Hi!
Its me again I've kind of had an epiphany and sparked a new idea, but again I wanted some feedback. So I decided to extend a bit further from my icarus and greek mythology idea, and I wanted to base my body of work on how greek mythology has transcended into our modern lives and how it shows us the true dark realities of our world. So I was thinking that maybe I could have like a panel of 3 works including
- icarus: a symbol of youth and perhaps drug usage, how at first its exhillirating, but the side effects could be fatal
- persephone and hades: showing the illusion of happiness but in real life it symbolises domestic violence
- medusa: I actually am still thinking on how to depict this but I was thinking of maybe giving it a feminist perspective?
Would these themes be too dark and inappropriate for my major work or are they alright to stick with? Would my original idea with just Icarus be better?
Thanks!!
Hey, muneezaaa!
Sounds like you've got some interesting ideas coming along! I am really loving the way you're bringing the Greek myths into modern life but I might recommend just checking with your teacher first to see what their thoughts are about taking a slightly darker and potentially more controversial approach
I think the best artworks are the ones that provoke shock and thought within us and, more often than not, those are the ones that reveal the uncomfortable truths in our society. However, the last thing you want is to present something too radical that it impacts your results in a less favourable way
If your teacher thinks it's a good pathway to take, they will not only be supportive of your endeavours but will also be able to guide you in the best ways to represent these ideas that make them layered and complex in meaning.
Another suggestion would be to have the opposite approach and have BOW still exploring this idea of re-contextualising Greek mythology but working with a more consistent theme. You might want to look at something like "everyday struggles" and have a business-man rolling up a boulder made of papers like Sisyphus does, or to have a Medusa teacher who has all these students staring back at her with blank faces as if they were turned to stone. This could give the BOW a more defined concept and allow you to make some interesting commentaries on the nature of modern careers, for example. Hopefully that gives you some more ideas
The key piece of advice I'd offer would be to present all these ideas to your teacher and see which one they think will translate your intentions best to a marker, as well as to us as your general audience. I'm keen to hear what you decide to do!
Angelina