Evaluating Other's Work Unit Pop Art

Alright, today we were supposed to comment on the others artwork, and instead of shouting my opinion out in the class room I decided to write it down on this blog so that the artists can always come back to it and if they forget it it's still there for them to see.

For Sofie - Rose Coloured Replacement
You might have it displayed on a white room on a white pedestal, so that all the attention goes to the art work. The small quote was really clear for me.

I like the picturesque rose colored glasses, with it's smart symbolism behind it. It makes the onstander think.
The letter with the quote on it, was extremely clear to me, but can also be seen in many different ways, so you would need to explain YOUR thinking to some people. Or just let them make their own idea and extract their own symbolism from it.

I however dislike the sticker with airmail you stuck in the corner, because in my opinion they might be unnecessary since it's bold color take the attention from the white envelope, and the main artwork, and if it's needed for the artwork's idea you might see that the stamp you painted easily does the job.

For Mirre - We are what we buy
(No this is others comment on my art work)
It's simple, and it makes you think, it's simple. I like that.....
You could have made it 3D, to make it more appealing.
Dislike, it looks a bit unprofessional, justification, I had less time that you and that's my style messy and simple, nothing too professional because I AM NOT a professional.


For June - Pokémon Up For Adoption For Free (Did You Forget About Us?)
Likes, the art work is really cute, and it's recognizable, realistic, colorful and the emotion of sadness is extremely visible.
The card-board background represents the space in which animals are put helplessly up for adoption.
Another like is that everyone has at least heard of Pokémon, and the Pokémon in the artwork is the old Pokémon that is known by the early player and might not be known by the new generation of players.
The background text also reminds me of the text put on those cardboard boxes in which animals are abandoned on the street.

Dislike..... Nothing really, however you could change the font on the back or makes the text come forwards. If you'd had the time you could have made a cage in which the Pokémon was stored.

For Lodin - Bin the Earth
Likes, the earth is really easily identified as an earth, the trash can is visibly a trash can however i'd make one with smaller holes because the trash might fall out of this one. The picture you put up front it looks like a recycling bin somehow.

With the earth thrown carefully in it, is what i'm seeing, so you could have made it put it carelessly in instead, because that is what we're doing, we are not carefully throwing the earth.

However now the reaction I have was "look it's an earth..... Wait, is it in a bin? Why?"

"Less is More" Lodin

For Morgan - Facebook & Spotify
It's clear to me that it's the Spotify logo, on top of the Spotify logo......
However the message is not really clear to me.

After Explanation

I understood, that Facebook is locking people in and that Spotify is pushing Facebook up and Spotify is piggybacking with Facebook.

Dislikes, not many people might understand the symbolism because, simply it is not explained very well.

Summarized, the image is clear, we know what it is..... We just don't know why it's like that, and what is the meaning of what we see.

Everyone can make their own symbolism of it.

For Andreas - World chained by Facebook
The Facebook thing, is like the ball and chain they have in prisons. The chain is a chain simple. THE EARTH looks like a frikkin BEACH BALL..

For Marta - Holding Up the World
Likes, it is visible to see what it is.

However some people can not see what it is.


Sorry, for short at the end but TIME IS FAST, and I can't run.

Evaluation of Pop Art Unit Artwork Part 2

At the end of the last lesson, someone gave me the following constructive feedback/criticism:

You could shade, the rural girl and the rural background in one colour and the city girl and city background in another color to further emphasize the difference between the two parties.

And another piece of constructive criticism was the following:

 You could print out the letters in a font, just to make it more appealing to the eye, or a big block font to make it stand out more, and so that the text is the same size, which at the moment it is not.

I decided to take both pieces of criticism into account and understood that both had a valid point, and could greatly improve my piece of art.

I decided to keep the city in the grey tones, and make the rural parts in a deep soft earthy orange...... a color we didn't have, so I had to divert to a normal orange pencil, and I penciled over the rural things. Then for the text I searched for a font on dafont. I fount a bold black comic font, the one from Asterix and Obelix to be exact. It's called Obelix Pro, by Valentin Antonov. I put it on font size 100, and printed it out, so that the text came on three lines, the items you, on the first line, have define on the second, who you are on the third line.

I also put to light blue A4 pieces of paper beneath the picture to give the text even more power, because frankly the image is almost only to decorate the quote. The text is also seemingly floating on a cloud in the blue sky, just floating past on you imagination, at least that was what I was aiming for.

So the transformation is from this

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To this

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-M-

Evaluation of Pop Art Unit Artwork

For the pop art unit, I had to work quickly having missed three valuable double periods to work in. Last week, i mostly looked at what the others had done, sketching an image of what this unit needed.

My research, the answers received from my fellow classmates, showed that I had to make something related to consumerism, something about how what we have or buy defines us, or what the consequences of materialism are, or what and how the media changed how we look at things, for example at how the advertisements make a simple item, a dustbin in this example seem miraculous. "This dustbin cleans ten times faster giving you eons of time to do whatever you like."

However I chose how us humans having things, or on the other hands not having things makes us outcasts out of society. This exist everywhere, although the items in question range differently from all the society. For example a wealthy women from a tribe somewhere in Africa wearing nice colorful robes and married to the man who owns the largest amount of cattle, and treated as a queen in her tribe might just as well be treated like a beggar in a large city because she doesn't have the newest Gucci bag or the iPhone. However a city queen with loads of money, in jeans and a H&M top, having the latest Gucci bag and an iPhone 4s, will be treated like something extremely strange in the village of the African women. That is the reality of life.

So to put this into an artwork I googled some images of a african house, an a city as to different background, and a city girl, in my case Hillary Duff with a bag looking really shoppin spree-ish, and a rural lady, which unfortunately is not an african lady but another rural women.

I glued Hillary Duff in the african village and the rural lady in the city, and as I suspected they both look quite out of place.

Then I put the caption of "the item you have defines who you are" a spelling mistake though, it's supposed to be define, not defines.

But the message comes across.

 This is the City Girl in Rural Village side of the work.

 This is the Rural Lady in City side of the work.

The whole art work. (with the spelling mistake)

-M-