Three destroyed paintings

 

Here are three famous paintings I've chosen the paint over with acrylic, where I want to destroy paintings which people enjoyed and would see as master pieces and ruin them, completely changing the theme of the paintings of the paintings, if it was about figures, environments or even there backgrounds. 

 

Mona Lisa

Leonardo Da Vinci

New title Mona's true colours

 

 

With the Mona Lisa I wanted to destroy the figure, which people through of beauty and turn her into a mutant so to speak, even changing the background behind her to a dark and dryer background, where the river is running with blood and the dark blue sky, given the painting a dark feel about it. 

 

American Gothic

Grant Wood

New title The American Gothic killers

 

 

For the American Gothic painting I again wanted to destroy a painting, which was light and give it a dark feel towards it, where with the two figures in the painting I have turned them into dark figures and made them look dangerous and have painting the folk red to represent blood from, where they've just stabbed someone most likely killing them. I kept the house as it was apart from the windows because I believe it fits in well with the dark blue sky. 

 

Dalí The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dali

New title The land which time has no place

 

With Dalí The Persistence of Memory I wanted to keep the watches as they where and change the background/setting they were in, to a more darker, but more natural setting, where technology those not belong completely destroying the idea of the original painting and the idea of the memory of time because environment like this one ha no need for time as long as it's protected.    

Doors of perception drawings

Doors of perception drawings

 

I did four drawings based on parts of the book which I read, where I drew the four drawings based around my theory of what the book was trying to represent, where I drew a drawing of a door opening a pathway into space and of the two drawings of a man, where one of the figures appears to be normal and the other completely strange. I also did two drawings where I transformed what I could see in front of me like my kitchen door opening to a light which represents the next life and of the Shaw in a coffee mug. 

 

The first drawing is a door way to space, where this book links to the idea from William Blake's saying if the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

 

Huxley's book links a lot with this idea of man closing himself up and not see beyond what he truly see's. I believed the best way of showing that was by showing a pathway beyond mother Earth it's self. I choose to draw this kind of door because it appears to have a look of a door that could lead you beyond this world.

 

 I believe the drawing of the door is okay and has been drawn with good detail, but the drawing of the inside of the door is completely rubbish of outer space, and the door has not been draw straight either. 

 

The second drawing is of the same figure drawn twice, where I have draw him from a normal point of view and from an drunken or drugged point of view, where the idea of drugs changing the way people see the world comes into context.

 

I choose to create an image based around this idea because the book Huxley wrote is about drug research, people and drugs and how it changes them, where he choose to put himself toward for experiments and how it can change people's awareness. Therefore this drawing links with this idea of drugs changing people's awareness.

 

 I again believe the drawing is okay, where it shows my intentions of my views of showing what the context was about, but some sections of the facial features could have been draw better in positioning and shape.    

 

The third drawing is of the kitchen door, where it is opening a portal to the after life, where again the same idea accrues of a door opening to infinity as the after life is seen as a eternal life, again I have tried to link this drawing to William Blake's Marriage of heaven and Hell quote. 

 

Again I wanted to focus on the idea of man seeing into infinity, but this time create an image, where I could draw some think ordinary in my own view and transform it into some think special, showing a new way of seeing what can be beyond what man see's. 

 

With the drawing I only coloured the light yellow and left the door blank to show the change in the way I saw the door and where it could lead.    

 

I believe the drawing is good because I believe the drawing shows what I was trying to present as seeing the world differently and representing the idea of man show be looking into infinity, but I should have drawn the 3D nature of the door better.        

 

 

Here is the fourth drawing I did of a coffee mug, where again I got some think ordinary in front of me and tried to present a different way of seeing an ordinary object linking again linking to the idea of  how man can see into infinity, I tried to show this idea by drawing and only colouring the Shaw and sand with bright colours within the coffee mug and colouring the mug in a dull grey colour, where man only chooses to see an ordinary drink, but if they look into infinity they could see how the water in the mug is the same as the water from the eternal Shaw.

 

I wanted to again show a different way of how man can see some think normal transformed into some think unordinary, again only using bright colours to show the different way of how the object has been transformed to showing another way of seeing the world. 

 

I believe the drawing is okay because I believe the drawing presents my intentions for the image, but I believe I should of use a darker tone of grey and drawn the round nature of the cup with more accuracy.           

 

Society of spectacle

 

This is a drawing I've done based around the theme society of spectacle, where I typed the theme into google and found different images of people looking through different kinds of glasses, some of the images showed people looking through  3D glasses.

