![]() ![]() Madonna positioned herself in an elegant pose while wearing pale make up with red lips, tilting back her neck in a swan like pose” (O’Brien).Įrica Wexler from Spin described: “like a cobra basking in the hot sun, Madonna on the cover of her new album stretches her profile lasciviously.” And as mentioned, Madonna’s bone and facial structures are rather visible in this cover. The album cover shows Madonna’s face in profile: “The main colors in the picture are gray, white and various shades of blue to reinforce the album’s title. Andy Warhol’s concept of pop art inspired the album artwork (O’Brien). It is photographed by Herb Ritts and edited by Jeri Heiden. This album cover art is one of Madonna’s most recognizable pictures. “True Blue” by Madonna (1986): the 3rd studio album by American singer-songwriter and entertainer Madonna. The following web page actually explores how face profiles reveal our personalities:įiled Under: Album Cover Art Example of Face Profile on Album Cover This is important for artists who design characters for visual media because the profile view is “the most immediately recognizable and identifiable shape of the character” (Wikipedia). Research at Stanford University has actually showed that humans are able to extract accurate information about gender and age from profile portrait or silhouette alone. In art, it is used to facilitate the practice of creating outlines by “projecting the shadow of the figure and tracing the outline on the paper, and in majority of cases the figure was positioned so that the nose, lips, forehead were visible.” This practice is known as silhouette, “the image of a person, animal, object or scene represented as a solid shape of a single color, usually black, with its edges matching the outline of the subject” (Wikipedia).įor portraits, profiles have advantage over full frontal face images, because profile depends strongly on “the proportions and relationship of the bony structures of the face (the forehead, nose and chin) making the image is clear and simple.” In this context, the word “profile,” as defined by Merriam-Webster, means either “a representation of something in outline… especially a human head or face represented or seen in a side view” or “an outline seen or represented in sharp relief.” To profile someone, similarly, can mean to give account of a person’s life and character.įace profile (which basically means the side-view of a person) is usually taken to get a clear look of one’s jawline, nose, and etc. Based on the materials, I curated this archive as an extension to the usage of face profile album covers in a digitally-driven music industry. ![]() To obtain the media materials I need for this archive, I narrowed my focus to Billboard’s Top 200 Albums Year-End charts from 2000 to 2018, and selected images of album covers that ideally represent what a face profile view is. The usage of faces on album covers has been one of the most effective and ubiquitous ways to brand a new release or an artist.īut what about the side face? In a digital age, where the music industry is very saturated, where there’s so many options and so many alike artists and music – how does zooming into one specific aspect of an artist’s face help brand an artist and make him or her stand out? One of the most important, perceivable aspects of such branding is the artist’s face. Many find it challenging to create a unique yet arresting image for artists, and it’s very common now for record labels to promote artists themselves as brands. This archive uses media materials to illustrate the usage of face profile in music album cover artworks, its development and correlation to artist branding, specifically in a digital age.ĭigital revolution has made competitions in music very intense. ![]()
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