Evaluation
The Final Major Project is founded on a biographical subject,
based on the story of a person, place, art movement or a historical event. I
thought about the things I am interested in and the things that make me who I
am, after making a list of all of these things, I decided that the best thing
for me would to base my FMP around Greek mythology.
I have had a
huge interest in Greek mythology since I was very young, I find the stories and
art extremely fascinating, and throughout my
childhood I have read the stories and have been engrossed by the statues built
to exalt the deities and the people who have inspired the arts which have
echoed through the centuries.
From the small vases to the giant statues
built to worship the gods with precise and intricate details, so I will be
exploring the stories and recreating them and the structures through my art
work.
I
built up a huge collection of images and materials to create a series of
collages, using printed images, book pages, magazines and other things, I then
researched a selection of different collage artist and created my own style of
collaging technique, I didn't really use collage in most of my work, although I
found it interesting, I prefer to put detail into my work myself and rely on
myself to create an image.
I
used several different mediums in my work.
Photography
Although
only used the photographs as a visual reference, photography has been extremely
useful during my project, being able to capture an image and recreate it as my
own, such as I have done in my final piece, I used the images of a tutor to
create a reference point and paint him as a the God of War Ares.
Graphics
I
only did one piece of work regarding to graphics in my project, using one of my
photographs of Matt I have edited the image using several effects on both Photoshop
and illustrator. I have cropped the image to give it an intriguing composition,
darkened certain sections to emphasize them and give the image an effect of a
painting to give it a very dark and serious painting. I don’t exactly respond
well to the graphic side of art as I prefer to create an image in a more
traditional way otherwise I may have continued to create more digital images.
3D
I attempted
to recreate a statue of Zeus using a drawing I did of a one of his statues, the
piece didn’t turn out exactly how I had imagined it, the quality of the piece
was poor, I feel if I had more time to practice or create a series of
structures I could possibly have made a very successful piece, unfortunately
the duration wasn't quite long enough and I had been concentrating on my
painting.
Drawing and painting
My strongest
point of my artist abilities are my drawings and paintings, I find it easy to
structure an image and capture the tonal and line qualities, specifically more
with portraiture, I find it interesting how a person’s body language and facial
expressions can capture the emotion of a subject, for instance, the slightest movement
in someone’s eyebrow or cheek can change the expression of happy to sad or
angry to surprised, it intrigues me to attempt to capture this. This is why I chose
to do my final piece as a large portrait of Matt representing the God of war,
Ares, using acrylic paints on canvas. The image was fairly successful, I feel I
have captured the emotion of anger I had tried to, I have also avoided
cluttering the image with a background to keep the attention on the main
subject, and I believe the composition of the piece allows the subject to seem ‘mighty’
and ‘godlike’. Although I have only had good reviews and appraisals from my
peers and tutors, I feel the image could improve, in no specific section, I just
feel I could have done better.
