My Inspirations For My Final Piece

The main people who have inspired me throughout this term of research were Michael Hussar, Santiago Caruso Chet Zar and the monsters from the horror film 'Silent Hill'.

the way they paint, and in the films case, come up with these monsters is beyond amazing. They have thought me (along with many other very tallented artists) and broadened my imagination to the extent that i am always thinking and illustrating every crazy thought that comes to my mind.

they have a great impact on how i view different types of artifact and help me acknowledge different techniques.

How i found these magnificently talented artists i am unaware of but it was defiantly through hours of research. It was all worth it as they, and other newly discovered artists are helping me find my own style in art which i still have not yet concurred.


All artists have a very broad macabre twist to it, These artists are no ordinary people but artists which can change peoples perspectives on how they look at things.

Concluding

For my Final piece I want to crate a master piece that would include the techniques and illustrations of the artists work which i have researched. I would like to come up with my own characters which have nothing to do with each other and put them all on one canvass. It will be very time consuming but in the end it will hopefully turn out as i hoped for. Each artist inspires me in their own way, and the three artists which i have chosen to blog about are the ones that caught my eye.
they also follow the theme of beneath the surface and they all tackle their art in different manners which make them unique.

I have three final pieces in mind, three of which i am still debating wether to do. These are the very rough and quick sketches i have come up with:-

The first two pictures are for the same piece the rest are different. I am going to experiment with different mediums, and hopefully it will turn out as planned.

Chet Zar

Chet Zar is an artist which i newly discovered, he is remarkably talented and has many expertise.

He was born on November 12th 1967; he is a makeup artist, designer and sculptor for the motion picture industry. He was the makeup artist for 'Hell Boy I&II', 'The Ring' and 'Planet of the apes'.
Ever since he was a child he was always into horror movies and dark imagery. Zar is a surrealist artist who likes to test his imagination. In his paintings he can relate and express fear, anxiety and isolation.
Later on in his years he "decided to go back to his roots and focus on his own original works and try his hand in fine arts".
The artists that inspire him are the following : James Zar (step father), Bekinski, H.R Giger and Frank Franzetta.

Website [online],Information found at: http://www.chetzar.com/about-bio-chet-zar.html> Viewed on 16th december 2012.

this artist shows forms of conflict due to blood painted on one of the paintings. My opinion is that i love this type of art, it shows how it shows a story, how people think. Everyone has dark thoughts, and some people know exactly how to portray them in a form of art which people can relate to and admire.

Dork 2006, Chet Zar, Google images

Interlooper 2 2006, Chet Zar, Google images 

Chet Zar, Overlord 2006, Google images

Chet Zar, Signals 2006, Google images

Chet Zar, Warlock 2006, Google images

Chet Zar, Blackmagik ,ND, Google images

Chet Zar, Mabus ND, Google images

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind

           This film was a very interesting film, it needs your 100% attention to watch it.
its about a guy called Joel Barish (played by Jim Carry) who is a loner, so to speak, very awkward and keeps to himself a lot. he falls in love with a rather crazy and out going girl called Clementine Kruczynski (played by Kate Winslet). After a very long love affair between them they get into an argument and break up. they feel so depressed about the break up that they go to this witch doctor who managed to create a technology which erases an ex lover or present lover who you would like to forget about.
             The story begins with the ending of the film and plays back through how everything happened. After the break up clementine acts like Joel doesn't exist and is seen with another man, it makes us think that she is being selfish and doesn't want anything to do with him any more. Joel then goes to this witch doctor who puts him onto a machine and they start playing back all the memories of Clementine and Joel together, first the bad ones so it makes us realise why he is doing this. She is portrayed as a selfish person who is always arguing with Joel and doesn't really love him. Then all the good memories start to come back and Joel realises that he doesn't want to forget Clementine any more, so he tries to go into memories which clementine was never in to begin with. Unfortunately the which doctor manages to pin point which part of the brain Joel is hiding Clementine, on this machine, and when he wakes up he forgets that she ever existed
            They somehow find their way back together and find out that they both had each other removed from their memory. they fall in love all over again.
            This film is a very good example of destiny in the fact that even though Joel and Clementine lost their memory of them two ever being together they some hoe found a way back to each other and fell in love all over. they were destined to be together.
             I really enjoyed this film and thought it was particularly sweet because it gives hope to every type of person, weird, depressed, etc, to find love. I was like nothing could keep them apart even though they don't recall anything of each other.

