Project 1: Re-Creat an image
1.Select another artist's image you feel connected to and try to re-create it as best you can.
2.Focus on the essential spirit of the work as the most important to simulate.
3.Get everything you can exact as you can.
Project Timeline Writing:
• What your project will be about
Project Timeline Writing:
• What your project will be about
- The first project is about recreating an image based off of artists that inspire me. The project is also appropriating an image in a manner that is still my own and not a direct copy of the foundation image.
• What your project will look like
- Son of Man. Ideally I want this image to be a long horizontal image of the original painting in the center of the composition .Surrounding him will be men and woman lined up in profile view and side view. Originally I was going to add fruit to each of the many faces but decided to have an overall eery look by masking out features like eyes, and lips.
-Simiane La Rotonde. This image will be a mess of graffiti. I will be taking images from the internet and placing them into the original image. There will be a man in the foreground.
• What technical skills you will need to learn
I will need to use PhotoShop in order to recreate these images. Skills I need to know: Masking, burning dodging, adding filters, liquify tool, clone stamp etc.
• How many works and what size they should be.
• What technical skills you will need to learn
I will need to use PhotoShop in order to recreate these images. Skills I need to know: Masking, burning dodging, adding filters, liquify tool, clone stamp etc.
• How many works and what size they should be.
- There will be two images total for this project
• The date due (amongst a limited set of critique day options)
-September 20 2011
• The date due (amongst a limited set of critique day options)
-September 20 2011
Image One:
I decided to appropriate an art piece by René Magritte: "The Son of Man"
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| Son of Man |
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| Rachel Roembke |
Artist Statement
Magritte once said, "Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see. There is an interest in that which is hidden and which the visible does not show us." I believe that I agree with everything Magritte is saying and I also wanted to incorporate that same idea into my image.
I wanted the man with the apple to be in the center of the image to make him seem to have power i placed two women next to him and folded out people likewise. I think there is something eery like a cultish feel to it. Maybe these people have an inward connection to do what this guys says.
I masked the facial features like the eyes and mouth so that the person loses identity. There is a famous saying that says "The eyes are a portal to the soul." Our eyes tell so much to how we are feeling and what is going on inside our brains. I wanted to cut off that connection with the outside world to leave people wondering what they person looked like underneath.
I thought that the repition of people and the masking made this image have a rough dark look to it. The masking of the faces makes you view the clothes for ques of what type of person each person might be.
Image Two:
The second image was inspired by well know photographer Henri Cartier Bresson: "Simiane La Rotonde"
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| Simiane La Rotonde |
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| Rachel Roembke |
Artist Statement
Henri Cartier Bresson was known for a lot of famous photographs and I was browsing through and saw this image and immediately saw this and wanted to appropriate it. I was attracted to the light in the original and wanted to fill that with something visually accepting. I love graffiti and decided to make this run down area into graffiti crazy. I took a photo of man in a suit and place him in front because I wanted his person to be outside his actual environment. This image was more about the playful colors and textures that fill the frame.
