Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Perceptive Visualizations

This Thanksgiving break I got the opportunity to visit a few exhibitions. Two inspirations of mine, Warhol and Dali, were on display at a museum. At the Warhol museum, there was this contraption where you look through different shaped lenses, which skews the scene you are looking at. I took this picture and edited it to accentuate Warhol's intentions of a multi-dimensional world.  Where a magnified focal point attracts the eye, the outer layers act as a sort of buffer. I really appreciate this perceptive visualization and used some photoshop skills to highlight it: Saturation, exposure, offset, curves, levels and color balance.



Additionally, I took the initiative to create my own traditional art after being inspired by Warhol and Dali.  This is an acrylic painting of Salvador Dali that I did based off of a picture of him that I saw at the museum. Here it is!

My acrylic painting of Dali

Depiction of Dali at exhibition