In this weeks lesson our group looked at our 5 chosen pieces of art and narrowed it down to three. We choose to focus mainly on 1.) 'The autobiography of an embryo by Eileen Agar, 2.) Autumnal cannibalism by Salvador Dali and 3.) Otaiti by Francis Picabia. We picked these three because as a group we felt most drawn to the journey and layering of the pieces. For example in each of the artworks we noticed that images and objects were layered on top of each other, in particularly art numbered 1 and 2. We liked how in each image the more you looked the more began to reveal its self.
We partially like how in Dali's Autumnal Cannibalism you couldn't work out what was happening in the picture. I had to stare at the image for at least 5 minutes to work out what i was seeing, i suggested that the picture was almost like a ball of contorted confusion and that we could use this same feeling in our piece- the feeling that you don't quite understand whats going or why were dressed in a certain way but then the longer you watch the more reveals. We then decided to use Autumnal Cannibalism as our stimulus as we all agreed we could get the most out of it.
In addition to this we also chose one of Dali's artworks because we knew Dali was known for his surrealist art and eccentric personality and we thought it would be interesting for us to look it his background and bring one of his pieces to life.
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We then went on to discuss how we can use the colours in the piece and the title "autumnal" to visually create the look of the art. The mains colours were brown, dark green, musty yellow and black so we thought about using paint and costume to create these colours because we feel we want the piece to look like its coming alive.
In addition to this we discussed how the most poignant part of this piece of art is that the characters, the items and the objects are all melting and colliding together therefor we want to create this sense of melting and colliding within our body's. This lead us to talk about creating a physical section to our piece winding and weaving in and around each other.
We then starting mind mapping thoughts and ideas and issued job roles. I was in charge of soundscape and prop sourcing, Daniel was in charge of pre planning piece ideas and physical movements and Ursula was in charge of costume and makeup design. We were then all in charge of co directing the whole piece with ideas, staging etc.
We then starting mind mapping thoughts and ideas and issued job roles. I was in charge of soundscape and prop sourcing, Daniel was in charge of pre planning piece ideas and physical movements and Ursula was in charge of costume and makeup design. We were then all in charge of co directing the whole piece with ideas, staging etc.
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