Del Kathryn Barton is an Australian painter who is well known for her bright kaleidoscopes of colour and bold display of photomontage.
This project aims to encapsulate an autobiographical magazine depicting Barton’s life, work behind her paintings and to captivate her evocative and sensual seventy-five montage series - The Highway is a Disco.
The briefing of this project allowed the use of 1 colour. I decided to select the colour Pink due to the serious use of this pigment within her works, as well as the use of black to bring out a dark yet ominous tone within her work.
Like the surrealists and gathering inspiration from artist '“Hannah Hoch”, Barton combines the graphic use of people, animals and flora and fauna to explore a sense of identity. Her bold illustrative yet graphic style protrudes within her work through the use of polymer paint, fine liner, collage and watercolour.
My combination of only a select few of her photomontages from The Highway Is A Disco, aims to inspire yet evoke the true ideas of feminine beauty within her work through the touch of pink. Highlighting the shadows and different shades of flora evidenced within her work is significant towards the inspiration behind her works and the main key underlining theme Barton presents to the viewer.
Discovering
Del Kathryn Barton
Stealing A Kind of Beauty.
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Wonder.
Barton’s work reveals a sense of wonder into the artist’s deep imaginative thoughts and realm of possibilities. Her decorated works combine the use of human, animal, flora and fauna through the use of seductive line and colour.
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The true form.
I have combined the use of imagery and text to convey the true form evidenced within Barton’s work, being flora and fauna. It is widely understood that flowers symbolise the female, with significance in their blooming.
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Fertility.
The history evidenced in her work is immaculate, with reference to the floral representation of femininity and flowers from the Greek nymph Chloris and her Roman counterpart Flora, who oversaw spring. These are the strong ideals evidenced behind Barton’s work.
