Task 3: Choose 1 photographer to Research, Analyse & Plan and create a response. |
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Awol ErizkuWith the aim of drawing attention to the lack of racial diversity through the history of painting, Awol Erizku creates photographs, paintings, sculpture, and video installations that evoke classical artworks whose subjects are replaced with models of colour. Through the wide range of mediums, he strives to calm and modify his perception of unjustly neglected African characters. Using the most famous artworks, from the photorealist still lives of Dutch Masters, to Minimalist constructions, he gives the 21st-century update to the familiar images. Remembered for his Girl with a Bamboo Earring (2009) that reflects Johannes Vermeer’s Girl with a Pearl Earring (1665) with the strong message, he managed to stand out among the artists of this young generation.
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Maya Rochat is an artist who works in layers, fusing process, materials and artistic medium in the process. Trained at the prestigious ECAL in Switzerland, Rochat’s starting point for image-making is photographic. She works from an archive of her own photographs which she continually revisits and recycles – breathing new life into her images by working on them by hand with paint, chemicals and various forms of textural layering. The concept of propelling images into an altered state is central to Rochat’s practice. The pure physicality of her works – which need to be viewed in person to appreciate the detailed interaction of texture and material – is a deliberate comment on image saturation in our current digital age.
The work of art as a physical object is important to Maya Rochat, and so too is the emotional experience for her viewers. Layers form an equally significant feature of her exhibition installations, which become complete takeovers of a space making use of every available inch of wall, floor, corner and window. Live performances are the climax of Rochat’s art of layering – here she immerses a live audience in a fluid multi-dimensional collage of photographs, moving image, live music and live painting. Most recently Rochat performed LIVING IN A PAINTING with musician Buvette at the Tate Modern Tanks in London, October 2018. |
Choose 1 - 3 Paintings/Sculptures that link to your theme and ones you would like to respond to photographically. Consider why you will do this from the points above. Eg. To replicate composition, light, to tell a story, to elevate your subject, to question and challenge tradition, to use symbolism, to explore spirituality, changes in history to be humorous!!
How to research this? 1. Choose a google search term that takes you directly to your theme - eg. History of Portraiture in Art, gender 2. Look for some very famous paintings and the stories behind them and see if they link! (see link below) 3. Look through some reliable sources - EG. Tate 'Art Term's, National Gallery, National Portrait Gallery ETC. (see links below) 4. Look through the Art Historical Time Periods Choose 1-3 of the art works remember to note the name of the Artist, Title of the work, Date |
According to Martin Parr, photographer and obsessive photobook collector, the photobook has been the ‘supreme platform’ for photographers to disseminate their work to a mass audience. The increase in self-publishing platforms, prizes for photobooks, and a growing body of collectors suggests that the form is alive and well.
This project is about a mode of communication a example of how you can create a final piece for your Personal Investigation. More than any other art form, photography has relied on print media and the book in particular as a means of communication. Any understanding of the history of photography must include a grasp of the impact of the photobook on the development of the medium |
6. Surrealism |