Noemie Goudal

Her work that I am interested within is all about “observatories” this is a series of black and white images in order to demonstrate harsh strong structures such as concrete juxtaposed within the opposition of their natural equal,so in this case a calm sea.She creates this within using a two dimensional backdrops constructed entirely from paper by herself.This is interesting because it is forming a creates photography element in order to create a mass 3D feel. she consistently uses nature in order to show a more urban area and create an atmosphere that is not accurate to her surrounding when taken.

Noémie Goudal  has always has been drawn to nature and how she can use a combination of culture and combine them,she describes her methods as “invaded” by the man-made. Her strong attraction additionally to drama so also likes to combine all her learning into one. She has two stages throughout her work being her underline absurdity and the contrasting nature being relegated to a supporting feature.She has consistency said to have a deep  attraction for all but the most hardened urbanite. And yet water has had to give way to plastic, a word which has become synonymous with ’cheap’ and ’false’,although her work shows a beauty of nature and also illusion aspects. This is the conceptual concepts behind a strong majority of he photos.

I chose her as an artist due to her clear ideas of the formal elements trying to enhance the beauty of a strutrue that is man made,although also as a metaphor to demonstrate the obscurity of what humans do to land.

Image analysis

I chose this image due to the industrial impact that the center structure has,and also the impact that the reflection has and the power that it holds over the slow clam sea.There is a clear division and symmetry of three aspects within this image,this it the division of the building,the water and the sky, this allows a segmented and well thought out overall composition of the piece. I will have to do a lot of experimentation  in order to know how to successfully mirror a reflection within the water of the image as the object itself will obviously not be there. I think the tonal depth of colours all work very well together due to the way in which the centre is the main depth and then it gets light and then darker tones to the outside against signifying  a strong cut of shape. I like how the structure is such a solid model and how the cut tones and forms allow a strong contrast within the surrounding nature. the sky also has a hint of romanticism but is very reserved due the removal of colour and form to the clouds themselves.Her narrative is so transhistorical and transcultural she uses such simplistic images in order to prints all of her ideas of how she sees society building all these aggressive large buildings and this is taking away from nature,It is meant to symbolise life itself

My inspiration

I do think that all her methods from tones to the way in which she contrast her buildings to nature is all successful and the way in  which she too wants to show,I also think that the way in which she hangs her images and finally presents them is also successful and highly unique I too will put a lot of thought into presenting my overall last images because it is definitely one of the most important finishing features and I will experiment within this more after I have produced my images.