Project Perfection: Part Five

Woodman's work

Emin's work

      

Emin and Woodman Style...

Okay, so Tracey Emin and Francesca Woodman are officially inspirational individuals! I found them so peculiar yet so fascinating to look at, as they're completely different artists but give a great presence through their work.

Emin's work is based on part autobiography, part creative expression. I love the fact she has based her ideas on reality and some of the events she's been though have been reflected in her work. 'My Bed' is just one big portrayal of life through Tracey Emin's eyes. 'Everyone I Have Ever Slept With' 1963-1995 is a very bizarre yet courageous piece as she is displaying her sex life to the world to interpret without any proper explanation. It's just wow!

 Francesca Woodman is a black and white photographer, mainly featuring herself, portraying young women who are naked, blurred, merged within their surroundings or whose faces are obscured. Her photographs exhibit many influences from symbolism and surrealism to fashion photography and Baroque painting. 

They're fabulous, each to their own.

Liv xo

Project Perfection: Part Four

My next decision is to look at Deborah Turbeville as a contextual, seeing as her work is very black and white, empowering and classic. I like everything to do with the way she creates composition with her models, the expressionism of the sensuality and sophistication. It's liberating! 

 Her work fluctuated between fashion magazine and art gallery, never staying with just one or the other. Her photo's either blurry, grainy, scratched, marked or sellotaped with pure intent to look at them in a non- American way. It's not obvious fashion photography!

My Cousin

I've used my cousin as my example to play around with, in the style of Turbeville's work. I've selected parts of her face to work with, mainly her eyes, and over layed a coloured print of her just her eyes onto a monotone print of her face. I've done 3 of these, each with a different type of adhesive/sealant - masking tape, behind the monotone print with glue/double sided sticky tape. I then decided to cut out the eyes altogether and write in the word 'eyes' to show what would be there. This is an example of what someone wouldn't like about themselves, so an easy way of showing that idea is to just write the aspect which is hidden.

'She captures the sensuality and sophistication of a woman as only another woman can'
- Donna Karen

Liv xo

Project Perfection: Part Three

It's safe to say I'm enjoying the project more as I go along, whether it's because it's a personal choice of topic for me I do not know! I've finally finished photo-shoot number two! (along with my edits and the awful mugshots of myself) I've also added a page on composition as I find this section hard and thought it would go perfectly as the images related to the shoot.

You can't probably see as well, but the above image is the original and the image to the right is the edited image I did on iPhoto.

This is just a taster of what I have managed to do with the resources I've been able to get my hands on. I hope to develop my editing further, throughout my project.

'Til next time!

Liv xo

Project Perfection: Part Two

My drawing of my cousin

Well, so far, my project isn't going too badly, but I need something which will give it a bit of oomph! I've compared both Arnulf Rainer and Gerhard Richter and done my first photo-shoot, which was of close family members, along with observational drawings.

My collage based on Kruger's work

To bring the book to life, I've just finished my comparison of Barbara Kruger against John Stezaker as I love both of their work. I can't put my finger on what I exactly love about Kruger's work, it may be the trademark red border, the meaningful captions she adds to her images or the messages each piece of art creates. 

Stezaker's work has more of a dreamlike effect as he uses two unrelated images to re-discover the meaning of its original state. I did a few interpretations of my own, but haven't quite finished, as I want to create something powerful!

I'll leave you with a quote about one of the artists I've looked at so far...

'With John's work people spend up to five minutes on one piece, looking and looking again'

Liv xo