College work: FMP

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Wednesday, 2 July 2014

Tuesday, 1 July 2014

I started my FMP off by looking into expressing how our generation of people are nowadays.Stereotypes,bullying,feeling invisible,fakery,celebrities etc.I searched and searched into different ideas and artists and tried out different things.This was when i was focused into expressionism art and protest art.I was looking into Barbie dolls and stereotypes to do with boys and girls growing up and what they have to be like.I then started to go off track and I was very interested in Liu Bolins work,Dissolved into the background to express his concerns,expressions and thoughts to the society and the environment around it.Expressing his concerns and questions to the unfair treatment they received as artists in china.It was his protest to the government.I thought this related to what I wanted to do as its like feeling invisible in a way to be disguised in the background and not feeling important enough for society.I painted my friend in all black paint and stood her infront of a black sheet,starting simple to practice,and maybe in the future work with a more difficult background.I then thought about using this idea and making it into my own by getting some recycled derelict materials together and creating a garment and taking picture of someone wearing it in a derelict area.

I was stuck at this point as I loved this idea and wanted to portray that but I had the other part of my idea I wanted to do so I needed to wake up and make a decision on one or the other.

The idea i was hooked on was the "ideal" beauty,fakery,and how us females have to look and have to do to be "pretty".I decided to throw away the invisible,derelict Idea because I tried hard to make it relate somehow to this one but it was too irrelevant and I had more work and research for this one.I couldn’t mix the two together.

At first i looked into Barbie dolls that are for young girls to grow up with and make them think that thats what you have to look like.As i got more into it i looked into makeup,the chemicals behind it.Plastic surgery became one of my ideas and played with that idea for most of my FMP.I loved the idea I got from Annegret Soltau as she plays with different parts of the face and in quite an odd,funny way.she alters different parts of the body from different people together by stitch to take the mic out of platic surgery in a way.and I played with that idea using images from magazines and stitching them together,it was also amusing,making the face disformed,also wrapping celotape around my friends face to make it disformed and playing around with camera effects.

I tried different materials such as modroc,clay,paper mashie to make a 3D piece,also using pins and needles to relate to platic surgery.I created big dramatic,botox lips,very moldy looking and bright pink with needles sticking out of them.I tried out modrocing one of the doll heads from 3D,after doing that,when it had dried,adding more modroc to certain parts of the face to make it look more dramatic and fake,making the cheeks,lips look big,the nose lookin sharp and the eyebrows looking bold.I then came across Lucy Mcrae and Bart Hess’ work and play with the idea of plastic surgery a lot,a lot of their ideas was making the face look disformed.

I then thought "what else to women feel they have to do for society to like them"...Anorexia.

I researched into it,what women and men go through when they feel they have to be skinny to be accepted into society.I didn’t want to go off track again so I thought of ways to relate it to plastic surgery instead of wasting my time on something im not going to portray.I didn’t want to think too hard on it though so I carried on and went with the flow of my work.I looked into bones and bone fashion.Surprsingly there is a lot of amazing work in the fashion industry to do with bones.When I came across elsa schiaparelli’s skeleton dress I definetly got focused to design and create something like that.

My final piece is a full long simple black dress,with a zip in the side and a high neck.I wanted to keep it simple but obviously show what im wanting to put across.Using wire underneath the dress I created the look of rib bones in the dress and part of a coat hanger as the collar bones making it look slightly more dramatic.To link this with plastic surgery,instead of making this as a garment to wear,it is a piece of art to look at as I have used pins and needles that are stuck in the mannican.This is because,women obviously have plastic surgery because they want it and they want to look a certain way.Its the same with anorexia,they’re wanting to see their rib bones through their skin.

I feel ok with my work although there are a lot of things I would change for my final piece.I don’t feel ive gone to my full potential for this which bothers me as I could of have done more work on the dress but still making it look simple but more detail on it.Possibly stitching on the dress to make the bones more pattern like and fashionable using wadding instead of wire.Also a lot more skecthwork as I feel that is my strong point.I feel that the wire and pins was a good idea as it feels more like bones rather than if I used wadding it would have been too soft.If I could go back I would have put more thought into my exhibition to make it look more professional and interesting.Its slightly messy and I would of liked to neaten it up,and I would of liked to carry on with the Annergret Soltau work and made more collage work using stitch.

Monday, 30 June 2014

HUMAN BARBIE

Valeria Lukyanova

Apperently,this is before and after she had surgery,she was shown to be the person to spend the most money on plastic surgery to get this look !

