12 6 / 2012
My Proposal!
SKETCH:
The people around me represent the authors of my research/ research itself. They will be wearing all white because the author (me) is unaware of their style/ personality, they are anonymous to me.
My piece connects to my theme headless for the reason that when you’re concealing someones identity, you blur out their facial features because its one of the most evident things that set us apart from everyone else. By burring out the peoples faces around me, they become faceless and anonymous, (faceless relates to headless.) This also relates to Death of an Author when Ronald Barthes talks about how works of literature have more than one author because the research we do is written by many people, therefore making our writing unoriginal.
Ill defiantly be using appropriation as one of the principals of postmodernism because I’ll need to get a Google image of a type writer, and maybe even a dramatic sky. Ill use layering quite literally in Photoshop because ill need many many images to create my photograph. The area of meaning ill be exploring is aesthetic. I’m picturing my photo to be very dramatic with its use of colors and images. If you know the essay by Ronald Barthes, then my meaning will also be intellectual.
The materials and equipment ill need to make my photo includes:
- Camera & memory card
- Tripod
- Remote control for camera
- A field
- Perhaps more people (than just me)
- My laptop
- Photoshop
- Google image of a type writer
- Other possible Google images
The materials and equipment ill need to present my photo includes:
- LCD Projector
- Computer
- A white screen
11 6 / 2012
exam daily entry
i am currently freaking out because i don’t have an idea yet that relates to my theme, “headless” and connects to “death of an author” by ronald barthes. today i want to start my proposal so im focusing on thinking of an idea!
07 6 / 2012
Dragana Pavlovic Photography
05 6 / 2012
Art Review: Tiffany Ng
Located outside Richmond green secondary school is tiffany ng’s cat moss guerilla artwork. This is a very interesting piece of art however my first thought was the very obvious photoshop job. Her theme is cats, so naturally the subject matter is cats. I don’t see any postmodern principals used within this piece. An element I really enjoyed is her clever pun as the title, cat moss, (a play on Kate moss) however I don’t see the connection.
What stands out the most for me is the paws leading up to the cat. It makes your eyes travel through the artwork to the point of interest. I also like her use of moss to create the cat. After reading her proposal I understand the connection between moss and cats. She used moss because it is low maintenance, and so are cats. Because of this, I believe the piece effectively shows what she is trying say. Considering the limited time she had to create this, I’d say that she was reasonably effective in the production of the piece.
This is defiantly an effective example of moss graffiti, however, the 3 dimensional cat would be very hard to construct in real life. I personally like her artwork because it’s interesting and engaging. However, I would’ve liked to have seen it look more realistic, and less obvious that it is photoshopped.
31 5 / 2012
ARTIST STATEMENT:
My piece, Inspiration at Home, represents how and where I get my inspiration from. When I’m at home, I am free to be myself; my room is my art studio. This also relates to my theme, “headless”, for the reason that “my head’s in the clouds” (quite literally illustrated) in my piece.
I used Layering and Hybridity in my work by layering Photoshop brushes with photos and hand drawn elements. I also used Appropriation by incorporating Google images of the lion and the butterfly into my work. I chose the lion and the butterfly because the lion is a symbol of strength and passion, and the butterfly is a symbol of inspiration and freedom. These symbols help to better define my work and relate it to my concept of inspiration. My initial idea for this artwork was totally different. At first I wanted to place a bunch of headless mannequins in the hall of my school with balloons attached to their necks symbolizing the mindless work we do as students, and how schools are supposed to teach you to think for yourself. I changed my idea because, one, I couldn’t find any headless mannequins, and two, if I were to photoshop the scene, the quality of the mannequin images from Google would be too low for the picture to look realistic, therefore I had to think of something else, which was my biggest challenge. I needed inspiration quick, and I realized that I get inspired mostly when I’m at home, in my room. So, I decided to create a piece about that instead.
The type of urban art my piece would fall under is graffiti. Personally, I love Urban Art, every kind of it, from graffiti to street art and street performers. It gives people something to look at as they walk down the road. Most of it really amazes you and brings culture to our everyday lives. Urban Art has changed the way we see Art in the sense that Art can be anything now. Art is not just a painting hung up in a museum, Art is a person standing still on the side of the street all day, painted in gold. Because of Urban Art, the word art now has a very diverse meaning.
31 5 / 2012
daily entry 5
i chose the colour combination that was in sectioned into thirds because it helped show my theme and overall idea the best.
30 5 / 2012
daily entry 4
process update:
i’m not sure which one i like best out of these 3 colour gradients i made:
fade from black and white to colour:
yellow and purple gradient: (this one makes the colours pop)
thirds: (this one is similar to the first one but its sectioned into thirds, not faded)
(i think i’m leaning towards the yellow and purple gradient)
27 5 / 2012
daily entry 1
CHANGE OF PLANS
i decided to change my previous idea, mainly for the reason that google has low quality pictures of mannequins. my new idea will have a different concept of my theme “headless”.
these are the pictures ill be using:
my new concept is the idea of studio and inspiration. when i’m at home, i get inspired easily and i am free to be myself. to show that through my assignment, i will photoshop graffiti on the wall around my head.
