DIGITAL COLLAGE
Title: Memories
Size: 60.96 x 91.44 cm September 2015 Exhibition Text: I was inspired by Salvador Dali and the way he exposes surrealism through all of his paintings. One of his paintings ´´The Hallucinogetic Toreador´´ expressed to me the ideas of the memories that are lack on the past. I decided to create my collage by using self made pictures, and by that I connected to all the many wonderful things that I left back in my country, I had to left all my family, to left my mom and just keep going with those memories inside me, and remembering the my past. |
Artist Inspiration:
My inspiration for this piece was kind of hard at first because I wanted to involve
many different things that would explore and describe many of my memories. My
artist inspiration was Salvador Dali because of the way he is applying and creating
in one piece of work many ideas that are related to different topics that might are
important to him as an artist. However, Salvador Dali was demonstrating in most
of painting the dreams and memories that we have ans create from each day of
our real life situations and what we have been through. Also there was another
inspiration that involve on the development of my art piece, I got inspired by
my culture and my country. They identify a lot about my self and what it is
important to me.
My inspiration for this piece was kind of hard at first because I wanted to involve
many different things that would explore and describe many of my memories. My
artist inspiration was Salvador Dali because of the way he is applying and creating
in one piece of work many ideas that are related to different topics that might are
important to him as an artist. However, Salvador Dali was demonstrating in most
of painting the dreams and memories that we have ans create from each day of
our real life situations and what we have been through. Also there was another
inspiration that involve on the development of my art piece, I got inspired by
my culture and my country. They identify a lot about my self and what it is
important to me.
ART PIECE INSPIRATION
Salvador Dali
The Hallucinogenic Toreador 1968-1970
Oil on canvas
398.8 cm × 299.7 cm
The Hallucinogenic Toreador 1968-1970
Oil on canvas
398.8 cm × 299.7 cm
CULTURE INSPIRATION
In my digital collage, I wanted to express as well a culture and that the culture could be show and demonstrated through
my art piece because I think it is a way to express who you are and where do you come from. Also by expressing it you
are enjoying were you come from and why you express yourself the way you do normally in life. As the culture that I choose
to express in the digital collage, it was the Colombian culture because I wanted to express more about the beauty of my culture
and the amazing things that the Colombian culture has and share it to the world. However, I use the Colombian culture and added
to my digital collage because of how colorful, magical, and cheerful the culture is, but also I wanted to know more about my
culture and what kind of things we do and how it develop through time to what the Colombian culture is now.
In my digital collage, I wanted to express as well a culture and that the culture could be show and demonstrated through
my art piece because I think it is a way to express who you are and where do you come from. Also by expressing it you
are enjoying were you come from and why you express yourself the way you do normally in life. As the culture that I choose
to express in the digital collage, it was the Colombian culture because I wanted to express more about the beauty of my culture
and the amazing things that the Colombian culture has and share it to the world. However, I use the Colombian culture and added
to my digital collage because of how colorful, magical, and cheerful the culture is, but also I wanted to know more about my
culture and what kind of things we do and how it develop through time to what the Colombian culture is now.
MATERIALS
-Computer/laptop
- Photoshop program
-Photos taking by me ( that I used to create my digital collage)
- Photoshop program
-Photos taking by me ( that I used to create my digital collage)
PROCESS
During the development of my art work I experience many challenges, but at the same time many achievements. One of my many challenges during the process to create my Digital Collage, was that it was my first time using the Photoshop program and the variety of tools that were need it to make the different changes were at the beginning a challenge. Most of the time i would not remember were the tools that I need it adjust little parts of the collage where, and the process to refine the edges for most of the pictures that I put in the Digital Collage. However, my achievements were a lot as well, while I was taking a lot of time refining the edge for my pictures I was getting better each time and the edge every time look better and better. Also I handle the brightness and the darkness in each of the images and at the end they got a good brightness view and shape. During the process of elaboration of my collage, I took many pictures to use from my trip to Colombia, many of this pictures were from the landscapes, the animals and my family. All of those things were the one's that I wanted to incorporate in my digital college. The picture that I used in the background was a picture that I took on the village were my grandparents live, and I thought it was symbolizing the nature and beauty of my country.
During the development of my art work I experience many challenges, but at the same time many achievements. One of my many challenges during the process to create my Digital Collage, was that it was my first time using the Photoshop program and the variety of tools that were need it to make the different changes were at the beginning a challenge. Most of the time i would not remember were the tools that I need it adjust little parts of the collage where, and the process to refine the edges for most of the pictures that I put in the Digital Collage. However, my achievements were a lot as well, while I was taking a lot of time refining the edge for my pictures I was getting better each time and the edge every time look better and better. Also I handle the brightness and the darkness in each of the images and at the end they got a good brightness view and shape. During the process of elaboration of my collage, I took many pictures to use from my trip to Colombia, many of this pictures were from the landscapes, the animals and my family. All of those things were the one's that I wanted to incorporate in my digital college. The picture that I used in the background was a picture that I took on the village were my grandparents live, and I thought it was symbolizing the nature and beauty of my country.
