Manipulating the Image Conclusion

"Manipulating The Image Conclusion"

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time," Thomas Merton. When you look back at all the work that you've done you begin to realise just how lost you can get when you're working on a piece that you find interesting. I can honestly say that I have gained and experienced many new things this term. From working with text and numerous amount of fonts there are in the world to screen printing, one of the many things I have never tried until now. There were difficult times during this course when I thought that I could catch up with my work but once I understood what needed to be done I began to work harder and more efficiently. Out of everything that we have done this term I believe the task that i found to be the most challenging was the screen printing. Screen Printing was a challenge to be because of the long process that you have to go through like washing your screens, making sure you don't mix up the inks and then having to be careful when you're drying you screens to make sure you don't burn holes into it. Although everything was a long process I can actually see myself doing more of it. The "Manipulating The Image" course is by far my favorite course so far and I can't wait to see what else is in store for next semester once we begin Photography and Jewellery. 

Manipulating the Image Week 5

The task this week was just to come up with ideas to create posters for the Grounded theme that has been going around at the creative arts center at MIT lately. Grounded is basically creating sustainable art, meaning art that won't harm the economy or making something that can be recyclable. We were told that we were going to screen print our posters meaning we would have to work with gray scale when we begin to work on our images in Photoshop.

The image above is the image that I created using Photoshop. The whole screen print isn't my design. My part on the design is everything in black and white, the pink flamingo is a drawing by one of the other students in my class Albert Taala Nili. I just borrowed his flamingo to collaborate with my lions to create a collage. The image that I placed at the bottom is the same image just with effects added on to it.

Manipulating The Image Week 3

This week we created our own handmade posters using transparent paper and brown paper. The goal of this assignment was just to make an image on a poster using text. I found this task exciting and difficult at the same time. Exciting because I love working with text and difficult because of the different ways that you can use the text to create an image.

The handmade poster that I created was one about beauty. I started off with just tracing the school girls face off of a magazine book that I had and then remembered one of my favorite and most famous quotes while I was working on this, "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." I wanted to use this quote because with the way society is now it makes people feel like their not good enough for the world. What I mean by that is, people feel as if they have to look a certain way to be considered as beautiful or handsome. They watch the celebrities on the television and think that they have to look just like them to be known and seen as beautiful or handsome when in reality society is just messing with everyone's heads because everyone is beautiful in their own unique ways, if we were all meant to look the same then life would be boring. "If all the birds in the forest sang the same songs, then the forest would be quiet," a quote that I remember from an essay I had to write back in middle school to back up my thought on how everyone is meant to be different.

This image is my handmade poster just with some added effects to it. 

Sensing the Surface "Portrait Painting"

" Portraiture Painting "

One of the portrait paintings that caught my eyes was the portrait of Zack Klein by Peter Stichbury. I found his paintings interesting because of how he can paint the portraits of people flat. I realised that painting flat is a difficult task to accomplish, so to see him master flat painting in portrait amazes me. 

The other portrait that I found interesting is the portrait by Stephen Allwood. I found this portrait interesting because of how it's a portrait and a self portrait in one. In the pair of the mans glasses is the artist that painted this, Stephen Allwood.

Sensing the Surface "New Zealand Painting"

"New Zealand Painting"

The first art work off of the "New Zealand Painting" powerpoint that I found

fascinating is the work that John Pule did. The reason why I found this one fascinating is because of how much details there is in all of his paintings.

The second art work that I found alluring was the work

done by Seraphine Pick. I just found it interesting how she plays around with scale in her paintings and the the portraits she puts into her paintings.

After painting explained in my own words is basically just you painting your

response to a painting that you're looking at. It's just your part take in the art work, it's not like a Forgery where you just copy the image but where you take techniques or a certain piece in the painting that you like and make it your own.

Manipulating the Image Week 4

This week we focused on creating our own magazine cover. Although I do read magazines quite often I still found this task to be difficult. I found it difficult because I kept losing the concept of what we were supposed to be doing, which was to make an actual imitation of a magazine cover but with our own effects to it and using images of people that we actually know. Most of the magazines that we looked at had an issue number, the date the magazine was published, the title and main articles along with a main image on the cover. 

This magazine cover that I added into this blog is an example of what we were supposed to come up with. 

This image at the top of the passage that I'm writing is what I the cover that I created. Telesa is the name of a Samoan book series that I honestly can't stop reading by Lani Wendt Young. The man on the Cover is the man that represents Daniel Tahi one of the main characters in the book. 

Sensing The Surface "A Short History of Painting"

"A Short History of Painting"

The first image that caught my attention the most was the wood blockprint by Hokusai.
When I looked up the artist to find out what the name of the painting was I found out that the painting is called, "The Great Wave." I found this information on Wikipedia along with other information such as the date that the painting was published (between 1830 and 1833) and the fact that The Great Wave is his most famous work. The reason why this painting caught my eye is because I often get fascinated by the different type of art work in different cultures. In my own perspective I believe that the painting represents protection. I'm not quite sure what the waves are protecting but it does seem like its protecting a certain location trying to keep the boats from reaching that forbidden destination.

The other painting that I found pleasing during the Powerpoint presentation was 

"The Scream" by Edvard Munch. This painting was created between 1893 and 1910. The reason why this painting caught my eye is because i've seen the colored version of this art piece but to see it in black and white helps you see things that you might not have noticed before. When I saw the colored version all I saw was the man, the sky and the landscape but looking at it now in black and white I see that there's actually something in the water and that there are two people on the left side walking away together. My interpretation on this art work is that Edvard was portraying surprise, pain and the effects that love can cause. I said surprise because of the expression on the mans face is looks as if he's shocked and since his eyes are in the direction of the couple walking away I believe that he is in pain because of the way that he's looking at them as if that was his love that walked away with another man. I also mentioned the effects that love can have on you because looking at just the couple you wouldn't think about anyone but them until you see the man with the shocked expression on his face. The expression on his face is what makes me think that the woman left him for another man and caused him to lose his mind.

The first image is the image that I chose to do my forgery on and the image below it is a photo that was taken of some of the forgery's that the class did and the Roy Litchenstein forgery that I did of the woman in the mirror. I found this task difficult because it was my first time painting but it was a great experience and I can say that I have truly learned from it.