Studies of a contemporary Work of Art, by Sam Wolfe Connelly.

The chosen work of art for this assignment is going to be on Sam Wofle Connelly's work called 'Sunder'. For this research Erwin Panofsky's theory is going to be used as to study in detail the iconography and the meaning and values of this work.
His theory has three levels which one should use to achieve in understanding the work of art. These are the three levels:
Primary or Natural subject matter. One must only describe the work of art without allowing our mind to connect the image to any mental construct.

Secondary or conventional subject matter. (Iconography) One, must make an iconographic analysis by connecting the image to a known story or recognizable character.

Tertiary or intrinsic meaning or content. ( Iconology ) One will decide what the meaning of the art work is, by considering the time in which it was made, the reason for its production and the artist who made it.

'Sunder' Sam Wolfe Connelly.

Subject matter.

In this work of art there is a female presence. The female is a young lady and she is found in a dark coffin. She is directly looking at the viewer and she is removing her shirt/dress (the only clothing she is wearing). Next to her there is a dagger.

Iconography.

The work of art's name is 'Sunder' and according to 'The free dictionary', sunder means: to break or wrench apart (separate), to break into parts.
When seeing 'Sunder' I connected the image with the story of Romeo and Juliet, there is passion in this image and there is also the presence of death and the dagger. I also made a connection between this artefact and that of Manet's , 'Olympia'. She is also a young lady, not a goddess, looking straight in the eyes' viewer and naked but not completely because she is wearing a flower in her hair, a necklace and a bracelet.

Iconology.

Who is the artist and what is his style? If one understand the artist and his style one will easily understand his art creations.
He started doing illustration after seeing Sam Weber illustration on the Cover of Communication Arts.
 Now that designing is his career he looks to no artist because if so he feels that his work isn’t his own. He like to indulge a sort of mystrey in his work and hide some elements from the viewer, he tries to stay true in what he find fascinating. In an interview he said,”I just take a step back and ask myself what do I really want to express? rather than what should I express?”
He works on his piece firstly by figuring out what he need to say, than breaking it down into basic elements that he wants to include and tries to fit tham into a nice composition using thumbnails. Once he figures out the blocking and shapes, he’ll do a final sketch in actual size on newspaper and transfer it over to his final paper than he makes his final drawing in graphite and bring it into photoshop and add some colouring.
Sam Wolfe Connelly always starts manualy than translates it to digitaly, and this is the thing that  really intrested me in his works. Eventough he edit his  graphite paintings, graphite is still visible.

Bibliography.

Sam Wolfe Connelly,[Web], Available at:< http://samwolfeconnelly.com/pages/info.html> [Accessed 5 November 2014]

Spark notes, 2014, Romeo and Juliete, [Web], Available at:< http://www.sparknotes.com/shakespeare/romeojuliet/summary.html> [Accessed 6 November 2014]

Greg Watson,15th February 2012, panofsky three levels, [Web], Available at :<http://gregwatsonsthoughts.blogspot.com/2012/02/panofskys-three-levels.html> [Accessed 7 November 2014]

Farlex,2014, the free dictionary,[Web], Available at :< http://www.thefreedictionary.com/sunder> [Accessed 10 November 2014]

Media Temple Professional Hosting,abduzeedo,[web],Available at: < http://abduzeedo.com/interview-sam-wolfe-connely> [ Accessed 3 october 2014].