COVID-19
We have had to make changes to the way we work in school because of COVID-19. We have new rules and restrictions which mean that we don't have the opportunities we once did. However, artists are good at dealing with challenges so this project is all about us looking at the work of artists who have found ways to accept, and even enjoy, creative constraints.
Marcel Duchamp & The Readymade
Leonardo's Da Vinci (Italian Renaissance artist) painting is a half-length portrait of a woman (The Mona Lisa) by Leonardo’s Da Vinci which was completed between 1503-1506. Mona Lisa is one of the most famous paintings of all time, Leonardo worked on this portrait for many years constantly tweaking elements of it to an almost obsessive level that is rarely seen in today's art scene. The Mona Lisa has been described as ‘The best known, The most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world’. Duchamp has made a reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s famous Mona Lisa by taking Leonardo’s Mona Lisa and adding things and taking things out. L.H.O.O.Q. is a work of art by Marcel Duchamp. First conceived in 1919, the work is one of what Duchamp refers to as ready-made. The ready-made involves taking mundane objects and transforming them by adding to them, changing them or simply renaming them. In L.H.O.O.Q. Duchamp takes a cheap postcard reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci’s painting Mona Lisa, where Duchamp drew a moustache and beard in pencil and appended the title.
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L.H.O.O.Q. is a ready make image because Duchamp added a beard and moustache to it in pencil therefore changing the image making it a ready-made image. Duchamp believed that ‘an ordinary object could be elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist.’ The ready-made also defied the notion that art must be beautiful.
Matt Lipps Research
Matt Lipps makes his pictures by cutting out images from magazines and then he merges them together with other pieces he has cut out and makes them stand up. He turns a flat image into a 3d image , he then pictures the 3d sculpture he has created turning it back to a flat image.
matt lip is taking a image to make do and mend , turn something he likes into something of his own. The images he creates are very abstract and different , the way he places the image and can take something from a magazine and give it his own unique touch is very inspiring.
matt lip is taking a image to make do and mend , turn something he likes into something of his own. The images he creates are very abstract and different , the way he places the image and can take something from a magazine and give it his own unique touch is very inspiring.
Hannah Höch and the Beautiful Girl
‘Das schone madchen (The beautiful girl)’ is a collage made by an artist called Hannah Höch in 1920. This work is very peculiar because the title suggests that you would expect to see an image of an attractive young woman but instead you see body parts mixed up with cars and all sorts of other things.
In this in this collage I can see body parts deformed and merged with light bulbs, watches and car parts. For example, one part that really stands out to me is a hand coming out of the side of the hair holding a watch. Why would she decide to incorporate that into the collage? What was the purpose? The part of this image that strikes me as most important is the body of the woman with a light bulb instead if a head. It makes me think she was trying to show that women are bright and shine which also makes the name of the collage make more sense to me. It seems like she is merging the woman's body with a lot of conventionally male or ‘man made’ things because, back in 1920s, women where not respected and didn’t have many rights and men would also objectify women. I think these items have come from Hannah Höch having a deep hatred of the sexist attitude towards women back in the 1920s and her trying to show how women where viewed.
The three adjectives I choose to describe this image are:
In this in this collage I can see body parts deformed and merged with light bulbs, watches and car parts. For example, one part that really stands out to me is a hand coming out of the side of the hair holding a watch. Why would she decide to incorporate that into the collage? What was the purpose? The part of this image that strikes me as most important is the body of the woman with a light bulb instead if a head. It makes me think she was trying to show that women are bright and shine which also makes the name of the collage make more sense to me. It seems like she is merging the woman's body with a lot of conventionally male or ‘man made’ things because, back in 1920s, women where not respected and didn’t have many rights and men would also objectify women. I think these items have come from Hannah Höch having a deep hatred of the sexist attitude towards women back in the 1920s and her trying to show how women where viewed.
The three adjectives I choose to describe this image are:
- Peculiar - I picked this adjective to describe the image because the image is different and stands out not so much like other collages, giving it its own peculiar meaning to the image.
- Encouraging - I picked this adjective to describe this image because I think the collage is very encouraging because of the meaning it seems to have and the way Hannah Höch presents the way women were being treated in that generation through the collage could possibly give other women the encouragement they wanted or needed.
- Wild - I also picked this adjective to describe this image because I feel like the image has very wild aspects to it like female body parts being merged with objects, objectifying the women just how men would.
- How was she feeling when making the collage?
- What drove her to make such a different type of collage?
- Then the third question would be what sort of feedback did she get from the image?
Making Day #1
When making my collage the ideas I had in my head were to do something abstract and different just something that stands out I didn't want something boring so even when doing my black and white collage I decided to add little pops of colour to make it stand out and sort of give it life to me the pops of colour were like the light on the gloomy days the one thing keeping you sort of sane, the black and white collage is a very gloomy and dark collage with a deeper meaning behind it - a darker meaning ?
The black and white collage was very abstract very peculiar , we have people wearing masks , animal skulls and animals with other animals faces on them or people with human faces on them. You even had some tribal masks and tribal people it showed different cultures different interests.
to me it was the collage struck me as not everything is as it seems and the more you inspect the collage the more you take in and the more you appreciate the art of expressing your emotions through photography. Where as with my colourful collage I felt to make it more meaningful something to touch the soul thats why you see a lot of eyes , its as if they are looking right back at you taking in your life your energy your soul, it was like the eyes had their own story and would listen to yours , it wasn’t just based on eyes it was a lot more for example the beauty of the body and the mind , something surreal.
It was about connecting with the image I wanted to create an image people would be able to connect to as if it was real , for me personally i felt like that was what i had created once the image was complete. I think the final outcome of both of my collages was good. I think i created something different and something with meaning. If i had more time i would have pushed myself to maybe make a third collage a completely opposite one to the first two.
The black and white collage was very abstract very peculiar , we have people wearing masks , animal skulls and animals with other animals faces on them or people with human faces on them. You even had some tribal masks and tribal people it showed different cultures different interests.
to me it was the collage struck me as not everything is as it seems and the more you inspect the collage the more you take in and the more you appreciate the art of expressing your emotions through photography. Where as with my colourful collage I felt to make it more meaningful something to touch the soul thats why you see a lot of eyes , its as if they are looking right back at you taking in your life your energy your soul, it was like the eyes had their own story and would listen to yours , it wasn’t just based on eyes it was a lot more for example the beauty of the body and the mind , something surreal.
It was about connecting with the image I wanted to create an image people would be able to connect to as if it was real , for me personally i felt like that was what i had created once the image was complete. I think the final outcome of both of my collages was good. I think i created something different and something with meaning. If i had more time i would have pushed myself to maybe make a third collage a completely opposite one to the first two.