Wednesday, 1 December 2010

"Everything is in it's proper place!"

Took a look at the work of Kurt Schwitters and Man Ray Dada as suggested, both of which have very interesting styles. I enjoyed Kurt Schwitters work most of all; his abstract collages contain different materials and textures that at first glance appear to be random, but does have a message at it's core.


Inspired by this, I gathered together different materials and attempted my own collage using different textures and colours for shading.



With this abstract work in mind, I have considered on the implications it would place in the mind-set of the character; although everything is clear to him, but to the audience at first glance things are confusing and muddled up. "Everything is in it's proper place.
It also makes a clear definition between reality and the mind, which may not be clear on first glance.


Leading on from abstraction, I looked at the work of Man Ray Dada, who's work is very abstract and has a much clearer image in mind than Schwitters'. He uses bright colours against dull tones to bring forth the main subject matter.




This particular image gave me much inspiration into my next design which, although does not have the textures like my last picture, is clearer image of what the scene is.



1 comment:

  1. Hi Samantha
    How's it going? Haven't seen any developments on the blog for a while - are you at the stage yet of transcribing your ideas into clearly visualised designs?

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