People: Fine Art, Research into Man Ray

My idea for my fine art portrait is to use Man Ray as my influence, by exposing images over my model and giving it a fine art feel.

Man Rays work

Man Ray thought that the figure or a women is like the figure of a violin. So he exposed the F shapes onto a female

body to symbolise a violin.

Pictograms (rayogram)

He would use objects and expose light onto printing paper and it would bring up the objects on the paper.

"A “rayograph” was made by placing a three-dimensional object or series of objects on top of a piece of photographic paper and exposing it to light. These images lyrically and impressionistically represented objects such as ropes, light bulbs, and thumb tacks." Taken from website below.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/man-ray/prophet-of-the-avant-garde/510/

Known for documenting the cultural elite living in France, Man Ray spent much of his time fighting the formal constraints of the visual arts. Ray’s life and art were always provocative, engaging, and challenging.