This image was taken of a vinyl. The image caught my eye as I was interested in the distorted effect which added more originality to the portrait and is very enigmatic. The shadows around the eye make it a central point of focus to the audience which contributed to my decision to crop the image so it is the main point of the image. I felt this changed the approach of the photo as the fact it is a vinyl image is not as clear anymore and the rest of her features cropped out provides more of a question of who this girl is to the audience.

This advertisement for Boots caught my eye because of the detail of the powder and how they looked combined. The white background and the equal lighting make the colours stand out which is why i chose to crop the image to the part that caught my eye the most. I then rotated the image 180 degrees as I really liked the detailing of the blue powder coating the brush and i felt this was more a central focus after the image was rotated and I had it taking up more of the frame.

RESEARCH

“Appropriation in art and art history refers to the practice of artists using pre-existing objects or images in their art with little transformation of the original”

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/a/appropriation

Lobster Telephone 1936 Salvador Dali 1904-1989 Purchased 1981 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/T03257

Surrealism made use of appropriation within collages and objects as shown in the image above. The use of surrealism is used by putting two different objects together to create something that looks different, unexpected and menacing. For Dali, the telephone had strong sexual connections and the lobster was usually associated to erotic pleasure and pain offering an analogy within the image to food and sex. Within the image, the tail of the lobster (where sexual parts are located) are over the mouthpiece offering the analogy within the work.

https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/dali-lobster-telephone-t03257