Thursday, 12 May 2011
Thursday, 5 May 2011
Week 6
Below are links to videos and newspaper articles that have been significant to my project. The are important because they give meaning to the work I am attempting to produce and gives it some validity.
The work is quite graphic and gritty; rape, decay etc as direct results of conflict and human struggle. I feel that I am making progress in my line drawing and that my technical abilities are improving and this is giving me confidence to explore the work and topics raised within these articles.
I am working to meet my time plan effectively and have been working to develop and experiment with ideas in a variety of media. My line drawings have been particularly success this week, but I am finding it very difficult to mix colours to get the right tonal values. I hope this will improve given time and patience, and feel that this project may help me to acheive this; it has provided a challenege but because I am feeling more confident in other areas, I have more time to look at new areas or issues that are emerging.
The work is quite graphic and gritty; rape, decay etc as direct results of conflict and human struggle. I feel that I am making progress in my line drawing and that my technical abilities are improving and this is giving me confidence to explore the work and topics raised within these articles.
I am working to meet my time plan effectively and have been working to develop and experiment with ideas in a variety of media. My line drawings have been particularly success this week, but I am finding it very difficult to mix colours to get the right tonal values. I hope this will improve given time and patience, and feel that this project may help me to acheive this; it has provided a challenege but because I am feeling more confident in other areas, I have more time to look at new areas or issues that are emerging.
6
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iw9zbTsKNAA&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1
feel that songs have played a part in many conflicts: for examplr 'The White Cliffs of Dover" which I think ia very patriotic and discusses the longing to come home from war and the desire for peace. Also the blue birds refer to our conutry summers.
"Falling in love again" by Deitrich played a stong part in the second world war addressing moral. Strong songs seem to emererge from conlict, whether pining for home, or stirring and patriotic war marches.
This video on you tube uses the Labi Siffre song which was an anti aparthide song which says 'the higher you build your walls'. Here this song has been successfully attached to the miners struggle. I think it is very effective and powerful. The words and the pictures combined create a very powerful picture. It is very emotive because it captures what we would describe as a recent historical event in which the conforntation between the state and the miners is clearly defined. The life and blood of mining communities were the mines, and when you close down a mine you kill the community. The video and the music shows the struggle of the miners to stop the destruction of the industry and their communities. To understand my work you can't look at one thing in isolation from another, you have to look at the whole thing, as a whole as it communicates and investigates many interlinking and complicated stuggles to show the nature of conflict.
feel that songs have played a part in many conflicts: for examplr 'The White Cliffs of Dover" which I think ia very patriotic and discusses the longing to come home from war and the desire for peace. Also the blue birds refer to our conutry summers.
"Falling in love again" by Deitrich played a stong part in the second world war addressing moral. Strong songs seem to emererge from conlict, whether pining for home, or stirring and patriotic war marches.
This video on you tube uses the Labi Siffre song which was an anti aparthide song which says 'the higher you build your walls'. Here this song has been successfully attached to the miners struggle. I think it is very effective and powerful. The words and the pictures combined create a very powerful picture. It is very emotive because it captures what we would describe as a recent historical event in which the conforntation between the state and the miners is clearly defined. The life and blood of mining communities were the mines, and when you close down a mine you kill the community. The video and the music shows the struggle of the miners to stop the destruction of the industry and their communities. To understand my work you can't look at one thing in isolation from another, you have to look at the whole thing, as a whole as it communicates and investigates many interlinking and complicated stuggles to show the nature of conflict.
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