Lcf

So after gaining my unconditional place at London college of fashion, i went back down and had another look at the course and i think it's going to be my first choice now.
here is a video of one of the females that interviewed me.
http://youtu.be/tSfumEqBRCc

Ellen Gallagher

I can't really remember how i get from dada to ellen gallagher, but i really like her work, they way she covers the faces on paper with paint to give the impression of a mask is really weird, plus the photo's of it make the paint just look like an ordinary paper collage instead of an overpainting.
Gallagher's influences include the paintings of Agnes Martin and the repetitive writings of Gertrude Stein.



i might try to recreate the effects shes put onto her...paintings? collages? i dont really know what to call them, because they seem to be a mixture of the two.
I like the fact that the eyes are cut from the portraits aswell, it kind of takes away the sense of identification from the person, take the persons eyes nd they seem to lose their identity and their sense of being.

She was in the Tate in 2013 #, but i can't remember if i saw her work or not, when i saw her work on google it definatly jogged a memory of seeing it somewhere before, but i guess i'll never know.

DaDa - Elsa von Freytag-loringhoven

looking at dada and how the movement relates to my work is really interesting because its the movement ive been following without even knowing it!

Dada started up in the early 20th century, being born out of the negative reaction to world war 1. many artists responded to the war by rejecting logic and reason, favouring the nonsense and irrationality of the world.

a lot of Dada artists use collage in their work, as it is a way of getting the whacky out and creating things out of nothing.


Else von freytag-loringhoven was known as Dada impersonated because of how extreme she took the movement. She is one of the artists that i will be looking at a lot as she was the one who kind of brought it forward, she wasnt scared to be doing anything, to her, her body was a canvas and everyone would see it. she was iconic to the dada world of new york, being known as the baroness of Dada.
her work was something to be recognised, and many other dada artists came to love her work, some to be repulsed by it. Others feared the amount of power she had in the movement, because she was so big and everyone knew who she was.

she was described by an avant-garde publisher as, "the only one living anywhere who dresses Dada, loves Dada, lives Dada."

 

Max Ernst

 

Max Ernst is another dada artist that uses collage in his work. i like the fact that he doesnt always use collage in his work, a lot of the time he uses paint and paints the kind of things that i would create using magazine clippings.

 

in the above image, he has replaces the mans head with the eagles, which i found kind of weird when compared to the rest of the image, the knife going into the womans foot.

 

 

i took on a project today which involves a lot of painting so this artist will really benefit me, i will probably try to recreate some of his works.



Hannah Hoch

I recently found this artist while looking at all different kinds of collage artists. i really like her work and how she kind of ties all of the figures into one in her images.
the below image is one of my favourites because of how simple and real it looks. looking at it, it looks like something you could see day to day and not question.

work like this really makes me want to do more photographic work so that i can make my models poses more intentional.

first time gif

 

 

This GIF was made from an app on my phone that i douns on the apple store. The image shows a collage of mine moving around and is supposed to be generally whacky.

I will try to do some more of these, but next time i will do them in better detail and probably make the gif itself more neat.
I really like the idea of using ordinary abjects like the watch in my work, because nobody expects it.

sasha helim


I found this graduate from lcf who does a lot of work using collage and animation - expand upon at home cause I hate college keyboards