| 词条 | Russell Mills (artist) |
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As a recording artist he has collaborated with many musicians, for example David Sylvian, Ian McCulloch and Peter Gabriel. He has released 3 CDs with his recording project Undark, one of them on the British ambient label t Records. The last, Pearl + Umbra was released on Bella Union, to very respectable reviews. He was Visiting Tutor (until 2012) at the Royal College of Art,[3] Visiting Professor at the Glasgow School of Art[4]. Emergence as music packaging designerIn the 1980s, Mills began receiving commissions to design record album covers and associated packaging. Stylistically, his work at this time became much more abstract, abandoning figurative representation in favour of symbolic allusions. He regularly treated the canvas as a sculptural plane, with materials such as metals, powders, bones, feathers, beeswax, fabric, wires, animal skins and papers embedded in thick paints and pastes. Works of this period generally occupy the entirety of the canvas with little or no "negative space" left. Notable album covers include:
An analysis of the symbolic meaning of the elements used to create the cover for Roger Eno's Between Tides appears in the 1999 book 100 Best Album Covers, edited by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell (of the design group Hipgnosis.) Work with Nine Inch NailsRussell Mills worked with Nine Inch Nails in 1994-1997 and again in 2012-15. In 1994, he was commissioned to create the entire visual world of The Downward Spiral, beginning with the artwork for that album's cover and booklet, and extending to all of the associated singles (including March of the Pigs and Closer to God), the remix collection Further Down the Spiral, the 1997 videocassette compilation Closure, the 2004 Deluxe Edition and DualDisc re-releases of The Downward Spiral, (which was accompanied by several new Mills compositions downloadable from the Nine Inch Nails website[5]), and various promotional materials. These interrelated works contain Mills' heaviest use of organic materials to depict a sense of fragility and decay.[6] Animal skeletons, sets of teeth, blood, feathers, and dead insects are liberally embedded in the canvases. In some pieces, materials have been affixed and then exposed to water or chemical elements, so that their decay is literally imprinted on the surface of the artwork. In 2012 work began on the cover art for the album Hesitation Marks, released in 2013, and subsequently an art book called Cargo in the Blood,[7][8] released in December 2015. Advent of digital designFrom the later 1990s to the present, Mills' work has again evolved to a new style, made possible by the advent of computer design applications such as Photoshop. The "collage" aesthetic is still frequently seen, but now in a virtual/digital form, with many abutting and overlapping semi-transparent images, often cropped into crisp, aligned rectangles. Mills still uses hand-drawn or -painted imagery, but as often as not it is scanned into the computer and treated as another malleable collage element. Images of water and sky are frequently seen, and a cooler color palette often prevails (in contrast to an earlier reliance on earth tones). Negative space is still a rarity in Mills' compositions. It is worth noting that many of the musicians who choose Mills as an illustrator compose music that is "ambient" to varying degrees. Many of the album covers visually reflect this, in that they can be viewed quickly for an overall emotional impression, while intense perusal reveals many painstakingly layered details. Notable album covers from 1995 to the present include:
MusicIn addition to soundtracking several multimedia exhibits (see below), Russell Mills has released two albums to date:
Both albums originated from Mills "collecting sounds" from musicians, many of whose albums he has illustrated. He then collaged the organic and electronic sounds into ambient pieces (with one or two vocal "songs" per album), with varying degrees of collaboration with the originating artists. Featured contributors to Undark (aka "Undark One: Strange Familiar"): {{Flatlist|
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References1. ^{{cite news|title=When solo artists meet their match|author=Moira Jeffrey|date=12 March 2001|accessdate=22 July 2010|url=http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/spl/aberdeen/when-solo-artists-meet-their-match-1.195459|newspaper=Herald Scotland}} 2. ^{{cite news|title=The Fragile: Nine Inch Nails|author=Will Hermes|date=24 September 1999|accessdate=22 July 2010|url=http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,270840,00.html|work=Entertainment Weekly}} 3. ^Royal College of Art – Staff 4. ^Glasgow School of Art 5. ^Nine Inch Nails: Russell Mills 6. ^Russell Mills Committere 7. ^Cargo in the Blood 8. ^Nine Inch Nails and Russell Mills to publish art book 9. ^Slow Fuse Sound 10. ^Still Moves | one External links
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