DISSERTATION REFERENCES ETC (CONTEXTUAL JASON HIRONS)
Assignment Title:
Contextual Research Project
Module Team: Teresa
Gray, James Brown, Kim
Charnley, Rachel Dobbs,
Jason Hirons, Lucy Leake,
Mary Loveday Edwards,
Maddy Pethick, Martina
Rooney
Module Title: Contexts of Practice 3 Module Code: 304 Module Deadline Date:
WK 38
Friday 19th April 2013
Time: 4.00pm
Assignment Number: 304 Credit Rating: 30
The brief for this term include two options and my intended choice will be :-
Option 1: The Written Research Project (WRP)
6,000* words - 1 x hardbound paper copy/book* and 1 x
digital submission including full bibliography (Harvard style)
The key stages of the research process are:
1. Completion/submission of initial research proposal (October)
2. Research / Practice-led Research
3. Research seminar presentations (September-December)
4. Submission of final research proposal (November)
5. Completion and submission of a literature review/critical survey of research sources
(January)
METHODS OF RESEARCH
AND FUTURE PLANS POST-GRADUATION
I intend to research old Masters' paintings and other artworks and evaluate the effect and influence they have had on subsequent filmmakers.
e.g.......'The Deluge' heavily influenced Cecil B DeMille and DW Griffith
The Garden of Earthly Delight 'Hieronymus Bosch '
and 'Heaven and Hell' 'Hieronymus Bosch '
Both of these paintings had a great influence on the works of Stanley Kubrick and David Lean
HR Giger's effect on James Cameron
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Any CARAVAGGIO paintings and descriptions in books and journals and reviews from museums.
F.W.Murnau’s German Expressionism was influenced heavily at different stages by the tragic play FAUST by GOETHE and DRAM STOKER'S ..DRACULA.....and in turn his films inspired JOHN FORD
Just before the studio converted to talkies, Fox gave a contract to the German director F. W. Murnau, and his film Sunrise (1927), still highly regarded by critics, had a powerful effect on John Ford.
Murnau's influence can be seen in many of Ford's films of the late 1920s and early 1930s—his penultimate silent feature Four Sons (1928),
starring Victor McLaglen, was filmed on some of the lavish sets left
over from Murnau's production. Ford's last silent feature Hangman's House (1928) is notable as one of the first credited screen appearances by John Wayne.
My aims
Researching the old masters traditional paintings and other artworks that have lit the imagination of many filmmakers will be so appealing to me to help bolster my knowledge ...and how best to create frightening and imaginative images at the back of my mind when either storyboarding or adopting a more conceptual art approach.
To research apocalypse-type books/films/artworks that have inspired and influenced film makers to create their movies.
Hopefully this will give an insight into how particular artists have laid the foundations for other kind of artists to interpret and embellish on a theme to initiate a new piece of art.
How aesthetics and imagination can work together to allow the flow of inspiration and dedication in telling a story .
RESEARCH SOURCES
What secondary source material is available to you now?
BOOK :-The Apocalyptic Landscape of Ludwig Meidner
AUTHOR :- Eliel,Carol S. (PCA Library)
BOOK :- Apocalypse : Beauty and Horror in Contemporary Art
AUTHOR :- Rosenthal,Norman
BOOK :- Durer’s Apocalypse (PCA library)
INTRODUCTION by Erwin Panofsky
BOOK :- Steroescopic Digital Cinema from Script to Screen
AUTHOR:- Bernard Mendiburu
FILM :- The Road (PCA library)
Dir. John Hillcoat
FILM :- SHOLAY
Dir. Ramesh Sippy (Ordering in)
..Is aggression
among the masses an apocalyptic destruct button waiting to explode........there
are to many demons waiting to come together.........making the lives of the
good ,living hell on earth....re, light against dark.....good and evil always
fighting to maintain equilibrium.........who will win...........all things are
alive from the small seed fighting to survive......to the fully grown tree
being pillaged with something always waiting to attack it...........both men
and women trying to destroy each other is this fear or domination...... the
survival of the fittest always a fight no matter what the
scenario..........surgeons deciding who should live or die..........why is
it...... age related or money maybe......... the post code lottery comes to the
fore.......who are these people who can manipulate the masses for their own
control........are we the followers or the leaders........will it be
you or me that ends all we have ever known..........are we alive or dead
how do we know which side we are really living in.......... is it heaven
or have we made our own hell.........who is manipulating us all..........do we
all see through false sight........are we living in an apocalyptic waste land
with nothing left but devastation that we have become so used to
seeing..........are we really living in darkness still searching for a way
out.........who knows..............how do we know this world is still living
when so many are in turmoil believing they are already
dead...........Apocalypse yes........man made or is it...............??
