PAINTING2PHOTOGRAPHY Assignment : Task 4 & 5 : Examples of how Art has been influenced by Photography

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These images were all created by Andy Warhol. I think they are screen prints of photographs of famous people - Marilyn Monroe, Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson. Warhol had seen the photographs and screen printed them using different layers of colour to create these vibrant representations of the celebrities. He will have used the original images and traced different areas to create different layers of the mesh screen print templates. He has then layered them up to create these vibrant versions of the photographs. 

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Here is an artists impression of this photograph of Twiggy in the 1960's. Unfortunately I don't know the artist of the painting/illustration or when it was created. I like how they haven't just copied the photograph, they have changed the angle of Twiggy's face, changed her pose to leaning on her hand, etc. I like how they have used pastel colours and simplistic lines to create the outline of her face, the different strands of hair and her iconic eyelashes. They have imitated the photograph well as it is representational of her - as soon as I saw it I knew it was Twiggy.



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Here is another example of how photography has influenced art. This poster was part of Barrack Obama's campaign when running for President of America - it was iconic and widely seen all over the world. I believe this poster was created using screenprinting. The artist has used the colours from the american flag to create different layers of the President's head and shoulders. I really like this image and think the blending of colours works really well and makes the image aesthetically pleasing. I also like how the artist has altered the composition of the original photograph and the angle of Obama's head - making it more straight up than at an angle, this improves the aesthetics of the image. I think this image will remain iconic for centuries and everyone will recognise it as Barrack Obama. 

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Here photography has influenced art by Francis Bacon imitating the photograph of his partner and lover George Dyer. He has accurately represented parts of the original photograph - the angle of Dyer's head and neck, and parts of Dyer's face. He has made it abstract and quite dark by almost disfiguring the middle section of his face. I think this is partly representational of Dyer's life which heavily involved crime and alcoholism. This image says to me that Dyer was quite troubled by the things he got involved in, and he was lost and slightly a mess because of it. His early life largely involved crime, with him spending a lot of time in juvenile detention centres and jail. Later in life George Dyer became an alcoholic and would often go on big benders with friends. I think this image is quite sad because it reveals that Dyer's life was a bit of a mess and he was troubled with his problems.