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Artists and Photographers
Sam Taylor-Wood
I have already looked at some of Sam Taylor-Wood's work for my main project, and i found a link between this project and my main project through this artist...Picking a fruit for my critical studies helps me keep on track, and not go off topic for my main project... Some of my work relates to Sam Taylor-Wood's work, such as my still life style pomegranate pictures. This will help me develop the idea of taking a fruit and taking pictures of it, so i can turn it into something that really relates to my topic... for example, looking at Sam Taylor-Wood's work, I would want to go onto the next step and maybe take pictures of fruits decaying, because that shows us how nature can take over anything.
Taylor-Wood does quite a lot of still life videography that includes things decaying and being taken away from a living thing... its almost as if its soul is being demolished. It shows us the process of an animal or fruit decomposing.
Taylor-Wood does quite a lot of still life videography that includes things decaying and being taken away from a living thing... its almost as if its soul is being demolished. It shows us the process of an animal or fruit decomposing.
Paul Cezanne
When i was researching fruits being observed and replicated in 2D with great detail, I thought about looking at Cezanne. This is because for a painter in the 18th century, Cezanne painted very realistic photograph-like pictures. Cezanne is famous for painting his apples, this is because Cézanne looked at apples—and everything else he painted—very closely and carefully. He would study apples, flowerpots, and rumpled tablecloths until he understood them as their basic shapes: spheres, cylinders, and cones. The objects in his paintings are based on these shapes. He made the objects look more real, more three-dimensional, by gradually shifting from one color to another. "I will astonish Paris with an Apple!"- Paul Cezanne
Paul Cezanne Still Life (Click to enlarge)
Paul Cezanne Still Life (Click to enlarge)
Cezanne's Apples (click to enlarge)
Amanda Vivan
http://www.flickr.com/people/amandavivan/
I found Amanda Vivan on Flickr... The close ups she takes of fruits, vegetables, and other food look very appealing. Below is some of her work.
The photographer tend to find unique points about the food, and takes a close up of it. For example, she saw the pattern a bunch of bananas make before they are separated from its branch, and she took a picture that was framed perfectly to show off the gradient and smooth texture of the fruit. Another example would be the red chilies, she used the fact that green is reds secondary colour (The colour opposite to another, on the colour wheel) to its advantage. This makes the two colours really stand out and bring the best out of the picture. (The colour wheel opposite this picture demonstrates this.)
As i evaluated the photographers style, i realised how she focuses on the colours and detail of her object. This relates to Cezanne's work, where he also painted fruits with very realistic colours and textures.
I found Amanda Vivan on Flickr... The close ups she takes of fruits, vegetables, and other food look very appealing. Below is some of her work.
The photographer tend to find unique points about the food, and takes a close up of it. For example, she saw the pattern a bunch of bananas make before they are separated from its branch, and she took a picture that was framed perfectly to show off the gradient and smooth texture of the fruit. Another example would be the red chilies, she used the fact that green is reds secondary colour (The colour opposite to another, on the colour wheel) to its advantage. This makes the two colours really stand out and bring the best out of the picture. (The colour wheel opposite this picture demonstrates this.)
As i evaluated the photographers style, i realised how she focuses on the colours and detail of her object. This relates to Cezanne's work, where he also painted fruits with very realistic colours and textures.
Colour Wheel
I researched this photographer because i saw a connection between her and Cezanne's work. Even though they are both from different a century from one another, and have a different style of portraying art, the methods that create a perfect photo are still the same... Getting really close to the object and observing it carefully.
Pictures produced by Amanda Vivan
