art stuff and thoughts ;)

As you can tell, not only from the title but also from the image underneath, it is a sculpture of a head made from blood.

Quinn uses his own head shape made out of frozen silicone cast, as well as blood in this ongoing project.

Every five years, in which he collects ten pints of his own blood that he later freezes. When the silicone cast is all secured together, they put in upside down into a freezer, and pour the liquid blood into the open space where the neck is, then they leave it in the freezer till it becomes solid.

This project showcases passing time, and effects of ageing and changing body of Quinn. To him it represents the ‘reincarnating power of the body itself’ so how blood brings life to all parts of the body and it as well recreates itself, which had allowed him to make half a dozen of the heads so far.

On this painting a lot is happening, there is a group of working men digging up a tunnel on the centre, and on their sides are plenty of individuals passing by them and some leisured. On here not only we are able to observe working class but also upper ones like the one behind them we can see two wealthy figures riding on the horses.

Some of the workers are seen shovelling a soil, one is shovelling unshifted lime into a sieve, someone is carrying bricks.

One of the ladies in blue bonnet on the left side is carrying papers with something written on it is said to be an evangelise and she is handing some paper to the workman, the other women in front of her with this turquoise parasol represents genteel glamour, clothed in fashionable attire strolling .

In front of her there is man that contrasts with her, he wears ragged clothes, have no shoes, holding a basket full of some flowers to sell I am assuming.

On the bottom middle part there are some poor possibly orphan children, and the oldest one out of four is wearing dress too big for her, holding a baby and trying to calm the naughty boy and the other little is nibbling a carrot and observes men working. The dog next to them is looking at the other to the left either ready to strike or to play.

On the right side, next to a tree are unemployed people sleeping on the ground, there also is a couple feeding a child and some man by the tree is looking resentfully at them. To the far right of the painting we can see children playing on the road.

On the forefront to the right we can see two men observing the workers, they may possibly be their bosses that came to view their progress.

That painting presents a rainy Paris day. On the left side we see street, buildings, vehicle, and on the right, there are pedestrians walking on the pavement. The streetlamp is right in the middle, dividing the painting in half vertically and also horizontally at the level of women mouth and where the street ends and the building began. It is asymmetrical and yet balanced at the same time. People in the fore front and the middle are clearly painted whereas the more in distance the people got the blurrier.

Everyone’s attire signifies that this painting presents individuals from Victorian era. From what we can see the figures in the forefront are from middle class, and further behind them a working class can be seen.

Umbrella most of men are carrying and the wet looking surface of the street signifies that it is a rainy weather. The sky here is yellowish grey giving off the sense of that gloomy rainy day even more to us. There is a sense of line, contours, of forms that are three-dimensional. This painting really focuses on light, specifically on the way its reflectivity, and shadows. The painting is really carefully balanced and composed, it almost looks like a photograph, with the way that the figures are not in the middle how they usually would in that period of time as well as the way that man to the right is cut off, it looks spontaneous, as if it was just captured by a camera.

This painting presents three women working on a filled, that are clearly from a lower class in society. They are bending down to remove clump of wheat it seems. Additionally, in the background we can see mass of people working, we see haystacks, cart, and sheaves of wheat.  To the back right, we can see landlord's foreman, sitting on a horse in the remote distance. So, in this painting we can see clear division in class, poor working for the rich

The sun light emits from left right corner and glows on the figures, creating shadows behind them. The use of darkness and light furthermore emphasises the division in lower and upper class.

The colours are quite gentle, almost look pastel in some places, especially on women clothes. The white vest and red and blue hats of the gleaners form the three colours of the Tricolour - the flag of the French Republic, which might had been intentional because the painter is French.

Those are four large sculptures of cow and calf. Both were cut in half, and each of the half’s been placed in a tank that been filled with a solution that preserves it from decomposing. The calf is at the forefront with small space where bisection was made. the cow is bit further behind it, leaving spacious area between them and it also have space where it was bisected. This made possible for viewers to see all the aspects of the sculpture.

If I am being honest, I do not know if I like this sculpture because I have no idea if the animal was sacrificed for it or if they got their hands on them after their died. On the other hand, I got really fascinated by it because I never heard of any other artist creating anything like this. I also kind of would want to one day be able to go and see it, just for the bizarre experience of seeing inside if the animal but on the other hand I most definitely would feel disgusted after seeing that terrific scene.

Jo

On this painting we can see women and two children. The women figure takes up majority of space, she is sitting on something and one of her legs is stretched out and is helping in supporting the child that is between her hands. She is observing the children interactions, as the child on the left is kneeling and holding cross out to other one so he can touch it.

The three figures represent Virgin Mary, the child she is holding is Jesus and the other child is John the Baptist. The deep red dress represents Christ death and the blue mantle that covers it symbolises the church.

