Art Major (IADS Program and a Minor in Home Furnishings and Merchandising) at University of North Texas

     These are some photos I took on the way back to Denton and some that I chose from the internet to mess around with the idea of melting, convergence, bewilderment, distortion, and movement. I used the smudge tool to effectively communicate the motion in the pieces from a focal point in the pieces or an object to make the pieces to make the viewer grasp them and immerse them in these pieces. Every single element that was used has been thought out as I wanted to create depth and make the viewer make sense of the artworks. This idea of movement has always piqued my interest as you can alter any photo to give the image more visual motion from the viewer's perspective making them really feel the artworks through emotion and from the formal elements used. These collections of pieces have some famous artwork from different eras like Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss, c.1907", Michaelangelo's "The Creation of Adam c.1508–1512", and lastly Salvador Dali's "The Persistence of Time c.1931", which are some of my favorite pieces that I have studied in art history at UNT. The thought process behind "The Creation of Adam" altered artwork was my idea of putting an interesting focal point between the two figures where the original focal point was in the piece. Putting the half Sun on Adam's side I wanted to communicate life, creation, and destruction as Adam was one of the two people who had eaten the apple in the Bible to curse us, humans, with sin. The Sun represents life and destruction as it is a source of life for the growth of the planet, but it also represents the unfortunate impending doom in the foreseeing future. The altered artwork of Salvador Dali's "Persistence of Time" was to flip the original subject matter that Dali communicated in the work, I added a dagger in the middle-ground of the piece making a focal point so that I can make some visual and physical movement that extrudes out from the dagger, so that I may change the overall movement of the piece. The dagger doesn't necessarily mean anything in the subject matter than its purpose to distort the piece in a reasonable matter as daggers are an item of destruction. In the altered Dali piece, created some movement through line as I purposely extended every line to communicate to the viewer that the piece is in the middle-ground and making a shockwave-like effect in the piece. The altered artwork from Gustav Klimt's "The Kiss" was just an idea that I had from as I was the idea of love that is being faded and swept away from nothingness by creating swirls from the focal point to the right of the two figures making the viewer feel perpetuated that the two loved ones and their conditional love for each other be swept away by almost nothing. This was all an experiment to also practice and sharpen my photoshop skills, so maybe one day I can land an internship or job in my profession.