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❃°•°❀°•°❃ further explanation of my artwork inspiration, along with their works

*⋆Aadya's Art Exhibition

piece: Fetch the Bolt Cutters

topic: Female gaze

artist inspiration: Ram Han

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Ram Han is a digital artist based in Seoul, Korea. Her work has been showcased in several exhibitions at notable museums and galleries, such as the Buk-Seoul Museum of Art and the Richard Heller Gallery. Han uses digital painting as her primary medium. She uses 2D-based animation techniques to construct her pieces. Han’s works are characterized by ambient lighting, tertiary hues, and hazy gradients and incorporates Jungian-like imagery.

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piece: Incense and Peppermints

topic: Nostalgia

artist inspiration: Yayoi Kusama

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Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese artist known for her use of polka dots and many different mediums such as paintings, sculptures, installations, and Her work has been featured in the MoMA. Kusama’s work depicts obsession through repeating patterns, and she aims to create a hypnotic sensation through endless repetition.

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piece: Self Explained

topic: Introspection

artist inspiration: Junji Ito

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Junji Ito is a manga artist from Japan. Some of the recurring themes of Itō's work include jealousy, envy, body horror, seemingly ordinary characters who begin to act out of irrational compulsion, the breakdown of society, deep-sea organisms, and the inevitability of one's demise, all displayed through a realistic and simple design, which emphasizes the contrast between beauty and death.

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piece: O Mere Dil Ke Chain

topic: Coming-of-age

artist inspiration: Abanindranath Tagore

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Tagore was a Bengali painter who was the founder of the "Indian Society of Oriental Art". Tagore was interested in looking at themes from history and pre-colonial art. He rejected European academic art and took inspiration from Mughal and Rajput painting.

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piece: Pyramid Song

topic: Phenomenology

artist inspiration: Hirohiko Araki

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Araki is a manga artist and author of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, a manga that has run for over 30 years. His style has been described as an "experimental, but definitive approach. Araki's drawing commonly involves idealized figures in broad, expressive poses at adventurous scales and angles; with sharply inked lines and scattered, blackened planes; lending them a sculptural effect.

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piece: i

topic: Romanticized nostalgia

artist inspiration: Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling

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Becky Sloan and Joseph Pelling are British graphic designers, artists and animators. Becky and Joe’s works, particularly Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared, compare the appeal of the children’s shows to themes in Gothic literature, arguing that they are both tapping into the same cultural fear of a violent subconscious hiding beneath the façade of normality.

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piece: Duster

topic: Americana

artist inspiration: Richard Eggleston

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William Eggleston is an American photographer. He is widely credited with increasing recognition for color photography as a legitimate artistic medium.The formal elements of grain and fade are very prominent in his works. These further add to the nostalgic feel of his photographs.

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piece: White Meadow

topic: Imagination

artist inspiration: Bladee (Benjamin Reichwald)

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Benjamin Reichwald, known professionally as Bladee, is a Swedish rapper, singer, record producer, designer and member of the artistic collective Drain Gang. His work stems from the same artistic vein as his music, and his mixed media artworks are interpretations and visualizations of introspective dreamscape worlds.

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