La Giuseppina
Self-Portrait
Wednesday 29 August 2012
Links To Helpful Bits of The Internet
Stuff on Sickert:
John Singer-Sargent:
Metropolitan Museum (largest JSS collection anywhere) masses and masses of images, loads of sketches
Degas:
Met Museum thematic essay
Munch:
Guardian article on Tate Munch exhibition
- http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/walter-richard-sickert-1941
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/artists/walter-richard-sickert/paintings/slideshow#/22
John Singer-Sargent:
Metropolitan Museum (largest JSS collection anywhere) masses and masses of images, loads of sketches
Degas:
Met Museum thematic essay
Munch:
Guardian article on Tate Munch exhibition
Rounding Up Influences Thus Far: Impressionism/Expressionism
I would like to collect together the various threads of thought pertaining to my project entitled 'Youth, Beauty, Ageing and Vanity' contained in this blog into a single, more coherent and practical definition of the direction the project will take. Starting from a completely blank position, the artists which have struck me as exciting and relatable to my own intentions as an artist seem to be connected in some way to the Impressionism movement. However, I am taking selectively from this collective of ideas and techniques, and in conjunction with a number of other schools of thought.
Rather than being drawn to the classic interpretation of Impressionism, such as Monet's vibrant landscapes, I have rather found inspiration in Degas' own, uniquely 'un-impressionist' form of Impressionism, with his careful, muted colour palette, slow and precise way of working in a studio and yet retention of the vibrancy, dynamism and looseness of technique which is more prevalent in the works of Monet or Renoir. His series on ballerinas and women bathing are particularly interesting, not only from a technical viewpoint in the delicate and intense way he handles the pastel colours and defined lines, but from a thematic point they also capture a sense of beauty, age, and the connection between the mind and the body which is the underpinning concept of my title.
However from the very origins of my project, Edvard Munch has been influential on my ideas. Although often considered a 'pure-breed' Expressionist, Munch is in fact difficult to define in relation to any particular artistic movement, as throughout his career he experimented with many different styles, including Impressionism. However, whilst Impressionism is often about capturing a personal interpretation of an external scene, Munch's Expressionist works were about interpreting the internal ideas and emotions of the artist, and his paintings have an almost diarylike quality. However, the things in common between Much and the Impressionist artists I am inspired by such as Degas, Sickert and Vuillard (the latter being more of a post-impressionist but whatever) are the emotional and physical narrative they offer. A combination of the beauty and life-imbued studies of the phyical state and sense of atmosphere offered by the Impressionist work and Munch's harrowing emotional symbolism are the key components of this project which I wish to be a study into both the emtional and physical relationship between youth and growing old (physical) with the concepts of beauty and vanity (emotional/internal)
And then of course there is my old favourite, John Singer-Sargent, thrown in for good measure and to complicate things further. From this clever old man I wish to take his watercolour and drawing technique with which he re-invented himself with in later life and which is explored in a previous post.
This is a rather haphazard, over-punctuated, disorganised attempt to make sense of a sprawling web of somewhat directionless ideas, but it's my best shot as of yet.
Rather than being drawn to the classic interpretation of Impressionism, such as Monet's vibrant landscapes, I have rather found inspiration in Degas' own, uniquely 'un-impressionist' form of Impressionism, with his careful, muted colour palette, slow and precise way of working in a studio and yet retention of the vibrancy, dynamism and looseness of technique which is more prevalent in the works of Monet or Renoir. His series on ballerinas and women bathing are particularly interesting, not only from a technical viewpoint in the delicate and intense way he handles the pastel colours and defined lines, but from a thematic point they also capture a sense of beauty, age, and the connection between the mind and the body which is the underpinning concept of my title.
However from the very origins of my project, Edvard Munch has been influential on my ideas. Although often considered a 'pure-breed' Expressionist, Munch is in fact difficult to define in relation to any particular artistic movement, as throughout his career he experimented with many different styles, including Impressionism. However, whilst Impressionism is often about capturing a personal interpretation of an external scene, Munch's Expressionist works were about interpreting the internal ideas and emotions of the artist, and his paintings have an almost diarylike quality. However, the things in common between Much and the Impressionist artists I am inspired by such as Degas, Sickert and Vuillard (the latter being more of a post-impressionist but whatever) are the emotional and physical narrative they offer. A combination of the beauty and life-imbued studies of the phyical state and sense of atmosphere offered by the Impressionist work and Munch's harrowing emotional symbolism are the key components of this project which I wish to be a study into both the emtional and physical relationship between youth and growing old (physical) with the concepts of beauty and vanity (emotional/internal)
And then of course there is my old favourite, John Singer-Sargent, thrown in for good measure and to complicate things further. From this clever old man I wish to take his watercolour and drawing technique with which he re-invented himself with in later life and which is explored in a previous post.
This is a rather haphazard, over-punctuated, disorganised attempt to make sense of a sprawling web of somewhat directionless ideas, but it's my best shot as of yet.
Saturday 18 August 2012
Such a Lot to Learn
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