Maciej Dawowicz · Cardiff after dark

Maciej Dawowicz · Cardiff after dark

About Maciej Dawowicz shots

These shots are articulated to show some of the problems of people being drunk has caused in around the city of Cardiff. Maciej wanted to show the negativity of what being drunk has caused for the city and what people can get up to the influence of drugs or alcohol. I am gobsmacked when looking at Maciej’s shots because I am used to Cardiff being a busy tourist location with no litter or chaos that can loom overnight. Maciej’s shots are designed to communicate what some people might see and understand what the problem could be in Cardiff. When shooting Maciej uses a Canon EOS 5D with hid focal length tending on being 35 mm while if we're shooting this my focal length could end up being 70mm plus due to the scale.

How has Maciej used the problems in Cardiff to show emotion?

The Book cover · Cardiff after dark

Maciej uses the emotion of fun as shown with the transvestite and the shots above.  I think this important when showing the emotion because I like how it shows how the location shows the problems.   When researching I found a quote that he gave to an interview:

Britons can have fun. ‘To the fallen.’ They will be happy to show their performances at the Ibiza, Canary or Cracow shows. As it turns out, at home they can also "go all out" with fantasy and with a snob, as photographed in the series "Cardiff after dark" (polskieradio & Czwórka, 2013).

I believe that Maciej has used this to create the Ibiza feeling that he wanted to do this in the quote when he was just starting out on his work. I think the Ibiza feeling can be felt and understood when looking at the shots that he has done, and it makes me relate to the shots and makes me think that people here in the United Kingdom can go out and party and have fun and look silly.

The Transvestite

Cardiff after dark – a stag night in a pink dress.

Exposure: This shot here has got a shutter speed of 1/30 and having an aperture of f/2 and with ISO 1600. I am interested in how the shot has got a good depth of field with the shot because it is known having a high aperture means a low depth field but the way Maciej has composed the shots and how it is not blurry with having an incredibly low shutter speed, which could make the shot look interesting. Maciej has also used a 35mm focusing because he knew he could capture the background while getting the man enjoying his stag night out in Cardiff, which is fascinating and amusing.

About the shot: This shot fascinates me about how some normal guys might go into the pub at night comes out in a dress looking like that he either a transvestite or gender-neutral. I like how Maciej has composed his shot because he has got the drunken man trying to climb over the fence and showing the emotion that he is not body concise and that he is under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Emotions from these shots, This shot conveys the emotions of laughter because of the fashion that the man is wearing, and he looks interesting. The feeling of curiosity is shown because of his facial expression showing that he is after something while this is removed by the main focal point of the dress. The way the shots are translated into a normal person’s mind will make people look twice and get people excited and laughter.

The fast-food at a Bus stop

‘Fast Food at a Bus Stop.’ – Cardiff after dark 

Exposure: The exposure for this shot had the shutter speed on 1/50 while this had a high aperture of, f/1.8, ISO 1600, 35mm. this shot had a higher aperture compared to the transvestite shot but at the same time managing to keep the strong depth of field and capture all three planes on this shot and I am guessing Maciej has used a tripod for the low shutter speed.

About this shot: This shot is designed to show the problem of people waiting for the bus and not having a litterbin to put their McDonalds and other fast foods meals in the bin. This shot is interesting because it shows the couple on the left eating their take away and it is implied that the litter on the left is related to them. While the shot on the right shows them having eaten their food and it implies the litter is on the floor. In the future, if I see people doing these I am going to shoot what is going on because I want to make people aware of the problem that is going on the street at night and during the day.

Emotions from these shots: The emotion of these shots is disgust because of the litter all over the street and the problem is huge in the UK. Another emotion coming from these shots is anger as they must walk across the street with rubbish down the road and makes people think that tramps walks down and live down the streets. The other feeling is making people think my tax is going down to fix the streets to clear the litter up.

Pole Dancing 

 Pole Dancing – Cardiff after dark 

This shot is articulated to show the man on the left doing tricks on the pole at night. I am interested about how Maciej has mange to compose these shots with the man going around the pole, as it would have been hard to take at any time because it is not a natural position that anyone would normally be in. I think the shot is designed to show people that want to do when they are under the influence of alcohol and drugs.

Emotions from these shots

This shot conveys the emotion of amusement because it looks like the person looks like that, he is having fun. Even though Maciej properly had set this up as I had mentioned he wanted to show that people in the United Kingdom were open to let their hair down and even if it does mean spinning around the people while they are intoxicated.

