I made a visit to the Russell Coates Museum, in the hope of being inspired by the owners travels around the world and collections. However, considering it being even more different as they travel around the world in late 19th century and early 20th Century. However, I was drawn to a number objects and paintings in the galleries. Foremost, I was intrigued by they way they had presented some of the collections, i.e. the metal shapes hanging from a window atrium and using old furniture to display current work. The essence of the museum is consistent without. This made me consider how I should consider appropriate presentation outlets for my works. For example, presenting my works somewhere that sells nostalgic objects and clothes...maybe a vintage shop in Boscombe. I am also curious to view ways in which artists in the 1950s presented pieces of art in their time.
Secondly, the last image is a sketch of Spanish Market Women at BilBao by E. Perez De Vallenza 1904. The composition of this image is really striking as it captures the atmosphere of the scene so well, leading the audience's eyes from left to right, with plenty of detail for the viewer to take in. The sense of a narrative in this painting is what I'd like to develop in my own practice. The idea of making my work like a performance should reflect going to the theatre, where usually there's usually not only one thing to look at but a series. These, in my opinion, differentiates theatre from film that usually focuses the audience's attention on a specific viewpoints. Theatre, on the other hand, cannot control this. Instead the audience is allowed to interpret a narrative much differently.
With these thoughts in mind, I went through a collection of 1950s magazines I have collected over the past month and sought out different perspectives and visual techniques used to focus my project a little more in the right direction. The qualities that I noticed about these images were the framing and the considered application of colour.
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