Sorry I've been away, exam deadlines and stress has meant that I've hardly had a minute to myself. Thankfully my last exam is tomorrow so I will be able to spend a lot more time to do what I love. For this review I thought I would do something different and look at one of my favourite artists. 

Gideon Rubin    

Gideon Rubin is fascinated by the course of time; in the new series of paintings the artist has used a found photograph album from the 1920’s as his source material. Rubin selects figures and scenes from these amateur snapshots that have some sort of narrative but one that is open to discussion. Installed together and independently the paintings hint at numerous narratives and histories offering no definitive reading or insight into the selected characters. I found it interesting that he just drew people with no fixed story behind them and how the people viewing the paintings had to make up their own minds. In the latter part of my project I took inspiration from his work finding random pictures and making them into something interesting that people would enjoy looking at. I also found it interesting that many of his people lacked faces, I found liked this because it shows how sometimes people lose their identity which is what he has done in his paintings. This also makes the paintings relatable because they could be anybody.

I hope you liked my section on artists, who is your favourite modern artist? 

Lots of Love 

Elouise 

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