I find myself extremely frustrated with all my classes. Me and my half-ass perfectionism isn't as perfect as she would like to be. I think a melt down might be in order. Art school: survival of the fittest.
Any who, enough rambling about life and its relevance and irrelevance, let's get serious. Let's talk about art!
I know it doesn't pertain much to the class, or drawing in general, but it is my medium of choice: Photography.
There are several photographers of which I have learned about their work over time, and I am always equally as fascinated every time I come across their images. These people are the masters in composition and content. Some are primarily black and white, and others specialize in color photography.
Lee Friedlander
I love studying his nudes, since I, myself, do nude photography.
Content is great. This image makes you focus on the body language of the two people. What were they doing before?
The tree casts an interesting shape. not his most interesting photograph, but it is a play on nature, which he doesn't do very often. the true master at nature would be Ansel Adams.
This photograph has a very stalkeresque quality to it. Kind of eery isn't it?
I know the picture is small, but the composition in this image is amazing. It has an approximate symmetry to it. There is so much going on in the photograph that it creates visual movement. It's just simply amazing.
This image is intriguing to me. It's simple, yet powerful to me. There's this image of this blown up face in a television with a shirt hanging next to it. Who does that shirt belong to? Why is it hanging on the door next to the television, with this face looking at the viewer with this ridiculously huge grin on her face. Why is that face there in the television? What is the viewer watching?
Unfortunetly time is not on my side today. However, there are a few other people I would love to post on here. I.E. Henri Cartier Bresson, Tina Barney, Garry Winogrand, William Eggleston, and Diane Arbus. I'll just have to do it when time allows. Until then...
Julienne, have looked at any of Ansel Adams' photos that he took early in his life and developed one way, then toward the end of his life he developed them another way. Most of them were darker and more ominous looking when he re-developed them as his life was growing short. You might find comparing the differences interesting.
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