Thought I would share one of the artists that I was looking at for my dissertation, Francisco Goya. His works have fascinated me with the content and how it had not been seen in his lifetime, due to how shocking it would have been so an audience. How nowadays we see it but think not much of it, but back then his work had even led to him being called a traitor by his own country.
I have attached pictures from my favourite series of his, the disasters of war etchings. I like the etchings the most, mainly due to it being based around the peninsular war, showing the documentation of the war and all the horrible events which occurred throughout. It is not bias to either side that was fighting in the war, and it showed the truth about what was really happening, the mutilation of men and the deaths of so many innocent people.
I have been interested also in the third image, which is titled folly of fear. This is because he has actually drawn a figure representing death in his works. It has shown him as what we now associated with the typical ‘deathly figure’, a.k.a the Grimm Reaper.
The Praxinoscope has been added to today, making it start to have the shape of the praximoscope which I am planning on making. Shown in the pictures, are the outside frame and the inner frame which will hold the mirrors. From what I understand, I am going to have to put a bright light on the outter side of the the circle holding the images. This will project light through the space in the perspex which will hold each image. From here it will then reflect an image through the mirror into a lens. In turn this lens will magnify the image upside down onto a wall. From the Praxinoscopes I had shown on the last post, there is also a separate box to the side, one which is just a light, an image and a lens. This one will make the background which will stay as a constant, it will not change unlike the animation spinning around.
I aim to have the mirrors and animation in my praxinoscope, however I am unsure at the moment if I want there to be a background box, if I have time I will proberbly add it as it can only enhance what I have made before, giving more possibilities for what I can show, and the images can change backgrounds or foregrounds, depending on what is going to be shown.
The lenses and the seperate background box are placed on a seperate pedastool, one where you will then be able to move the lens closer and further away in order to focus the image untill it is correct. I have experimented with this using a mobile phone, a lens and a shoebox, something which I will post about in due time.
The image I want animated I am still unclear about, I am toying with the idea of making a stop animation using one of the angels which Iam currently making. I could add wire to connect the limbs and move it to make it look like it is committing a certain deed, harming a person. The only problem is that I need the start to link up with the end, otherwise it will just jump to the start again and not remain a smooth animation.
Attached are images of the two frames which I have added so far onto the metal frame previously created. I will add the photos of the frame onto this blog soon and talk about why there is a newer frame and a better frame than talked about before.
The projector idea.
I have been looking at ways which I can project an animation on the wall. I have come across something called a ‘Praxinoscope’ this is what I will try and make tomorrow and try to make the base ready for the images to fit right in. Here is a video and some images of what I am trying to make, i hope they make some sense as they have made me alot clearer on what i am going to do, just making angles with mirrors which is going to be tricky.
Remember the Projector idea, well here’s the first half of what has been done since then.
Me and josh spent two days on making the final frame. Here is what happened on the first day:
This day I tried welding, something which I do not think I would be good at taking a career doing this later on in life. I thought I welded metal together, however when moving the metal after, they weren’t even attached in the slightest.
The images show the modified version of what I had designed in the studio beforehand and shown on the last post about this. We had decided to add onto this and then when adding the chain, discovered just how flimsy the metal was, with the metal bending and the chain falling off each time, something which was not very good. So after a not very successful day we had planned to add a better base on the bottom, meaning that this would not bend and the chain would be able to stay tight and not fall off again in the future. Here are the images of this day, with the plan for the base on the last picture.
Here is another video, this time it is of me adding the bible onto my angel figures. This is simply paper maché and the bible which has stuck to the angels. I have done this so that you cannot see any imperfections on the angels, as they are suppose to be like role models, they are meant to be only good and be perfect, unlike the humans they are attacking, which are imperfect and which will be left that way for when they are shown.
