Sunday, 1 May 2016

What to do with these images????

I know that I chose to get a standardised picture from above the dish with every meal because my work will include a series of 'finished' acrylic paintings from these images. As for what to do with the rest I need to think of some way to arrange and/or paint them.
Pop art style collages are the way I want to go with this, specifically James Rosenquist and Eduardo Paolozzi.


However I want to include the text from the interviews I have undertaken as well, similar to how Barbara Kruger uses it in her work, but instead of making any social or political statements with the words, just having them there as a window into my subject's mind, without knowing the questions asked that led to these answers.
Damien Hirst's use of text in his food prints could also be used within my work, titling the food in such a clinical way to juxtapose against the busy collage of the ingredients underneath and the very nature of cooking in itself, being a lot more fluid and open to change than this kind of 'medical' text shows.


I've also looked at artists like Rauschenberg and Schwitters and how they've used collage within their works.


Whilst I do appreciate both of these artists work and their individual ways of using collage I don't think they will fit into what I plan to create within this project. After looking at Rosenquist's work I just feel that his more 'clean' and semi-realistic style of work suits the images I have gathered and the way I want to combine them on the page. However what I do like about these artists is Schwitters just using what he's got lying around basically to create his new compositions. Which in a way I feel like I'm doing with this project as I'm forcing myself to work with images that others have took and I've not really given them any direction on how I want them shot, giving them an alien feel to how I would usually work. I also like the pop's of colour and Rauschenberg's work but I don't feel like it will really have a place within my work for now as the images I currently have are all quite bright anyway.



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