Triptych

This is my Self portrait Triptych, In this image I have a football, a guitar and a Spain shirt.  I have the football as I enjoy football a lot and is my main sport, the guitar is because I also enjoy playing guitar enjoy listening and making music, the Spain shirt is there as I am half spanish.

Stories

Stories have been passed on for many years and have been interpreted in many different ways.  The earliest stories were those in caves which were told by paintings up on walls.

The ancient Egyptians also had a similar way of story telling with painting on walls and had there vision of perfection in there paintings and stories.

The Ancient Greeks also told of many stories, old mythological stories which have been kept on being told even today, for example prometheus which is also a film now and has been interpreted in a different way to how the Greek mythologic original story was.

Stories are also seen as convincing people with religion, a theory and other things but a main example is Hitler in the war and the book he wrote minecampf and how he wanted everyone to be like what he thought was the perfect human, and to hate all others who are different in this case the jews.  Jews are known as the people of the book, the book writers, Hitler destroyed all of their books.  This image is known as 'The Burning of The Books'

The Jews are mostly remembered from their torture and abuse during the war, especially with the holocaust where thousands were killed.  Rachel Whiteread  was assigned to make a piece of art to commemorate this devastating event, she created a monument with books inside like a library and had all the books all together covered in cast.

There are many artists like millais who tell stories in their painting for example with ophelia.

 Artists like Tom Hunter and Gregory Crewdson have done modern versions of this painting

Triptych

For my tryptch creation I was given this picture of a bus with someone look out of the window.  I thought through about manipulation and creation and in lessons we spoke about mythological stories and creatures so I began to think how I could make a tryptch with the idea of mythology and creation.

I decided to take a photo of my head and get the lower part of a dogs body.  I found this created a very mysterious, curious and quirky composition.  When I was coming up with the ideas I thought about a modern take on mythology, a metallic body with someone inside controlling the 'mythological monster' from the inside and a head of a normal human with the legs of a modern day dog.  I found this very affective and brought a different perspective to the original image.  I then decided to put these images and have this montage more clean and clear.

Obviously this is not a triptych so I had to try make this montage into a triptych with meaning and a story behind it.

I put these images on Photoshop and had them as the three panelled images for the triptych but there was nothing linked between these images, they are just three pictures side by side, but however this experiment was helpful to fully understand the full meaning off a triptych.