Chesterfield college Fashion Show 2013

On Tuesday 25th of June my class went down to the refectory to watch the 2013 Chesterfield College Fashion Show which all the clothing and accessories were made by the fashion students in years 1 and 2. There were various students modelling the clothing which had been made and there were many people watching the show including students from local schools around the area. There were a variety of categories such as the 60s, 70s, African, futuristic and re-birth. These were just a few of the many categories which were shown and each shown the distinctiveness of the era and theme. I did enjoy the show, it was the first fashion show that I have been to and I was impressed with it and how it progressed. There were a number of models presenting the work of the students and they carried it out very professionally and used the cat walk very well.

Life Drawing                                    19/03/13

Today we have done life drawing in the west block on John, I did life drawing from around 9:30-1:00pm

which I used charcoal for except today we were using the method of collaging after we had drawn our pieces. I started off by doing two charcoal drawings  on a sheet of newsprint which lasted ten minutes each and then at around 10:15 I started on another piece which I had to use more straight lines and get the outline of john's body and then later add the tone and increase the detail to the image. After break I went back up to the west block where John maintained the pose as he did in the morning and I started collaging with brown paper, newspaper, brown tissue paper and masking tape and then drew over thatto create the picture on top, I finished this piece at 12:45 which then I went to lunch and later sprayed them both with hairspray so the charcoal did not get everywhere.





Life Drawing

Today we have drawn the Model john with charcoal which was the same techniques as last week, here are my results:

Jenny Saville

In a society often obsessed with physical appearance, Jenny Saville has created a niche for overweight women in contemporary visual culture. Known primarily for her large-scale paintings of obese women, Saville has recently broken into the contemporary art world with the help of gallery owner and art collector Charles Saatchi. Rising quickly to great critical and public recognition in part through Saatchi’s patronage, Saville has been heralded for creating conceptual art through the use of figure painting.

Saville was born into a family of educators in Cambridge, England, in 1970. She began a course of study at the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland in 1988. There, she found only one female painting tutor - a disappointing lack of female perspective for the budding feminist. This lack of a female presence was soon filled through the feminist texts that Saville began reading during a visit to the United States midway through her college career. Saville was awarded a scholarship to attend Cincinnati University for six months. The college was located in Ohio, where Saville’s lifelong fascination with the workings of the human body began to affect her artwork. Finding herself immersed in a different culture, Saville “was interested in the malls, where you saw lots of big women. Big white flesh in shorts and T-shirts.” It was good to see because they had the physicality that I was interested in.” It was in this environment that Saville began to read the feminist literature that would later play an important role in paintings such as Propped. With these texts and other artists such as Cindy Sherman (a photographer) as an influence, Saville embarked on creating a series of works that would later make up her degree show in Glasgow.

The controversial 1997 “Sensation” exhibit, which showed at the Royal Academy of Art in London, furthered Saville’s notoriety. “Sensation” included fellow Young British Artists Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marcus Harvey, Tracey Emin, and Chris Ofili, among others. The show opened to mixed reviews and throughout its run caused quite an uproar, inciting more than one occurrence of vandalism of the artwork. Fortunately, Saville’s work survived unscathed and was also featured in the equally uproarious New York showing of the exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, which Mayor Rudy Guiliani openly protested. Saville’s gigantic paintings dominated the show in sheer size, thus making her a household name in London and her work recognizable in popular British culture.

Finger-Painting

Today I have created finger-painting pieces of work which I had to use the artist style of Jenny Saville to create pictures of John's (the model) face. I used certain acrylic paints to copy the style of Jenny Saville, I used white, blue,red and yellow and mixed the colours to  create purbles and browns.

These are my two pieces of work which I cretated earier on today:

Life Drawings                                                     Tuesday 29th January

Body image

Body Image

Virtually all of the models who represent fashion houses are abnormally thin, in keeping with the perceived aesthetic preferences of the public. This focus on extreme thinness in women has been blamed for eating disorders and poor body image among some women whose bodies don't conform to this idealized image.

It is important to note that the media such as magazines and television and also current weight loss methods such as fad diets and excessive dieting raise a series of issues of an ethical nature around the notion of ‘body image’. The purpose of this essay is to therefore explore, from a consequentialist perspective and a non-consequentialist perspective, the way in which the media and current weight loss methods raise ethical issues around the notion of ‘body image’ and the current solutions aimed to combat this. This will be achieved through the examination of a range of phenomena such as the media in the form of magazines and television, current weight loss methods such as fad diets and excessive dieting and also various current solutions by the Australian Government and Australian Media aimed at combating the issue of body image in Australia.

The issue of ‘body image’ portrayed in the media, particularly in magazines, is often centered upon the ‘size zero phenomenon’. According to Frost, it is often thought that “the media portrayal of celebrities might be linked to the body dissatisfaction shown by young women with their weight and the alleged rise in eating disorders among young women. This is perhaps due to the fact that the media portrays unrealistic images of what women should look like and this puts pressure on women to aspire to be the same regardless of what it takes.

Body image is a big issue in ethical fashion as the media especially magazines tell lies in body image because there are many men and women out there who look up to celebrities and use them as role models but they do not have the right body image and this causes major problems.

The media should use normal sized models not just ones which are really skinny, for example Jacamo are a mens fashion online clothes store and they have sizes from medium to 5XL and have used Johnny Vegas and Freddie Flintoff to promote the adverts for Jacamo.

Matt Pilgrim