It was meant to represent to me that over the mountain it beautiful and sunny and here its dark and grey. Just the saying “ the grass is greener on the other side”.
Just like Tillers work where he expressed himself about nature and visions of people, mine was the same that people see on the other side that things are better.
I think the communication is very important when looking at art and how the work make the audience feel and think, a piece of work that is powerful like that is much more successful, therefore personally myself I think that Tillers work does this, it makes you look at the world around us and how it effects us. That is purely why he influenced my work as an artist. However to me his work is also beautiful, with the colours he use, tones and textures also, to create a direct and meaningful piece of art.
Assessment Task 2: Conceptualising your own work Kayleigh Esteller
ND2
Malcolm Mosley
Word count: 543
My theme for my work has been based on grids. As in visual studies we have been looking at them and how we can produce working around this simple form.
At the beginning of my work I filled a small green book that had grid paper, I came up with as many patterns, pictures and designs that I could think of working each time around a grid.
I found this very interesting to work with as I believe that all piece’s of work has made some kind of grid, composition or placement to them. That every detail has been placed there on purpose to create a precise piece of art.
I then began to look at pictures with in a grid, almost like it was a collage cut up into bits or placed there on purpose. Then with a picture placed on top that may or may not connect to the picture.
I very much liked the idea of nature and the ugliness of it which make it beautiful, the colours and details with make up the picture on the grid is also important. I also liked the blend of type with it all, the place of powerful words or letters.
The artist I looked at was Imants Tillers, an Australian visual artists, that has been
It was meant to represent to me that over the mountain it beautiful and sunny and here its dark and grey. Just the saying “ the grass is greener on the other side”.
Just like Tillers work where he expressed himself about nature and visions of people, mine was the same that people see on the other side that things are better.
I think the communication is very important when looking at art and how the work make the audience feel and think, a piece of work that is powerful like that is much more successful, therefore personally myself I think that Tillers work does this, it makes you look at the world around us and how it effects us. That is purely why he influenced my work as an artist. However to me his work is also beautiful, with the colours he use, tones and textures also, to create a direct and meaningful piece of art. identified as a quintessential post modern artist. His work to me is full of depth and meaning, you have to look behind the main image and read what he has wrote. Tillers work is very detailed and in large scale, which he mostly painted. As an artist myself I don’t normally use paint but for this piece of work I was really excited to. His work is based on nature and the visions we see in the world of nature “One world many visions”. His work really inspired me to create a piece of work which I have never done before. I worked on large scale also. I started of drawing a grid out, from the on I filled each square with a different media. The bottom half I only used black materials and the top half yellows and oranges. I then set about printing letters on in paint in, at the top of my work, followed by a ink drawn drawing of tree’s plus a mountain over the top.
Kayleigh Esteller
Assessment Task 1: Visual Analysis
Tutor: Malcolm Moseley
Pair 1: Hans Bellmer, Cindy Sherman
The work by Hans Bellmer, is a photograph of a doll formation made upon the uses of legs and torso’s. the picture is in black and white and set in a eerie woods around about Autumn time as there are leaves on the ground and there are bare branches on show. In the slight background there is a dark unclear figure of possible a man whom seems to be peeping around the tree.
The doll to me symbolises sexuality and forced mutilation. The figure its self has no face, arms or genitals just legs and torso. But has shoes on all feet. Bellmer to me is expressing the lust for woman and how their bodies are very powerful, this is maybe because of the time of the photograph was produced (1933-1936) which would have been pre war context, of where the woman in Nazi period is just there to reproduce.
This photo was made to shock the people especially the Nazi’s, one of the happened to be his father. It is a picture that creeps you out when you look at it. It make my skin tingle. I feel like something unpleasant will or has happened to the manikin, it is pale and miss shaped. The figure lurking in the background is either getting closer or walking away, which makes me feel uneasy.
In Cindy Sherman’s photo which happens to be in colour this time, she has also used a doll. This time the doll has all features you would normally expect which makes it look life like. The doll is sitting with one arm back and one ford, with both legs patterned but both feet touching. Almost as if the doll is giving birth. But it happens to look very relaxed. The black top or maybe dress has been ripped down to reveal and torn open chest with another dolls head upside down inside. The black top is covering the dolls genitals. But legs covered in what looks like jeans. The face and body is covered in what looks like bloody it is also dripping down the torso. The head of the doll looks as if its been altered or it don’t belong to that dolls body. The eyes have an alarming glare as if she is staring you right in the eyes.
I think she is trying to portray the role of a woman in very day society. The struggle she has in everyday life. The doll its self has no body shape as such it shows no curves nor breast, its like its hiding what it really is. To me I feel violence from the photo, the depth of how the doll is meant to feel. It portrayed by the background as beautiful and graceful, however on the foreground you see it in all its light and glory. And its horrible and heartbreaking.
In contrast between the two photographs they have both used doll/ manikins but in difference ways. Bellmers manikin was curvy and had a belly and thighs, where Shermans has nothing as such but on the other hand had a face which showed expression. They both portray sexuality in one way or another, La Poupe to me shows modernism I think the artists is coming to terms with the period of time he is in. The artists are both creating shocking by slightly highlighting things we don’t see or don’t want to see. They bring this our attention by recreating an upsetting or eerie image. That plays with our mind. I think they are also playing with the idea of a lost identify, using the dolls with no expression or no face at all. Which the artist Cindy Sherman say she loses in her work.
Both pieces of work are fundamentally expressing views in politics from the artist point of view in their own period of time.She explained to the New York Times in 1990, "I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear. Both pieces of work are fundamentally expressing views in politics from the artist point of view in their own period of time.
