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This is my first idea, it's plain and simple

This is my second idea, it got a little crazy.

Surrealism Project

                                                A.Santos 2013 "Mermanda"
I had fun with this project, I took a picture of myself with a goofy face, played around with the colors in photoshop and found a picture of a fish bowl on the internet and put a picture of myself as a mermaid inside. I also put a mermaidfied me in my left eye. I only used two pictures from the internet and two of my own. I really liked this project and instead of going for a serious mood I went for a fun-loving comical feel.

 

 

A.Santos "Collide With the Sky" 2013

This is just another project I made in my free time after I finished the mermaid one, I really like how it came out though so I decided to post it too. The idea for this one was based off of Pierce The Veil's "Collide with the Sky" Album (below).

Photo Walk April 19th 2013

Our assignment was to take pictures of people today and these were some of the best shots I got. It was rather cloudy so in some pictures it is a little dark but I tried to get alot of candid shots from different viewpoints and angles.I wish there had been a little more sunlight and in the future I'll try to get better angles and also pay more attention to the background.

Surrealistic Theme

For my surrealistic photo montage I’d like to do a self-portrait.

Idea #1: For my first idea I want it to portray me looking into a fish bowl and in the fish bowl is me as a mermaid. I want the colors outside the fish bowl to be darker and less vibrant and I want the inside to be brighter. An alternative to this idea would be me but my head is the fish bowl with the same concept.

Idea #2: For my next idea I would like to create a photo inspired/based on the cover artwork for my favorite band’s most recent album. It would have an image of my house but in Photoshop I would edit it to look destroyed. From the top (roof) I would be flying up to the sky  and on the ground I would have images of me but they would be faceless.

Surrealist Artist Review

Artist’s Name:  Remedios Varo

Title of Artwork : Woman Leaving the Psychoanalyst   Date of Work : circa 1960

In ‘Women Leaving the Psychoanalyst’ there is a woman wearing a cloak holding a face and a basket. She is leaving what I assume is the psychoanalyst and holding the face over a well.  A part of her veil is also falling with a face in it. There are dark clouds above her. Varo’s lines are very clean and straight, everything is very geometric. The right side is also brighter and lighter than the left. There is smoke coming from the door wrapping around her ankles.

Because the psychoanalytical theory deals with making the unconscious   conscious by releasing repressed emotions and experiences, I feel that the basket she is holding is a basket of burdens and the face is her hand is that of a prominent male in her life like her father. She is dropping the face into a well because it is no longer a burden and as she releases it a part of her veil, which masked her true identity, falls with it.  The smoke seems to be leaving with her but it is wrapped along her ankles pulling her back in to release the rest of her burdens. The right side of the image, which is significantly lighter, brighter, and vibrant, symbolizes the light coming to save her from the darkness that surrounds her.

I feel this piece is very successful, even before learning the title of this piece I had a similar idea of her releasing some type of past burden. I feel the way I do about this piece because I just finished learning about Freud’s psychoanalytical theory and I have a huge interest in psychology and a tendency to relate all art to  something psychological. 

 

Artist’s Name:  Ronen Goldman

Title of Artwork : At The Chime Of The City Clock  Date of Work : unknown

In This picture there is a woman, a sack a reaching hand, and a building.

I think the photo is depicting how this woman is so consumed by her bag of burdens that she doesn’t notice the clock chime and is being pulled away by some force.

I think this piece is successful, it’s simplistic but it has a dream like feel. For example it I see it as the opposite of the common dream of someone being chased.

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I feel like both pieces have to do with stress. One is a painting and the other is a photo. Both depict a woman and some type of bag. Neither woman's face is fully revealed. In one the woman is relieving herself of a burden whereas in the other it seems she is being dragged away from her problems.

Photo Journal

These are some of my favorite pages from my Photo Book.

Primary Colors

Red A.Santos 2013

For 'Red' i took a picture of my Docs, which looked very bright in the sun light.

Blue A.Santos 2013

For 'Blue' i took a picture of my Cookie Monster ice cream, which was a brighter blue that was very vibrant.

Yellow A.Santos 2013

For 'Yellow' I took a picture of the curb, which was painted yellow. I had many images of yellow objects but i choose this because I like the contrast of the yellow background with black letters.