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IDEA 1 DEVELOPMENT OF FINE ART: ARTIST: WILLIAM YE

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The work of William Ye:

William Ye, 28-year-old multi International award winning portrait and fine art photographer based in Toronto, FAPA student and non-professional grand winner 2017/2018. His passion for fine art photography ignited 3 years ago, under the influences of famous contemporary artists and photographers of our generation, such as Annie Leibovitz, Erwin Olaf, JuliaHetta, Jennifer Thoreson (formerly Jennifer Hudson) and to name a few. Since then, he has worked hard to form his own photographic style and develop his own photographic vision, which ultimately rewarded him with several International photography awards. He has said ‘My favourite subjects are psychology, emotions and feelings. I cannot literally photograph them as they are highly abstract, non-visual and intangible concepts, so instead, I try to photograph the various imageries associated with these concepts to translate something abstract intangible visuals’ He uses photography as a medium of creation. his work is committed yet still limited due to the amount for schooling commitments e is also currently permitted too.The work seen above which I am mostly inspired by is from a collection called ‘ The Wounded’ It is a formation of the tragic events that have made international news, such as mass shootings in or lands everyday struggles that go unnoticed by most people except the sufferers themselves, such as drug addiction, STD, depression, self-loathe, etc. The LGBTQ community is often associated with parties, parades and glamour, but the reality is a lot of people are struggling. Struggle is like a wheel. It goes round and round, peeling of hope layer by layer, like trapped in a maze with no exit. Much of his other work was done by shooting though a beautiful polished glass jar, you see an incredibly distorted world.This is an abstract body of work that depicts daily personal struggle. The inspiration behind the work is Picasso’s painting Guernica, in which distorted forms are painted to stimulate the viewers’ imagination and encourage the viewers to picture together the war scene. His work is implicative and mysterious, which I admire. To create the distorted and abstract human form, I shot through several different glass jars. I found glass jars quite symbolic. It projects rainbows under the sun, but when looking through it in the dark, without too much glare on its surface, you see through it a distorted world. It reminds me of the Wounded series I previously worked on, in which my focus is on the further marginalized LGBTQ community members within the already marginalized community, who live through a lot of pains under the superficial “rainbows”.

Not only is his work a reincarnation of the principles of fine art, but the covering of the face, highlights the lack of identity and too shows an emotional neglect and abandonment. As spoken about in my previous post. I belive fine art is more then the extend to what you see, it is a arrangement of how far an artist can take their work in order to evoke a change or a substantial meaning for themselves and others. Because of this his work has such a strong inspiration of chaos and huge monumental moments in the news, this is interesting as it is a subject that applies to everyone in some matter of wanting change.  His work not only has clear definite links to my first thought of fine art, being inspired by people such as Picasso’s paintings. But this combination of artistic influences is moulded with what he sees and reads in the media, that he believes deserves more exposure and importance, due to the need to change.  His work is entitled chaos. It indefinitely links perfectly with my next influences for this project being, chaos within the media. His work as well as this link so clearly with fine art and the media of chaos, it also has a clear connection to variation and similarity. It focuses on people and spot still possess the use of showing the different ways to show DNA. The lack of individuality also shows the similarity between the outwardly presentation fo people, and the use of their actions that is what separates us as a group. Personally I chose his work as it inspired an artistic love for the effortless and grace which his images hold. The use of the a structured body combines with such a soft flowing wrap yet still make it look like one being or entity within the piece, is so successful. His other works too has such a strong abstract perception of what art is, and I believe I will definitely do shoots inspired by this work of William Ye.

contextual/critical references mentioned as inspiration for William Ye’s work ie. Leibovitz, Erwin Olaf, Picasso: In comparison to the artist Picasso, his work is very much structured in order to create a more mathematical presence of composition. Even the sheet and is an object meant to be fluid, he forms a more secure structure to the piece itself. Everything about this piece is almost mathematically measure out to fit together in a perfect manner. Ye clearly has a vivid influence in the way he too wishes to connote primary colours, in order to inflict and have the persons themselves posses a deemed amount of power. Also seen within his strong juxtapositions of lights and shadows within his other pieces. His demonstration of clear influences is also seen within the similar narrative of his work to that of Olaf, both of them find it important to present that narrative emotions and character of someone. Ye within the vast majority of his work never reveals the identity of  the persons, it is hidden within the fine art aspect of his work, Whereas Olaf is much more of a fashion iconography work. So capturing the emotions, and hidden persona of people within the same mysterious circumstances. Ye has a far reaching understanding of artists and how to combine aspects of chaos and mass media into his work. I believe If I too use many artists to inspire and form my own photography techniques that this will relay be highly beneficial to my own work.

Contextual Studies, Developing

VARIATION AND SIMILARITY INITAL IDEA DEVELOPMENT

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My first initial thoughts for Variation and similarity could all fall under a possible three categories, that I could further expand and apply into one project as whole.

