Thinking back to Dada...

Dada was born out of negative reaction to the horrors of World War I. This international movement was begun by a group of artists and poets associated with the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Dada rejected reason and logic, prizing nonsense, irrationality and intuition. The name 'Dada' was reputedly arrived at during a meeting of the group when a paper knife stuck into a French-German dictionary happened to point to 'dada', a French word for 'hobbyhorse.

An example of Dada art work is L.H.O.O.Q. to the right. It shows a famous piece of art work (Mona Lisa) defaced/vandalised.

This made me think of defacing/vandalising an image of someone as another way of taking the mess out of stereotypes. I don't have to just stick to caricatures, though this is something I'm interested in.

Another response to artists

I quickly threw this together using the general shape that Maciej Mizer uses in a lot of his work.
Of course this could use a lot of work but its just me playing around with it and trying to come up with a final idea for my piece of artwork.

After looking at the the graphic artists...

 I created this this piece of work.
Alex Cherry, Nick Ainley and Chuck Anderson played the biggest part in my inspiration.
Alex Cherry's silhouetted figures in his work, Nick Ainley's show of movement through either specks or lines and Chuck Anderson's large range of colour!

I like the idea of using a silhouette because it takes away what race the person is, their attractiveness and sometimes even gender. It just shows you what the person's role is or what they can do which I believe is most important.

I went on to play around with many things including the shadows, highlights and mid-tones and also saturation and hue.
After "the lightning looking like branches" comment, I decided to invert the image so the figure and lightning was white rather than black. This made the lightning actually look like lightning haha
I like the end of product of me playing around with ideas after looking at these graphic artists.
I will go on to look at typography for this.
I'm thinking about using these as a pair! Mirrored image maybe?

Using the information I have used in this piece of work, I will come up with more ideas of what my final piece of art work will look like.
Lots of worksheets coming up!

Alex Cherry

http://ofsoundandvision.com/#oceania

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/08/21/creativity-spark-from-masters-of-graphic-design/

For a later date, http://www.davidairey.com/top-50-graphic-design-blogs/

Nicholas Ainley

Nik Ainley is a digital illustrator based in the UK. He has been producing personal and commissioned illustrations for a wide array of clients for over ten years.

Self-taught, he first found his love for digital art while studying physics at university. He quickly found his interest in producing graphics on computer outgrowing that of his studies. After completing his degree he moved full time into design and illustration and has been there every since.

Nik is constantly trying to expand his range of abilities and is happiest when learning new software or techniques. He works in both 2D and 3D software to produce his images and especially enjoys the results combining the two can achieve.

http://shinybinary.com/info.html

Chuck Anderson

Since 2003, a year after graduating high school, Chuck has been collaborating with clients such as Microsoft, Nike, Warner Bros., Reebok, Burton, and Target, and more. In addition to this work, Chuck also produces much of his own personal art, design, & photography as well as collaborations with non-profits such as Invisible Children, charity:water, and WordMadeFlesh, among others. Chuck has also spoken and presented at dozens of universities, design conferences, and been a judge at the annual Art Director's Club Awards in NYC. In November 2010, Chuck was named a "Design Icon" by Computer Arts Magazine.

http://www.nopattern.com/

Emeric Trahand

Emeric Trahand also known as Takeshi is a New York based art director and artist from Saint Etienne, France. Emeric's illustrative work is renowned for its surreal feel, the quality of its photomontages as well as the light treatments and colourful compositions.


http://www.depthcore.com/artist/emeric-trahand/

Alberto Seveso

Born in Milan the 30 May 1976.
Works as a freelance in his hometown, Portoscuso, Sardinia-Italy for small, medium and big agencies.
http://burdu976.com/