Digital Collage
Exhibition Text
In this piece i wanted to show that my life wasn't always perfect and I had to go through things to get where I am now. I was inspired by Francis Bacon's "screaming pope", I used the bottle and me screaming to show that I'm trying to get out of the bottle that represents the struggles and hard times I've been through and trying to get to the new me. I used different tools in photo shop to help me create this piece and show people the meaning behind my piece. The tools in photo shop helped me create the effect of the new me and the old me.
In this piece i wanted to show that my life wasn't always perfect and I had to go through things to get where I am now. I was inspired by Francis Bacon's "screaming pope", I used the bottle and me screaming to show that I'm trying to get out of the bottle that represents the struggles and hard times I've been through and trying to get to the new me. I used different tools in photo shop to help me create this piece and show people the meaning behind my piece. The tools in photo shop helped me create the effect of the new me and the old me.
Planning
As soon as I finished writing my essay below, I started thinking about what I can do to make the piece show what I'm talking about in my essay. I knew I needed to include something that shows me trying to get to the new me. I used a bottle because I knew that I could put myself into the bottle to make it look like I'm inside of it.
I was inspired by German Expressionism for a long time and I decided to use some of the ideas in my piece and one of them was the "screaming pope". He used dark colors to show the depression and the battle of him trying to get out. I was also inspired by Vincent Van Gogh with "stary night". He used dark colors with some bright yellow to show the stars and the dark blue and black to show the night.
As soon as I finished writing my essay below, I started thinking about what I can do to make the piece show what I'm talking about in my essay. I knew I needed to include something that shows me trying to get to the new me. I used a bottle because I knew that I could put myself into the bottle to make it look like I'm inside of it.
I was inspired by German Expressionism for a long time and I decided to use some of the ideas in my piece and one of them was the "screaming pope". He used dark colors to show the depression and the battle of him trying to get out. I was also inspired by Vincent Van Gogh with "stary night". He used dark colors with some bright yellow to show the stars and the dark blue and black to show the night.
Francis Bacon was my artist inspiration. Francis Bacon was a painter in the 1950's and painted portraits of famous people. Francis was inspired by Van Gogh. He wanted to have a different twist on the painting. Francis made different types of painting for this but kept the real portrait of the pope. He wanted to show people a different taste on art work.
http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2013/february/08/the-truth-behind-francis-bacons-screaming-popes/ Diego Velazquez Pope Innocent X 1650. Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pop Innocent X 1953 © The Estate of Francis Bacon. |
Vincent Van Gogh was also my artist inspiration. Van Gogh used bright and soft colors to make the black show and pop out from everything else. Van Gogh used motion in his painting and wanted to make it seem like the picture is moving. Van Gogh captured his imagination, memories, and emotions. He found beauty in the night sky to make this piece.
https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/vincent-van-gogh-the-starry-night-1889 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4" (73.7 x 92.1 cm) |
Planning Sketches
Collecting Images
Experiment: Used Images:
Experiment: Used Images:
My sister and one of my friends helped me with the pictures. I was glade my sister and friend were willing to help me out for this project and they had a lot of fun helping me. It showed me what you can do with your friends and siblings just by going outside and using a camera.
Experimentation:
I decided to use photos that I took for the project but the ones I wasn't going to use because they were blurry or the weren't the right one I wanted to use. I decided to mess around with photo shop to see the tools you can use and then I decided to use some of the tools on some of the photos and see what they would look like. The first one I used was the lasso to cut around the bottle and cut around me to out me inside the bottle. I then used the blur effect to see what I would look like when I put the photo of me in the bottle. I then used the blur effect to blur out my sister yelling at me to make it look like it was behind me in the bottle and it was the old me.
I decided to use photos that I took for the project but the ones I wasn't going to use because they were blurry or the weren't the right one I wanted to use. I decided to mess around with photo shop to see the tools you can use and then I decided to use some of the tools on some of the photos and see what they would look like. The first one I used was the lasso to cut around the bottle and cut around me to out me inside the bottle. I then used the blur effect to see what I would look like when I put the photo of me in the bottle. I then used the blur effect to blur out my sister yelling at me to make it look like it was behind me in the bottle and it was the old me.
