Arnulf Rainer and Experiment

Arnulf Rainer is a painter who does quite abstract art work. One of his most famous work is where he would get portraits of people and then draw over them in black paint.

Nearly all of the pictures in this type of work that he did are quite disturbing and seem to relate to have some sort of pain to them by the faces that are being made by the portraits, never the less, I decided to try it out my self.

Also the thing about these photos and where the value comes from is the link and similarity between them and the work of Arnulf Rainer, not anything like the visual elements, or if it is pleasing to the eye.

 

Self Portrait-Chance and Destruction

For this experiment, I used the self portrait of my self that I used for the Idris Khan work.

For this task I got the portrait and printed some copies out so that I had a physical copy of the photo because I wanted to take the photos through  some tests...

This is the original photo

For this one I put the photo in my oven and left it for 2 minutes.
This is what happened after:

I put this on submerged under water for a couple of hours.
But not much changed after I took it out.

I put this one in a bowl of water and then froze it.

And I left this one out side under ground for a night.

To anyone just looking at these photos, it probably would come to there minds as being interesting but having no value, just ruining some photos. While that is true, the value from these comes from before the out come of each of the things I did, I had no idea what would happen to them the next time I would see them, I have no control over what will happen. That is what gives these value.

Self Portrait-Idris Khan

This experiments was done by using a self portrait of me, and some inspiration from some other artists work.

The first one was was inspired by an artist called idris Khan and his work is that he takes photos of buildings and structures, and then edits them so that there are lots of the same photo just on top of each other, then he edits the contrast until it has the apparence of something like a sketch.

 

I had a go at trying this my self using Photoshop and the portrait of me. This was the final out come.   

 

To do this type of editing, I needed to use Photoshop. The first thing I did was to take the portrait of me and then open it in a new document in Photoshop.

Then I cut around my face so that the green back round that was there has gone then I made about thirty layers and copied the same photo of my self onto each one of them, but I also lowered the opacity on all of them so there were slightly see through. 

Then all I needed to do was move them out of line just slightly and keep making copy's to fill in where it looked a little to see through.

 

So now it was looking very similar to the type of work that Idris Khan. So the only thing left was to make it black and white just like his art work.