BUT! How do these images relate to the first set (below) and the movie for that matter?

OK well, glad we have another semester....

The visual and ideological opposition I landed on is Primitivism- the representation of primitive culture in both visual and literary art

Primitive- before civilization, before conquering, before  mastering the land.

It it the uncivilized, the raw:  anti-western norms.

The use of the primitive in this case is alienation, it is youth-driven cultural trends, it is unexplored, it is the opposite of all the landscape painting rhetoric.  But the landscape painting will be the setting for this little cult of characters nieve existence.

It will clash.

It will be absurd.

Now land, nature, has always been prescribed as inherently female- “Mother Nature”.  We address nature with the pronoun she.  In these terms the idea of mastery over the land takes on a very masculinized aggression.  Power relationships have always been interesting to me, and it is a position of mastery I am looking to place myself in.  I wanted to use this natural aesthetic for myself, to reverse the relationship of mastery and mastered.  A visual and optical experience that will empty out the historical ideologies inherent to these works and reframe them in a position of reversal, and hopefully in a more contemporary context. 

not that I think he is a particularly interesting artist...but his didactic break down of the landscape painting was very interesting and instrumental to my thesis and trajectory of the project