ARTIST RESEARCH
For this assignment, we are to portray 6 different emotions using photoshop or digital paint. To understand digital imaging better, I decided to explore different artists’ works that are done using digital imaging or something similar.
Jaya Suberg
One of my favourite artists whom I found on Instagram, most of her works uses digital and mix-media. Her works are both mysterious and beautiful, and emotional. Though her works are not exactly entirely digital imaging, but they are inspiring and it will be great to use some of the techniques she uses digitally.
https://i.pinimg.com/736x/dd/eb/5c/ddeb5cf0c1643fb8b36215dd460fab25–jaya-vanitas.jpg
http://paintings.creativecontemporaryartists.com/paintings/jaya-suberg/devolee-preview.jpg
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ff/77/74/ff7774d2e1fa7a28be8dd04e1c25ed80.jpg
Fajar P Domingo
Another artist I really adore, whom I found on Instagram as well. I love his use of clean cut cropping and the dream-like surrealistic work he creates. He frequently uses nature in his works; from hills and mountains, to flowers and blue skies.
http://www.klassikmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/Father-of-All-Creation.jpg
https://purplewoods.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/fajar-p-domingo-to-the-unknown.jpg
http://media-s3-us-east-1.ceros.com/gucci/images/2016/02/26/64c8dae45b90ee77a1f26c96e6fc1f30/fajar-p-domingo-1.jpg
Maggie Taylor
I found her while searching for digital imaging artists, and I absolutely fell in love with her works. They are really vintage and dreamlike, and they almost look like paintings to me. She uses old photographs, and objects that she found, and even dead animals for her works.
http://www.artnet.com/WebServices/images/ll1206457llgJqX62CfDrCWBHBAD/maggie-taylor-mood-lifter.jpg
http://www.lewiscarroll.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Almost-Alice-Maggie.jpg
http://www.jwillott.com/wp-content/uploads/What_do_you_call_yourself_.jpg
Igor Morski
A Graphic designer, illustrator and set designer. His works frequently contain hidden meanings, revealing the darker side of our modern society, such as divorce and parenthood, as well as social media and global warming.
http://thevandallist.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Mixed-Media-Graphic-Artist-IGOR-MORSKI-the-vandallist-6.jpg
http://www.themost10.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/illustrations-by-igor-morski-08.jpg
http://www.igor.morski.pl/wp-content/uploads/P021.jpg
RESEARCH ON ASSIGNMENT 1
Initially when we receive this assignment, I didn’t have much inspirations, so I started out by making a simple “map” on the 6 different emotions:
Erwin told us to have a certain theme to combine the images together, and some of my ideas are:
- Using the theme “Memory”
- Creating a fictional character and depict him/her expressing the different emotions
- Expressing the emotions using portraits
In the end, I decided to create a fantasy setting: animal-headed humans living in the 19th century.
And below are some of my research on the 19th century:
19TH CENTURY
Inventions
- the light bulb
- steam engine and locomotive
- the telephone
- photographs
- braille printing
- sewing machine
- antiseptics
- anaesthesia
- microphone
- tin can
- morse code
- bicycle
Events
- Civil war
- Revolutions of 1848
- The Great Famine in Ireland
- Fall of Napoleon
- Death of Abraham Lincoln
Authors
- Charles dickens – Oliver Twist
- Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice
- Oscar Wilde – The Picture of Dorian Grey
- Mary Shelley – Frankenstein
- Bram Stoker – Dracula
- Lewis Carroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
- Victor Hugo – Le Misérables
Art
Realism
http://www.spiritualpilgrim.net/11_Western-Art/22_Later-19th-Century-Realism/Lhermitte/Lhermitte_1882_Paying-the-Harvesters.jpg
Romanticism
http://emptyeasel.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/libertyleadingthepeoplebyeugenedelacroix.jpg
followed by Impressionism
This photo of the artwork was taken in the Singapore National Gallery.
This photo of the artwork was taken in the Singapore National Gallery.
This photo of the artwork was taken in the Singapore National Gallery.
* Yes I went to the exhibition. It was mind-blowing.*
and Post-impressionism.
https://d2jv9003bew7ag.cloudfront.net/uploads/Vincent-van-Gogh-The-Starry-Night-1889-2.jpg
Music
- Beethoven
- Tchaikovsky
- Frederic Chopin
- Franz Schubert
FASHION
Dresses:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/__data/assets/image/0003/212457/59551-large.jpg
http://media.vam.ac.uk/feature/lightbox/v1/album_images/59407-large.jpg
Attire for cyclists:
http://media.vam.ac.uk/feature/lightbox/v1/album_images/59407-large.jpg
Patients
http://media.vam.ac.uk/feature/lightbox/v1/album_images/59407-large.jpg
Those during the Great Famine
http://www.clareisland.ie/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/famine.gif
https://www.irishtimes.com/polopoly_fs/1.2752042.1470859559!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/box_620_330/image.jpg
Others:
Painting of the Revolutions of 1848
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Horace_Vernet-Barricade_rue_Soufflot.jpg
Low Tea
https://afternoontea.co.uk/media/214586/afternoonteahistory3.jpg
Tea and plum-cake on the lawn for three nicely dressed Victorian ladies Date: 1886
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/10/08/article-1318545-0B85E76D000005DC-68_468x358.jpg
Chloroform mask
M0009625 Illustration showing use of inhaler
Credit: Wellcome Library, London. Wellcome Images
images@wellcome.ac.uk
http://wellcomeimages.org
Illustration showing use of inhaler
On chloroform and other anaesthetics.
John Snow
Published: 1858
Copyrighted work available under Creative Commons Attribution only licence CC BY 4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
https://dittrickmuseumblog.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/chloroform.jpg
Penny Farthing:
http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/72ceb37950f443eaacb6203c790871fc/historic-photograph-man-riding-a-penny-farthing-c16ntp.jpg
http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/c5cae16c62f04abb8b6ae15c7a256253/penny-farthing-bicycle-engraving-19th-century-c0d6ek.jpg
News / Magazines
The magazine which published the ‘Oliver Twist’ serial
https://i.ebayimg.com/thumbs/images/g/WZoAAOSwyjJZxmJy/s-l225.jpg
An advert in a newspaper
1890s UK United Kingdom Tea Company Magazine Advert
http://www.advertisingarchives.co.uk/preview/37621/1/Magazine-Advert/United-Kingdom-Tea-Company/1890s.jpg
An illustration from the Oliver Twist novel
http://c8.alamy.com/comp/ERHHB1/charles-dickens-s-the-adventures-of-oliver-twist-illustration-by-george-ERHHB1.jpg
And here are some links to look at:
http://theinventors.org/library/weekly/aa111100a.htm
https://www.earsense.org/chamberbase/works/detail/?pkey=571
https://www.thoughtco.com/timelines-of-the-1800s-1773289
https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Famine-Irish-history