Contextual Research - Drawing

Life & Decay of Flowers


MICHAEL LANDY

Artist Bio;

Michael Landy borin in 1963 is one of the Young Birtish Artists (YBA). He is best known for the performance piece installation Break Down (2001), in which he destroyed all his possessions, and for the Art Bin project at the South London Gallery. On 29th May 2008, Landy was elected a member of the Royal Academy of Arts in London.

I decided to look at Landy's work as his drawings of weeds because he had a particular style of detail to them which is what I wanted to create within my drawings. They seem very small but detailed at the same time. They are all etchings and life size to the study he was drawing from. I like how simple they are and they make you want to look at them more closely to see exactly what details he was able to capture and I think he has done well as they almost look realistic. 

BILLY KIDD

Artist Bio;

Billy Kidd is an American self-taught photographer born in 1980 in Panama City, Florida. This set of images titled “Decaying Flowers” shows us that there is something beautiful and purely natural in the process of dying. He sees a beauty that other people often dismiss. The roses can be just as exquisite and captivating even in their decaying state. In some ways, Billy Kidd has breathed new life into them. The roses were captured with every bit of detail and colour against a black background with a single light source.

When researching for decay in flowers, I came across Billy Kidd's work and it really caught my eye. I would call these photographs of decaying flowers 'Beautiful Decay'. I like the way he has captured them in dark lighting to somewhat enhance the focus onto the decaying flowers. It captures so much detail and makes them look almost like they are not decayed. Looking at his images helped me decide what flowers I wanted to look at. 

JOAN WADLEIGH CURRAN

KEIKA HASEGAWA - CHRYSANTHEMUM

These wood prints are very interesting to me. I like the bold use of colour throughout most of them. The flowers that the artist has drawn are very beautiful and are known as the symbol of sun, perfection and long life. The prints are very much similar to the work I want to create with a lot of detail within them and subtle hints of colour. To me they look very realistic and I think that's what the artist was trying to show.

ELIOT HODGKIN - MILKWEED

Throughout all these paintings and drawings there's a similar tone which makes them interesting to look at. They look like a good series of work. The artist has used much more colour to add tone and a life likeness to the images but still capturing detail. The colours are very dull but it seems to work very well for these images. 

Contextual Research - Art History

Jenny Saville

“Shift”

1996-7

Oil on Canvas

330.2 x 330.3cm

Pablo Picasso

“Les Demoiselles d’avignon”

1907

Oil on Canvas

243.9 x 233.7cm

Contextual Research - Self Directed

The Art of Glitch?

What is a Glitch?

A glitch is a short-lived fault in a system. It is often used to describe a transient fault that corrects its self an, and is therefore diffucult to troubleshoot. The term is particularly common in the computing and electronic industries, and in circuit bending, as well as among players of video games, although it is applied to all types of systems including human organizations and nature. The term derives from the German glitschig meaning 'slippery', possibly entering English through the Yiddish term glitsh.

What is Glitch Art?

Glitch Art is the aestheticization of digital or analog erros, such as artificats and other "bugs", but either corrupting digital code/data or by physically manipulating electronic devices (for example by circuit bending).

Can Glitches be seen as a good thing?

EARLY WORK EXAMPLES

Here I have chosen to glitch and recreate images of my niece. I decided to use these particular images as they show a different angles of her and my work is looking into faded memories and faces. As she is young and still growing I decided to use her for an early example and experimentation. When she is older she will not really remember these images been taken of her, so the glitches represent memories being some what forgotten over the years. I think these images are very effective and I will be experimenting further with these. 

Here is another example of a glitch image taken of my niece. 

Artists 

MELANIE WILLHIDE

I find Melanies work very interesting because her images appear quite abstract in a sense and they also somewhat capture a decisive moment. I like the use of symmetry in the first piece in and the highlighted colours in contrast the the black and white background. Her use of colour and glitching effect sets her pieces apart from other artists.

DAVID HOCKNEY

David Hockney's works may be my favourite work of the artists i researched because I find his technique so  innovative, because of how he's used multiple images of his characters from different views and placed them in a very unique composition which I feel rein-acts their movements and somewhat tells a story of motion in a still image. 

MICHAEL BETANCOURT 

The Kodak Moment (2013) from cinegraphic on Vimeo.

Dancing Glitch (2013) from cinegraphic on Vimeo.

I enjoyed Michaels videos because of how glitched they were it was a challenge to interpret what the videos may be about though I enjoyed watching them. though at times the videos got boring when some scenes lasted longer than expected, i feel that the best way to keep a viewers attention is to keep the videos fast paced this challenges their minds more and keeps them curious.

FERRUCIO LAVIANI

I don't particularly find Laviani's work to be too exciting. The images in the pictures don't look extremely interesting, I assume they may be important historic artefacts of some sort but without any information on them it would be difficult to tell.

ALDO TOLINO

I found Aldo Tolinos work to be the most fascinating and curious of the artists i researched. at first glance at a few of his pieces I couldn't grasp and understanding of how he may have created them. though after careful study I found a way to create my own pieces in a similar style.