Sunday, 23 February 2014
Final Project
My final project is to appropriate Turner's style of painting with some photographs of my own, and change the subject matter. I am very inspired by Turner's etherial and colourful way of painting cities that seem to be half there and half imaginary, and I want to appropriate this style. Some of his paintings that inspired me are below. I also visited Syria a couple of years ago, before the war, and it had the most beautiful cities that I have ever seen. Now that beauty is gone, thanks to the war, and most of the buildings have crumbled. I would like to show viewers what the cities
once looked like, and give them a different perspective of the word "Syria" which people just relate to fighting and war. I have some photographs of the city Damascus or Aleppo which I would recreate using Turner's style. I would like to use Oil sticks or paint to do this. Some photos of the cities that I took are below.
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Interesting idea, ruins are always fascinating. It'll be important to choose which photographic documents of Syria you'll use for painting. The pictures above look very calm and hard to recognise to some ruins in European cities. Not suggesting to choose violence though, in case I confuse you. Turner romanticised ruins in his paintings, your photos are already romantic and nice, I found. How about an image like this that I actually recognise as Syria.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/files/2012/11/Mideast_Syria-08c3c.jpg
And another question for you is: the goal to paint like Turner for this term is a practical one? I don't know your painting skill and history so had to ask whether it's a reachable goal.