Reaction to class reviews

Upon the review of my classmates’ reaction to the artist, I realized that there were more aspects to the pieces that I had been missing. Some called to attention the specific placement of the figures. I previously hadn’t accounted for the artist intentional setting of the people in their pieces, and why they have been set in such ways. Similarly, before reviewing my classmates’ reactions I hadn’t taken in the dream like qualities if many of the pieces. Many of the works take a piece of reality and twist it just enough so that the viewer begins to question it, as if they had somehow fallen asleep without realizing.

Project 1

I combined these two images simply because of the contrast between them. The beauty of the female figure when coupled with the desolate image of a ram’s skull is ideally supposed to accentuate the differences in what people’s original reactions to the images on their own. Furthermore, the woman’s body is demeaned by the skull, while the animal remains are slightly glorified by the body. The woman gives the bones life as the skull presents the viewer with an air of death. Ultimately my goal was balance.

I have photoshoped images for quite some time now, though this is one of the simpler pictures I’ve manipulated

Artist Review

Aside from the obvious human subjects in many of the works, the artists share a similar use of space in many of their pieces. Upon viewing these pictures, one can sense the depth in the pictures. Further conformity of images of papers caught on the wind, and other air born substances help relay an air of freedom to the viewer. Certainly one does not feel entrapment from artist Teun Hocks’s depiction of men hanging from ceiling lights. However, artist Cindy Sherman differs from her peers by setting her works in more of an enclosed space. Centralizing her works more upon the study of women, this could be to better capture the figure. Moreover, where the other artists manipulate color to shift the overall mood of their pieces, Sherman has set her works to tones of black and white. This forces her work to convey a message through values of grey, body postures and facial expressions.