vivenne west wood N5 Flashcards
(19 cards)
visual impact - colour
- westwood mainly used golf in the queen of sheba dress gold is normally linked to royalty and wealth it adds to the rich, powerful, look of the queen of sheba dress.
- the queen of sheba dress westwood used different shades of gold this makes the dress look 3D with light and dark shades varying on the corset suggesting a nude body hour glass figure.
- the queen on sheba dress, westwood added red topaz stones to look like nipples on the corset
this adds a fun and bold touch the red stands out against the gold making a strong visual impact.
Fitness + purpose wearability.
- The Vivienne west wood dress was created for runway or stage shows an it’s a one of experience piece with all its ornate embellishments the dress isint something that was designed for everyday use so it’s more suited for catwalk.
- The Viennese Westwood dress consists of hundreds of ostrich feathers pearls and beads the glass beads make the upper body heavy for the wearer and the long train made it difficult to walk causing a trip hazard making the dress unwearable.
- Westwood named the Queen of Sheba dress this title because the Queen of Sheba was a historical figure who was featured in the bible and Quran as a strong female figure Westwood wanted to make the dress as a message to woman to empower them and demonstrate the potential of woman.
Target market / audience
Westwood has designed beautiful brave pieces during her work, we see this in the Queen of Sheba dress which will not suit everyone’s taste her clothes attract confident people who are self assured and are extravagant and like to make a bold appearance.
- The making the Queen of Sheba suggests high cost the person who would be buying this dress would need to be someone who has high income with this in mind, it could be worn by a performer who wants to make a bold statement with the dress.
- The dress would create a strong visual impact even for a distance due to the style shape and highly decorative qualities the person wearing this needs to be someone with confidence and someone with a diverse style who appreciates west woods punk tradition.
Visual impact style
The Queen of Sheba dress uses Rocco style inspired the artists Boucher and watteu this is shown through the soft colours and beading and ostrich feathers giving the dress a soft fancy look different from the more serious baroque style.
- The Queen of Sheba dress looks both playful and shocking it creates a strong visual impact the beadwork creates the shape of a female naked body it’s like dressing up to look naked mixing elegance with humour this shows westwoods bold style and her way of exploring controversial ideas.
- The Queen of Sheba dress by Vivienne west wood Westwood uses red topaz stones to look like nipples on the corset thud adds a fun and bold touch the red stands out against the gold making a strong visual impact.
Materials+ techniques
- The surface of the Queen of Sheba dress is built over a corset of folded bone fabric the body of the dress is supported by the beads covering the corset as well as giving support to the wearer of the dress the tight beads give the dress righty figure, form.
- The Queen of Sheba dress is covered in 100 beads, pearls and precious stones arranged through colour and tone to create the appearance of a naked body this would have created a shimmering tactile surface as light reflects the beads and stones suggesting glamour and extravagance of the wearer.
Westwood applied the traditional corset on techniques to this dress as well as adding padding on the hip which emphasises the hour glass figure as a contrast in size from the cinched waste to add a large set of hips adding drama to the design.
Asethetics
The corset was traditionally tailored the corset shapes the body into an hourglasss figure showing the female realistic form.
- The Queen do Sheba dress is covered in 100 beads pearls and stones arranged to look like bare skin the beads and stones reflect light making the dress sparkle and stand out on the runway.
- The bottom half of the dress has a long train of ostrich feathers that leave a trail behind the feathers make the dress look softer and elagent adding to its rich and dramatic look.
influences Queen of Sheba vive cocotte
The phrase coquette is a flirt or girl or woman who knows how to flatter and manipulate men with her charms to get what she wants a cocotte is a French slang from the 1860s for an elagent prostitite vive la cocotte plays on vive la France expressing a pride of ecomplishmetns so she made this the tile of her collection she mixed humour with a historical play on words.
2 subversive on traditional British style
West wood was largely responsible for antiestablishment punk fashion and is known for her over throw and strange take on traditional style this is seen in the style of the dress a controversial naked version of the traditional corset decorated by using beads Sara bed in colour and tone this creates the affect of the naked body this follows Westwood’s breaking of taboos which we see in her earlier t shirts as she pushes against prudinish.
