Bricolage

This is a example of bricolage work that I have made myself. This is when you take a normal picture or photograph then add something like pop art or something that stands out and gets someones attention that could be affence at times and put it onto the photograph that make the image look unique.

Definition of Bricolage: Bricolage is a term used in several disciplines, among them the visual arts, to refer to the construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things that happen to be available, or a work created by such a process. The term is borrowed from the French word bricolage, from the verb bricoler, the core meaning in French being, "fiddle, tinker" and, by extension, "to make creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are at hand (regardless of their original purpose)". In contemporary French the word is the equivalent of the English do it yourself, and is seen on large shed retail outlets throughout France. A person who engages in bricolage is a bricoleur.

Here are a few other pieces of bricolage:

This is the famous bricolage work that was used for the sex pistols front cover for their alubm 'god save the queen'. They used this as they didnt particularly like the queen and made it more outrages by putting the words sex across her mouth and also by using letters that look they've been cut out of a new paper which is known to be used for notes in kidnappings which makes it even more crazy. It shows that the band wasnt bothered about what people thought and wanted their work to be seen as outrages and strange.

Rihanna has used a piece of art work for her background to make her stand out more and look more interesting. She has also put in on her outfit but using white as the backround and black as the pattern so she stands out on the background behind her and doesnt blend in. The artwork above rihannas picture is Keith Harings work and this is where Rhianna got her inspiration from for her music video as this is a big art pieces that is very famous like all his work, for example:

He is famous for being a artist and social activist whose work responded to the New York City street culture of the 1980s. By expressing concepts of birth, death, sex and war, Haring's imagery has become a widely recognized visual language of the 20th century. Keith began drawing his own graffiti on the streets. Like other graffiti artists, he invented his own tag or signature. Keith’s tag was an animal, which, as he continued to draw it, started to look more and more like a dog. Then, he drew a little person crawling on all fours, and the more he drew it, the more it became The Baby. In this way, Keith began to build his own personal vocabulary, which would vary and increase with the years. The drawings were quite simple - pyramids, flying saucers, human figures, winged figures, television sets, animals, and babies. Soon the baby with rays all around it became a kind of signature, and the people of New York who rode the subways began recognizing these drawing, although they had no idea who made them.