Capriccio Alterations 

by

Amanda Ellis

Beeldenstorm in een kerk

by 

Dirck Van Delen

1630

                                                                             Alteration 1. 

I altered this painting by removing the existing people and some ornaments and then inserting foreign people in. This is to achieve a completely new narrative of "sorrow", a funeral in a church.

Original Painting & Diagrammatic reading 

The atmosphere in the original painting on the left hand almost have a hopeful atmosphere in it. This is because of the use of people and their actions which convey the reconstruction of a worn down church. The analysis diagram shows my viewpoint of the painting in the analysis of a wrong perspective (where the people in the background is much smaller than what is meant to be in real life). Moreover, the categorised different types of people and what their actions are. I concluded that people changes the space in this specific painting, the adding or removing of people changes space to have a completely different atmosphere.

The times

by 

William Hogarth

1762

Alteration 1.

This cappricio has an atmosphere of a calm and peaceful city. I altered this cappricio by removing the smoke in the sky and the fire truck which they cause a very hectic and disturbed atmosphere.

Original Painting & Diagrammatic reading

The atmosphere in the original cappricio is a contradicting space with hope. The actions of humans in this cappricio is helping each other in the background but at the same time, the atmosphere in the foreground seems surprisingly calm and enjoyable. This is seen by the actions of people in the cappricio. 

However, what intrigues me is not much about the people but the use of etching techniques and strokes which is used to define changing materials, textures and mood. I characterised the different etching strokes and analysed the changes of strokes in correlation with materials and atmospheres. 

PINIP 1: The Capriccio: Amanda Ellis

The analysis diagram of each cappricio followed by the chosen alternations.
1. Dirck Van Delen- focus on the alternation of people and the different types of events. The atmosphere is hopeful.
2. William Hogarth- focus on etching technique and the texture and material quality it gives. The atmosphere is the contradiction of people in one event.

The following are all the alterations that I produced:

Introducing foreign objects and altering the space to explore how the atmosphere changes:

Still and Silent- contemporary setting

Sorrow, Silence

Noisy and cheerful despite of the lack of people presented

Crowded space, bustling with people and noise

Rendering of spatial effects with only the people highlighted. 

Alteration of 'The times' :

Space becomes more confined with the dead end.
Calm and slightly romantic.

Buildings change to an urban town house.

remove smoke. Space feels calm

removing the etching strokes and details. the fuzziness and visual noise created by the etching is eliminated. 

different viewpoint of the space. Exploring the use of materials suggested by the etching.

How would the drawing would look like with realistic materials.

To conclude, the two themes I would like to explore are how people effect the mood and sound of the space. Also, how the tactile quality can influence mood and sound.

These are the tools and methods I use:
1. adding people
2. subtracting people
3. change texture and materials
4. change the scale of people

William Hogarth "The Times"

ORIGINAL: The scene depicts a chaos cause by a fire. However,  the foreground atmosphere is oddly relaxed.

ATTEMPT 1: The colour of the smoke and fire changed to be blue so it might look s like water.

ATTEMPT 2: The firemen and people helping with the event  are deleted, leaving only the people in the foreground which are not helping with the event. The atmosphere changes to desperation and neglect.

ATTEMPT 3: removing the smoke and the fire from the painting.

ATTEMPT 4: Adjusting the brightness and contrast of the foreground and background.  Highlighting the fire and people ( the event). The fire seems glowing and more intense.

ATTEMPT 5: Replacing the medieval buildings with contemporary town houses. 

Dirck van Delen-"Beeldenstorm in een kerk"

ORIGINAL PHOTO: The painting depicts the helping of a church renovation.
The atmosphere is chaotic but hopeful. What I see here is the wrong perspective and scale of
people in the background.

ATTEMPT 1: changing the intensity of the foreground to be extremely dark

ATTEMPT 2: changing the scale of people in the background to be slightly bigger so they seem to be closer to the event

ATTEMPT 3: delete all the people in the background, leaving only the workers. The atmosphere is not that hopeful anymore.

ATTEMPT 4: removing the people actually working on the renovation. Atmosphere changes because there are no group of workers helping the one on the stairs.

ATTEMPT 5: Adjusting the brightness in the background to be darker so looks less hopeful without the "light" . removing all the sculptures and paintings that act as ornaments. add a sword on the hand of the group of people in the foreground. 

ATTEMPT 6: Change the background to an exterior view.