Process

When deciding on who or what I was going to base my research upon to use for inspiration in my final pieces, I decided I wanted to make something that appropriates in a comical way. I didn’t want to create something controversial or political like a Banksy piece, I had the idea to use two very different advertisements or stock images and edit them both together in a way that they compliment each other.

Research

Stephen McMennamy

McMennamy is an art-director from Atlanta Georgia, USA. One of his most famous projects and also the one that I’m mostly interested in, is named Combophoto project, which is a series of images that McMennamy simply by taking two separate photos and splicing them together to make one picture. McMennamy uses inspiration sourced on Instagram to fuel this surreal series of images, creating an end product that is very simple to produce but has a very effective outcome.

McMennamy appropriates the original images by taking them away from their original everyday context and creating something that is surreal, using the technique of collage. This is technique of appropriation that McMennamy uses I find really interesting and different to conventional art that uses appropriation, which I is why I’m going to use his work as key inspiration to my final pieces.

Joe Webb

Webb uses the same technique of collage that McMennamy does in his work, there work differs when it comes to the process of creating their artwork, where McMennamy uses modern techniques such as photoshop, Webb takes old magazines and cuts out the images that he wants, then using collage combines them with other imagery from old magazines and creates images such as this