Thorsten Brinkmann...

So Thorsten Brinkmann's artwork basically resides of him redressing people mainly women in clothes putting say a bag on the head or trousers on the arms. As you can see in the photograph the subject is wearing what appears to be a leather bag on her head and a cardigan the wrong way round. I think everything about this piece is perfect, it seems to me to have a slight eighteenth, nineteenth century theme with the image being taken from the side. The colours of the items of the clothing are also interesting as they avoid any bright colours and seem to vary around quite dull almost faded colours which I like. Moreover although the clothes in the image are in a way wrong as in how they are being worn the piece still seems to make sense and is still easy to determine which position the subject is facing and what it actually is. An absolutely brilliant piece in my opinion I feel like its wrong, yet it looks right.

Another amazing piece by Thorsten Brinkmann: now after seeing this piece and and a few others I feel pretty certain in assuming that the artist goal when creating his pieces is to create a eighteenth century portrait with a hint of surrealism in it and modernism of course. After looking at the headdress I'm still uncertain as to what it is. At first I just assumed it was another bag after seeing the first image but when I looked harder it, in opinion resembled the paper you get your chips in at a fish and chip shop however, I then went back to my previous idea due to the surface having what looked like a shine to it. The pose once again I think helps resemble a portrait from the past, as if it is of someone royal perhaps. Again I think the use of colour in this piece is very interesting; this piece differs from the previous as the subject is completely light in contrast with the black background allowing the audience to focus on the individual.

Out of all of Brinkmann's pieces this piece is my absolute favourite. The section regarding the head, I like more than the other pieces simply due to the shape; the smooth outline of the what I think might be a tennis racket case and the nose of the model slightly protruding creating just a slight amount of shading to make it obvious what it is. Moving down the image the doylees or whatever they are taking on the role of what I think is called a lapel, its so simple, merely resembling a similar upside-down triangle shape yet its recognizable. The backwards facing jacket I also  think fits perfectly. The green, brown, gold mix and the folds, even how the upper part of the chest stands out more than any other part of the torso. Finally the milking jug on the hand I think is just amazing but, I'm not really sure why I like it so much. The overall pose of the subject when looking at it as a whole I also think has been created in a perhaps modern style, as if the subject is looking at you, the surreal aspects again I think. After actually looking at this artist and evaluating his work, deciding what I like and dislike his artwork has really made me change my view on what I consider to be fine art. From normally only really, seriously liking art mainly created with pen, pencil or paint this artwork has really opened me up to accept and to explore other artists besides those using the traditional medium.