I thought for my first post on the theme of identity I would look at artists who are easily
recognised by either their art work or their look. So
I'm going to look at Andy Warhol and Salvador
Dali respectively.
Andy
Warhol's prints are easily identifiable by almost anyone even people with little or no
interest in art. He picked products from
company's with well established
identities. This I guess also took the elitism away from art and made people who ordinarily wouldn't look at art look at art.
I think although
Warhol's work is easily
identifiable he found it much harder to identify himself. Even going so far as to dress in drag. I feel in a lot of his self
portraits he creates a feeling of mysterious
artistness.
I like the image Salvador Dali created for himself. His moustache I feel gives him that crazy artist look. Which I think maybe he grew because he expects that people will expect him to look like because of the nature of his art work. I think his eyes have that crazy surreal cartoon look to them and that he plays this up in a lot of photos of himself. Sometimes I think it would have been far more
surreal if he had looked really ordinary and slightly boring and then maybe people would have been
surprised to see the work he created. But
that's just me. I guess with out his 'look' he probably wouldn't have got the commercial success that he got.
Naomi likes the idea of giving inanimate objects personality's.
I really liked the lines the light makes so I experimented some more only with street lamps at night time. The street lights are brighter so i kinda got more of an atmospheric look plus it was raining :O which gave the photos nice splashes and stuffs.
really, understand what their tattoo means and what do people in tribes think of this 'trend' as such, because in a way these people are kinda stealing the tribes identity. Often people in tribes get tattoos after something they've done and I wonder if they knew people were just walking around with similar tattoos after not having done anything, would they be offended in some way and feel like it took away from the tattoos meaning.
interest in art. He picked products from company's with well established identities. This I guess also took the elitism away from art and made people who ordinarily wouldn't look at art look at art.
