My idea following my research of Picasso's work

After researching into Picasso i have decided that i am going to base my work around the key work "Broken". From seeing within Picasso's work that he used alot of shatterd fragments and shapes within his paintings i want to create something involving those things within my photograph.
Using the word "Broken" i have decided to focus on glass as my main object, as when broken i think glass would be a good choice for an interesting object with different shapes that will be made from the broken fragments of glass.

After going out today and looking in various charity shops i have found a piece of glasswear that is red and i thought this would add extra effect to the image rather than just plain glass. I am going to buy this glasswear from the charity shop and then smash it into fragments to get an interesting look. Earlier on in my blog i said that i wanted to try my hand at night photography as Picasso liked to work at night, so i have decided that i am going to place my shattered glass object under a street lamp at night and see what effect this gives to my image as i think it will make it more interesting that just being taken in the daytime.
The project is called "Signs of Life" and i think this will refer to signs of life in a way because you see smashed glass alot in communitys these days on the floor and around the streets so photographing it on its own and from a different perspective will show that there has been people there because of the smashed glass but there are no longer people there within my images.

My Conclusion on my reseach of Picasso

After researching Picasso's work i have really been influenced by his Cubism movement and the way they look at fragments and different perspectives of objects. He also look at there shape and the way objects look from different viewpoints. I am very keen to explore this within my photography. Although Picasso did paintings and i am going to be taking photographs he has still influenced the way in which i was to construct my images. After finding out that Picasso worked on his paintings during the night i am also interested in doing my shots at night and trying my hand at some night photography as i have never done this before i think it may be quiet a challenge for me and will help give me images more of a difinitive out of the ordinary look to them. although within some of his paintings you could tell what the objects were they were still very abstract and fragmental i would like to try and achieve this within the subject that i photograph.

Links to Cubism - Piet Mondrian

Some work that links with the Cubism movement is Piet Mondrian who linearized Cubism in 1912 with his painting of "The Apple Tree" this led to the first really none figure paintings which was known as pure abstract art from 1914 onwards.

Links to Cubism - Piet Mondrian's Apple Tree

More of Picasso's work

Picasso - Cubism images

Research on Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was a spanish painter, draughtsman and sculptor. He was one of the most recognised figures in 20th century art. He is best known for cubism and also the variety of styles that he used within his work over the years.

I found out that Picasso slept during the day and that he worked at night, this had made me think about the possibility that i could take my photographs at night to give them a different overall effect.

A portrait of Daniel Henry Kahnweiler in 1910 by Picasso particuluarly interested me because it is all painted in squares and they almost look like shattered fragments of glass or an object of that kind. This has inspired me again and i think that i like the idea of working with shattered fragments to create an interesting yet visually pleasing image to the eye.

I Looked at Cubism which Picasso was very famous for, there are two types of cubism Analytic Cubism and Synthetic Cubism.

Analytic cubism (1909-1912) - this is a style of painting that was developed by Picasso himself but also by Georges Braque one of Picasso's good friends and fellow painters. It was developed using monochrome, brown and neutral colours. They took apart objects and analyzed them in terms of there different shapes and the way that they looked from different angles and viewpoints. This also interests me alot by looking at the shapes of certain objects and how they look different from different angles. The second type is Synthetic Cubism, this was a further development where they would use wallpaper or newspaper cuttings, this was known as the first use of collage in fine art.

Alot to do with Cubism is making use of several different viewpoints. Analytical Cubism lasted until around 1911-1912 and was generally characterized by unemotional paintings that depicted usually very uneventful subjects, for example still lives.

Many paintings i found out were faceted, a technique that allows the artist to disect and reconstruct images however they want, in a way that depicts the essence and feel of the subject rather than just the appearance, this was very much abstract but you could still tell what the image was.

Picasso marked the beginning of a new era in the art world!!!

Initial Ideas

For this assignment we have been asked to take photographs of still life objects, we have been given nine words to focus our photographs upon and to give us some initial inspiration for the images.

These words are: Dead

Fragile

Broken

Delicate

Old

Memory

Time

Place

Structure

I found being given the words really helpful in starting me off with the project and giving me some inspiration for my image making. The first words that i initially got ideas for were "Dead" for this i thought of using dead flowers or plants and even dead fruit. The next word that sprung to mind for me was "Broken" and i immediately thought of broken glass or plates. I came up with ideas for "Fragile" and "Delicate" also but i appeared to be getting the same objects for these words too, such as broken glass and flowers again.

So from this i came to the conclusion that i wanted to photograph either broken glass or flowers. I then started researching into different areas of still life and different artists that are relevant to the subject i am most interested in which coincides with the word "Broken".