Childhood Recreation

Surrealistic Theme

For this project I am going to make my hands almost pealing away and cracked with a beach scene behind them. To achieve this, I need pictures of the beach, a picture of my hands, and a cracked texture. The whole photo will be just my hands and the beach scene behind it. The reason I am doing this is to show that I hold in my hands the future of what I will be doing, and that is spending my whole life on a beach somewhere. 

Surreal Artists

Max Ernst was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism. German-Born Max Ernst was a provocateur, a shocking and innovative artist who mined his unconscious for dreamlike imagery that mocked social conventions. Ernst emerged deeply traumatized and highly critical of western culture. These charged sentiments directly fed into his vision of the modern world as irrational, an idea that became the basis of his artwork. In later life, in addition to his prolific outpouring of paintings, sculpture, and works-on-paper, Ernst devoted much of his time to playing and studying chess which he revered as an art form. His work with the unconscious, his social commentary, and broad experimentation in both subject and technique remain influential.

Giorgio de Chirico,  born July 10, 1888, Volos, Greece died Nov. 19, 1978, Rome, Italy, Italian painter who, with Carlo Carrà and Giorgio Maranda, founded the style of Metaphysical painting. After studying art in Athens and Florence, de Chirico moved to Germany in 1906 and entered the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. His early style was influenced by Bucklin’s and Max Klinger’s paintings, which juxtapose the fantastic with the commonplace. By 1910 de Chirico was living in Florence, where he began painting a unique series of landscapes that included The Enigma of an Autumn Afternoon (1910), in which the long, sinister, and illogical shadows cast by unseen objects onto empty city spaces contrast starkly with bright, clear light that is rendered in brooding green tonalities. Moving to Paris in 1911, de Chirico gained the admiration of Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire with his ambiguously ominous scenes of deserted piazzas. In these works, such as The Soothsayer’s Recompense (1913) and The Mystery and Melancholy of a Street (1914), classical statues, dark arcades, and small, isolated figures are overpowered by their own shadows and by severe, oppressive architecture.

Artist’s Name: Max Ernst

Title: Ubu Imperator,    

Date: 1923

Description:

Like many of Ernst's paintings during his Paris period (1922-1941), Ubu Imperator resembles a collage in painted form. The artist's knowledge of Freudian theories, familiarity with myth and extreme wit are reflected in this early painting, which is now considered proto-Surrealist due to its strange juxtapositions.

Analysis:

This painting just concentrates on the chicken-looking thing in the center of the painting. The picture is a vertical picture and has formal balance.

Interpretation:

I think the painting is half chicken and half human. I think he is trying the say that we are all trying to balance our lives on this thin needle and it is very hard.

Judgement:

I enjoy this piece for its rich color use. Even though it is surreal I still understand why it was made. I can tell you what its reason behind its creation and what it is trying to tell us. It is telling us to keep our lives in balance.

Artist’s Name: Giorgio de Chirico

Title: Love Song

Date: 1914

Description:

It depicts an outdoor architectural setting similar to other works by de Chirico at this time. This time however, the main focus is a small wall on which is mounted a Greek sculpted head and a surgeon's glove. Below it is a green ball. On the horizon is the outline of a locomotive, an image that recurs several times during this period of de Chirico's career.

Analysis:

The persons head takes up a lot of the space. The Ball and glove take most of the attention. This has informal balance and is a vertical portrait.

Interpretation:

I find that if you just take a quick glance at this picture you will not see the full theory behind it. The picture by itself represents, in my opinion, the whole roman era. It is a beautiful picture and it reminds me of roman statues that you would see today.

Judgement:

I enjoy this piece because of all the beautiful colors. There is perfect color balance and the scenery is beautiful. It is overall a great piece of artwork and it all matches the same culture.  

Comparison:

I think both of these artists are very creative. They are easy to understand and they tell me something about their reason for their creation. The chicken picture is telling me to keep my life in balance, and the roman in themed one is telling me about the roman era. They both tell me about the artist lives and how they view things.

Removing Someones Head

App Article

           Pixlr combines a camera on a phone with editing software like Photoshop. It takes the long process of downloading and uploading your pictures on your computer. You can take the picture, edit it and even share it on the app itself. It makes it a lot easier to share your work with the world.

Pixlr has a bunch of features that a standard phone camera wouldn't have like a fully customization user interface with movable and scalable windows, navigation-free drop-down menus featuring all filters, adjustment and layering options, intuitive design and paint features with a dedicated history window for reference and quick undo/redo, and “Photo Express” portal for quick, simple changes to images and photographs. All these features help you make your photos clearer, brighter, and more attractive.

          This app was also very easy to use. The features are very organized and easy to find. When it comes to online image creation and design and photo editing, Pixlr is among the best, offering users a unique blend of tools and features to craft and polish images. You can see in the photos below how I can apply great effects to my picture.

                                                    

Hockney Portraits

Hockney Place

This is a picture of a house on the beach in Seaside Hts. I cut out the ocean and placed it behind the house to make it look like the house it right next to the water. I also chopped the whole house and turned to opacity down for find of a double look. 

Hockney Person

I tried to combine two people. I tried to combine Sam and Brandon. But it was quite hard to do two faces so I Just tried my best to be creative. 

Partner Portrait

I took a picture of Mr. Kelman, and made him into Zach Galifianakis from the movie Hangover. I Had to change a lot of the lighting and had to mask out the glasses so that Kelman looked exactly like Zach.

Where I'd Rather Be

I Rather be on a tree in the forest. I first cropped my face out of the original picture. Then I erased the rough edges. Then I used several blending modes to make my face sort of see-through. I would rather be on a tree so I can scare people walking in the forest.

Self Reflection