Antony Gormley
Antony Gormley was born 30th August 1950. He is a British Sculptor and is best known for his works, Angel of the North and a public sculpture. He was the youngest of Severn children born in Germany. He grew up in Roman catholic family. Although Gormley is an artist and not a photographer I wanted to include his work as an artist research because his body sculptures are another representation of physically showing emotions. His sculptures are very different to what I want to eventually achieve but I wanted to show how there are other ways of symbolising emotions. His use of colour and material is a way of revealing what emotions he is looking at. The use of black creates negative connotations, and so feelings of sadness and pain.
Vadim Stein
Vadim Stein was born in Kiev (Ukraine) in 1967, where he got an education in the sphere of sculpture and restoration. From 1985 to 1992 he worked in the Theater of Plastic Drama – as an actor and a lighting designer. After leaving the theater he got keen on decorative sculpture and graphics. Then it became necessary to take photos of his own works. It was the beginning. Now Vadim Stein lives and works in St. Petersburg (Russia), in the city of the white nights and the melancholy people. He is known as a photographer, sculptor, and stage designer.
In comparison to Gormley, Stein’s work is very different and portrays the human body in a very different way. Although I have to take in consideration that Gormley’s human forms are sculptures, and Stein’s are dancers, they way bother artists represent the body is very contrasting. Stein’s human forms have a much lighter feel to them. They are shown creating unusual shapes with their bodies. Its the movement and shapes that the body is making that represents the emotion within Steins work. His images could be viewed in very different ways because there are many different emotions that the forms could be symbolising. For example the way the bodies are stretching could by representing the feeling of pain, or excitement.
