Vorticism and Futurism

Vorticism and Futurism

Final piece

11/02/15

For my final piece I have made a sculpture out of clay that focuses on the shoulders and collar bones. Once it is dry, I will then begin painting it in a similar style to my watercolour painting. I will be combining the style of Vorticism by using angular shapes, and will be using the bright and angry colours used in a lot of Futurist work. I hope to achieve a piece that, while simple, will be at first undeterminablez, however, at a closer glance will look like more than just an oddly shaped block. I want the sculpture to be smooth in texture however,upon touching it, will have the bumps and shape if a humans shoulders and body shape, specifically a males. 

The painting style will not be smooth, but will be neat and the shapes I use will be distinguishable.

Upon contemplation, I decided to remove the small wing like fixtures at the back as I didn't feel that they tied in with the sculpture. What I was aiming for was a simple and smooth realisticky shaped male body. The vorticism would be shown in the colour and shaped used rather than the actual sculpture.

The colours I plan to use will be yellow, orange, red and blue, and will transition from light to dark.

Before putting on the colour, I first painted it white so that the colours would be brighter and also had a base.

After this, I then moved on to adding white for contouring and reflection, it would also help the shapes and sculpture look more shapely. 

I then added an dark brown to bring out the collar bones and any indentations on the sculpture.

The end effect, while messy due to the paint strokes and the way that I applied the paint, using pointillism, however it is also neat because of the clean cut shapes I have used. The colour scheme I interpreted after looking at Umberto Boccioni.

After looking at the sculpture from afar, I feel that the green I had used was a little too white, so it blends in with the yellow and the white. The sculpture also isn't obvious and cannot be easily determined, which is what I was aiming for. Some of the shapes can't be easily determined simply because I used the same colour organisation and they were together, so they blend together.