Nat Lowden Photography

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Influential Art – Painters (Annotations), Still Life

Influential Art – Painters (Annotations): Still Life

Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects

Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects (Ast, 1630)

What is denoted?

In the painting, I can see a verity of flowers that are placed in the vase with colours with the shells shown next to the vase.

What is Connoted?

The connotations are of positively with the flowers to highlight life and light with the insects showing what the life cycle that it is going on. The black highlights death with the way it is dark and it is hard for people to understand what is going on in the area.

What are your interpretations of the image?

The interpretation of this image shows his problems with health with the darkness but with the rest showing that life must go on. The images communicate darkness with things of insect and the blackness and the flowers show how people get on with life after everything might have gone wrong.

How are you affected as a viewer?

The 1st thing that the viewer sees 1st is the flowers of brightness and happiness while the insects show with dread with it connoting that he feels small inside. After reading about the artist it makes me feel sad as it highlights the health struggle that he went through in his life.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

The work is important to my project as it highlights issues with mental health and this forms the project by showing what you want to show people of being happy. With the negative space being shown about depression and suicide. The colour works and stands out on this style.

Strengths & Weaknesses

The strengths of this painting are that the viewer can see light and dark and makes it easier for them to understand what is going with the user and highlight and death. I think that it could do with more denoted signs about his struggle to make it easier for the reader to understand.

What ideas (or visual styles) will you take forward to think about in your work?

My work will be done with using the theme of light and dark to highlight depression being hidden from everyone in order for them to think that it is correct for them to fit in and socialise with everyone and who try to fit in.

Who is the intended audience?

The indented audience is everyday people as he spends time with normal people understanding what is going on in life. He painted some of these during ill health and he wanted to make his work connect with the working class in France. (Wiki, 2019) The audience now has changed with it being people seeing it in galleries.

What context have you seen the work in?

I have only seen this work online at the national gallery’s website it would look stronger if I was to see this artwork in the flesh.

Is the work part of a bigger series?

He is doing similar paintings with flowers as this was his area he has also produced work relating to food as well for romance purposes I believe.

Still Life with Book, Papers and Inkwell

Still Life with Book, Papers and Inkwell (Bonvin, 1876)

What is denoted?

The painting denotes a close up of a worker’s desk where they are working with glasses and books.

What is Connoted?

The connotations from this image show that this was painted in a study showing someone doing work on what life is an all about to make sure that it all stands out to the average viewer. The book style has been painted in a way that shows that the guy is going to be a catholic scholar with the bible shown in there with the ink showing what he is studying and to make notes for a sermon.

How are you affected as a viewer?

The 1st thing that sees it the book and as I study the painting it makes you wonder with the glasses placed to show the religion. It makes me happy as it is being shown for the correct reasons to understand what the painting is all about.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

What is important to me is looking at the bible and the glasses and making the connotations that he is a religious scholar the use of negative space makes me think that he is looking at the bible somewhere quiet to connect with God. This work signifies religion in this period where it was important to loads of people compared today.

Strengths and Weakness

I think the strengths is having everything in the middle of the painting to show concentration and it also highlights what needs to be done when it comes to his work. I think a weakness is that on the screen that the painting comes up dark and that is the only thing that I would change going forward.

What ideas (or visual styles) will you take forward to think about in your work?

What I might take from this image is where the objects are placed and with working with mental health it could be shown with stuff that people drive themselves to the edge to change the feel and make it a sad and depressing image. My work would follow some of the placings to make it easy on the eye.

Who is the intended audience?

The indented audience will be people looking in the galleries at the painting to understand what it is. I also think it works with people thinking the connotations with it being for people of a religious context for it all to come to understand what a priest has to do.

What context have you seen the work in?

I have only seen this work online at the national gallery’s website it would look stronger if I was to see this artwork in the flesh.

Is the work part of a bigger series?

The artist has done similar artworks of still life which show off what his style is all about. I like the way he has made sure that it looks all simple with no major negative conations. The work connects the viewer to make sure that it all stands out.

Influential Art – Painters (Annotations), Landscape

Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway

Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway (Turner, 1844)

What is denoted?

The information denoted from the artwork shows a train going across the bridge in the fog. The images denotes that the train is coming towards the painting at a fast pace.

What is Connoted?

