this a blog to track my final major project as i finish my foundation corse at camberwell school of art. the project is called ikon, inspired by religus art.
- still from the highly offensive film that it resulted in a fatwah calling for his death. On 2 November 2004 he was murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri, a Muslim extremist.
klimt may not have used religois imagery, but his paintings are as adorned as much as some of the icon paintings i have looked at, and the swirling ritch colours elevate the sacred-ness of his paintings. his female subjects could easly be taken for maddonas.
I decided to visit The Horniman Museum to look at the voodoo shrines, it was amazing i am very inspired by the way they collected old 'usless' things and elevated the ordianary everyday to the sacred.