MILIM & Other Website Research

MILIM ARTISTS

Sometimes when you take colour from an image to make it monocrome it can look better than the original picture. If you are looking for a retro picture or an aged looking photograph you could take a picture of a landscape and then de-saturate it it'd make it look old on antic like the sepia tone.






For example the artist Baker and Evans specializes his pictures in monochrome;
The fact that milk is white makes the photograph look purer in its self but because it is in black and white. The contrast of this image is very good because there are multiple shades of grey in this image which stand out, also the part of the milk which has over flowed was well thought of i think because around the bottom of the glass it looks like a thick piece of paper what looks like its been put there. It doesnt actually look like real milk.




The way he captures monocrome is so good and beautiful in this image. sometimes you dont need allot of objects to make a picture even though it could look empty. The way different compositioons are brought in. including colour and espeically shapes. The perfect shadow what comes off the flag to make it grey on the middle and black on the outside.

And the curtains what also have the same effect. He is always showing different shades of one colour, if it is grey and black.







I like the different textures he has portrayed in this image. the roughness of the plant pot what isnt so perfect and precise, the flooring doesnt gift it softness but gives the image more of an edge and what it says about the photo, that its a home photo, the flower what belongs in the room, the circles in the plant also make the space looked well used aswell not just stems going in several difrections. I also love how the skirting board is white so it perfectly separates the grey walls to the deep dark carpet. Fantastic

 Therefore on another hand the artist Luke Pajak also gives me the same sense of feeling in his photographs, just that they have borders on theoutside which ake it more of a personal thee perhaps? His photos of house hold memories and childhood memories and things what he feels close to maybe..

For example this ice cream van, has beautifully subtlely toned the colours down to make it look more like an old theme photo but has kept the most important colour parts of the picture such as the colour of the van because thats what ice cream vans are for, they represent children and happiness which is also what yellow can be seen for.                      


The thing about this photo is i like the shadows in the middle of h piano, i love how half of it is in shadow whilst the other isnt, also the chair under it, The use of colours works well in this image because it looks like an old piano which hasnt been played or almost looks like a 1970s piano, the colours arent bold because when you took these type of images back in the 1970s not much of the colour came out so this looks like the whole photograoph was taken in the 1970's

 

 

 

 This photo is pretty simple to say itsself, i have noticed in all of Lukes images is that there are many lines used (compositionally wise)
   Such as the table is a square nd the cupboard and door way are both lines. I think he trying to bring over his passion for family life and home by throwing in a couple of trainers how you would find them in somebodys home, perhaps on the floor because teenagers mostly do that.

I like this image because it makes me happy whats in it. i like to en joy the photos i look at and this reminds me of a happy place i once was at. The way he has captures the past by putting colourful baloons onto the table and party plates and straws filled with sweets and chocolate. once again keeping to skillful terms he keeps the baloon undercontrol and keeping composition in the image aswell.








 This picture is great because the image has not been taken too far away from the bath and not too close to the toy duck itself. I liek the way that the duck is almost the talking point of this photo but surprisingly the bath can aswell. the fact that it makes you remember having a bath with a rubber duck, not just seeing the duck. The colouring is also great in this image that the duck really shows the novelty of what it is.  The bright plastic thing.

I like the way Luke has photographed this image. he hasnt shown the whole of the car but he has shown the back of it, he uses composition more than once in every photo that he takes, for example in this image there is the street floors which are square and then there is the actual road surface which is small squares also. I love how the car isnt saturated too high or else it would ruin the photo I think. none of his images are saturated high at all and thats what makes his images look old.