Triangles
After looking at various monochromatic imagery of paintings and photography, I began gathering my own images for my painting/ series of paintings of monochromatic rendered flesh.
I have been considering the triangular composition that runs through a lot of art works.
It is a strong compositional shape.
Triangular shapes can be used to lead the viewer into the painting.
I reflected upon this in analysis of Passage by Saville in my dissertation.
The use of this composition in Passage in-particular alludes to perspective. The Pyramid-like form of the figure gives a strong triangular structure to the image.
An extract from my dissertation:
” Saville’s use of various devices such as low-level viewpoints, exaggerated foreshortening and cropping of the figure to fill her canvas enhancing the power of her fleshy nudes to produce “a confrontational yet contemplative image which pushes itself at you” (Henry, 1994, n.p.).”
I have been considering this in the images I have gathered and the composition I have constructed.
My vision is of a partially distorted head on a neck – a more recognisably human version of Dana Schutz, ‘Face Eater’, 2004.
