Week 7 Research - Reagan Franzoni

The artist I chose for week 7 from the Museum of Computer Art is Ileana Frómeta Grillo. She is a digital artist as well as a fine arts artist from Caracas, Venezuela, where she studied art at the Fine Arts Museum in Caracas. She also studied art and black and white photography at California State University at San Bernardino. Her art consisted of charcoal drawings, portraits and oil pastels. She later on started working with digital media programs to paint on the computer. Ileana’s art symbolizes and visualizes her roots from South America and the Caribbean through the color combinations she uses. She also uses imagery to combine those symbols with traditional modern elements. Ileana uses a digital program on her tablet and computer called Painter to paint digitally and uses a Canon digital camera to create her digital art. She blends the two art pieces in Photoshop using different filters and digital tools to design her collages. 

The image that I chose from Ileana Frómeta Grillo’s portfolio is called “The Wonders of Alice,” and it is an image of a woman over the background of the beach. The image also has several different symbols such as a clock, butterflies, a stork, and the word “observation.” The painting part of the collage looks to symbolize Ileana’s culture and the photography in the background may symbolize contemporary cultures. The meaning symbolizes the observation of changing times as cultures become more modernized. I chose this image because I like the use of beach scenery in the background, it gives the collage a more realistic look. I also really like the use of the walls to give the image a scene from inside of some type of architectural building looking out into the ocean. In this collage, Ileana used the software Painter combined with digital pictures and used a number of Photoshop filters to design this piece.  

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