Artist Analysis

 

Task1

Artist Name: Jose Romussi

 

Jose Romussi’s message in the photographs is to express different parts in person’s face. What it means that every people are different and those also play with culture. Since my main focus is about my international identity, I can similarly use those techniques to express that every cultures are different. His style is very interesting; peoples’ faces are replaced by colored strings, and some face have horns instead. It is also notable to found out his photos of the people are in black and white, but only their faces are colored. I think what he meant for the audience is to make them focus on colored part, since it is the most important part. Although it could be hard, I would try to use lights to increase/decrease the focus of a subject. These images inspire me because Romussi was the only photographer I could find that dealt with culture.  That way I could see some example regarding with my identity and take photos like him. Cultures are difficult to put those in photographs, and I think Romussi did a great job in expressing those. The content of his photograph would lead me to a correct path to cultures and differences. The photos below are 5 photos that are very similar in content, but it inspires me. As you can see from this photograph, Romussi emphasizes the subject’s musical identity; expressing those with musical notes and words. Although other pictures can seem to be difficult to show identities, I can apply my international identity while using the techniques Romussi uses on face. That way, I can directly show “Me” myself and “Identity” in a photograph, which gives the audience better understanding of my photograph, just like Romussi does.

 

 

 

 

Task 2- Critique of Images.

 

The best image of Jose Romussi:

Although the title is undetectable this is my favorite image of Jose Romussi. The main reason why this photograph inspires me is because it describes about the subject’s identity. The subject in this photograph is a male person, with colorful shapes and words included in this image.  What is interesting in this photograph is that it does not look like a photograph. It just looks like a drawing. Romussi states that it is a collage, but although it is closer to the concept of drawing, I want to apply with the techniques and use it when I take photographs. What is noticeable in this image is the black&white color of the subject(person), which controls the light and shadow, and colorful texts and images with a variety of colors. That way, audience can focus on the subject’s identity and creates the mood to wander about the subject’s own identity. The colorful things describe his identity and passion about music; as you can see from this image, there are things like “MUZIK” ,”SING”, and beat drawings in this photograph. That way, I could know that the subject likes music. The setting in this image is undetectable since it only focuses on the identity. Although it could be hard to enable those artistic choices that Romussi did, I will try to make a similar mood to have a clear intention for the audience to feel amused by a lot of cultural identity I have.