POST-DIGITAL

final project proposal

I propose to recreate one of my favorite works of art, Gerhard Richter's oil painting Ema (Nude on a Staircase), in the medium of photography and as a triptych. This painting has a quality sort of reminiscent to a poorly taken photograph in the way that the entire image appears blurry as if the shutter speed was too slow and the camera moved during the shot. I want to recreate this using digital and physical manipulation of a digital photograph taken of a female nude on a staircase. For the triptych, one image will be manipulated in Photoshop to recreate the blurriness and shadowing of Richter's painting. Another will use minimal digital manipulation only to make universal edit because the printed image will be physically manipulated with acrylic paint to again recreate the blurriness and the original painting.
I will print on Somerset paper so that I will easily be able to print a photograph and paint one the same paper.

response to The Photograph as an Art Object by Felicity Cole

This article highlight four artist who, though originally trained in other mediums, take on photography and have even gone as far as winning the Deutsche Borse prize for photography. Mixing two dimensional photographs with abstractions to the film itself or adding three dimensional elements, such as found objects, sewing, etc. to pieces make these particular artists noteworthy. These artists form the question of "what is considered photography?" with their work. Creating a conception of photography is precisely what these artist do and succeed at. Posing questions of identifying medium seems to be at the forefront of their pieces. Personally I would think of the pieces identified in this article as multi-medium. However, it appears that it is a choice of the artist to identify where their pieces fit in terms of medium.