Photoimpressionism

This photo is in the style of Claude Monet who is a french impressionist painter. He focuses on the changing of seasons in the French countryside through his paintings. My picture is similar to his painting because it shows nature and in his pictures you can see the small brush strokes he has made, similar to mine. In my photo you can see the small brush strokes however my picture is a photograph and therefore the brush strokes have been made on photoshop. The art movement his paintings belong too are the art movement photo impressionism which focuses on capturing real life without any effects which shows that photoimpressionsim artwork is figurative. Photo impressionism follows the same shot types and angles in each picture regardless of who it is taken by because the images focus on what is in the frame instead of how it is taken. In the picture above I have taken a medium close up of the fountains using a small aperture and a fast shutter speed to make sure the picture isn't over or under exposed. The picture is taken in natural lighting and the lines of the fountain act as leading lines because your eyes are automatically drawn to them. The connotations of photo impressionism are that everything has beauty as nothing is beer adjusted or edited when it is painted or photographed. I also think that the use of small strokes shows the detail in the picture and makes it look like something you can physically touch. The art work is arranged so that the white grabs your attention and your eyes are drawn to the water and the movement. I would improve this image by showing g the change in weather over a period of time similar to my photographer.

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Impressionism

Impressionism is a 19th century art movement which involves painting with small, thin brush strokes. It originated in France and focuses on capturing real life. It relates to the art movement of realism and documentary photography.

Monet was a founder of French Impressionist painting who focused on capturing perceptions of nature. Because Monet was passionate about documenting the French countryside he focused on the changing of seasons through his paintings. Because of the change of seasons between each documentary he made the light would change meaning that each of his pictures showed something different. When Monet was young he visited Paris where he experienced young painters copying from masters. This was what set off his passion for Impressionism. His photo below focuses on small strokes of exactly what he has seen. He uses composition to show the different parts of the French countryside. This connotes his love for nature and escaping the confines of a building.

Pierre-Auguste-Renior was a French impressionism documenter who was inspired by Camille Pissarro and Edouard Manet. After a series of rejections by the salon juries he joined forces with Monet, Sisley, Pissarro and several other painters. His pictures focus on portraits of people, again using small strokes to show the detail of each person he sees. I will recreate this image by

photographing a person and editing it on photoshop to look painted. Renoir uses composition to show the different elements of a persons face. This connotes that Renoir feels comfortable around people and that people have different parts to them which intrigue the artist.

Cubism Edit

This is my cubist edit in the style of Stephen McNally. I created this image by printing a picture of the town hall that i had taken, one in colour and another in black and white. I then sliced the black and white picture into strips and blocks and stuck certain bits of it onto the original in cubes and strips. This is in the style of the art movement of cubism. This shows the contrast between the black and white and the colour. I would improve this recreation by making the squares more obvious as the two pictures sort of merge together. When taking the picture I focused on light by taking the picture as a wide shot from a slightly tilted angle to connote how subordinate we are made to feel by the building. I have used a fast shutter speed and a small aperture because it was a bright day so that the picture wasn’t overexposed.

Cubism Research

Cubism is an early 20^th century art movement which historically brought European painting and sculpture forward toward modern art. Cubism pictures are usually arranged in a collage which includes broken down objects

Stephen McNally is an English based fine art photographer who focuses on landscape and street photography. He works in the style of cubism as all of his pictures are collages. His inspiration for the art movement comes from David Hockney whilst L.S Lowry inspires his street scenes.  The picture to the left focuses on the streets of London but with the picture all cut up and rearranged. This could be used to connote the lack of balance in the big cities. I will recreate this image by using an image of the city and layering it on photoshop and cutting certain parts out to create a building made out of different pieces similar to a jigsaw.

David Hockney is an English painter and photographer. He is considered one of the influential British artists of he 20^th century. In the early 1980’s Hockney began to produce photo collages which he called ‘joiners’. This sparked the art movement of cubism. His aim through his joiners was to show the way the human vision works. He has done this in his above photo by taking a variety of shots from different angles off a lady and then placing them together to create a face. This is how the eyes work when you look at someone. Hockney works mostly in portraits which is different to Stephen McNally who focuses on landscapes. Because of this, my recreation will be in the style of Stephen McNally only.

Brutalist Edit

This edit is in the style of Simon Phipps because of the harsh edges and the dark ora the building gives off. I have adjusted the colour of the picture to black and white so that I am working in his brutalist style however the picture was already part of the brutalism art movement as the building is made out of concrete. I have adjusted the colour to represent when the building would’ve been made and the lack of empathy we feel towards the building. I have taken the picture from a low angle to connote how the building makes us feel subordinate as it towers over us.I have also focused on leading lines through the use of the pillars which lead your eyes to the top of the building. I would improve this image by showing the desolation of the building more by showing the empty entrance of the building. I used a small shutter speed and a small aperture so the picture wasn’t overexposed because it was sunny when I took the picture.

Theme

Theme ideas

• What you don't see/beyond the eye -jobs, emotions, wealth, mental health, physical health. Surrealistic style. Focus on composition and black and white to show emotions. Portraits mostly. Close ups of the face and medium close ups of the body. Landscape element based on where the pictures are taken. I will photograph people now based in comparison childhood. For example I'm going to photograph my mum who grew up in a council estate in front of where it used to be but as she is now earning a lot of money.
• Different parts of the day and different weather
• Sunset/sunrise
• Milestones in life

Christian Hopkings is a 20 year old photographer who suffers with clinical depression. Because of this, his photographs focus on the dark emotions and thoughts he experiences which create a narrative. All of his pictures focus on the different mental health issues such as depression, anorexia and anxiety. This relates to my theme of photography as depression is a mental health issue that isn't visible to the naked eye. I will therefore use his work as inspiration to show the things you feel but cannot see. He works in a surreal style because his pictures arn't pictures you would see everyday. His pictures are nearly always in black and white which denotes his emotions. His pictures are nearly always taken against black backgrounds which means he has to use a large aperture so you can see the subject of the photograph. I will recreate these images by working in a surreal style which shows the way people feel but the things you can't see.

