| Abstract [eng] |
The compatibility between a young famous personality and his/her audience is the topic in the collection of nine paintings, titled “The Club of 27”. The research problem of this master thesis is the impact the audience has on its favoured personality and the way it influences his/her self-destruction. Main objectives of this research were finding the reasons and results of the early departure of a young artist, as well as to identify its significance in the post-modern consumer society. In the fast paced modern life, with science reaching new heights everyday and the flow of information being as immense as it is, a deeper look into human being as a personality and its interplay with the monotonous yet progressing consumer society, is something to aspire. Digital photographs, various computer software and works of literature (both fictional and scientific) were used while creating the collection of paintings “The Club of 27”. Multi-layered painting technique was applied, as the portrait of a famous musician was used as the main element. Robert Johnson, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison, Dave Alexander, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Kurt Cobain and Amy Winehouse are the nine famous musicians chosen for the works, as they are all interrelated by the myth of 27, i.e., they all passed away at the age of 27. Theoretical part of the research is based on the philosophical works of Fredric Jameson and Zygmunt Bauman, dealing with postmodernism and consumer society. Analysis of the consumer-like interrelation between the artist and his/her audience is based on Pop Art and its representatives, as well as their views and provisions as an art movement, which is closely related to the post-modern consumer society of the present day. The problem of the research helps to reveal the existence of members of “The Club of 27”. Their model is used as the basis for analysing the tragic aspect of the interrelation between the personality and the society, as well as the influence of mass consumption upon the individuality and freedom of a person. |
