this is art to me. i believe this is art because it is has alot to do with value, shape, color, and form. the value of this can be high due to the colors they use to make this. the colors i see in this are rare and hard to make together. the shapes of the people and the graffiti under it are spectacular. he shapes have to do with the graffiti writing where one of the guys are pointing too. the shape in that takes time to create and thats real art when time and effort is put into it.

this evokes much emotion because the shadows in the background are shadows of people. the emotion is concealed and dont want to be seen while one of them is showing the middle finger which gives much emotion of probably hate. also the way the eyes are shaped shows emotion of anger probably of police because that is one of the main things poeple of graffiti do not like because they take away from theyre work by arrest or buffing their work.(bufing: is painting over with primer).

this can make you think about why the characters may be mad or why the guy is using the midle finger. why they use so many mixed colors on the characters. why are there so many peole with gas masks on. that can be ovious because it can be used to conceal the face and to make sure they dont inhale the spray paint.

this is VERY unique ion my eyes. this shows so much and takes time and effort to make art as good as this. this makes you think and wonder why the artist uses light colors to put off a kind of angry message from how the characters look in their faces. people find this may not be art but they dont have the eyes for graffiti. they think graffiti is like tagging and those are different. this is basically art but just using letters and characters. there are so many things that can be described as art and this is most definitely one of them.

ARTIST STATEMENT Daran Terry

11/13/08

 

 

In order for me to translate my arguments into n image I for one had to find an image that helped me show that Obama is good. I also got a picture of the white house so that it shows he is president and that the government will be there for the people since he is in the white house and the government has to support the one in the white house. He is also talking into the microphone to show that he has the voice to change things for a better tomorrow.

Another one is Uncle Sam and he has a bag that is the U.S flag. He also has soldiers and aircrafts that are around him with lettering saying “stand up for your freedom. It is here for you. Work inside the system.” I use this one because one of my pro arguments talks about how you should work within the system and that it is here for you.

The specific photo shop technique I used was layer masking. Layer masking helped me a lot because using that helped me make a picture as if Obama was behind the white house when he was in fact not behind it. It helped me make the picture look as if it was a picture professionally made I believe because it looks as if Obama is behind the white house. I believe that layer masking is one of the best photo shop techniques to be used because it can do wonderful things in the picture to make it look professional.

Choosing the images I chose didn’t make it so difficult because I jus grabbed two photos that I thought may be good in a picture together and tried to work with just that. I think I ended up doing well and it benefited me the most. The other picture I just pretty much added a lot of extra things to it such as, raindrops to make it seem kind of blurry and unreadable, I added a couple of U.S writings, I added work inside the system and its here to protect you so it can relate to my argument. Im not sure if this may have a big impact on the audience because I don’t feel what I may have to say will really benefit them in the way I think it benefits me. It benefits me because it helps me for later in the future because I wish to become a politician.

In the Obama one it shows how you should feel he is a very strong speaker and he is on top of what he has to do and what he will o because he is on top of the white house. The other one I would say is just a subliminal message saying that the government is good it is here to protect you and you should fight for it because it fights for you. I also believe using Uncle Sam helps you make that kind of statement as if the governrnent is something you should fight for because every time you see that you think of the picture “I want you” to join the army type of picture. That makes the message I was trying to send that much easier.