Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon painted people how he saw them (not literally) but you can see his thoughts reflected onto the art. He uses colours that could possibly reflect the person.

there seems to be a variety of paints that have been applied. This helps give the designed textures which usually look quite raw. I don't think he spent much time smoothing out the paint and instead tried to get everything in his mind onto the paper. When I see his paintings I don't feel sad or confused, more intrigued to know what was going on inside his head at the time.

Here is my own photo in the style of Francis Bacon along with some screen shots of the process.

I altered the contrast and saturation to make the colors more obvious and bright. The colours in Francis Bacons photographs are very important as they portray the emotion.

I used the Liquify tool to create all of the different distortions, changing my brushes to pinch, bloat, stretch and twist helped to create a variety of effects.

Transcriptions of Miguel's work

In both pictures I've made sure to transfer the pattern of the skin onto the arms/hands so it looks more realistic as though the people in the images are actually animals. I an most pleased with the top image because the expressions on the animal faces sort of actually fit onto the bodies. I like the Sphinx cat one as well because it almost looks like some Egyptian God but I think it would be a lot better if the body was in different clothes and a better quality image. I also like the background texture in this one.

To create these images I took an image of an animal and paired it with the body of a human. I used the lasso tool to separate the animal heads from their own body and attached them to that of the human.

Miguel Vallinas Prieto

Miguel takes the heads of animals and photoshops them onto human bodies; what he does is an example of anthropomorphism. He often makes it so the bodies the heads are placed on link to the animal, the clothing could link to their fur or their charecteristics. I think he probably uses tools like the lasso tool and clone tool to create these images. The backgrounds are mainly block colours, this helps to ensure that no attention is drawn from the strange content of the image. I like his images a lot  and think they are incredibly done. The links between the animal heads and human bodies are seamless which gives it a strangely real effect. 

Here are some examples of his work:

Anthropomorphism

Anthropomorphism, or personification, is attribution of human form or other characteristics to anything other than a human being. Examples include depicting deities with human form and ascribing human emotions or motives to forces of nature, such as hurricanes or earthquakes.

Claes Oldenburg's soft sculptures are commonly described as anthropomorphic. Depicting common household objects, Oldenburg's sculptures were considered Pop Art. Reproducing these objects, often at a greater size than the original, Oldenburg created his sculptures out of soft materials. The anthropomorphic qualities of the sculptures were mainly in their sagging and malleable exterior which mirrored the not so idealistic forms of the human body. In "Soft Light Switches" Oldenburg creates a household light switch out of Vinyl. The two identical switches, in a dulled orange, insinuate nipples. The soft vinyl references the aging process as the sculpture wrinkles and sinks with time.

Photo made of words

Unfortunately I experienced technical difficulties while doing this one so my original result was deleted, although I preferred the other one I am reasonably pleased with the finished piece here.

Picture in a word

This was a simple but effective experiment I think, it simply involved a clipping mask layer, a background and some text. I chose this specific font because it's quite calm and simple quite like autumn, I think big and bold capital letters would be better suited to Summer. I' pleased with the result.

Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg is an American sculptor (born in Stockholm, Sweden) who specialises in installing public art, making small, everyday objects massive. Many of his works were made in collaboration with his wife, Coosje van Bruggen who died in 2009. Claes now lives in New York. Because he is a sculptor, he doesn't edit his work as such. In stead of manipulating an image he more has to look for different materials to make these giant structures out of. Back in the 1950s-60s, he mainly used cardboard to create sculptures like wall reliefs, hamburgers, pastries, men and women's clothing, etc.
In the 1960's he began making soft sculptures which is a type of sculpture made from foam rubber, cloth, plastic, fibres, paper and similar materials that are subtle and non grid. But back then he made household objects out of vinyl or canvas stuffed with kapok.
In 1965, he was still working in vinyl, plaster and cardboard making large works called colossal monuments.
Ever since the 1970s, Oldenburg has been making his sculptures in more durable materials like steel.
I think that his work is pretty cool. It takes the little, unnoticed things in the world and makes them big and seen. It's almost like making a statement and showing that even though you don't always see them these things are always around.
Claes didn't seem to have some deep meaning behind his reason for sculpting these giant sculptures except for the fact that he liked them.
It would be awesome to see one of Claes' works because they are very extraordinary. Art in regular places that appears out of place always strikes my interest. I think his art is aimed at anyone to enjoy and see. Different people would like it for different reasons. For example, a child could like his work because it's something they've never seen before but an adult might like it because it makes them appreciate the object.
If money wasn't an issue, I don't think I'd buy one of Claes' works simply because I have no where big enough to put it. Maybe I'd buy it and donate it to someone or sell it.
Here is some of his work:

This is my favorite piece of his work, I think it's awesome because it sort of fits in to it's surroundings (not literally of course). It sort of looks like a bridge and reminds me of a scene in a film I watched. I don't know if it's because of the photo itself that makes it look like this, but the colour of the cherry really stands out without looking vulgar.