production & outcomes

Interpretation

At the top is a painting by Jean-François Millet and at the bottom is an image of van Gogh.

In Millet’s time, the early 1800, art had to have a sense of realism to it so that the viewer can relate to the picture. It was in this time where people were straying away from the neoclassicism movement that was heavily based around the art and culture of the roman’s. This style was over powered by the Romantic Movement, which encouraged artists to paint with a purpose and add emotion into their picture.

However in Van Gogh’s time (late 1800) it was the time of the impressionist where small broken brushstrokes were used to show the passing of time. Van Gogh was influenced a lot by the people, and landscapes surrounding him, favoring images of the countryside, village buildings and the people there.

In millets picture you can see that the painting is dreary and drains the audience of all their energy so you can feel how the farmers feel. However Van Gogh has taken the same picture down a different rout. He’s changed the angle of the whole paining so that the lighting gives you the sense of it’s the end of the day so it’s the end of work, but the sky is still blue telling you that the rest of the day is yours. So the characters give off a different sense to the viewing audience, because even thought their lives are hard as they are farmers, because of the colors used you can see that the lives they have a busy but yet fun and interesting. This goes to show that van goghs out look is that life is hard but that just makes it more interesting. Where as millet’s view on the farmers life is that its hard work and an occupation you should not desire, or at least there is hope for those who work hard.

 

Delivery

Adam Neate is a new artist and has found a different way of publicising himself and getting know by more of the public, through his open air gallery project.

It all started when he was a budding artist and he ran out of room to store his art work, so from there he decided to give his work away to charity shops, which in later days he found on the street. From there he decided to place a free artwork gallery in the streets of London. From word of mouth he begin to grow in popularity where he was dubbed the new English Picasso.

From doing this his artwork in the galleries dramatically grew in price from £1000 to £30 000 in less than a year. This just shows that with the right publicity you can gain a lot from it. Also his work is made from throw away material that fits his open-air gallery theme, especially for the economic climate as his gallery was put together around about the time of the economic crash. Plus by giving art away its sending out a positive message to the public which in turn will make them desire the work even more, even the ones being sold in galleries.