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I've also included some of my favorite surreal fashion designs from the exhibition above, as well as Tim Walker's shoot with Tilda Swinton. In particular I liked the 'The glam slam bag', and the story behind how it was designed/created. I love Walker's ethereal style images that look straight out of a magazine or movie. I find it effective how he has used 'normal' settings but added elements of the strange/surreal to create thought provoking and complex images that still incorporate the usual model/photo shoot element. The image on the right was one I just found mind bending, as the more and closer you look at it, the viewer will see how the image is entirely made up of other objects and animals. This intricacy combined with the neon green creates a trippy and hallucinogenic image that will hurt your brain the longer you look at it. But overall, it was interesting to see the different ways the surreal was presented and integrated into a range of artwork, from photographs and paintings to objects and furniture and fashion/accessories.
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Erwin Wurm's is an Austrian artist who began his 'One Minute Sculpture' project in the late 1990's. His projects involve models posing with day-to-day items but in bizarre and unnatural ways. The sculptures are created spontaneously without much thought going into them. The resulting images are unconventional and strange, where Wurm strays from the typical meaning/definition of 'sculpture'.
Wurm says: 'I am interested in the everyday life. All the materials that surrounded me could be useful and the objects, topics involved in contemporary society. My work speaks about the whole entity of a human being: the physical, the spiritual, the psychological and the political.' I liked how his work incorporates both elements of normality and strange, with domestic items in a cold and unfamiliar environment. |
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Development 7/mock -Continuing with surreal gifs:
I decided to continue with creating gifs, but in this development, I changed my technique and edited two separate moments together. To do this, I photographed various portraits and made them black and white - creating a silhouette of a person. This gave me a blank canvas to put my moving object on top of - once I had cut out the face area. I then filmed various different objects to place in the cut out underneath the silhouettes, including a flower, a Christmas decoration and I also used a straw in a glass of water to swirl around and create a whirlpool affect. I made sure to film these objects against either a black or white background, so that once the video and portrait had been edited to black and white, both components blended together, and so that there was nothing else to distract from the main object - as seen in the example to the right. I then layered the video and portraits together in Photoshop, so that the video plays continuously in the space I had cut out. This created a surreal effect, as the viewer can see the outline of a face, but it is seemingly obscured/replaced by the moving object. |
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