Munch made lots of things that looked completely different so I will too

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 Here's a quote for you from Edvard Munch Prints by Peter Black and Magne Bruteig (2009):

"Thus, just as his great project during the 1890s – later known as The Frieze of Life – may be exhibited in his paintings, it may also be exhibited in his graphic versions. The plural "versions" is deliberate here; one of the effects of Munch's almost childlike joy in experimenting was that impressions of the same print might be very different […] Some impressions are hand coloured, whilst others are not, and the majority of his intaglio prints are found in a number of different states, i.e. impressions pulled at various stages of the artist work on the plate."

The way that Munch's experimentation is described in this book really inspired me to rethink how I create. I often play with photoshop and find points where I'm happy and want to stop because I feel like I've made something but I also want to keep going to see what else I could make with it which is what happened with this photo. First I edited it as I usually would implementing what I see as beautiful on my editing to enhance everything evenly and make the whole photo more vibrant. Then I did the complete opposite and any level that I had moved in one direction I moved the opposite direction which created an acid bleached effect that was very washed out that was intriguing. Then I posterised it and turned myself into far more of a digital drawing rather than a photo of a human.

I jokingly thought to myself that I would name these experiments based on how I save them on my computer. I tried to give them a name that will represent what the file is because I struggled so hard to connect and understand what I'm looking for when staring at screen. That does sort of allude to everything becoming digital over the lockdown period. Maybe that'll be my thing for now, and I like it.

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Unedited


Glowing



acidic edit




poster edit








References:

Munch, E., Black, Peter, & Bruteig, Magne. (2009). Edvard Munch prints. London: Philip Wilson.

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