Man ray Portraits
This exhibition was a display of man rays photography work and his journey in his career from and 1916 and 1968 in both America and Paris. There wasn't just photographs in this exhibition it also includes some photograms but my most favourite piece of all is the one directly below in which I have analysed.
I chose this piece to analyse because its the one that fits into my sub-theme the most. The piece is called 'Le Violon d’Ingres'. To create this piece he first took a normal photograph of this woman from the back he then manually painted in a f-hole onto her back to make her resemble a stringed musical instrument. After doing this he re-photographed the picture to create a final piece.
The meaning behind the piece is actually a pun Man ray created this piece to show the similarities
between the shape of a woman' s body to the violin. Ingres's well-known passion for the violin created the colloquialism in French 'Le Violon d’Ingres' which means hobby in french.
The reason i chose this piece to analyse is because i think it links into my chosen pathway the most, my chosen pathway being hidden identity. The way the figure is placed from the back allows the audience to pull out certain aspects of information and try to come to a conclusion of what they believe this piece symbolises and who this figure is.
This picture looks like it has been set in a bedroom and the figure is sitting on a bed, The way the head is turned could suggest wealth, as most wealthy people tend to pose in a way that shows they are better than everyone else she does this with her head positioning. Although i said that this may be set in a bedroom the background is black so this suggest a black area in which this was taken.
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