Exploring Style - Influence Map

Cute and Simplistic Character Designs

I want my Cowgirl bug to have a cute, simplistic style. To gain some inspiration I've looked at some Disney Characters which I think have achieved this! I realize that many of these characters have smooth and rounded shapes. This creates an endearing and friendly look.

5 reasons why the film Scream is Postmodern

Pastiche - it replicates the movie plot of a slasher film. It follows the same formula of films from that genre.

Parody - Although it takes on this formula it almost makes a mockery of slasher films for being too predictable. For example the main character Sidney Prescott even says this about slasher films "Some stupid killer stalking some big - breasted girl who cant act who is always running up the stairs when she should be running out the front door. Its insulting." What she doesn't realize is that shes about to reenact that movie genre.

Appropriation - taking a piece of art work and giving it a new meaning. The evil villain in this film was named after a rubber Halloween mask, which was originally inspired by the Edvard Munch painting called "The Scream."

Scream Mask and "The Scream" by Edvard Munch

High and Low Culture - Craven has taken a massed produced and low cultured item (the rubber mask) that originated from a high cultured piece of art work and re-imagines this to create a slasher film. 


Intertextuality - the film references a lot of other movies from the Horror genre. Especially when the characters are discussing about horror movies themselves. Many of the characters, especially Randy Meeks understands the cliche of slasher films.

Postmodern Definitions and Sherri Levine

Avant - garde - this can be Modern art which presents a new style or method. Sometimes that may be provocative, abstract or even shocking.

Nostalgia -  something that provokes feelings from past memories.

Appropriation - copying or duplicating something but altering the meaning and context of it.

Pastiche - imitating a someones work. For example a piece of art or film genre.

Parody - for example, imitating a movie scene but exaggerating certain parts for a comedic effect.

Irony - using words or images to create something different to its actual meaning. Usually done to create a humorous effect.

Ideology - a system of beliefs and ideals formed by society.

Genre - for example a particular movie style or category.

Sherrie Levine - is an American painter, photographer and conceptual artist. She takes existing art and duplicates it. Forming her own critique around it.  She particularly uses male artist's work, for instance the "Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp.  This is done to make a point about how Female artists are undervalued for their work though out art history. I guess you could say that her art work is an example of Appropriation.

Sherrie Levine - Fountain (after Marcel Duchamp)

Head Modelling - Part 2 Rough Blocking

Rough Blocking