Extending from `Period’ to the opposite side of the spectrum is `Blue’. By creating a mind map of specific words, i was able to connect my work to different themes/artist. The term period with the use of Red an Blue lend me back to Contemporary artist John Currin.
With the word blue being associated with porn, artist John Currin is a perfect example of using erotic images to push the boundary’s that surround the female nude.
Originating from photographs, Currin likes to paint and revamp the images to liberate him from the tyranny of photography and differ from the norm, pushing the boundaries that surround the female nude. These boundaries include shock value, identity, character, male desire, society’s acceptance, relationship, pornographic, vulgar taste etc. He achieves this by creating titillate and pornographic images to create emphatic, beautiful paintings. (Cook, 2011, P.12)
Using the same technique of pointillism i sourced an image from the internet and created my own version of it using blue dots to replace the figures smooth skin. It currently is incomplete.
There is potential in both themes Red and Blue, which i will touch upon at a later date.
Since having my Blog presentation it did knock me back, as i felt there wasn’t any positive response towards my work or what i had achieved so far. Instead it made me want to reject doing my blog. So i started looking through my old sketch books for some sort of inspiration and to see if i could find anything to help me with my work. I did come across some images that i had researched before on Pablo Picasso and his use of tone with regards to his blue and rose period.
These different periods represented the emotional and physical effects that Pablo Picasso experienced and encountered throughout his life. And i suppose everyone and some point in there life can relate more to a `blue’ painting or a `rose’ painting.
By creating a mind map, i could visually explore the extensive meanings behind the key words ROSE, BLUE and PERIOD. Funnily enough the word that i could connect to my work was period, but not in the same respect as Picasso, but in the laterally meaning of a woman’s monthly cycle.
Period is something that only a women can experience. It is one of the many things that makes up a women. The images of women that i have been researching are represented differently to what society classes as the natural idealized female, due to there masculine bodies. Nevertheless they are still women and have period. Which initially gave me the idea of painting just the torso of a muscular body in red (representing droplets of blood), but the body can nether be identified as male or female.
The drawing that i created of `Higher’ was originally created just for source material, but for some reason i feel compelled to experiment more with this image. For my degree show i have an idea in mind of what i would like to create. Due to my different styles of work ranging from pointillism and gray scale painting and the Photoshopped images that i create into graffiti painting, i would ideally like to create 4 large canvases that are strong enough to be separated and represent themselves as individuals but also come together as a series, showcasing the different styles of work.
This idea of showcasing the works as individuals then bringing them together at the end has been influenced by the bodybuilding competitions that women enter , in which they are all identified by the number that they wear on there bikini showcasing and presenting themselves as individuals and then at the end when the judges have selected there winners they line up and are photographed together.
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/2014-arnold-sports-festival-womens-fitness-and-figure.html
The female nude and pointillism, isn’t something that has been connected, but through research, i found an artist that used a different style of dots to power their work. Roy Liechtenstein was most famous through Pop Art and used advertisement and comic strips as his source material, including tongue in cheek humorous mannerisms.
His work used Ben-Day dots and flat primary colours to create what he described as industrial painting. Allowing his images to take on different meanings depending on what it confronts.(Boxer.S (1993) IN SHORT: NONFICTION; Pointillism for the Masses. New York times, New York)
Lichtenstein once stated that he first started creating dots by doodling at school, and soon realized that he could create images by connecting these dots and creating portraits. This technique finally evolved when he went to Art College in Birmingham. (Normansell, P. (2009) A London Lichtenstein. Evening Standard Limited. London.)
I managed to find one image of Roy Lichtenstein that displayed the female nude called seductive girl. ( See image above text) The title is intriguing, and reminds me of Lucian Freuds portraits of Naked Girl 1966. Despite the use of the female nude both artist have chosen not to acknowledge the female as a women but a girl with no name.
