Surrealism: :"Entering Death"

Critique: In this picture there is a supersized girl bending down opening a very tiny, small door. Inside that little door there is a desert landscape with skeletons standing on the desert. The background for this image is a brick wall and through that brick wall you can see an ocean. On the top left corner of the brick wall there is a window and inside that window you can see and ocean with skeletons in the ocean. Blood is also coming out of the window. The emphasis for this picture is the big girl standing in the middle of the whole picture. It stands out because of the big, supersized girl. The compositional trick that is used is rule of thirds because of where the window is placed, on the top left corner. I think the artists’ interpretation for this surrealism is that skeleton can symbolize many things although people might think it symbolizes death or such thing. For the artist, it might mean the problems in life. My overall view of this picture is that the artist did a good job on the objects used. On the other hand, the artist needs to work more on interpreting what she is trying to express. Maybe use more objects or something like that.

Surreal Practice Tutorials

In the Desert Tutorial we did many different things to make it look realistic. First we distorted the dirt from the bottom corners to make it look far away not like a wall. Then we added a blue background but we had to add a gradient with three different colors to make it look realistic. Then we added a lamp post but to make it look real we added a shadow that looks a little faded at the end. We also blended it a little with the dirt. By creating this tutorial it will help me with my surreal project because I learned new things that I might want to add to my project.

Art Show: "Rule of Thirds"

Rule of Thirds

This is my Rule of Thirds artwork. My goal was to place the emphasis in a corner using the grid that cameras usually have. The rock is the emphasis, with a blurry far away background. I like it because I was just taking random rule of third pictures and this one was my first and perfect one. The rock is right where it’s supposed to be, on a corner and in the middle of the fence shadow. It was a well taken picture.