Week three

Time plan

Experimental samples in specialist areas
Continue research into conflict
Visit galleries and exhibitions

I have not yet had an opportunity to visit the galleries because a trip from college was cancelled. However, I intend to go with a small group at some point in the near future.

I started to produce samples. The first one was based on a photograph of a plug sockett, which I turned in to an abstract representation of the human form. I also did a college based on a Muslim soldier who was on drugs. I deliberately displayed it in a disjointed form to convey the mental break up of the subject, but also the break up of Yugoslavia. I wanted to make people think.
I have expressed ideas of man as machine, with buttons to stop and go; GO and was starts. STOP and it ends. I also looked at the break down of a country resulting in the mental breakdown of its population. Although I feel my painting skills are limited, I think the validity and relevance of contents is honest, simple to understand and makes the point. It takes me to where I am going, with regards to the brief.

Whilst conducting research this week I looked at a number of cartoons, portraying and mocking war based conflicts.

This video of Charlie Chaplin made 2 years before the second world war, brings home the message that pursuit of profit is tied up with domination and war.
http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=charlie+chaplin+pictures+the+great+dictator&docid=526817953223&mid=4195848822186A5FFD884195848822186A5FFD88&FORM=VIRE1&adlt=strict#

This article from the telegraph which was released February this year states that economic tensions may lead to civil, or even world wars. Again this would suggest that it is economic conflict that drives, or leads to war.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/globalbusiness/8296987/IMF-raises-spectre-of-civil-wars-as-global-inequalities-worsen.html

My main conclusion for this week is that war and economic conflict are highly interlinked. This led to the production of a painting entitled 'tears, screams and profits.' This will help me to experiement with the portrayal the link between the economic crisis, ordinary citizens and war.