Strange Encounter Inspirations

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Title: The Unknown Tragedy

Artist: Marcel Lisboa

What captivated me was how the artist manipulated images of nature, common objects and vintage images to create a surreal art piece that keeps the audience intrigued. Of which, the substitution of the face with the rose bouquet really drew my attention to the image as the rose bouquet stood out as the most prominent object in the centre of this artwork.

The approaches that artist used in his artwork to destabilise our perception were:

  • the use of a rose bouquet to substitute as the lady’s face
  • the addition of animals such as an elephant, humming bird and the head of a lion
  • the use of common objects like a typewriter, candle with a candle holder, lined paper and newspaper clippings, cloth (in the shape of a rose)
  • the faded duplicated images of the animals

Link: 

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Growing Love
Printable up to 12″x24″
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File Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/craptoy/

 

Title: Growing Love

Artist: Eugenia Loli

The thing that captivated me about this piece of artwork is the way the artist created a simple collage that has a hidden but easily interpreted meaning behind it. She has managed to fuse the image of the flowers, couple and a person watering the plants to show the meaning of a love that is growing. With the flowers signifying the couple’s love and the woman watering the plant to signify the care put into helping the flowers grow. The bright colours of the flowers had also managed to draw my attention as it stands out more compared to the other images used.

The approach that the artist used to subvert expectation, was to replace half of the couple’s faces with flowers and to add in an image of an old woman overlooking a balcony watering the flowers with a watering can.

Link:

https://www.behance.net/marcellisboa

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