FMP Exploring Materials

What materials should I use to make the flesh look realistic?

I have been looking at artists who use different materials to make their flesh sculptures look realistic. John Isaac's sculptures are some I am particularly interested in. Within his range of sculptures he uses materials such as wax, oil paint, stage blood, polystyrene, wood, steel and latex. 

Also another artist I like is Andrea Hasler, especially her sculpture Matriarch. She uses materials polystyrene, wax, leather and blood for this piece of work. Watching Andrea's videos on-line gave me inside to how her work was formed. This helped me by giving me more knowledge of how I could create my own flesh sculpture. 

Resources: http://www.andreahasler.com/

Materials:

• Wax
• Latex
• Polystyrene
• Soil
• Stage Blood
• Oil paint
• Wood
• Ink
• Glue
• Leather

I have been thinking of alternative ways to make realistic blood instead of spending money on stage blood or paints. So I decided to look on-line on ways to make fake blood and found many ways on how I could do this. Also with most of them being edible. 

Resource: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-Fake-Blood

 

On-line I came across a Thai artist called Kittiwat Unarrom that uses bread to make human body parts. 

Thai artist and baker Kittiwat Unarrom bakes disturbingly realistic bread sculpted in the shape of dismembered human body parts. Since 2006 Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom has used dough as his medium to sculpt gruesome renditions of hand, feet, heads, torsos and other body parts, all entirely edible and for sale at his family’s bakery. Eyes, lips and other details constructed out of cashews, raisins and the like. He skillfully paints each piece to look as terrifying as possible to the observer and customer. The lack of hair and fake blood makes them look like they were swiped from a forensics lab.

To achieve this authentically horrifying look, Kittiwat spent a great deal of time studying anatomy and visiting forensic museums while at the same time working to improve the taste of his artworks.

Although Kittiwat runs a bakery of his own in Ratchaburi, Thailand, his bread art is not for sale

“My family is in the bakery business and I learned to bake when I was about 10,” says Kittiwat. “I want to speak out about my religious beliefs and dough can say it all. Baking human parts can show the audience how transient bread, and life, is. Also, my bread is still bread no matter how it looks.”

Kittiwat's work has gave me intention to use edible products to create my own piece of art. It has gave me ideas such as using un healthy products to create organs that have been treated badly. 

FMP Flesh Artists (Fabric)

Its's not what's on the outside,It's the inside that counts

As I looked through all different forms of realistic flesh artists I came across artists that use fabrics to create inside body parts. This got me thinking about imagine if our organs were placed outside of the body. Imagine if we was to wear our organs. I have begun looking at artists that use textile materials to create our gruesome insides. 

Tamara Kostianovsky

We often speak of meat as if it were a textile. We talk about the way it knits together, the way it is mended, the way it is stitched together. Actus Reus is a project by Brooklyn–based artist Tamara Kostianovsky that makes flesh out of fabric. She recreates hooked wads of gristle, sinew, and musculature out of discarded clothing and other textiles.

Kostianovsky shares that she has always felt a strange compulsion for the fabric of meat, a compulsion can be traced back to her days as a child working in a surgeon’s office in Buenos Aires. There, Kostianovsky says, “I had the opportunity to see what is concealed behind the skin. I was fascinated with the way muscles, fat, and blood interacted, transforming small portions of the body into mesmerizing compositions of color, texture, and form. Even today, I continue to see the world through that lens.”

Resource: http://www.salon.com/2013/09/03/check_out_these_gruesome_meat_sculptures_newscred/

I like the way how Tamara uses her old threads to create her sculptures, Also I like how her work isn't neatly cut and symmetrical as it gives it more of a realistic look/feel to it. What I really do like about her work is the fact if you are able to touch and interact with it with the materials being soft it gives more of a loving and delicate feel. The sculptures being delicate gives me more ideas towards my work as if I were to create a organ with fabric I would like to give of the feeling that our body's need to be treated with care and love as we don't know how delicate they can be. 

After researching into Tamara's work I came along an artist called Rosa Verloop who uses soft materials to create human faces and figures. 

Dutch artist Rosa Verloop has extended her body of work with these 'nylon sculptures'. the highly textural pieces capitalize on the key medium used, stockings, which is tucked and moulded to create a distinctly human-like figure. the flesh-coloured panty hose fortify the anthropomorphic qualities of the work, manipulated in an organic fashion with drawing pins to create something strangely exotic. 

Yet again I love this work as the materials used showing how delicate the body is. What I don't like is the pins within the work, I think it ruins the skin like feature and makes it look attacked. 

FMP Medical Inflatables

http://www.medicalinflatables.com/HOME.aspx

Microscopic cancer cells (pom poms)

 

 

FMP Death is close

FMP Experiments with wax

Experimentation with wax. 

I started of my FMP by playing with wax. As I started looking at flesh art work I thought wax would be a good material to use and you can make wax to your shape and feel. 

I used the sink to pour in the wax and run the tap before it dried to create a rippled affect. Also as the tap was running I poured wax into the water to create a tower of wax. I used skin like colours at first to see if I could create gruesome skin. I really like how you can control where about you was ripples and holes in the wax when pouring the water on. Also I really like working with wax as you can add coloured crayons to change colour. 

I also tried only melting the wax balls a little so they would attach to each other. I did this to try to create lumps and bumps like the inside of body. 

  

Wax artists:

http://www.madametussauds.com/london/about/sculptorsblog/default.aspx

Feminism

https://medium.com/gender-justice-feminism/2e2f2947ff4a

• Why is it ok for men openly show of their nipple but women can't? 

   

There is no difference on the outside of the body other than women's breasts are bigger from the amount of tissue. 

MOCK FMP IDEAS

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2549351/Its-like-cleanse-body-mind-Vomit-Painter-throws-canvas-create-Jackson-Pollock-style-splatter-paintings-Lady-Gaga-loves.html

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/celebrity-life/artist-john-knuth-uses-50000-flies-vomiting-on-a-canvas-to-make-his-art/story-e6frfmqi-1226753114692

hate mail printed turned into origami

Skins

Techniques

Lino printing (Other known as linoleum). 

Lino printing is a type of print making which has similar principals as a woodcut. This was used in 1863 as a surface covering composed of linseed oil and cork. In 1890 linoleum was cheaper and easier to grave into. It was also used to produce wallpaper. This technique was often used as it was an easier and faster process. The technique was often taught in schools as an inexpensive way to create illustrations. 

I like Lino printing as there are lots of choices to play with. Being able to re use the Lino and make different colour prints is handy to as not always I choose the best colour. It's quiet a relaxing technique. To say I'm not most keen on time consuming activities this is one of my most preferred activity. 

Artists:

Irving amen 

Bill fick 

Christine McCarthy 

Mola 

Developed in the late 1800's 

Has many different meanings like, blouse, garment, cloth, brightly coloured ect. 

What I like about mola is being able to create vibrant pieces of work. I like the act i can create a picture out of a couple of pieces of fabric, sewing needle, cotton and scissors. What I dislike about mola is that it can be time consuming but I love the outcome of the technique. Being able to use any material and colours is great.

Dyeing

Wax resist dyeing 

Heat manipulation 

Tyvek 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Wicewdul5Yc