Behind them we can see meadow and close to Mary we can see three poppies growing which symbolise Christ's passion, death, and resurrection.

Overall, I really like this painting because of how it depicts a peaceful, tender mood, also the blending is immaculate. his use of light and shadows made everything three dimensional. Also, just the amount of detail that was put in here is admirable for me.

That is very vague question, but I think that overall, it is creating visual presentation of your imagination. So then later it can be appreciated by their emotional impact to some individuals or for its beauty.

On here we can see image showing back of the car on top of the drinks lid. the straws represent exhaust pipe, so it seems like they are consuming cars emissions.

 The advert contains text which says, “Pollution Is Closer Than You Think”, which makes the consumer realise that pollution is almost everywhere people may initially think.

That one is an advertising for the World Wildlife Fund. The add focuses on bringing awareness onto endangered species that may become extinct in near future.

On this image we can see elephant, where its behind is turning into pile of ashes or dust. When I saw this my first thought was a biblical verse “. . . To dust you shall return”, which shows how one day they all will eventually die. It may also have another, bit more hidden meaning that they will become forgotten by us, like many animal species did when they become extinct e.g. dodo bird.

The light looks like rays of sunshine, that is shining onto the part that is turning that elephant to dust. I think that its effective because it helps in bringing the most important area out, so viewers will point their focus onto it the most. The background is left simple, it is a black colour but where the light is hitting the background, black shade smoothly transitions into lighter and lighter shade.

This campaign used 3D illustrations and negative space to show and advertise how effective their noise-cancelling headphones are.

On the image we can Donald Trump on the left and Kim Jong Un to the right. They both are having heated argument, and trump is holding some type of missile at Kim. I am on the other hand is ready to press a big red button. Just in between them there is a guy with a smile on and his eyes closed, seems to be vibing to whatever he is listening to. The headphones are made by the usage of the little negative space there is, between his head and hands of both dictators.

This is ad campaign done by Legas Delaney for Plant for the Planet, in which they have use cut leaves symbolizing its ability to absorb CO2.

On the image we can see a leaf in which the shape of a factory was cut out. I think that through this they wanted to showcase how gases which are burned and released into the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide and methane are harmful to planet through global warming problem.

The colours used are greens and bit of dark yellow. Green is firmly linked with nature and the environment in most people’s minds so its often used marketing helping environmental problems.

This advert is spreading awareness of safe driving.

The ad showcases a man getting punched in the face, which captures our attention from the very start.  On the mans face and the fist there are green and red cars painted on his face. This depicts a head-on collision of two vehicles.

The background is left very plain and simply. Just black which is often associated with death, evil and fear.

The light is directed just onto the focal point of this ad, which is where ‘collision’ occurs. This directs us even more onto most important part of the ad.

This is another French advert, that is spreading awareness about children obesity.

The image presents an ice-cream, however the top it had been morphed with a picture of fat, hanging belly. Which fits in with ice-cream because it looks like scoop of it that started to melt. Also, ice cream links to obesity because it is one of the sugary, unhealthy food that children just love to consume.

The colours used are more on pastel side, and they are pink and blue, and bit of orangey brown. They are youthful, sweet, and vulnerable. Which makes sense to use this tape if they wanted to direct it to children.

Ice cream have highlights coming from both sides, with all the mid part shaded. It created illusion of the object becoming somewhat more 3 dimensional.

French eyewear company ‘Keloptic’, used painting called ‘self-portrait’ done by Vincent Van Gogh to show how their glasses will improve their costumers’ vision.

The focal point of that image are the glass lenses. Through them we can see part of the painting that became realistic and clear. The rest of the painting that stayed outside of the lenses have all the brush strokes visible that Vincent is so famous for and it is not blended in any way. 

The main colour used here is this pastel green. In advertising blue and green tones are often used by healthcare products. Green also has calming effects, soothing and refined.

Well, I really like and enjoy doing art, I would want to become a tattoo artist and a piercer someday. I want to own a studio hopefully in the future, because I do not like to take orders from others but give them out instead.

I always loved tattoos since was young. I think they make everyone who has them just so much more interesting and unique in my eyes. They usually end up more appealing to me then people who do not have them. That is because people who have them (especially ones who have plenty of ink on them) end up being so much less judgmental because they most probably ended up been judged by others because of their outer appearance, they also more understanding and just not afraid to express themselves.

I also love how many types of tattoos there are, for example traditional, realistic, watercolour, micro tattoo and so on, for real the options are endless. I just love the idea of treating our skin as a blank canvas, where we can put anything meaning full or just aesthetically pleasing on our self.

I got quite a few piercings and, I am getting new tattoo soon. What I have noticed after getting them, that for example I always just hated my stomach so much but after getting navel piercing, I ended up accepting and sometimes likening that area of my body.