Day 37- Term 2 Specialism Vis Com

My images of objects
 After a lot of thought I had chosen Vis Com & Sculpture as my specialisms in terms 2 and 3.

12th January was first session and we looked at some techniques - ahead of the class we'd been asked to bring along some images of objects that meant something to us.

Rod spoke about how artists used signifiers in their work which carried meaning, 

Ants=Death

Bread is associated with religion

Crutch = Death

Dali was identified as using symbolism  and examples are   Lobsters connecting with sexuality ands melting clocks unsurprisingly 'time'.

 Other artists that were mentioned for motifs included Frida Kahlo  (cats) and Anselm Kiefer the German artist who has used books made from lead.

Rod also mentioned how the pineapple motif had been used in architecture when such fruits were considered exotic in England  and denoted wealth and largesse.

In terms of practical work we had the chance to investigate  some techniques used by Marlene Dumas  and  Andy Warhol

Marlene Dumas has used paper that has been moistened and Warhol some smudged copying.

Dumas often uses portrait but here I worked from the image of a tree



And here is a representation of a cross with some paint resist




With the Warhol inspired 'blotted' method here's a triptych of the film used to transfer the tracing and the original  



We also worked with traced collages of images


Traced onto paper without observing 

images traced and arranged 

The techniques and fresh vision that their use imparted was useful, it was good to have images that 'meant' something to me  and I'm sure I will try these techniques more fully

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