David Hockney
David Hockney is connected to the Impressionist art movement. This movement was interested in responding to Portraiture,.
Hockney has also created photomontages). Photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly
different times of the same object. The images are then collaged to recreate the place, person or object even though they may look distorted. This work connects with the Cubist movement, which was one of Hockney's major aims.
Hockney called them "joiners”. The main aim of his images was to incorporate some cubism. This was done by concentrating on some areas whilst ignoring others. His main aim was to show the whole image without using techniques such as perspectives to make the images look realistic.
Hockney has also created photomontages). Photographs are taken from different perspectives and at slightly
different times of the same object. The images are then collaged to recreate the place, person or object even though they may look distorted. This work connects with the Cubist movement, which was one of Hockney's major aims.
Hockney called them "joiners”. The main aim of his images was to incorporate some cubism. This was done by concentrating on some areas whilst ignoring others. His main aim was to show the whole image without using techniques such as perspectives to make the images look realistic.
First Attempt:
For this task we had to choose a focus of your image, as well as making sure the camera was in focus. For this, we used different angles of the chair in addition to making different parts of the chair - the legs for example - were the main focus. Later on we downloaded the images and opened them into photoshop. Using photoshop, we used photo merge to place all of the images together in a collage. Then, we had to place the images together when they were all different sizes.
WWW: The correct use of photoshop to make the image. EBI: The image was complete and was not disarrayed.
WWW: The correct use of photoshop to make the image. EBI: The image was complete and was not disarrayed.
Second attempt:
For our second attempt we did the exact same thing but instead used less images to create our cubist collage.
WWW: The image is complete and it is not disarrayed EBI: The image had more features of the cubist movement.
WWW: The image is complete and it is not disarrayed EBI: The image had more features of the cubist movement.
Simplified Images
Through architecture, we experimented with photoshops and using block colours. With the lasso tool, we block filled in key parts of the image. This makes the image simplified as they have no shading. WWW: They could be more clean and neat EBI: I used the tool to make the colours exact to the previous image.
Mixed Architecture
This time, we used the skills we learnt in simplified images and used them to appropriately make an image semi realistic, we did this to mirror Paul Eis' work. I used the different colours on this image but I used them on the same shades.
Andre Kertesz is a Hungarian born photographer, known for his groundbreaking contributions to photography. He states that he was shaped by constructivism and surrealism. His most famous photograph is the La Fouchette (1928), because of its perfect opportunity to mediate on strong composition and what makes it so. This relates back to Toolkit, when learnt composition through featuring everyday objects and fabricating them through a composition. I found that his black and white images emphasised this.
First Response: Fork Shadows
Ordinary to Extraordinary: Edward Weston
Edward Weston was a 20th century American photographer born in Illinois. He later died in California in 1958. He shaped photography today after he pioneered a modernist style characterised by the use of a large-format camera to create sharply focused and richly detailed black-and-white photographs.
Some of Edward Weston’s most famous work was close-up images of vegetables and fruit, photographed in a way that captured the “essence” of the object, taking them out of context. His manipulation of light to highlight shape, texture and form helped bring photography out of the shadow of painting and stand on it’s own as a credible art form. Through these photographs he transformed his subjects into abstractions of shapes and patterns
Some of Edward Weston’s most famous work was close-up images of vegetables and fruit, photographed in a way that captured the “essence” of the object, taking them out of context. His manipulation of light to highlight shape, texture and form helped bring photography out of the shadow of painting and stand on it’s own as a credible art form. Through these photographs he transformed his subjects into abstractions of shapes and patterns
Lockdown Structures
Jan Groover
Jan Groover was an American photographer who is best-known for her ability to transform everyday implements and suburban street scenes into unusually beautiful experimentations of space and illusion . Groover was influenced by the works of 14th- and 15th-century still-life masters as well as those of Paul Cezanne and Giorgio Morandi and by the stop-action imagery of British photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Jan Groover was interested in colour and form dominate, perspective is vague, spatial ambiguousness is constructed, and light becomes an object in itself, producing several different bodies of work during her career, working in landscape, still life, and portraiture genres, and was as curious with her subjects as she was with her mediums, working with 35mm, view, and Polaroid cameras.
Lauren Marek
Lauren Marek is a photographer, who's work relates to Chad Pitman
Fireworks in a jar
What you need for this experiment
Food colouring , Warm water , Oil (vegetable, olive, peanut – any will work)
Step 1
Fill a glass 3/4 of the way to the top with warm water
Step 2
In a separate glass add a few table spoons of oil and add 4 drops of food colouring – of differing colour
Step 3
Using a fork, give the oil and food colouring mixture a good mix to break up the ‘colour beads’ into smaller ones
Step 4
Carefully pour the oil & food colouring mixture into the glass of warm water and wait for the magic to happen!
How it works:
Food colouring dissolves in water, but not in oil. When you stir the food colouring in the oil, you are breaking up the colouring droplets (though drops that come into contact with each other will merge… blue + red = purple). Oil is less dense than water, so the oil will float at the top of the glass. As the coloured drops sink to the bottom of the oil, they mix with the water. The colour diffuses outwards as the heavier coloured drop falls to the bottom. This shows the depth of field in photography which we have been learning about since our first topic in Toolkit.
Alberto Seveso
Alberto Seveso mainly uses ink water work. Some methods feature the experimentation with high-speed photography by imprisoning ink in floating water and digitally operating his subjects in post-production. He was mainly inspired by artwork on skate decks and music album work and is a self taught Italian graphic artist and illustrator.
Our Work in class:
Firstly, we experimented with different colours before understanding that a larger concentration of paint added to the water will fill up the frame too quickly. This meant that we used very minimal amounts of paint to allow us to view the paint spreading in the water. This is very different compared to our work on shadows as it meant that we could not add or combine colours as easily. WWW: The clarity of the image EBI: If there was a consistent lighting to allow all of the images to look the same as if in a stop motion.
Lockdown Sequences: Luke Stephenson
Luke Stephenson is an artist who filmed a stop motion on youtube of a complication on individual cornflakes in a 500g packet. His series of individual cornflakes has been recreated in many ways. One of which was the popcorn recreation by Mr Hesse on youtube.
Our class work:
We used our knowledge of light and food from ordinary to extraordinary to incorporate our own take on Luke Staphenson's work,. To do this we took a bite from the biscuit and had to skilfully put it back in the exact place. WWW: The placement of the biscuit. EBI: We had a tripod so that the movement of the camera was still.
Second response
WWW: There was no movement of the camera as we leaned over a table
EBI: There was an equal division with light
EBI: There was an equal division with light
Distortion with Fruit
Suzanne Saroff is a New York based photographer who places common objects behind glasses of water to test different expressions and avenues of perception. She says that she enthralled by simple still life with a sense of surrealism. Saroff believes that only using very minimal aspects of photoshop is key, as it does not alter the naturalistic qualities which are emphasised by light.