Documentation: Sequence/Narrative Project

This week I mainly focused on my sequence and narrative project. I am very happy with the end result. I did however promise that I would post the individual photos so that they can be compared/contrasted to Vladimir Kush's paintings which I used as inspiration. So here is a closer look:

 This first painting is what really set the tone for the whole project. I was able to photo-shop the photos so that they all had the light effect created by the egg as the sun.

I tried to make the trees emulate the curving shapes I recognized in the clouds. This gave the pictures a more surrealist feel.

I used this next painting when editing the pictures of humpty dumpty actually falling off of the wall. Again I wanted to keep the same light effect prevalent and I adjusted the colors so that they would be consistent. In the next picture you can see how I distorted the plants to once again takes on the Dali-like melting effect which Kush attempted in the trees.

The last picture is the one I am most proud of. Most of the natural elements from the original pictures just happened to mirror those in Kush's work so I just enhanced the colors in this one.

I faded the corners to makes the background look just like the setting sun in the painting. Although there is no egg in the painting I think that the orange-yellow color of the sun and white sky implies the same egg motif present in Kush's other works. The broken humpty-dumpty egg on the ground in my picture takes the place of the figure in the painting and sets a somewhat bleak tone. I like this aspect because it contrasts the somewhat comical tale of Humpty Dumpty by adding more serious and artistic aesthetics. That was the overall goal in using a nursery rhyme for my narrative inspiration.

In executing this project I was able to learn about surreal techniques and apply them to photographs instead of just the drawings that i normally work on. I learned that the egg is a very prominent object in a lot of artists' (especially those pertaining to the surrealist genre) work. Perhaps it symbolizes life or rebirth. I was happy to make the egg the focus of my project for this reason as well. The colors and still childlike narrative helped my capture the humor within most surreal work while stay true to the expectation of the nursery rhyme. I think that this is the goal of most surreal artwork. Often common objects are used but they are just distorted in a way to create new meaning that hinders on fantasy and the extraordinary.