Fine Art Foundation Degree

    The Ordinary The ordinary is defined as something with no special features and is commonplace or standard.   How can the ordinary be used in Art? Artists can depict common items and capture their natural beauty to make the ordinary look extraordinary. The art can be used to record a snapshot in time and preserve its memory forever, such as taking a photo of a child’s toys. Christian Faur Christian Faur Girl with Cigarette I like Faur’s work with the ordinary because I like the use of crayons as the media, but not in the most common way. Instead of drawing with the crayons he chooses to arrange the crayons themselves to depict a scene. It’s a very imaginative way to use his chosen media.  He applies his skills to use a typically childlike media to create images that look like a pixelated photograph. Rebecca Louise Law Rebecca Louise Law The Womb Similar to Faur, Law uses everyday objects to create her art. She uses the natural beauty of dried flowers to produce beautiful art install

   Ambiguity Ambiguity in art means that the artwork has several possible interpretations or meanings of an uncertain nature. This could be reached by incorporating something that typically doesn’t belong but is noticeable when you first see the piece; think a fork in a lake. Jean-Pierre Zaugg  Fork of Vevey When I see an artwork with ambiguity, I think it adds to its meaning rather than takes it away. It gives the possibility of numerous meanings, each of them just as likely as the other, rather than just one pre-set meaning. Rene Magritte The Lovers Magritte was a surrealistic painter from Belgium. I like this painting of his the most because his use of the sheets or ‘veils’ used to cover the figures identities. I like to interpret this as by not showing the subjects identities, you can insert yourself into the painting and make it personal to you. Surrealism in general uses masks and disguises to hide what lies underneath the surface.