Some Drawing

Alternative design

My alterative design work

2D Work.

This is all my recent 2D work ive been doing. Like at the top i was focusing on the manipulating of a building so i started by editing the actually outside of a building then i moved on to making the buildings an actually living thing. Then i did some work of mixing victorian cameos and nu- rave together. I also did some work like a toile de jouy but by mixing with where i live where i work and college.

My Essay

Assessment task 1 : visual analysis

Pair 2 : Francis Bacon: Einenstein

In this essay I will be analysis a painting by Francis Bacon ‘self portrait’ 1971 and

Battleship Potemkin by Dir Eisenstein in 1925. As well discussing some of the

points that they have in common.

I will first be analysing the Francis Bacon painting self portrait that he painted in

1971, and I will be firstly saying what I think it represents. I think this painting

represents the deep and dark depression a human being. Like how some

people can seem on the outside happy and perfectly fine, but when in fact inside

the person is in a lot of misery and pain which they manage to hide but can only

show it In his paintings. Or it could have been his way of showing his deformed or

crazy personality that is being represented by using sharpe or solid shapes with

also putting a few gentle brush strokes, maybe showing abit of his softer side at

the same time. Bacon uses the colours to show his darkness and depressive life

This is done by using colours such as blues, blacks, whites and yellows.

I will now be analysing how I think he made the painting, he used oil paints to do this paintings

and gave most of the facial features sharpe and very abstract like to give the face that crazy or

deformed face. As well as this he made the fore ground and the back ground colours very close

together so it looked as if it was all blended together, like he was sitting in the dark or sitting in

his fears. I believe that all of these factors may refer to the time of his depression as in 1971

Francis Bacons believed lover George Dyer committed suicide and ever since then all of his

paintings started to show a more deeper and personal side to him.

I am now analysing the still from Battleship Potemkin by Dir Eisenstein. I think that this piece

shows the terror and the shocking pain that people can endure though physical or mentally

abuse. As well as this, in the still it looks as if the person is running away from something like

from a depression that they cant escape or maybe someone running away from their fears. You

can tell this by the crazy or demented look in his eyes, as if this person is driving him insane.

The Battle of Potemkin was made in the 1925 so the film was not up to today’s ‘hd’ standard as

it gave it a very crackled and didn’t show all the details to the best ability . The Battle of

Potemkin is in black and white which helps create the scary and mentally wrong atmosphere.

Like wise with the detail to the film since by it not having that great of detail it really give a

mystery feel to the figures, but I believe that done in the film today it may not have given it that

scary or mysterious look.

I think that the battle of Potemkin refers to the 1905’s mutiny on the Potemkin ship were they

mutinied against the leading officers. So they made the silent movie based on this event , so

the still shot that Eisenstein chose could have been of a officer undergoing attack or of an

rebelling crew member about to attack an officer.

In common-  I believe that both Francis and Eisenstein pieces have in common is they both

show the anger in the world maybe anger though the pain of losing someone or the pain of

being treated with no respect, which can make them feel as if their a slave to their country.

By trying to show it by an out burst of attack or maybe by a self portrait portraying what you

actually feel on the in side.

650 words

Eisenstein

Francis Bacon