Foundation Diploma Art & Design: November 2014

Tuesday, 18 November 2014

Smoking Poster Reserch

http://design.tutsplus.com/tutorials/manipulate-smoke-to-create-hyper-real-images--psd-4300

Looking at the posters above I think the most effective images is the smoke in the form of a skull. The skull represents danger and death and I think this would be the most effective way to show that cigarettes are bad for you.

This idea came from a 1910 poster advertising smoking and I wanted to do a modern day version of a smoking poster.

Nearly all of the modern day poster that I have looked at are negative and have a dark element to it. Either the background is dark or the imagery is dark.

When I create my image I want to include the colour red because red represents danger and death.

When I take an image of a person smoking I will take it against a black background so the smoke stands out and I will also use the same pose the woman in the 1910 poster is in to try and make it look like its a modern version.

Things that the smoke could take form:

Skull

Danger Sign

A gun

Thumbs down

I think the smoke should take the form of a skull because I think it symbolises danger and death the most.

I also might add the circle design, from the image below, around the person to frame them and have the smoke and scull going out of the circle.

Thursday, 6 November 2014

Gallery inspiration

Fine Art Artists GB

Robert Mapplethorpe

Robert Mapplethorpe was born in November 4th 1946 and died March 9th 1989.
He was an American Photographer.
He is known for his controversial large-scale, black and white photography.
His work includes: celebrity portraits, male and female nudes, self-portraits and still-life images of flowers (lilies).
The contrast created by the harsh light I think works really well in the images of the lilies. The light creates shadows which helps to create depth and tone in the image. I think this image works really well as a black and white image because it makes it look smooth and it helps to highlight the shadows.
I would think that Robert Mapplethorpe would have been influenced by Ansel Adams who did a series of images of black and white peppers. I think this because both pieces of work are in black and white and have a harsh lighting to create extreme contrast.
The collection of Calla Lilies consisted of .... images and were of a size of 38.4 x 38.1 cm. (15.1 x 15 in.). They were gelatin silver prints and were done in 1984.