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Flash art
Franki Starr
This Flash Art edition highlighted the top 100 emerging artists. One artist that caught my eye was man named Had Carlo Mollino that lived from 1905 to 1973. But how was he an emerging artist then? He was influenced by Futurism and in his lifetime interested and experimented with interior design, photography, writing, the occult, and the patenting of fifteen heteroclite inventions. His pictures are very sexualized emphasizing seduction not sex. The scenes would be set on his own furniture he would make. They said that he helped free the modern man in his desire. He stared to use a Polaroid and there was something about the readymade images that emphasizes the ‘tense’ of the staging further.
What inspired me was that when he took a photograph everything was planned in detail, down to the scene and furniture he would make. He was influenced by Futurist because to the speed and technology of the 20th century. This movement was important in many great artists lives.
What was frustrating when you look up some of his Polaroid’s of women they are being objectified. The pictures they showed in Flash art are very beautiful and dynamic so I was pretty disappointed when seeing those pictures on the Internet. In Flash art it had also commented on post war consumerism that he had contributed to this. What? Was saying that Mollino contributed to pornography consumerism? How disappointing. We learned about the horrors of post war consumerism in Graphic Design history. Some of the images are disturbing this is where controlled obsolescence came from which is a desire to always have the next newest thing, which our culture has a big problem with today throwing away old technology for the newest thing.
I will take with me from Malllino; his strong attention to detail and hard work that went into the pictures. He carefully planned and thought about how he wanted in his scene.
It seems that the more attention and thought you put into an image the emotion and aesthetic will stand strong, which is what I desire in my photographs.
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“It seems that the more attention and thought you put into an image the emotion and aesthetic will stand strong, which is what I desire in my photographs.”
Yeah, I think you are certainly right about that—sometimes we get lucky and have great, happy accidents, but success usually comes from consistent dedication.
Comment by Anna 12.06.09 @ 5:05 pm