Clockwork Orange

Don't sue me Hirst!  Just kidding, please do.  Just kidding, please don't, seriously though, sue me.

I used layers for each vector, but I could not get them to arrange properly.

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This painting is a self portrait of Egon Shciele                    This is my vector art exact replica. 

This image is Vasko Taškovski.  Zodiac circular area defined by the celestial sphere is the month of the twelve constellations through which passes the Sun's apparent path in a year.

Zodiac signs are symbolic figures representing the twelve constellations thereof. These signs are figurative interpretations of embodied forms of stars, interpretations which also give the name of each sign.

Of course we have all seen dozens of graphic interpretations of zodiac signs, but Vasko Taškovski Macedonian artist, born August 31, 1937 in Nižopole, Bitola, interpret these signs in a personal way, translated into twelve stunning surreal illustrations.  


Well, I don't know or care too much about zodiac signs.  However, I have a great appreciation for J. Uelsmann's methods and efforts of composite imaging.  This is not a Uelsmann, but just an example of (what appears as) layers upon layers built up to form a contiguous image.  I would like to improve my layering control in photoshop.  

High-key, HDR, heavy photoshop enhancement and the bold lighting chalk up what makes this suprarealistic image pop.  I would like some know-how behind the artist's process. 

This is a steroscopic 3d .gif  http://i.imgur.com/ab3MO.gif  I thought this was sooo coool the first time I saw it. The contents of this image work well with the 3d effect.  I sort of understand the method to make it 3d. photo

I have messed around with 3d in photoshop to make anaglyphic photos, but I lost my pair of glasses a long time ago and since you probably don't have a pair either, what's the point?

I think the stereo .gif breaks away from straight-up photography more effectively.

 

 
I enjoy these comics and other witty memes on the internet.  I would like to be able to make my own just in case I ever think of something funny.

Sorry if this sounds offending, but I want to learn how to airbrush like this.  Sorry, Dove.  People get paid lots of money for skills, and I got bills. 

  This may not be that hard to make.  I'm really fond of text art's message delivery style.  Maybe I stared at the windows 2000 screen saver too long. 

Ben Heine says, "This is a modern artistic expression, a mix between Pop Art and Pointillism. It is made with digital tools (this is just a personal definition).”  Ben actually draws these digitally, and I have no skills in drawing with photoshop.  But, I have liked mosaic artwork for a long time.  One of the first and only posters I ever bought was a photo-mosaic of george washington. I'm pretty sure I begged for it, actually.  They are easy to make with online software.  I would like to try my hand at creating my own kind of mosaics.   

     This photomontage contains an image of Damien Hirst's "For the Love of God."  According to telegraph.com, Hirst is threatening to sue the 16 year old responsible for selling this photomontage on the internet.  Prof. Butcher has already stressed to us that, throughout the semester we are to produce artwork containing as much of our original content as possible.  Hmm.

     I think this piece makes a clear statement with the typical "what is copyright infringement?" argument that we know is a paradoxical can of worms.    Nothing in this photomontage is the artist's original content.  They copied and pasted it in a way that IS original though.  It looks decently seamless, but I don't think the intentions need it to be a flawlessly layered masterpiece.   

 This photomontage looks like it took a good bit of time to construct.    It has a modern-retro mash-up, like something you may see hanging in the male section of a trendy clothing store or maybe for young male adult cologne.  The male's hair style, and B. Franklin's large sized face on the bills subtly signify modern.  I read orange as the background with blue and the pink antiquated text as retro.  The female's hairstyle and her glasses signify both modern and retro to me because, I can't keep up with what's in, and everything always comes back.  The little bit of red drips just seem to help balance out the rest of the color.   

This photomontage is okay, but the washed out white and blueish purple makes it look a little cheap and almost inverted.  The photos are good, but again the blue-purp ruins her skin tone.  The layout isn't too bad, a bit unbalanced maybe.  The neon floral border is a nice thought, but it adds cheesiness and takes away from the photos.  I feel like I could do better than this, with some practice. 

This is by Jerry Uelsmann.  He assembled this and other photomontages by film and darkroom techniques.  Uelsmann was crafting his pieces while Ansel Adams and Edward Weston were huge as naturalists.  Jerry had support from faculty and friends for creating these montages, but when he took it to New York they said, “it’s very, very interesting, but it’s not photography.” (Interview) 
The blending is seamless.  He figured out that he could make his images with less struggle by working with multiple optical enlargers in the darkroom, moving from one to another.    Uelsmann only releases about 10 prints a year.  I was inspired by his images the most of any other slides we viewed in my Photo 1 class.  

 I made this in Photo 1.  I used 3 negatives, 1 enlarger, 8 hours, about
20 pieces of photo paper, and it's still miles away from high quality
blending.  But at the time, to me, it was fun and cool.      

 
Post-apocalyptic or supra-realistic?  Both?  This is a very well-made montage IMO.  The blending is congealing and seamless, but still overlaps with translucency allowing the fiery sky's mysteriousness to intrigue the young girl. I think working with the high contrast and large portions of shadows would make blending images a more forgiving task.

What little of Damien Hirst's work I have seen has been by chance in a mag or website and I was unaware of him as an artist. A New York Times article I read recently introduced him as an artist similar to A.Warhol, controversial and lavish.  The article compared his former displays to his most recent, spot paintings.      

D. Hirst was asked to design the cover for Darwin's 150th anniversary edition of On the Origin of Species.  The painting is titled, "Human skull in space." (oil on canvas)

The way the gradient from true white to cool blue on the dark and smoky bkg, I feel, attributes the most to the depth of this piece.  It's also the choice of color (and knowing it is oil) that gets my attention first.    











Glass and silver casted medicine bottles by Hirst and R. Whiteread sit on a mirrored glass chess board.  Various artists designed different chess sets for this project. The more interesting ones would confuse the heck out of me in a real chess game, though.  One day, I would like a fancy chess set.   Photoshop may be a great tool for assisting in designing a fancy set for myself, one day.  I wonder what Hirst went through to get to the final product stages.  I'm not alone, I hope, in feeling no obvious similarities in chess and medicine bottles.  Or, maybe Hirst associates fogies with chess, or saw some fogies actually playing chess with medicine bottles.  To me it's like a poor man's vision of a rich man's chess set.  I think it's pretty awesome.  

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