Jenny Saville subject matter self portrait
- Symbolism - pose Saville has painted herself lying on the floor with her head tilted she looks uncomfortable and face seems swollen which makes use wonder if she’s dead or hurt.
- Treatment of face her face is seen as broken skin and swollen with aggressive brushstrokes it draws attention to the fact women aren’t perfect objects with smooth skin as their portrayed in paintings.
- Focal point, the mouth is the focal point of the painting due to its size and energetic brushstrokes that was created to draw the viewers attention to look at it.
Colour
Jenny Saville uses warm colours in her self portrait with saturated reds oranges and peaches around the mouth making it look unnatural and if the face is damaged or has blood on it.
- Subtle contrast . Mostly used in warm colour but there are discret hints of blues on her eyes and a little on her face the blue creates contrast with red and orange.
- Tone within colour, although Saville colour choice isint her skin tone her use of tonal colours create a realistic affect on the face.
Composition
1, Saville has cropped her body from the composition by croppping around her face it draws the viewers attention attention to the focal point of the pain which is her blood bruised mouth.
- Positioning , her face is on its side in the composition whic caused the viewer to interdict with the painting by tilting there heads to make eye contact with the painting.
- Circular . A circular composition is used her large face takes up most of the composition and draws the viewers attention to the eyes and facial features and mark making.
Texture
- Saville uses aggressive brushstrokes to create a flesh wound which makes the viewer thinks of victimisation truma disease.
- A rough patchy texture is created through a layered application of paint using different colours and also smears on the cheeks.
- A glossy smooth background is used whereas Saville textured face that is exciting and draws the viewers attention to her mark making on the textured face.
Media + handling
- Paint as flesh. She works with oil paints that are applied in thick layers which look like flesh it’s seen especially when she layers different colours which is seen on the cheeks and mouth it’s called the impasto technique.
- Application of paint. She likes to smear paint and scrape it giving every rush stroke life of its own this shows the skins imperfection, and how broken it is.
- Form ,she uses large gestural brushstrokes her use of tone and colour within the marks create form. This maksz her painting recognisable , even if painted in expressive impasto styke.
Form
Broad range, she has a broad range of tonal value going from very dark tones in her hair on the reflection of the face, to the bright highlight on the bottom cheek. This creates a broad tone.
- Source of light, she uses tone which shows where the light source is coming from above her head on the right lightest areas of her neck and bottom cheek this suffers light is above her whole on the floor.
- For, tone is actionally used tonal values within the colours used these is seen in her face it creates form in her painting makes it look 3 dimensional.
Scale
- At 2 meters squared size reverse makes an impact with its size and large dimensions that create an overwhelming snd confrontational effect as a huge face stares out from the canvas.
- The large scale of the painting allows Saville to apply paint in large expressive brushstrokes and layers this allows the viewer to see how paint is applied and adds texture and visual interest to the painting.
Saville creates enormous canvases that focuses on bodies in an unbothered manner the large scale of the painting makes the viewer feel intimidated.
mood + atmosphere
- jenny savilles self portrait reverse is disturbing and uncomfortable because of her subject matter with her lying on the floor with her head tilted and blood coming from her mouth. this makes the viewer wonder what has happened to her.
- the cropped composition of her self portrait creates and overwhelming feeling and claustrophobic feeling as there’s no room around her face making the viewer need to come eye to with the painting.
- the painting has an eerie feeling to it because of the warm colours bright reds on the mouth and teeth suggesting damage and blood.
Jenny Saville influences
She paints nude bodies and figures of liposuction truma and transgender patients she is interested in the transformative and in between states bodies during operations she collects material from pathology books and plastic suregery manuals and chronically about injuries and burns she also attended a live operations and visits butcheries
Jenny Saville #2 influence
She tackles taboo issues around motherhood plastic surgery dieting exercise and representation of women in art and popular culture these where missing from history of painting including paintings of woman she responds what society think woman should look like perfect body beautiful face she challenges traditional ideas of beauty and feminist she paints woman who have been told they are not beautiful which includes herself she does this by painting huge paintings of woman with imperfect features like in her self portrait reverse bruised face textured skin.
