Critique

Well, I had had some high expectations for critique on Tuesday. I have been experiementing with creating new landscapes through photoshop, but I didn't really receive any creative feedback on that or much of anything. Apparently Barbies are clique but its better than nothing. The 2 paintings/photos that gained the most attention were ones that I wasn't even that excited about. It was a straight shot nothing complicated. I put a lot of work into the Dali photo and all I got for feed back was its dark. That is not helpful at all. My proudest photo from this critique was the Dali photo since I was able to manipulate the pixels enough so that it looked like something Dali would produce. Even Fadi thought it was brilliant, but apparently the class was unimpressed. There were some good photos during critique but I think that this theme was too easy. You didn't really have the think of positioning because it was already predeterminded in the painting. Most of the class didn't try to put their own spin on it it was more of just recreating the painting and getting it over with. Other artists that have approached recreating paintings questioned the motives of the artists or what the painting was trying to say. This project would have been more successful if it had not been about recreating paintings but reading between the lines of the painting and manipulating those means that we work so hard to learn about in art history.