Title: Only Me
Medium: Digital Collage
Size: 61 x 91 cm
Medium: Digital Collage
Size: 61 x 91 cm
Exhibition Text:
The Artist focused on creating a digital collage based on pop art. It’s based on how you identify yourself and your experiences throughout your life. For this work I used Adobe Photoshop, a photo editing software. It’s based of pop art, using bright colors to bring out the piece more. The inspiration for this was Andy Warhol and his piece of Marilyn Monroe. I felt each color scheme represented the brightness in life and then it changes to black and white to show that there is that bad part that happened.
The Artist focused on creating a digital collage based on pop art. It’s based on how you identify yourself and your experiences throughout your life. For this work I used Adobe Photoshop, a photo editing software. It’s based of pop art, using bright colors to bring out the piece more. The inspiration for this was Andy Warhol and his piece of Marilyn Monroe. I felt each color scheme represented the brightness in life and then it changes to black and white to show that there is that bad part that happened.
Process
1. Brainstorm
These are the ideas that I wrote down of what I could have added to my digital collage
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2. Planning
These are the planning sketches of the ideas I had for what I could have used as my digital collage.
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3. Final Sketch
This is the final sketch of how I wanted my digital collage to be set up.
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Artist Inspiration
In this digital collage Only Me, My artistic inspiration was Andy Warhol , "Marilyn". In this artwork, Warhol painted with multiple solid colors that are bright to make the painting stand out to give it the pop art theme. In the creation of "Marilyn" Andy describes the precision of each multiple face coloring and the boxes he had to put time and creativity. Andy Warhol was my inspiration because the repetition of the same image and colors inspired me. Those bright colors he used really brought out the artwork for people to get the attention. I used that background to inspire my piece but, make it different with my own meaning behind it. I wanted it to be as well as colorful to get the viewers attention on it but also incorporated something of my own. |
Reflection
Using Adobe Photoshop wasn't easy to use, it took time for me to learn how to use it. At first I was playing with all the controls to learn how to use them and know what they are so I practiced on other photos before using the one I wanted to use. The hardest part for me was finding the artist to connect at first because I had different ideas to incorporate on it or what it was going to be. Because at first I had the project on process but then I had a hard time understanding it and connecting it to an artist and theme until I thought of it which is my final project. Also finding the colors I wanted on it was hard but after switching them around I started liking how it looked. |
The Meaning Behind My Piece
I had a hard time thinking of a meaning, how my piece would make someone think for a second, what is he trying to say, why did he make it this way and why these colors. The message I want to send is, think about yourself for a second, think, who are you as an individual, what makes you and what has changed you. That is what the message that I’m conveying throughout my collage. The image I took was outside I was looking into the sky, or just anywhere. I thought it would be the right image to use. As I see it, it looks like a serious face of a thinker, in his own world where he is looking out into the open, just thinking. That is what I do, the background is my house, It’s where I like to go out and reflect on me, who I am. The reason that I called it only me was because of the repetition of the same image. Where every time it’s me. To think of yourself for a moment, it all about me right now, the challenges I have overcome, the struggles and problems I have been through, the distractions in my life. It’s how I avoid them. I’m wearing earbuds and glasses, I see it as a way that I’m ignoring things. I’m ignoring bad things, how when friends have stabbed me in the back, how I can’t trust noone these days. It’s all about me now, where at the moment I get into my zone, think about me, about my future, and keep on going in my life. The colors represent the good and the bad about life for oneself or me, the top, they are all bright, colorful mixed colors, where you feel happiness in you, then it gets when you just feel in between, same old colors, than it changes to the dark part. Where inside, all these changes are in me. Where thats why I reflect on what I do, at times I feel only I’m there. I do things that calm me, hear music, go outside and look around, ignore the things you don’t want to think for a moment. And I think for a moment, why is it Only Me right now. |