In today's lesson, I looked at how artists work can be copied, used an manipulated by other artists over time. Popular pieces of art work created by well knows artists are used as the base of other new artists or designers to express their own artistic style by manipulating another's successful work.
In the session I looked at popular pieces of art work that had been created over time and then how other more new artists had taken that art work and made something of their own. What was good about this session was that the images were used as a test to see how well we would be able to find the difference between the true creator of the popular art and the re creation that was made by a later artist. After practicing this I then moved on to creating my own piece of work.
However for this I had to use objects and elements that I could find around me to crete something where I could express myself in what ever image I wanted.
So I went around the college with a few friends to locate different objects such as magazines, newspapers and various prints which contained images that were appealing to myself. I then used these and expressed myself by taking different images and placing them together to create something new.
Since this was a quick exercise, I just took what images I liked and tried to make something appealing from it. The idea of my collage is to express 'mood' starting from the left the mood is negative which I tried tho express through the use of dark and desaturated images. Then travelling to the left of my work I faded in more vibrant images and colour to express positivity. Then in the centre of my work I used images of facial expression and matched them to the colour which I expressed behind them.
I enjoyed this exercise because it gave me the chance to practice something that was not digitally created which is different for me since I am a graphic designer. It allowed me to express myself in a different style.
