Fine Art

May 2013

Two projects were produced the first, I was given an artist and an object and had to combine the two together, to create one end piece. The second project I had to put ideas together to create a work of art by using the Bauhaus as a starting point. 

Project 1 - Artist: Tom Hunter
          - Object: Books

I researched Tom Hunter and discovered that he is an artist that takes old fashioned paintings and recreates them into a modern photograph. My initial idea was to take a random sentence from a book I had been given and recreate that into a photograph. I continued with idea as I progressed with this idea I was happy with the outcome also I was able to get some good quality photographs out of each sentence that I selected. 

However I could not stay on idea throughout the whole project, I had to show that I could develop my ideas further so I decided to design and create a book with pages I ripped out and all the photographs along side them. I also created a stand made from plastic for the book to stand out and to make it more delicate than it actually was. I placed it on top of a light box to make my final piece more presentable.

Project 2 - Ideas

At first I was puzzled as I did not know how to go about starting this project. I was given the Bauhaus as a reference however I had the choice of not using it. I started to brainstorm in order to find some form of idea,this helped as I found a starting point! I brainstorm because this is a way of the start of my organisation and has some sort of form and structure.

For structure and form I researched artists such as Joseph Cornell and Joseph Grigley. Joseph Cornell would make wooden boxes and use objects he found to create a symbolism of a life in them, when I saw photographs of his boxes they looked very organised and I then knew for me that this was more of a starting point on after being inspired my Cornell. However Joseph Grigley would write down conversations he had during the day and put them up on a wall/notice board in an organised way, this was another idea I was willing to be inspired from but I preferred Cornell's way.

I found a wooden box at college and decided to put objects I could find around and took some photographs. I did go into the Grigley idea and record my conversations over the weekend and placed them into the box. 

I went from conversation to photographs, family photographs. I found some old family portraits from the internet and out of books and started to experiment with them as well as just putting them in the box. I chose one photo in the end and picked a woman from that photograph and tried recreate what her life may have been like.  

Still using the wooden box I found I was able to get items from around my home and place them into the box to create a life storage. 

From this my final piece became like a evidence scene, it felt like I was tracking this persons every move. As if there had been a major incident in her life and I was trying to get every little detail.