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OYAKODON by Mike Shinoda touches on the corruption celebrities and the media puts in societies minds. The background is sarcastically the pattern of Louis Viutton and the press taking photographs. The image is of what looks like a model sharing a gas mask with a little girl, which I think symbolizes how the models are influencing girls in ways of sex, drugs and appearance. The man which looks a bit like a pop rock star has a skull for a face symbolizing corruption and death. Mike Shinoda incorporates skulls into alot of his art, it is a repeated image. I myself also have used skulls in various of my art.

OYAKODON by Mike Shinoda

Digital Image, 2009

DC comics illustrator Darwyn Cooke has been drawing the Catwoman comics for a long time now. His illustrations are inbetween life like and cartoon like. The colours and shading are what makes them look a bit more “real” as opposed to the drawings which have particular cartoonish curves to them. I like to make my drawing style in the middle of life like and cartoon like. I am also interested in the comic book style of art. From what I see the comic book style is bold and has dark outlines for every image.

Catwoman Issue 1# by Darwin Cooke

Ink and watercolour, 1993

 The tombs in Late Gothic sculpture era were displayed as sculptures of the deceased how they appeared when they were living; “representacion au vif”, or as decaying corpses ; “representacion de la mort.” The one below is found in the tomb of René de Châlon in the Church of Saint Peter in Bar-le-Duc. The way it is presented symbolizes death, not nesessarilly how he looked while dead. This sculpture is the type of style I wish to go through with my ceramics piece, as I like the grotesque life like style it takes, yet also supernatural. I wish to incorporate a type of horror style with my theme “wasted youth.”

Tomb of René de Châlons

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Marble
St. Étienne, Bar-le-Duc 

John Tenniel is an illustrator. He illustrated Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.” I like his technique with using black ink for cross hatching. When drawing ideas for a final project I usually use this particular technique. It is simple yet effective.

Alice and Rabbit by John Tenniel

Black Ink, 1865

Tim Burton is well renound for his eerie yet cheeky films such as “Edward ScissorHands” and “Beetle Juice.” I love the brutality and gore his style is structured such as Sweeny Todd. The high resolution contrast of the film Sweeny Todd makes the sharp cut throat feeling come alive. The bright red blood makes it the more unbearably queesy. The characters are also eccentric in their own ways with pale skin and dark eyes, which ofcourse generally are the descriptions of most of the characters he uses.

I fell inlove with the characters from both “Corpse Bride” and “The Nightmare Before Christmas” by Tim Burton so for ceramics I decided to vaguely incorporate his ghoulish creations to my work.

I quite like the “up your face” technique they chose for this film. It’s kitschy scenes are unbearable yet brilliant, especially ”The Twist” dance scene at the restaurant. The vocabulary used is intelligent yet some unsual; “No. Pot bellies make a man look either oafish, or like a gorilla. But on a woman, a pot belly is very sexy. The rest of you is normal. Normal face, normal legs, normal hips, normal ass, but with a big, perfectly round pot belly. If I had one, I’d wear a tee-shirt two sizes too small to accentuate it.” Overall it was a hectic film that was everywhere that keeps one in focus otherwise lost. 

Banksy is an alias for a notorious (for all the wrong reasons) stencil/ graffiti artist. He has influenced a lot of my artwork and he is my biggest inspiration. His artwork are controversial due to many variables such as the way it is presented and the art itself. His theme portrays the struggles many societies go through, his purpose is to spread truth and open eyes. Most of his medium is spray paint and stencil and sometimes sculpture. It’s not particularly accepted in our modern suburban days for “Graffiti” otherwise known as vandalism to be accepted. But to the most of the youth I’m sure they couldn’t care less. I highly doubt that the majority of people could look at his art and appreciate the message to full extent, it’s either they look at it and think it looks good or just ignore it.

Paradise by Banksy

Spray Paint and Sticker, date unknown

I never thought rules were at all channelled by art, and so it shouldn’t. People hate to see others succeed, so were there is creativity… there are riducules and insults. I despise it when others tell me I can’t do something. Who are you to tell me what I can and can’t achieve? No one has the right to your path but yourself. Stefan Sagmeister is an innovative graphic designer. As a child and teenager he confesses to not being able to “draw”, so it surely hasn’t been a smooth ride to where he is now. He’s succesful for his original, eccentric ideas such as carving words into his body and creating art with bananas and cups filled with coffee.

AIGA Lecture Poster by Stefan Sagmeister

Carved on torso, 1999