Month: January 2021

Sustainability

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Jave Yoshimoto

Creating extremely brightly coloured paintings using gauche. Inspired by traditional Japanese prints and contemporary depictions of modern disasters, Jave Yoshimoto created vibrant coloured images of destruction, man made as well as natural. Using his art to create a message, he created a series named ‘Disaster’ that addresses environmental destruction. 

The piece of art I have chosen is named ‘Evanescent Encounter’. I have linked this to painting. Firstly, looking at the name of the painting (Evanescent Encounter), I had to research the definition in order to have a greater understanding on the message Yoshimoto was trying to portray. The definition of Evanescent (“soon passing out of sight, memory or existence; quickly fading or disappearing”), I was quickly aware that the artist was alluding to the fact that the earth is fading/ disappearing due to the treatment of humans and the destruction we cause to the earth. 

Published in 2010 (aged 36, now 46), there was no direct information on where this art was displayed or who for. However, a website named artworksforchange.com feautured the art in an online exhibition in 2020 to promote sustainability, showing how alive the subject matter still is 10 years later.

When looking at the way he uses colours and shapes, it shows his message in an extremely smart way. The main aspect of this artwork that impresses me is the block colours. In the sand on this image, he has shown a big oil spill of a brown colour contrasting the bright yellow of the sand. The contrast of these colours show the bright beauty of the earth, compared to the dirty oil that is being polluted into our oceans and causing a lot of destruction to our planet. Using block colours of different shades of grey, compared to the blood red sky they are on top of, it shows the destruction of large fires that are releasing things into the atmosphere. The colour of red/ orange he used shows a beautiful skyline, completed by the blue sea and Sandy beach which is ruined by the smoke taking up the air and highlighting that we are ruining the beauty of our earth

Semester two choices

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Major choice fine art: painting

My major choice for semester two is fine art, more specifically painting. I knew I wanted to do this as soon as I started working on the project we were given. Initially, I thought it was really interesting how we worked on them. I had never started two pain tings that are both extremely similar, working from the same setup that was infront of me at the same time. I thought the process of switching between the two and building them both up at the same time. Learning new skills and techniques during this workshop as well as the enjoyment I had when working on them showed me how much I wanted to specialise in painting. When researching fine art I found a definition that outlined how I feel about painting. It said “the highest art was that which allowed the full expression and display of the artist’s imagination”. This sentence stood out most to me as no matter what is being painted, it would be in any style and not even resemble the original object yet if it reflects the artists imagination and creativity, it is deemed the highest art. I have always preferred doing 2D art works and think painting is best suited to me rather than the likes of ceramics or textiles. The creativity of fine art allows for the painting to turn out however you like and overall allows for different outcomes in the artwork no matter how you decide to paint it. This works best for me as sometimes I find myself constantly getting stuck on the finer details of my artwork and when working in an abstract kind of style, i am able to continue to layer and use different colours to create shapes, lines, or tones while detaching them from how they actually look. Overall making my major choice be fine art painting.

Minor choice Graphic Design

For my minor choice, I have chosen to do graphic design. When completing the tasks given within the workshop I found that I really enjoyed it which was very unexpected. When creating the task for the album covers, I decided to create one of my friend who is a local artist and has released two singles. When showing her the work I created for her music, she ended up using them as her singles covers as she didn’t like the original artwork that was used on them. I found this project extremely fun and showed what I am capable of doing. I also think that by doing Graphic Design it will also allow me to work on my skills within digital art. During the brief projects we completed in the workshop it helped me discover new skills within a digital software. This goes well with the fact I have also chosen fine art. While working on my painting skills and techniques in one area, I would be able to work on my other skills in another. I also found that in the workshop for graphic design I used both digital skills and hands on art together. I think by having these subjects together it will allow me to complete tasks to my best ability. From researching Graphic design and the careers available, it made me realise how useful it will be and even in my own work, hopefully going into teaching, the skills it will give me in a lot of different design ideas and ways of designing will hopefully help me in the future and give me more knowledge. Overall I think my best options are graphic design as well as fine art painting.