DESIGN NAME: My Heart will go on
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Art
INSPIRATION: The inspiration came form the ancient still life painters from the renaissance, paired with the aim to lay a focus on what mankind does to animals, but not in an aggressive but more subtle way.
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This artwork represents the series My Heart will go on by Photographer and artist Florian W. Mueller. It is a genuine heart of a cow, staged and photographed in his studio like a still life or a portrait.
The heart had a weight of 3 Kilograms.
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The whole project is real photography, no computer generated image. So the heart was staged in a studio, hung with some tiny ropes on a selfmade rig. Lighted with two studio flashes the artisted arranged the heart like a still life photography.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: Shot in the winter 2017, because the whole session took about two days and the heart could stay fresh in a temperature of 2-5 degrees celsius.
The post production took about another two days.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Photography and Photo Manipulation Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Different kinds of structure foam were used to fill the heart in order to hang it into a construction and photograph it in front of a concrete background above a wooden surface. The artist used two studio lights to get the right light for the scene. It was shot with a Nikon D800E with a 35mm 1.8 lens on f10 from a tripod.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: The artwork is offered in limited editions, framed or mounted or just as a fine art print on archival paper:
27 x 20cm: 25 pieces
60 x 45cm: 10 pieces
80 x 60cm: 10 pieces
120 x 90cm: 5 pieces
150 x 112cm: 3 pieces
TAGS: still, still life, heart, photography, color, abstract, nature, organ, studio
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The master painters of the renessaince were a good source of research, but also the finding of the right concrete background and the self built wooden surface. the whole backdrop was built and staged, just for this particular project.
CHALLENGE: It was quite hart to work a while day in a studio with 2-5 degrees celsius. Also there was a challenge in getting a whole heart of a cow.
ADDED DATE: 2019-03-29 07:34:55
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : No assistance
IMAGE CREDITS: Photographer: Florian W. Mueller
Post Production: Florian W. Mueller
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Copyrights belong to Florian W. Mueller, 2019.
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