www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/oldcontent/cbeardon/dcollage/collage3/def1.html
I was looking for definitions of collage and found this website which dealt with a range of collage art from dada through to pop art and thought it was interesting.
02 January 2009
23 December 2008
Photoshop Feature Enhances Collage
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I have found a feature which adds merit to my collage. It is a spiral blur, I used a couple of different levels to see which I preferred. A small level was best I felt . I did not wan't to lose the essence of the collage in that I want it to still be decipherable if one really spent some time looking at it but I loved the Vortex effect this technique had on the collage. At the time of the Tampa incident, I felt we were all sucked into a vortex, out of control....the refugees had no control, islanders had no control , navy was not in control and certainly political events spiralled out of control.........here are those couple images.
Experimentation with Photoshop
This was a fun exercise and gave me some insights into what is possible with photoshop. I used a variety of tools, Dry Brush, Stylized then embossed, glowing edges, clouds etc. All of this was interesting but I still have not found a feature or technique which I think has enhanced my collage with some added artistic merit, either through just form or conceptually but will continue to work on it. Photoshop has allowed me to experiment but it would probably be of more benefit had I some clear idea of where I want to take this collage and already understand what is possible with the medium. Long way to go...............
Continued Experimentation with Photoshop
This morning I decided to play with artistic strokes of photoshop just to see what could be done, become familiar with the program. Still have a lot to learn about using layers but have bumbled along in my own way, saving some I thought interesting as I went. A couple examples to follow...... just need to go back and reduce size of images for uploading
22 December 2008
Source material
I have decided during this exercise that I must re-read "Dark Victory" by David Marr and Marian Wilkinson in order to reconsider the facts of the Tampa Crisis and the ensuing attitude toward refugees.
Collage development 8
I have retyped the words in the middle /top of the collage.The red across the naval zodiac has been enhanced to emphasise the fact that they too, although at Howards insistence rather than the clear observation of maritime conventions, may have blood on their hands. In the centre of the collage are 2 people in uniform carrying young children to safety having been unloaded from a refugee boat. I thought it important to show the compassion of the people involved in the sea rescue. Their compassion was evident, unfortunately the compassion of the Australian Government was not.
Collage development 7
I wanted to blur edges a little so cloned the sea around the shipping containers in the middle of the image, increase the size of tha Tampa and deleted the words around the woman as they were incomplete and had been finished by hand.Collage development 5
Having increased the size of the navy zodiac I cleaned up around it with a cloning tool so as to provide an edge to the waterCollage Development 4
The role of the navy previously unheard of, became important under the direct instruction from Howard. The boat, also in black and white was increased in size and I decided that it was unnecessary to have another image of refugees in the front right hand corner so I allowed the boat to take over that image.Collage development
Having increased the size of the headstone I decided the size of the husband of Fatima needed to increase, to emphasise his grief and to humanise the refugee, something that Howard clearly tried to avoid.Collage Development 2
I decided to increase the size of the headstone of the refugee because the issue is about Australia's compassion (or lack of) and whether or not John Howard has blood on his hands because of his stance with refugees. I started to enhance the colour red falling from his hands.Collage Development
I decided there was too much information in my collage and that some things needed more emphasis so decided to eliminate the crabs in the bottom left hand corner and increase the prominence of John Howard's presence by cloning his suit over the top of the crabs. The red crabs make Christmas Island recognisable but the main feature of the collage is the Tampa issue which happened at Christmas Island also. The crabs become irrelevant.
To add the last lot of images to my blog, I created a file for them all, reduced the size of each one so they would be quick to upload. I thought I would be able to create a slide show to upload but have been unable to solve this problem. It may be I do not have the right programs on my computer. I can convert a file to a slide show on ny computer but i don't weem to be able to convert the whole file for uploading. Can anyone help please. As you can see I have uploaded each image separately which has made the blog very loooooonnnnnnggggggg. and was a slow process.
Images considered for collage
These are some of the photos I considered for my collage. Most are from my private collection although I did not take them all, some images are from a movie (forgotten the name) some from paintings I completed while at Christmas Island and others from the internet.
Thinking about collage, I have looked at the work of Gregor Mews from Germany. I like that he has reused his own painting throughout his collages to recreate different pictures altogether. His abstract painting has been used to create streetscapes, waterfalls, window scenes and recreated buildings. It places his painting in many different contexts and gives new meaning each time. Its fun.... Sadly i don't read German so I have no idea what his intention actually is.
Artist URL addresses
I am going to record these URL address in my blog so I can access them easily
http://www.candicebreitz.net/
http://www.cfa-berlin.com/exhibitions/einbruchstellen_192/
http://www.cmoa.org/international/html/art/thater.htm
http://www.friedrichchristianflick-collection.com/
http://www.ateliergm.de/
Today I have to think about my collage and working with photoshop. I have started thinking about the artist presentation I will be doing. I spent some time in the library last week. Amazingly when I googled collage artist digital media, all that seems to come up are graphic designers, including one I thought I would investigate further, Barbara Kruger. I don't think she would be happy to just be labelled, graphic artist. That was her background but her work goes way beyond that. She is not working for a client who requires a finished advertising product. It is a message she is getting "out there" artistically, she just happens to have used a modern medium or it certainly was when she was first broadcasting her message.
http://www.candicebreitz.net/
http://www.cfa-berlin.com/exhibitions/einbruchstellen_192/
http://www.cmoa.org/international/html/art/thater.htm
http://www.friedrichchristianflick-collection.com/
http://www.ateliergm.de/
Today I have to think about my collage and working with photoshop. I have started thinking about the artist presentation I will be doing. I spent some time in the library last week. Amazingly when I googled collage artist digital media, all that seems to come up are graphic designers, including one I thought I would investigate further, Barbara Kruger. I don't think she would be happy to just be labelled, graphic artist. That was her background but her work goes way beyond that. She is not working for a client who requires a finished advertising product. It is a message she is getting "out there" artistically, she just happens to have used a modern medium or it certainly was when she was first broadcasting her message.
14 December 2008
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