Conclusion
My three artists have influenced me in many ways throughout this
project. I know that I am not going to use all of them throughout the year
however they have made me realise what style of work I want to work in
throughout the rest of my investigation.
Carne Griffiths influenced me because I used a lot of tea and
coffee stain within my work and this is something he does often. I used
Griffiths’ work because of the mark marking that he features in his pieces.
Mark making was something I wanted to explore at the beginning of this project.
Now I want to explore this in more detail as I have learnt more about it over
the past few weeks. Despite all of this, Griffiths’ work doesn't tie into the
type of work that I want to carry on with for the rest of the year, so I won't proceed to use him or his work.
Cy Twombly has influenced my work because I want to continue to
work in the style of him for the rest of this investigation. I think that
Twombly’s work really depicts my theme beautifully as despite his concept not
being specifically being about my theme, his work shows the chaos that comes
with marriage and divorce, while also showing the contrast between love and
hate with the use of his dark and light colours. As I stated before, I am going
to make Twombly my main artist for my investigation because of his relevance to
my work and theme. I also want to work in the style of Twombly so I can work
with similar sizes too.
Linda S Watson and her work hasn’t really influenced me much
because I didn’t really like the style of her work. I think that her work does
show her anger and emotion, however I haven’t felt the exact emotions nor have
gone through what she has. Despite our work both having the same theme, I think
that Watson’s work is too violent and shows too much emotion, and this is something
I don’t want to do too much of in mine. I won’t be continuing to work with
Linda S Watson because in my work I want to show underlying secret emotions.
I worked in the style of all of these artists too. Working in the
style of Carne Griffiths was relatively easy however I had to keep going back
to the piece of work to improve it which is something I don’t want to do
throughout my investigation. Working in the style of Cy Twombly was very exciting
as I had to work on wood which I have never done before. I also had to use a
straw to make paint run which is always very exciting and it made me remember
my childhood as I used to do that when I was younger. Linda S Watson’s work was
hard to work in the style of as I had to layer the materials to create depth,
like she does.
Working in the style of these artists have made me realise that I want
to work on a large scale for the rest of my investigation, just like Cy
Twombly. I would also like to work with the materials and styles that Twombly
uses in his work too such as oil and wood. Over the year I want to stay with
the theme of divorce and I would also like to investigate into marriage as well.
I am also considering researching into my family tree as this may be an
interesting thing to incorporate into my work. I want to begin to use different
colours instead of constantly using white on a dark background as this will
create variation in my project. I would like to experiment with using images in
my work, which is something that Linda S Watson does in her divorce piece. I
think that paint drips over images, possibly of my family etc., will create an
interesting effect.
