Contextual Studies - Visual Analysis.
Rhys Wilson (Vicky Cull ND2 Group 1)
Boccioni
Unique forms of continuity in space
1913
112 x 89 x 40 cm
Base graphite and calcite finished in bronze.
Unique forms of continuity in space, depicts a human-like figure seemingly flying or gliding through the air. The way the artist had transformed the legs, with the hard shapes and sharp lines to represents cloth moving with great strength seems like someone walking into something or trying to push something, maybe Boccioni was trying to remove something from his life something in his was what gave him the inspiration to make this strange figure because Unlike the traditional pedestal the sculpture is only bound to the ground by two blocks at its feet, the sex of the sculpture I don’t know but from the thickness of the foreleg and broad shoulders I guess it’s a male, it has no Identity face deformed to express the anguish of the figure, I think this is the artist expression of escape, escape from the flat, square painting art form to his introduction to sculpture, Boccioni rejected traditional sculpture and depictions to create this piece and it is seen as a masterpiece of futurism.
I feel that to me this piece represents strength, be strong and march on no matter how hard things try to push you back, be strong minded and you will overcome anything.
Giacometti
La Foret
1950
57 x 61 x 49.5 cm
Plaster cast in bronze
Giacometti’s La Foret. The decaying frail people standing on a table looking nevous and weak and victimised, you can sense the feeling of pain and anguish imitating from the faceless figures they look on the verge of death starved and thin.
The figure are as a group but not depicted as to be together the are alone standing by themselves on the platter, the smaller figures at the back I think are either people in the distance or supposed to represent children with a slightly lighter colour to them maybe showing there innocents. The size of the figure are stretched out, to show that the have been stretched to the limit or might be to show how stretched the artists patients is over the state of the figures the male figure shows something else positioned lower then the rest as if sitting back from the scene and watching the other figures could be the artist showing that he is aware of the peoples discomfort. The sculpture gives me the sense of loneliness and despair.
I feel both these artists have captured something of themselves and there feelings towards a tramatic event in there life and tried expressing it though sculpture.
They connect because they both depicted anguish in a person or people, but one is a depiction of strength and over coming that anguish were as the other is people to weak and oppressed to over come it.
