Fine Art

These are some more of the fine art experiments that I did in fine art week. On these photos you can see the process of using the projector to put random objects on and draw sound the shapes. I felt this really let you loose all your inhibitions and just let loose. Not care too much about what the outcome is going to be and not care about making it perfect. I quite liked some of the results from these experiments such as the poster paints bleeding into eachother on the final ones with the repeated peg shape. 

Arman

ARMAN

One artist that we were shown that I really like was Arman. French born american artist best known for his "accumulations" and destruction/recomposition of objects. 

Robot Portrait of Iris Clert

1960

This one in particular I found really interesting. At first glance you'd just think well it's a heap of rubbish, but when you begin to look closer you see the importance of each object and how the piece has been put together in a certain way.  The colours have been chosen to look aesthetially pleasing.. it is clear there is a colour scheme. And that there are things that have been made to stand out more than others, such as the shoe and leopard print. What I think is really interesting about this is the title " Robot Portrait of Iris Clert" and in many ways this "portrait" provides us with more information about who Iris Clert is as a person than a typical portrait would. 

Home sweet home
1960

I really like Armans use of repetition in his accumulations. I think it's particularly important in this piece. Straight away seeing gas masks makes me think of the first world war and children having to evacuate etc etc. I think there is something unsettling at the same time as something nice with this accumalation. The fact that all masks are together is quite nice, the idea of people being huddled together keeping each other safe. The title "Home sweet home" suggests a happiness. But at the same time the accumulation could refer to the death, why are all these masks together? because the people who owned them have died? or just that they are reunited? and I think gas masks in general have a scary un-comforting thing about them. 

Fine Art

Fine Art

Fine Art

In day two of fine art we focused on really exploring the different medias and "not inventing things" So by using paint in an explorotary way, with no plans and desired outcomes just basically going a bit crazy. This painting experiment below was done with masking tape. I randomly positioned the tape on the brown paper, went crazy with the bright coloured poster paints and then took the masking tape off to get this effect (left photo)

Unexpectedly I really loved what the pieces of masking tape looked like after. These long strips of multicoloured random paint splodges just looked so effective. So I then decided to keep these. 

                                                                                 

  

I think this is a great example of how going in without expectations can results in something you genuinely like. 

Fine Art - Metaphors - Lyrics

Carrying on with the metaphors we then looked at songs and what metaphors are within them. I picked the song "Fell on black days" by Soundgarden. The reason I picked this song is because I felt it had really strong metaphors within it and is a song that actually has a lot of meaning. 

Whatsoever I've feared has come to life
Whatsoever I've fought off became my life
Just when everyday seemed to greet me with a smile
Sunspots have faded and now I'm doing time
Cause I fell on black days

Whomsoever I've cured I've sickened now
Whomsoever I've cradled I've put you down
I'm a search light soul
They say but I can't see it in the night
I'm only faking when I get it right
Cause I fell on black days
How would I know that this could be my fate

So what you wanted to see good has made you blind
And what you wanted to be yours has made it mine
So don't you lock up something that you wanted to see fly
Hands are for shaking
Not tying, no not tying

I sure don't mind a change
But I fell on black days
How would I know that this could be my fate

Firstly the song title itself is a metaphor which could be quite ambigious. At first it made me just thing of going through struggles, bad time or dark times. But then as I started to delve more into the song and researched a little I found out about how it's also an analogy for heroin addiction "Black" days. Black tar heroin... with this in mind the song unfolded differently to the first interpretation I had of it. "Whatsoever I've feared has come to life, Whatsoever i've fought off became my life" Keeping the addiction idea in mind these lyrics make me think it's about fearing addiction but addiction becoming your life. You can't just be an addict and have a normal life, it becomes your life. The use of personification is interesting in the next line "Just when everyday seemed to greet me with a smile" As if to say he was happy, things were going great before they took a turn for the worst.

The idea of incarceration is an on going theme throughout the song as well. "Now i'm doing time" . The idea that your trapped, your guilty and your stuck there now. The idea that there is nothing you can do about the situation. 

"Whomsoever I've cured I've sickened now. Whomsoever I've cradled I've put you down" This makes me think of the effect an addiction or depression has on family. These people that you've looked after, brought up your now hurting. Your not capable of being a spouse or a parent or even a friend. 

Week 3 FINE ART

WEEK 3 - FINE ART

Day 1 of Fine Art we were looking at metaphors within artwork. We had a look at several random pieces to see what metaphors ourselves could bring out of them. Looking at both the vehicle and the tenor of each piece. What the piece looks like on the surface and what deeper ideas are being portrayed within.

One that I found interesting to look at was René Magritte "The Lovers".

It's clear there is a definite theme of intimacy and love. I think the dark shadows and the stormy looking background really makes you think there is something darker about the painting. It makes me think of sadness and pain. I think that could be interpreted that true love comes with pain and hurt. The bags over the head blinding "The lovers" could be a reference to the proverb "Love is blind" but I think it's also more than that, and hints to the suffocation that comes with love as well. Especially with the background being able to see the room that they are confined in.

I think it's really interesting to see how ambiguous some art can be. Researching a bit more into this painting people had many different interpretations of what they thought the painting meant. 

From reading an analysis of the painting I found out that the covered heads could be related to Magrittes mothers suicide, as she was found in a river with her nightdress wrapped around her head.