Title: Waiting for a New
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Inspiration:
Edvard Munch:
Throughout Munch's pieces he uses an array of different textures and expressions in the face to portray the emotions he felt to create the piece. This is done due to being an expressionist artist, which exaggerated the emotions characters had in the paintings and having the main subjective of emotions and events surrounding it. This is done due to distortion of many of the face structures of elongation to create a mood the artist wants. This is shown in Munch's art from his paintings containing elongated faces and body forms to suggest sadness and pain, Lastly, giving it a more textured looks of having more rough, longer strokes alludes to more sadness by trying to emphasize on the emotions given which contrasts from the background of many pieces being more feathered out or blended in. |
Additionally, Munch also uses the color red to suggest emotions throughout his pieces, showing the pain he felt and his own mixture of emotions, with it mainly used to frame his own characters or on the characters themselves. Moreover, uses many symbols in the piece to show to the audience his own purpose of his pain. This is done by in Separation, Munch uses the symbol of the character's heart and tearing out to suggest the pain that followed after a break up. Lastly, This is also shown in By the WIndow, with his own pain from the trauma of the War and Spanish Flu influencing him to paint the sorrow and pain he felt through it.
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Planning Sketches:
Within my planning I used what colors I wanted to use, knowing in Munch's artwork with red reflecting the pain he had, I wanted to use a mixture of reds and blues to suggest a more gloomy feel and darkening many parts to give a more gloomy look to reflect how I want to have myself portrayed of unsatisfied and to show my own pain of waiting. Also, putting me in my own cultural clothing to show how I felt pain in my own culture for many parts of it stuck in the past and reflect my own thoughts of feeling trapped in my own self. Then I took pictures of myself and sketched them out onto paper, sketching many of the details I wanted to put into the piece, with the background I wanted to leave blank in some areas to suggest the feeling of being trapped. lastly, then picking a more bright red tone to emphasize my own pain on my face and to have mixtures of blues to show my own sadness of not being able to be content with myself.
Process:
Firstly, I did a Rough sketch of where I wanted everything, due to many expressionism art done more deliberately, and intention of where the strokes are, I planned where I wanted what colors, and put a base coat layer to show the midtones in the colors due to many of Munch's work not one tone in a paint. With on the face and the background I added a light wash of red to later blend into to suggest the pain. I premixed my colors on a pallet, having to blend all the undertones, and also adding the different shades on the canvas. Also a mixture of blue tones in the back to suggest my mood of sadness. I later would go in with multiple long strokes which I applied with more paint to suggest the elongated strokes and to have each individual stroke sand out, then letting the paint dry and add another layer to blend it out or to add texture. Then I would go in my highlight and shadows to add those tones.to create the depth in the paining.
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Additionally, I would touch up on any strokes that were off and make it unproportionate to suggest my pain and to give a more solemn look. Then in the background near the top right, continuously using rough short strokes to show more emphasis on my face to contrast it from all the rough long blended strokes to the unblended, feathered out background. Lastly, going in with final touches to give a more flush look amd making sure no colors blended out.
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Experimentation:
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FIrstly I experimented with the amount of water to paint, with having less water and paint, I was able to drag the stroke longer to give the more elongated look that I wanted to go for. I also tried various brush techniques due to in Munch's paintings suggest many rough and feather strokes, i experimented with roughly blending it out to having less water which and more water, finding that more water and dampening it with a paper towel to give a more feathered look and to make sure the paint didn't blend to other colors. I also tried to add white to highlight the areas to make it pop out more and in some areas left it more blended to give the look of emptiness and a void in the foreground. Lastly, I tried to use water to clean up and touch up with any mistakes I didn't want and to touch up on the feathering out the paint did on the edges to become more crisp, with it only working when the paint is dry and with water that is clean.
