Senior Reflection Blog

In Art, I am working on my Painting portfolio. I have done a few paintings of some human figures. I did the work and looked into the Artist Philip Clairmont. His works are swirly and carry abstract similarities. 

My art, is unable to be shown due to being unfinished. 

Art: 3.1 & 3.2 Research construct for kaupapa and artists (Pre post)

 3 different types of conventions I will be covering are 

 In Art, I'm researching different types of conventions. The three conventions I will be covering are Post Impressionism, Minority complex and Feminism. Here's a scrap mix of some ideas and annotations before researching.

The three selected artists are:

1: Post-impressionism - Pablo Picasso

2. Minority complex - Imogen Taylor

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An extra artist I've decided to cover is: Henry Fuseli.

Research is currently in progress for these artists

Art :Portfolio ideas, constructing of board 1 & current progress

 In Art, I have been steadily constructing, and practising skills to give my pieces some more monochrome flare, on the plan below shows my current progress and how far I've gotten. I have a rough idea for the rest of the pieces already and have noted them down on the plan on which each piece/series is going to be about.

here are the first four pieces of my first partially finished series of the board (I just need to alter them a bit anatomy-wise and to find the last one of this series. (for more a realistic feel)) - these designs are not finalised for the portfolio they will be altered to be up to date with my current style.

Art: Portfolio foundation progress - thumbnail sketches

 This week in Art, I have finally set in stone the entirety of the theme/kaupapa or sorts. with the obviously planning from the beforehand blog post, I'm going to most of the ideas and expand on them. the theme I'm going with is about after death before and after, and the process of decals with gashes of red blurring out pieces of the work.

Classics Visual interpretation of a myth

 Chosen Myth: Hades and Persophone

 In Classics, I have been slowly developing a visual presentation with a friend of mine. We have decided to make a mini-comic of their story and have split a script in half. (which was developed by Tia).

Art :Portfolio ideas, constructing and planing

 What are my ideas you may be wondering?

Well, to word it in a few sentences it's about the time after death at the brim of life and death and the afterlife. basically the aspects and mixture of decomposition suffrage in stages. these would be accompanied by fungi or growth that appear alongside decomposition. (with some greeks styled humans)

Some colours I would use or rather shades and styles I would use...

A Monotone theme, for the backgrounds, and the dead lifeless subject matter. (that is dead or never was alive)

For the subject matter that is alive, I would use many greens to empathize with death and this would also relate to some polar opposites such as "after death there is life." etc.

Here is one of the pieces for the previous week that can tie into angelic being I might consider adding some biblically accurate angel references into the mix.

The subject matter in this singular piece is a wing that links back to my ideas and concepts before. The type of painting style I guess is kind of a mixture of light flicking and stroke of a small brush with some diluting of the white paint to give it more dimension.

Classical Studies

 In Classics, I have been building up my knowledge of the primordial deities, the titians and the Olympians gods. Here are some small facts files covering them, (one from each time period) in the slide below. With all the sources I used linked to prove this information.

What are primordial deities, titans and the Olympians? - A brief explanation

The Primordial Deities are some of the first main gods that came into existence in ancient greek history just after Chaos. Titians are what is considered the middle or second generation of gods. Lastly, the Olympians, the well-known ones are the third generation of gods