SB2 -Study Task 7 - Visual Response FURTHER JOURNAL DEVELOPMENT

Furthering the development of my visual journal, I have re-considered the use of existing imagery, now considering more theoretical values surrounding these particular images. Religious imagery has been pivotal to the visual research carried out so far as I feel it is grounded it both high art and kitsch matter. With the viewers engagement with religious imagery as either holy and deified, or kitsch and trivial, these figures seem to hold power, and as such, I have explored the weight of religious imagery.

 In my written work I have been critically analysing the issues around Tretchikoff as a commercial artist. Many argue that Tretchikoff was a commercial artist, serving the masses. This has provided the rationale for the above image as I wanted to explore the crux of Tretchikoff as an art icon. Does his work really challenge high art structures or does this transgression simply re-conform? Collage has enabled me to satirise his paintings and re-establish my visual devices.

Language is continuing to inform my practice, enabling me to explore more direct messages. I feel this image is the most successful in my journal so far as it explores a satire appropriate to the kitsch culture, whilst capturing a very real conflict been culture and anti-culture. In light of these developments, I will now explore how I can realise my visual and theoretical research towards a more refined and succinct outcome.