Martin
De Pasquale is an artist and a photographer who is based
in Buenos Aires, Argentina. De Pasquale is currently n art director for an
advertising agency, but he is mostly known for his incredible photo
manipulations and surreal digital photographs. Using mostly Photoshop and other
software digital programs, he creates amazing and exotic images that alters
between reality and fantasy. Photographing the various elements of getting
the right angle or being away the right distance and with perfect lighting is
essential to making the photo manipulations appear to be realistic.
Alberto
Giacometti is a 1930’s sculptor, who creates
surrealistic sculpture forms of this idea. Most of his remarkable career has
come from his interest in European art before and after World War II. After the
war he summed up the philosophy’s interests in perception, view, and anxiety.
He abandoned his abstract pieces of art and became more interested in how to
represent the human figure in a convincing illusion through his sculpting.
Artist’s
Name: Martin De Pasquale
Title:
Don’t
Trust Your Own Shadow
Date:
2013
Description:
This
is an image portraying that that the shadow is grabbing on to the guys shirt
and taking over his body essentially.
Analysis:
Although
the shadow looks very realistic, it looks a little weird the way it was put
together, but overall, this is an amazing image. I really like the way he
composed this image, the environment, the space, the shadow, and the motion
making that he had to make in order to create this image as if he were tripping
over.
Interpretation:
I
really like this piece over all his other photographs because this image is
somewhat more realistic than the other, although you shadow can’t really take
over you and pull you into the ground, you can see you shadow and in your
imagination see that you shadow is taking over you.
Judgment:
Everything
about this image is great as I said the only thing I would change would be the
way the shadow is interpreted.
Artist’s
Name: Alberto Giacometti
Title: Spoon Woman
Date:
1927
Description:
A
figure of a women’s body and a spoon is interpreted as her wide hips and
thighs.
Analysis:
This
sculpture is very creative and it is a very human like figure that portrays
women with curves rather than the skinny ones in the public.
Interpretation:
This
sculpture is very well put together, it is evenly portrayed, the black coal
color gives the sculpture some edge as opposed to just make it a regular skin
tone. I think this is a message to the public that women with curves can also
be in the public face.
Judgment:
I
really like this sculpture, the fact that it is a sculpture is amazing.
Portraying surrealistic images and paintings is challenging, but to put your
ideas into a 3- Dimensional shape is pretty nice and he accomplished this successfully.
The element and idea overall was very well thought out and very well
represented.
These two artists and
photographers are both very different. De Pasquale takes is a photographer and
compositions himself in his pictures, essentially taking self-portraits in a
surrealistic ways. Giacometti on the other hand is a sculptor of surrealistic
art and he portrays more of human figures that any other things. They both are
modernists I would say. They have pieces that are definitely surrealistic and
they portray humans in their sculpting or photography. De Pasquale and
Giacometti are both very talented surrealistic artists. They convey a variety
of sculptures and images that are unbelievably unrealistic, but they work
perfectly fine in creating their surreal pieces.
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