Nicola Budd
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CMNS 325
A 1: Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol was one of the artists at the forefront of pop art. Some of his most famous works are those of the Campbell’s soup cans and the photo of Marilyn Monroe that is 4 prints in different colour combinations. Warhol came across silk screening while he was looking for new ways to create art using photography and other methods. The prints of Monroe are silk screens. The silk screen process begins with a photograph which is transferred via glue on to the silk, and then the ink is rolled over. Warhol used this technique to play with different colours creating a slightly different feeling to each silk screen print. His original works were part of the Pop Art movement, which helped to create a new view of what ‘fine are’ can be. The particular image that Warhol used of Monroe had a huge impact on American society as the silk screens were printed just after she had died. Photoshop has unique tools that allow you to manipulate the colours and tones in photographs to create a look similar to that of Warhol’s silk screens. You can use the adjustment tool in photo shop and choose colour replace to change one specific colour in a photograph or print to another, as well as hue saturation, or colour balance to create different colour tones in the image. These are use some of the same colour techniques that Warhol originally used in his silk screen prints.
A 2: Piet Mondrian
Mondrian was part of the De Stijl movement, and was a Dutch painter. His style is closely related to cubism, and those of Picasso and Braque. The particular style that I have chosen to replicate is one that he refined while he was living in Paris, rather than in the Netherlands. His style broke completely from representational painting to be that of just abstract art. His paintings of lines are based in the primary colours and the black lines separate the coloured forms from each other. His art evolved from just abstract further into abstract geometric paintings. His paintings were a move away from anything representational after the Second World War. In photoshop it is possible to recreate the geometrical structures that Mondrian created in his paintings, though it is virtually impossible to create the subtle brush strokes that are apparent with close examinations of his works. With the rectangle tool it is easy to create the coloured boxes that are separated by the black lines that run through the painting. There are several other tools that could be used to simulate the techniques that Mondrian used to create his paintings but these were the ones I found the most simple and useful.
B 1: Expressionism
It emerged in the 20th century as an avant-garde movement. It is seen as a reaction against positivism and naturalism and often associated with emotional angst. The movement encompassed not only painting but also literature, poetry and so on. Some of the most famous expressionist painters are Van Goh, Kandinsky, and Franz Marc. The mixed colours in their works and their paintings generally involved feelings of fluidity. The colours they used were often dark and evoked negative emotions of anger and pain. The images generally evoked the same type of emotions themselves. The expressionist movement continued on to influence other artists, most notably Jackson Pollok. In photo show there are many techniques that you can use to crate the fluidity and movement that is seen in expressionist art. One of the tools that I found the most effective in creating the fluid movements was the liquidity tool. It allows you to blend and move the pieces of the painting through each other.
B 2: Cubism
Cubism is another of the avant-garde movements that influenced art in the 20th century. It is also a movement for which Picasso is well known. Cubism like expressionism influenced not onlypainting and sculpture but also literature, music and architecture. The basic idea of cubism is that objects are analyzed, broken apart and reassembled to represent the subject matter in a greater context. Cubist art works often have no sense of depth, and have strange and unusual angles and intersections. They also have a tendency to show ambiguous shapes and create ambiguous space. In photoshop there is a tool under filter that allows you to adjust pixels and create the cubism feel to the work. You can also use the pointilism tool to create the texture and adjust the size of the pixels to create the cubist feelings. With Cubism, I found that the best way to mimic it in photo shop was to play through all the filters until you found one that suited the shapes you wanted to use to recreate the image.
C 1: Granulated Landscape Photography
In photoshop I found some interesting tools that new Digital SLR Cameras also have in them. One of the tools allows you to adjust the granulation of the photograph, which is what results when you have a very low resolution photograph. The granulation brings out different details in the picture and draws attention to the intensity of the colours rather than the detail of the actual photograph. The granulation tool on photoshop also allows you to choose how grainy you want you photo to appear, allowing you to dictate how much colour shows through or how much doesn’t.
C 2: Black and White Landscape Photography:
Landscape has been of interest since drawing and paining, the introduction of the camera allowed us to capture it in a new way. Often landscapes depict scenes, or more recently beautiful land formations. Landscape photography creates an image that individuals find attractive based on the golden rule. In photoshop you can put together images to create a landscape ‘photo’. I found on of the best ways to do this was to layer 2 pictures together to create a landscape and then use the black and white under adjustments to bring it together. I also found that adjusting the hue and saturation of some of the underlying colours brought it together better.