Unit 11.... "Self Identity"............

Unit 11.... "Self Identity"............

For Unit 11 we have been asked to do a blog and to express "Self Identity"

For this Unit i am going to explore my Identity and show what i have done that has given me an inspiration...

For my final piece will be influenced by a vist to my "African Culture" and "Asain Culture" as I have explored an Artist who has gone back to his Culture to show his feelings and his roots of where he has come from.

"Yinka Shonibare" is the artist who I will be exploring and who has given me an inspiration as what I want to do for my final piece.

For my final piece i have chosen two different topics that expresses me and that is "Aliens" and my "Culture" which is African and Asian Culture.
I am  fascinated with Aliens as I am "Agnostic" if they are or they are not "out-there"... Aliens is a topic that makes me think of the "outer world" and I enjoy looking at Aliens and their features as they don't look like how i predict however I find interesting looking at them and how they "are" meaning what they do and what are their feature. This fantasy of Aliens which I am going to explore will show my interest and "Aliens" are facinating creatures which each artists show their view towards them.
I am going to add my Culture "African and Asian" to express my own roots and this is what i will at to my "Aliens" as making them unique and to show my identity by making them in every emotions that relates to me and to show who I am.

Unit 11- Secondary resources……  

Yinka Shonibare- African Artist

He Is into Alien and she has blended the African Culture and Aliens as they are African Aliens which has sculpt. His inspiration was the history and culture or Africa as he also used politics to make his work unique…




All types of unique Aliens and the "Aliens" which Yinka Shonibare made....

 

Yinka Shonibare is an artist who made his culture with his work as he sculpted many different types of “Aliens” as “Aliens” was one of his genres.

About him and his life… “Yinka Shonibare was born in London in 1962 and moved to the Nigerian capital of Lagos when he was just three years old. He studied at the Byam Shaw School of Art, London in 1984-9 and completed a BA at Goldsmiths College, London in 1991. Shonibare considers himself ‘truly bi-cultural’ and strives to open up debate about the social, cultural and political issues that shape our histories and construct identity. His works challenge assumptions about representation by playfully blurring the boundaries between stereotypically Western ideas about ‘high’ art and traditional categorisations of ‘African art.
’Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, 2010

My interest in my Culture Aliens is to show who I am as my "Self Identity" project also this shows my influences to what artist have influensed me and what can I show for my own Identity to my interest and my influences.

My Influences Julian Opie and Francis Bacon......

My Influences Julian Opie and Francis Bacon...... 

 My Influences Julian Opie and Francis Bacon......

In my class we had to do self portraits and these are some which i had done with the influence of artist that we were give...

This was challeging as the artist which we had... they had their individual twist to their work and i had adapted it by making their influence into my own work....

It was simple getting to the end of the project as i finally achieved what i wanted to in my "self-portraits"

Here they are..............

Julian Opie style portrait..
This was my first trial i took a phto of me and pasted it in (photoshop)
and i used different tools like the paint and a ransing tool at i can trace my photo
then i made it into a portrait of Julian Opie.......



This was my second go and i believe i improved my adding tone in the eyes and making it similar to julian Opie...

One of the portraits of Julian Opie this is the inspiration which gave me help to do portriats..

 This is Julian Opie website is a website that has all the work of Julian Opie and what he has done

http://www.julianopie.com/



Francis Bacon inspiration this was the self portrait which inspired me to do main how i wanted to...

   
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Improving it by adding tone to the portrait.....



The inspiration of Francis Bacon which i adapted it to my own portrait...
Also these were the similar colours which i used and kept my own style to it....................

Influence of Peter Blake, Julian Opie and Francis Bacon



 This is Peter Blake "Wrestler" as i made portrait like this as an influence.....

I first started by taking a photo and sending it to the computer

then i printed the image out and stuck carbon paper at the back and

traced out in my book for a trial...

My book trial and i mixed colour to paint the similar colours as

my image....

    

 



My first trial on a board as in this needed to be more realistic to my skin colour.....



I came back to the image and tried to hide away the black lines so

it could become like image that looked more like me and the image

which i traced from....

(This was my end result.... )

These were my Peter Blake Influenced Painting, I used traced my image and did a first trial so I can get used to painting and mix colour to make my Peter Blake "Wrestler" Inspiration portrait..... 



 













 

 



 























 









Peter Blake and his work one of my favorite....

Peter Blake “Wrestling portraits”

 

I think the meaning of the wrestling portraits which peter made is to show a character of some-one as these portraits are quit straight and the mean behind it, is to show someone or something is powerful or in-control in them.

The wrestlers are not real however his done this to show someone is in control or strong and to make them real as they look like they are made in big posters which look real and also he made the portraits which have a straight face picture so they can powerful. The use of making them look like posters is like the Andy Warhol as they were made to have labels and he was a Pop Art artist, which most of them looked like posters

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The work which has interested me a lot is Illustrations portraits as they seem real and they have this kind of imagination to it as they are surreal. Its like there is a reflection but it’s completely opposite.



