Semiotics

StolenSpace Gallery - Love & Hate Group Show
10.02.12 - 15.04.12


Love and Hate is a group show by various artists with the use of mix media. Each artist featured in the exhibition has produced a series of two images in which to represent Love and Hate. The images are clearly contrasting and it seems to be fairly obvious as to which piece of art work represents which emotion/feeling. 

 These were my favorite pieces from the exhibition The first by David Bray, Chloe Early, Charles Krafft and word to mother.

When asked what you associate with the words Love and Hate I’m sure a whole host of images come to mind, yet we all clearly have different loves and hates despite still being able to differentiate which painting etc represents which word.

I think perhaps Brays illustrations on the wood are the most difficult to tell apart, however I think once you study them it becomes fairly obvious. The first painting represents hate the things that connote this to me is the hard chiseled jaw line of the girl where as the one below is very contrasting she has a rounded softened jaw which is much more friendly and embracing. The gaze of the girls is also contrasting, the girl in the hate illustration has smaller narrowed eyes that appear to be more threatening and insincere with her head also titled backwards it appears she is looking down at us. The girl featured in the love illustration has a much more direct forward facing head position; her eyes are wider which has a desiring and friendly essence about it.




Stolen Space. (2012). Love & Hate. Available: http://www.stolenspace.com/section.php?xSec=506&xPage=1. Last accessed 6th Apr 2012.