
I quite like the effect of using the paint so decided I would play around using the masking tape again to create hard edged, shape driven compositions to reflect brutalist architecture and hopefully provide a little more solidity than I had been able to achieve through the graphite and pen work.

using just black shapes over the grey base still seemed a little flat, so I tried creating some more interesting shapes. Whilst I prefer the work on the right as an image, it doesn't have the immediacy and density that I am trying to communicate.
Using white, grey tones with black helps bring a bit more presence, but it doesn't command quite enough so I decided that the best way to give these images a bit of strength would be to use the more interesting shapes but layer them up more.
And still more...
This last one is made up of shapes painted in more different grey tones, plus the black on top, and I'm starting to get the presence that I was aiming for. I'm still not sure that it looks brutal enough though. I've noticed that in these last few images, the greys have become more consistent and lost some of the texture that was in the earlier paintings. I'm also not sure about whether having this many shapes has made the work a bit too fiddly, looking a bit too reminiscent of early modernist structures as opposed to brutalism. I do like these shapes however, so, I think what I want to do for the poster, is create a bolder, more basic composition, and then lay these denser arrangements of shapes over the top, illustrating the heritage of brutalist architecture and specifically the work of Le Corbusier, who was a big influence on Goldfinger. I still would have to work on adding a bit of a dirty texture (the aesthetic of scuffed, aged concrete) over the top because I think Id also like to include the idea of time passing, the unrelenting dominance these buildings have over their surroundings, the almost timelessness of their appearance and the fact that many of them have become listed buildings and so cannot be knocked down.
No comments:
Post a Comment