Paint Throwing

As a class we decided to do a group project involving throwing paint at a person, to create a line around the person so there would be a silhouette left around all the paint. The throwing of the paint is an act of human imprint because we were throwing the paint creating marks and it also should leave a human imprint when we have thrown all the paint. 

Yvees Klein

Yves Klein was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art.  Klein was involved massively in the development of performance art, which is why it is important to look at him. The work his is renowned for is called Anthropométrie sans titre and was done in 1961.

Klein made a new movement with his signature colour, using nude models as his brush. In the Anthropometries series, he covered nude females in blue paint and had them press, drag, and lay themselves across canvases to create bodily impressions. The piece was inspired in part by photographs of body-shaped burn-marks on the earth, which were caused by the atomic explosions at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  He was genuinely fascinated by mystical ideas, by notions of the infinite, the undefinable, the absolute.

 We got inspiration from this, as his models create body prints. This links to the idea with have but I think ours will be a lot more spontaneous in terms of how the outcome is going to turn out. We are also planning to use various colours, which diverts from Kleins origins. But hopefully the variety of colours will complement each other and make some wonderful new colours.

Jackson Pollock

Pollock began visiting a Jungian analyst to treat his alcoholism, and his analyst encouraged him to create drawings. This would later feed his paintings. 

A major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting, which is probably going to occur in our investigation because the paint will likely drip down the walls when the paint is thrown. By defying the convention of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions, this is also going to link because the paint is going to be coming from different directions as people's throwing of paint is going to be the same.

(More explanation in sketchbook)

This was the outcome :