User:Florentina
Digital craft Jan Toorop - Zee (Brisants de la mer du Nord)
During the introduction of the digital craft practice I was fascinated by a work of Jan Toorop an impressionist still life of the sea close to Katwijk, the Netherlands. The work drew my attention as it was difficult to see where the sea ends and the sky begins. Through his colour use and the rough brush strokes there are lively dynamics in the painting. After standing close to the canvas (for over an hour), the colour of the painting started to fascinate me. Toorop did not only use different shades of blue and green, but also I also saw tints of pink, purple and yellow, which surprised me. For my copy, I zoomed in on just one piece of the painting and copied the colour pixel by pixel, to get and good overview of the colour he used. In this work, the difference between the sky and sea was even harder to see than in the original painting.
Link to reachers document copy:
File:ONDERZOEKS DOCUMENT JAN klein.pdf
The copy reminded me of an artwork from Giuseppe Stampone; ‘Why the sky above belongs to everyone, and the earth below doesn’t?’. His work is inspired by the poem of “The sky belongs to everyone” by Gianni Rodari. This sentence was the starting point of my research and my research question: where is the border between de sky and the sea? Where is the line between what you can and cannot divide? Can we divide the sky, like we divide the earth? What would happen if we did?
For this reason, I started my research with a visual work. Through the visuals, the aesthetics and the motions, I tried to research if it would be possible to capture this question in visuals, and furthermore what the questions that would come out of that visual would be. Additionally, I would love to continue this research in the upcoming quads. However, I would like to have more depth in the research and I believe it would be best to approach this question also in a more theoretical/philosophical way. Thereafter, I would be able to combine the craft of the paint with my daily vision on the world and how we behave on this planet.
Link to reachers document transformation:
During the process of this research, I discovered how close paintings and poems come to our daily reality. At first, they may seem outdated, but with a closer look and some reading you discover a whole world behind it. Making the connection from history to our daily live gets my energy running.
By using different mediums, such as film and photography, I can do my research based on something else than just internet and books. I really enjoyed to translate my own ideas into an image; either still life, moving or in a combination. Film is a new medium for me and I would like to discover this more.
Link to movie's:
Password - film1
