Christo.

Surrounded Islands. Florida 1980-83

Th Gates. Central Park,  New York. 1979-05.

I have been finding it difficult to find research on artists work that I feel is relevant to my own. BUT today I have finally found an artist with work that is interesting and also similar to my own. Here are a few images of Christo's work. He combines the idea of geography with bold and colourful fabric. He works with skylines and cityscapes capturing them from different angles, covering and creating shapes with fabrics. I have very much enjoyed my research on Christo as it is very different form anything I have previously seen.

DATA

I am currently in print, I am enjoying this sampling project. There is a lot of drawing which is what I enjoy most and I feel that I am confident in this area. We are currently working on black and white motifs which will then be put onto screen for printing. I began with looking at general data and graphs, I looked at heart monitors and then graphs and data that are used in health care and medicine. I found this quite limiting so I looked at my work further to see what I could develop. I really like the heart monitor drawings and they reminded me of skylines, so I decided to look at city scapes and buildings from birds eye views. This gave me the ability to create geometric abstract shapes that were placed in a structured order. I also looked at the idea of congestion due to the cars looking like shapes, my only problem was the ratio of black to white so I considered this carefully.  I have also quickly looked at the idea of colour, but I feel the colour stripe isn't an accurate representation of the picture I have chosen so I am going to further work on this.