This shows the Juxataposition,
as there is a good and bad side however it also shows the history of England.....



The Artist who influenced me.........

A comparison between Peter Blake and Andy Warhol

I am going to compare to portrait artist and that will be PETER BLAKE and ANDY WARHOL. Both these artist have similarity ad differences in their work and in the portraits.  The similarity between these two artist is they are both portrait artist and they had they unique way to make portraits.  As they are both known as pop artist, for example the wrestlers portraits which Peter Blake make.

Warhol a powerful pop culture figure, Warhol turned to portrait painting of celebrities but his activities had already expanded beyond art making; he was in the centre of a corporation. Warhol himself did not want to explain his pictures.

Blake is the self-proclaimed founding of Pop Art, his Captain Webb matchbox preceded Andy Warhol's Brillo Pad boxes and Campbell's soup cans, and he was painting comics. However most of the art work that Blake did was like an experiment which he was always changing as if he likes the theme or the work about it he would continue with that process.  As he wanted to make an art that was the visual equivalent of pop music. Blake’s associations with popular culture led to him being recognised as a Pop Artist.It was more personal and had its roots in other traditions. Reflecting his broad art with growing imagery and nature.

Around the late 1950s, Blake became one of the best known British pop artists, making a number of paintings including imagery from advertisements, music hall entertainment, and wrestlers. Peter Blake's early work is two major subjects, fantastic scenes from the world of the circus and naturalistic paintings with autobiographic elements.

These both artists are quite similar as being a pop art artist they both do it in the unique way. As for Peter Blake is best known for his ionic portraits of the wrestler where he used the picture as a strong fill or some is in power. The main wrestler’s portraits which he used were real and some fake however he showed the feature by making them look strong and quite straight as they in charge or they can out rule any one. The portraits look like big leaflets and posters which made them look harsher as a picture and they looked as they were straight also focused portraits. Andy Warhol is best known for his iconic portraits of Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley and Jackie Kennedy

Examples for the pop art by Peter Blake and Andy Warhol

Marline Monroe (by Andy Warhol) and The Wrestlers (by Peter Blake)

These two portraits have their similarities as I will be exploring the similarities and   differences between portraits of Andy Warhol and Peter Blake, their uses of POP ART.

The Marline Monroe portrait shows how Andy Warhol expressed pop art as by casting it to become a picture of the music POP as Peter Blake shares the similarity of expressing the portraits into the POP music. These tow portraits have a different meaning as what they were trying to show. Mostly the artist used the colour scheme to express themselves as for Andy Warhol he shows his personality through the portrait as it shows and comes out as a funky and a unique personality. However looking at the Wrestles by Peter Blake it shows strong figure and powerful look then Marline Monroe’s portrait. In my opinion I think the similarity of the these portraits are expressing a form as what could be the background and the difference is how they should the portraits as Andy Warhol shows the Marline Monroe and all his other portraits similar which the structure and the colour scheme. As for Peter Blake he made his portraits similar but not as Andy Warhol as he used the theme of what he was doing for example most of his Wrestlers like the one shown he made them powerful as if they are controlling and most of them were straight faced. 

The  popular image world of event posters, which Blake combined with portraits, was typical of his work. He would often watch wrestling with his mother, so this was one of the ideas which he had to make, “Powerful and straight” portraits of wrestlers. While looking at Andy Warhol this portrait and the main scheme in his portraits were to be fun and colourful as he used a colour scheme which was settle and Bright and which bland together to make portraits. For example the Marline Monroe portrait shows colour scheme which bland together and stands out form the back-ground.

Blake was keen collector of numerous objects such as postcards, badges and comics, posters which he often painted. Many images are a personal reflection, to some extent echoing the themes covered in his artistic practice as a whole. The Beatles harks back to the artist’s famous album cover Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club in 1967. However Andy Warhol was mainly self- portrait comparing to Peter Blake, as Andy Warhol did many self-portrait of him-self and some other people like Marilyn Monroe which he infused many artist who came after him. As Warhol became famous worldwide for his Pop Art paintings and screen printings. As he was a diverse figure, by doing more self-portraits he also did other Pop art like the WHAM poster as for Peter Blake he continued doing Pop art and wrestler’s portraits.

However looking at Peter Blake also revealed that the final cover wasn't the original one. That design featured an image of the shop 'Granny Takes A Trip' on the Kings Roadin London. Blake created an updated version of Sgt. Pepperwith famous figures from Liverpool history as part of the successful  As the difference was between Blake and Warhol, Blake did a variety of his art work which all had a different concept however Warhol remained doing POP ART but they both did it in a different form as Peter Blake is an experimental pop art artist. Warhol's most famous sculpture is probably hisBrilloBoxes sculptures that also included Heinz ketchup and Campbell's tomato juice cases. Other famous works include the Silver Clouds– helium filled, silver Mylar, pillow-shaped balloons.



The  Sgt.Pepper



There is not much difference between these two artists as they both share the same passion on pop art and they both did similar work in it. These artists were both influence the movement of POP ART so they both did it in their own way.