I have learned a lot this unit as an artist, not only in the classroom but also at home. A piece of Art is never your own Idea because great artist steal. No matter what sketch or video you do it can be connected to something else. There is a difference from taking a piece of art and stealing a piece of art. The artwork above is combining history and art together. By stealing ideas from the subject I was able to create a new fresh piece of artwork, if you can’t tell the face represents all the races and genders of the world. And the little drawings around it represent events in history that have affected a lot of people. Like the smoking building is there for when the twin towers were attacked, and a mask the doctors would where during the black plague. There is also a hand rapt in chains representing slavery, a tear representing the trail of tears, and a knife to symbolize all the murders that ever happened. Knowing that it was ok to go look at other peoples art for inspiration, helped me realize that you can take ideas from other people but you have to make it your own.
For this artwork I had the idea of taking a snake and a key and combining them together. After I sketched it I realized I could make the piece even more fantastic by adding a theme to it. So I picked out the theme jungle and went on from there, adding teeth at the side and making the handle leopard print. This shows that even after you combined two things you can add more to make it your idea. I had seen a picture of a snake combined with a pair of scissors so I had took an idea and twisted it around to make it my own.
Now I know I had placed this artwork in my other post but I brought it back because it was a great example of an artist steal. So I had token a famous superhero and placed a theme I thought up. The theme was kind of combining Spider Man with a spider well because he is SPIDER man so you know.