Hi Max, I thought this fragment of a Hellenistic sculpture had an interesting partial body feeling to it. Not cut in half, but still, pretty dramatic visually.
MAX'S PROPOSAL
Concept: I want to depict myself split in half (length-wise, bloodily, as if sliced with a knife) as another man holds me as if he is my partner in love. However, I am dead and slumped against him, and bloody, as I am just a half-person
Media: Large piece of paper like what Richelle uses for a lot of the classes, but white paper instead of brown. Do they call that butcher paper? Also I want to draw with charcoal sticks and charcoal pencil, and maybe the use of some color with pastels (but I'm thinking maybe not actually. We'll see)
Artistic inspiration: Kathe Kollwitz, Elizabeth Peyton, Egon Schiele, William Kentridge
Those artists were chosen mainly for their drastic and emotional output in their works by the use of very bold brush/pen/pencil strokes.
So yes! I hope this was enough information on my final piece... I want the image to be drastic and surprising, yet very sad at the same time. Like something is very amiss.
Margaret's response:
ReplyDeleteThe idea sounds like something you can really go with. What about background? Light? Dark? The large size sounds great. I think that would be a challenge for you, but one which you are very capable of meeting. Go for it. Let's look a a couple different kinds of paper tomorrow in class-- depending upon the media you use, you might want a heavier paper. But I actually like drawing on butcher paper a lot. Good artistic inspiration. Bring some sketches tomorrow.
Hi Max, how are the compositional ideas coming? How close or how far do you want to be from the subject? Any good source material for the cut-in-half figure. You might want to check out medical imagery. I had a lot of success in the past with plastic surgery imagery, esp. when they dealt with injuries-- not the stuff on the internet because it is all about celebrities, but medical books on plastic surgery.
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