Animation Project

Using 298 photos, I made this animation based on such works as Giacometti's 'Walking Man'. Also inspired by many other surrealist artists, I tried to demonstrate how the human figure can be manipulated through various actions such as stretching, shrinking, floating and multiplying which can be seen in the research shown in pervious posts.

Chambliss Giobbi

iChambliss Giobbi lives and works in New York City. In his artist statement Giobbi says his figurative collages work on two levels, 

'firstly, as objects of obsessive psychological and physical mutation, and secondly, as testaments to an intense personal courtship between artist and model.'

Similar to much of the work I've already posted, Giobbi's collages remind me of Francis Bacon's distorted figures. Showing a tortured, broken aspect of being human. 

Rosa Verloop

Dutch artist Rosa Verloop creates sculptures from using only pins and nylon stockings. The tanned stockings resemble skin colour very convincingly to create melancholic figures that seem crippled with pain and emotion. 

Sketchbook Work

Alberto Giacometti influenced sketches done in pencil and pen.

Sketchbook Work

Some initial notebook sketches and photos. First sketches are Christian Holstad inspired drawing using old newsprint, erasing ink and re drawing the image.  

  
 Next is Dafne Boggeri influenced art. His series of manipulated balaclava portraits led me to think of how I could reverse this idea by using masks and darkening out the facial features.

Rik Garrett - Symbiois

Rik Garrett is a Chicago based photographer that uses mixed media to explore the human form. His use of skin coloured tones blend the figures together to create unusual meaty forms. Also reminds alot of Francis Bacons' work.

Jenny Saville

Jenny Saville is modern contemporary British painter and is known for her paintings of the female figure. She links in perfect with my animation project as she manipulates the human figure with extreme perspectives.

Prop

Branded

Propped

More info: http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/artists/jenny_saville.htm