#produced work

A Brief History of Pop - digital response, photography & photoshop, week 1.

This piece was inspired by the work of pop artists displayed in the Tate Modern (such as Roy Lichtenstein), a photographic piece of something modern and up-to-date given a synthetic mass production feel - something touched on by pop artist Richard Hamilton in his letter describing the characteristics of pop art. It took maybe five minutes to create, but has a very oversaturated vibrant look to it and matches the perspective of what we know pop art to be. I would say this piece is mostly inspired by the work of Andy Warhol and his iconic screenprints, but I definitely tried to put my own modern spin on my creation, even if I definitely accidentally dress like Andy Warhol daily as if it were my job.

I also got to meet my classmates and my group, and they seemed nice. I am the only illustration student in my group, with two journalism students, one media student and one fashion student. I think this will help give a pretty varied look to our group work (something we have yet to create as we’ve only had one class so far) and I’m kind of excited. I just hope the work doesn’t end up all on me as it tends to with visual art. Part of pop art, as the lecture explained, was to create groups that worked almost as powerhouses that forced work out from outside of a comfort zone, and I’m looking forward to that because when I took drawing systems in the first semester, I started to step out of my comfort zone and I really feel like by the end of this semester I could actually be a little confident in my work.