Our first masterpiece
defeated...... by SHM
This is a 1.2 m² piece of artwork consisting of 100's of images of the 80's to create a mosaic portrait of Margaret Thatcher. We decided to call this piece of art defeated.... stemming from an infamous quote by Thatcher whilst in power Defeat—I do not recognise the meaning of the word!.As we all know the Baroness was kicked out of power by her own party and in turn her party then thrown out of power by new labour. The IRONY!! (excuse the pun, irony, iron, iron lady! cough cough)
On either side of the image of Thatcher are the portaits of my classmates and I from college(clockwise from top right Ayla, Jonathan, Lana, Julie, myself and Karl. The ones to the left where born pre 1980s and to the right post 1980s.
Our work was to represent the 1980s, the good and the bad...Thatcher being the latter of the two. We decided to have Thatcher in blue, the colder primary colour and us in yellow and red, the warmer of the primary colours. We wanted our portraits to appear as if we were laughing at Thatcher as she was defeated and look at the good that came out of the 80s, hence why we thought it was an excellent idea to form a portrait of Margaret Thatcher from a mosaic of all iconic images from the 1980s.
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| Mosaic Maggie....look closely! |
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| placing our piece of art of the wall in college! |
Inspired by artist Gilbert & George
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