YCA BECK FUSIONS
I always enjoy collaberation projects, i think some of my best concepts come from bounceing ideas around with other people this YCA brief was a little different in the fact it was a partnership rather than a group. Karl was great to work with, and showed me some new skills in photoshop, the only nagative was when we where working together he would look over your should and say stuff like "you could do it faster like this" which got a bit grating having a backseet , but aside from that it was a calm collaberation, which i think produced a strong resolution, we had a couple of problems during the start of the project, I was taken ill for a couple of days, and Karl's laptop died a week later. So it was not all smooth sailing. The idea came after flicking through some of my books and came across Banksy's oil painting pieces which got me working with some classic paintings to reprisent art and the stenciling of iconic musicians, both different aspects of Banksy's work, Banksy worked onto the canvas's so as to look like they where painted by the orginal artist, we decided to use a more vandlezed style like someone had left one of these masters in a mosh pit or in a underground club toilet, so the image was ripped and scuffed, grenrally held with low regaurd. This sentiment to the art was meant to be a further link to the ethos of rock music, rebelion agenst the old conservertive power and money of the establishment. But we also wanted it to be fun because no one listens if you take yourself too serously, Foe example the girls aloud/rubbens image has i homours tone i think more than the rest, it involes nudity so intantly gains something, but the real thinking behind it was to show the differance in socail fashions in regards to our own image, the girls in rubens painting are of the fuller figure, which at the time is what was consided the desirible form for a woman, nowadays girls like Girls Aloud are not the norm but the projected idea of the norm. but then again putting a slighty larger elvis head on Sir Henry Raeburn Skater was just because it looked funny. i like being deep then shallow in the same breath i find it amuseing
