Sunday, March 22, 2009

Material and Production Methods of the work of Moffat and Gascoigne

Tracey Moffat's series "Fourth" is a set of 26 photographic images capturing the expressions of athletes’, who had come 4th place in various events at the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. Each of these images have the dimension 36 by 46 cm, and are colour prints on canvas. The artist extracted stills from videos of the Games captured by the media. These stills are then edited to focus more intently on the athletes, who had come fourth, before being printed to form the final product.

Rosalie Gascoigne's "All That Jazz" (131 × 100cm) is constructed from soft drink crates which are sawn and split up and arranged in a decorative way on plywood. In creating this art, Gascoigne used different coloured crates, and ensured that the crates were cut up into pieces. From this work, it is obvious that the colourful nature of this art is intended to signify the theme of this piece which is the exuberant and upbeat essence of jazz.

References
1. http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/15/Rosalie_Gascoigne/770/42244/
2. http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/26/Tracey_Moffatt/12/32614/

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