Social commentary

For are project Augment we have to create a piece using Photoshop or Nuke that shows social commentary. We started off by looking at symbolism and what it means how it’s used, we then moved onto famous advocators for social commentary.

William Hogarth (1697-1764) was an English painter, printer and cartoonist who has been credited with pioneering western sequential art.

James Gillray (1756-1815) was also another British caricaturist and printmaker famous for political and social satires.

Next, we had to do some research on Trafalgar squares 4th plinth and chose on that we would later show and explain to the group. I chose Hahn/cock by German artist Katharina Fritsch who made a 15.5-foot blue rooster, she wanted to mock the idea of masculinity as the three other plinths are army generals and that’s the connection to rooster prancing around with the puffed out chest.

After looking at the examples and doing are own reaches into the 4th plinth, I have a better understanding of the project and I have some ideas, I want to stick with the idea of having it in Trafalgar square my primary idea is to have a tree stumps all over the plinth, the message is tree deforestation and staying on these tracks another idea is a giant ice cube that’s slowly melting this would be in refences to global warming and climate change my last idea is more farfetched but simpler is to have a wall with a drone hovering over it, this is my 2017 taken of the “fly on the wall” saying and it has to do with government surveillance.