This post aims to describe my first thoughts about the three themes that was given to me, to explore my first ideas for the major project on the module Art Portfolio. This project will be in my progression route, Photography and Video.
The themes available are:
- Purple Haze. Use the colour purple as your theme, consider what it represents and how it can be incorporated into your art or design project.
- Earthly Delights. Interpret this title as you please to represent, incorporate or express the nature of earthly delights in your art and design project.
- Expressionism. Look deeply into expressionism and incorporate this style into your art and design project.
Which theme are you most drawn to and why?
Earthly Delights I think about life in general. Capture moments where people are doing something could be a starting point. Also, I relate this to religious art. Could be architecture photography or simply capture moments inside of a religious place.
However, I do not have a final decision on the theme, that I will choose. Earthly Delights it is a good chance to create something good. This will be done on my self study time where I can do some research and explore what I can do with the different themes more in depth.
How do you think you can apply this theme to work in your own subject area?
First thought comes to my mind about Purple Haze is Nudity. I could explore human body and shape capturing nude academic pictures. This could be in a studio or in a personal space depending on the situation I want to explore.
Earthly Delights could be an experiment of street photography. Capture moments and situations in Leicester. I thought about Religion too, where I could take some pictures of people having their moments while in the church/cathedral/temple/mosque. This includes to go to a mass, a ceremony or a cult. This requires a bit more communication with the people on the charge for the different places that I want to visit. But I do like to explore different religions and people activities inside the different places.
Expressionism I could go for long exposure experiments. This could be a good idea to explore a new field. This could be done for landscape photography or city life where lights are present every day/night. Using the light present in the city would be a good experiment.
The places that I have in mind they will take place in Leicester.
What pops into you head first when considering this project?
Show the real life. Capturing moments, waiting for the right moment to shoot something going on around me. I want to travel and see small towns around Leicestershire and be able to discover new things and places.
Some interesting thoughts in this post, you have considered each of the themes and given them a fair amount of emphasis. Looking forward to some follow up posts focusing on some of the ideas and seeing how you develop this idea. As you state the Earthly Delights gives a wider remit to document 'real life' as you see it - this could be through documentary photography or it could be staged as in the work of Anne Hardy or Gregory Crewsdon. (look these artists up!)
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