PLAYING WITH TEXTURE AND FORM

CONCEPTS

MODEL ARTIST INFLUENCES

   

  Francis Bacon

In these paintings of Bacons I see a lot of themes focussed around identity and the blurring of individuality. I really like the way that something as recognizable as the human head has been painted in such an abstract manner but still remains a human head in the viewers eyes. I feel that Bacon has played with materials well in these paintings as  the faces seem to have been manipulated as if they were made of clay or another more malleable material.  Bacon ends up transforming the human head into some more organic through his abstract style.

  

Salvador Dali 

It seems to me that Dali deals with themes of liberation in the two pieces of his work to the left . The top image depicts an arm that is uplifting what seems to be a head upon an organic bone. The lower piece of work describes a man escaping the refines of the physical world. In my project i could target themes of liberation through the use of contrasting materials. Something liberated could be described with an organic texture and the confining obstacle could be described as a hard immovable material.