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.
