David LaChapelle generates ideas by finding out information about the person he is photographing. He wants to find out something about his model and exaggerate this in his photographs. He believes that the subject makes the image interesting rather than having to set up everything from scratch and the images he creates being nothing representative of the person he's photographing. He enjoys showing meaning and narrative through his work.
Here are some examples of how he has shown exaggerated personality in his photographs :
Lady Gaga :
Michael Jackson :
Kanye West :
David LaChapelle - Idea generating - Kanye West :
LaChapelle had an idea of creating a 'Black Jesus' image of Kanye West. To develop this idea he would have had to look at paintings of Jesus before reaching his final outcome.
This is LaChapelle's final 'Black Jesus' image.
Jackson Pollock :
Jackson Pollock doesn't really like to plan first because he likes to let his paintings evolve as he goes along rather than planning an image before he does it. Pollock said he had no fear of destroying an image or taking it too far, and that painting had a mind of its own. I think he meant that he likes his ideas about how the piece is going to look to develop as he is creating it.
Here are some of Pollock's paintings :
Pollock uses media and materials to communicate meaning by carefully creating marks using dripped paint, flicked paint, brushes and sticks. His painting looks very random without much care and attention to detail, and it looks very lucky that he has got the images he has got just by flicking paint randomly. But in actual fact, Pollock really considers his mark making and most of them are planned, only a few are random. He likes to express feelings through his work and his media rather than just illustrating a subject. I would say the paintings I have used as an example show feelings of passion and excitement.
David Hockney :
When Hockney first started creating art he enjoyed painting large scale pictures of landscapes. He often liked painting on a few canvases to document different parts of a landscape and then putting them all together to show the whole landscape.
As technologies developed, Hockney moved with the times and started creating art using a camera and creating his famous 'joiners' using photography. He would take close ups of lots of different areas of something (this could be a place or a person) and photograph small sections of his subject which were at different angles and different distances away from the subject. He would then print them out and montage them together to create these really different 'Joiners' which then became really famous and his signature work. He captures things from such an interesting perspective when creating these.
As technologies advance even further, Hockney started creating work on digital applications on his iPhone and iPad. This is a very large step away from his first works using paint and a brush, but it shows that Hockney has developed his ideas and work using the media, materials, techniques and technologies available to him.
Francis Bacon :
Francis Bacon took inspiration from his partner John Deakin's photography. He used his photographs and manipulated them by tearing them, crumpling them, folding them and cutting them to create new pictorial imagery which could then inspire an abstract painting.
Here are some examples of Bacon's work and how you can clearly see what has influenced it:
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