Hi-Fructose Magazine Volume 49.
This week I have been assigned to review the Hi-Fructoses magazines. I looked on the Hi-Fructose website of which gave me a little more information about the magazine. I found that “Hi-Fructose is a quarterly print art magazine, founded by artists, Attaboy and Annie Owens in 2005.” (Seifert and Seifert, 2019). I came across Hi Fructose from my tutor on the start of my two year course of animation and illustration. I still read Hi Fructose and have used it for my final year of my BA Hons Illustration degree. I looked into the latest issue which was Hi-Fructoses magazine Volume 49. I recommend Hi Fructose the same way as I recommend Juxapoz in a blog called Reading week #4: Juxapoz. I say this because like Juxapoz (Magazine, 2019) the magazine has a lot of artist content which range from illustration, graphics and abstracted work. In this blog I will be reviewing an article which I have chosen from the magazine, I will be stating my reasons to why I have chose this article.
This is the front cover.
I like how the cover looks as its inviting and full of interesting content. The bright colours. This is usually the case with Hi Fructose their bright and wild front overs which drawn everyone’s attention. including my own. Which I will show an example of my work here
This is my interpretation for my front cover. You can see the colours stand out of which is similar to the HI Fructose front cover.
This is an article that I found interesting to read is about Ori Toor (Toor, 2019). I was interested in the creative content of the illustrations in the magazine. I wasn’t so hyped on the article itself but I did come across a quote from the article which intrigued me. The quote that came from Toor was ” I’m not even sure I have an imagination anymore” (Toor, 2019) I was fascinated by his response as I was skimming through his artwork thinking are you joking me. His work is so diverse and full of interest that how could he state he had no more of an imagination. But then it made more sense when he’s state afterwards ” I need to draw to see thing in order to imagine new things” (Toor, 2019) I understand this as being an artist your most creative content isn’t to blurt out from your head but just grabbing a pen and draw how your feeling. I found that In the end Toor is a very clever guy and I would want to take personal inspiration for not his work but for who he is and how he sees the world. You can see this within his work but more from them smart quotes. I find myself taking on his words and enhancing them into my future career as a teacher. I could present myself for a lesson plan where I could teach students to place there feelings onto paper before even thinking about it and draw whatever comes to mind. This actually I think creates a more advanced imagination and is quite mature for an illustrator or artist can be when creating content.
I have placed here two sections of the article to show his work as I am going to go through what I like? What I can take from this? How can I use this within my project or in future work?
I want to start with what I like about Toor’s work in general. I like the jumbled chaos. His work looks like a creators brain and that to me is quite inviting. His type of illustrations and using colour is marvellous and gives plenty of inspiration for those who loves art. His work expresses my inner creativity and find that I can use his content with my own work. The style doesn’t fit with my personal project of the multi textual children’s book however I am wanting to become a teacher. I want to enhance my creativity and skills for when I come to teaching. I am able to do this by looking into artistic flares like Toor’s. I want to look more into collage work as looking at Toor’s work it gives me a feel for collage for an example Richard Hamilton’s work. I will show an example of his work below (Hamilton, 2019). I find his work in the mix with Toor’s work quite similar and I think if I am able to enhance myself further in my collage skills and being able to present this to a class.
As you can see I have taken Toor’s work and being able to manipulate his work with in my own work but I do find that its his personality that has shown how to see art and how to be creative. From his train of thought I am able to use him as a guidance towards becoming a more of a fully fledged illustrator going into the world of education. I believe the more experienced and grown I become the more trust I will gain from students and a work ethic in a classroom.
I hope you found this review of Hi Fructose useful and I do recommend looking into this article and hope you love what I read about Ori Toor.
until the next time
Rach 🙂
Bibliography
Hamilton, R. (2019). Im Dreaming of a Black Christmas by Richard Hamilton on artnet. [online] Artnet.com. Available at: http://www.artnet.com/artists/richard-hamilton/im-dreaming-of-a-black-christmas-a-vjYAbTl8j9XCJigXnFKysQ2 [Accessed 13 Mar. 2019].
Seifert, D. and Seifert, A. (2019). Hi Fructose, (49), p.front cover.
Magazine, J. (2019). Juxtapoz Magazine – Home. [online] Juxtapoz.com. Available at: https://www.juxtapoz.com [Accessed 7 Mar. 2019].
Toor, O. (2019). Ori Toor. Hi Fructose, (49), p.30.
Toor, O. (2019). Ori Toor. Hi Fructose, (49), pp.31,32.
Toor, O. (2019). ori toor. [online] Oritoor.com. Available at: https://oritoor.com [Accessed 13 Mar. 2019].
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