Figure/Ground, William Kentridge & Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ Blog #4
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In relation to William Kentridge’s drawing of ‘Soho Sleeping’ on a deck chair from his film, “Tide Table”, (pictured left) I took a photograph of a sculptured woman lying on a bench, “Interlude”, (pictured right). There are many similarities and differences between the two. For one, the man looks as if he’s dressed in a suit and on the beach while the woman is in more of a loose gown in a more public setting. By their body language though, I can see they’re tired or worn out.
For his film, Kentridge would make a drawing, photograph it with a 16mm camera, erase parts, photograph it again so that the same drawing is used over and over one frame at a time, evolving through hundreds of movements and moments, one frame at a time, as it is erased and redrawn.
In the video directly below I had to set the camera to take a series of photographs simultaneously. All we had to do was keep moving. In order to achieve a similar feel, I stitched the photographs together one right after another. The outcome is pretty neat to watch, if I do say so myself. In a way, this form of display really brings your images to life.
William Kentridge’s “Tide Table”
Many of William’s works really showed a difference between the foreground and background. High contrast if you will. You can easily distinguish between the foreground and background in my photo of the sun setting behind the canopy of trees.
Abby
Chris
Noel
Uri
Brandi
Daniel
&
Elizabeth
On the other hand, the majority of Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres’ art pieces showcased portraits done in mostly oil on canvas which is similar to the senior portraits I’ve taken with only my digital camera. Same style, different methods. Like in his drawing ‘Study of a Seated Nude Male’, Ingres experimented with the angels and location of the model’s arms and legs. While photographing Abby, Chris, Noel, Uri, Brandi, Daniel and Elizabeth I not only go through much trial and error with poses and expressions, but I must make the ground work with my figure in order to deliver an appealing photo and interesting composition.
The figure in my portraits are obviously the people and I would describe the ground plane or floor plane as being the scenery or background objects/props.
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