Digital Portfolio

 What Is Layering? I have learned that the process of layering in art is the stacking of materials over other materials. This can make it easier to add surface texture and subtle color shifts. Many contemporary artists use the concept of layering to create the impression that one shape is in front of another to create visual effects. Layering can be achieved through the build up of shapes and objects to create an aesthetic that is appealing to the eyes. Examples of Layering in Art An example of layering is this picture. If the picture were to have a blank background, it would probably look very plain and boring. However, you can see that the artist stacked together multiple pieces of elements to make the image stand out more. In some cases, you can see the very bottom layer of a layered artwork, like this one. In others, you may only see the top layer. Another example of layering is in this painting of a man's face. The artist incorporated many different shapes, lines, and colors t...

In the past few days, I have learned that hybridity is the combination of various media to create a new piece of artwork. Contemporary artists incorporate hybridity in their art by cross breeding two or more elements of a genre to create a new style of art. An example of hybridity would exploring history in the form of video games. Feng Mengbo, a famous Chinese contemporary artist, is well known for this and is also considered to be a video game artist.  His grand work Long March began as acrylic pieces fusing retro gaming aesthetics with personal memories of the Cultural Revolution and culminated with a playable game on an 80 foot long screen in MoMA. There the player battles through Mao’s much-mythologized “long march” as a Red Army soldier, encountering critiques of communist China’s propaganda campaign. This art piece  depicts the adventures of a fictional Red Army character in a series of “game snapshots” reminiscent of Nintendo’s Super Mario. After investigating what hyb...

  After going through the Themes in Art pdf, the theme that I'm going to explore and focus on this year is going to be the concept of Art and Fantasy. I chose this theme because I believe that there are many different ways that you can display fantasy through videos because of how broad and diverse of a genre that it is. A couple of examples being an individual vs society, man vs nature, good vs evil, etc. Another reason why I’m choosing the topic of fantasy is because it is one of my favorite genres of films to watch, from Studio Ghibli classics to folktales and traditional motifs. Fantasy is a super limitless topic and you can create basically anything out of it with your imagination. I’ve had an interest in digital art ever since the start of middle school, and I’ve had a lot of experience from graphic designing to video editing. This was also around the same time when I discovered fandoms on Instagram that created fan edits out of anime and kpop. Watching these videos inspired ...