Blog entry 28:
To begin to get a handle on Task 2 for Personal Practice and Methodologies, I have created lists to get my thoughts in order.
Who am I? What kind of artist am I? What do I like?:
- Religious paintings - Renaissance painters - Rococo (Catholic and christian main point of interest)
- Devine depictions and characters:
- Cherub
- Cherubim
- Angel
- Puti
- Heaven and Hell (Damnation)
- Androgyny - The Full Human (Adam before Eve was created from his rib)
- Religious based poetry or writing
- Dialogues of Love by Leone Erbero
- A Paradise Lost by John Milton
- Painting - Ornate painting - exhibited in a gallery
- Characterisation
- Figure drawing and Life drawing
- Adult audience
- In books or fiction publications
- physical book illustration rather than online (though I do not mind)
- Expressive mark making and paint marks (Antony Micallef)
What Could I do? What can I use from what I am interested in to build my project with regards to The Library of Babel by Jorge Luis Borges:
- Nathan's poem on the tree of life and the cherubim - linking to the research I have done on the " "fruits as lights" (Borges, 1944) and the Garden of Eden
- Androgynous characters in the Library (Dialogues of Love Leone Erebro) - linking my idea of the library depicting Heaven or the divine
- A depiction of the Garden of Eden as the crimson hexagon
- Larger Paintings as exhibit pieces and scans or similar images (as a theme or group) in books with Borges' story or poetry
- Make my target audience adult
- Develop my painting style using the influence of both Renessiance/ older paintings and more contemporary expressive artists (such a Antony Micallef)
- Use the figure and characterisation in my work
Now that I have made these lists, I need to persist with forming a basic plan of how to move forward.
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