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Character...
Recreating hallucinations and schizophrenia through digital imagery. These are some ofmy initial ideas...
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Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Critical Diary Report 3
Mark Rothko's work is synonomas with emotion and feeling, this imediately draws me to his bold images. He worked for many years and was one of the founding members of the New York School. I chose to take a look at his work because it has always intriged me and i recently worked on a peice about Abstract expressionism which inticed me to look further.
Rothko was born in 1903 in Lativa, but shortly afterwards emigrated to Portland, Oregon. He painted all his life but was only really acknowledged publicly in around 1960. His work which often simply contains coloured shapes on a large canvas. But Rothko constantly protested about being a colourist saying colours were simply an instument to convey further emotions.
"I am not an abstract painter. I am not interested in the relationship between form and colour. The only thing I care about is the expression of man's basic emotions: tragedy, ecstacy, destiny."
When I first saw Rothko's images as a child I was often unimpressed, thinking they didnt contain much skill. But at one point I saw them and felt involved in the image, it provoked emotion and created an atmosphere. The scale of the images has a great effect on the viewer, I think that theres no justice done in photographs of them. They need to be all consuming, towering infront of you. It was only in the late 40's that he established the style we so often see today with formal compositions of colour and shape. He had previously worked with symbols and was bored of the convetional figure.
These images to me do not hold as much resonance. They need to be read and inturpretted, in the style they were painted, whereas the more typical images are open to personal inturpretation. Some of Rothko's images are influenced by the surrealists who were emigrating to America during the world war. He bagan to losen up and use brush strokes which came from the un concious to produce more abstract imagery. During this time he began working with water colours to produce these fluid results,
These images to me do not hold as much resonance. They need to be read and inturpretted, in the style they were painted, whereas the more typical images are open to personal inturpretation. Some of Rothko's images are influenced by the surrealists who were emigrating to America during the world war. He bagan to losen up and use brush strokes which came from the un concious to produce more abstract imagery. During this time he began working with water colours to produce these fluid results,
This is one of my favourite images, it shows his style moving towards abstarction, and yet contains more visual peices than his later work which simplifys the means to the end of ultimate emotion. In the above image the colour moves gracfully across the canvas and the combination between vertical and horizntal creates a balance which is harmonic yet still appears detailed.
The above image shows Rothko moving an untitled image accross his New York studio, giving us a sense of scale. He did compete a range of smaller works but many are unsure whether these were simply studies for larger images. As time went on Rothko's work became more dark and intense. He began producing alot of dark and deep paintings towards the middle of the 1950's which is often seen to conincide with his state of mind. By the end of the 60's he was physially ill and suffering from depression which ended in him slitting his wrists on 25th Febuary 1970 in his studio. I have always had an interest in the way state of mind affects art and creativity, I believe it shows how expression relates directly to emotion. But also how with the likes of mental illness other forms of expression are often needed as one becomes overcome with the disturbing emotions involved.
I believe anyone who stands infront of Rothko's images will eventually feel great apathy with the artist and have a respect for anyone who can control one's emotions with nothing but a coloured canvas of strokes.
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Tuesday, February 28, 2006
Critical Diary Report 2
"I would never place a work in the public domain that I myself couldn't stand in front of and be amazed." - Jorg Sasse,
I have chosen to focus my next critical diary report on Jorg Sasse, when i first found his work in the photographers gallery, in the Deutsche Borse Photographers prize I was immediately drawn to the style of photography.
Sasse focuses on finding photographs from photo albums, rubbish bins and flea markets. Then Sasse digitalises the pictures, later cropping, modifiying and adding items. This style of found photographs with added elements is an intriguing way to begin the image process. The results are often soft, regular images with a sense of pattern.
“The final result is an artificial product cleansed of all material contingency, offering the illusion of reality, a picture that we can presume is a photograph”
http://deutsche-boerse.com
I find these images although often regular forms contain an element of intrigue, they draw any viewer in, the way Sasse uses line and color to create interrelating conceptual pieces which on first glance appear as snapshots from often poor quality images is as interesting as the image its self. Using subtle modifications of color balance and line Sasse creates formal compositions.
Each image is given a random four digit number, followed by the year of completion the above being 2075, 2003.
My opinion on Sasse's work improves everytime I see a new piece, initially the work is abstract and captivating but as you realise the process followed to reach the end result, you suddenly develop a strong admiration for the artist and the effort involved. I find the images although digtially modified contain a strong sense of realitly as Sasse works hard to use subtle variations. Sasse says its "always about the proportion of form and content."
The photographs are intangled in the arguement of photography as photography, as if the artist is using found stills, but creating photographs is he really a photographer? In my mind yes because although he doesn't take the photo, he instead works like a true phoographer in making the photo.
My favourite images are the more abstract pieces, like this one named 2268, 2001. For me these contain compeling mixtures of colour and texture. Many may find these images repeatative any with no real focus, which I understand as they aren't photographs of anything in particular. But well as I keep saying they intrigue me and by having no main subject and background they become simply what they are; fascinating compositions. The photograph below appears very different to my other choices and appears as an example of his other stlye of work.
