Before going to Madrid, I mind mapped all of the various themes and ideas I linked around them therefore, after Madrid, I looked back at the themes of my exam topic. The two themes I really like are "construct, de-construct and re-construct", and "it's in the details". Both of these themes allow me to look closer at items or objects, which would be something which interests me. However, what interests me more, is the idea of it's in the details of history .i.e. looking back at historical events and the focal points which I believe made them, or looking back into my history and focal points which changed the way I thought or made decisions affecting my life. Another idea surrounding this topic is to look at the details of historical figures then and now. For example, the famous Martin Luther King freedom speech which spoke out to everyone from children to teenagers to adults, compared to a famous speaker today, who relates to teenagers, for example, Kanye West. So looking around this theme I found he artist Alexey Kondakov who photoshops historical painted figures into modern day places. I really wanted to started looking at trying this out, and starting to use photoshop, something I haven't used before, therefore I decided to visit the National gallery within Birmingham. This wasn't only to look at historical paintings, but also to look around the gallery for inspiration and research. I found the paintings within the gallery really interesting, before discovering this artist I purely admired historical paintings and thought little into them, however now I'm starting to look at the paintings in more detail I have started to become really interested by the personal history behind them, the expression on the peoples faces and the vivid brush marks you tend to see on them. To conclude, visiting this gallery has helped me to take pictures and look at various historical paintings so I can started to photoshop them into modern day pictures I have take.
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