Genre of Landscape-

The term Landscape actually came from the Dutch word landschap. Which meant “region, tract of land” however the definition started to change in the 1500’s to “a picture depicting scenery on land”

16th Century

In the 16th century landscape started being recognised as a genre. There was a growing interest in natural world due to the Renaissance. During this time, Albrecht Altdorfer was one of the more prominent artists. He was said to be one of the first Europeans to produce pure landscape art. He took a lot of inspiration/included a lot of religious aspects which was a key aspect of Renaissance art. However, although Landscape was starting to be recognised as it’s own genre, t was still not a “popular” style of art.

Renaissance art

Renaissance art took a lot of inspiration from biblical texts or religious stories. Most of the art includes one of the following some of the classic styles (especially the human form); naturalism styles and individualism which was gaining popularity at the time. However a key part of renaissance art is they would focus on idealisation and perfection whereas romanticism which is similar was the one to mainly focus on self expression and emotion.

Some of the most famous and successful renaissance artists Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo and Leonardo Da Vinci.

17th Century

Nicolas Poussin was also quite a popular landscape artist he mainly started during the 17th century where it was still very slowly rising in popularity. He was most known for his incredible paintings where he would take inspiration from Roman countryside. He is known for elevating the whole genre of landscapes.

Classical landscapes were gaining a lot of attention around this time. Classical landscapes aim to capture and illustrate the idea of recalling Arcadia. Which is this legendary place in ancient Greece which is known for its beauty.

Its said classical landscapes were heavily influenced by classical antiquity which focused on Greek culture from around 8th century BCE to the 5th century CE.

In classical landscapes during the 17th century they would have these idyllic aspects to them so they wold appear to be very tranquil, happy and blissful this cold be due to the fact arcadia is a mythical place so people would usually describe in this idealized way.

Add more here about the rise of Classical Landscape art in the 17th Century. There is a link here with more info: LINK

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Landscape Photography

An artist I have decided to research for photomontage is David Hockney. Brno Del Zou is a French artist who started his series ‘photo sculptures’ where he took a picture of his model and rearranged their features to make a new image.

Brno Del Zou said that the concept behind these sculptures that he does it to “use the fragmentation of the body in order to better understand it”.

Portraiture

I choose these three image as my final pieces I think the middle image is the strongest due to the very der5ama split lighting which makes the model appear very intimidating and as if she is very powerful.

femininity vs masculinity

I choose these for my mascinity and feminity due for the one on the left having multiple means with playing into the idea of how wen are strong and woem are weak vunerable emtional men dont cry but women do. Then the image on the right i tried to show the differences between the masculine body and the feminine body by showing off female curves which is quite a stereotypically feminine trait and then have more stereotypically male traits like muscles. And more strong features with vein

Due to this horrific act these protests started and gain a lot of popularity to the point where a poll in America came out and statics showed that 15 million to 26 million people participated in these black lives matter protests.

However these protests upset mainly American conservatives who believed that this movement was wrong and though it should be “All Lives Matter” and a big celebrity Kanye West also wore a “white lives matter” tee shirt. These completely make fun of the whole BLM movement because everyone one is important but its not like white people are struggling with prejudice or anything like that so we don’t need a movement.

lack of identity-

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social identity-

injustices for a type of identity

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Photoshoot 1–

For my first photoshoot, I am planning on taking inspiration from Robert Mapplethorpe’s project body parts where he did close up photos of the male body and then edited them into black and white.

 

I want to do something similar however I’m going to try and do close ups of both the mascilin body and the feminine body. I want to show the natural differences between the more masculine sharp lines and the feminine soft curves.

photoshoot 2–

For my second photoshoot I am inspired by Duane Michals and his magic mirror project. For these he used a distorted mirror and had the model move it slightly which created these interesting effects he then later edited them and put them in black and white.

I will be doing my work slightly differently to his though because he didn’t use editing for the that distorted effect however I will be. Then like his work i will be editing it into black and white.

Photoshoot 3–

This photoshoot is inspired by Cindy Sherman and specifically her “untitled film stills” where she took photos heavily inspired by sterotypical women and their jobs like housewives and then later worked women.

 

My photos are going to be very similar to hers the plan is to do take pictures based on what i think your sterotypical house wife would be doing like washing the dishes etc… Then i think during editing i will edit them in black and white like her work because for this project she doesn’t have any of her work in colour.

Photoshoot 4-

For this last photoshoot the idea behind it is to take photos inspired by Lauren Withrow. She takes these beautiful photos of usually women outside and they have such a calming and feminine feel to them.

For my photos i will be going out to a field to get some images like hers with nature and i will also try and find some plants similar to one the one above because i really like the effect of her being surrounded by the plants.

I really like this photo I think the lighting really makes the models face stand out which works well with the eye contact as it makes her appear really confident and serious which society associates as quite a masculine trait to have.

I think these photos were really successful I tried to recreate the hands picture with both and guy and a girl as you can clearly see which is which as the female hand has the softer shapes and she has has her nailed done which is quite a feminine trait. Then you have the males hand which is a lot more angular you can see those more prominent veins and bones in the hand unlike with the feminine hand.

For this half of photoshoot I strayed away from the artist as I wanted to a more playful side to men and women and show more action shots rather than showing how they are physically different I tired to show it more through personality and emotion.

I think the mirror photo worked really well in my opinion because being focused on your looks and making sure you look good society shows as more of a feminine quality so having the male model play with his hair and look in the mirror was me trying to show how guys also worry about their looks.

I think these images were very successful I think the colours give the images a playful and feminine feel to them as they are also quite stereotypically feminine colours. The photos of the model sitting I tried to have her appear more masculine by sitting up very straight and appearing really confident which is usually associated as more of a masculine trait to have.

I then tried to do the opposite with the photos above by showing the friendship and the connection between the two models as being close and hugging is once again more of a feminine thing to do in society.

I think both of these images came out really good although it isn’t the same exact same as the inspiration artist I think the links and inspiration is quite clear which I like. As I still have that clearly distorted image but instead of just stretching the models face I’ve made the picture look all wobbly and unclear which is how he may feel emotionally.

I think overall I’m very happy with this photoshoot because i also feel like the original artist should have had similar ones just with wen as its quite common for people to believe women are the ones who struggle with self image however men also face those issues too so by having the model be male I think i captured how men don’t always have a constant self image too.

This is definitely one of my favourite photos I took for this photoshoot. I love the way i can tell who I was inspired by and captured her exempts without completely coping the image. I think the picture works really well with the model being in focus and the the plants being blurred it kind of creates this boundary between the two. It also softens the image slightly I find which I think helps show off the femininity within the photo.

Overall I believe the photoshoot came out well I was happy with the photos. They had clear links to the inspiration. I think all the photos ended up looking really feminine with those soft shapes and colours which is what I was trying to achieve.

I think if I was doing the photos again I would try and have more of a side on shot of the hair in the wind like Lauren Withrow has because I think being able to see her face as well as her her was very successful.

I’m very happy with how this photoshoot came out I think the first one is my favourite because I think it looks good that u can easily tell which part of the face unlike some of the others where it’s not as clear I just don’t think it works very well as it makes the photo look overly busy and chaotic. Whereas although there is a lot going on in the first image it loos quite organised.

I also think the contrast in the first one works really well because the models face is well lit up which contrasts nicely against the dark background which does draw more attention to her face