- I began to sketch the background that I wanted to use that would provide that feeling of color, but also an empty space in it.
- I began to add different kinds of plants and trees.
- Later I began to draw more detail in what I was thinking that the images that I had would have to maintain that equilibrium between the color and the darkness, to represent the way memories go through my mind.
- After that I began thinking about my family and the way they were very important in my memories, and how they would change them from a dark color into a brighter color inside my mind.
- In my sketch I decided to put the photo of my family in the sky because I thought that my putting them in the sky would be kind of a reflection of a mirror were you could see your own thoughts and memories showing.
- Then i decide to incorporate an animal because of how Salvador Dali would put animals in his artworks and make them seem and do exaggerating things and positions on this paintings.
- To the horse I decided to change a little bit of his body position and look to make him seem, that he have exaggerated futures.
- Later in the Digital Collage I added a picture of myself, by adding this picture i thought of wearing the shirt of the soccer team from Colombia, to make sure I related to my topic.
- Then I got the idea of my having a little Colombian flag to represent my culture and country. Also by adding it i thought that there was a connection between the different memories that i have been develop throughout my life.
- At the end I got the chance to make the last details on to the Digital Collage and I got to finish it.
PICTURES THAT I USED FOR THE DIGITAL COLLAGE
This are the pictures that I used to create my Digital Collage
All of this photos are mine, photos that I took on my vacations to Colombia and one here at my house on Milwaukee. 1. The first photo is in the village where my grandparents live, and this is what you when you walk out of the house in to the mountain where the house is located. 2. The second photo is the photo of one of the horses that my grandparents have living on their property. 3. The third photo that I took from a family reunion that I had back when I went back last year. 4 The last photo I took it from a gift that my mom give before leaving Colombia. |
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Challenges AND Advantages
Challenges:
On this piece I think I got a lot of challenges, as by how I learn to use the Photoshop program for the first time and using the tools to provide my piece with good details and looking. Other type of challenges that I got were thinking on the main idea that I was going to base my art piece on and to what artist and culture I would be inspired by. Also one of the most significant challenges that I had was using some tools to cut the pictures from their backgrounds and to make them have a better shape and look on the final piece.
Advantages:
I think on this piece I had a lot of advantages as well, I think they weren't that many but I think that by having some advantages on the main parts of the process to make my first digital collage, it was a positive way for me to learn more about Photoshop and to work and create a better piece. One of my advantages was choosing how I wanted to put together the photos to make my digital collage, other would be that I had already choose the culture that I was inspired by. Also by making the sketches of the background and the different parts that the digital collage could have, I could develop new ideas that might let me to the artist that inspired me to develop my piece and later having in my mind the main concept that I was going to base my digital collage in as well.
On this piece I think I got a lot of challenges, as by how I learn to use the Photoshop program for the first time and using the tools to provide my piece with good details and looking. Other type of challenges that I got were thinking on the main idea that I was going to base my art piece on and to what artist and culture I would be inspired by. Also one of the most significant challenges that I had was using some tools to cut the pictures from their backgrounds and to make them have a better shape and look on the final piece.
Advantages:
I think on this piece I had a lot of advantages as well, I think they weren't that many but I think that by having some advantages on the main parts of the process to make my first digital collage, it was a positive way for me to learn more about Photoshop and to work and create a better piece. One of my advantages was choosing how I wanted to put together the photos to make my digital collage, other would be that I had already choose the culture that I was inspired by. Also by making the sketches of the background and the different parts that the digital collage could have, I could develop new ideas that might let me to the artist that inspired me to develop my piece and later having in my mind the main concept that I was going to base my digital collage in as well.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MY ART PIECE
The collage represents how lonely I was when I got to the United States and living all my family, my mom, and my country. It was a very hard stage in my life because I need to learn a new and completely different language that I didn't know and I had to coexist with my dad for the fist time after living with my mom almost 13 years of my life. By with this I had to make new memories, most of them were not that great and others were kind of great. By living my county I left a lot of my memories that were part of me, by leaving I left a part of me back there. Also the need of making new memories in my life to be sure that the memories in the past could not me forgotten while the time passe and I am more far away of recreating them again. So in my Digital Collage I emphasize the negative space and color because of the good and bad memories that I have been thought, but also demonstrating that all of our memories are not always beautiful. Instead by the incorporation of both negative space and color I focus on the how bad and good memories make as who we are as a person.
RESEARCH
- Salvador Dali-The Hallucinogenic Toreador