My photomontage

For my photomontage i chose to use my tv as one of my one image i took because with that tv i enjoy hours of fun and interest because with that tv i watch movies and series and also i play my videogames. Also as a background image on the tv i chose a desert road with tanks, explosions and one of the soldiers in the cover of my favourite videogame. I also added a sun to the right of the background to make it look more interesting since it was a desert. When i started my photomontage the only thing i could think of creating was this because i like to play videogames with violence and war in it but also when i was trying to look for a song i found that a song talking about war and violence would be best because war and violence is never suppose to be a good thing so I chose the song Gimme shelter by the Rolling Stones because it explains about about war,children and need of shelter.

Lyrics of Gimme shelter:

Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
My very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

Rape, murder!
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away

The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away

War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away

Chris Burden Transfixed

Title: Trans-fixed

Artist: Chris Burden

Date: 1974

Written Response:

   This image is named Trans-fixed and is one of Chris Burdens artwork created in 1974. My first impression of this image is why is there a man lying down the back of a car, but I also thought what if this image was supposed to be of Burden being forced to be on the car as part of a type of torture or abuse. From this artwork I see a car and a man at the back of it without a shirt. One element of design being used in this image is Value because when you take even a quick glance at it you can tell there is lightness and darkness falling on the image adding contrast and enhancing areas of composition by adding texture especially to the car. From what I see in this work of art, Burden decided to choose a really dark blackout space which possibly is a room but all one would see is the car and Chris Burden on the back which grabs my attention the most. The theme of this artwork is violence and abuse because it looks like he is being forced to be on the back on the car with his arms spread out. I think Burden chose to create this work to relate to the cruelty in our world. Chris Burden seems to be a man who creates art using the genre of abuse and violence to show audiences pain. His actually intent of this artwork is displaying him as if he was being crucified and having both his hands hammered with nails to the car. After researching his actually intent I don’t really see the clarity of him being nailed to the car which I still don’t see but I have learnt to always try and see more into artist’s artworks. 

Chris Burden Shoot

1. The artist we decided to choose is Chris Burden. The title of the artwork is called shoot and it was created in 1971. My first impression of this artwork was why there is a gun in this image and why one of the guy is pointing the gun to the other. In this image I see a white wall that looks like a small room and the subject holding a rifle and aiming at the other subject.

2. Variety or contrast is used in the artwork because the clothing, wall and floors in         this image create a cool and warm looking image and the wall and the subjects shirt in this image show a cool contrast while the pants and floor show a dark and warm contrast. The artist of this piece of artwork from what I see decided to choose a small room. One thing that grabs my attention is the rifle being held.

3. From my perspective the theme of this artwork is based on violence or abuse since one man has a rifle pointed to the other man and the artists’ view of this world is probably about about cruelty and greed.

4. Chris Burden created this art work because his intent was to relate to the Vietnam War and the American rights to bear arms. Now that I know the Burden’s original intent my feeling and thoughts have changed because to me its not just about violence and abuse but also about Americans wanting rights to bear arms. From this artwork I learnt that not all images u see is portrayed the way you or someone else might think.

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This artwork is called Less Is More. 

In this project i created 6 squares each with either different colour or size. In the first one i used a normal source of a plant. The plant i used was an orange which was in a normal size but black and white. In the second square used the same technique as the first but cropped the original design but retained its readability. The third square i cropped the design so that readability is no longer available and i also used black and white. In the fourth square used the same technique as the second square but everything that was black is now white and everything that was white is now black. In the Fifth square i used the same technique as the second square but i added one more colour which was green. In the last square i also used the same technique but coloured the design in its full colour.

Photomontage critique

John Heartfield

  Millions Stand Behind Me

 1932

This photomontage is by John Heartfield and is one of his photomontage created in 1932. My first impression of this photomontage is who is this man one the bottom right of the montage that looks like Adolf Hitler and why is the montage in French instead of English. I also then thought what if it was Hitler. After researching Heartfield’s original intent of this montage it was said that he specifically linked Hitler's electoral success with his courting of wealthy industrialists from the Rhineland. More generally, he gives pictorial punch to the commonplace idea that money fuels political power by implying that the Nazi salute is in fact a plea for cash. Also the title Der Sinn des Hitlergrusses mean the real meaning of the Hitler salute.