Process:
I started out finding my pictures that I wanted to use and started cutting them out. I used the brush cutter and cut out my three photos. After I cut them out I copied and pasted them to my first screen. Then I started making them work together and have me inside the bottle. I used the opacity and made me fade so I look like I am in the bottle. I then faded me and my sister to make it look like it's behind me.
Meaning:
I’m sixteen and I’ve been the type of person that lets people tell me who I should be and how I should act. My mom died when I was fifteen at home right in front of me in January and that’s when I started looking at myself in a different way. I looked at myself like I’m no good and that I wish I wasn’t alive. I started hanging out with people that would tell me that I should act this type of way and be this type of person and I listened to them. I started changing who I really was because I let other people tell me how to act and who to be. I looked at people and thought if I act like them maybe I’ll get more friends or be popular. I told myself that I need to lose weight so I would only eat once a day thinking that it would help me lose weight. Sometimes I wouldn’t eat for a whole day. I started wearing different clothes and tried acting like other people. I looked on Facebook and saw that really pretty girls with a skinny body got a bunch of likes so I started asking my friends how to get a bunch of likes and I listened to them. I let people walk all over me and tell me the person I’m supposed to be. I started losing friends and I lost my boyfriend because I wasn’t the type of person he thought I really was and the person he met before I started listening to other people.
It got to the point where I looked at myself in the mirror and hated myself. I thought so many times about cutting or committing suicide. I thought to myself that people would be better off if I wasn’t here and that the world would be better off. When I would go home after school I would sit in my room and think about how ugly I looked and why I can’t be pretty like every other girl. I had a thought in my head about cutting myself or even burning myself so people won't see the marks. I started getting into a depressed stage and I just listened to what people said about me and I started hating what I looked like and who I really was. I would never take pictures of myself and when people wanted to take pictures with me I covered my face or I made them put something over my face so people wouldn’t know who it was. I told myself that I should listen to what people say because then I could get popular and people would always compliment me. I also listened to people when they said that if I’m pretty I would get a boyfriend. I let people just control my life and it just made everything worse.
I started losing people who were really close to me and I started being hated by my friends and some of my family. I lost one of my friends that meant the most to me. I thought I was nothing when I started losing people and I lost my best friend. I started thinking that the way I’m acting isn’t right and I told myself that I’m losing people because I’m acting like someone I’m not and someone everyone wants me to be. I started posting pictures of the real me on Facebook and I got comments that made me happy and people liked the real me. No one tells me the person I should be.
I’m sixteen and I’ve been the type of person that lets people tell me who I should be and how I should act. My mom died when I was fifteen at home right in front of me in January and that’s when I started looking at myself in a different way. I looked at myself like I’m no good and that I wish I wasn’t alive. I started hanging out with people that would tell me that I should act this type of way and be this type of person and I listened to them. I started changing who I really was because I let other people tell me how to act and who to be. I looked at people and thought if I act like them maybe I’ll get more friends or be popular. I told myself that I need to lose weight so I would only eat once a day thinking that it would help me lose weight. Sometimes I wouldn’t eat for a whole day. I started wearing different clothes and tried acting like other people. I looked on Facebook and saw that really pretty girls with a skinny body got a bunch of likes so I started asking my friends how to get a bunch of likes and I listened to them. I let people walk all over me and tell me the person I’m supposed to be. I started losing friends and I lost my boyfriend because I wasn’t the type of person he thought I really was and the person he met before I started listening to other people.
It got to the point where I looked at myself in the mirror and hated myself. I thought so many times about cutting or committing suicide. I thought to myself that people would be better off if I wasn’t here and that the world would be better off. When I would go home after school I would sit in my room and think about how ugly I looked and why I can’t be pretty like every other girl. I had a thought in my head about cutting myself or even burning myself so people won't see the marks. I started getting into a depressed stage and I just listened to what people said about me and I started hating what I looked like and who I really was. I would never take pictures of myself and when people wanted to take pictures with me I covered my face or I made them put something over my face so people wouldn’t know who it was. I told myself that I should listen to what people say because then I could get popular and people would always compliment me. I also listened to people when they said that if I’m pretty I would get a boyfriend. I let people just control my life and it just made everything worse.
I started losing people who were really close to me and I started being hated by my friends and some of my family. I lost one of my friends that meant the most to me. I thought I was nothing when I started losing people and I lost my best friend. I started thinking that the way I’m acting isn’t right and I told myself that I’m losing people because I’m acting like someone I’m not and someone everyone wants me to be. I started posting pictures of the real me on Facebook and I got comments that made me happy and people liked the real me. No one tells me the person I should be.