How could I use Maciej’s work in my work?

I am going to use Maciej’s work as inspiration showing that not one shot is to complicate when it comes to shooting my work. I might not get shots like the way he has done it, but I want to use his shots to capture the vibe of any location that I might go to and show what the southeast is like.

How does Cardiff After Dark Portray?

How do these images portray people/subject?

Maciej work portrays people of having fun with not having care and most of his shots show the problem of people drinking and getting around and having fun. The subjects are not set up, but he waits for the shots. He has written on his website about what he wants to show his subjects are like.

Everything takes place in public – from drinking, fighting, kissing to crying and sleeping. There are queues outside popular bars and the security guards together with police patrols, keep an eye on the whole spectacle. (Dakowicz, 2012)

What Maciej has shown is that he does not go into bars but stay outside as quoted above there is no major action inside as it is heavily policed because of the problems he has highlighted in his work and the bartender will not want that in the pub.

How do these images portray Society? These images portray society of being drunk and disorderly and that everyone is out looking like an idiotic every weekend and they do not care about littering or looking a fool. His work has been designed to portray society in a humour way, not in a way to humiliate Britain and Wales.
How do these images portray stereotypes?

These images portray the stereotype of drunk distortedly members of society and that they get up to no good. The stereotypes portray a negative look on a stunning and interesting piece of work. I like how people with no care will think what a bunch of idiots that are drunk while people will understand and look at his work in a different context of it being a laugh.

What did Maciej want the viewers to get out of the book?

I simply want them to enjoy the book, have a good time going through it. I want them to be amused, sad, shocked and laughing. I want a full gamut of emotions, as it is what you get on a weekend night in Cardiff or any other British town. I want people not only to appreciate single images but also to find connection between pictures, all these little stories hidden there.  (Kim, 2012)

This shows that he wanted people to want to connect with his book, unlike the Daily Mail who calls his project a sham and people going like ‘This where our taxes are going.” I believe that this book has been done to make people connect with what goes in the town late at night. Most people do not believe this because we do not go out and get drunk.

What is the context? The context of his work was to show the fun in Cardiff after dark and to show what problems can occur when people have too much to drink. His context was never to give the City of Cardiff a bad name but show that we need to relax but drink sensibly.

How have news companies portrayed this?

I have researched two big news companies the Guardian, Daily Mail and BBC news I will be showing below the Title or Subtitle from their websites

The Guardian,  (O'Hagan, 2012) 

Cardiff After Dark by Maciej Dakowicz
The Polish-born photographer's epic study of Cardiff nightlife is a hymn to camaraderie and pleasure-seeking`

This heading is explicit with it saying that what the work is about and who is the artist. The subheading is briefly explaining about the information relating to Maciej work. The heading is not rude and is not judgemental against Maciej.

Because of the subject matter of these photographs – the ways in which young people choose to enjoy themselves to excess on a Saturday night – you could say that Cardiff After Dark is a visual essay about Britain's binge-drinking culture. If you were you so inclined, you could even view it as a snapshot of what has gone wrong with Britain since deference and good manners gave way to lack of respect and vulgarity. "Captured on our streets by a foreign lens, the shaming images that turned Britain into a laughing stock," ran a Daily Mail headline from September 2011, which managed to shoot the messenger and fume about this nation's disgrace.

This paragraph shows the problem that news companies are trying to get on their political perspective on his work. The Observer has been a lot kinder to the Maciej’s work compared to the mail because they see him trying to create a fun and happy location and shots.

Daily Mail (Hardman, 2011) 

Captured on our streets by a foreign lens, shaming images that turned Britain into a laughing stock

This headline was designed to roast and ridicule Maciej, as the Daily mail does not agree with the shots he has done. The quotes below show how the problem is what I see coming from this editor’s point of view and that he believes that he is not being patriotic to the UK and it is explicitly clear that the laughs are patronising.

Around 50 of these images were presented at the prestigious festival on a giant screen. The critics lapped them up.
 ‘The reaction was very positive,’ says Dakowicz. ‘The audience was laughing.  They were making fun of British people.’
 No doubt they were.
 The nation, which was once regarded as a buttoned-up bunch of repressive in bowler hats, is now a land of incontinent alcoholics.  Spiffing, eh?

