Project Proposal/Presentation Feedback 08/10/18

Questioning Naive Art 

Possible question ideas:

• How is the aesthetic of naive art is used in illustration, specifically editorial?
• How is naive/primitive art used in the contemporary illustration world?

Naive Art - "Naive art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing).

• Refine research further - am I exploring naive art or editorial?
• What is the point of editorial illustration? Does it need to go alongside an article or can it stand alone? 

Sharing my ideas with others after a long summer of being alone with COP has pushed me considerably further forwards. At the moment my themes/ideas seem a bit broad and confused so I need to work on focusing more closely on a particular topic. Do I want to focus more closely on naïve art or editorial? Is it the aesthetic or history? At the minute I’m thinking aesthetic but who knows, after more research things might change. 

It was suggested that I focus on one specific year such as 1968 (French protest) to look at what was going on in the world in that time and how prints needed to be produced quickly to get the point across to the government or whoever in charge. When reflecting back on this, the aesthetic of the posters around this era appeal to me so I could put my soul focuses around that time. 

However, I enjoy looking into contemporary editorial and current issues (specifically U.K. or animal based) but use the naïve/primitive aesthetic to my own work which I’ve considerably noticed a lot in many professional editorial based illustrators which is why I came up with my initial question. 

I think the timescale of this module is putting the pressure on but I know how well I can do once I have an idea and get my head down, it's just the initial start off.

So after the peer group meet up I’m feeling slightly lost for where to head. I am going to continue researching into naïve art and possibly look more closely at the year 1968 as I am aware that the world didn’t seem to be a happy place during that time period and when I consider the practical side of my development, I could respond to issues from that period with a more modern take on the approach from the posters of the time, still with the same frantic process of making the designs and continuing with the ‘print on whatever you can find’ mentality.