I want to explore a wide range of ideas and look at conceptual art. I am interested in looking at the 'rush’ of life, the mental strain on the individual; the busyness, and all the 'detritus', the stuff that gets left behind. I want to think 'inside' and 'outside' the box and intend to communicate my ideas through an interactive approach to my final piece. I will look at conceptual artists including Michael Craig-Martin whose interest in language appealed to me.
Michael Craig-Martin
Women House
'Women House' was developed in 1972 by Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro, it was the first female-centred art installation to appear in the western world. They examine the persistence of stereotypes about the house as a feminine space, this is conveyed through photography, sculpture, installation and video works.
Laura Simmons has created this 'disconcerting' image of the female body being consumed by expectations and responsibilities. I really like this piece and hoe powerful the message behind it is and how directly this is conveyed.
Racheal Whiteread
Tatsuya Tanaka
I really like Tatsuya Tanaka's work and how he transforms everyday objects into incredible miniature scenes. Tanaka is very clever in the way he's able to look at an object and visualise how it could be transformed into something else. I'd like to be able to include aspects of Tanaka's work into this project as I'm very interested by his style of work.
Here I experimented layering paint to create texture and build depth and density of colour.
Idea 1- 'The Rush'
Idea 2- 'Shapes and colours'
Idea 3- 'Chair and Lamp'
Idea 4- 'An emotional box'
Idea 5- 'Tips Box'
Reflection
I really enjoyed developing my ideas for this project and found exploring the more conceptual side of art to be incredibly fascinating as I haven't explored this side of art before. Michael Craig-Martin's piece 'An oak tree' was very influential for me and it actually was the inspiration behind one of my ideas, 'Shapes and Colours'. Continuing on with this project I am going to develop my idea called 'The Rush' as I feel once developed, this could be a really exciting interactive piece of art. I hope to experiment with colour and painting techniques to create a really realistic final piece. Experimenting with acrylic has made me realise it would be a good medium for painting my final piece due to how fast drying it is and the way you can layer colour upon colour without them blending. I will need to be able to do this to create depth and texture in my work.
Jim Parkryn
A freelance artist who creates characters through using materials such as clay and plasticine, he's worked in animation for over 20 years. Parkryn has done work for the very famous 'Aardman films' such as 'Wallace and Gromit'. He has an incredible ability to bring life to a piece of plasticine by using an insane amount of accuracy. I will be looking back at Parkryn's work when creating my final piece as I feel some of the techniques he uses could be massively beneficial when applied to my work.
'Finding the play in clay'- Video evaluation
I watched the video 'Finding the play in clay' by Jim Parkryn and took the following notes:
Parkryn will complete a character over a day or two to allow time for reflection, he loves the accessibility of clay and how anyone can do it.
He speaks about how he likes the imperfections of it and how you can see the texture which has been created from him working the clay and he loves the asymmetry of it.
'Bring life into something which isn't very promising' I really like this quote that I've pulled from the as it shows the beautiful and transformative side of sculpturing.
His creative process:
Sketch and theme.
Build a core (skeleton).
Cover in plasticine.
For my inspiration, I looked to the 1990s, a period of deprivation and societal stress. I explored this time period by looking at interior design magazines from that time, such as 'The world of interiors'.
Planning my Final Outcome
After completing my research I concentrated on developing my techniques and curated my ideas from my mood boards.
For my final piece, I decided to create a kitchen scene with intricate details, down to exactly replicating the texture of the orange peel and giving the crockery a 'tired' appearance. My end aim was to create an immersive experience for the viewer, I put a hole in the base of the box, so their head went inside; this provided an unusual viewpoint, which I hoped would be almost claustrophobic, reflecting how all-engulfing life can feel.
Photographs of Final outcome
Evaluation
I found my research into conceptual art and the work of Michael Craig-Martin really helped me to bring a different approach to this project and literally think 'outside the box'. I felt my final piece was interesting in that it really communicated the worn-out feeling of exhaustion the 'rush' of modern life brings. I had intially intended the interior, especially in the kitchen area to have a cleaner finish however the messy tiling and general shabbiness actually served to reflect the chaotic mood I was trying to create.
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