PART A

charlene von heyl

I would like to incorporate Heyl’s use of colour and the use of negative space in Sweet Cheat Gone in my final work. Retox’s abstract chaos in its shapes and almost lack of colour looks menacing and cool, lmight look into for part b)

The crop of these four is something I want to look at for Part B; they’re ike a cloud of smoke approaching you (all quite large but seem so compact. I think I will replicate this type of abstraction as well, the layering of The Laughing Cow seems like an interesting practice to include in my next artwork.

julie mehretu

Mehretu’s works, Stadia II and Retopistics are explosions of colour and shapes that I was heavily inspired by for my artwork. The chaos and intensely packed information of Stadia II is so captivating and I wanted to focus a few sections of my work to this chaos - it can be seen around the volcano and the bottom right of my piece.

The lines in Stadia II hat lead into the whirlpool-like centre of the artwork draws you in, all the flags and repeating colours, shapes, seem so familiar yet indiscernible; confetti-like

PART B

richard diebenkorn

I was very heavily inspired by Richard Diebenkorn - by looking at his works I wanted to paint a landscape that held personal significance to me. Simplifying a photo that I took years ago into a square painting had a similar feeling to what I see in Diebenkorn’s paintings. To me it feels reminiscent and maybe melancholy - I like that his paintings make us seem like we are the only people in the world at that moment.

The lack of people, the “emptiness” of these paintings was something I wanted to capture in the final work.

Also, the act of painting was very different to what I’m used to - the amount of colour in what seems to be a flat colour of yellow, for example, actually had so many colours in it which really inspired me.