Initial research:

05/10/22:

As a starting point to understanding resources we have available to us in terms of research we went to the Hive as a way of finding out what is available. During my time at the Hive I went looking for books revolving around the concept of women and more specifically women's movement and representation surrounding the world of art. I found three books which I thought were particularly interesting: Beauty's Body Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism, Feminist Visual Culture and Women Artists and the surrealist Movement. The reason I chose to focus on women and the world of art is because for me personally the creative world stemmed from art so it was like looking at the starting point to a topic I am interested in. All three of the book had interesting points for which I intend to carry forward in my understanding for my chosen topic of research.

The paper exercise:

During the class we different types of paper was put in front of us ad we were told to select two. The first piece of paper I chose was a 300g rough water colour paper in the colour white, I chose this paper as it is something I am very familiar with and is one of my favourite papers when doing water colour. The second piece of paper I chose was an opaque cream tinted paper that had a smooth and shiny finish which was the opposite to my first piece of paper I chose this as I thought it was an interesting juxtaposition to show just how different paper can be. After reflecting on why I chose this paper I did a practical response using the paper I had chose, this response is shown below. The reason behind my response is that the number on the second paper reminded me of a number prisoners have on their uniform in the films however the paper gives opportunity for unlimited creativity these two ideas were the inspiration behind this piece of work.

References:

Alexis, K. (1997) Beauty's Body: Femininity and Representation in British Aestheticism. Stanford University Press: California.

Carson, F and Pajaczkoska, C. (2000) Feminist Visual Culture. Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.

Chadwick, W. (1993) Women Artists and the surrealist Movement. 3rd edn. BAS Printers Limited: Hampshire.