Intertextuality

I found the lecture last week on Intertextuality a real eye opener. The suggestion that art imitates art rather than art imitating life explains that everything we do stems from something else we have seen, heard or experienced. This relates well to models and model making because a model is intertextual. All models are based on other things.



I found the relationship and link between the things you see and what they remind you of really interesting. For example, when Ivan played the film clip of Madagascar in the lecture, even though I knew why he played it (to show the connection between it and the 1968 version of Planet of the Apes) it immediately reminded me of Cast Away and Ice Age. The Madagascar characters made a football into a face just like Tom Hanks did in Cast Away and Melman (the giraffe) from Madagascar caught on fire and reacted in the same way Sid (the sloth) did when he caught on fire in Ice Age. I think these two references were intentional by the film makers, therefore making them conscious intertextuality. If this was not the case however, and I was reading into the film way too much, it would have been classed as unconscious intertextualtiy.



These are awful photos, but you get the idea.

Going back to what I was looking at last week and Anish Kapoor, I saw something this weekend that reminded me of his sculptures. So I guess that means it was intertextuality at work.

I went to Bristol to see a friend on Saturday and we went for a walk near his University. On our walk we saw a large shiny mirrored sculpture, similar to that of Anish Kapoor's work. I think it was a Planetarium? I thought it was really strange after looking at Anish Kapoor last week and then so soon seeing something that really reminded me of him.

I also took a photo of a Banksy painting I saw their which I thought was quite cool. I really don't understand how he manages to paint what he does without anyone seeing!!