The document discusses Antonio Lopez's polaroids from the 1970s depicting his celebrity muses. The photos have an intimate feel, showing Lopez's social circle in an informal setting. The author was inspired by Lopez's photos of Jessica Lange and responded by illustrating her using bright colors and exaggerated hair to emulate Lopez's style. They further developed their ideas by collecting polaroids of their friend Minnie from Brighton and illustrating them in Lopez's style to similarly celebrate important people in their life.
The document discusses Antonio Lopez's polaroids from the 1970s depicting his celebrity muses. The photos have an intimate feel, showing Lopez's social circle in an informal setting. The author was inspired by Lopez's photos of Jessica Lange and responded by illustrating her using bright colors and exaggerated hair to emulate Lopez's style. They further developed their ideas by collecting polaroids of their friend Minnie from Brighton and illustrating them in Lopez's style to similarly celebrate important people in their life.
The document discusses Antonio Lopez's polaroids from the 1970s depicting his celebrity muses. The photos have an intimate feel, showing Lopez's social circle in an informal setting. The author was inspired by Lopez's photos of Jessica Lange and responded by illustrating her using bright colors and exaggerated hair to emulate Lopez's style. They further developed their ideas by collecting polaroids of their friend Minnie from Brighton and illustrating them in Lopez's style to similarly celebrate important people in their life.
The document discusses Antonio Lopez's polaroids from the 1970s depicting his celebrity muses. The photos have an intimate feel, showing Lopez's social circle in an informal setting. The author was inspired by Lopez's photos of Jessica Lange and responded by illustrating her using bright colors and exaggerated hair to emulate Lopez's style. They further developed their ideas by collecting polaroids of their friend Minnie from Brighton and illustrating them in Lopez's style to similarly celebrate important people in their life.
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DEVELOPMENT
In response to Antonio Lopez
An element of Antonio Lopez’ work that I felt inspired by was his collections of photographs of his models, candid polaroid pictures of his celebrity muses in the 70s. The photos, much like his style of illustration, are colourful and full of movement and document his glamorous social life at the height of his fame. The polaroids have an intimate feel, with close up framing and a bright flash that emphasises their vivid, energetic nature, almost as if the viewer is seeing the events of the pictures in real time, through Lopez’s eyes. They showcase a very personal elemnt of Antonio Lopez’s life, depicting his social circle and the people closest to him at that time in an informal, relaxed setting. I hoped to respond to the energy and vibrance of these series of photographs in my own response.
Lopez’ polaroids
My response
I was inspired by Lopez’s polaroids of Jessica Lange and
responded to this in my own development by illustrating her using a combination of ink and bright coloured pastels. I chose a bright, eye-catching colour palette to try and emulate Lopez’s technicolour style of drawing and bring out the bold silhouettes Jessica Lange’s poses in the photographs. The customary flowing, curly hair of the models in his illustrations also inspired me to exaggerate the shape and texture of hair, giving the drawings a more animated appearance.
Antonio Lopez’ photography of Jessica Lange
I developed my ideas further Polaroid I took in Brighton by collecting polaroid photographs I had taken of my best friend, Minnie, on a trip to Brighton the previous summer. I felt these pictures were applicable to the work and influence of Antonio Lopez as they similarly show the part of my identity that is to do with the people I love and spend time with. The pictures have sentimental value for me as they not only depict someone special to me but are associated with happy memories that I wanted to celebrate in my development. I chose a number of these photographs and decided to present them in the same way as how I had illustrated Lopez’s pictures of Jessica Lange to show my response to his celebration of a close friend of his.
My response
Again, I chose to use bold, solid
colours and used inks and a nib pen to try and copy the striking lines seen in the work of Lopez. Antonio Lopez’s polaroids usually have a central focal point, with little back ground imagery so the viewer is instantly drawn in by the action in the picture. My pictures were a bit more convoluted so I simplified the composition of the polaroids I had taken to emphasise Minnie’s poses and silhouettes. I used a colour scheme which was bright and cheerful to add to the summery mood of the pictures. Responding to the close relationship between Antonio Lopez’ artwork and his personal life, I wanted to explore other ways of celebrating the people important to me in my development.