 

I drew this drawing from an image from the internet of a women looking through some special type of glasses at some think, possible some think beyond real life maybe like an image within the glasses, which in term would be changing the way the women is looking at some think that's not real, but she would be seeing it in real life, therefore destroying the way the women see's reality and brings chaos into play.

 

I choose to draw free hand this images from the internet because I felt that I could make a good connection with the theme Society of spectacle through drawing the image, where I believe it shows my intention of showing the theme well and helps supports my points about the idea of Society of spectacle.  

 

I believe the drawing is okay, where I was able the draw the outlines well and I believe the text has been drawn well, but this drawing is nowhere near the best of my ability's and I feel my drawings are lacking some think as if there missing some think creatively.     

 

Science fiction movies come into play with the theme, like Star wars, DC and Marvel comic book movies, where their are impossible beings like the Hulk, futuristic technology like the Iron man suits and the ability to space and time travel, good politicians, which go against modern reality and change the way people are seeing real life.          

4 panel comic strip

 

This is a four panel comic stripe drawn with the theory Instruction is an obstruction to the construction, a phase from the Michel Gondry's film The science of sleep, where I've choose to draw about a situation, where a person creates a good drawing, wants people's opinions and what to do next, ends up getting confused with the different ideas gets even more confused and ends up trying both ideas and ruin his work.

 

 I choose to focus on this idea because I have had my own personal experience with these situations, where it has ever advanced my work or taking me a step backwards.     

 

The four panel comic stripe links with the film because in the film the main character gets confused on what to do in a situation, where different people are telling him what to do and he ends up making a wrong decision, which confuses him even more.  

 

 

 



Dewy decimal system

This is a dewy decimal system processes and experiment I used, where I took my name and created a number sequence from the letters of my name which is Luke, which comes out as 332.5, where L is the 12 number in the alphabet, where I then added the 1 and 2 to make 3 because when the number is of two digits you add the two numbers together like U is 21 so I added the two number digits together, which in term makes 3, K makes 2 because it's the 11th number, where 1 add 1 makes 2 and the E makes 5 because theirs no second digit to add, which makes the number sequence 332.5

 

I then went to the UEL library and selected 3 books using metal rods and my mind to select 3 books, where I tried to get as I could to the number, where the number of the three books, where 331.8 because the library did not have a selection of books with a number code of 332. any number, this in term lead me to the book topic of the trade union, which I did not enjoy coming across at the time, but it was the hole point of the experiment to create a text and image drawing based around the topic of the three books.   
 

I then researched the topic trade union on Google images where I found a lot of images of circle based images with drawings and text, I also found a lot of protesting images mostly to do with cuts in the economy, so I intended to create a text and image drawing with them both in mind as well as including the topic of the books.

 

After when I made the drawing I chose to include one of the titles of the three books in the drawing because I believe the text in the images matches well with the drawing in the centre of the image, where I drew a man protesting about cuts in the economy. I chose to draw a protester because the three books do have a bit about trade union members and how changes in the trade business affects them and how there wages have also been affected.   

 

I included the 20th century within the drawing because the three book all link to that time period and changes during that period.

 

The experiment did not meet my expectations because the drawing I have produced in my opinion is useless and I don't think much of it, where the man has been done all wrong, where the nose, mouth, ear and hand don't look human, but the experiment did work in a way, where I was given a topic, which I personal never would have chose to work with, where it made me think a lot about what I was producing.     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Museum of important shit drawing link

http://www.20000daysonearth.com/item/482/

Postcard from young me to old me

 

This is a postcard project, where I had to write a message from my five year old self to my 50 year old self, where it also had to link to a hauntology track, where there was 14 to pick from. The track I picked was Arthur, Birkby, Barbara Moore singers, Cuckoo.

 

I wanted to use this track because of how I felt it link to nature and  was the closes to a childish theme, which I wanted to work towards, with the drawing I drew an area of a park with a children's playground because in the message I wrote about freedom and as a child I saw the park as a place for me to explore and play, where I would be free for a short time, as I liked to get out a lot.

 

The idea of hauntology comes into play because as I grew older my idea of freedom changed and as a child I was always under the watch of an guardian telling me what I could or could not do.   

 

The message it's self I tried to link it as much to my five year old self as possible, where I hated school, loved running around and eating meat and banana's and where I could not wait to be older, which again looking back on that idea has now changed.