New Study. (research)

New Project: Intimacy and sexuality.
Artist- felix gonzalez-torres


As installed for The Museum of Modern Art, New York
"Projects 34: Felix Gonzalez-Torres"
May 16 - June 30, 1992, in 24 locations throughout New York City


Perfect lovers


My work-the idea (Playing) Tools of Reproduction.



I want to use this relationship between the everyday and the romantic representation to make a cast metal sculpture.

Sketch from photoshoot. Figures refelceted. (outline for 150x200cm oil painting)

Pillow Stress

From minimal representation idea's, a Collection of photographs edited together. (Take stress out by puntching a pillow) (full view video.)

Painting (Development)

The problem with photo realism- it is purely about technique, but holds little else of value.

How can a painting be emotive if it reminds you of "paint by numbers" Or simply just "wow i thought that was a photograph!" no its not a very meticulously painted painting. Impressive...

In Franz Gertsch case incredibly impressive.

But...i want to show something more through the use of paint. However I also want to develop my realist tecnique (skin, colour, anatomy ect.)

On a whim, i found this artist's work on Saatchi online.
http://www.saatchionline.com/profiles/index/id/94416

I admire the way the artists has used paint and colour, blurring the features of a face as if it were being viewed through rippling water.
With these ideas in mind i want to create a realist image of a figure, that appears to be fading or blurred or warped in places, using painting to create a fluid appearance on canvas.

Scan from sketch book- Initial idea's.

Painting's Development:

Autumn Term Document: Research and Ideas.

The artistic structure of this project is primarily to find a way of representing a particular emotion in a way that is discrete, open to interpretation and as non-allegorical as possible. The basis of this project is to produce work that presents the atmosphere of stress or anxiety.

"A successful picture temporarily ‘condensed’ an emotion that it was the duty of the beholder’s eye to bring to life and develop." - Delacroix

Painting. (The figure (distress, pose)

the easiest and most direct way to portray a human emotion is through use of the body contorted into different poses of distress. (example)William-Adolphe_Bouguereau_(1825-1905)_-_Dante_And_Virgil_In_Hell_(1850)

(example) Rodin's The gates of Hell- Detail.

The difficult part of this for me will be to hold back my temptation to include surreal allegory within the painting.

The images of figures i have chosen to use as painting reference are of a male and female, supporting their bodies by their hands on bended knee. This pose mirrors the style of Rodin with his collapses figures of the fallen. However what i feel is significant with this pose is the fact that the figures faces are hidden, while they support themselves in this tense and uncomfortable pose, between falling and standing. Having the faces hidden makes the emotive language of this painting more abstract, it also suggests the idea of depersonlisation and lack of idenity. I feel this is significant when expressing an emotion as cleche, sensitive and abstract as anxiety

Installation and performance (ideas)

Within my practice i want to use a variety of different materials to portray ideas. Artwork that interests me are: 1. the technique of traditional materials (painting, sculpture) 2. the sensitive and selective minimal representation (the ready made, distorted mundane objects, found and organic materials)

(example)

Yarisal and Kublitz - Anger Release Machine 2006

Ideas-Alarm clock encased in sugar glass (shatters at time of alarm)

Performance of smashing bottles, tea cups ect (possibly with messages written inside)

(Photograph-glass smashing performance, taken Berlin 2009)

(Sketch-Scan of performance idea from sketchbook)

Photo piece of pillow being ripped apart and sowed back together again.

...Other online outlets-

Personal blog1-http://emmascreamingart.blogspot.com

Scribbles and Murmurs Collective-http://scribblesandmurmurscreate.blogspot.com

Youtube-http://www.youtube.com/user/EmmasScribbles?feature=mhum