Friday, 13 May 2016

Lukas Kuhn (Artist Research)

Lukas Kuhn

Title of work: Massive headstone
The artwork is a massive headstone but it has definite tone, changing from the light to dark, showing where the light is coming from. The image is a man staring at a headstone with candles surrounding him.
The image looks quite obviously done on Photoshop as a concept piece, but is great how Lukas was able to show that there is an orange light coming from the candles. A couple of skills that stand out to me are how he was able to blend the light in within the headstone and again the minimal light from the candles. The use of elements used in the piece is definitely lighting and tone created by the light; in my opinion it has affected the image by drawing the viewers’ attention the big massive headstone and the person looking upon the headstone.
My interpretation of the image is that the person whom was buried may have had some sort of power over the person standing there, and maybe having power or some sort of importance elsewhere as well; this comes from the simple fact of the size of the headstone.
One thing I like about this piece is that there can be many different interpretations to what this one piece could mean; such as that one would think that the person buried may have been a close friend or relative.
This relates to my project because the gravestones but it’s a concept piece and not a 3D piece.

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