T.berchie's Blog

For the alter ego project, i was required to make a wearable artwork to communicate the characteristic of a black panther. However, i decided to base my work on my cultural heritage of being an African. This is because, i have a very strong knowledge of my background, that i would like to explore visually. My initial idea was to make a costume out of an African fabric, but that contradicts the idea of having a wearable artwork. Instead, i used a recycled calico fabric with branches and leaves to convey the natural resources and safari landscapes that is linked to tribes in Africa. Moreover, i decided to make a cultural costume to show my interests in abstract expressionism movement, that visually conveys exciting colours and distortion of subject matters to convey my personality. As a result, i conducted visual researches on cubism, abstract expressionism and aboriginal. I made intial sketches of outfits to show the different styles of the art movements with similarities. As the whole ...

Pablo Picasso is a Spanish painter, sculptor and printmaker, who was born in Malaga, Spain on the 25 th  of October 1881, and unfortunately died in April 8th 1973. He collaborated with Georges Braque, to establish the art movement of cubism, which began in 1907, after the construction of the following artwork of, “Les Demoiselles d ’Avignon” which was initially produced to promote the cubist movement. This image is a demonstration of the artwork of, “Les Demoiselles d’ Avignon” which is translated as “The Young Ladies of Avignon”. This particular oil canvas painting consists of five naked women, posing provocatively in a glass front shop displace, advertising their bodies to the general public, in the streets of Barcelona. The way in which I was able to identify, that the women were posing in front of a glass panel was that, in Amsterdam there’s a place called a red light district, were you would discover a huge prostitutes posing in front of a glass panel, attracting visitors, as ...

According to Angela Onorato fashioning culture 2021 blog, Hippies is a movement which started in 1960s, that objected traditional beliefs of the western world. It began in universities in United States, Canada and United Kingdom adopted the movement. Hippies movement came about as a resistance of the involvement of US army in the Vietnam war from 1955 to 1975. Hippies popular saying of “peace and love” is to communicate the refusal of the Vietnam war, and for everyone to live in peace and harmony. Hippies felt isolated from the middle-class people who prides themselves of materialism possessions and hippies wanted a simpler and meaningful life. This indicates that hippies are focusing on being generally happy without any string attached and feeling a sense of freedom from financial responsibilities. I think that they are running away from the challenges in life of attempting to fulfil ambitions and have stable income needed to survive, as they are afraid of failing. Some would say that...

A Celebrity is a person who is widely recognised by strangers and works within the entertainment industries. Celebrities portray a wealthy lifestyle style of wearing designers, having mansions and luxury cars, that may not belong to them. There are many reasons to not believe anything put on social media, as the mansions might belong to friends or family members. The cars used for the poses might be hired from a car dealership, and their designer outfits would be on loan. Due to the mass media attention celebrities have, they venture into business deals with brands to promote their products on their social media, as they have thousands of followers. This means they get high end materials for free and will be posing in a way that they purchased them. This is a photograph of Charlotte Crosby, who was involved in a reality tv shows called Geordie shore. This makes are a celebrity and she is posing in a car, that might not be purchased by her. Being a celebrity comes with hours of coaching...

Sex is an act of sexually pleasing yourself with another person. Sexual act can involve using toys, whip straps and dildos, can be used to promote any product to communicate “sexy” or intimacy. This advertisement  of Tom Ford perfume for men is an example is using the concept of sex to enhances the senses of men, by using a beautiful model in a provoking pose that can be replicated in sexual intercourse of holding the breast and covering the nipples to show pleasure. Poster creates mass attention and appeals to heterosexual men, and has a psychology impact of thinking that when they get the spray, will get women to perform such acts. The red lipstick and nail polish suggest danger or caution which indicates that if men buy this product, they will be in bondage of constantly using this product until something tragic happens. The poster of the spray being placed in the inmate area is a way of inviting men into the part, to use whenever they like until they run out of interest and get...

Hip hop is known for its fierce lyrics: of using insults or strong language  to convey social and political issues surrounding the world we live today. These days youths of African American and African heritage are using rap to express concerns the corruption and poor health care of citizens, Hip hop was originally inspired by Tupac Shakur whose rap was about the daily troubles of blacks in the United States. Today young male Africans are at the forefront of expressing the truths of being African living in a country with greedy political leaders, who steal from the people and use it to sponsor luxury lifestyles. This includes buying properties in foreign countries, putting their children in private schools, and owning a luxury sport car, while their citizens are suffering with no electricity and water. Equally young African women are using rap to criticize gender-based violence, such as rape most common in ghetto communities. The women who face such violence cannot afford lawyers t...

Traditional cultures are a combination of past and present practices of a certain group of people, who adopts beliefs into everyday life. This has connection with our ancestors and is associated with tribes in African countries, to maintain the same values of religious practices and ritual for thousands of years. Traditional practices have conflicts with modern practices, as something deemed acceptable to traditionalist are frown upon by modern people. As a result, there are constant battles between the older and younger generation. Traditional people are thought to have narrow mind set to modern people and find it difficult to adjust to the modern world and are often challenged to think otherwise. Traditional practices are similar to traditional dresses that varies from countries to tribes. In this case the traditional dress of Ghana is Kente cloth, which some are handwoven or printed. The design of the cloth is a repeated geometric pattern in vibrant colours that is used for special ...