Tate Modern Visit

    Whilst being at the Tate, I took a keen interest in painter, Edvard Munch. I thought that his work was very original and mysterious, plus I feel that it works well alongside my theme of "Living with Dementia". I feel that a lot of his work is rather emotional and tells stories throughout each piece, whether that being happy, sad, in love, mourning and much more. If I'm honest, I didn't really want to go to all the cliche places to get research but the Tate has such an extensive range of work from classic to modern works. As you can see below, I managed to collect some postcards of work from Edvard Munch and this led me to recreating one of his paintings at a larger scale. In terms of research, going out into central London was a great way for me to expand my knowledge for my theme, but also to get inspiration from other artists and designers to see where they may have got their inspiration or ideas from. I really liked Munch's works as they were simplistic, but had a really deep story behind it, which is why I wanted to replicate on of his works in my sketchbook so that I could take the same journey as him and also begin to understand why?

(Page from sketchbook w. textured drawing)

(Painting in Sketchbook produced by Myself)

       As you can see above, I had painted a replica of one of Edvard Munch's original pieces and I feel that I will benefit a lot from doing this experimentation. I am very pleased with how this came out as I am not too experienced when it comes to painting, other than doing it in A-Level Fine Art a small handful of times. Not only this, I don't want to just focus on one medium such as pencil or fine liner from observational drawings, but having more of an extensive range of works including painting, print and much more. In addition, I felt that this painting in particular was very sentimental towards my FMP as you can see a man is crying in a woman's arms and this could relate to the fear of having dementia or perhaps the realisation of being diagnosed with the disease and thinking of all the negative outcomes and fear for the future. If I could have done anything differently, I probably would have used more imagery from different artists but I was particularly impressed with Munch's artwork and feel that his work would be more inspirational to experiment with to see what it will become. 

     I hope to be going to other exhibitions and galleries throughout this project as it will really help me to generate ideas and inspiration for future processes. On top of this, I want to try use as many mediums as possible within my Final Major Project (FMP) as it will enable me to have a better sense of what I want as a final result, but also the best grade I can achieve if I continue to keep up to date with my briefs plan. Moreover, I am looking forward to my group tutorial so that I can see how both myself and the group members have developed so far within our FMP's, but to also get feedback and advice on how I can make my project even better.