The main reason why the Daily mail ridiculed him is that he is Polish, and they won't make it look like he is trying to take the mick out of Wales. The Mail wanted to have a negative view of how he has shown his work because they do not want the UK to look like a drunken Country.

BBC News (BBC News, 2012). 

Cardiff After Dark nightlife photos go on show  
Sometimes surreal, sometimes controversial - Dakowicz says he has tried to capture Cardiff nightlife. A controversial collection of a photo depicting Cardiff nightlife is going on show in the city for the first time.
The BBC’s point of view is that they have no option apart from that they are telling the reader about what it has not got a lot of support and people do not like the style Maciej has done it.
Do these articles change my opinion?

Overall these articles do not change my opinion overall after reading the Mail I agree that it is not patriotic but Maciej only wanted to document the truth. I believe that if he did not include the location and just showed the shots the reaction would not be this dramatic. I loved looking at his work as it made me laugh but I believe he wanted to show a problem with alcohol.

Bibliography

BBC News, 2012. Cardiff After Dark nightlife photos go on the show. [Online]
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Kim, E., 2012. Interview with Maciej Dakowicz on his “Cardiff After Dark” book Published by Thames & Hudson. [Online]
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O'Hagan, S., 2012. Cardiff After Dark by Maciej Dakowicz. [Online]
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The Welsh "go to town" -polskieradio, n.d. The Welsh "go to town". [Online]
Available at: https://www.polskieradio.pl/10/216/Artykul/769423,Zwyciezcy-Milacha-biora-wszystko

Jasper James

Jasper James

Jasper is an editorial photographer who has worked with many companies, for example, major companies. He has produced a wide range of portraits and editorial works. The work I have selected to annotate are from his series from, “ ‘Skyscapes” (James, 2019). The series captures people showing the inner emotion which them being hidden by the use of double exposure.

What is denoted? & What is Connoted?

 The Image denotes the subject being slightly invisible with the city being able to show in full charterer while with the outside of the subject being covered with sky making the area slightly blue. When looking at the connoted sections of the image it shows emptying and loneliness. The imaging power from here shows that we are small compared to the big wide world. These two images are showing the same theme as the top image of isolation. These two images have got more blue for the background than the first image has got more of the city the middle one has got some of the city is displayed and the bottom one is showing a tiny bit of the blue.

How are you affected as a viewer?

 When looking at the images I feel isolated with the way it has been captured with the removal of all things significant. The image communicates people not being known this emotion is big when looking at the outcome that has been produced with the message of you are small in the world. The emotion coming across from the image is that the subject is looking isolated because it looks isolated is showing that they have been disconnected from life and that they are all by themselves. The main subject is showing the background clearer to show that he is looking to give up on their life and cannot go on, I think this showing the emotion of emptiness, as he is empty inside. Contrasting the rest of the background has got sky on the image because it shows that the rest of the world is cloudy and that they do not look like that they are accepting him. The use of the shades of blue has been done because of the sky background and showing the clarity of how lost he could be. The body is darker because it showing that he is not being shown to have clarity or be accepted into life. The background has got negative space to show that he is disconnected from life and has to be in the city.

What makes this work significant to you? 

This body of work is significant to me because it highlights the problem of being alone the image captures isolation the feeling of being hidden from society. This is similar to what I am planning on doing how I am relating it to the use of mobile phones. The use of placing the subject in the centre challenges the viewer as it is harder to follow the image like this. All the pictures are trying to influence in order to show that people are a disconnect from the world and they need to respect everyone and not push them out. He uses this to create contemporary portraiture, as his work is modern and different and his work does not always have to be all so simple. The use of this in contemporary portraiture makes people think about his work and why the message is behind this and what has been contained.

Strengths & Weaknesses

My work is going to be street photography of someone at the edge of life who is about to become to the edge of society and this works with them being hidden from the world in the way that they are positioned. The Weakness in relating to my work is that I am planning on replicating it in Photoshop with it not having the double exposure.

Who is the intended audience? & What context have I seen the work in? 

The Intended audience for this are his clients and the publishers with it are shown across the internet. The Context I have seen this work has been online and recreating this in college but linking it to Brexit.

The Poses

The main subject image was taken in the studio and the background taken from a bird’s eye view. The location is showing that the powerful background looks like it is going to remove him from life. The poses are showing that they are looking over the city and that they are disconnected from to take the main subjects this would have been done in the studio. The background is a crane shot as it is wide built up and the clouds are just a blue overlay.

