Day 13 - Behind the mask

Monday 11th was another Fine Art day (aren't they all) with Heidi
Some of the interventions identified 
 
Masks were a big part of the art of Momento Mori

&

'Behind the mask another Mask'  was a phrase we  reflected on from the 2017 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery exhibition of the work where YBA artist Gillian Wearing  looked at the oeuvre of Claude Cahun  who lived a very individual life. 

many artists have been involved in areas that confront themselves and the masks they construct..

Cindy Sherman, Leigh Bowery (painted as a nude by Lucian Freud) , Maurizio Anzeri  and Marlene Dumas  (I visited an exhibition of Dumas' work in 2015) ere used as starting off points.
 
Other artists mentioned were Turner Prize winner Lubaina Hamid and John Stezaker

And the experimentation we looked at  was around working/intervening with an image of ourselves using the above artists as influences .

I suppose the idea that we all work behind a mask can be powerful but part of where it took me was to a sort of dysfunctional family (and a family tree).

Raw Material

I did not find it too hard to disassociate myself from the image of me I was working with and stepping back from it was a chance to see how a sort of narrative had evolved.




  



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