My three main artists have influenced me greatly while doing
this project and they have shown me some extremely interesting methods of art
production that I had never used before. I hope to use these methods for the
rest of my work this year.
Yuriy Shevchuk was overall the biggest influence on my work,
his techniques of blowing access paint with a straw from the edges of the
player and the guitar proving to be extremely useful and effective to show the
movement and energy that a performing guitarist radiates. The energy that guitarists give off when they are playing was a topic which I wanted to explore very much and Shevchuk's work this this very effectively in such a sense that his methods make the pieces seem to come to life in a splash of kinetics. I will most certainly continue to use Shevchuk's work as an influence as I find that it represents my passion for playing the guitar in my work the most effectively.
Cornelia Parker has had equal amounts of influence on my work, her piece "Dark Matter: An Exploding View" being one of the primary factors. The violently disassembled structure proving to show vast amounts of movement, even for an almost completely stationary object, I managed to create a picture of a destroyed guitar which was inspired by Parker's explosive, powerful pieces, violently dismantled and vaguely re-assembled again to make it seem as though the audience is viewing a picture of the object when it is in the process of being destroyed. I created this as a two-dimensional piece instead of a three-dimensional skeletal structure of an object because it gains a more controlled presentation of destruction; instead of physically destroying a priceless instrument in reality, I could create each individual piece of debris on paper arranged to show the once playable instrument which has now been obliterated.
Georges Braque did not show me all that much inspiration or influence for my work. Although his work proves extremely interesting with the multiple angles which he has perceived the objects which he has painted all in one picture (of which he contributed greatly to and pioneered the formation of the "Cubism" art movement), I did not find that this blended well with my other artists' production techniques, particularly that of Yuriy Shevchuk; the combination of blowing small trails of surplus water colour paint with a straw and the elements of cubism did not fuse well as the angles and vertices that were to have these paint trails protruding from them were too irregular and at extreme angles therefore were not as aesthetically pleasing as the combination of the other artists' work.
Cornelia Parker has had equal amounts of influence on my work, her piece "Dark Matter: An Exploding View" being one of the primary factors. The violently disassembled structure proving to show vast amounts of movement, even for an almost completely stationary object, I managed to create a picture of a destroyed guitar which was inspired by Parker's explosive, powerful pieces, violently dismantled and vaguely re-assembled again to make it seem as though the audience is viewing a picture of the object when it is in the process of being destroyed. I created this as a two-dimensional piece instead of a three-dimensional skeletal structure of an object because it gains a more controlled presentation of destruction; instead of physically destroying a priceless instrument in reality, I could create each individual piece of debris on paper arranged to show the once playable instrument which has now been obliterated.
Georges Braque did not show me all that much inspiration or influence for my work. Although his work proves extremely interesting with the multiple angles which he has perceived the objects which he has painted all in one picture (of which he contributed greatly to and pioneered the formation of the "Cubism" art movement), I did not find that this blended well with my other artists' production techniques, particularly that of Yuriy Shevchuk; the combination of blowing small trails of surplus water colour paint with a straw and the elements of cubism did not fuse well as the angles and vertices that were to have these paint trails protruding from them were too irregular and at extreme angles therefore were not as aesthetically pleasing as the combination of the other artists' work.
