Colour Pallet of Chosen Artist Models

Banksy:

Colour mood: Deep

   

*Banksy pieces, the left an experimentation. A self-taken photo of a wall like Banksy's graffitis. Black woodcut printed over top, similar to his stencil. In the final piece, relevant capitalist news-clippings are pasted on the wall. Kids in poverty are "swept under the rug".  On first board (the grey oppression side).

*The right  following Banksy's deep colour pallette. On second board, more developed Banksy piece.



John Heartfield:

Colour mood: Bright

    

*John Heartfield pieces, left is experimentation with greens and greys - his palettes. Green the colour of money.

*Top right is a more developed Heartfield piece on the second board. The dove a symbol of peace and similar to his photography collage mixed media pieces.








Shepard Fairey:

Colour mood: Dark

    

*Left: Wood cut, Shepard Fairey's pallete best highlighting 3D effect of America's capitalist anguish. On first board

*Right: Digitized Shepard Fairey's pallete. Following the pallete of piece to left. Less white space. On first board, under the piece to left.








Florian Nicolle:

*Dropped Florian Nicolle as an artist model. Their pallete did not suit my board's pallette and their style is too different from the likes of Banksy's and Florian Nicolle's illustrated style.











Colour mood: Bright

Board colour pallete layout:
First board is mostly greys and blacks, symbolising the oppression side. As the board gets more developed, colours get muted, i.e mute greens. The second board's colour pallete is more angry with blacks, reds and heavily saturated colours symbolizing revolution.

Week 7

Art

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Level 1 Week 5 Task 2

Art

3 artist models you are looking at for your folio boards
Shepard Fairey
John Hearfield
Banksy

Why have you chosen them? - i.e. what parts of their work are you wanting to incorporate into your work?List some key features of their work (could be visual symbolism, could be composition layout, could be colour palette etc.)
From Shepard Fairey the contrasts of different colours.
From John Hearfield the black and white feel it has to it, yet it still has a thought provoking subject matter.
From Bansky the feel and thinking it has to it. The red with black and white.

Check on YouTube for a video of an artist model discussing their work

Level 1 Week 5 Task 1

Art

How I came across the idea of my "Why" (which is revolution from oppression) is that I was listening to one of my favorite bands Muse, the album was called The Resistance. Why I'm so passionate about it is because the album's lyrics were so powerful and visual to me. Honestly, there's probably some research out there, but in my opinion the lyrics of Uprising, pretty much captures it all. My ideas I want to focus on within the theme are accidentally seeing a dark secret, exposing a dark secret (this will be the oppression side), uprising.

The two medians I would like to incorporate: drawing with the likes of graphite and charcoal; and painting. If possible, mixed media preferably.

Visual symbols in my artwork:

• Dove flying out of concrete tar - the dove symbolizes freedom and how its in the concrete tar means its suffocating in this control. But the fact that its trying to fly out means its flying for freedom.
• Close up on upraised fist - represents rebelling and united
•  Secretary in maids outfit - representing the act of covering something up "cleaning up after someone's mess"
• Green money belts wrapped tightly around a head - Symbolizes greed in the mind
• Putting on a drama mask - symbolizes putting on a second face
• Red tape on mouths - symbolizes the truth being forced to be kept a secret
• A fat black cat in the background - symbolizes the "white collar rich men" rich with power.