As i mentioned at the begining Jorg Sasse was shortlisted for the Deutsche Borse photography prize 2005, but failed to gain the prize. Instead this was won by Luc Delahaye, a frenchman who focused of scenes of polictical importance and contempary wars. Here is an example of his work showing US bombing on Taliban positions.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/collective/A3872829
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/D/deutche_borse_photography_prize/delahaye.html
http://www.c42.de/
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Monday, January 09, 2006
Critical Diary Report
I first found Kusakabe Kimbei's photo of a procession whilst flicking through a book, i was immediately drawn to this striking photograph which stands strong even though its over 100 years old.
Kimbei born in 1841, learned photography as an apprentice to Baron von Stillfried, an Austrian who worked in Japan from 1872 to 1883. Once Stillfried had left Kimbei acquired many of the plates of his teacher and of well known photographer Felice Beato, who was prominent in Japan at the time. He then re-printed many of these and included them inside his own portfolio. Which contained albumen prints created with egg whites to suspend the light sensitive material. Later he used a method of hand painting which had just emerged using watercolours to hand paint and highlight area's. This method was popular in japan especially with Felice Beato but unfortunately the western world was not appreciative of this. The portfolio contained a large quantity of stylised studio portraits, and a range of scenic views. These prints were mainly sold to tourists or shipped to the west for those unable to visit the country.
The Buddhist procession is my favourite photograph it is imposing yet non intrusive, it contains haunting views of faces slowly merging into the distance, each one focused on the tradition. The detail present in each face appears spectacular considering its age and origins. Not only that but Kimbei has carefully coloured the image to represent the significance of traditional dress and formality but also to highlight the immense number of people gathered. This is shown as the red draws the eye into the photograph through the crowd.
Japanese WomenAlbumen, hand colored
26,4 x 20,4 cm
1877-1890
I find the majority of his portraits although beautiful in there own right, contain eerie sense derived from what i don't know, possibly there expression, the style of print or perhaps just the fact that there from a time and place I have no relation to. This works in the benefit of the Buddhist procession print helping to reinforce the somber mood.
Coolie with raincoat
Albumen, hand colored
26,2 x 20,2 cm
1885
This next photograph is also a personal favourite it appears less staged than the previous portrait, perhaps because of the informal attire and pose. It is highlighted to create a real sense of depth which gives it life, even though only soft accents are used. The photograph expresses well the working class figure with pride and has a good range of tone. This is especially obvious in the range of detail in the creased face and straw. Which considering the age of the photo shows an obvious competence by Kimbei. I believe that by hand colouring these prints Kimbei reinforces atmosphere and depth. Hand colouring was originally done using pigments on daguerreotypes. This process of carefully brushing on ground pigment then blowing away excess was a delicate job which required accuracy.
Attributed to Alexis Gouin
Portrait of Alexandre Dumas
Circa 1851
Coloured and gilded stereoscopic daguerreotype
There are examples of this from as early as 1842, but the Japanese later began typically using the watercolour technique as seen on Kimbei's prints. This was painted onto the image directly.
I hope I have given an insight into my opinions and thoughts on what is a striking piece of history.
The information here was gathered using:
http://www.skjstudio.com/flowers/kimbei.html
http://www.museeniepce.com/catalogues/im.php?id=32&img=29&limit=10&offset=20
http://photography.about.com/library/weekly/aa061002b.htm
One hundred photographs a collection by Bruce Bernard, Phaidon
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Thursday, January 05, 2006
Personal Project
Childrens WebsiteI hope to create a website for my personal project, it will be a website aimed at children aged 7-11 or Key stage 2. I have wanted to create a website like this for some time so this is the perfect opportunity, as i have already focused a previous project on schizophrenia and have personal experience i feel i have a good base to begin researching.
I want it to support children who have to cope with a family member with schizophrenia. I hope it will become a non intrusive resource for children wanting support which they can view in there own homes or at school in privacy. It will contain information on a child's level combined with links to support groups and other websites along with hopefully other children's and adults experiences.
Hopefully it will contain some flash or embedded video, although I'm aware this will interfere with BOBBY compliance. I want to create a fun interactive experience to keep a child's attention whilst still adhering to the serious matter involved. I think this is a very serious part of the planning as it will require lots of involvement and testing from children in the age group, I also understand it is quite a wide age group so it will need a lot of research into the levels if understanding children can cope with. I plan to do extensive research by talking to teachers, support groups and gaining information off the internet along with other sources.
I hope to use XHTML and CSS to create it then to consider BOBBY compliance. I will have to learn many skills to finish this website and plan to read books on designing for children, CSS, and XHTML.
By the deadline for this project I hope to have my website fully planed and designed on Photoshop ready to create in my own time over the summer. I feel this is an achievable goal considering I have a lot to teach myself on the subject and extensive research to do.
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Previous Work
This is a magazine cover I created whist at Burton college, on National Diplomia in Design.I really enjoyed my time at Burton and had alot of time for my tutors who worked hard and really supported us all. The link to the right called Chris Beech Photography is a link to my old lecturers website, it shows his collections and comissions.
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And so it begins
So its finally time I embraced the modern world and actually become part of this world wide web. Well here I am. Hopefully over the next few months i'll be able to show you some of my successes and failures and get your thoughts on my work.
I'll try and keep the text short and sweet, but as for my intentions i'll give you a little info; I generally like to work towards a cause in the sense that I only strive to work on things I feel strongly about. I hope to finish my degree in Visual Communications and then see where the world takes me.
Enjoy...
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