Sara Fanelli

Nonsense drawing generator

The nonsense drawing generator is commonly referred to as the surrealist game of ‘Exquisite Corpse’ in which you fold the paper horizontally, once for each player. Then the first player proceeds to draw a design in the top section then folds it over so the section is not visible to the next person, this goes on until the image is finished. Then the paper is unfolded to reveal the full image.

It is called Exquisite Corpse as each person will tend to draw something different making it look like sections of animals and creatures have been cut up and sewn together like Frankenstein’s monster.

This is the first Sara Fanelli study we did, I was in a group of four with three other students - Alex Parker, Alex Griffin and Lizzie Downhill.

Here is how our image turned out:

I would of preferred if our image was originally created in colour and was overall more interesting more like Sara Fanelli’s work.

This is a piece by four artists Cadavre Exquis with Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky) who named this ‘Nude.’

Collage

Collage is Sara Fanelli’s most used medium, she personally collects collage materials which has significance to her. Such as using old newspapers, postcards, sweet wrappers or other things which may seem like rubbish to others.

Here is an image from her book ‘Mythological Monsters.’ The textures she has used in creating the collage reminds me of a school maths book. I like the way in which she adds text into her collage as well as adding to the collage with other materials.

Text and materials are the two most important things to her when creating work.

My favourite part about her work is her use of eyes, I find eyes interesting and they show who a person is, from looking at someone’s eyes your brain should be able to recognize who it is.

Below is my version of Sara Fanelli collage: 

I like using Sara Fanelli’s technique especially by using old paper, and then drawing into the collage. What I found most difficult about creating this piece was thinking of a quote which fitted with my collage.

Creating a character

Sara Fanelli is well known for creating characters, as I have mentioned before she published a book called ‘mythological monsters’ which has a range of characters she produced.

Here is another example of one of the images from her book:

I really liked this page because of the way she has contrasted two styles which are very different but made them seem like they should be together. I also think that it was effective to use black and white eyes because of the stories that medusa would turn people to stone and this is what this looks like.

Below is my own version of a character using drawing and replacing the eyes with those cut out from a magazine.

I think this works well because the eyes I have chosen are cute as they are from a baby and the colours contribute to this vibe.

Bibliography and References

Fanelli, S. 2011. Sara Fanelli – a life in pictures – the guardian. [Online]. [Accessed 17 October 2016]. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2011/mar/31/childrens-books-7-and-under

Mazzotta J. 2011. Sara Fanelli – art not artifice. [Online]. [Accessed 17 October 2016]. Available from: http://www.tate.org.uk/context-comment/blogs/sara-fanelli-art-not-artifice

Rubin, J. 2012. The onion’s great escape. [Online]. [Accessed 19 October 2016]. Available from:http://www.coolhunting.com/design/the-onions-great-escape

Carey, J. 2004. Dynamic Doodles. [Online]. [Accessed 19 October 2016]. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2004/apr/17/featuresreviews.guardianreview8

Salisbury M. 2015. Living, breathing picture books.[Online]. [Accessed November 2016]. [Available from: http://www.eyemagazine.com/review/article/living-breathing-picturebooks

Fanelli, S. 2016. Sara Fanelli’s website. [Online]. [Accessed 19 October 2016]. Available from:http://www.sarafanelli.com/docs/bg03.html#

The Guardian. 2012. Great Children’s illustrators – Guardian Website. [Online]. [Accessed 19 October 2016]. Available from: https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/series/great-children-s-illustrators

Yves Tanguy, Joan Miró, Max Morise, Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky),1927, Nude, Composite drawing of ink, pencil, and coloured pencil on paper, At: New York, MOMA

Hall, D. 2012. Books for Christmas: children’s books. [Online]. [Accessed 19 October 2016]. 

Available from: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/children_sbookreviews/9682987/Books-for-Christmas-childrens-books.html

Tate. 2016. Tate website. [Online]. [Accessed 19 October 2016]. Available from:http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/breton-eluard-hugo-exquisite-corpse-t12005

British Council. 2016. British Council Literature website. [Online]. [Accessed 19 October 2016]. Available from:  https://literature.britishcouncil.org/writer/sara-fanelli