An Adaptation Of Kwagh-Hir Puppets To Create Kinetic Paintings

📄 Project Abstract

The research titled An Adaptation of Kwagh-hir Puppets to create Kinetic Paintings is aimed at creating paintings inspired by kwagh-hir figurines, figures and masquerade figures; the problem of this study is to interpret the kwagh-hir puppets as paintings, with an aim of creating paintings that can give illusion of movement. The study at hand reviewed works that are based on African sculptural images and proportions, and motion. Photographs; interviews explorative methodologies were engaged during the collection of data. Series of sketches and drawings of the selected puppets were made in the preliminary stages of the study to explore the diverse appearance and motion of the puppets. The population was stratified into three groups, which are figurines, figures and masquerade puppet categories. The works in each category were executed in three stages of transformation from the known to the unknown as follows (i) Representational stage; (ii) Exploratory stage (iii) Transformed stage. The...