Wednesday 14 May 2014

Villain theme

Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. One of the most prominent cultural icons for over three decades, she has achieved an unprecedented level of power and control for a woman in the entertainment industry. She attained immense popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV. Madonna is known for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry. Music critics have praised her diverse and innovative musical productions which have also been known to induce controversy. Cited as an influence amongnumerous artists around the world, she is often referred to as the "Queen of Pop".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(entertainer)

I used Madonna as a villain theme - this is purely because when Madonna started her career, her lyrics and dress sense offended people especially her song 'Like a Virgin' as people felt that it promoted premarital sex and undermined family values.
In April 1990, Madonna began her Blond Ambition World Tour, which was held until August.[70] Rolling Stone called it an "elaborately choreographed, sexually provocative extravaganza" and proclaimed it "the best tour of 1990".[71] The tour was met with strong reaction from religious groups for her performance of "Like a Virgin", during which two male dancers caressed her body before she simulated masturbation.[50]The Church of England and the Catholic Church criticized her performance and the Pope asked the general public and the Christian community not to attend the concert.[72] A private association of Catholics calling themselves Famiglia Domani also boycotted the tour for its eroticism.[73] In response, Madonna said, "The tour in no way hurts anybody's sentiments. It's for open minds and gets them to see sexuality in a different way. Their own and others".[74] The Laserdisc release of the tour won Madonna a Grammy Award in 1992 for Best Long Form Music Video.[75]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(entertainer)
Madonna's music videos contain offensive religious content and videos on you tube even claim that she 'worships satan'.
Madonna is the most successful female recording artist of all time according to The World Guinness Book of Records.
Madonna is also an actress and a business woman but I think she will always be remembered more for her music and bold style.

I really like Madonna's music and one of my favourite songs is 'Frozen', I like her sense of style in the video and therefore decided to copy her style as a villain.  

I used the following images as a guide:



















Villain theme

Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer-songwriter, actress, and businesswoman. One of the most prominent cultural icons for over three decades, she has achieved an unprecedented level of power and control for a woman in the entertainment industry. She attained immense popularity by pushing the boundaries of lyrical content in mainstream popular music and imagery in her music videos, which became a fixture on MTV. Madonna is known for continuously reinventing both her music and image, and for retaining a standard of autonomy within the recording industry. Music critics have praised her diverse and innovative musical productions which have also been known to induce controversy. Cited as an influence amongnumerous artists around the world, she is often referred to as the "Queen of Pop".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(entertainer)

I used Madonna as a villain theme - this is purely because when Madonna started her career, her lyrics and dress sense offended people especially her song 'Like a Virgin' as people felt that it promoted premarital sex and undermined family values.
In April 1990, Madonna began her Blond Ambition World Tour, which was held until August.[70] Rolling Stone called it an "elaborately choreographed, sexually provocative extravaganza" and proclaimed it "the best tour of 1990".[71] The tour was met with strong reaction from religious groups for her performance of "Like a Virgin", during which two male dancers caressed her body before she simulated masturbation.[50]The Church of England and the Catholic Church criticized her performance and the Pope asked the general public and the Christian community not to attend the concert.[72] A private association of Catholics calling themselves Famiglia Domani also boycotted the tour for its eroticism.[73] In response, Madonna said, "The tour in no way hurts anybody's sentiments. It's for open minds and gets them to see sexuality in a different way. Their own and others".[74] The Laserdisc release of the tour won Madonna a Grammy Award in 1992 for Best Long Form Music Video.[75]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madonna_(entertainer)
Madonna's music videos contain offensive religious content and videos on you tube even claim that she 'worships satan'.
Madonna is the most successful female recording artist of all time according to The World Guinness Book of Records.
Madonna is also an actress and a business woman but I think she will always be remembered more for her music and bold style.

I really like Madonna's music and one of my favourite songs is 'Frozen', I like her sense of style in the video and therefore decided to copy her style as a villain.  

I used the following images as a guide:



















Research - Rachael Koscica




Rachael Koscica is a portrait, underwater, surreal, and fashion photographer from Phoenix, Arizona











I like the way that she has created the images below as she is trying to show movement in her photographs even though they are self portraits.






Research - Vivian Maier


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VIVIAN MAIER: SELF-PORTRAITS




Celebrated by The Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, The New York Times, American Photo, Town and Country and countless other publications, the life’s work of recently discovered street photographer Vivian Maier has captivated the world and spawned comparisons to
photography’s masters including Diane Arbus, Helen Levitt, Lisette Model, Walker Evans, and Weegee among others.









Now, for the first time, Vivian Maier: Self-Portraits reveals the fullest and most intimate portrait of the artist to date with approximately 60 never-before-seen black-and-white and four-color self-portraits culled from the extensive Maloof archive, the preeminent collector of the work of Vivian Maier and editor of the highly acclaimed Vivian Maier: Street Photographer (powerHouse Books, 2011)—bringing us closer to the reclusive artist than ever before.

This clothbound book contains 57 black and white photos and 29 color photos, it was printed in Italy.







Vivan Maier is famous for her street photography but I really like her style of self portraits - especially using mirrors to create them as I think it adds much more detail to the photograph.