“Anything Popular is wrong”
These two images share a common thread, in the message they emit and the source that my inspirations were derived from. However, before my ideas were in place I knew that I wanted to use illustrator, and I also knew that I wanted to use Photoshop. I hadn’t touched these programs before this class because I hadn’t needed to but I’ve always felt the need to have some sort of grasp on these programs, especially Photoshop. So, I was forced to spend hours on Youtube listening to tutorial after crappy tutorial, and this is where the thought of my first image (the typographic portrait of Marilyn) came from. A tutorial about how to work, and warp text in Photoshop into a portrait gave me a base idea. Once I had this vague notion of what my first image would be I needed a quote. I searched databases for quotes and the first quote that grabbed my attention was an Oscar Wilde quote, “Anything Popular is wrong”. This was the first quote, short and sweet, that gave me the fully formed idea. Satirical and outrageous, a flamboyant public figure with a huge ego; Oscar Wilde was definitely the archaic Andy Warhol. This made me think of Pop art, its irony and satire, and it also made me think of Marilyn Monroe whose face is as famous as it is because of art. I decided then and there that I wanted to use her face and recreate it using Oscar Wilde’s quote, A perfect ironic combination of word and image.
No comments:
Post a Comment