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ADAD Assessment #3

FINAL WORK

Artist Statement (250 words)

My intention of appropriating Seurat’s artwork is to convey and emphasis the repetition of techniques, curvy lines and shapes (figures and umbrellas) that he incorporated in his artwork, however, in my final work I took on a modern approach through the use of photoshop. My final artwork consists of the repetition of brushstrokes which I had used to create both types of trees. The repetition of dots is highlighted through the use of bright contrasting colours. The repetition of layers I took into my final artwork is depicted through the different frames in the video where a new layer of change is implemented. As opposed to Seurat creating layers on canvas, I approached it in a way to create the layers (28) on photoshop to emphasis the high usage of technology in today’s society. I also wanted to highlight the repetition of lines and shapes to create form and images. After saving a copy of each layer that later accumulated towards the final artwork, I then I used an app to create a stop motion/gif video to display the repetition of layers. My main inspiration is ‘A Sunday on La Grande Jatte’ by Georges Seurat. Seurat began with a layer of small horizontal brushstrokes of complementary colours, then later added a layer of small dots. The repetition of curvy lines created rhythm in his artwork making it very interesting to look at and balanced. The repetition of techniques both digitally and physically play a big part in my final artwork.

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ADAD Assessment #3

Experiment 3 

GIF

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ADAD Assessment #3

Experiment 2 

Time lapse video part 2

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ADAD Assessment #3

Experiment 3 

GIF

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I am grateful for my dog

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Final Work - Assessment 3

Perception

My work is based around the key word ‘perception’. The work focusses on the multi-faceted nature of the individual and the pressures from our surrounds, namely the modern world we live in, in order to be perceived in a way that we like. The work features a large face in the centre of the work, depicted in a geometric style in varying shades of reds, pinks and oranges. The choice to use this colour palette reflects the flesh but I also used red as a way to evoke a feeling. Red is often associated with anger and passion, I wanted to show the frustration of the disparity between who we think we present to the world and who we are perceived as. I used the geometric style in order to also depict the rigidity and almost prison like feeling that this frustration can put on an individual, there’s nowhere to hide in amongst the straight lines and block colours.

I used contrasting colours, in green and red, to try and depict the pressures of the outside world, and also our own mind. The contrast creates a sense of unease.

I used a triptych to also reinforce the faceted nature of the individual and how we cannot be defined by one ‘personality’. The way we are perceived by one person may be completely different to another and that is a difficulty of the human condition.

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a woman, just the important parts

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This work was created with modelling clay and the interpretation of landscape (For the dot work, I found a new landscape to be able to interpret for my final work). Each bead is hand made, fired and then strung on to string. Which is then hung in the frame

inspiration: Kandinsky 

ARTIST STATEMENT: 

For my final work, I investigated three Artists; Frank Gehry, Elisabeth Cummings, and Wassily Kandinsky. Through exploring these artists I experimented with colour and shape that represented the theme “vagueness”. Each artist exploring the ideas of colour and structure to represent an image which is left up to the audience to interpret the imagery being presented. 

I interpreted this theme by stripping away structure and leaving colours behind to represent an image. This was explored with the materials of modelling clay, graphic markers, and digital images, altogether representing colour. 

The final work, consists of two experiments - creating a work that stripped structure and detail from a landscape (outside my window) leaving behind dominant colours seen in the landscape creating a “blurring” effect of the true image. Requiring deeper attention to interpret the work and create a detailed image in your head. It is expected different interpretations are experienced as colours are seen differently by everyone - meaning that different images will jump out more to some than others. This was influenced by the ‘colour blindness’ tests. 

The use of handmade beads to represent these colours adds more of a visual and sensory image to the work as the ‘random’ dots used in the experiment are now organised, creating more of a of a  structure as light catches the beads, making the work 3D as well as having an urge to fiddle with the beads. Presenting the work in the frame is to represent the old imagery of renaissance landscape works which are created in such detail. The work now contradicts due to its vagueness, the normality of expecting to see all landscape works in great detail.