Self Critique: Project one

Ashley Cafasso

Sarah Rockett

Studio Foundations: 4D

21 September, 2012

Self Critique: Project one

My first reaction to the art piece is that I did a really good job. It gives me the chills to look at it with the way the color scheme us laid out. A few adjectives that come to mind as I look at the work is, dark, kids, rock, concerts, perfection, and music. I think the work successfully communicates my idea with the use of Babies as the more “perfect person” in the piece and using censor bars to cover their eyes. I also like how there are a few imperfect Babies hidden from the audience. I think unsuccessfully the piece doesn’t communicate well type of stereotype I was trying to point out. The idea of a perfect person vs. a person who has tattoos or likes to listen to heavy metal. To those who will know the band in the background they might understand that stereotype, but to the general public there may be a little confusion.

The formal elements that I used helped communicate my idea because the Babies pose as the perfect, ideal person that kids look up to and want to be, where the lead singer of papa roach, Jacoby Shaddix is the complete opposite of perfect. He towers over the Babies s in the piece and is defiantly the center of imperfection. My work shows a social environment where stereotypes play a key role. It can lead into the thought of what parents what their children to be when they grow up. It also hits the nail on the head of how we show our kids what perfect is. The blonde Barbie being the main source and repeated in different formats from the princess Barbie, who was what I personally always looked up to, all the way to the rock star Barbie. The rock star Barbie sits right next to the rock star himself and poses which one a parent would more likely wish their child to be.