APOCALPSE FILMING IDEAS
I had a dream once where everything was
like the garden of Eden....bright colourful scenery.......blue sky...flowing
streams everything just as it should be.......i was just pure light not human
....not spirit.....just essence...........in the distance a large bleak cloud
in the sky kept over shadowing all that I knew and loved.........i would
watch for hours then one time i saw the shadow fall to the ground gloom overtook
all things the ground moved with anger it absorbed everything in its
wake........draining the life from all that was beautiful...........why did it
have to happen so soon.....why here..................bringing with it all that
is toxic in its wake............why did the human race have to evolve
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LITERATURE
REVIEW …Tim Francis
Who’s The Master? :
The influence of the Master
Painters
on
contemporary filmmakers.
The visual image will always interlink the aesthetics of
cinema and paintings.
With Caravaggio inspiring Scorsese, Jarman and Film Noir in
general; Rembrandt evoking such fervour in Peter Greenaway. The landscapes of
Gainsborough and Watteau conjuring up the setting for Kubrick in Barry Lyndon;
Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World and Edward Hopper’s House By The Railroad both
are highlighting the imagination of Terrance Malick for the cinematographic
masterpiece of Days Of Heaven.
Here are brief reviews of four books I have read on the subject:
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‘Apocalypse: Beauty
And Horror In Contemporary Arts’ by Norman Rosenthal.
It is based on “Apocalypse” an exhibition at London’s Royal
Academy of Arts. Sculpture, installations, photography and videos there bring
this book to life from the horror of gas chambers and Darren Almond’s
‘Auschwitz Bus Stops’ and Luc Tuyman’s eerie paintings to Jeff Koon’s kitsch.
Reading this helps me to identify themes from genocide to a beauty utopia by a
range of international artists and how I can relate them to my inquiry.
‘Cinema And Painting:
How Art Is Used In Film’, by Angela. D. Vacche
This book illustrates the powerful chemistry between
traditional and modern written word and film images. Highlighting the creative
work of eight filmmakers and their use of art as an intertextual tool for their
respective films.
I can take the connection illustrated here between the
dialogism, semiotics and poststructuralism into further research for my
dissertation question.
‘Andrei Tarkovsky’s
Poetics Of Cinema’ by Thomas Redwood.
This formal analysis of the last four of Tarovsky’s films
delves into the stylistic nature and often-misinterpreted storytelling of the
Russian director. It captures the inspiration for his cinematic innovations and
the essence of his poetic ideas depicted in his locations and depicting
themselves as characters within the plot.
Reviewing this book helps me furthering research on the
language of narrative and how it’s cinematic use can range from obscure,
difficult, baffling, esoteric and bewilderment to one of post-intellectualism.
‘The Solaris Effect:
Art And Artifice In American Cinema’. By Steven Dillon.
The author bridges the
selectiveness of American filmmakers and the adventure mentality of European
directors. Concentrating on the turn of this century with a more digital CGI
and eco-conscious environment, and how this reflects art in the cinema. This
will enable further studies for my dissertation and in my practice by developing
how aesthetic achievement is not just for the initial artefact but also its
place on a worldwide platform.
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JOSEPH CAMBELL
I recently watched a documentary about him
and his legacy to other artists and philosophers and academics that adhere to
one of his famous quotes: -
“Follow your bliss”
The art works of
Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Paul Glee, and the sculpture of Antoine Bourdelle
influenced him.
Joseph Cambell was
the author of the book ‘The Hero With A
Thousand Faces’
Campbell discusses his theory of the journey
of the archetypal hero found in world mythologiesSince publication of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell's theory has been consciously applied by a wide variety of modern writers and artists.
The best known is perhaps George Lucas, who has acknowledged a debt to Campbell regarding the stories of the Star Wars films.
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Reading his book has taught me of the tree main principles of mythical storytelling of the hero at home ...then taken away into a different world and initiations of all sorts and what is learned and the transformation to bring that knowledge and experience to the home is the mainstay of any story.
Below is Andrei Tarkovsky who has been a big influence on the poetic of cinema (even though he didn't like that term about himself)...
His influences from artists . but creating his works as separate from paintings and literature, to enable film to be an established art form of its own accord.
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