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Artists that have helped my creativeness in my project - essay

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To convey feelings and emotions in art, an artist may use various colours, materials or positions of said materials to represent a certain theme or idea. For me, I used my interests in my art to make it look more unique and out of place, like the more uneasy side of things; such as the uncanny valley and liminal spaces. The term 'Uncanny' in art is a concept that describes a strange and anxious feeling induced by familiar objects placed in unfamiliar or settling contexts, these contrasts stand out to the viewer making them think about it, sometimes even overthinking about it, thus making it more unsettling. The term 'Uncanny Valley' was coined by Masahiro Mori in 1970. Artists drew upon the uncanny in art to create artworks that combined familiar elements in unexpected ways to provoke uncanny sensations. Today, the term ‘uncanny valley’ is also applied to artworks, animations, or video games that reproduce places and people so accurately that they generate a similar st