Giuseppe Arcimboldo

 

Giuseppe Arcimboldo

Bernard Pras

Trash Art, Bernard Pras

Collections in the V&A and Natural History Museum, London.

Lisa Milroy

                                     

Lisa Milroy is mostly known for painting everyday objects in the form of collections. She paints shoes, clothes and light bulbs in lines or grids.

I have taken photographs at the V&A and Natural history museums (London&Oxford), of objects very similar to those that Milroy studies. (such as insects, fragments of pottery and artefacts). And therefore I may create my own paintings from my photographs, in her style..

I like that she doesn't seem to fussy about what type of things she paints, it seems like she just has to paint everything she finds- after she's sorted them and put them in order.

She collects so many mundane objects, and lines them up in grids, that her behaviour/ art work could be considered obsessive.

A poster, on the wall of the tube, advertising John Lewis caught my eye. I like the simplicity of the design and that they've only used objects of one colour to create it. This is likely to provide inspiration for when I photograph my own collections.

Todd Mclellan

Todd Mclellan is a Canadian photographer, whose latest series is named 'Disassembly'. His work captures objects of the past in an exploded/ dismantled form. The way he re-arranges the parts in order of size, function and type etc, is meticulous and almost OCD-like.

http://www.toddmclellan.com/

These are some of the photos I took while trying to recreate Todd Mclellan's work. Firstly I dismantelled a digital camera,  and then I hung the parts from pieces of thread to achieve the exploded look. I particularly like the stretched shadows created by the curved background.

Things Organised Neatly

The blog 'things organized neatly' was my main inspiration for choosing collecting and organising as a theme. I like the simplicity of the photography, but it also shows the obsessive nature of the photographers because the objects are often aligned perfectly/ obsessively at right angles and in interesting patterns. The blog also features related artists' work which will be useful sources of inspiration.