FMP - taya neish by Taya

strengths and weaknesses mindmap (course)

TayaNeish — 2022-04-22 13:14:43 UTC

strengths and weaknesses mindmap (general)

TayaNeish — 2022-04-22 13:15:08 UTC

passions mindmap

TayaNeish — 2022-04-22 13:15:33 UTC

fmp mindmap

TayaNeish — 2022-04-22 13:15:54 UTC

design cycle

TayaNeish — 2022-04-22 13:53:10 UTC

name of project - the feeling of drowning

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-04-22 14:09:13 UTC

The rationale-
•i’ve found my strengths on the course are drawing, printing using ink and the ability to manipulate paint in the way i want to

•my weaknesses on this course contain my health and my attendance which go hand in hand

i want to learn and create further skills in art using printing techniques, specifically using lino

i want to explore the area of my personality which suffers from chronic fatigue, anxiety and possible depression, this is because i think that chronic fatigue isn’t very commonly heard about, and a lot of people struggle with mental health to some extent and i feel like it would be helpful to try and display this in some way

i would like to explore and develop my art so i can show how my feelings are reality, i want to show others art and how i feel on a day to day basis and what i want to learn

i will evaluate my work by using annotation and evaluation on my padlet and also write a full evaluation of my work at the end of the project. i will ask my peers for help and use primary research in the form of questionnaires to help develop my project and evaluation of this and i will list all the resources i use and do this on my padlet

me

TayaNeish — 2022-05-03 08:45:01 UTC

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Sources

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-05-03 09:07:25 UTC

6 Famous Artists Who Struggled with Mental Illness - 1000Museums

i think it’s interesting that so many famous artists suffer from some sort of mental illness, most commonly depression.

the artists given in this article were as follows:

•vincent van gogh (1853-1890)
suffered from anxiety and depression
•edgar degas (1834-1917)
suffered from bouts of depression and aimlessness
•edvard munch (1863-1944)
suffered from anxiety and hallucinations
•mark rothko (1903-1970)
suffered from bouts of depression and was diagnosed with mild aortic aneurysm
•georgia o’keeffe (1887-1986)
suffered from depression
•michelangelo buonarroti (1475-1564)
suffered from depression and anxiety and possibly obsessive-compulsive disorder

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-05-03 09:09:57 UTC

Are We All Anxious Now? – Tate Etc | Tate

i’m going to be honest i struggled so hard trying to read this because it mentions so many things and it’s hard to focus

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-05-03 09:11:09 UTC

Artists Who Suffered Mental Illness And How It Affected Their Art | DailyArt (dailyartmagazine.com)

•louis wain

-best known for his anthropomorphic(having human characteristics) cats in social situations

-suffered from depression and at age 57 was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent the last 15 years of his life in psychiatric institutions
-when wain was hospitalised he started making more psychedelic cats rather than the stylised ones from earlier on in his life, most of them coming from napsbury hospital

•edvard munch

“i cannot get rid of my illnesses, for there is a lot in my art that exists only because of them”

-most famous for painting “the scream” and for being one of the main artists of the expressionist movement.
-his family background already predisposed him to possible mental health problems
-his mother and one of his sisters died of tuberculosis when he was young, his father suffered from depression and his other sister was diagnosed with schizophrenia
-he had a mental breakdown in 1908 which was aggravated by alcoholism and was admitted into a mental health clinic in denmark
-in 1936 his work was confiscated by hitlers government and labelled by him “degenerate art”
-diagnosed with neurasthenia, a clinical condition associated with hysteria and hypochrondia

•francisco de goya

-spanish painter
-confined to bed at 46 and had lost hearing and was very sick with something undiagnosed at the time
-his deafness had several explanations such as syphilis or lead poisoning
-showed signs of mental disorders that affected his works
-more current speculation suggests that goya suffered from susac syndrome, which caused hearing loss, vision, also causes brain and balance problems
-attacks of hallucination and delirium were frequent during the most critical period of the painters illness
-the napoleonic wars deeply affected him
-in his work he portrayed the gravity of human melancholy, with paintings depicting human suffering becoming more and more common

•yannoulis chalepas

-greek sculptor
-spent several decades without producing anything or destroying his works as soon as he created them
-opened an atelier in athens after studying in munich
-around 1878 he began to show the first symptoms of mental illness
-ten years later he was diagnosed with dementia at 36
-his mother believed that art was the real reason behind his mental state
-she tried to keep him from sculpting
-after she died in 1916 he returned to work
-researchers agree that in this period he began to create sculptures with more freedom and was not so attached to neoclassical ideas

the subject of mental illness and art has often been discussed, especially in recent years. It is undeniable that there is a relationship, especially if we think of art as an elementary form of human communication.

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-05-03 09:13:20 UTC

Depression Rates by Country 2022 (worldpopulationreview.com)

the amount of cases in great britain are 2,692,081

top 10 countries with the highest rates of depression:

1 - Ukraine - 6.3%

2 - United States - 5.9% (tie)

3 - Estonia - 5.9% (tie)

4 - Australia - 5.9% (tie)

5 - Brazil - 5.8%

6 - Greece - 5.7% (tie)

7 - Portugal - 5.7% (tie)

8 - Belarus - 5.6% (tie)

9 - Finland - 5.6% (tie)

10 - Lithuania - 5.6% (tie)

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-05-03 09:14:59 UTC

Depression and anxiety self-assessment quiz - NHS (www.nhs.uk)

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-05-03 09:18:52 UTC

Art Therapy Exercises To Help Reduce Feelings of Anxiety (arttherapyresources.com.au)

van gogh

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-05-06 09:30:49 UTC

i really like the use of lines to add texture in the direction needed, the colours are complementary and contrasting (the use of blue and yellow)

the colours are also really bold with the yellows, multiple shades of blue, hints of greens and purples

the way the town is painted makes it look like it’s out of focus as the colours very closely match the background, when it curves closer the colours get bolder and more visible

the way he blended the paints add a nice sense of warm light to the scene, especially as it reflects onto the water where the lines are used

Louis Wain

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-05-06 09:31:16 UTC

i really like the brush strokes used to stimulate the look of fur, follow that with the bold colours and the hints of nature. the darker blue underneath the head helps us define between the head and the neck without the use of lines, this means that the shading carries the shape and form.

the white base with vibrant colours added on top looks very pleasing to the eyes, and the use of bright orange surrounded by a darker blue in the flowers directs your gaze to that spot almost immediately

i really enjoy the fact that he paints anthropomorphic cats and some of his other drawings kind of give me an alice in wonderland vibe, with the cats having tea and just doing human activities.

Edward Munch

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-05-06 09:31:27 UTC

the use of a lot of different tones of colours adds a vibrant type of look to a darker themed painting
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Francisco De Goya

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-05-06 09:31:42 UTC

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Yannoulis Chalepas

tmcalexiagrantham1 — 2022-05-06 09:32:02 UTC

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cats

TayaNeish — 2022-05-19 10:13:38 UTC

i originally drew a semi-realistic cat using a photo reference and once i got the basis down i started to think of stuff that i could use to stylise it more, so i thought of the phrase “burning rage” and decided to add fire

i drew it thinking about how it would translate into lino cutting, with the rectangle around it and varying line width

the cat itself is more of louis wain’s style and the fire is mine, i enjoy drawing fire with really sharp points as it makes it look more aggressive and stylised

cats

TayaNeish — 2022-05-19 10:15:59 UTC

all of them were drawn while looking at real life photo references

TayaNeish — 2022-05-19 10:28:14 UTC