Interpretation
Alice in Wonderland
Sir John Tenniel - 1865
"Several of Tenniel's political cartoons expressed strong hostility to Irish Nationalism, with Fenians and Land leagues depicted as monstrous, ape-like brutes, while "Hibernia" - the personification of Ireland - was depicted as a beautiful, helpless young girl threatened by these monsters and turning for protection to "her elder sister", the powerful armoured Britannia."
Creatives use their ideas and spirit of their time to create their artworks, in this case from what is explained above.
Tenniels illustrations are very characature and the characters look quite evil, it seems like quite a dark story.
Tim Burton - 2010
Tim Burtons version of Alice in Wonderland is much more surreal and it is obvious that he has used a lot of digital manipulation on his characters, such as the Queen of Hearts and how small her body is compared to the size of her head.
This film is about Alice returning to "Underland" for the second time.
"She is told that she is the only one who can slay the Jabberwocky, a dragon-like creature controlled by the Red Queen who terrorizes Underland's inhabitants. The film uses a combination of live action and 3D animation in a story that can neither be described as a sequel nor as a re-imagining. Burton developed the story because he never felt an emotional connection to the original book, with its series of events about a girl wandering from one weird character to another."
Lewis Carrolls version of Alice in Wonderland seems quite a dark story, where as Tim Burtons version seems a bit more imaginative and colourful. He seems to use a wide range of bright colours which i feel is more likely to attract a wider audience. Although he uses such colour and medias i felt when i watched the film that parts of it were quite dark and eery.
Testing Your Work (getting to your audience)
Craig Atkinson
"By accident, I changed the way I worked from painting to drawing. As soon as I did that and put some work online, people started to contact me for commissions. I still class what I do as Fine Art though, as pretentious as that might sound."
I feel it is important to get a variety of opinions on pieces of work we create, even if it just off a friend or someone in the class.
It helps us to progress our ideas further when others can spot certain aspects of the work such as something that may not work with what the message is that we're trying to portray through out work.
I think that posting our work onto websites or our own blogs would be a lot more helpful as we could get comments from people all over the world about what they think of it.
What works?
What doesn't work?
What's attractive to the audience?
Bibliography
Sir John Tenniel's political cartoons - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Tenniel
Tim Burtons Alice - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(2010_film)
Craig Atkinson - http://www.monarkh.com/interviews/craig-atkinson/
Craig Atkinson Umbrella - http://www.craigatkinson.co.uk/category/umbrellas
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