Post 8 - Vianel Bonilla

 Art History

Well I will be honest. When it comes to making my art pieces I'd never research or look at history or historical movements. I would just have an idea and work from there if I needed reference I would look at things I already have heard of or seen. Although pop art has always been a movement that interested me and specifically Roy Lichtenstein from that era. Pop art took place in the 1950s in which artists incorporated imagery from popular culture and mass media in to fine arts.  Pop art influenced the "style" I use which is mostly using bold color and clean outlines. Roy used Ben Day dots to render his work which was normally printed on magazines for comic book characters and he would hand paint them and this set him aside from others. He re-imagined compositions in which he'd add and remove things from the source he'd reference from. I do something similar when making my pieces I reference Comics or already existing characters and reimagine them how I'd like them to be seen.

These works are all reimagined from characters that already exist in my own composition. I use bold outlines and bold colors. My work relates in my opinion for these reasons alone.