Blog entry 49:
I have decided to add the seperate blog entry I have done for the Visual Culture: Debates blog, on this blog because I feel it is relevant to consider in my Personal Development Plan, as it researches an artist in my dicapline or close to my dicapline who works in a critical manner:
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| A Study of Icarus by Antony Micallef, etching on Somerset Tub - Sized 310gsm paper, 59 x 57.5cm |
As some of you are aware, during my masters study, I intend to look into bridging the gap between fine art and illustration with my practice. Antony Micallef has been personally influential to me as a fine art illustrator due to his use of paint and application of media, for example the image above uses expressive marks along with areas of intricate detail to suggest form.
I feel that Micalef is a critical practitioner due to the messages on which his work often focuses:
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| Hot Girls by Antony Micallef, charcoal and lipstick on primed card, 78 x 57cm |
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| Broken by Antony Micallef, oil and lipstick on primed card, 78 x 57cm |
The above imagery was created to be exhibited at Washington Place in New York City to raise awareness of human sex trafficking as part of a set of work called Journey. I feel that within each area of practice in the Masters course, we can all consider how conveying a strong message through visual representation can affect the public view or at least provide food for thought about a certain subject: Micallef provides this consideration through expressive imagery of the female form in rather shocking or suggestive positions, and the text provides a simple word or phrase which adds emphasis to the imagery as a form of multi modality.
The reason that I decided to do ilustration was mainly because I wanted to promote consideration around subjects which I either deem important or affect me as part of a larger problem. I wanted to make a statement with my work, as Micallef does.
Other projects with strong messages by micallef include work for raising money for the British Heart Foundation: Mending Broken Hearts Appeal and imagery which combining innocent characters or situations with war like or threatening objects to suggest how war can affect children or innocent people.
Antony Micallef's statement about his own work: "My work is like a Disney movie, which slowly turns into violent pornography"
Link to Antony Micallef's website below:
www.antonymicallef.com
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