Other artists whose work influences or attracts me

The artist Sally Morgan uses simple figurines or symbols and shades of colours that represent real imagery to tell her storys - as do other aboriginal artists - I love the colours of the earth and the clarity of the colours used in Aboriginal art - this I think shows the strength of movement and texture - I also believe that aboriginal art is a great example of how symbolisn represents different things to different cultures and different people. There is a wonderful -painting by an aboriginal artist called sugarbag - The artist is

The paintings - art work that have influenced the art piecce

Sally Morgan and her painting Australian song where aboriginal people are reaching for the sun for live ? for energy? in harmony? The simplicity and shapes of her figures and also the realism of the colours where the sun is yellow and the figures are black.

The painting by Henry Matisse, The sorrows of the King shows how he cuts each section or part of the figure or object as a separate piece and places them in the proximity's - I have attempted to show this in a simpler form with the figures and shapes on earth.

The experimental stage

Different ideas of backgrounds for the collage and deciding on different images for the mother.
These Youtubes were very helpful and interesting for deciding on how to present the ideas.

The first stages of my art piece

I have decided to use colours that represent real imagery. Yellow for the sun blue for the earth and for the earth to be looming towards the mother and child as almost a threatening force heading towards them.

This is the first stage. I have used red on the mothers skirt and the flower to attempt to balance the picture as the mother and child are as much the focus as is the earth.

The next stage is to start to add cut outs of contemporary issues - I am thinking that too many images may make the piece lose its impact so we will see!

exploring different artists and their associations with collage

My absolute favourite is Henri Matisse - I appreciate the clarity of his colour and the simple form of some of his collage experience (with collage meaning to glue ) in his jazz series like the blue nude .

The first step

Decide on a media - canvas and paint - water colours and acrylic and I want to make the work stark and simple. I have googled many mother and child images and have found these that I should be able to 'appropriate' to make my own.

My idea

I am going to include all contempory issues with a fore ground of a mother and child looking into a collage of contempory issues! But how am I going to do this? I need to research some backgrounds. Is it going to be a dark portrayal or a bright and hopeful one? I think a progresssion of both. How will I portray this, what materials should/can I use? What is the best glue? How big will it be? What style do I like? How will I proportion the images onto a canvas ? What colours will assist in portraying my message? How can I show a mothers apprehension ? Lots of research to do!

My assessment

My assessment for Visual art and innovation is to choose an art style or form and create an art piece using the elememnts, principles and language of art. I am working with a partner to create an education package for art in a primary education setting. The art style/ form we have chosen is collage. As well as an art piece I have to create a Pecha Kucha to present my journey and an art statement for my piece. The art piece is to be on a contemporary issue.

Different styles of collage

I have a favourite series of collage work - it is the Jazz period or series by famous artist Henry Matisse. It is believed - written that he was one of the first artist to use this form of cutting out shapes - sometimes called scissor painting.

I am going to use this style for my art piece as I think it is very doable for primary students and any budding artist.

I am going to cut out images from google and appropriate them to make them mine and stick them on to a canvas.

The art form, Collage, includes many different styles or techniques.

The process - research

What is collage
Definition quoted from Artlex, http://artlex.com/

Collage - a picture or design created by adhering such basically flat elements as newspaper,wallpaper \, printed text and illustrations, photographs,cloth, string etc., to a flat surface, when the result becomes three -dimensional, and might also be called a relief sculpture. Itroduced by the Cubist artists this process was widely used by artists who followed, and is a familiar technique in contemporary art.

•A collage (From the coller, to glue) is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collage