Digital Collage.
Inspiration.American Psycho by Robert longo. I chose to do Robert Longo because his originality and his sense of expressing emotion through his artwork. In the 1980s, he became well known for his Men in the Cities series, which depicts sharply dressed businessmen writhing in contorted agony, and silhouetted against a white background like dancers in a sound studio. These are his most popular photos because it has a series of 366 photos that have different poses and even different people as including women. Robert Longo has inspired me to be myself with these photos because he shows these people acting crazy but he makes crazy look like its a normal everyday thing.
In comparison to Robert Longos work, I wanted to keep the concept of having the black/white silhouettes to show the people in powerful positions because it would convey the message better if they could see why they were standing that way. I also wanted to the keep the concept on having them at different angels on the picture itself so I decided to put the silhouettes in different orders that varied in size. Since I was taking pictures of my friends I didn't want them to feel exposed so I made them into black silhouettes instead of having them show their faces. In contrast, I didn't like the total white background so what I decided to do was include some color and also include some artwork that my friends and I created to represent the city we live in and how us as citizens should break the stereotyping that happens here. With adding color to the background it allowed the silhouettes to pop out more which grabs the audiences attention while also keeping their eyes moving around the piece to look at the other artwork included in the background. |
Title: Modern Psycho Rebel's.
Medium: Photoshop Size: 91 cm x 60 cm. Date: September, 2015 Exhibition Text. This piece shows a true definition of being rebellious in today's society. The background is a picture of a mural that was created to show the modern rebels in Milwaukee and the society today and also the silhouettes are their to show that being different shouldn’t be judged. Nobody should be judged or discriminated against over something that's not even important like there hair or the color of the skin or what occupation they hold. My inspiration was American Psycho by Robert Longo because he combined pop culture and fine art together to create beautiful sculptures and drawings. Process and Outcomes. Some major struggles I had was being able to manipulate Photoshop without causing it to crash. Another problem I was having was getting use to using a program like that. Other than art club I haven't had any background on using Photoshop, so learning everything was a challenge while also using these tools to create the images and shapes needed. I had to watch many YouTube videos on how to do certain things in Photoshop like making silhouettes. I also had to my friends for help on changing the color of the silhouettes and the background in general due to my non-familiarization of Photoshop.
I had a great idea to take what I learned and created over the summer during an internship at the Milwaukee Art Museum because our main message that we created was to express yourself and become a modern rebel by breaking the stereotypes known to man. So by having this image in my head I tried many different backgrounds and tried many different pictures as well. For example I tried to include some of my own photography like of the lake or the fireworks down by the lake but it seem to have not fit the picture just right. I also tried using different filters hoping to make things fit more peacefully but the filters seemed to take away the detail od each picture and then they became unrecognizable. With Photoshop I also noticed that when I was using the quick select, getting detail or small shapes was difficult even if you used a plain background or the other quick select tools. So a problem I had was getting the shape of the feet, I couldn't get the rounded figure just right even after I refined the edges and changed the hue saturation. |