Developing and interpreting the themes explored in my written work, I have chosen to focus on the idea of the internal conflict of the artist to conform to aura or commercialism, and the kitsch aesthetics often associated with commercialised art.
Considering this idea of the weight of aura and purity in the art world, I started off by exploring how abstract marks and gestural lines could communicate this force on the artist, and the conflict between the two outlets in which an artist can operate. As an initial starting point this has worked to explore line and texture, but I may wish to develop these with a greater consideration of colour and a more explicit visual connection to the issue of kitsch. The use of china-graph on colour pencil proved particularly successful as the colour pencil resisted the china-graph, capturing the conflict and flux identified in my themes in a material sense.
I also went on to explore colour palettes and collage, employing bright metallic colours of teal, magenta and gold to capture a stereo-typically kitsch palette and employing these as textures in collaged components and brush marks. While I feel these do not immediately communicate to the view the idea of a conflict between the 'high art' and the commercial kitsch, I feel at this stage it was right to explore colour and collage in a more playful sense, creating abstract forms and compositions that attempt to portray elements of the theme.
To develop my journal, it will be necessary to explore more visual clues in order to fully communicate the subject to the viewer, perhaps using really excessive images of kitsch or just stereotypical nods to kitsch elements to create a more subtle aesthetic. I may look at working with found and existing imagery in order to create images that are more recognisably connected with kitsch aesthetics.
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On presenting my progress, I was asked this question; How through the use of line and collage can you explain your theme? My intentions for this first set of pages was to explore abstract lines and marks as a means of exploring the conflict between aura and commercialism and the flux of the artists to conform to one or the other. While they do capture this in a symbolic sense, they don't immediately communicate and so collage was suggested, in line with my own intentions, as a way to insert more recognisable motifs and enhance the meaning and understanding of my images.
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