This artwork (Untitled 2014) is part of my current studio practise. I did a lot of research on Walt Disney and this showed many different messages and metaphors within his work that I found quite surprising.
There was racist stereotyping through the use of black crows in the film ‘Dumbo’. Also in ‘The Little Mermaid’, Aerial sells her soul to the devil in order to be human, so she can fall in love with her prince charming. There has been hype about a lot of his work and what he was like in person.
I had a couple of ideas of taking female lead Disney characters from different movies and taking them to a completely other level. By taking them out of context from their original view,
I wanted to show them being less glamorous, and seen out of their original roles. Portraying them as real life Hollywood actresses.
The problems I came across during my crit’s (group critical analysis) was that I came to realise maybe my work was a bit too obvious, and also these ideas were steering me away from the original concept of Pop Art
I was trying to grasp this in my practise. Whilst researching this concept, I also found that many artists before me had used Disney within there work.
