This week I went to exhibitions such as Only Human: Martin Parr, Pierre Bonnard and Bedroom of London. I went and saw Only Human: Martin Parr for the understanding of social class. His photography looks at different scenes of social class but looking at people in their natural states instead of having someone posing. By this it made me feel that although he understood that he was taking pictures of the different classes, that actually by making them not pose made everyone in the images equal. One part that I found really interesting was the ‘Fotoesculturas.’ He looked at portraits and created a 3D model carve out of wood. I really liked this idea and wanted to develop it further by maybe making a 3D version of my nan or some of the objects in her house on fabric and stuffing it to almost make a pillow or doll. However, some of the exhibition didn’t help. He took pictures of curtain events, such as Wimbledon and Celebrities which didn’t help with my research.
When I saw Pierre Bonnard exhibition was about memory, he would paint his memories of people and and scenes that he has of maybe a holiday or of his house. I wanted to use and respond to his techniques using paint and capturing moments, by applying with short strokes. Using a variety of colours to create shadows and lighting, not using the traditional colours such as white for lighting he would look at using lighter colours.
I then used some of my primary research from my nans flat to then use the techniques of Bonnard. I really like the painting that I done of my nan’s wallpaper looking at a closer version of the pattern on the wallpaper. I really liked the colours and the little flowers that I wanted to capture. I also notice that some of the wall paper is lighter because there was another picture placed there before. I was really interested by this mark because it shows the past and memories but also it shows how much my nan’s flat has changed as her children have grown up and the grandchildren. Also that she hasn’t got a lot of money to replace the wall paper. I could develop this wallpaper further by creating a knit version as well as a embroidered version. However, I could develop more with the other painting of my nan’s firer place by using a smaller place and adding more detail or adding different colours visible layering the colours.
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