Refined Experimentation

These pieces are done on various sized canvas panels. Here i have used images from magazines which are not just of the female form, as i have been previously experimenting with, but of objects similarly to how Linder works.
For example the coffee in this particular image spilling onto the chest of the woman. I have also included hair dye onto the black and white image and googly eyes along with a collaged image of a female i have taken.









This canvas features images from a 'lads mag' of a female chest in a provocative form. The entire magazine was full of women making a living out of objectification of their bodies, this is what lead me to distort my final outcome using a watercolour wash and i like the effect it has. It gets across the message i wanted to reinforce of negativity towards the female representation in the media. Again, i have used some of my own imagery and acrylic paint.

These Two canvases are more similar to the collages i have had in mind. They are going towards some of my refined outcomes because i feel they capture a the ironic and mimicking nature i wanted to portray of how women are represented and objectified in the media.

Thomas Hirschhorn

Contemporary swiss artist Thomas Hirschorn has become well known for his transformational work in which he takes white cube spaces and creates environments displaying issues surrounding a manner of theorys, politics and consumerism.

Similarly to my own work, he combines found imagery with texts, cardboard, foil, tape and a range of other materials. He uses his scavenging overload to create collage based works which are designed to question us.

Created with the most basic everyday materials, I really enjoy the way a few of his works can create a concern on topics of justice, power and moral responsibility. Specifically, this collages’ use of the eyes triggers a relation to my own pieces, as they have featured quite widely subconsciously the most of the facial features. I think this is because my work is based on representation and using your eyes to actually look instead of just seeing and accepting the view of women in the media. This is something I am intending on making more obvious as I head towards the creation of some of my final outcomes.

The overload of female figure and the eye make the meaning evident in this collage and you can sense the feelings in the creator.

“A collage is an interpretation. An interpretation that wants to create something new. Doing collages means to create a new world with existing elements of this world. Everyone has once in his life made a collage and everybody is included in a collage. Collages possess the power to implicate the other immediately. I like the capacity of non-exclusion of collages and I like the fact that they are always suspicious and not taken seriously. Collages still resist consumption, even if­­ - like everything - they have to fight against glamorousness and fashionability. I want to put together what cannot be put together, I think that’s the aim of a collage and it’s my mission as an artist.” - Thomas Hirschhorn.