ITAP LECTURE 7 2012

Today's lecture was called Production & Outcomes, Influences & Reactions. How things around can effect us and therefore influence our work.

The first point i have chosen to look at is "interpretation", how people perceive a story due to influences that they were receiving from issues around them such as culture, war etc from an art point of view.

The lecturer talked used Alice In Wonderland as an example to highlight this point, i am going to do the same purely because the story is one of my favourites.

The original illustrations for the story were done by John Tenniel, they were drawn in the 19th century which was victorian ages, if we look at that era it was very harsh, and this shows through his drawings, scratchy sketches with detail, but no colour, Alice's expressions seem pinched and unsettling which portray her character to me nowadays as uppity maybe a little bit spoilt.

If we look further on in time we can see that this changes, in 1951 Disney bought out a animated film of Alice in Wonderland, it was very colourful and Alice's character changed, if we look at her appearance her features are considerably softer, and she's made out to look a lot more innocent and how she should look for a young girl.

For my second point i have decided to look at key principle number 2 "Delivery" 
i am going to do the first activity we were given the option to do.

One of the people i really aspire to when it comes to using an interesting format or platform deliver their work is a street artist/photographer called JR, i used his work as a point of research when i was in collage as i found his work really bold and expressive.
 He takes black and white photographs of people and places them on what he feels is the appropriate building. Below i have posted a few of his photographs from a project called "Women are Hero's" this was a really strong project that took place in Brazil, India, Cambodia and Africa. 

I think this project is really strong and gives the people in poverty where these were pasted, hope and something to look forward to.

I admire JR for his unique and really interesting approach to getting your work out there, expressing yourself and in this case, making a difference.