For this task, I have decided look into the artist Ciara Philips work “Things put together” (2003), which consists of numerous greyscale screen-prints of her own photographs, combined with bold ‘dyed fabrics printed with repetitive patterns and geometrical elements’. I was fascinated by this piece of work because it really reminded me of the pop art movement and specifically Andy Warhol’s’ Marilyn Monroe paintings. I loved the way both artists use these repetitive images to explore political issues and the celebrity culture, in a way they use their art as a method of advertising and persuasion to express their artistic views.
Therefore, as part of my manifesto project, I decided to use this idea a repeated bold design to portray my views on the major social issues of “British youth vs cops”. I began by using adobe Photoshop to crop and overlap negative newspaper articles about the youth of today and their relation to crime, and ensured it was monochrome. I then went on to alter the brightness, contrast and colour balance and repeated these four times, so that each poster had a range of colours and tones, making it unique. I then experimented repeating the images in different compositions, sizes and brightness until I was content with the overall outcome. I am going to continue exploring this method of art but through the use of paintings, film and sculpture, to try and create my own style of work.
