Physical Experiment/ Gender -
Seher Khan Graphic Art:
Eugenia Loli Graphic Art:
My Photographs:
To begin with, all of the images depicted above are the works of the graphic artists Seher Khan and Eugenia Loli with my own two physically manipulated photographs beneath.
Some similarities between the above final outcomes is due to the technical formation of the images. For instance, they have been created using similar techniques such as the layering of clippings onto portraits either physically or graphically. Furthermore, all belong within the sub-category of portraiture photography. Khan and Loli are graphic artists who create similar final outcomes to myself but instead they use software rather than physical cutting and gluing. For example, both of the above artists obscure the face in some manner within their pictures which I have replicated by covering the main facial features with clippings that can be associated with specific genders. My main inspiration was Loli's work on the male sheriff portrait which she developed by layering with stereotypically feminine flowers to contrast ideas of hyper-masculinity and femininity.
Moreover, the composition of the final outcomes are similar in that all feature portraiture from shoulders to top of the head which is taken further with the experimentation of obscuring the face and thus the identity. Additionally, the final outcomes implicitly study ideas about identity formed by our surroundings and society. To explain, Khan's second image appears to be studying how war and violence shapes individual people, Loli studies how closely related masculinity and femininity are and I chose to study how society's expectation of genders socialises individuals and forms a gender based identity.
However, there are also some differences in the final pieces that are depicted above. One important change is the employment of colour within the images. For example, Khan uses a multitude of colours in the layering process as does Loli quite often. I, on the other hand, complied in colour more to the first of Loli's images shown above. The monochrome backdrop with a low saturated portrait layered with more vibrant bold hue colours. Furthermore, the meanings behind my inspiration artist are more implicit than my own renditions of them as I have employed stereotypes to address ideas about gender whilst Khan and Loli use images that appear more to be associated or connoted with their subject.
If I was to improve the pastiche of my final outcomes then I would adapt my work through experimenting with Photoshop to include skills such as filters or selective colourisation to create a similar retro inspired style like Loli's or increase the hue and saturation to make my work more like that of Khan's. I would also try to layer larger and more clippings over my portrait photographs as to create a more in depth and engaging final outcome.
To conclude, there are both similarities and differences between Seher Khan's, Eugenia Loli's and my own work in that I was inspired by the above graphic artist and this can be seen in my use of bold coloured clipping. Although, I still experimented with my own ideas about simply obscuring the main facial features individually rather than with as large clippings like those employed by both Khan and Loli.
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