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pip dickens MFA painting / slade school of fine art, university college london | |
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FABRICATIONS SERIES OF PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS |
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| This series of paintings and drawings initially developed from a response to books
and films that utilise fabric, or apparel,
as a key motif within the storyline. Apparel
has been a device in folk tales and fiction
down the centuries - characters use clothes
to conceal, or create, alternative identities. This theme expanded into the dark realm of Film Noir and the dramatic Technicolor technology surrounding epic widescreen vistas - techniques that heighten drama and atmosphere. The 'letterbox' format is combined with disturbing, almost forensic, aspects of the 'close up' or film still. Memory perception also plays a significant role in the work. The paintings allude to personal constructions of how we remember things - the 'eidetic' aspect of memory – what mythographer, Marina Warner, describes as "referring to optical experiences that are retained in the mind’s eye with hallucinatory intensity." There is a parallel with fabric and threads in the construction of stories themselves - plots are unravelled, lines of enquiry are followed to solve mysteries, the word 'clue' derives from 'clew' meaning a ball of twine or thread...people fabricate stories, hide behind veils of lies, they spin tales. A story is a yarn...my reading list included |
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| The paintings and drawings are influenced by
the following books and/or films Universal Picture 2001: A Space Odyssey (film Stanley Kubrick and the 'no horizon' myth posited by mythologist, Joseph Campbell) .................................................. Madame Bovary Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert .................................................. Mrs Danvers Rebecca, Daphne Du Maurier .................................................. Miss Havisham I and II Great Expectations, Charles Dickens .................................................. |
Madama Butterfly (Cio-Cio-San) Madama Butterfly, John Luther Long (Music: Puccini) .................................................. Femme Fatale Various scenes and/or costumes within the genre .................................................. Madame De Farge A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens .................................................. Dr Zhivago - Silver Birch drawings Dr Zhivago, Boris Pasternak (film, dir. David Lean) .................................................. The Elephant Man - Cloud Drawings Film, dir. David Lynch) .................................................. King Kong (Film, dir. Peter Jackson) .................................................. |
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