Urban Myth

Work For Review

Ok so the following images are from my photographic assignment (bottles) will have them printed by start of semester 2.

Top Arts and Stick It Exhibitions

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Top Arts Exhibition

While at the tops arts exhibition I saw many interesting and emotionally invested pieces of work. One such work stood out to me as I have known many people who have struggled with the same issue as the artist.

It was ‘Mathematics of beauty’ by Madeline Dusek. It was a simple image made by modeling a 3D human head and creating a custom texture. The texture was made so that various covers of the same magazine, ‘Vogue’ would be shown on each individual plane that created the model.

The message was also simple. The piece was meant to show the artists struggle with her own insecurities and how magazines such as vogue only promote one idea of what they consider beautiful/normal, hence adding to the stress.

The artist noted that the eyes of the model starting out into a wide space was a way of noting that such beauty is empty.

I found it to be an interesting twist on a seemingly endless debate and very moving piece of artwork.

The other pieces that took my eye were June Chen’s ‘Still life flower’ and Michelle Molinari’s ‘Masked emotions’.

Still life flower was as it sounds an image of a flower. Beautifully drawn in charcoal creating vivid contrast and depth.

‘Masked emotions’ was a fantastic conceptual and technical piece created through oil paints. This piece of artwork brought through the concept of an emotional mask, but in a reverse in that the artist painted her portrait and in it held masks depicting various emotions that were as masks interchangeable. The background was painted to look desolate and to make the viewer feel lost and confused.

Stick it exhibition

There wasn’t much that I liked as such in the stick it exhibition as I’m not at all a fan of collages. However Blair Trethowan’s ‘sweating logos’ was an interesting piece of artwork that used small circular stickers to create a portrait.