I would have liked to post up images of my work thus far, but I am currently home, just got back from work, and all of my photos of my work are on the macs at the Mason Gross Computer Labs.
After over a week to two weeks of constant creative thinking, sketching, magazine collaging, not much sleeping, and researching other artists, I finally planned out my thesis painting series. I decided to make 6 paintings, all 36" by 30" on canvas. One piece is an advertisement I created in Illustrator based off of 1950s food advertisements, another is a spray paint piece with candy like colors and geometric lines, one is a visceral, borderline gross doughnut still-life, a canvas of buzz words created through projecting the stenciled image onto the canvas and coloring it in with oil pastels and colored pencil, and finally, 2 food collages, one with pink tones and candy/fruit imagery, and the other with spaghetti, french fries and burger sliders. I plan to hang the canvases in random order with equal spacing at standard eye level.
I discussed my plans with my crit group, and they seemed to have positive feedback. I discussed artistic influences with our group leader, as well as my interest in both fine art and design. I feel that through spending a few days with my sketchbook, I was able to figure out why I paint what I paint. Once I was able to figure that out, my thesis proposal seemed much clearer to me in terms of subject matter and all the planning involved. While many painters dive right into their work, I work better on a premeditated and sketched out plan, which I feel was strengthened through taking design classes. A lot of people always ask me why I always paint food. What they seem to not understand is that I am exposing and exploring my reaction to media and culture, the way it portrays food through advertising, and how it makes people feel. The attractive aesthetics create desire and enticement, but the consequences of over consumption, gluttony or losing control complicate the reaction and may cause inner conflicts and a push-pull dynamic of desire and repulsion. I hope to illicit those reactions and emotions through my thesis project.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Group Critique February 18th
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You absolutely nailed it! I supposed it was because we lived together and talked a lot about thesis that was why your intentions and reasoning for painting food were always clear to me. I think that people need to pay more attention and be more considerate to every aspect of your paintings and designs. It's not just painting food, because that;s as easy as painting a still life. It how you paint the food, how you capture what the food is doing, dripping, crumbling, melting is what you are getting at. And of course it draws out desire, people were physically reacting to your painting, so when you said this was the pay-off and the tease at the same time, it really pushed and pulled the audience. Keep it up, you're doing an amazing job!!
ReplyDeleteYour work has developed so much since the last critique we had. I love how you can see your design background in your paintings and how you depict the food. The combination of bright colors and delectable sweets appear so enticing, but when you look further it can seem almost disgusting. You said it perfectly in your post about how "the consequences over consumption, gluttony or losing control complicate the reaction..." and captures your work in a nutshell, or so to speak. One thing I am interested in seeing is how you approach the collage of food that included greasier foods. You seem to paint sweets and candy more often and I wonder if it will have a more grotesque effect considering the different palette of the foods.
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