Zaipe,  2006. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. [video online] Available at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GiLxkDK8sI> [Accessed 2 December 2012].
Trailer.

Movieclips, 2011.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. [video online] Available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lX50Lh2Iec[Accessed 2 December 2012].
Joel and clementine fighting- bad memory.


Movieclips, 2011.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. [video online] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3et9liRrywY[Accessed 2 December 2012].
this is a good memory of Clementine, and he is trying to not forget her so he takes her to his past.


Movieclips, 2011.Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind. [video online] Available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qpux-Drk6EY[Accessed 2 December 2012].
After they both found out that they erased each other from their minds and still get back together.


In this film conflict is shown, but not really in a physical way but in more of a psychological way. The facet that they went to erase their memories of each other because they were so depressed that they weren't together any more. this is the type of conflict that is shown throughout this movie, along with the fighting between Joel and Clementine.

Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, Google images, N.D

         

Santiago Caruso technique

Santiago Caruso's style is very unique; it brings out his personality and is like his work is his own signature, meaning when you see his work you will recognize it straight away. He uses abstraction and realism antagonistically in his work.

Multicanal By Santiago Caruso

His technique involves charcoal and pen mixed with acrylics which makes his painting very interesting. he has a lot of negative space which emphasizes on his picture. This picture emphasizes conflict due to the red wires and eye and also the sharpness of the scissors.

Sobre' la Educacion Milita de Peron y Conduccion Politica By Santiago Caruso

this picture is inspired by Moses in the crossing of the red sea. He uses negative space which is the sky and since the waves are curved they create a harmonious effect. The harmonious effect is in contrast with conflict as the people are soldiers and the general has a brain as a head.

psycho- Hitchcock

Hitchocks films are some of the most extraordinary films every produced. He is a master of suspense and horror, although not much gore is shown, he still manages to make the audience jump out of their seat.

The fact that he produced Psycho in black and white in the time when coloured movies were invented made the movie more original and also since a lot of blood was used they did not have a problem with getting the right colour to make it more realistic.
He was the first director the use a change of scary music in the killing scene creating more of a terrifying feeling. The fact that Hitchcock 'killed' his main part was a very daring decision to make because it was out of the ordinary a shock to the viewers which might have resulted to a bad rating on the movie. But he managed to pull the act off and it was a grave success.

Newcarscent7,2009. Psycho[video online] Available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VP5jEAP3K4>[Accessed 28 october 2012].

In the dinner scene, the psycho talks about how sick his mother is in a very sympathising way, and when he is talking about his mother saying, 'But she's harmless.. she's as harmless as one of those stuffed birds', we get the feeling that something is very wrong.

Movieclips, 2011. Psycho[video online] Available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv88ASiLmgk>[Accessed 28 october 2012].

The scene where we find out the truth about the mother is very confusing for the viewers as we were not expecting him to be dressed up as his mother.

Movieclips, 2011. Psycho[video online] Available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWHYmNrAFlI>[Accessed 28 october 2012].

now the last scene clarified everything that went on in the whole film. In my opinion one of the  best parts was when the camera is on him and the mother is talking through him and she says,'Let them see what kind of a person i am, i'm not even gonna swat that fly, i hope they are watching. They'll see, they'll see and they'll know, and they'll say,"why she wouldn't even harm a fly"'
it was a very exquisite pun to end the film.

Movieclips, 2011. Psycho[video online] Available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=dYDxxHrlmUg>[Accessed 28 october 2012].

Psycho, Marion Cane (Janet Leigh), Google Images

Psycho, Norman Bates's mother, Google Images

Psycho, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins), Google Images

my inspirations & illustrations

Original by Michael Hussar, Taken from : Google images
Name of picture: Unknown, Oils

Photo of my addition by Hannah Galea:
Inspiration: Michael hussar, Acrylics

these two images are my interpretations of my favorite artists, Santiago Caruso and Michael Hussar. I copied one of Hussar's work and changed it a bit. i did this because i love how he uses so much white in his paintings and still manages to make his pictures look gory. his work is quite life like with a mix of fantasy. His work is very inspiring and he is a very unique artist.

