This was not an easy part as last time I painted nude was a long time ago. To find a course in a new country for me with a new language was a nice addition to this course. In the end, I think I managed very well with finding on-line lections of anatomy. It's like attending anatomy lessons. But, if the structure of bones and muscles is not clear, you can see the textbook, but a vivid explanation of the hand movement, or the internal movement of the body cannot be seen at first glance on your own, it is better when this is explained. Professor Ryzhkin in lectures on anatomy pays special attention to the image of the human structure in the figure. How to distribute light and shadow, how to show the main movement of the form. Studying all these details later helped me to build human forms in the three final portraits.
Together with deep analyses and research of contemporary artists, I develop an interesting approach to drawing with the involvement of new technologies.
For example, I studied Robert Motherwell, his relationship with line and spots. Abstract and precise lines, verified and arbitrary spots are combined in one work in complete harmony. I tried to achieve the same effect in my experiments.
With David Hockney, I learn all the time this combination between the physical and the digital. How he combines these two processes mixes them and creates Fine art.
Wangechi Mutu impressed me with her originality and freedom in creating an image of a person or a problem.
Tracy Emin amazed me with the fact that, along with drawings and Monoprint s in her new works, she simply presented selfie photos from her phone. Just this led me to the development of the idea of photography and selfie as a modern embodiment of our self.
And Matthew Stone made me sit down at the computer and look at the formation of the picture and image from a different angle. The use of paint today should be considered in terms of new available technologies.
Now by combining analogue and digital lines and materials I can develop a deeper idea of contemporary language for the common subject matter.
For example, a standard portrait of three people as an ordinary drawing presented in the gallery would be the most ordinary copy. But with additional projection, this group portrait becomes something new and modern. Work comes to life and begins to move, to exist in the three-dimensional space of light and time. If the viewer accidentally touches the beam of the projector and obscures the picture, he will change the usual narration of the work and become part of it. Also, I think, not only do I have a sense of inconstancy in digital projection. That is, if there is no electricity, then the work is not the same as it looks now, at this moment. This is simillar to the Internet and social networks. What will be left without electricity and internet? Will people be the same as in selfie or will they lose their face?
I have many further ideas and I’m looking forward to focus on personal project!
In a personal project, I want to focus on the world of the Internet, the concept of Selfie and digital technology. I will try to test and combine portraits and their presentations through the Internet and social networks. How people see themselves through the prism of the needs of Facebook, Instagram and Selfie? My idea is to combine this present (person) and its final presentation in the virtual world. It is necessary to choose the modern embodiment of traditional photography on paper (?!). The usual colorization of work, I think, will shift the focus towards "loveliness", but I need to achieve neutrality and incompleteness in physical work and complete completion with digital technologies. Alexandra Gorczynski, Nancy Baker Cahill, Signe Pierce, Olia Lialina these are the artists who seem to me the most interesting in terms of contextual research for my future work. Because their work is focused on the Internet space and technology.
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