Reflection:
My collage turned out the way I wanted it to. I feel like I did my best and I tried new things. This was my first time using photo shop and I really like it. Using photo shop for this was a good experience for me. I will be using photo shop again.
Finding the right inspiration was a little hard for me but I was able to find the artist and the piece I wanted to use for inspiration. I used German Expressionism for my piece but I was also deciding to Impressionism but I decided to do German Expressionism.
After finding what era I wanted to do I needed to find an artist and a piece that goes with the collage I want to do. It took me awhile to find an artist and piece but when I did I was able to show that my piece ties with the artist piece. I found some ideas that I could use and I started piecing them together. I was able to find "Screaming Pope" by Francis Bacon. It showed what I wanted to do for my collage and what inspiration I am basing it off of.
This project showed me that you can use photo shop for anything and a lot of artist have the same ideas as you. Some artist also have the same back story as you do.
My collage turned out the way I wanted it to. I feel like I did my best and I tried new things. This was my first time using photo shop and I really like it. Using photo shop for this was a good experience for me. I will be using photo shop again.
Finding the right inspiration was a little hard for me but I was able to find the artist and the piece I wanted to use for inspiration. I used German Expressionism for my piece but I was also deciding to Impressionism but I decided to do German Expressionism.
After finding what era I wanted to do I needed to find an artist and a piece that goes with the collage I want to do. It took me awhile to find an artist and piece but when I did I was able to show that my piece ties with the artist piece. I found some ideas that I could use and I started piecing them together. I was able to find "Screaming Pope" by Francis Bacon. It showed what I wanted to do for my collage and what inspiration I am basing it off of.
This project showed me that you can use photo shop for anything and a lot of artist have the same ideas as you. Some artist also have the same back story as you do.
ACT Responses:
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationship between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork?
My inspiration had made me think of what my piece would look like and how it would turn out when im finished with it. My inspiration showed me about making the right color decisions and making sure my images go with the idea I was to have.
What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The author is presenting the artwork from his stand point and showing that he can make paintings show how the person feels and what they are experiencing.
What kind of generalization and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures,etc, while you researched your inspiration?
My research really didn't focus on culture but it showed that people can put their feelings or experiences into their artwork and show other people what they feel and what they are going through. My inspiration shows people what I went through and how I felt during that time.
What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
My central theme was feelings and how your life can change in a matter of no time. I wanted people to see how my life was and the feelings I had during that time.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading you research?
I inferred that during my research Francis's work was valued and his artwork showed people that he can relate to you even when times are tough.
Clearly explain how you are able to identify the cause-effect relationship between your inspiration and its effect upon your artwork?
My inspiration had made me think of what my piece would look like and how it would turn out when im finished with it. My inspiration showed me about making the right color decisions and making sure my images go with the idea I was to have.
What is the overall approach the author has regarding the topic of your inspiration?
The author is presenting the artwork from his stand point and showing that he can make paintings show how the person feels and what they are experiencing.
What kind of generalization and conclusions have you discovered about people, ideas, cultures,etc, while you researched your inspiration?
My research really didn't focus on culture but it showed that people can put their feelings or experiences into their artwork and show other people what they feel and what they are going through. My inspiration shows people what I went through and how I felt during that time.
What was the central idea or theme around your inspirational research?
My central theme was feelings and how your life can change in a matter of no time. I wanted people to see how my life was and the feelings I had during that time.
What kind of inferences did you make while reading you research?
I inferred that during my research Francis's work was valued and his artwork showed people that he can relate to you even when times are tough.
Citations
"MoMA Learning." MoMA | Vincent Van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2016.
https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/vincent-van-gogh-the-starry-night-1889
"The Truth behind Francis Bacon's 'screaming' Popes | Art | Agenda | Phaidon." Phaidon. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2016.
http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2013/february/08/the-truth-behind-francis-bacons-screaming-popes/
https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/vincent-van-gogh-the-starry-night-1889
"The Truth behind Francis Bacon's 'screaming' Popes | Art | Agenda | Phaidon." Phaidon. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Dec. 2016.
http://www.phaidon.com/agenda/art/articles/2013/february/08/the-truth-behind-francis-bacons-screaming-popes/