Pastiche – A pastiche is a work of visual art, literature, theatre, or music that imitates the style or character of the work of one or more other artists. Unlike parody, pastiche celebrates, rather than mocks, the work it imitates.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastiche
For my version of a pastiche i have decided to use the iconic Obama hope poster created by artist Shepard Fairey. It is widely seen as iconic and was used in the 2008 presidential campaign, see below.
To me this piece is so inspiring and depicts the idea of hope perfectly. The colour pallete of blue and red representing the american flag with an image of Obama looking up and the clear wording of HOPE below. I want to create something the opposite of this using an image of myself and creating a similar style and colour pallete but with no hope.
I think the opposite message is certainly being portrayed here as the image is looking down. I’ve tried to attempt the same colour scheme and style within the imagery. I really like how this turned out and could be used for a mental health charity, as in ‘feeling like there’s no hope?’ It would have also been nice to use an image of Americas current president Donald Trump with the wording ‘No Hope’ as frankly he’s doing a terrible job in my opinion!
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