My Take On Jasper James In College, Day Democracy Died 

Please note

Please do not take offence if you do not support Brexit. The attempt was to make it politically neutral and that both views are being ignored.

 Now when writing this Image 1 is going to be showing a silhouette and cityscape of Folkestone. I did this when the government lost the high court battle about Brexit. I wanted this to be universal for people different from politics. My shots have got somewhat of a political message to this work because I am showing that Brexit is a good thing. After making this and realising this I remembered that I should not make my work to political. However, this has got some connection to peters to work as it brings.

These have formed an Idea For influential art for Visual Research taken for Level 2 Art and Design For College.

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell

Margaret Mitchell is a Scottish / British who was born in Glasgow and her work features her family and other inequality here in the UK.  Margaret Mitchell two main projects is Family (1994) and her later project in the place (2017).  Her work shows the problem with poverty in the UK and how families need to stick together to get through, her work shows that the government needs to do more work in order to stop people living in run-down areas in the UK. In the place, the book was a scary challenge as she wanted to revisit it but she was unsure what the challenges for her family would be after the death of her sister 2008. She knew her sister children faced challenges with them being emotionally, economically and personally. She felt after her sister’s death the bond breaking and she hoped that doing this project would let her back in their lives and make the family bond strong.

'In This Place' traces the lives of my late sister’s family and offers a broader commentary on the environment, opportunity and social inequality. 

Chick from the series Family, 1994 © Margaret Mitchell
Steven from the series Family, 1994 © Margaret Mitchell

Margret believes that family lives are in a certain controlled location and in the book ‘‘family’’ She used mothers, sisters with a lived with certain style background from objects from children’s daily stories. She was also inspired as she fed, clothed, washed and give support to let children live in their own world. These shots she has shown are part of the children’s understanding and shows the power of what they live like. The two books showing the following children lives show a different the story than we are used to listening to. The series of the family follow her sisters’ children Steven, Kellie and Chick, who she has close connections with. She wanted to document the lives from the involvement and experiences from the children as life had been contained, linked and inter-dependent.

Leah, Chick’s daughter, in the Backcourt 2016. At age ten, Leah had lived in over ten different places. With grandparents, another family, homeless accommodation
Steven close by both his and his youngest sister’s flats 2017. Steven is the eldest of the original three siblings. He took me for a walk, said he knew a nice place, just up the road. We walked then stopped in an area of open land. I realised quite suddenly this was where his mum - my sister - had lived before she died in 2008. Steven had lived there with his mum. ‘Nothing left here’ he said; we took a few photos and walked on

Margret lived in Raploch, Stirling, Scotland, which is one of the highest places in Scotland and is high on the Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) and the reputation is not normally seen in through the nicest ways. Margaret saw the location as not being important as it was about children and childhood.

Leah, Chick’s daughter 2017. Chick mourns her losses, a mother for herself and the grandmother Leah can’t really remember. “We would all be together all the time if Mum was still here, me and Leah and Kellie and the kids.”Liam, Kellie’s son 2017. “I’m going to get a really good job, I will be very successful at my job and I’ll have a girlfriend and a few kids and I’ll take care of them and we’ll have a good life.

The latest book highlights some cultural problems with most people and is what choices do we have in life where some of the predetermined or has been made for us. The book uses the workplaces to show some of the mental and physical problems we put ourselves in. this could be with drugs, politics or it could family issues she uses this book to explore her great-nieces and nephews to see how they have used their choices. As this book focuses on what her nieces and nephews would have gone through with the loss of her sister. From looking at it from my angle I understand how hard at times people can take it this shows some of the emotional aspects from a viewer with the loss of family members.

 Kellie from the series Family
Kyla, Kellie’s daughter 2017. Kellie’s girls tell of how they get ‘slagged off’ at school for living in a flat. In this town, most people live in houses with a front and back door and a garden.

The problem with this area of town is the area poor and almost slum-like condition. The images show a personal message of her family with the loss of loved ones, new love and survival in a socioeconomic context. This will be the death of her sister but everyone can relate from having a perfect life and then some you are close to dying and your life can get of control. Even with the death of her sister and loss of parents and no good opportunities of earning a decent living, the family is almost like glue as they have not really moved from the town and they are in the same area similar lets and but they keep the independence going since they were children. Most families will go through loss and will stick together this what I am so fascinated that she can come back 20 years later to the same place and they have not moved.

