Andy Warhol Effect & Tiger Slaying

After reading about this assignment, I must say I was definitely excited because I already had a certain work of art in my mind. This image that I used messes with the Andy Warhol effect and I combined it with an image of the dramatic art installation “I Want to

Believe” by famous worldwide known artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Cai Guo-Qiang originally created this piece of work in protest for the animal slayings which have occurred in the past. His work is featured in the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and is truly fascinating.

I remixed this image by taking his sculpture image and rearranging it in with the Andy Warhol effect (its a bit warped). Andy Warhol is known as the King of Pop: He features art in the material world. His bright art work is used in marketplaces and for consumer selling purposes in companies on a global scale. Basically, his work is just known for materialist purposes. I chose to use the “I want to Believe” sculpture with the Warhol effect because I felt it made an interesting statement. The fact that Cai Guo-Qiang created such a lively and 3D effect to show his compassion for the slaying of animals makes an interesting comparison with the materialist outlook of the Warhol effect. By inserting his sculpture in the Warhol effect, I almost dehumanize the image, not making it as important as one should consider it.

To conclude, I guess I was just interested in portraying the strange irony of our society. We publish works of artists like Qiang in world known museums such as the Guggenheim. These works of art are created to propose messages to humanity, but these days it seems that art is a bit more commercialized now.

Modern Surrealism: Faceless Composition by Lara Jade

copyright Lara Jade

After researching a bit more in depth about surrealism, I found that Lara Jade’s Faceless Composition definitely fit into my ideals of the surreal work of a modern day artist. Lara Jade is an extremely young British photographer who uses a more digitalis form of art to express surrealism. I guess I liked her work in particular because I felt as though it really stood out to me. It seems as though her message is a bit deeper than just a faceless woman, but rather I feel as though its an accurate representation of the life which consumerists live in today. The average American human being forces them self to endlessly work so that they can be richer.They come home to ‘relax’ by watching television, where they are then flooded with images of appealing objects which they cannot have unless they are rich. They desire to be richer so they can buy these objects because they believe it will bring them happiness. The cycle seems viscous, yet we live in such a way that this idea seems to be the norm. I guess I felt that this work of art definitely captures how consumed with society and worldly desires humans are wrapped up in. We can no longer associate that human with a face, all the humans are the same warped and stuck in this cycle.