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Explain the
MAIN IDEA(S) for the development of your responses
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The theme I have decided to explore is
“love and heartbreak in 14th to 17th century art”, and
I’m wanting to use a range of techniques to create multiple outcomes, which
may lead to the final development of a style or idea for use in a final
outcome.
When given the chance to choose my own
idea for a self-identified brief, immediately I thought of the
renaissance/baroque era of art as it has always been my favourite because of
how detailed and intricate it can be, as well as the stories each painting
tells. However, just looking at 14th to 17th century art is too broad of a
topic, so I started looking for ideas on the internet for what I could
explore. Looking at photos and paintings it became clear that the theme of
emotion is a main point in each piece of artwork. This gave me the idea to
explore the theme of love and heartbreak in the style of the pre 17th
century.
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Outline your
PLAN(S) for the development of
your work
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For my exploration I am going to split
my sketchbook into two sections, one being love which will express the
happiness and good emotions love provides, and the other being heartbreak
which will be centred more around sadness and bad emotions you feel during a
heartbreak. I will decide eventually whether to bring the two ideas together
to create one final piece or whether to keep them separate and create two pieces
as a kind of series of emotions. I will research artists and old masters,
such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Caravaggio and apply any
knowledge I gather to my work and try-outs. I want to try out new medias such
as oil paint and clay for sculpting as I am using this topic to expand my
skills and use of medias, and hopefully I will find out the best methods to
suit me.
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Describe the CONTEXT (influences, purposes and meanings) of your work
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The meaning of this theme is to explore
the deeper emotions of love and heartbreak evoked by paintings. Art styles
have changed so much over the centuries and new movements such as the
post-modernism movement that we are in right now can be full of emotion for
some people, but personally, I don’t have the same feelings and wonder about
modern art like I do with baroque or renaissance. I want to be able to use
the styles of old masters and various artists in order to create an outcome
that can elicit such a feeling and will have its own story. My subject
matters for my chosen topic will be humans in the pre 17th century style. I
would also like to try and incorporate more modern people with an antique
twist in some sort of way just as a little experiment, and maybe by doing
this I can expand my appreciation for modern art.
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REFLECT on
your work critically as it progresses and on its completion
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I have experience already with some
methods that can used for this theme, I definitely have room to improve
though, but through the exploration of this theme I can improve my skill
because they are a large part of creating work in the pre-17th
century style. I can first-hand explore this topic as I am very privileged to
live in a city with so much art so I can easily take photos from galleries of
artworks and sculptures. Furthermore, I already have first-hand evidence from
my trip to London as I took many photos of the style I want to explore just
for personal use, but they can easily be incorporated into my self-identified
brief.
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This page isn't finished yet, but you can sort of see what my plan is for it. This is the beginning of my exploration into the Old Masters as they are a crucial part of my PI. These first two pages will be on Peter Paul Rubens and Sandro Botticelli. I am looking at one of their paintings each and hoping that I can learn some new techniques from them.
