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.