Portraits

Project 1

Artist Post- Pascal Dombis

Pascal Dombis

     Pascal Dombis is a digital artist who uses computers and algorithms to produce a lot of repetition of simple processes. He has been doing this for twenty years and uses geometrical or typographical sign. Dombis lives and works in Paris and earned his engineering degree from Insa University in Lyon. He started using computers in 1987 at Tufts University where he took computer art classes. He is noted for his excessive use of simple algorithmic rules. Dombis originally worked with simple rules like drawing a straight like. Then he used digital tools to make visual forms appear, but still by using these simple rules. He does not have a structure made up in his mind in advance, he uses simple rules and lets them go through a series of interactions. 

RightRong, 2007-2012

Géométries Irrationnelles, 2008 / Galerie Municipale, Vitry sur seine, FR

Mixed_Grill(e), 2014

Eurasia, 2012

    Pascal Dombis uses lines and shapes and words and repeats them many times and puts them in a interesting way. I really like the way he uses line because it makes you want to continue to look at his images. Sometimes I feel like artists use way too much and can go overboard when making an image but I really like his work because he does go overboard. But the way he does too much makes it interesting and he does it in a way that is not "too much". Most of his works he uses many layers to make it look like it is 3D. I have no idea how he does this but it is very interesting. The video I have above is of a floor that he put thousands of layers of words and phrases and it looks 3D. The person in the video touches the floor to show you it is not 3D but really one image.


    I think it is amazing how he can trick your eye just by putting multiple layers of one graphic together. I feel like if you really look at his work there is no true composition, but as a whole there is definitely a great composition. I feel like because he uses so many layers, he keeps your eye into his artworks. It is probably impossible to see every little thing in his work but it is cool to try to look at all of the different layers. He also has many deep meanings to his work and why he does certain things. The only one that I found a meaning for was the first image I have of his called RightRong. In the image it shows over and over again the words "I am right, you are wrong". He says he did this to try to show that no one is ever truly right or wrong. I'm sure there is meaning to all of his art and it would be interesting to know what each thing means. I also think knowing that his work has meaning just makes it that much better. 

Pascal Dombis Website

Artist Post- Alberto Seveso

    Alberto Seveso was borin in Milan, Italy in 1976 and started doing artwork in 1990. He decided to go into graphic design and photography because he was fascinated with skate decks and the cover of CD's from metal bands. He never went to an art school and is completely self taught. He started with using Deluxe Paint and Photoshop and was also a street artist. He then moved to Rome where he began his career as a graphic designer/illustrator. He has spent some time experimenting with high speed photography and ink.

     His work seems to be mainly portraits and also ink. He uses lots of color and other images to put into portraits to transform the face. He makes it seem like the face is made out of something else. In the top picture he uses his ink photography as hair for the woman. The second one seems to be more a floral and linear design. The third one is just ink and the fourth is also a portrait with what looks like just different splats of color and ink in the background. Most all of his pictures are very colorful with a dark background. I really like what he does and it makes the faces almost unrecognizable but you can still see the eyes and basic facial form. It really makes you look deeper into the picture to see what all is in there. It is almost impossible to see everything at times and kind of hurts my eyes but I enjoy looking at them. 

    I really enjoy his work because I am really into photography and specifically portrait photography. In high school I did a project with ink and water so that was another thing that I have in common with him. I have never experimented with portrait photography and photoshop the way he does and I am really interested in trying something like this. I am not sure what the actual meaning of his work is but it seems like he is just having fun and finding a new way to make portrait images. He uses lots of color and shapes and makes you question whats real and what is fake. Sometimes the faces are almost completely unrecognizable and sometimes you can see the entire face like the top picture.

Bon Expose

Alberto Seveso Official Web Page

Scan Collage

SCANS

 1. Phone

 2. CD's

 3. Unicorn Confetti 

 4. CD and Confetti

 5. Keys

 6. Knifes and Goggles

 7. Knifes

 8. Knifes and Unicorn

 9. Necklace

10. Goggles