won’t push me for my final resolved piece. I want to work on some ideas to try and develop this further.

The initial concept behind this was to represent the way we are blinded by the headlines yet dont read into anything else further and take the headline as the truth, even though, sometimes it’s taken out of context. 

26/05/18

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Gerhard Richter has largely influenced the last section of my FMP.His work is similar to the Miaz brothers yet different with his own unique style shining through. His work has such a range from abstract to realisti varying his subject and they style he uses, which, in my opinion has made all his work successful. 

I love his portraiture particularly, and the way Richter captures the mood and atmosphere in all his paintings. The realistic tones and shapes portrayed through the faded background into the foreground is very clever and successful.

The images below show his range of work and the way he has incorporated his own style in each, even painting over photo’s, and yet how all of them are so pleasing on the eye and I love to see the change in his work and how he is always, in a way, true to himself, in what Richter wants to paint and create.

24/05/18

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Gerhard Richter

24/05/18

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COLLAGE PIECES-

The photo’s above show collages I have completed. 

The first collage shows extracts of headlines in my area from the local newspaper. Keeping with a limited colour palette similar to Negretti I also tried some of the techniques I had been trying in my sketchbook- which worked really well, adding impasto. However, adding the brown to me, was too much, although on the other hand, it might have not looked completed without. I’m not entirely sure how i feel about this piece and so I developed it a little further with the photo below.

The second photo is more of a resolved piece. Newspaper cuttings are only just emerging through the chaos of colour and movement I tried to portray. I layered my work in a similar style to Carol Nelson’s work and I love the effect. I imagine seeing this in a small gallery you’d expect to find above a coffee shop or in a sweet little alley. Somewhere simple, ready for the chaos of the piece.

20/05/18

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Ester Maria Negretti

This is again similar work to Carol Nelsons, yet a very different approach. Although the colour scheme makes the piece aesthetically pleasing and is fairly limited, a realistic interpretation of buildings in the background of the image is something you don’t initially focus on in comparison to the letters and numbers in Nelsons work. Plus, the image really shines through the collage and guides you around the artwork. Both artists’ work is individual and unique to them yet I definitely love the different takes on collage each piece has and is something I would like my own work to resemble. Individuality.

18/05/18

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CAROL NELSON

A you tube video inspired me to look into mixed media collage and the first artist which really caught my eye was Carol Nelson. Her work incorporates such h a mix and yet it all works. The colour scheme is definitely the success of the piece- something I definitely need to think about when I decide to create similar work.

18/05/15

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EXPERIMENTING

Above is a photo of a couple of pages from my sketchbook. I wanted to experiment using an originally faded background and then working over with a second layer as a foreground, adding contrasting lines and shapes. As well as using the techniques that I had experimented with on the previous page. I soon learnt that simple straight lines weren’t very successful and that adding curves improved the piece. Definitely needs more work though!

15/05/18

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MIAZ BROTHERS

Unfortunately I only found this work after my blurry photoshoot but I think the style of art is still relevant to my work. The blurry yet strikingly realistic approach is absolutely gorgeous. Almost tricking your eyes and something I will include in my future work.

15/05/18

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DAZZLE CAMOUFLAGE

I came across dazzle camouflage when I researched into  WW1/2. I thought an interesting take on collage for my headlines would be to create a similar triangular theme of interjecting colour and newsprint.

I am so much happier than I thought I would be with this piece. A happy experiment I guess. Something I could possibly develop and make on a bigger scale if I had time before the end of this project.

I could see this being a background for an advertisement with details being in the bottom left hand corner.

15/05/18

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Techniques

Before developing my photo’s and just jumping in with painting I decided to try out different techniques on how I could present my work. My favourite it the swirls of random grey toned colour mixed among a plain one toned background I think it looks quite effective.

12/05/18

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Again, another mini experiment, this time with not music and a shorter clip to see the difference and how effective one is compared to the other. I personally prefer the first clip as I think the border contrasts the blurred beginning nicely and is overall more asthetically pleasing than this edit. 

Now I have tried something a little different I intend to work again painting and experimenting as well as finishing my research on headlines.

11/05/18