Friday, November 6, 2009

Squirrels, Trees, Rebels OH MY!

To start out, we had to compare our photos for this blog with the artists William Kentridge’s or Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ drawings and mainly through all the pictures, they only seem to have a relationship with Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres'.

"Zombie House Maid"


I chose this picture for my blog because the background and the figure both fit well for everything. The figure is, me, the zombie maid. The ground is everything well settled in the background that is faded in the back. You know this because the figure is closer to the viewer and the background is harder to make out what it really is in the back. It has a good relation to the artist William Kentridge’s artwork because his artwork mainly has all the portraits with the figure being the main object facing you. The background doesn't really relate to the figure.

"Rebel Girls"

In this photo, the figure, or figures I should say, are Sarah and myself. We really had a lot of fun finding different figures and backgrounds to put together. We didn't put the usual things you would expect for a figure and ground picture like an object with a weird background. The background we had many actually. It's a wide spread of the buildings, Rarick you can see in the far back, the building the men work on each day, and even the trees far back too. I tried to figure out how this picture would relate to the artists and after a bit of searching I finally noticed that the background can relate to the figure and be relating to both artists work, and then again, it doesn't. The way it doesn't is that Sarah and I, we don't live on the campus. The way it does relate is that there is 1 point perspective with the background and the figures.



"Chicken Man"


In this picture, there was a man dressed in a chicken suit over outside Al's Chickenette as

we

drove around town. He was waving at cars to
get them to stop. As we looked for the figure of this, we actually had two. There was the chicken man and cars that came closer to the camera. The background would be the signs and also the cars in the back.