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Assignment A5 (Xerox) - Waves


This is an an art piece I created out of photocopied images of my hand and arm. My two biggest inspirations for the piece were The Great Wave off Kanagawa (by Katsushika Hokusai) and the movement of German Expressionism in terms of the components that make up the wave, and its dark, oppressive color palette.

Drawing inspiration from a world famous woodblock print, I wanted to combine the look of something as natural as a huge tidal wave, and contrast it with the very dark angular segments of my body in order to give a different take on the classic Japanese piece of art. Stills of sets from German Expressionist movies such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) influenced my use of very dark and jagged shapes to create "Waves"

In addition to this, I added straight lines to create even more of this linear look to give a background to my piece. I did not want to rely to much on the original print, and decided to really make the shapes used to create the piece stand out as much as they could with the grayscale/black and white theme of the photocopied body parts.

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  1. NickDeCurtisNovember 25, 2018 at 4:38 PM

    This is a very cool piece in terms of how you used your hands to illustrate the wave crashing over the tiny boat. Pretty much all of the components are cut from your scans and that shows the unity of your project in what it is portraying. While it has a jagged feel to it, your project still exemplifies a smoothly composed idea.

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  2. Adam MoshelDecember 12, 2018 at 9:23 PM

    I like what you did here. I like how the work is kind of messy for the ocean because of the fact there is no real description to describe what water is in terms of texture.

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