Toby Dixon is an Australian photographer who focuses on split personality order through his photography. His pictures are taken on a plain background so that he doesn’t over complicate his pictures. His pictures are in a surrealistic style as they’re showing a hybrid of personality’s and that isn’t something you can physically see. He hasn’t used photoshop on any of his pictures, what you see is exactly how he created it. I will work in this style by showing personality’s on the outside of the body in a hybrid style. I will show different characteristics on each side and occupations. His pictures are taken in a studio using studio lighting which earns he will have a small aperture and a small shutter speed as there is no movement. He has considered both narrative and composition in his pictures as each side of the body connotes something different.

Brutalism

Nick Rochowski is an English photographer from London who focuses on personal projects, still life and architecture and interior commissions. He photographs brutalist buildings with hard edges because these are the defining features of the building. His pictures connote a lack of empathy and desolation. In his pictures he uses leading lines to show the hard edges created by the concrete. Most of his pictures are taken from low angles which connote the feeling of inferior we feel towards them.

The above picture connote the working class culture and the bleakness of the working class estate. This relates to the time the culture evolved between the 1950’s and the 1970’s. I will recreate this image by photographing the park hill flats which have now been upgraded so although they are brutalist they also use colour. This will make my work in the style of Rochowski’s butt will make it original.

Simon Phipps is a photographer who lives in London. He works in the style of brutalism as well as modernism and still life. He only works in black and white to represent the darkness and personify the buildings to make them seem sad, this is seen in one of his photographers below. Simon Phipps’ photography is a lot sharper than Nick Rochowski’s with most of his pictures featuring sharp, harsh edges. In an interview, Simon stated that his photographic concerns link to the preset post 1945 modernist British Architecture that fits into the idea of social class and the social contract. His picture below focuses on leading lines and viewpoint with his picture being taken from a low angle represent the buildings height and the meaning
behind it.

Brutalism

1) Brutalism is photography based on buildings which have hard edges. these are defining features. usually hard edged and concrete. 1950's-1970's. from the architectural movement of the early 20th century.
Vittoriano Vigarno

Characteristics:
low angles
leading lines
symmetry and rule of thirds 
deep depth of field.

Lack of empathy
Working class culture
bleakness of working class estates
desolation
communism

Simon Phipps
Nick rochowski

Landscape Edit

These landscape edits are in the style of Adam Butler. Adam butler is a Scottish born photographer who photographs both London and the Aeolian islands. He has been a photographer for over 20 years in which he has won various awards for his work. He doesn't work in the style of a particular art movement and his work is figurative because it is of objects we see every day. His pictures focus on colour during the sunset and the sunrise almost in a surreal style because of the use of reflections and light over the water. He also focus on viewpoint with all of his pictures being taken from above or below the city. Because of this he rarely uses leading lines or the rule of thirds. His pictures are always wide shots and usually wide angled in order to identify the different parts of the city.

His pictures usually have a sharp depth of field because both his foreground and background are in focus however sometimes when the water is the foreground the picture is out of focus because of the intensity of the background. The lighting he uses is natural lighting because the pictures are taken outside. His pictures are always taken at significant times of the day and in certain weather conditions to capture the beauty that not everyone sees. For example when it is cloudy and when the sun is rising. He uses a slow shutter speed as there is no movement in his photography. This means that the picture is neither overexposed nor underexposed because the right amount of light is coming through the aperture. I think the main connotation of his work is that beauty isn’t always seen. He shows this by taking his pictures when people would usually avoid the city, for example early in the morning and when it is going to rain. Furthermore, I think that he is trying to personify the city by connoting its loneliness and the emptiness the city feels despite it being such a bustling place. I think this because his pictures never include people.

His artwork is arranged so that the city he is photographing is never seen up close only from a distance. This makes his work different to other cityscape photographers. I have tried to recreate the surrealistic style through the focus on colour on Photoshop. I have adjusted different parts of the picture to make different things the focus. I have adjusted the colour balance of the sky to contrast the grey of the building in the first picture. In the second picture I have adjusted the vibrancy to make the picture stand out more like Adam Butlers. In the second picture I have adjusted the brightness to make the sky and the fountains eye catching.

In the third picture I have put a blue tint over the clock to create the illusion of sunshine. In the fourth picture I have made the picture darker to create almost a silhouette of the city. I would improve these pictures by taking them at different times of the day so you get to see Sheffield in a variety of ways, which creates more of a narrative of the city. I have focused on viewpoint mostly in these pictures to make the industrial buildings seem inferior of us however this contrasts Adam Butler’s panoramic view of the city. I’ve also focused on colour in my edits but not as much in my actual pictures because they were all taken at the same time. I used a large aperture and a slow shutter speed so that the right amount of light was let in and the picture wasn’t under or overexposed. Despite this, one of my edits looks overexposed because of the effect of darkness I have tried to put over the city connoting the bleakness. I have used a range of shot types such as wide shots and wide angles and medium close ups. My foreground and background are both in focus so I have a sharp depth of field.