Thursday 27 October 2011
Propsal (PLAN)
Looking at the designs of Ralph Eugene Meatyard I like the style he uses with the masks because they are very differrent to the other portrait artists so I am Off to Chichester tomorrow to go into a photobooth and take pictures of me in a mask which i will buy there and then i will go into the photobooth and have the picture taken at a strange angle of height with the facial appearence removed just like his style of work. i will also see if they can make it a black and white photograph on the booth and then my final piece shall be uploaded when i am back tomorrow
Ralph Eugine Meatyard
Ralph Eugene Meatyard Born in May 15, 1925 and died in May 7, 1972 was an American photograpgher, from Normal.
The images are photos the artist specialises in which are differrent sort of style to other photographers as his photos have a odd style to them as instead of normal portraits where you can see the persons facial appearences the photographer makes portraits of an unusual set using facial coverings e.g. masks. The feeling the pictures give in a whole is a sense of fear as they look very scary due to the masks themselvess but also the actural way the artist has set the contrast and exposures in all of the pictures also helps with the feelings of a frighting image to look at and it can also be described as creepy aswell. The medium of the artist would be film cameras as they show a good technique to the photos and shows you very clearly a contrast between the shades of black and white.
James Rhem says in one of his quotes on the artist “Meatyard would put Halloween masks on his family and friends to release the ‘aroma of having a person, a human being in the picture, which stands for an entirely different thing than having a particular human being in the picture.’ The non-particularized human being presents an enigma at once grotesque, comic, mysterious and engaging, an enigma both attractive and repellent, one as likely to evoke a sympathetic response as apprehension. In the very process of destroying anonymity by denying particularity, the masks refuse to let us dismiss these figures as anonymous ‘other people.’ They become instead effigies of ourselves.”
I think the artist is trying to say to the person looking at the picture that everyone is the same on the inside and on the outside it doesant matter what you look like, i believe the masks are to show the sense of a random person and the fact that just because of what they look like they should not judge them because of it.
The images are photos the artist specialises in which are differrent sort of style to other photographers as his photos have a odd style to them as instead of normal portraits where you can see the persons facial appearences the photographer makes portraits of an unusual set using facial coverings e.g. masks. The feeling the pictures give in a whole is a sense of fear as they look very scary due to the masks themselvess but also the actural way the artist has set the contrast and exposures in all of the pictures also helps with the feelings of a frighting image to look at and it can also be described as creepy aswell. The medium of the artist would be film cameras as they show a good technique to the photos and shows you very clearly a contrast between the shades of black and white.
James Rhem says in one of his quotes on the artist “Meatyard would put Halloween masks on his family and friends to release the ‘aroma of having a person, a human being in the picture, which stands for an entirely different thing than having a particular human being in the picture.’ The non-particularized human being presents an enigma at once grotesque, comic, mysterious and engaging, an enigma both attractive and repellent, one as likely to evoke a sympathetic response as apprehension. In the very process of destroying anonymity by denying particularity, the masks refuse to let us dismiss these figures as anonymous ‘other people.’ They become instead effigies of ourselves.”
I think the artist is trying to say to the person looking at the picture that everyone is the same on the inside and on the outside it doesant matter what you look like, i believe the masks are to show the sense of a random person and the fact that just because of what they look like they should not judge them because of it.
Thursday 20 October 2011
Portrait
Today we learned about our half term project which is to take pictures from a photoboth using the style of 2 artists. Ralph Eugine Meatyard and Cindy Sherman. 
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