Assassin

     This was my Dada-like piece that we made during class! No real meaning, I just made it while playing around. We started out by taking photos of ourselves using our Ipads, and then brought them into photoshop for editing. I will say the cartoon-ish outline around the face was inspired by the grungy look in the video game Borderlands! Actually, the shirt I was wearing at the time, which said "Assassin" is a type of character class you could play in the game, hence where the wording came from. My friend said it looks like some kind of strange subliminal propaganda poster.

     While there is some symmetry in the background of this piece, due to the foreground layout I think it would still be considered asymmetrical. There is a use of both geometric and organic shapes within this piece; the rectangular cut-outs of the face were actually inspired by the artist Pablo Picasso. I believe the focal point is where the wording ‘Assassin’ is due to its bright contrast and the fact it does not reoccur on any other part of the piece which seems to emphasize it. Also because of the more vertical shapes including the drip pattern, I believe it draws your eyes to scan the image up and down. It has repetition as the cut-outs and mirrored pictures are from the same photo, only they have been slightly altered or cut out from different areas before being placed onto the piece.

     Again, this is another fairly simple piece but I like it as it is.

Assassin, photos taken with an Ipad and edited in Photoshop.

Da·da

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noun: Dada

1. an early-20th-century international movement in art, literature, music, and film, repudiating and mocking artistic and social conventions and emphasizing the illogical and absurd.