Traditional Painting
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Joanna
- Name of final piece: It's better to be safe than sorry. Get tested.
- Dimesnions: Artwork 1:40.5 W: 44.5 Artwork 2: L: 40.5 W: 44.5
- Media: Acrylics on board
- Description: This piece is about raising awareness to viewers as it shows a young person dies due to the heart suddenly stopping. I'm trying to portray that you can be young and healthy and still be affected. I'm trying to get more people to get tested so that something can be done sooner rather than suddenly. That's where the title of the piece comes in.
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Julia
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- Personal Comment: None
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Kehinde
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- Name of final piece: (CRY) Cardiac risk in the young
- Dimesnions: Height: 19.5 cm, Width: 15.5 cm
- Media: Acrylic paint
- Description: This image shows a mixed feeling of depression, despair and anger. The reason why I have chosen to produce this type of portrait is because I want to emphasise what some people may go through even when they find out about the condition that they have to live with and how much disaster it is for most families. Many heart conditions are silent killers keeping you unaware of when your time is up.
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Mahalia
- Name of final piece: Ray of Life
- Media: Digital Photography, Graphics
- Description: Just as the sun is crucial to life on earth, so is the heart to the human body.
- Name of final piece: Health in disguise
- Dimesnions: 122cm x 81cm
- Media: Acrylic paint
- Description: Original photograph (on disc) was not taken by me, but by graphic students involved with CRY project. I took these pictures to help me paint the collapsed figure in my final piece.
Through my painting I have tried to show that being fit on the outside doesn't necessarily mean your heart is healthy.
- Here, I looked at the movement of someone walking
- Here I just did a rough painting of how I want the heart to look in my final piece
- These pictures of flames interested me. I thought the colours could be interesting to use on the hearts in my final piece
- Here I drew the heart in bright colours and smudged the edges to show it glowing to emphasise the importance of the heart
- Movement
- Colours
- Line
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Mariluz
- Personal Comment: None
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Nana
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- Name of final piece: The Broken
- Dimesnions: Width mm-544, cm 54.4, Height mm 810.8, cm 81.1
- Description: Statement: "The broken" symbolises how this heart defect can break the perfect family apart, it can break down all bodily functions and cause death, and it can break a child's chance of achieving in the future. More on the painting: Through the winds is what I imagine to be the perfect scene, but that image is broken up by the window panes, a metaphor for this heart defect. My message: You may look and feel perfect on the outside but be imperfect on the inside. Get checked out!
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Samaneh
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- Personal Comment: None
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Group Facilitator: Maire Quinn
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The patchwork quilt: inspired by colonial North American quilt of the 1800's partly because of the collaborative way it is made. Its expression of multiples was one way of showing that everyone's heart beats to a different rhythm. There is movement in the repeat patterns, yet diversity even in the repetitions. The prints allude to different emotions. They are made from collagraphs of leather, lace, and velvet and the white and cream ones are embossed. There is also allusion to the red cross, healing and medicine.
The Heart Nebula: The heart nebula was an overwhelming image shown to me by one of the students that stayed imprinted on my retina. It expresses the unknown. It went some way to describe/reflect the immensity of the heart as a subject, with its symbolism, power and romance. It also seemed a comforting way to express a possible afterlife, at the same time as toying with the idea of our relative perspectives in a near-infinite universe.
The hospital bed has a duality - it is welcome/it is feared. The empty bed could be a symbol for death and the space that remains when a person is gone - it could equally be empty because they have recovered. The bed is infused with the suggestion of human presence as well as absence, while the sunlight reflects warmth and hope. The energies that drive the sun to are the same as those that power the distant nebula, suggesting the possibility of universal interconnectedness.
- Personal Comment:
The patchwork quilt: inspired by colonial North American quilt of the 1800's partly because of the collaborative way it is made. Its expression of multiples was one way of showing that everyone's heart beats to a different rhythm. There is movement in the repeat patterns, yet diversity even in the repetitions. The prints allude to different emotions. They are made from collagraphs of leather, lace, and velvet and the white and cream ones are embossed. There is also allusion to the red cross, healing and medicine.
About The Group
Ideas - Someone running , movement heart, bright colours, facial expressions, emotion, Surrealism/dada
- Look at the use of bodies
- Francis bacon - distortion of body
- BASQUIAT
- PICABIA
- MAX ERNST
- FRIDA KAHLO
- JIM DINE
I looked at these pictures showing movement to help me with my final piece. The images from the internet inspired me, and are helping me to develop my idea.
This is my initial idea, I am interested in showing someone who seems healthily and they are running until they collapse and you realise theya their heart wasn't healthy all along.