My flipbook is based on the novel 1984 by George Orwell. This novel is a dystopian future novel (one of the original dystopian future novels) centered around a middle aged man named Winston who falls in love with a younger woman who is a member of the Party. They carry out a secret relationship, trying to hide it from Big Brother, until they get caught by members of the Party. Much of the imagery in the story is what I chose to illustrate in this flipbook. The glass paperweight which represents a secret paradise to Winston, images of Big Brother watching over the people walking through the street in their blue jumpsuits, the picture of the Church hanging in the secret room in the shop that conceals the telescreen that watches Winston and Julia, and of course the slogan of the Party: War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, Ignorance is Strength. While drawing the images for this flipbook, it was really difficult to gauge the speed of frames and how that would look in video. As a result o...
My performance project was inspired by childhood. It involves me cleaning and organizing a room and subsequently making a mess again. A combination of pointless tasks is an example of the point of view of children. I came up with this after I heard my younger brother ask my mom why he had to make his bed if he was just going to sleep in it again.
My grid project is a painting of Mickey Mouse by Andy Warhol. It is acrylic paint on canvas. I used a round paint stamp to stamp each "pixel" with red, black, or beige paint. Originally I was going to do a picture of Weezer's first album cover, but I saw an ad for Mickey Mouse's 90th Birthday Party and they mentioned that Andy Warhol had done a painting of Mickey. I Google image searched "Andy Warhol Mickey Mouse" and sure enough this picture came up.
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