ArtMode

In keeping with the theme of social media environment, i wanted to look into social interaction, and how it has changed with social media. How we interact now, without interacting at all. So as i have been going around my day watching people, how they use there phones in social situations or when we are taking a break from ... well anything.  I wanted to play around with photo manipulation so i started with these images, i thought i could try to edit them in a way that makes them look... off. Something about the image isn't right. SELFIE EXPERIMENTS I then wanted to come back to the idea of how a selfie should be a way of expressing yourself, or a feeling. The same way a painting dose. I have been looking more into self portraits, paintings through out art history and how they are conveying a feeling.  Van Gogh self-portrait (1889)  Egon Schiele, 'Self Portrait with Raised Bared Shoulder', 1912,  ...

Käthe Kollwitz ( 1867 - 1945) was a German Artist who worked mainly with painting, printmaking and sculpture. Her most famous works depicted the effects of poverty, hunger and war on the working class. I came across a woodcut self portrait that i liked. Frontal Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis von vorn)-1922 I firstly love the black and white contrast of this. I like how it is isolating her face. Her face looks so serious. tired and unhappy. Then i came across a series of woodcuts called Krieg ( war) in 1919. These were response to the aftermath of World War 1. The Woodcuts focus on the mothers, widows and children left behind.  The Sacrifice (Das Opfer) (plate 1) from War (Krieg) The Volunteers (Die Freiwilligen)  (plate 2) from  War (Krieg) The Parents (Die Eltern) (plate 3) from War (Krieg). (1921-22, published 1923) The Widow I (Die Witwe I) (plate 4) from War (Krieg) The Widow II (Die Witwe II)  (plate 5) from  War (Kri...

Norman Ackroyd is an English artists,based in London, known for his aquatint work, a variant of etching. I have always thought that landscape paintings, prints and photographs are very difficult to do. I have often thought that what makes a landscape beautiful is our eyes ability to focus on multiple points and the fact it is surrounding us. Being from the Borders of Scotland i see a lot of landscape inspired work... and skill to capture a landscape as the eye see's it has never been something i have found visually stimulating. Norman Ackroyd's prints are something else... The Rumblings Muckle Flugga Shetland - 2013 Loch-Awe-in-Winter-2006 Autumn-Sunrise,-Windermere-1998 Loch-Broom-from-Achiltibuie-(1993) I love how some of these are just impressions of a shape that suggest a hill or a reflection. They are how, i would say, it feels to look at a landscape. There is something about them that envelopes me when i look at them. As etchings i am blown awa...