Artist research 23/10

 

MAGRITTE

 

 

I looked at this artist because of the level of surrealism and sheer obscurity. I like the idea of things seeming not quite real although the images are constructed in such a way that they seem to express another reality. The one inparticular piece that I like is the third images down as it shows two people kissing but there faces are covered - in my photography I used fabric to cover the faces of the people in my dream images. The fabric was used for many reasons; one reason was I wanted to expressed the sense of anomality of the dreamer, the dreamer is just the spectator even though the events revolve around the dreamer they are still not in control (unless it is a lucid dream). Also I used the fabric as it represents levels/layers of dreams, the way that the dreamer is caught "within the ravels" of their dream and almost held between different dreams - seeping through each one into another.

I am inspired by this artist to create more painting/mixed media pieces that could be included in larger works as well as individual pieces. I developed some photography after looking at this artists work - altering colours and distorting them so that they appeared to have a more dream-like quality.