Blog 4

For my final project I will explore the taboo of just being exceptionally different for the youth. I will have a school playground scene to help convey this. This is because most taboos that people deal with that have a huge effect on our lives come as a result of what we see in our schools. There will be different types of cliques such as, the high school “loser.” “The Nerd.” “The Dungeon and dragons group.” I will use this to show how such taboos lead to the most grave of situations. For example, the Virginia Tech Shooting and Columbine. I was thing that I would maybe turn a last supper type of scene into this piece. I would have all the food be playground equipment. And at the Table I would have the teacher be Jesus and the others at the table be different types of taboos on the playground or on campus and in the shadows of the scene, I will have the woes and negatives being depicted in an eerie fashion. I can see this work being used as a memorial for those who fell victim to the outcomes of these taboos.

As far as the pieces that influenced me so far in this project, most of them have unnamed artists but they are different renditions of the last supper scene.







I will also use some of these shadow techniques to express the darkness and sadness that lurks in the shadow of these taboos.


Shadows
Out of Bounds Shadows
Shadow Techniques with Light--Giant Elephant

Midterm

I started out with this.. yea...





Then I scratched it and moved onto this...





Made from these...







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Taboo: Social Do's and Don'ts

This work by Kim Joon is about the social taboos of nudity and tattoos. In this piece, the artist uses the body in its entirety to convey this big idea. He uses the beauty of the human body and the perfect mesh of colors to highlight both of the taboos in their forms. He turned the nude bodies into something more visually appealing to those who see nudity as taboo and he also turned tattoos into something that can be see as aesthetically pleasing rather than an eye sore.

From this piece, I feel like I can take away the ability to use colors and shades to mask and convey my image’s message.







This piece here is about the social taboo of picking ones nose. In the description the artist speaks about how this common act has become so taboo that it is instilled in our minds, from the early youth, as a social taboo. The artist uses the famous ‘Mona Lisa’ painting and edits it to depict her picking her nose. This was meant to show how the taboo that we take to be so serious, is in fact silly. The artist main goal was to show how ridiculous it is for the simple act to have such serious ramifications. Especially when the act is something that is a bit normal.