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Month of Completion: Novemebr 2017
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Artistic Inspiration: Karen Caldicott and The Art of Caricatures
As you can see in the picture above, Caldicott does quite a few celebrity “portraits” using clay to create sculptures. Karen Caldicott is a British sculptor and illustrator who now lives in upstate New York. She does a lot of commercial assignments for magazines such as Wired, Time Magazine, The New Yorker, New York Magazine, Entertainment Weekly, Harper’s, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Fast Company, and many more. She studied at Middlesex Polytechnic in London as well as the Royal College of Art, and moved to New York City in the early 1990s. |
Examples of Caricatures
The Difference between Cartoon and Caricature
Cartoons typically consist of fictional characters, they were first published as a part of comic strips in the 19th century. Swiss artist Rodolphe Topffer (1799–1846) in an attempted to create a new method of story telling. His concept was a forerunner of animation art and modern comic books. The first cartoons were intended for publishing in daily newspapers, so they were quickly sketched with little effort. In contrast caricatures and satires were often painstaking etched and were hand-coloured and printed in glossier publications. Even today this differentiation remains. A colourful caricature used to illustrate a magazine or newspaper article is often of obvious superior artistic quality than a comic sketch like Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts or Doonesbury. |
Nobody’s sure who invented the caricature. It might have been Leonardo da Vinci, whose studies of “bizarre heads” led his admirers to the realization that distorted aspects of physiognomy could serve a satirical purpose more directly than strict representation. Aside from Leonardo Da Vinci, Monet, and Daumier. Along with all sorts of people you wouldn’t expect, like Dick Van Dyke and George Clooney. According to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary, the word caricature comes from the Italian word caricare which means to load, and means exaggeration by means of often ludicrous distortion of parts or characteristics. Examples of Cartoons
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Entertainers, A. F. (n.d.). Retrieved November 06, 2017, from http://www.aboutfacesentertainment.com/pages/caricature-history.html
Research (Cultural Inspiration)
Overcoming insecurities
Often times the mind misleads you, resulting in failed effort to improve your confidence and self esteem. Lack of confidence brings people to changing themselves to become their image of perfection. This great effort usually involves reinforcing the belief that we should be that fictional image. The result is a stronger mechanism for self rejection. With awareness we can avoid chasing these false beliefs and spend our time on what really makes a difference in the way we feel. Real change in how you feel emotionally begins with becoming aware of the beliefs and thoughts in the mind. The second step is to change those core beliefs. Self Mastery Audio Sessions provide focused exercises to identify and change core beliefs. This in turn changes how you feel about your self. The first four audio coaching sessions are available for free. If you can begin to change some of the smaller thoughts and emotions you have, then you can learn how to change the larger thoughts and emotions you experience. The next step is to sign up and listen and practice the Self Mastery Exercises. https://www.pathwaytohappiness.com/writings-insecurity.htm
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Planning Sketches
While planning this project, I mainly focused on the potential facial expressions I could be making. I sketched some up, based on how I was feeling at the time. I then used those as references for facial expressions while I was taking photos of myself. One translated, where I was trying to look sad. However, I never figured out how to make myself cry, so I just tried to look dismayed. I also perpetually added eye bags that are kind of puffy, which added to the "just finished crying" kind of look. |
Process
Sculpting the Clay
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Prepping the Clay
The clay is stored in a huge container soaking in water so that it does not dry out. The wet clay then goes into a Pugmill. After the clay is placed into the pugmill the clay will go through powerful blades that will smash stir and blend the clay.The clay then fell onto this tray. The clay was way too wet to be used for sculpting. Therefore, I made them into smaller balls, and then left them for a few hours to dry in a room that had no humidity.
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Experimentation
Videos that aided in the process
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Reflection
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Connection to the ACT
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationships between your inspiration and its effect on your artwork?
What is the overall approach (point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, culture, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did
What is the overall approach (point of view) the author (from your research) has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
What kind of generalizations and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, culture, etc. while you researched your inspiration?
What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
What kind of inferences (conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning) did