Caspar David Friedrich. (2019, November 20). Retrieved from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich.
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Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. He is best known for his mid-period allegorical landscapes which typically feature contemplative figures silhouetted against night skies, morning mists, barren trees or Gothic ruins. His primary interest was the contemplation of nature, and his often symbolic and anti-classical work seeks to convey a subjective, emotional response to the natural world. Friedrich's paintings characteristically set a human presence in diminished perspective amid expansive landscapes, reducing the figures to a scale that, according to the art historian Christopher John Murray, directs "the viewer's gaze towards their metaphysical dimension".
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The War Art of Paul Nash (1917–1944). (n.d.). Retrieved from https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-war-art-of-paul-nash-1917-1944.
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The work of the English artist Paul Nash — one of the most important landscape artists of the twentieth century — entered the public domain this year in many countries around the world. It is in his depictions of the destroyed and broken landscapes of the First and Second World War, which we are celebrating in this post, that perhaps we see Nash's talent and his engagement with modernity most acutely visible. As the art historian T. J. Clark comments, "it seems that the 20th century only came to Nash, as something paintable, in the form of total war".
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I had to experiment with the position of were to take the picture and were to stand that had the best light. I decided that it was best for the person taking the picture to stand behind me instead of diagonal because I felt that this would be the best way to edit the picture in Photoshop. It also helped with the positioning of the poses.
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In this picture I was experiencing with the position of the giant picture of me. I wasnt sure what position or what I wanted it to be doing. I ended up using this posture because I felt that out of the pictures I took, that this was the best to interpret a boss or a giant.
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I had to take a couple of pictures of were to position myself and my hands so I was able to hold the items and be facing in the way of the boss. This took awhile in Photoshop to position the items well enough to be able to see and be targeting the giant.
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I then wanted to add fog into my piece to give it like an eerie feeling or mysterious feel to the piece. To do this I went to Filters-Render-Noise-Solid Noise. This made the image look like this with this new layer on it.
I then changed the color to black and white to have the image look like this. I felt like it was to foggy do I lowered the gradient of the fog layer to give the image the same effect but were you can see the original image as well. |