Leah in front of her flats 2016. “Hopefully, I will stay here forever, in this area, this place”
All three siblings and their children still live in flats yet to be touched by regeneration.
A circular bus runs through the town, from one area of economic deprivation to another. Within this social landscape, all that has changed for the children from 1994 is moved from one area scoring high in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation to another. This is a simple bus ride across town.

Some people believe that life just stays the same nothing happens when living the conical housing estates in central Scotland. As the world changes the families shown the series ‘In the Place’ stay in the same place. In the landscape and the movement has occurred to another area that is still too high with deprivation, which is a bus ride across the town. Some towns will always have a close effect and people at times will not want to leave their own they have grown up.

Add caption Chick and her daughter, Leah 2016. Chick always wanted a little girl. After she got pregnant at 16 and had Leah she knew she didn’t want, or need, any more children. She had her daughter.  Chick and Leah got a necklace out of Argos. One half says ‘I Love You’; the other half says ‘To The Moon and Back’. They separated the necklace and each wear half.Kyle, Steven’s son 2016. Kyle was born at 28 weeks, weighing less than 2 pounds a born fighter, always.

Problem with politics and not helping the situation

In areas like Raploch, Stirling these are small towns and cities and have been ignored in favour of big towns and cites was there are more people and more interest. Over the 20 years gap, there was not really any positive development. The city might be huge but as with London, they neglect the small people, as they know it will not have an effect on this. Most people in this area rely on benefits at times, this has been ignored in the area by the main parties and in the UK parliament is currently controlled by the Conservative government: in the 1st election since the area was formed was in 1983 with Michael Bruce Forsyth, Conservative – he was the MP when ‘family (1994)’ was created, while in 1997 Dame Anne McGuire, Labour became MP, then afterwards it became in 2015 Steven Paterson SNP, he was in power when ‘in this place’ was done finally, in 2017 Stephen Kerr of Conservative is the MP. In the 2019 General Election, it went back to the SNP While with the Holyrood since the creation in 1999 of the consistency of Stirling it has been held by Labour of the SNP only. 1999 & 2003 was Sylvia Jackson for the Labour Party, after 2007 it changed to the SNP: 2007, 2011 and 2016 are Bruce Crawford for the Scottish National Party. The voting patterns reflect the problems of wealth and poverty and this is why the Conservatives have not held it in Holyrood. 

(Wiki, 2019) (WIki, 2019)

From the series Family (1994) 

The message from the captions

The messages from the captions are done to describe what the shot is about in the place. The captions shown provide relevant information to the viewer at home to understand what the images are going to be about. The captions show some of the feelings of what her nieces and nephew children are going through and give the context to the viewer. It is important to understand that in Family (1994) the are no captions explaining about the models in some cases just there names

Leah 2016  Chick’s advice to Leah: ‘After school, get a job, a decent job, have some partying time, a wee place to stay, a wee car, meet the man of your dreams, plenty of money coming in, settle down (if serious), get a place together, everything all nice in the house...then have a family’ Kyla in her auntie Chick’s house 2016. The original three children remain close, in both emotional and physical distance. Their children live in and out of each other’s homes.

Unlike her first series of her family she has changed the mood and the tone of her shots which shows them growing up in candid and sombre shots. Unlike in Family (1994), she has chosen to focus on the outside of the flats because the family was:

 ‘Less about the place, but more about the children and their interior world’

A huge challenge was she had to represent this truthfully in her shots to use of the crucial elements of body language and story line in Documentary and Contemporary Portrait Photography, which makes the viewer understand the connections with the location. Both of the projects include the personal story of her nieces and nephew while in the latest book their children as this show family, love, loss, love and survival and exploring some questions in life and why at times it looks like they are having a train of bad luck. The location runs on a circular bus route from where the lived as a child to where the currently live they both have huge deprivation caused by housing income, health and opportunities.

I want the viewers to maybe ask themselves a question about how society operates, how choice is related to opportunity and environment. To see that lives are complex, as are wants and needs, and that sometimes people choose what they do because actually, not much has been offered in the first place.”

I believe the way that Margaret has shown the models from inside and outside it highlights the problems with areas having a huge deprivation problem. She does make her work look all-political and blame the government for doing nothing to help them out but it shows the social problems. These areas here are the ones who will do loads of protest votes to make them heard as they are ignored.

