HW3.2 Digital Collage

XOXO

For this assignment, I chose to create a digital collage based on famous art historical kisses.  With Valentine's Day approaching, I thought it was an appropriate theme and something with which I have past experience.  About two years ago, I began a project intended to decorate my room.  I wanted to find posters of several art historical kisses and frame them in a salon style.  I collected frames and decided to paint them all matte black in order to aesthetically connect the posters' very different art styles.  In the end, I arranged them around a framed quote by Sylvia Plath: "Kiss me and you will see how important I am."

My Room

Although I used some of the same images in my room decor and in my digital collage, the process involved was very different.  For my digital collage, I decided to crop the background out of each image so that the focus was on the embrace of the figures.  I think by highlighting the figures only, this piece is more physical and active.  When making my room decor, I was limited by my own funds to only buy so many frames and so many posters.  Therefore, there are only seven images of kissing couples.  In my digital collage, I had no limits and was able to use as many couples as I wanted.  I ended up using twelve couples in order to fill the square shape that I had created as a background.  I was also able to have the art historical couples interact with each other much more in my digital collage than in my room.  By using Photoshop, I was able to overlap the images and put them in the same plane.  This created an interesting juxtaposition between the various styles of art and made a dynamic contrast in the work.  I really enjoyed creating this collage as a further exploration of my interests and it would be interesting to extend the collage to include more types of art.