Edvard Munch
I have been looking at Munch’s work as a recommendation from Anne-lise. The link to my work is that I could manipulate his work to suit mine. I like the look of his piece ‘The Kiss’, I believe that this piece shows a lot of passion and emotion with the positioning of the couple. I think that if I was to put two guys hugging in that same position then that would also replicate the emotion shown in Munch’s work, this as a result would show the new 21st century man which was my aim at the start of the project and so I needed to show more the work I was doing to explore this. I have taken some photos of Kyle and Malik in this position and I will look at working in the style of Munch.
I have also looked at melancholy as a piece where a man is caught being mindful and shows clear thought and this view of men is very few and far between as from my research men are supposed to think on the spot and use violence to resolve issues not thinking about it. I had a photo taken of me on holiday in a similar position which I can use to work in the same style. I have put this image into Photoshop which I have then traced the outline and shape of my body and the landscape behind me. I however was on a rocky sea front so I have used a pattern type rock print in the background. I have filled the colours of the rocks in with the same colours used in Munch’s Melancholy but in separated rock form. I really like the way that the colours have been blended together whilst also being separated. I believe that in this piece portraying me to be looking out and being mindful does show a 21st century man with the positioning and pose. I think that I could use this image in the future to make a surface pattern with there being a lot of surface pattern featuring in this piece but also the blacked out silhouette of me shows some good form.
Munch.E(1897) The kiss Available at https://fernonline.wordpress.com/2013/08/26/edvard-munch-the-kiss-1897/ Accessed 5.05.19
Munch.E(1891) Melancholy. Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melancholy_(Edvard_Munch) Accessed 5.05.19
I have been playing around with creating some surface patterns out of some of the work I have been producing over the weeks. I using my sketchbook I have taken items from different areas of the project.
My first pattern was a simple one where I have played around with tools which I have drawn as I have previously made a very basic pattern from these where I used the outline however in this piece I have used the shape but as well as this I have added an effect on Photoshop. I have found that this effect really brings out the rustic look to the tools with the rust and wear and tear, after looking at the different effects I found that this effect with the black and white is very modern and in at the moment which I feel due to the project proposal saying I need to embrace the 21st century man I think I need to keep up with the present forecast of patterning. I have arranged the tools in a free flowing pattern style which looks random but is repeating. I really like this pattern because I think that it could be used in different ways, one way I could use is it by using it as a background as it is quite a small stripped back pattern with their only being two colours it would be easy to layer on top as it’s not very abstract. However I think that overall the pattern flows really nicely around the page and it doesn’t look rigid which I am happy about as I find the fluid pattern much more attractive.
I also looked at improving the phrenology piece which I made as with referring back to my brief it’s the most relate able to the brief which I set myself. I decided to make the scribbly outline bigger as this adds a really nice scratchy effect to which adds more emphasis to the original phrenology head. I also have removed the words which I had in the original image as they weren’t in a particular style which didn’t suit the piece as a whole, they also blended in too much with it being the same pen which I illustrated the rest of the piece with and therefore it didn’t stand out which I think they need to with it being the main political talking point of the image and needs to be the emphasis. I added the words from the text prints which I did as they had been illustrated in a style and they stood out with the contrasting colours. I think that this worked a lot better as the words I have used are more suited to the modern man which is really interesting as the phrenology piece is an old practice from the 1800s with the views of keeping the feelings bottled up and not talking about them which contrasts massively with the words I have used to describe the modern man which are more along the lines of care, unique etc. I think that this piece looks a lot better now as there is more emphasis on the words which I want to express more and also the phrenology head which is the main image in the piece.
smoke pattern
Another drawing from the project which I was happy with was the one of the smoke progressing up and I found that in my reflection on that piece I said that I could possibly use that image as a layering piece. I have instead played around with the colouring of the smoke and different brush strokes on Photoshop which has given some interesting marks on the piece. I have found that the floral colours are in this summer where a typical Paul Smiths shirt would be worn most and so I chose to look at greens prominent blues and reds these when interlocked with each other look really good and I think that it is something which I could make a pattern from quite easily. I started experimenting with the smoke drawing and have made a cross type motif with the repeating original drawing being repeated in groups of three. The colours when in the big motif resemble a floral garden really ironically and I think when repeated in the half block pattern as I have then you can start to see how the piece could work on a garment.
Car collage
This pattern is a very basic brick repeat which I have found works quite well with the original colourings. In the original collage I have used very feminine colours with the yellows and pinks which I think when contrasted with the reds and blues of the other car work really well as a repeat pattern. I think that this image is really rigid and I don’t think that there is much you could to change this design with reference to layering, As the colours in the pattern are very bold and vibrant so you couldn’t really layer a lot on-top with colour, you could use some more primary blacks as they would contrast to the original pattern. I think that this pattern could be played around with more with the alternate patterns however there isn’t a lot I could do as the shapes of the cars would be more suited to a rigid pattern.
I have also made a poster style piece with the typical bloke’s bloke items. I have taken all of the items which I have found through my questionnaire are typical man’s items. I have decided to use a black background on this image and then use vibrant colours in the foreground as I think that it makes the individual images stand out more and can be shown to have much better form which I think can only benefit the image. I have also used some text in the image where I have found though my research that if you add some text to the image then it makes it more clear the message in the piece.
Tukhan.E (no date) Black background surface pattern. Available at
Accessed 6.05.19
Final Major project 2019 