The information connoted is the power of the steam train coming down the emotion shown from this is power because of the speed that the train is coming down. The painting is communicating styles that the train is coming into the station across the river. From Looking at the image. The power of the steam coming up highlights the effect from this.

How are you affected as a viewer?

On looking at the painting the first thing that I see is the viaduct coming down to the train this makes the painting look different because of the way it has been portrayed to the viewer as the drawn down by using leading lines to join up with the trains. I am amused with the way the photo has been presented.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

The work is similar to what I am thinking about producing with taking the leading lines and working with them. The composition of the train has been done to draw but show the area off. The painting works with how I am wanting to shoot by project with something going on. A parameter of emulating this would require me to get a photo of the train coming into the area. Then make the model stand out in the studio.

Strengths & Weakness

The strengths of this work highlight the time that the steam trains came past the area in the times with the steam captured by the style that has been achieved with the style of the white. The weakness is that it is hard to follow what is going on with the train hard to spot in the painting. However I think this is what he wanted. I would probably make the train slightly bigger to make it easier to follow

What ideas (or visual styles) will you take forward to think about in your work?

In my work will be different as we do not have any steam trains operating anymore in kent apart from the heritage and this would also be done with a fusion of a landscape portrait to highlight suicide on the railway this will be done to highlight the personal consequences and of other of suicide.

Who is the intended audience?

The intended audience for this work were people at galleries as it was displayed shortly after, this was contemporary for the time that turner was alive. It is similar to others I have seen as photographs on the wall in similar styles. The image has changed the way I have read due to the idea I have formulated to do a piece on mental health awareness and suicide to go with introduction to Creative Photographic Practice with linking it cruel and tender.

What context have you seen the work in? & Is the work part of a bigger series?

I have seen this work on the computer screen which removes the power of the steam and the sky which in the secondary source area due to this. I think if I saw this in the gallery it will be powerful as I could communicate with the painting and see the effects that painting has on me. Turner has done other works in his life and he has done similar images to what he has done.

Art Movement

The work is all landscape painting in the movement of Romanticism which the artist moves freely and is true to themselves

Interior of St Cunerakerk, Rhenen (Bassen, 1638)

Interior of St Cunerakerk, Rhenen

What is denoted?

The images show an inside of the church with people walking inside there.

What is Connoted?

The connotations from this painting is that it is emptiness and that no one is really here the image depicts royalty only caring about the religion. The painting makes it look big and so it can stand out to people in there.

How are you affected as a viewer?

The 1st thing that you see when looking at the painting is that people are looking at the colours which are in the centre. The emotions are emptiness because there are hardly anyone there which is bad on mental health and that they are invisible.

What makes this work significant to you (and or your project)?

I think the colours work well as it shows what the church looks like and the use of negative space makes it look like a blank canvas which he wanted in his works. I think I will use the space to make it look empty with the idea of mental health.

Strengths & weaknesses

I think that the strengths from this painting is that it captures what is like being inside the church and captures the mood. The weakness though it does not show more people enjoying what it going on there.

What ideas (or visual styles) will you take forward to think about in your work?

My work will be done with landscape and portait to make sure that I can show what is going on with peoples health and what needs imporving to make them feel better in the long run.

Who is the intended audience?

I think the audince was meant for people who saw what he had done as an architect and they can see what he paintited before or after to get insipration. This was intended for a gallery.

What context have you seen the work in?

I have only seen this work online at the national gallery’s website it would look stronger if I was to see this artwork in the flesh. Also reading further into this he was an architect which meant that he could desgin the area and then pain on this.

Is the work part of a bigger series?

The artists have produced more similar paintings of different churches and castles to show the interior and to be shown as interior design.

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Statement Of Intenet: Influential Art

For the project of Influential Art I am going to be taking the Landscape Painting By Turner Rain, Steam, and Speed - The Great Western Railway. I am going to take this and convert it into a portrait image relating to mental health. The end images are going to be done with the inspiration of jasper James, with the subject becoming hidden because of the reliance on the phone. I am going to work on this project with the skills I have been designed in college when I did something similar relating to the High Court decision on Brexit. The images are all going to have models who have got the phones out and make them invisible to show how we have become invisible. For the end version, I am planning on using the logo by CALM because I want to show that people can get help.

Wednesday, 13 February 2019

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