In intermediate photo we just got done with a project where we had to copy the work of another artist. I chose to copy one of Francis Bacon's screaming head paintings. When looking through a book of Bacon's paintings I really liked this one disturbing and nightmarish image in black and white of a screaming man. I knew it would be a challenge to copy because I had to produce a photograph while the work I chose was a painting and not a realistic painting what so ever. I chose my dad to be my model, thinking if I chose a friend to model they wouldn't take it as seriously since they would have to make bizarre face. I wanted to create the lines in Bacon's painting in my photograph, so when i took the pictures of my dad I had him sit on an exercise ball and bounce up and down while I shot him from the torso up using a tripod. I was happy with the way the photos turned out but when i printed them they still needed something else to look more like the painting, so then I started experimenting with overlapping my negatives. I overlapped three negatives so that they didn't line up exactly to help create the painterly effect in Bacon's work. After doing that, the photos were looking a lot better, but I still wasn't completely satisfied, so I then decided to paint on the developer in addition to overlapping the negatives. I was really pleased with the way they ended up turning out, and although they didn't look exactly like Francis Bacon's painting I think they captured the same concept and mood.
In intermediate photo we just got done with a project where we had to copy the work of another artist. I chose to copy one of Francis Bacon's screaming head paintings. When looking through a book of Bacon's paintings I really liked this one disturbing and nightmarish image in black and white of a screaming man. I knew it would be a challenge to copy because I had to produce a photograph while the work I chose was a painting and not a realistic painting what so ever. I chose my dad to be my model, thinking if I chose a friend to model they wouldn't take it as seriously since they would have to make bizarre face. I wanted to create the lines in Bacon's painting in my photograph, so when i took the pictures of my dad I had him sit on an exercise ball and bounce up and down while I shot him from the torso up using a tripod. I was happy with the way the photos turned out but when i printed them they still needed something else to look more like the painting, so then I started experimenting with overlapping my negatives. I overlapped three negatives so that they didn't line up exactly to help create the painterly effect in Bacon's work. After doing that, the photos were looking a lot better, but I still wasn't completely satisfied, so I then decided to paint on the developer in addition to overlapping the negatives. I was really pleased with the way they ended up turning out, and although they didn't look exactly like Francis Bacon's painting I think they captured the same concept and mood.
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