Deconstruct/Reconstruct. STRUCTURES
Grace Duggan-‐long
Defini:on of deconstruct, reconstruct and structure. • Deconstruct: 1. To break down into components; dismantle. 2. To construct again; rebuild. 3. To cause to adopt a new aFtude or outlook. –All from The Online Dic9onary
• Reconstruct: 1. To assemble or build again mentally. 2. The way in which parts are arranged or put together to form a whole. 3. The interrela:on or arrangement of parts in a complex en:ty .– All from The Online Dic9onary
• Structures: 1. Something made up of a number of parts that are held or put
together in a par:cular way. 2. The way in which parts are arranged or put together to form a whole; makeup. 3. The interrela:on or arrangement of parts in a complex en:ty. -‐ All from The Online Dic9onary
Ar:st 1
Ar:st 1: Marlene Dumas The pain9ng is obviously linked too reconstruc9on as it’s a man’s face which has unnatural colours to make a shading over the top of the pain:ng. By adding the electric blues to the face, the ar:st could be deconstruc9ng the personality of the model as well, so it could go both ways. It’s been reconstructed to give off another kind of emo9on compared to the original underlay of the pain:ng. The meaning to the pain:ng is emo:onal which is represented through the colours. The colours are associated a lot with bruising which is directly linked to pain. The story behind the image isn’t obvious but you can tell the man has been through a rough :me due to the colours. The colour, I suspect, is from real life or a photograph.
Ar:st 2
Ar:st 2: Arnulf Rainer The Image is obviously a pain9ng which has been deconstructed to demonstrate how the ar:st or the man in the pain:ng feels, or even his situa:on. It’s purpose is to get the audience to feel fear. you can tell this through the red paint, the bullet holes, and the ar:st has painted in a fist, represen:ng anger. The story shows that the pain:ng is set in a fight or in a kind of war zone, supposed to ins:ll the possibility of danger or pain.
Ar:st 3
Ar:st 3: Sarah Lucas The sculpture has a structure to it which looks like innards or Organs and people’s insides obviously have structure. You can see how easy a structure can change; Tights being empty and then having something else stuffed in it to change it’s structure completely. The piece isn’t balanced at all, both sides have completely different shapes and leans two different ways.
Evalua:on of marbling technique • The colours used is a green background with red, yellow, blue and brown over the top. The colours make me think of the ocean, under the sea, the movement within and the natural colours enhance this. • in the piece there are two no:ceable textures, one being quite smooth and the other being rough. The rough texture making me think of the moon, the liYle bubbles which have burst reminds me of the craters. • My piece is very successful. The colours have fused really well. • Now I’m going to focus on more of the marbling technique because it’s the one I most enjoyed and turned out the best.
Deconstruct/reconstruct
photographs
Print ar:sts • • • • •
Etching Monoprin:ng Collograph Lino Type into google ‘etching print’, ‘monoprint ar:st’, ‘collograph print’ etc.
Here’s the deal… You need to write one analysis for each print method Or 2 super smashing analysis.
beatrice von preussen: etching
Analysis of etching The colour of the art work is just simple black and white image. This makes the viewer have a more big part in filling in the gaps as to what the photograph means compared to a coloured photograph. the Photo is obvious as to what it seems (an owl in a tree) but gives a dark side to it because of the shading. The bold shapes and dis:nc:ve lines make it easy to grasp what it is. You don’t have to think about the shape placement or colours because it’s black and white and the owl has been drawn in detail. The owl is spaced in a central posi:on, this is because it’s obviously the sketch the audience is going to focus on. The tone of the image is just different amounts of work done in specific places to form the illusion that it’s been shaded, because it’s not possible to shade on plas:c.
Deloscampos: monoprint
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Analysis of Monoprint The colours in this print are different shades of black and white. The black and white in this are incredibly drama:c, causing some kind of tension between the audience and the pain:ng you can almost feel what whatever the photo is trying to give off, I think confusion due to the smudge of of greys and blacks. There aren’t any real defined lines in this print but somehow you can almost see it’s true form. The way the paint has been moved and shaded, you can almost see a face and shoulders, the ar:st, I think has defined the features in it’s face so your brain can work it out, I think a person is its true form. The tones in the print are extremely significant. They are the only way we can grasp what it is, the tones in the print are also very emo:onal, you have the different paYerns in the way the paint moves and different shades of black and white, almost create a kind of human emo:on, makes it easier to see what you feel for this image.
