Week 3 : ITAP Originality

Week 3:  ITAP 

Nothing tends to be original, this is due to everything being reused or being redeveloped and so it is hard to consider what is an or original or not.

When looking at different pieces of artwork, you tend to see that the artist has taken ideas or has had inspiration from someone else’s work, making their own work not original. This process of not being original spreads from art to design to music, as someone has given them the idea behind what they have created.

Here is an example:

This piece of work was created by Andy Warhol and was created as it reminded him of his childhood and when he always ill. This piece of work has a meaning behind it.

 However this is a piece of work that was created by Banksy, and he has used Warhol’s idea to create his own, but one that is related to himself.

This is another piece of work that has copied the idea of Warhol, however the artists (Mr Brainwash) has not thought about changing the design to relate to himself like banksy, but has just simply changed the soup can into a spray can.

This is what is meant by nothing is original , as the idea has been taken by someone else.

Another area, which has similar problems, is within the photography industry, in which captured images are either real or fake. As it is hard to spot whether the photographer has set up the image himself or if an image has been manipulated, such as: digitally.

An example of this is the photographer Alison Jackson. 

The work above was taken by Jackson and is of the queen reading within the toilet. This photograph is a fake and so is all her work, as she gets lookalikes of famous faces and takes photographs of them in unlikely locations.

 However not all of her work looks fake. Jackson’s work below shows a George Bush lookalike trying to solve a rubix cube and because of how the lookalike has a good resemblance to the famous target and the angle the photo is taken at        

(Looks like its secretly been taken, due to blurredness of image) makes the image look real.

This type of imagery is common today , and it is getting harder to see whether photographs are real or fake.