Image Transfer

When looking at the topic, I had decided to work with image transfer. I had thought this was an effective way to make the image look more edgy and more interesting to look at, the reason I thought this was because I believe that I am able to produce multiple versions of the image but they would all look unique and very different from each other. 
 
  I looked at distressing the images as it added more of an effect, I think that this works well as a whole image as it portrays an element normal photography would portray. I like the way this looks as I am able to add other medias to the images. 
I did not typically do a gel transfer as I was not able to get hold of the gel that is typically used for making the transfer. I liked the way each image I had transferred had typically made its own look to the image itself, I believe that it can change the aspect of the whole image which I think adds elements and makes it more interesting rather than a boring photograph. Due to me not being able to have the gel this meant I had a limitation when working with image transfer.

I decided to look at the artist Mieke Mulder for image transfer, I had found this artist whilst I was browsing through pinterest. He is an artist that works with image transfer on 3d objects such as figures. I particularly like the way his work is different from the rest as he is working with 3d elements. Although I did not use 3d objects to transfer my images on to, I had decided to look into adding 3d pieces onto my image transfers I had done onto wood. I think that this looks particularly interesting and definitely caught my eye which is why I had decided to look at his work.  This image is the work of Mieke Mulder. I particularly like the way that it has had peculiar looks to the figure, I think it adds different aspects of the whole work and can give a different message to each viewer. I like the way this had looked as it added inspirational ideas and made me focus on the way I could explore deeper within my work. 




Joan Mumbauer 

 I looked at the artist Joan Mumbauer and the way she uses Polaroid transfers to make her photography more interesting. I like the way she uses her own images which is what I had done to make my image transfers. I think that it works better when using your own imagery as a way to communicate the message as this is more effective than someone else's photography as it is primary sources which you are able to use. I think that it also works more well as a whole image when you use your own photos as you are able to make the right concept of the image. Joan Mumbauer is a photographer and then uses her own images as a way to communicate the image. I like the crispness of the image and the way she has almost made a border around the images which is something that influenced me in my work. 

I had decided to look at Mieke Mulder and Joan Mumbauer as my artists for image transfer influences, both of their work is very differnet however they are both using the same technique in a very different way, both artists had influenced me when looking at there work as they are something that I would like to achieve the same effect that Joan Mumbauer had created when she had made her work..The artists methods are very different to each other however they both manipulate the same type of work that I would like to achieve when reproducing my samples for image transfer over and over again.
For more information on Image Transfers look at this website I have added. :  http://www.art-e-zine.co.uk/image.html 
This is the website I had found the artist on. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/12244230209677817/

Urban art

Urban art (from Latin urbanus, itself from urbs ["city"]) is a style of art that relates to cities and city life often done by artists who live in or have a passion for city life. In that way urban art combines street art and graffiti and is often used to summarize all visual art forms arising in urban areas, being inspired by urban architecture or thematizing urban live style.
 This artwork is usually well known in different areas as it is the one of the common art movements, common artists was Banksy and the way he uses his style too express his work. 

Abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York in the 1940s.^[1] It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York City at the center of the western art world, a role formerly filled by Paris. 
 Jackson Pollock is an artist that explores abstract expressionism. I particularly like the freeness and the expressive ways that he had used too paint. Paul Jackson Pollock (January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956), known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.

Modernism

Modernism 1890-1940


Dictionary definition of modern:
Modern can mean related to current times, but it can also indicate a relationship to a particular set of ideas that, at the time of their development, were new or even experimental.

The birth of modernism and modern art is traced back to the period that lasted from the 18th to the 19th century. Prior to the 19th century many artists started to make art about people, places, or ideas that had interested them and the development of their work Modernism also refers to the type of materials and expressing feelings and ideas by creating abstractions and fantasies, rather than displaying what is real and what is the 'norm'. It also consists of a variety of artistic movements such as symbolism, dada, surrealism, futurism and many more...  Throughout the movement there are various artists which explore the art movement 'Modernism' these are, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. However, some of the artists experimented with the expression uses of colour, non-traditional materials and new techniques and mediums. Collage was one of the ' Great Modernists Inventions.


Vincent Van Gogh: The church at Auvers. An oil painting painted in June 1890.

Paul Cezanne:  The Gardanne. An oil painting painted in the Autumn of 1885-86

Paul Gauguin: Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? Painted in 1897

Georges Seurat: A Sunday afternoon on the island of La Grande Jatte. Created in 1884-86

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge. Created in 1892-95.

Ceramics

The Tricorn Centre. 

We looked at the Tricorn Centre ,it was voted the 3rd most ugliest building in Britain in the 1980s. The Tricorn Centre was a shopping, nightclub and car complex in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England. It was designed in the Brutalist style by Owen Luder Partnership. We looked at using tiles too work in the style of Esther Coombs. Esther Coombs is a professional illustrator living and working in rural Hampshire. She is best known for drawing buildings, sometimes on ceramics. She works from grand cityscapes to intimate studies of individual rural structures. She also draws domestic objects, even draws natural subjects such as animals, plants and people. (She's also drawn the Queen) http://www.esthercoombs.com/about

We decided to look at the Tricorn Centre as it almost fit in with the same techniques in which she creates. We had used a sharpie on a tile to produce a piece of work like hers. We were given various images of the Tricorn at different angles and to show off the elements in which the centre had. I had chosen three images of the Tricorn and tried to choose the right composition to produce a collaged piece and incorporating the Tricorn in different styles.

If I were to reproduce the tile with the same technique but with a different style and different land mark I'd like to compose a much larger scale imagery to focus on. I would choose Wymering Church or Portchester Castle to focus on as it is key landmarks around the area in which I live.

I would choose these buildings as I believe they highlight the different characters within the area I'm located. In addition, I would like to do this as I am able to include and relate to the area in which my focused target audience is.

When working with the sharpie pen I had encountered problems such as that if I had made a mistake I had a limited amount of time to wipe away the pen before it became permanently fixed onto the tile. I also had a problem that if I had tried to add a deeper colour it would then make weird white marks as the pen would almost scrape off the pen when drawing on the tile. Furthermore, it is best to work out a specific laid out detailed structure/template of the work as you need to free style the work as it is best to make sure that there is no dirt, dust or any fingerprints which may effect the style or outcome of your work.

Surrealism

1. Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality."
2. salvador dali alvador Dali was born in Figueras, Spain, 11th May 1904.  http://www.salvadordali.com
   The work of Salvador Dali is mainly recognised by the clocks. 'The persistence of memory', I particularly like the way that surrealism is almost contrasting a whole different world. It suggests to me that they were trying to find different ways to express there own dreams in there art work as they are able too explore different aspects.
   
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   Man Ray

   Birth

   Emmanuel Radnitsky on August 27 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Man ray was a pseudonym adopted by the artist.In 1904 he entered school and had treaching in freehand drawing and industrial draftsmanship. "I came out with a complete technical training in the fundamentals of architecture, engineering and lettering." 

Dada

1. Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in 1916 in Zurich, Switzerland. It arose as a reaction to World War I, and the nationalism, and rationalism, which many thought had brought war about. This was created by Christine Battersby, 'Behold the Buffoon', I do not particularly like this art movement as I find it very weird and not normal. In the era of Dada, the element of buffoonery appealed to the Dadaists, the beginnings of Dada correspond to the outbreak of the World War 1, it was usually a protest against the bourgeois nationalist and colonialist interests which is what the Dadaists believed was the root to the war.