                                                

                                                

Restroom symbol

Thisi symbol means that there is a washroom or restroom in the area indicated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet

No smoking

The meaning of this symbol is for people who make smoke. This is so they don't smoke around the area with this symbol.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_symbol

Star of David

This is the Star of David or Shield of David.

This symbols represents God's empire because each points represent the compast points showing that God Rules everywhere.

http://www.flyingchariotministries.com/thestarofdavid.htm

Olympic rings

ThIs is the Olympic Rings.

This rings in this symbols represents the five continents in the  the Americas, Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania. This rings are combined to one another to show that in the olympic games, poeple frome every country joins to make their relations better.

http://www.buzzle.com/articles/olympic-rings-meaning.html

Peace sign

This is the Peace sign

This symbol was made by Gerald Halton. He created this symbol when he started his own movement called the Nuclear Disarment. In that time, anyone who wore the sign, supports the movement. Now this sign shows peace.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols

Cross

This is the Catholic Cross

This sign reminds Catholics the story of Jesus and his death potraying the victory over death and sin when Juses died for everyone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_cross

Recycle

This is the Recycle Sign

This symbol has no important meaning but to show the steps to recycle and the definition of it. This is so because the recycle means to use it over and over again which the arrows going in a circle are showing.

http://www.pacebutler.com/blog/recycling-symbols/

Ying Yang

This is The Yin Yang Sign

This Symbol was created by the Chinese to understand how things go in life. Yin is dark, cold, downward, greif, and weak while Yang is bright, active, hot, happy, cold. But both can not live wothout each other. In every darkness there is light, in every light theres darkness.

http://fly.cc.fer.hr/~shlede/ying/yang.html

Fleur de Lis

This is the Fleur de Lis

This symbol was made in New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. This symbol represent the rebuit of New Orleans.

http://cajlart.com/webpages/Main%20Pages/Pg_RecentSales.html

Medical symbol

This is the Mediacal Symbol

This symbol represents the the God of Medicine, Aesculapius. This nwas used in hospitals because long time ago, poeple believed when they are to stay at the temple of  Aesculapius, they are believed to be healed by the God.

http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=7863

Ankh

This is the Ankh

This symbol was made by the Egyptians to represents the balance of the world such as life and death, Male and female, light and Darkness. It also means the Joy of life. The loop in the symbol represents the symbol of fertility.

http://www.holoweb.net/~liam/pictures/ankh/ankh.html

Swastika

This is the Swastika

This Symbol represents sun, power, strength, and good luck. This symbol was used long before the Nazi used it.This Symbol was meant to have a positive attittude to it and was used by many ancient cultures from the Artemis to the Chinese. This was later changed its meaning when the Nazi used it for their symbol.

http://history1900s.about.com/cs/swastika/a/swastikahistory.htm

Biohazzards

Biological hazzards symbol refers to biological substances that pose a threat to living things.

http://www.graphicproducts.com/sign-printers/biohazard-signs.html

Shinto

Shinto is the indigenous spirituality of Japan and the Japanese people. It is a set of practices, to be carried out diligently, to establish a connection between present day Japan and its ancient past.

http://www.symbolic-meanings.com/2007/12/12/shinto-symbol-meanings-dragon-kami-torri-symbols/

Humanism

Humanism is an approach in study, philosophy, or practice that focuses on human values and concerns.

http://www.answers.com/topic/humanism

Hinduism symbol

Om or Aum is of paramount importance in Hinduism. This symbol is a sacred syllable representing Brahman, the impersonal Absolute of Hinduism-omnipotent, omnipresent, and the source of all manifest existence.

http://www.religionfacts.com/hinduism/symbols/aum.htm

Aries Zodiac

Aries is the first astrological sign in the Zodiac, named for the constellation of Aries, called The Ram in the greek tradition, after the golden ram that rescued phrixos taking him to the land of Colchis.

http://www.zodiac-signs-meanings.com/aries-zodiac-sign.html

Taurus Zodiac

Taurus is the second astrological sign in the Zodiac. In greek myth, Taurus was identified as Zeus, who assumed the form of a magnificent white bull to protect Europa.

http://www.zodiac-signs-meanings.com/taurus-zodiac-sign.html

All-seeing eye

A symbol showing an eye often surrounded by rays of light or a glory and usually enclosed by a triangle. It is sometimes interpreted as representing the eye of god watching over humankind.

http://www.crossroad.to/Books/symbols1.html