During any other time of the year, I don't really think I would consider myself to be a big fan of Halloween, but then when it finally starts to roll around, I really enjoy it. I don't think I ever really do anything for the day of Halloween, I don't even dress up, but the days and weeks leading up to Halloween I'm always interested and like to watch old 80's horror movies. My room mate Sam and I watched a bunch of old 40's and 50's horror movies that were pretty bad. That was last year. We still didn't even watch all of the movies he has either. I should ask him about those again. But anyway I've been looking up a bunch of stuff on youtube about making masks and all the special effects stuff that goes into horror movies. I watched Thriller about 10 times, maybe not that much, but I still love it. Now I have a hankering to watch Dracula, the one with Gary Oldman who I think is a great actor. I've been reading the book and listening to Apocolyptica, which gets me in the mood for some Halloween cheer. Basically I'm just looking for some cliche Halloween stuff to occupy my time.
Anyway, Bernard Albinus was one of the first names on my list of artists and his stuff actually kind of reminds me of Halloween in a way.
It has an old haunted sort of Halloween tradition about it.
I think I origanaly wrote down his name because I'm interested in anatomy and I like a lot of stuff that has to do with anatomy.
After looking over his prints though, I can see why they interest me a little more than other anatomy images. The way the figure is posed really gives it a personality, at least as much of a personality figures in those positions had. I never really thought that people who stood in a position the way this one is looked very realistic, but that was the style back then. I also very much wonder how life like the image is. I mean it looks realistic, but I wonder how close to the real thing it is, if anyone were ever to see someone without any skin. I guess you could always go to Body World and find out.
I like these images because they are not the typical anatomy studies, they have a certain atmosphere about them. I probably use that word a lot, atmosphere. To me that means that I really get a sense that there is more to the world of the painting or the drawing than you can see within the frame, as though it really is a picture taken of a character in his or her own world. That is probably what most paintings try to acomplish, depending on the kind of painting, and I like it when they accomplish that.
I would really like to have that kind of quality in my work, to make the viewer think there is actually a world beyond the frame of the work. I think it keeps the viewer thinking about the work. I would like to have that kind of effect with my work, whether it is in photography, painting, drawing, or music.
Anyway, Bernard Albinus was one of the first names on my list of artists and his stuff actually kind of reminds me of Halloween in a way.
It has an old haunted sort of Halloween tradition about it.
I think I origanaly wrote down his name because I'm interested in anatomy and I like a lot of stuff that has to do with anatomy.
After looking over his prints though, I can see why they interest me a little more than other anatomy images. The way the figure is posed really gives it a personality, at least as much of a personality figures in those positions had. I never really thought that people who stood in a position the way this one is looked very realistic, but that was the style back then. I also very much wonder how life like the image is. I mean it looks realistic, but I wonder how close to the real thing it is, if anyone were ever to see someone without any skin. I guess you could always go to Body World and find out.
I like these images because they are not the typical anatomy studies, they have a certain atmosphere about them. I probably use that word a lot, atmosphere. To me that means that I really get a sense that there is more to the world of the painting or the drawing than you can see within the frame, as though it really is a picture taken of a character in his or her own world. That is probably what most paintings try to acomplish, depending on the kind of painting, and I like it when they accomplish that.
I would really like to have that kind of quality in my work, to make the viewer think there is actually a world beyond the frame of the work. I think it keeps the viewer thinking about the work. I would like to have that kind of effect with my work, whether it is in photography, painting, drawing, or music.
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