YEAR 13

I started off my artistic year by using my own images of black and white faces coming out of darkness to create realism paintings using acrylic. Once confident with painting, I added colour over the top of the standard black white and grey, to reflect the mood of the facial expression being portrayed.



I then started looking for a different way of working other than painting. I found artist Jackson Pollock and found his work and style highly interesting and decided to incorperate this into my own work, but in faces. I began by only using white gloss paint but as my confidence grew, i added grey into my second face.



Taking into account the repetitive nature and predictability of the human face, i decided to experiment my new found style of working into landscape.



I Then, experimenting with different colours and working on a larger scale produced my main piece.

Art

This is the first piece of art work we did. We looked at escher and how he uses geometric shapes, strange spaces, and optical illusions in this work.

This piece of work was based around the idea of optical illusions. I used a pair of plyers and turned them into a flock of birds which fitted into the theme of hunting.

On our new project i decided to base my theme on the holocaust. This is a silkscreen i did of Auschwitz with Adolf Hitlers face carbon papered over it.

I started to look at a German artist called Kathe Kollwitz. She works in charcoal and i found it interesting. This is one of my imitations of her work. I worked in charcoal also as i found it helpful to work in a variety of different materials.

This is an oil painting i did of Anne Frank. I chose to paint her as she is seen as a significant figure in history and was a part of the holocaust herself.

This is an immitation of Pablo Picaso in his cubist period. I chose this as it reminded me of the unpredictability of Kathe Kollwitz work, and also the facial expression is sad and solemn, much like the faces of the people at the concerntration camps, so it portrays and emotional message.