This is perhaps my favourite piece of artwork because of the soft colours in pastels and the refined use of paint to create these straight edges. The splash in the centre acts as contrast to the discipline of the surrounding image and is a little bit of crazy amongst the serene. This piece is playful and visually striking; definitely a stand out piece from Hockney's career.
We were then asked with paper, to recreate parts of our image by manipulating the paper into 3D shapes. I looked at different elements within the pictures to create mine, as well as using colour finish off different pieces.
This curled creation was inspired by the splash right in the centre of Hockney's piece. I cut the paper into strips and treated it like ribbon with the way I pulled the edge of the scissors along it and curled up the ends. The centre pieces were part of the scans I created in the first week and the overall use of the pale colours and exciting shape makes this a dynamic little experiment. This was my favourite interpretation of the painting and was the one I ended up enlarging.
This smaller model was created by colouring in a sheet of paper green, then cutting it out into spikes before wrapping it around a floral cone. It reflects upon the grass at the base of the building and the addition of the floral paper contrasted well with the vibrancy of the green. The use of watercolour on the paper curled the edges slightly and whilst I usually see this as a disadvantage, it worked well in this instance and gives an appropriate finish to the leaves.
The amount of detail on the surface of the water in Hockney's 'A Bigger Splash' is virtually non-existent apart from the splash itself and within this structure I tried to create the texture of water using a page from my Latin book which serves as a great resource for sketchbook work. I used a scalpel to lightly score the surface of the paper in a curved line which allowed the paper to be folded into curved shapes. I worked with the paper until it resembles a shape to my liking before I finished it off by flicking blue paint over it to again resemble the splash. I loved the spontaneity of this task as I just kept adding to this structure until I was happy with it which is something I never normally do as I love to design. The way this creation stood and reflected the light was interesting and the scoring technique means that every single replica of this item would turn out slightly different.
This next one was my first attempt at this task and I feels like this shows as I was unsure what I was doing and still held back by certain boundaries as everyone is at first. This piece was inspired by the straight lines of Hockney's painting such as those for the building, the edge of the pool and the diving board. I tried to create a structure made from lines when turned on its side and even coloured the outside in pastel watercolours to reflect upon the palette used by Hockney. This piece is pretty and it works well functionally, but there isn't much excitement to it. It lacks any of the creativity found in the other ideas and could be made into so much more. My favourite thing about it is the coloured ends of the paper in a dark blue which represents the edge of the pool as well as the general outlining that featured within a lot of works through the age of pop art.
For my final idea I was strapped for time and ended up showing a ton of different textured paper into a cone without really thinking. I wasn't sure what the connection was to A Bigger Splash and I wasn't sure where I was going with this as it's general appearance is messy and temporary. I did like the use of watercolour on the napkin however as the colour bled into one another and created a floral looking pattern that fit with the rest of the papers in this structure.
All my ideas photographed together:
I chose the first idea to bring forward into the next task as I feel like that one would be the easiest to translate into several larger structures with more interesting outcomes. The picture below shows how I began to cut the A1 sheets of paper into strips and curl them to make up parts of my structure.
See how what happened when everyones ideas were made into garments here.
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