Title: Myself
Medium: Self made digital collage Size: October 1st, 2015 |
Exhibition My intentions of this work was to basically recreate an art piece by Andy Warhol titled Marilyn Monroe. At first I wasn't really sure what I wanted my piece to be. I tested out a few things, but they didn't work out. My first initial thought was Frida Kahlo. I attempted a piece but, wasn’t exactly working the way I wanted to. Even though it took a while for me to get it to this point, I'm proud of the art piece that I have accomplished.
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Inspiration My inspiration for my photoshop piece was the work named Marilyn Monroe by Andy Warhol. I chose to take inspiration from this piece because when I first saw it I thought that it looked really cool, and something that would be nice to do. What really caught my attention the most was the use of such bright colors. The bright colors and the high contrast is the type of style that seems to catch my eye first. Pop art is definitely in my top favorite art styles/movements.
The color of this piece in particular is what really caught my eye. for this project, i wanted to create something that had a lot of bright colors, and was something that would catch the viewer's eye while looking at it. I knew that the pop art movement was the movement to go to, and Andy Warhol seemed to be a great place to start. |
Process First Slide: This slide shows the first few steps that I did to create my photo shop piece. It shows the first row that is completed.
Second Slide: This slide shows both the first and second row of my piece completed. To create this second row, I copy and pasted the exact picture that I had used for my previous row, and manipulated the colors used so there would be a variety. Third Slide: This slide shows my completed piece before I added on some extra touches; such as, brightness, and cropping it to make it the size I want, and so there isn't a bunch of white on the bottom. However, eventually for my final piece, I had cropped out all of the access white, to give it a better presentation |
Struggles During this project, there was many struggles that I encountered. My first struggle was that I didn't know what I wanted to do. For the longest time I was just looking at random pieces of art and trying to find inspiration for my piece. My first original idea was to go with Frida Kahlo, because last year we were studying her art, and it seemed really interesting to me. But then I came across Andy Warhol's work, and immediately got inspired.
There were also many struggles that I had encountered while actually creating this piece. At this point I was just beginning to be familiar with photoshop. Before this project, I had never used it before, so it was a whole new experience for me. During the creation of this piece, I could not get a lot of the features I had originally wanted, to work. I wanted more defined edges and better coloring techniques, but it wouldn't allow me during this time to do so. So, that is when the whole idea for this project had changed. |