Wednesday, 18 June 2014

Trust no posters.Noones perfect.

I was walking down the street casually and I saw this poster as I walked past this shop.I noticed that when I looked from the front the face looked normal,but from the side you can see that they have photoshopped this woman's face.If you look closely at the hair,the eyes,the nose,everything.They have copied and pasted one side of her face for the other half of the face.She must not of had the look they wanted or not a perfectly symmetric face.This shows how people are nowadays.Noones perfect.

FMP

The idea i was hooked on was the "ideal" beauty,fakery,and how us females have to look and have to do to be "pretty".At first i looked into Barbie dolls that are for young girls to grow up with and make them think that thats what you have to look like.As i got more into it i looked into makeup,the chemicals behind it.Plastic surgery became one of my ideas and played with that idea for most of my FMP.

I then thought "what else to women feel they have to do for society to like them"...Anorexia.

I researched and found some great ideas on what i could do and as i am very into fashion id love to make a piece to relate to anorexia but also express what im trying to put across about girls and society nowadays.

Thursday, 5 June 2014

the skinnier the prettier

Ive looked into more of the "ideal" beauty subject and thought about what else do women feel they have to be and look like in the generation.I thought about the way the body has to look.
Anorexia

I found a model PhotoShoot that a photographer did to protest against anorexia not to show it off.He took pictures of normal sized models and edited them to make their bodies look stick thin and bony for an editorial look but still against being so thin for society.

http://wtf.thebizzare.com/offbeat/people-and-society/anorexia-%E2%80%93-it%E2%80%99s-terrifying/

Some models in this world are actually this skinny which is scary:

As i like fashion and textiles id love to make a garment and i found this piece by elsa shiaperelli.

elsa Schiaparelli

To many contemporaries the sinister black skeleton evening dress with its padded representations of human bones was an outrage - an offence against good taste. Although otherwise in elegant harmony with the prevailing lines of late 1930s evening wear, the skeleton dress is so constricted that it became a second skin and the imitation anatomy sat defiantly proud of the fine matt silk surface. Schiaparelli exaggerated the usually delicate trapunto quilting technique to make enormous 'bones' - the design was stitched in outline through two layers of fabric, then cotton wadding inserted through the back to bring the design into relief on the front. The shoulder seams and right side are closed by bold plastic zips.

Bone Fashion

http://eva-sleva.livejournal.com/35739.html?thread=532123

Thursday, 8 May 2014

Plastic surgery/society research(fmp)

I found an interesting article on the internet of Artists way of portraying how the world is with looking a certain way and having to feel like going through with plastic surgery to look a certain way:

However, the models nips and tucks are actually cut outs from fashion magazines.
The artistic duo poke fun at the fashion industry by placing new noses, lips and eyes over models faces to show how plastic surgery can form entirely new facial expressions.
The fascinating project entitled ID allows the French artists to experiment with visual perception showing that beauty is no longer natural, but is socially constructed.
Professional photographer Bruno Metra, 45, said: "In the media we are bombarded by images of others.
Magazines, cinema and television keep creating and imposing codes that become social references. What one must look like, how to wear make-up, what clothes to wear, how to behave.
The act of representation has taken over what's real; models erase themselves in order to gain another self."
To see the results of the duos artificial facelifts and makeovers view our gallery below.

ANNEGRET SOLTAU:
a German multifaceted artist who works with photographs, performances and video.
She wants to analyze herself, both physically and psychologically, and the female role in our society.
Her method of analysis is strictly connected to the idea of destruction and reconstruction of her image. This process drives her to a new form of photo-collage, where the main ingredient used to stick together all the pieces is not glue but a simple black thread. In this way we can describe her work as a product of handcraft.
"Already as a child I suspected that I was looking for something, however, it took a long time until I found the way to the fine arts (see also my biographical portrait). My inspiration comes from my own experience as well as from the awareness of my personal surroundings and of society. Simultaneously my technical and artistic work gives me new ideas"
"The technique evolved from the etching to the haptic line/thread. This was the content of my work: I wanted to “mark” the human body so that he/she could feel the drawing on his/her skin. In this way my work developed to photography and video-documentation. Gradually these techniques became independent, and I invented the photo restitching: I tear out parts of the image in the photo and insert other parts. It results in a break but also in a new whole, it is ambivalent."
She then came out with the question of "What happens to women these days, how do they present themselves? Which compulsions (and liberties) exist for women today?"