  • The first premises I have, consists under the inspiration of fine art. Fine art is the basis of how the beauty of life has evolved throughout time in many different forms and expressions. The work of artists such as Van Gogh and Monet represent a more romantic presentation of fine art however more modern innovators such as Damien Hirest and Marc Quinn, show a more possessive inventive exploration of humanness through their work. The common denominator of these artists illustrate a celebration of the wonder of natural diversity. Artists use their expression of form of work in order to create a significance and meaning to each object and person, inflicting their own personal emotions through their canvas. The large amount of monotony and self proclaimed metaphors through their work leads to form new social conventions and not just images of fine art. It shows how something which was once mundane, can now be used to express meaning and value.  This diversity within fine art and culture, led me to run off and see the connections between art and diversity based off individual DNA. As spoken about previously DNA is one of the defining factors which is both a variation and a similarity within everything living on the planet. This combination of formality and uniformity, could be used to define the formality or standards of what could and should be seen as art. This could be asked on an individual subject premises, or more of a formal experimentation to the meaning behind the DNA and why a piece of art was created, and for what purpose does it inflict and show social conventions. For this project I could either look into how far art has and can go for what reason, what the importance is individual and the relations people experience from an art piece due tot theirDNA, or the formality of myself photographing fine art piece and creating my own fine art piece. The study of fine art in photography, is usually categorised into bodily, landscape or more innovative pieces, which are piece of constructed fine art. Below I have separates some piece that I believe could really help with the further route of my images. The fine art piece themselves, this is a reaction to real art.

  • This development of my first ideas, revolve around work which has such a significance meaning  is no longer an image but is more contemporary piece of art. This means unlike more concept based photography, this work is so much more subjective and and shows attitudes of artistic fluidity and line throughout all of the pieces. One of the pieces that struck me the most is the first piece. It too was inspired by a Picasso cubism stylistic form, and the mould of the bodily from. The pattern and form is suggestive throughout the piece, it flows in and out creating a dynamic presentation of the human DNA. I started off looking into fine art by the influences of to what extent is art art. I believe expressing studies of photography in an arrangment of more abstract images which show shapes, almost mimics the way art has progressed to be more then just pretty pictures, but an intellectual statement from a point of view. Further research into the development of fine art and photography: My idea for the using artists such as Monet and van Gogh in order to show and explore how are has evolved. Is perhaps re creating some of their most influential paintings into photography, and perhaps moulding their techniques into mine. This first idea is developing a similarity to the fine art pieces, this being a  a sense of mimicry of the artistic piece themselves. I believe I could then use the style of the artist chosen and either paint or edit the image into that stylistic manner. For example If I was using van Gogh, I could take images of beautiful night skys, and sun flowers. Then further edit the piece to be light and use small strokes observing the artist. I could animate videos inspired by each artists, or even animate the images I have chosen to move in the same way as the painting look as though they would move if they could. I chose to move just parts of the photos, in the same manner, just in order to create a flowing necessity to the pieces themselves. I belive if I both mimic the feeling and then the style I could really develop feeling of the artists work. 
  • I was too inspired by these pieces. It too shows a further possible development in order to express a certain style to the images. I believe it would be very hard to edit these images, but it shows  the expression of how an art piece is painted, and changes the connotations and meaning behind the paintings. Overall with the following notions of developing both the concept of what fine art is, the conceptual meaning behind it, and turning and re creating my own work into such influential pieces, by developing their own stye and movement, will really achieve a sense of variation and similarity, being similar to the artists but still using my own imagery.
  • Use a tilt-shift effect to make paintings or drawings appear real, as in these photographs of Vincent van Gogh artworks by Serena Malyon: https://www.studentartguide.com/articles/creative-photography-ideas
Analysis, Contextual Studies, Developing

VARIATION AND SIMILARITY

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  • To start off this project I first want to expand on the ideas given to myself through the introductory exam spectrum, and additionally doing research into the meaning behind the words themselves, in order to achieve the most accurate representation of the topic I will be looking into.
  • variation  – is a change or slight difference in condition, amount, or level, typically within certain limits. ” regional variations in house prices” this could be further divided into the consideration for words such as: difference,  dissimilarity, disparity, inequality, contrast, disc-repay, imbalance, dissimilitude, differential, distinction. 
  • This portrayal of variation being something which many people have yet only a small occurrence of changes. To my mind, this is quite interesting as not only does variation symbolise change, but, it also must first have the premiss of belonging to a similar group.  Variation is also of great importance, as it has many different meanings dependent on the subject matter, such as; in science it is a difference between individuals, However in music it’s a formal technique repeated.The second way of consideration is: a different or distinct form or version of something., “hurling is an Irish variation of hockey” : variant, form, alternative, alternative form, other form, different form, derive, form, development, adaptation, alteration, modification, revision, revised version. This portrayal of difference and similarity of something that already exists could come under researching into different disorders which people have, and how this affects their personality traits. looking into the development of how people change and act dependent on their environment and the success or downfall of their upbringing. These small experiences and traits which have such a large control upon how people vary and change from each other.
  • Variation is considered to fall under the categories of human, species, biology, and evolution.The definition of similarity is: the state or fact of being similar, a similar feature or aspect.”the similarities between people of different nationalities” resemblance, likeness, sameness, similar nature, similitude, comparability, correspondence, comparison, analogy, parallel, parallelism, equivalence; “the similarity of symptoms makes them hard to diagnose”
  • Despite the clear oppositional differences between similarity variation, they are both depicted in the same manner. This being they both are established by the same defying  factors of humans, DNA and language. This means that both are deemed to be very scientific. However this does not mean to have this project has to remain scientific, if anything, it lends to be  more interesting to see the development of how these factors have the capabilities to change and evolve throughout the process.
Below are some artistic inspiration of possible effects which are artistic and I could too link to variation and similarity. 

like Matthew Brandt: used by Sally Mann via Edwynn Houk Gallery: The artistic above are listed here, and I have also included some links of inspiration for my

project. http://www.houkgallery.com/news