Chick and her sister Kellie From the series Family (1994).
Andrea, mother of Steven, Kellie and Chick. From the series Family (1994)
Leah From Family (1994)

How does this fit with the Contemporary and Documentary Portrait Photography

Margaret’s work is a perfect example to explore Documentary and Contemporary Portrait Photography, because she has shown, is what Morden day life is going on. Her work shows the negative power of deprivation and what the problems can come from poverty. I like how she documents and tells of a story of her family and the social and finical problems that they suffer from. With her documentary that shows her family getting together, it is interesting that with the 20-year gap that nothing has changed and that her family are together. This series works in this style because they are related and have a good relationship, in the future, I want to something similar in the future. I like that she shows the truth and she does not lie in her work she is a silent campaigner for the better shots. In the future, I will use her style to build a document series based on peoples home lives.

The series Family 1994

References Rewritten in my own words

(Mitchell, 2017). (Mitchell, 2017), (Family, 1994), (Fulleylove, 2017)

Bibliography

Family, M. M. -., 1994. Family. [Online]
Available at: http://margaretmitchell.co.uk/projects/family/
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Fulleylove, R., 2017. Margaret Mitchell re-shoots her family over 20 years since she last photographed them. [Online]
Available at: https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/margaret-mitchell-family-in-this-place-photography-110717
[Accessed 30 5 2018].

Mitchell, M., 2017. AWARDS: In This Place. [Online]
Available at: https://www.lensculture.com/articles/margaret-mitchell-in-this-place
[Accessed 30 5 2018].

Mitchell, M., 2017. In This Place. [Online]
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Influential Art – Painters (Annotations), Portrait

Influential Art – Painters (Annotations), Portrait

Saint Vincent Ferrer

(Cossa, 1473-1475) Saint Vincent Ferrer

What is denoted?

The painting shows a saint giving a seroon to a church with him holding a bible in hand so it can stand out and for this to come together.

What is Connoted?

The connotes is the preist giving a sermon with the red table being shown to give him more power to the conngeration. The information coming from there is power to highlight that he is in control.

How are you affected as a viewer?

When looking at the painting I see the preist first holding the bible. I feel intrested in what he might have had to say the painting is bright so it will mean that it is not negtive painting.

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

The lighting with the blue make the painting stand out with the painting having a lot of detail in use but this works as it adds more attenetion to the working that goes on in there. I think that I am going to use the way it is format to be bright to work with it to make sure that it can stand out and work togther.

Strengths and Weakness

The Strengths is that it is busy with information going and this works at times to make people come back to the priest in the foreground. The weakness of this painting is that it hard to understand what the preist is about and this might be done for his attention.

Who is the intended audience?

Some of his works were done for roylaty which meant it was for the dukes and kings to see these but this has changed with it being owned by the TNG so everyone can see it.

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 proudced a wide range of works about religon and preists and they all are done to go with his era and religon being big where he was from.

A Young Astronomer

 (Ferrer, 1685) A Young Astronomer

What Is denoted?

The image donates the young boy holding a globe. The painting also highlights the map on the table which located next to the ink to show the what the work is shown around them.

What is Connoted?

The image of the young boy reading the globe to show him charting the course. With him reading the map and the globe it is connoted that he is looking a consolation to make it easier for him to go to certain places in the future. The books shown next to him highlight that it is going to be an important night with the way it is shown on the painting with the globe and the map coming together.

How am I affected as a viewer?

On first imposition on the looking at it highlights a young man looking at the globe planning on going somewhere. The image struck me as interesting as the boy is young and it is normally an older person planning a major trip due to the time of the year when he is done due to the way it done. The work makes me happy for him as he is going to find the correct constellations.

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

The work is significant to me as it shows what it like to do a set up and show the members working and understanding to what this work is all about. I am going to use the simplicity to build my project to turn them into master pieces.

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

I am planning on taking forward the simplicity of the work with it not being overpowering but showing the subject in the correct location to get the images to all come together and work as a family.

Who is the intended audience?

The indented audience is for people interested in the style of highlighting what people do to. Work and also to show what they are about the painting is simple so it has making impact on the viewer in the gallery.

What context have you seen the work in?

I have only seen this on the computer screen but it would look different seeing it in person because it is shown to be bigger and you can understand it in the full tense in order for this to stand out to the user.

Is the work part of a bigger series?

It is not part of a bigger series. The artist has produced other work about people working and what jobs they do. They all show the same theme of them working.

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.