LAUAN501 - Study Task 3 - Images and Theory (Overview)

Study Task 3 - Images and Theory
Overview of research.

(pointers) Ideas for my theme and question:

(TASK)

1. Select and define important terms / concepts you have discovered through your reading (if you do not have any you may choose from the list below)
2. Collect and analyse examples / images / phenomena that could be interpreted as following these concepts.
3. How could they be used to interpret your theme / question? Triangulate with theorists and critics.

You may apply the analysis technique below to examples - to help deconstruct your choices.

• Context / when it was made / where it appears (including when)
• Subject / content / compostiton
• Audience / who is it aimed at 
• Purpose / why was it made / why was it used 
• Method of production

The Woman with the Matches by Francis Picabia.
Picabia was at the center of Dada's more celebrated activities between 1917, the year he brought out the first issue of his irreverent journal 391, and October 1924, when he published the final issue of 391 (no. 19) attacking the new movement of Surrealism. 

While Marcel Duchamp, beginning in 1912, was the first to explore the symbolicand anti-aesthetic possibilities of the machine and mechanical imagery, it was Picabia who, perhaps more than any other artist, later pursued the theme with magnificent inventiveness. In many ways Picabia represented the public face of Dada, regularly exhibiting at the official salons in Paris, which he taunted through his use of highly unconventional materials, a characteristic exemplified by the Bergman work.

The tipped matchsticks, of which there are three different styles in the Bergman collage, convey with precision the prinked and permed appearance of a fashionable woman of the time. Dada's relationship with fashion is intriguing and unexpectantly multifaceted. 

The other version of this work, Match-Woman II, formerly in Breton's collection and dated 1924/25 can easily be distinguished from the Bergman version by the pendant on the woman's necklace, signaled by a larger coin. In this second version, the arrangement of matches and white highlights gives the impression of lonfer, more disorderly hair; the figure's head is also shorter and slightly wider. Most significantly, the face and neck are outlined with thick lines of light blue paint.

What aesthetics are used in animation for political themes and propaganda?

How do aesthetics and style reflect the content, function and audience of animation using imagery and themes?

Political views and contexts represented in animation through imagery and themes.

How could the images be used to interpret your theme/question?
Triangulate with theorists and critics?

(major imagery input is scanning in the book, The making of, Pink Floyd, The Wall)

Case studies - images, examples, phenomena have you found relating to your project - how do they link together? Triangulate? (Use at least 4 examples - images, stills, links to animations)