Now for the real thing... Year 1 begins in earnest. A series of workshops to explore and to inspire. The first one for me was to create some mono collages from sourced material. I brought in an old photographic album with Victorian and possibly Edwardian photographic portraits that had sat on my shelf for over 10 years since I found it when we cleared my Grandparents house. Clearly some of people in the album were related to me but as all but three of them had no names or captions it was impossible to identify them. In isolation they were interesting enough but I decided that would be far more interesting if I could combine them with something contrasting. I found a manual to martial arts (possibly from the 80's) that equally had some intriguing images. By combining the two the images became even more interesting.
Artists discussed as part of the introduction to this session were:
Gerhard Richter; mono photos, blurring the image.
Elizabeth Peyton; Works on board, a harshness of marks.
Luc Tuymens; Sensuous, reductivist painting from photographs - with particularly focus on the holocaust.
Wilhelm Sasnal; Dramatic, black and white, contrasting and exaggerated brushstrokes. Appropriation rather than copies, iterations from the original.
Cecily Brown; Mixing different parts of art history by layering and merging images.
Hannah Höch; Dadaist, combined figures, used textures and pairing images together.
John Stezaker; Influenced by Gerhard Richter and Sigmar Polke, Stezaker sliced together publicity images creating disruption but joins. The cut is the crucial point, he would often pore over the images for months, years and leave them cut but not joined to a secondary image. The new image asks many questions.
Linda Sterling; Collages and photomontages, often of pornographic images.
Jockum Nordström; A mixture of collage, the hand drawn and painted that could be interpreted as storytelling. Simple, crudely painted and arranged to allow the reader to follow their own path when viewing.
David Salle; Black and white images that collide with colour, a mixture of styles and techniques that all combine but also clash.
Fred Tomaselli; Multiple small images that create a larger image. These were then coated resin - a reflection of his surfing passion. The resin created a mirror image that the viewer could be reflected in, creating further readings.
Johnny Briggs; Young British artist who creates interesting, disturbing and intriguing images.
A second piece of collage that I looked to change elements of the figure for unknown pieces. However one of the purposes of the exercise was to create images that could be cropped in to inspire a piece of iteration. All in black and white on a primed board. Neither of my first two pieces were doing this as I wanted them to be collages in their own right, so I started to put together a third piece with left over elements to see how that would work.
This gave many more areas I could crop in on to create as abstract iterations. These initially were straight copies of the original but I then re-visited them to look at the relationship between the edges and textures and also the greys. Rather than seeing them as just greys I looked at whether I could differentiate them from warm and cool as the different source pieces were from different copiers and printers.
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