Fine Art

I wasn't sure what to think of Fine Art. I had been told by my friends that you can do practically anything, and they were right. We were introduced to many fine art artists whom we could draw inspiration from and at the end of the presentation we were given the word "Change" to develop an idea from. We then went to do our own research to find ideas. I came across Martin Creed in the library and how he replaced half the air of a room into balloons which he then filled the room with. I really liked the concept of changing a space into something completely different on a large scale. I came up with lots of ideas of how to change space but the one which sprung out to me most was to cut long pieces of string from ceiling to floor and spread them out to look like long strands of spaghetti. Then have a silver fork at the top and spread meatballs throughout the string. I like this idea particularly because it's outrageous and also because the audience can interact with it by walking through the long pieces of string. I also thought about how I've never met one person who doesn't like spaghetti bolognese so why not make one on a large scale where you walk through the food, and might even be food yourself! (for the giant fork).

    

   

This is what my final piece looked like. I decided to but a black backdrop to bring out the pale colour of the string but also make the red much stronger. I feel the black gives a more sinister feel to the red, reminding viewers of blood, and affecting the general piece. I decided the keep the fork as a separate piece as when it was in the piece it looked overcrowded and too obvious of it link to food. However I still put it next to this main artwork so the audience can look at it afterwards and make the link themselves. The meatballs I created from printed pictures of raw meat which I then painted red (I couldn't afford colour printing, too expensive). I am very pleased with the outcome of these as it has a sinister underlying element, emphasising the blood which perhaps came from the raw meat hanging from the string. The pool of "sauce" could also be interpreted as a pool of blood adding to this horrifying and gory feel. These were all elements picked up by my critique group, saying they felt quite intimidated and threatened by the presence of my piece. The original plan was to have people being able to walk through the piece to feel perhaps even more uneasy and horrified. If I had more time I would have definitely made this cover a larger area and perhaps create a path that people can follow to walk through the work.