Pattern and Body Form

My class was recently set a new project in which we had to look at forms of the body using some sketches we had made in life drawing sessions and to use surface pattern. This is a drawing I created by drawing round both of my hands on an A3 piece of paper and used lines and shapes to create my own reoccurring pattern to fill the inside of the hands. The only material I used were a pencil to create a very light outline to create my pattern inside and a biro to make all my lines and shapes with, once I finished I then rubbed out my pencil marks to just leave the biro pattern I had created. As a piece of work I was very pleased with how it turned out and with how all the lines work together. 

This is a drawing I have taken from a life drawing session and duplicated it so that I could try out a few different patterns I was interested in using for different pieces of work. However after finishing these three models I found that they worked well as a piece of work on there own and I was able to suggest tone through using my repeated pattern and lines.    

The Persistence of Memory

         

My class was set a task in which we had to all find a piece of art work each that we all found interesting so that we could write a critique about it. I chose to look at Salvador Dali’s piece of work ‘The Persistence of Memory’. The reason I have chose to look at this piece of work is because I like the look of Surrealist pieces of work. The reason why I find them interesting is because of how the artists express their imaginations and how free the work is to the conscious control of reason and convention and how it has inherited theories such as Sigmund Freud’s model of the subconscious. Artist’s that work with Surrealism aim to capture the experience of a dream, they do this because dreams often play out unexplainable situations with unrelated people, Things and places. The clocks in this painting also represent how time in dreams is warped because they feel like they last longer than what they actually do in reality.   

In addition to this the reason that I like this piece of work is because I like how Salvador Dali has taken clocks and made them appear as if they are melting away which could represent how time slips away from us all and how we cannot control it. However time is a concept that has been created by us all, no other spices on our planet lives their lives concerned about the time of day and deadlines. Furthermore the scene of this painting seems to be set in a wasteland or desert which could symbolize how lost people would feel if we were made to live without the concept of time without having an idea what day, month or year it was, Its hard to even imagine a world without time when you constantly are reminded what time of day it is and time with objects around the world such as clocks, mobile phones and even daily news papers.