The Mona Lisa, 1503-19, Leonardo Da Vinci
Caribbean Sea, 1980, Hiroshi Sugimoto
Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665, Johannes Vermeer
The Starry Night, 1889, Vincent van Gogh
The Kiss, 1907-1908, Gustav Klimt
The Birth of Venus, 1484-1486, Sandro Botticelli
Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, 1871, James Abbott McNeill Whistler
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1819, Caspar David
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe, 1863, E'douard Manet
Impression, Sunrise, 1874, Claude Monet
Scream, 1893, Edvard Munch
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912, Marcel Duchamp
Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907, Pablo Picasso
Composition C, 1935, Piet Mondrian
The Crying Girl, 1963, Roy Lichtenstein
The Son of Man, 1964, Rene Magrittees
The Persistance of Memory, 1931, Salvador Dali
Shot Sage Blue Marilyn, 1964, Andy Warhol
1 Pixel
The works in this project aim to question the role of the photographic at depicting reality and the authorship of material within a heavily dense technological world.
In this project, iconic pieces of artwork have been sourced from the internet and then resized to 1 individual pixel within Photoshop. When all that remains of the images are blocks of colour, can it still be argued that the works remain in the name of the original creators? Or am I the new creator? Perhaps this is a collaborative project.
I also wonder what happens to the data when the images are resized. Where does the visual information go? Does it disappear into the abyss of the code and simply over written as if it never existed? Or is it embedded within?