Jenny Saville

Rosetta 2
oil on paper, mounted on board
1970

reverse
oil on canvas
2003

Jenny Saville has the ability to create a piece of art that gets a message across and tells a story, although her work is somewhat disturbing, and quite hostile, she can still portray the emotion of her subjects. She may focus on the negative image of an emotion but the negative work expressions of the human face are much more interesting than those of a more positive nature.

The use of colour in her portraits shows the works true nature of the silent image, the feeling behind the work, although she ranges between hot and cold colours, no matter how she uses colours, the tones, textures and use of shading of gesture helps to create the emotion. She also focusses on the main subject of her image and avoids cluttering the background with unneeded distractions, all these factors together corresponds perfectly to create a perfect piece of work.

 

 

Vision

The theme for the year’s first project is 'Vision'.

I have interpreted this into the visual representation of an emotional state.  Using an artistic and psychological mixture to depict the expression someone or something displays, whether it is facial expressions, body language, or a mixture of the two.

Emotions are somewhat a cryptic behaviour, the scientific method of describing them would be to say that different chemical reactions cause us to act in different ways, but can also be explained with many psychological theories.

here is a list of emotions:

Affection, Anger, Angst, Anguish, Annoyance, Anxiety, Apathy, Arousal, Awe, Boredom, Confidence, Contempt, Contentment, Courage, Curiosity, Depression, Desire, Despair, Disappointment, Disgust, Distrust, Dread, Ecstasy, Embarrassment, Envy, Euphoria, Excitement, Fear, Frustration, Gratitude, Grief, Guilt, Happiness, Hatred ,Hope, Horror, Hostility, Hurt, Hysteria, Indifference, Interest, Jealousy, Joy, Loathing, Loneliness, Love, Lust, Outrage, Panic, Passion, Pity, Pleasure, Pride, Rage, Regret, Relief, Remorse, 

Sadness, Satisfaction, Self-confidence, Shame, Shock, Shyness, Sorrow, Suffering, Surprise, Terror, Trust, Wonder, Worry, Zeal, Zest 

(all emotions have hyper-links to Wikipedia description)

Trying to interpreter the emotions will prove both difficult and interesting, but hopefully I will be 

able to effectively represent them in a distinct fashion.

During the course of the future projects I will be staying to my strengths and for the majority of the time will be drawing and painting, but I will also attempt to use a wider selection of different mediums.

sources:

http://alleydog.com/topics/emotion.php

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion