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 PLAYING W/ MONOPRINTS \\

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It first started quite bad as I didn’t really get what I should really do with monoprinting. So I ended up more of just drawing and doodling what I wanted on the paper. But, it was a first time experience, I didn’t really expect much either.

RESEARCH OF ARTISTS ON MONOPRINTS \\

 Mark Bradford

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Mark Bradford is an artist whose work I really wanted to try. His method of compiling random objects and recycled materials was really interesting.

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Mark Bradford, When it stops snowing, 2010, Mixed media collage on canvas, 275 x 372 cm

I brought some random recycled objects like milk cartons, egg trays, boxes and strings to test out. Also, I found and picked some random objects like twigs, leaves and beans.  The one thing I had to do was to really flatten all the objects and paste it over with white paper.

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Sadly, the plan didn’t work out that well as the objects did not really flatten that much, and I tried cutting them but they were all pretty plain. I ended up using them for monoprinting instead and got some of the following prints below!

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mbuploadThe second picture was actually made by dipping the whole twig in paint and scratching it around the paper. It was pretty cool to see what kind of images I could get even if the Mark Bradford technique didn’t really work out well. The process was pretty fun!

 

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From the research of the practice of automatic techniques, to that of abstract expressionists, who also practice automatism in an abstract form.

Some of the artists that I’ve researched on that really intrigued me was probably Jackson Pollock, Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning. 

Some works by Jackson Pollock:

http://www.proprofs.com/flashcards/story.php?title=later-20th-century-art

Jackson Pollock

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/93942342199339900/

 

It is the way the lines form from the splatter of ink that really intrigues me, and how it, although very random, can portray so much emotion when you look at it.

My attempts of his work:

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I tried the ink splatter, but obviously in a way smaller scale as compared to his.

 

Some works by Franz Kline:

http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/probst-i-34186

http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/64.146

 

The work of Franz Kline is so simple yet brilliant. Just by forming stokes of black and white on canvases, and by zooming in on each stroke, you are able to see so much emotion being portrayed by each and every stroke that seemed so spontaneously constructed.

 

My attempts of his work:

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Some works by Willem de Kooning:

Two Women with Still Life

https://www.artsy.net/artist/willem-de-kooning

http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/collection/works/186.1991/

 

The work of Willem de Kooning is that he combines different styles of painting which consists of Cubism, Surrealism and Expressionism.

He portrays his emotion of anger and pain throughout most of his paintings, and also did lots of paintings of woman with those styles of painting.

My attempts of his work:

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I tried bringing those abstract lines together, to make it seem more of an accidental way of getting an image of a person in the painting.

 

These are all just a start to all the research that was done and probably even more to come!

It’s time to get busy testing out more new and different techniques!

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An artist who started out as a hairdresser and only to make a switch in his career, to be an artist, when he was about 30. His style of art involves recycling materials from his everyday life to form an art piece.

One of his work that really interests me is ‘Finding Barry’.