Photoshop Project 1 & Illustrator Project 1

Artist Comparison

Cui Xiuwen's artwork is very ethereal and majestic. You can see she gets a lot of influence from her Chinese heritage and her existence as a woman. The color and set up are very representational in that you can either chose to picture the "angels" in Heaven or Hell. The girls in her pictures seem very unsure and lost, like many young women are. There's also a maternal quality to the artwork too. 

Cindy Sherman has a horror movie-esque quality to many of her photos that she takes, especially her "Centerfolds" collection. Her "Fairy Tale Disasters" collection is very fantasy like, and her "Untitled Film Stills" are more like centerfold pictures. All of her work though has a very realistic and raw quality to it. 

Frida Kahlo's paintings are very water color like and beautiful. You can definitely tell that she has been influenced by her Mexican and Native American heritage. Her art is very realistic but also has a surrealistic quality. You can see how her paintings tell the stories of her life, because she had many bumps in the road that she had to overcome. She accomplished a lot in her short life. 

All of the artists pieces are very strong because they are all influenced by female artists. There's also an ongoing theme between all of them of some type of struggle that they have had in their life, some type of internal hardship. Their work represents the different roles or expectations of women all around the world.

Photoshop Project 1 Final!

Illustrator Exercise!

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Project 1...so far

Project 1 Photo

I was very intrigued by the three artists we looked over in class: Gregory Crewdon, Teun Hocks, Jeff Wall, and Cindy Sherman.

I really enjoyed Gregory Crewsdon's work, because of the theatrical feel it had to it. Most of his scenes art set up to seem like a very intimate moment that most of the viewers feel they are interrupting. I liked how he evoked different emotions with the effects of lighting, especially by putting a blue cast over certain photos to get the emotion of a certain sense of sadness or loneliness across to the viewer. 

Teun Hock's photos were probably some of my favorite, because of the humor he evokes in his pictures. I was surprised at the fact that he keeps all of his photographs untitled. I also found it very amusing that he was the subject in all of his pictures and that he wore a suit in every one of his works too. What I found especially interesting and beautiful was the way he took his photographs, but also the fact that he painted over them which I never seen before but have now become very fond of. 

I liked the realistic quality of Jeff Walls photography, and how his subjects didn't really seem as if they were set up to be photographed, but at the same time I wasn't as intrigued by his work as I was with the other artists. 

I enjoyed Cindy Sherman's work, and I have to give her credit for putting herself in her work, because I know that I would hate to have to use myself in my photos! I liked the simple black and white quality to her work. Most of her work reminded me of pin up girls from the 1950s.