Some Delightful Animation

Vomit

Taking a more personal approach to the characters that we see regularly in media, I have taken a mass number of tv and film characters, the arrangement of the faces creates a bumpy vomit like texture which I wanted use as a methaphor for the huge number of these fictional characters that we ingest on a daily basis. 

taking the pieces a step further I am considering hidding my face contrasting with tha many characters faces, suggesting a lose of identity or shame of inadiquesy

G&G (profanity alert)

Gilbert and George's self portraits below titled 'George the Cunt' and 'Gilbert the Shit'

were shown to me in the article here

''two portraits of the artists as young men adorned with these very legends.'' the use of the word legend here caught my attention in relation to the myth and legend that creat much historical fiction. This idea of declaring yourself as a legend relates very much to the work that I am producing for this project, The decliration of myself as these extreme characters is an area I am currently exploring.

aboive is an interview with the pair, and below is simply a piece of thier work with an interesting explination

The ball is rolling, Slowly . . .

Soooooooooooo
finnaly got my tablet working today and decided to start on my extrusions of real characters, taking them into the bizzare, i remember the huge number of bloopers George W Bush has emassed and found it therefore fitting to portray him as a clown, in heinsight maybe a primeape would have been more fitting, anyway here is my first attempt:

Next I decided to use the same source image that i had used above, and apply it to a mugshot in relation to the work I had been looking at in my last post:

Whilst working on these images I came back to thinking about the personal connection that I have to the concept which I spoke about in my post involving the works of david blandy, with this in mind Chris Cunninghams videos hold some relation, he uses images of his face on various characters within his music videos, something that I may consider doing in my own work.

Come to Daddy - Aphex Twins

Window Licker - Aphex Twins

Im late for work now lol

tadar

Mug Shot

Mosted wanted by Louis Sidoli

 A series of mug shots all of famous male figures, portrayed in a pop art style influenced by Andy Warhol

Ozzy Osborne

Sid Vicious

Mick Jagger

Elvis Presley

David Bowie

Kurt Cobain

Steve McQueen

Frank Sinatra

Al Pacino

Al Capone

Jim Morrison

Johnny Cash

The self portraits I had produced seen in my post 'Face Off'' here, is where i have drawn a visual relation to these images. in realtion to my concept, the contrast of having such idolised figures in popular culture being portrayed as 'mugs' is amusing, yet is asks powerful questions of the viewer and society as a whole, are these star figures which we idolise so much, any more or less human then we are and were is it that there power lies, is it the ability to make people see beyond thier everyday lives, I think so.

A Good Example

This is an excellent example of the caricature like exaggerations which can be drawn from real world figures, again the element of humour is appealing.

The Melodramatic Stereotype

Focusing my project on fictional characters I want to look at some which are melodramatic. As a running theme throughout my work, I enjoy using comdey and satire; I believe that it brings a sense of humility while over enforcing my concept through exaggeration, something which is an interesting concept in itself.

Duke Nukem is a fictional character from the origonal video game of the same title, a self proclaimed hero, a good description is provided here 'wise-cracking, hyper-masculine, egotistical, chauvinist, machismo-filled, womanizing tough guy' (Wikipedia). He is the appitamy of the melo drama that I am currently interested in.

His voice, brought to life by Jon st John creates much of the characters depth; a montage of his quotes can be seen here:

From here I intend to create montages of these fictional characters trying to exaggerate them to extremes, I am also considering acting out these or portraying them as elemtns of myself in a more self analytical manner like David Blandys work.

you can find full versions of much of his work here. Im not completly sure why i find his work so attractive, I think it is the reflective way that he looks uponmn the world and popular culture in particular, I myself have always been curious as to why we do the things we do and how much of who we are and what we want is dictated to us. This may come from a need for rebellion or maybe a feeling of not quite fitting into this formation of society; considering the later it would explain my fascination with worlds beyond my own. Contemplating the boundaries of society and what is deemed fitting and not so, the way my concept has now developed to explore the extremes of characters has more solidarity, these exaggerations of real people would certainly not fit into normality. The concept still strongly relates the realtionship between the elements of realism which build the foundations of these characters and the gross extrusions (not neccisarily physical) which identify them.