Art History- James Welling

0158 - 2006, James Welling

0194 - 2006 ,James Welling

James Welling is an American postmodern photographer that  experimented with different photographic mediums, including Polaroids, gelatin silver prints, photograms, and digital prints. What I am interested in is his work titled 'color- glass houses" where he uses filters to get contrasting and complementing colours around a glass house, when he does this it splits the picture up which portrays an unnatural and or a natural feel to the picture. 
I think he produced this piece work  due to how this house hasn't changed since the 1950s, where as with the filters he has made it look and feel different depending on the colour, each individual colour makes you think something different about the house. This effect added with Welling revisiting the house to take pictures adds to the change and how it hasn't changed. I know this by the style of the house and its interior, which welling said hasn't changed from when it was first put in.

The first 2 are picture taken with a filters with blue and green, and red and green, which then was edited in photoshop, altho he has also mentioned that he also did this in one picture where he used a grad filter which made the grass blue and the trees still stayed the same. In the picture (0194) is more obvious that he has used a separate colour filter for each colour.

• The colours in the picture is green and blue , they go well together because they are next to each other on the colour wheel. This picture uses the blue to make it stand out as blue isn't a normal colour for grass , where as the trees are a normal.
• While the red grass and path , complement the over green trees as on the colour wheel they are complementing colours (opposite sides of the colour wheel)
• His work on colour was taken from 2006 to 2009 where he visited his friends glass house where he experimented with filters to change the colour of the light. Mixing different filters to gain different effects. These picture is taken in landscape and most likely used a tri-pod with a long exposure ,depending on which method he used to edit his pictures. Using filters in photo shop or infant of the camera.

I think that the pictures have a untural look in half the picture which is a clever thing to do as it shows how that specific colours can prodece different views on the picture, I also see that each colour shows different emotions. Such as the red being angry and blue is calming. Which shows how different colours can portray different emotions, Such as when they conflict or contrast due to if the colours are appealing to the eyes.
I can use this when thinking about the colours i use in my own work.
The house was designed by Frank lloyd Wright and had a strange architecture to it.

0818 - 2006 , James Welling

This picture is slightly different than the other 2 as it uses 4 different colours, green yellow, blue and a section of no filters.
This picture s more unnatural than the last ones due to the wide range of colours and how it looks slightly confused. Im not sure how this was done exactly. It could be done with a filter that was made specifically for this picture or could have been edited in photoshop. This effect gives it a broken glass look which gives the picture some purpose other than just a picture of a glass house.
There are no people in the picture, which is like the other pictures Welling has done. It is a landscape picture but of the inside of the house. 
The sun glare on the top of the picture, is where your eye is drawn to. This s tinted yellow due to the filter and makes it seam the the rest of the yellow is where the sun is hitting.

I will use this technique in my initial shots. Using a filter on the camera and also editing the colours in photoshop, this will link to the colour wheel in how I can link colours together and there relationships with each other.

Unit 2 - Relationships

For Unit 2 we have been given the topic of Relationship. I have decided to use the idea of the relationship between colours and how the complement and contrast against each other. I will have to look at the colour wheel to see what are considered to contrast and complement each other. I have chosen my first Influence is James Welling.