For our second assisgment we were ask to look and create a ‘triptych’,
A Triptych from the Greek word ‘triptukon’ meaning three fold, a middle panel, usually the largest, is flanked by two smaller pieces of work. A triptych is a painting or image made up of three sections. In the past these paintings were usually made of two “wings or shutters” attached to either side of a central panel. Sometimes the panels are hinged so that the wings can be closed to protect the image painted in the middle.
In modern times a triptych is mostly used by photographers with their work consisting with three images linked by a theme, a journey/story or one large image split into three separate. All usually the same size and rarely hinged at all.
One of my favoruite types of triptych artwork is the large images split into three pieces, especially landscape. Its just something about them draws me into the image, they’re almost window like where the frame breaks up the image of the outside world.
This last image is obviously a drawn image but it works in the same way for me, you could look at it for a long period looking at all the details and small things with in the artwork.
There’s an occurring theme in these images of the same or similar images, I will try keep to that similar theme in my work.
Biography;
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/glossary/triptych
http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/triptych
http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/triptych
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/explore/glossary-of-art-terms/triptych.php
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