Vishal- A2 Art 'Update'

After finally getting my infographics work completed for my graphic product I have started to explore a more diverse side of my creativity. The focus is now on relating my work to Shepherd Fairey as well as translating it through a message which relates to the theme of Snollygoster.

One interesting graphic that I came across during the Election earlier this year has started to shape the recent progress I have made within this project. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/election2010/results - this is the link that I found which depicts a proportional measure of seats won by each party in the 2010 General Election. I noted that the pattern and style that this graphic has been created through is one that I could utilise for my independent development, therefore I began to produce an array of patterns using stencils to experiment with composition, scale, proportion and style.

The results were terrific and I decided to relay the pattern from the infographic onto these stencils by using Photoshop – further layering it within the vectorised image of Gordon Brown seen within my previous post, as well as “despeckled” images of the Labour rose. All of this led to the below outcome of a party political poster that takes advantage of all of my research upto this point.



In relation to Shepherd Fairey I feel the piece has strong visual links with the way in which Fairey uses “worn” images and stencilling, however to kindly humiliate my own support for left wing politics I have also created the below piece which heavily relates the Fairey-esque style of stand up politics; labelled as “The Social State” it relates to the surveillance and interference of our previous government within society, exposing the disparity between our fair democracy and other more extreme left wing socialist dictatorships. It is this piece that brings me to the end of Task 11 and onto my independent development – therefore I wish for my work to evolve into something much darker, and maybe much more cynical.

The next stage of this project is now to explore the reverse side of left wing politics; Conservatism. More so by exploring the role of religion and society within a conservatively dictated nation, namely the Southern States of the US, as well as our own current “Conservative” arrangement.