Imposter Research

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Research at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

                      This oil on canvas painting which was made in 1934 is entitled Men and Machine and it is by Stuart Davis. Davis was a huge fan of Piet Mondrian. This painting is an example of an imposter, because it testifies Davis’ love for Mondrian by using cubism and a basic color scheme similar to Mondrian. It acts as a sort of abstract imposter. IMG_2675

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Research at the American Museum of Natural History

                 This is my example for an example for obvious reasons. The photograph shown above depicts Prince Zeid Iraq in the early 1930’s. The statue that I took a photograph of before that is supposed to model the prince, and the statue is wearing the same clothes as shown in the picture, which makes the statue an imposter.

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Research in everyday life 

                    This photo is showing two girls outside of their dorm. What I attempted to depict in this photo was social smoking. Social smoking is pretty self explanatory, because they only smoke in social situations.  Social smokers are impostors because they pretend to be smokers to bond with others, but also because they call themselves “social smokers” when more than likely they just don’t want to admit to themselves that they’re addicted to cigarettes. It could go in two opposite directions.

 

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