TRANSCRIPTION
'In Art, the term Transcription is used generally to describe the process of making a work of your own, based on a preceding work by another artist'
My chosen Artist is
ALPHONSE MARIA MUCHA
Born 24 July 1860
Born 24 July 1860
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| Dance 1898 |
Mucha grew up in a Moravian Village
I went to a Moravian School, at Fulneck Settlement near Pudsey. The motto/emblem for the Moravian people was on my school badge. Our lamb has conquered, let us follow him!
I never knew or maybe forgot it's significance!
Mucha was influenced by Folklore as a child, as was I. I had every Ladybird fairy-tale book, because my mum was a reception teacher. I loved the Brothers Grimm and I have always been mesmerised by Eastern European shadow puppetry, and reading pop up books where you could escape into.
For a while Mucha worked as an office clerk in the Court where is father worked. I was a litigation clerk big yawn for too long!
Mucha volunteered to produce work for Sarah Bernhardt when there was a sudden request for and advertising poster. Landing himself a contract for 6 more posters and costume and set design work. I volunteered to photograph a wedding decorator, who's boss saw my email and subsequent work and booked me to photograph her wedding.
Mucha had a tendancy to overspend like me!!
His main subject in his early years were women, (like me brides and boudoir), and passionate about capturing natural beauty in a powerful way.
He used flowing hair in his advertising posters and I often use my eldest daughter to model for me as she has long flowing hair.
Mucha was able to tap into the pulse of the people and elements of Art Nouveau, and as we would say now, give the customer what they want!
Which is what I try to do, but fall short on confidence, and have a long way to go to develop Mucha's artistic skill.
I also love Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Celtic Design, Art Nouveau, Nature, Spiritualism, which I will mention later.
Mucha was influenced by Folklore as a child, as was I. I had every Ladybird fairy-tale book, because my mum was a reception teacher. I loved the Brothers Grimm and I have always been mesmerised by Eastern European shadow puppetry, and reading pop up books where you could escape into.
For a while Mucha worked as an office clerk in the Court where is father worked. I was a litigation clerk big yawn for too long!
Mucha volunteered to produce work for Sarah Bernhardt when there was a sudden request for and advertising poster. Landing himself a contract for 6 more posters and costume and set design work. I volunteered to photograph a wedding decorator, who's boss saw my email and subsequent work and booked me to photograph her wedding.
Mucha had a tendancy to overspend like me!!
His main subject in his early years were women, (like me brides and boudoir), and passionate about capturing natural beauty in a powerful way.
He used flowing hair in his advertising posters and I often use my eldest daughter to model for me as she has long flowing hair.
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| My curly girly |
Which is what I try to do, but fall short on confidence, and have a long way to go to develop Mucha's artistic skill.
I also love Pre-Raphaelite paintings, Celtic Design, Art Nouveau, Nature, Spiritualism, which I will mention later.
Ideas and visual research
I have chosen to post all my research online for a few reasons. I find it easy, neater, it's a reference for me. Universities now prefer you have a blog. It can easily be shared or presented, I can update it, move items, and also study or research using my mobile anywhere.
I have used Pinterest for a few years and already had tons of items on my boards. It was useful for studying all things Mucha and more.....
Mucha's Inspiration
Celtic Art covers a variety of movements and trends, mostly in the 19th and 20th centuries, which drew on the traditions of Celtic literature and Celtic art from the middle ages and was in fact called Insular Art, which actually originated in the 7th Century AD 601-700.
Insular being Latin for island, in this case the British Isles.
Insular being Latin for island, in this case the British Isles.
The Celtic Art revival came to represent a reaction to modernisation. Another influence was that of La Tène "vegetal" art on the Art Nouveau movement.
The La Tene style became popular after an archaeological discovery of La Tene, a Celtic Village in Switzerland in 1857.
An example of an Insular-Style animal pattern from the Book of Kells.
The Book of Kells is one of the finest and most famous of a group of manuscripts in the Insular style, produced from the late 6th through the early 9th centuries. There is debate about its origin from Ireland, Lindisfarne, Kells to Pictish Scotland.
La Tene Designs
Flat colour and line drawing were used in his Poster Advertising work.
Not dis-similar to this image.
Image from The Amazings Scroll of 1460 called
Fish-Basket Kannon by Bokkei Saiyo
If you are interested in the influence of Japanese Art around the 1800's follow this link
Another influence on Mucha's work is Hans Makart. Born in Vienna in 1840, (20 years older than Mucha) his work was richly coloured with historical legendary themes.
His paintings dramatic and sensual with a dreamy style. He had a way of revealing the subject's spiritual qualities. Quite often involved in scandels due to his decadent nudes and outrageous parties, he was a popular man, who's painting days ended at only 44 years old.
You can see that a young Mucha only 24 himself when Makart died, was influenced greatly and was able to also create work such as his beautiful Panneaux and capture his models spiritual and sensual side.
The Five Senses 1872-1879 by Hans Makart
Mucha, The Times of Day
Muchas was also greatly influenced by Pre Raphaelite paintings
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