Death In Venice Digital Art By Marty Cullen

Year:

Medium:

Digital Art

Size - (USA):

80 W x 60 H x 1 D (inches)

Size - (metric):

203.2 W x 152.4 H x 2.5 D (centimeters)

Theme:

Representational

Edition:

Original

Artwork ID:

384006

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Artwork Info Sheet (PDF)

Artwork Description:   This piece concerns, cinematograpy,photography and digital art. It is a reference piece to the Director Visconti - Death in Venice. His unrivalled approach to cinematic imagery has inspired and influenced my own work, I wanted to create a masterpiece and I photographed 20 different images to assimilate the necessary subject pieces. The actual image of Venice is an etching which i ran through up to thirty photographic light filters. The surround is wood from an old farmhouse in Mid Ulster, I needed to exact a certain decay in the image and came across the old farmhouse. I photographed the rusting bolts of the roof beams and I found an old piece of car wreck to add a metallic feel to the image. I also wanted to add movement in reference to Mahler and a downbeat feel in reference to Thomas Mann. The overall idea was to weld the various mediums into a digital whole. The actual project entailed four months from conception to finish. The finished image is one off and printed into a deep red Irish Linen canvas.