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Reflection:
Overall, if I were to do this project again I would, I was able to control more of what I wanted in the piece than having to wait and letting it dry for a certain amount, and was able to create the textures I wanted by having the rough patchy textures that I strived for. Things I would change about my project is adding less variation of color which it somewhat deterred from my own intent of showing my own pain and how I felt suck by using the reds and the blues. With it changing the overall intent that I didn't want it to do so. Moreover, go back in to some areas after and let the paint to dry due to many of the colors blending in together rather than looking like it was painted in layers.
Compare & Contrast:
Differences:- In By the Window, munch uses reds to show his own pain, while in Waiting for a New uses blues and reds to show sorrow and the feeling of being trapped and the pain the goes with it.
- By the Window uses clothing to suggest grief and lost, while the clothing in Waiting for a New uses Hmong clothing to show the paint from the culture. - In Waiting for a New more black tones are put into it to suggest a state of being stuck while in By The Window uses blacks to reflect and contrast Munch's own thoughts and emotions of sorrow. - In waiting for a New the purpose was to show the feeling of trapped and uneasiness while in By the Window's purpose was to show Munch's own pain and show his sorrow and trauma from the World War and Spanish Flu. |
Similarities:- Both By the Window and Waiting for a New uses reds to show the pain that the artist felt.
- In By the window and Waiting for a New both have the intended purpose to show the pain that was felt during the time and the sorrow felt. - In Waiting for a New and By the Window both uses unproportionate facial features to suggest uneasiness and the sorrow by how the facial features are constructed. |
ACT Questions:
1) Clearly explain and describe how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork.
The cause effect relationship between my inspiration and it's effect on my atwork is the placing and use of colors to create emotion within a painting.
2) What is the overall approach (point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
My overall approach regarding the author and topic of my inspiration is how the emotions can be express by having elongated figures, color, rough textures, and proportions changed to show emotion.
3) What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
Generalizations I've made was the use of art of Munch was his intent, due to the art being created during the World War and Spanish flu which inspired his other paintings, to show is own emotions and sorrow from it.
4) What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The central idea of my inspirational research was use of elongation of the figure, color, and texture to create emotions to create the feeling of being stuck within one's own self and idea from the pressures of others. Moreover, themes of sorrow of the emotions connected show in the expressions of the face.
5) What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research?
Conclusions made while reading my research was that his artwork during the time Munch uses lots of red to show pain and emotion, and having rough textures that shown his own pain due to coming from a time of trauma of the World War and Spanish flu that massively impacted Munch.
The cause effect relationship between my inspiration and it's effect on my atwork is the placing and use of colors to create emotion within a painting.
2) What is the overall approach (point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
My overall approach regarding the author and topic of my inspiration is how the emotions can be express by having elongated figures, color, rough textures, and proportions changed to show emotion.
3) What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
Generalizations I've made was the use of art of Munch was his intent, due to the art being created during the World War and Spanish flu which inspired his other paintings, to show is own emotions and sorrow from it.
4) What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
The central idea of my inspirational research was use of elongation of the figure, color, and texture to create emotions to create the feeling of being stuck within one's own self and idea from the pressures of others. Moreover, themes of sorrow of the emotions connected show in the expressions of the face.
5) What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did you make while reading your research?
Conclusions made while reading my research was that his artwork during the time Munch uses lots of red to show pain and emotion, and having rough textures that shown his own pain due to coming from a time of trauma of the World War and Spanish flu that massively impacted Munch.
Bibliography:
“Edvard Munch and His Paintings.” Edvard Munch - Paintings,Biography,Quotes of Edvard Munch, www.edvardmunch.org/.
“Expressionism.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/art/Expressionism.
Munch, Edvard. “By the Window, 1940 - Edvard Munch.” Www.wikiart.org, 1 Jan. 1970, www.wikiart.org/en/edvard-munch/by-the-window-1940.
“Expressionism.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., www.britannica.com/art/Expressionism.
Munch, Edvard. “By the Window, 1940 - Edvard Munch.” Www.wikiart.org, 1 Jan. 1970, www.wikiart.org/en/edvard-munch/by-the-window-1940.