Mixed Media
"Gone With The Sea"
Seashells Glued on Wooden Mantle
March 6, 2017
11.95 in X 8.95 in
Seashells Glued on Wooden Mantle
March 6, 2017
11.95 in X 8.95 in
Exhibition Text
My mixed media piece “Gone With The Sea" is made from the abstract theme and cubism. I was inspired by Pablo Picasso a cubism artist know for creating this movement and revolutionizing it with many of his pieces. This piece is exploring identity and who one identifies as. many have trouble finding out who they are with their personality or ethics. Another example is how people are lost at times and like being stuck in the sea they don't know where to go next and are stuck in a hard place.
Artist Inspiration
This piece "Gone With The Sea" is made from the abstract theme and cubism. I was inspired by Pablo Picasso a cubism artist know for creating this movement and revolutionizing it with many of his pieces. This piece is exploring identity and who one identifies as. many have trouble finding out who they are with their personality or ethics. Another example is how people are lost at times and like being stuck in the sea they don't know where to go next and are stuck in a hard place. I was inspired by my artist inspiration Pablo Picasso and his three different artworks "Aficionado", "Self-Portrait" & "Weeping Woman." I used these pieces because they all contained elements that I wanted to implement together into my final Mixed Media piece. While still creating my own idea I decided to do a portrait of a face like Picasso's "Self-Portrait" that's not mine and using shells to obstruct a face out of different seashells with different shapes and color. Now I wanted to use a lot of different color shells to connect to Picasso's piece "Weeping Woman". That piece contains a lot of purple in it so I wanted to copy that color to make my art look surreal and abstract which I did by finding shells with purple within them. I mostly was inspired by Aficionado by Picasso due to at first glance the piece looks like a bunch of geometric shapes together, but then when looking closer the picture is revealed and you then can see the portrayed image and that was my goal to accomplish with my piece.
Planning Sketches
Before starting my project I created three planning sketching to put all of my ideas together.
The Meaning
My Mixed Media piece "Gone With The Sea" it is relating to identity "who am I" really. All of my life I wanted to know who I am I mean I wish I could find out what I could have been if I have changed or if I was someone else. Although my thought are scattered like Seashells on the beach and I'm just there waiting for my purpose. Drifting along with time waiting for a change is what I struggle living with what I will be in the future what I am going to be doing with my life.
I don't have a planned future and I'm just trying to prevent the inevitable. I have always been changing on who I am and how I would present myself since previous years. Now I just have come to a stop in my life where I really don't know who I want to be and I am going through many different personalities' just to connect to different groups of friends even though that way of acting isn't natural for me. The net hair represents how my thought in my head are always unclear and trapped and its hard to express my ideas clearly. Why I picked a mantle to put the shells on is relating to capturing identity. Now why I picked shells is relating to myself they are mysterious and really lack purpose for anything useful and all they do is take up space and get moved away along with the seas current and the sea current for me is the push for society to want use to be successful in life. This is what I fear is that I won't be successful and I will be dead and "Gone With The Sea." CritiqueFor the Mixed Media piece, I planned to use clay and other resources to create my Mixed Media piece. I would make a sculpture of my head and have antlers on my head. Then I would put it on a wooden mantle that I could make or buy at a arts and craft store. This could resemble how I can capture innocence
the fact the sculpture is going to harden and become stiff can also connect how a deer in headlights in comparison to my sculpture being still in time. This was my artistic idea with the meaning I could connect with my piece if I do choose to go through with this. For the movement that I would connect with this, i could relate it to Claes Oldenburg: Soft Toilet because of how we both are still and have no visual significance. what feedback I got from my classmates is to have a better understanding of what my meaning is my mixed media piece. why this because I am still unsure about what my piece means to the viewers and myself personally. I bought air dry clay that is pastel white to make the sculpture of my face that will be on the wooden mantle. then I could use real deer antlers or ones I could make out of wire to put them on top of my sculptured head. they also said I should paint it and I'm still deciding. My idea has changed and now I'm going to use the inspiration for my organic vs industrial piece. I want to work with see shells that I picked out of a river up north. |
Process & ExperimentationThe making process of this piece started with me painting the wooden mantle baby blue. Then I started to glue seashells onto the mantle and began the first coat of the face made out of shells. then I added a second layer to areas of the first that contained exposed mantle showing and covered each part showing. Then I used these all white shells for the eyes and then gave them blue pupils. then I made an outline of the nose and gave it two nostrils with black seashells. then I filled in the nose with shells within to make it stand out more. then I created the eyebrows and mouth. I used hot glue from a small glue gun to glue everything to the mantle but when it came to the hair I decided to use wooden glue and glued that hair to the Mantle. The process could have been neater but in the end, I'm satisfied.
I experimented if I was going to give my face out of shells hair made out of shells or not and soon was decided when I went to Michaels and say a fake fishing net which I used as the hair. Reflection
While making my Mixed Media I found out many strengths and struggles throughout the process. My struggles were finding the shells to give me a good example of how it connects to my artist inspiration. Another struggle while doing this piece is that when using hot glue from a hot glue gun it tends to leave strings behind which look terrible and makes the piece have poor craftsmanship but a lack of gluing resources we had no choice. Another struggle was gluing shells on top of other shells and making it look messy even though I was trying to make it look clean. my strengths were forming a symmetrical balance with creating the face out of the shell. Another strength was my formulated meaning I came up with that I created this piece from and how my title and art connect with the theme and artist inspiration quite nicely. The overall outcome of the piece was a success due to me getting my values and point across clearly with the art I have created and what in going to present. My experimenting was lacking I could have been riskier and have changed up the way I set up the base coat of shells that I put. My final piece and my connections and meanings are the strongest components to my inspiration because of the good execution I did with comparing the two. Overall I am proud of the finished product I made.
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Connecting to ACT
1. Identify cause and effect relationships between your inspiration and your artwork.
My inspiration of cubism great influence on my artwork. Taken the idea of perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes, interlocking planes, and, later, collage.
2. What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The overall approach to Picassos piece was to depict the lack of multiple viewpoints using the art movement cubism.
3. What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
After I've did some research, I've came to a generalization about the idea of cubism, it is the perspective with a single viewpoint was abandoned and use was made of simple geometric shapes
4. What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The central theme around my inspirational research was famous cubism artist. I then searched up art by them to gather some ideas.
5. What kind of inferences did you make while reading your research?
From my research, I've made inferences of who we are and what will our purpose be.
Citations
""The Aficionado (The Torero)"." Own the Most Famous Painting Reproductions of the World's Most Famous Artists. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2017. <http://most-famous-paintings.com/MostFamousPaintings.nsf/A?Open&A=8XYNMA>.
RasMarley. "Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) - 1907 Self Portrait." Flickr. Yahoo!, 24 Dec. 2008. Web. 05 Apr. 2017. <https://www.flickr.com/photos/32357038@N08/3134087726>.
"Weeping Woman (1937)." Weeping Woman, Pablo Picasso: Analysis, Interpretation. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2017. <http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/paintings-analysis/weeping-woman.htm>.
RasMarley. "Picasso, Pablo (1881-1973) - 1907 Self Portrait." Flickr. Yahoo!, 24 Dec. 2008. Web. 05 Apr. 2017. <https://www.flickr.com/photos/32357038@N08/3134087726>.
"Weeping Woman (1937)." Weeping Woman, Pablo Picasso: Analysis, Interpretation. N.p., n.d. Web. 05 Apr. 2017. <http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/paintings-analysis/weeping-woman.htm>.