Serpentine Gallery

We visited the Serpentine gallery where we saw the outside installation piece. 

As you can see from this image, it is vivid in colour and appearance due to the range of textures and layout. 

I enjoyed the installation because of the use of colours and area outside and a diversity as to how it was used such as multiple side entrances as well there being a centre where it all joined together. 

I changed some of the photos I took to black and white to see if there was a change in mood when looking at the photos and found that it made the place seem more eyre and as though you were trapped. 

I then checked out the inside exhibition by Lynette Yiadom-Boakye called Verses After Dusk. Now looking back the reference to dusk may have to do with the use of a dark tertiary palette. 

The Quickness, 2013 

Some Distance for now, 2013 

Both of these oil paintings show a dark black skinned man against a dark background. You would think that he would blend in with the dark brown background but Boakye has made the man infront of the background by highlighting/making the areas around his body, where his skin may clash with the background lighter. Boakye has also used different colour tonalities as can be seen under the arms and how she has used red. 

Half a Dozen Dead, 2010 

The above two oil paintings of the man are similar in the idea of highlighting the body and making it stand out from the background as can be seen from the above and below painting. 

Shoot the Desperate, Hug the Needy, 2010

I like the idea that to some extent the body should and does blend with the background.  

Thought you cannot see from these photograpsh, the paintings use rushed and quick stroke marks. It is a more controlled version of Lucian Freud's stroke marks. 

A Toast To The Health Of, 2011

In the above two photographs you can see to some extent the looseness in marks and it making more of an idea of the figure rather than fully realistic and it being our eyes that combine it all to make a full picture. This is easily seen in the trees as they have been drawn very vaguely. 

Interstellar, 2012 

From the above two oil paintings you can see that Boakye's style in painting had changed a bit as she no longer was using very dark backgrounds which could blend with the skin though she still was using dark tertiary colours. 

I love the use of colours in the Interstellar painting as you can see the use of brush strokes and well as her using a variety of greens. Her use of brushstroke filling up the area around the dancer make me feel as though it is wind filling around the body and as though there is quite a fast pace to the dancing.