John Stezaker: 2 examples
Example 1)
Example 1) • Title: ‘Pair’ • Date made: 2007 • Materials used: found photographs. I like the image because it causes the audience to take a double look at this art work and think about what it’s represen:ng. The image was made by adding on a completely different photo to create a new meaning. I think the image is about/represen9ng how close or similar the two people in the photo are and that maybe they’re supposed to be together.
Example 2)
Example 2) • Title: not specified • Date made: 2010 • Materials used: found photographs.
I like the artwork because it shows how similar the male and female emo:ons are, it’s almost like they’re sad for the same reason. Stezaker’s image was made by using things like postcards, film s:lls and other images to create thought-‐provoking images. I think the image is about the difficul:es in marriage and how the can affect each person. It accentuates the psychological problems in a marriage.
conclusion I’m planning to make a link of Stezakers work by finding old photographs of men and women and puFng them together in crea:ve ways to send an atmosphere or a message out to the audience.
Prac:cal work inspired by John Stezaker.
Example 1.
Evalua:on of lesson: Friday the 18th of January I found this work very enjoyable as I find the ar:sts concept and the ideas he’s trying to portray through his art work is very interes:ng. The techniques I have used are literally cuFng out parts of photographs and layering/covering/cuFng out and adding different parts of photographs to others. My most successful piece would be ‘new hair’. The artwork looks more realis:c then any other piece on the page, it looks as if it’s purposely been placed not size, whereas the others look strange, out of place.
Example 2.
Ar:st research in reference to triangle collage.
Link from ar:sts work to my own. • Ar:st: un:tled • Date: 2012 • Materials used: cut up photographs. I like the artwork because the ar:st has obviously thought about what colours would work to cause a specific effect. The dark, warm colours set a relaxed atmosphere for the audience and all the images have some kind of link, it’s easy to grasp what the ar:st is trying to portray, relaxa:on. It’s also made the biggest triangle the Centre piece, this shows that it’s the dominate shape to give people a set descrip:on of what the image is about, before looking at the rest. The ar9sts image was made by photographs cut up into triangles from found imagery and and glued next to each other. I think the image is about images that mean something. For example, the horses running on the beach, the beau:ful sunset, the night with stars, planets etc. people like to see images like that, they like nice colours and nice photo’s which, simply, makes people feel good! There are three links between the ar:st’s work and my own these are: 1. The use of triangles and placement. 2. the found imagery 3. and the collage. We’ve also both used the same colours in our own collage. They’re not just random paYerns and photographs, they both have a meaning.
Memory Â
My 5 point plan. 1. Find old photographs that involve me in to represent memory. 2. Scan it in and enlarge it to three A3 photo’s. 3. Paint each of them slightly different to resemble how memory can be controversial. 4. Do any tweaks that need to be done to perfect my work. 5. Write down a paraphrase next to it which explains what my piece means.
Jorg Sasse;
Analysis of art piece. The colours used in this photograph contradict each other. There are two colours in the photo. The two colours consist of the prime colours (the sky, grass and fence) and then there is the electric colours which makes up the rollercoaster. The two contras:ng colours make then piece really interes:ng as you can’t see any other type of bold colours in the background, just that one ride.
Gerhard Richter.
Link to ar:st Richter’s work inspired me to do my own using the same techniques he used. It allowed me to explore his technique to create a specific feeling despite any of the familiar techniques I’ve done. The work I’ve done vary slightly from Richter’s work to give my own spin on things.
End of project evalua:on. 1. I chose to explore memory for my theme. the ideas I’ve used were to paint over part of a photo and to wright a paraphrase about my theme on top of the painted area. This was to create a feeling of memory loss in retrospect, you can’t remember every single aspect which happened looking back. 2. Aler researching the work of Gerhard Richter, I decided to use his style of pain:ng over a photograph. I liked his style as each piece of artwork he had done had its on representa:on of what he’s trying to portray. So the audience was open to interpret it how they want rather then the piece already telling you how to feel. 3. The 2D techniques I have used through the project are printmaking, photography, digital image manipula:on, screen-‐prin:ng, collage, mono-‐prin:ng, observa:onal drawing, lino. 4. My most successful technique was screen-‐prin:ng because It came out the best compared to all the others and I had a chance to prac:ce with it. 5. I’m pleased with my final outcome because I have finished it in :me, and I was able to do all of the ideas that I origionally planned.j