Original picture by: Santiago Caruso, Taken from: Google images,
Name of picture: Unknown, Charcoal

Photo of my addition by: Hannah Galea, Inspiration: Santiago Caruso, Pencil  & Tea bags

Santiago Caruso is also a very inspiring artist, he uses charcoal thus uses a lot of black emphasizing death. His pictures show a lot of conflict, they are usually fantasy related and not too much on the life like side. he inspires me because he comes up these mythological creatures which i love to look at.

Santiago Caruso

 He is a symbolist and surrealist illustrator whose work is an avant-garde concept which is still rooted in the 19th century. He draws magnificant pieces of work which portray all sorts of different emotion, conflict isa good example of some of his work. 

He dedicated his work to horror, supernatural, fantasy, suspence, as well as essay and poetry. 
His work is very original and dull, which fits in with the theme of 'conflict' perfectly. His work stand out for its vigor as well as its technique which outstanding.
http://beinart.org/artists/santiago-caruso/gallery/paintings/ http://www.santiagocaruso.com.ar/bio.html
His work has a lot of meaning to it if you pay attention to the detail and what it is telling trying to tell you.

In the first picture (Irom MaidenII) Caruso is most likely to be depicting ones inner self which most people keep hidden away, be it good or bad. The colours he used inflict death and enhance the gore coming from the nude figure inside the clothed woman. 

In the second picture (unknown) Caruso portrays a monster who seems to be pulling on a mans tendons or nerves which are making him scream in agony.

In the third picture (unknown) Caruso depicts the life and death scenario; whereby no one can live forever as death will always follow you where ever you go no matter how rich, successful or noble you are.

By: Santiago Caruso, Taken: Google images, Name of picture: Iron Maiden II

He uses a vast amount of different textures and is flexible with his mediums.

By: Santiago Caruo, Taken: Google images, Name of picture: Unknown

           






                                   
                      

By: Santiago Caruso, Taken: Google images, Name of picture: Unknown

Silent Hill

The black soot in the beginning and the fog inflicts fear,
the colours used are very dull and morbid and the music is very old based and puts the viewers on edge.
The sirens which were initially used in war to warn people that a raid was coming,was used in this film to wan the people that the monsters are coming.Also the use of old footage makes viewers uneasy and gives them a sense of foreboding and foreshadowing.The graphics are extraordinary in this move and the whole film is very well done. It is a very evil an dark film which shows a lot of conflict.

In brief, the whole story is about how Rose Da Silva (Radha Mitchel) goes into Silent Hill to find her daughter Sharon(Jodelle Ferland). But little did she know, Sharon literally had a split personality who was called Alessa. Later on in the story we find out that Alessa was tortured by Christabella (Alice Krige)who was one of the founders of the church in that town. Rose does everything in her power to get Sharon back and in the end she finally does. but unfortunately  they never leave Silent Hill and are trapped in another world.

Also the costume used for Alessa is very old looking and vintage, it fits well for her part. It is also very interesting how the Pyramid Heads costume is like a butcher apron. I shall definitely keep them in mind for my final piece.


Pyramidhead86, 2006. Silent Hill.[video online] Available at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5mT5LhbRJw>[Accessed October 2 2012]

Alessa(Jodelle Ferland), Silent Hill, Google Images

Dead/Alive monster janitor, Silent Hill, Google Images

Rose Di Sliva(Radha Mitchel)(mother), Sharon(Jodelle Ferland), Silent Hill, Google Images

Pyramid Head, Silent Hill, Google Images

Difference between Alessa and Sharon, submitted by: narlyvamp1234, 2012, Google Images

Michael Hussar

Amazing colour scheme which shows a great amount of conflict.

He describes his work as-"a voyeuristic snapshot of perceived humanity, complete with freaks and fakery; a gothic wonderland illuminating the gray area between truths and lies."

Quote found at: http://beinart.org/artists/michael-hussar/

Michael Hussar uses a vast amount of white in his paintings which together with some browns yellows and reds, bring out conflict and somewhat harmony in his pictures. He inspires me very much in the fact that his work is based on the need for answers.
He paints both stufmato art and chiaroscuro art which is very interesting and highlights his work.

information found at:http://www.sinicalmagazine.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=265&Itemid=224

By: Michael Hussar, Taken from: Google images, Name of  painting: Cherry Pie

By: Michael Hussar, Taken from: Google images, Name of  painting: unknown

By: Michael Hussar, Taken from: Google images, Name of  painting: Red red robin