Surealism illustration
The sencence that i chose was:
The purple tree runnign with the USB
Thursday, 3 October 2013
Atom Bomb- WW2
Anti- nuke
Anti-nuke is a movenent that was started in the United Kindom agains the nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The groups had posters that promoted their campain agains the nuclear usage.
UTOPIA and MENIFESTO
DEFINITION OF A MENIFESTO
An art
manifesto is a public declaration of the intentions, motives or views of an
artist or artistic movement.
My choice of Art Menifestos
DADA and SURREALISM
Dada is life with neither bedroom slippers nor parallels; it is
against and for unity and definitely against the future we are wise enough to know that our brains are going to become
flabby cushions, that our anti-dogmatism is as exclusive as a civil servant,
and that we cry liberty but are not free a severe necessity with entire discipline nor morals and that
we spit on humanity.
We declare that the motor car is a feeling that has cosseted us
quite enough in the dilatoriness of its abstractions, as have transatlantic
liners, noises and ideas. And while we put on a show of being facile, we are
actually searching for the central essence of things, and are pleased if we can
hide it we have no wish to count the windows of
the marvellous elite, for DADA doesn't exist for anyone, and we want everyone
to understand this
DADA is
neither madness, nor wisdom, nor irony, look at me, dear bourgeois.
UTOPIA for their time.
The utopia for the DADA movement was a world without acceptence, their basic aim was not to get accepted by society but rater to mock it.
For Sustainable
Design
S
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vContext before absolutely
everything.
vTeach Sustainability.
vTalents should be balance.
vDesign for impermanence.
vThe systems comes before artefacts.
vDesigns support the societies where
it is created in.
UTOPIA for their time.
The utopia for sustrainable art is a completely concidered design. They concider absolutly everything that goes into the design and have a reason for why it was put in the design space.
FUTURISM
vFuturism was established as a
revolutionary movement in which all the arts were to test their ideas and forms
against the new realities of scientific and industrial society.
vVoiced enthusiasm for war, the
machine age, speed, and modern life.
UTOPIA for their time.
The utopia for Futurism is the new age of technology, speed and modern life. This new world of technology was about to bring bliss to the people.
CONTEMPORARY MEDIA
I analyized an animated series named 'family guy'. The underpinned issues i came across was that they make social commenry about politics, religion, streriotypes and celebrity life.
Current Generation
Todays generation of people are greatly influenced by the media (what they see and hear). Most of their hopes and dreams revolve around making lots of money, having facny clothes, fancy cars and houses that cost millions. The world is shifting to a time that people experess their selves via social media, wheather its just sharing your thpughts of haveing an opinion about someone elses thoughts.
Contemporary Utopia
The Utopia for people today is when you have all the riches in the world, have the biggest house worth million, drive expecsive cars and have designer clothes. Another place of paradise for people today is the concept of love, they seem to be inlove with the concept of love so much so that they seek it in the wrong people.
ILLUSTRATIONS
The aim of this post is to find contemporary political satires and explain on thei commentry. I chose Zapiro's work -most well known South African Illusrator- who focuses of the political satire about sitiations that are faced by South Africa.
In the image above Zapiro was making a comment about Zuma and the rape charges that he was faced with. The shower head is symbol of a statement that Jacob Zuma made about how a shower can cure HIV/AIDS, he now uses the shower head in every illustration that represents Zuma.
In this illustarion, Zapiro is making a comment about the Julius Malema, during the time he was being removed from the ANC political party. The person in the TV screen is a reresantation if Julius Malema, by him saying "im being targeted by the forces of darkness!" his reffering to witchcraft. Zapiro turned it into a joke by putting a guy on the couch making a comment about his statement.
Wednesday, 2 October 2013
Photography
and different genres
· Reportage photography
Reportage
photography is a form of documenting moments instead of staging them. It’s
meant to capture a moment or an event. This style is mostly used by
photojournalists.
Examples of reportage photograph:
·
Art photography
Art is creating beautiful and significant things that
give artist the chance of expressing themselves with what in their minds.
Photography can be seen as art because people have to be creative in taking
their photos. When taking their photos they consider angles of the photo that
is taken and also what method they want to use for different genres.
Examples of art photography
·
Science photography
Scientists use photography observes evidence that is a
heart of modern scientific method. On the other hand, photography has always
been valued as an objective technique of observation. Photography is also good
in science because it can even slow down and view different scientific things
that one cannot view with the human eye and it can also view events that are
ordinarily too quick for the eye.
Example of
science photography
· Behind the closed doors
Behind
closed doors photography are photo’s that are not taken seriously, they are
mostly for entertainment purposes and pleasure. They are not always taken by a professional photographer.
Examples of behind closed doors:
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Art deco
Art deco was invented just after when the World War I ended.
The ending of the war created a more active lifestyle and colourful geometric
style that influenced the American culture as well as the architecture and
fashion.
When the war ended, life in Europe and America changed
drastically as opposed to the technological advances. Paris became the world’s
leadership in fashion and design. The name ‘art deco’ became after the 1966
exhibition, referring to the ‘Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et
Industriels Modernes’ that took place in 1925 that was a showcase for new and original
works of all types.
Art deco affected all areas of designs that include
architecture, Industrial design, visual arts, graphic arts as well as film.
Paul Follot(1877-1941)
Paul Follot is an Art deco
traditionalist. His work was inspired bye Neo-Gothic and also gained his stride
during the Belle Epoque. Follot made
objects of silver, textiles and bronze as well as Jewelry for Meier-Graefe.
Paul was inspired or influenced by Maurice Dufrene’s work that also worked in
Meier-Graefe.
Paul Follot is best known for his
legacy in furniture, today we might use the phrase ‘Follot-style’ to describe
works which pay homage to Follot’s distinctive flair. Paul shifted throughout
his career ranging from the classic and restrain through to the modernist and
bold. In 1910, a more reticent, more classical style shows up in his work, a
tendency that increased with the rest of Art Deco.
Whereas Art Nouveau is mostly known for its curvilinear
style of design, Art Deco was more geometrical.
Art deco moved away from pastels and organic forms of Art
Nouveau and embraced many influences and different styles of the movements of
the 20th century that includes the following;
Constructivism, Cubism, Futurism, etc. Unlike other designs and movement that
had political or philosophical roots or intentions of some sort, Art deco was
purely decorative.
Examples:
Vincent Van Gogh and the Expressionism
Expressionism started during the same in most
cities across Germany as a response to a widespread anxiety about man's
increasingly discordant relationship with the world, his lost feelings of
authenticity and spirituality. In part a reaction against Impressionism and
academic art, it was inspired most by the expressive and Symbolist currents in
late nineteenth century art. Vincent van Gogh, Edvard Munch, and James Ensor
proved particularly influential on the Expressionists, and encouraged them to
abstract forms and employ strong colours to convey a variety of anxieties and
yearnings also seen as being expressive; the art work is now seen as being
personal. The classic phase of the movement lasted from approximately 1905 to
1920, and spread across Europe. Its example would later inform Abstract
Expressionism, and its influence would be felt throughout the century in German
art. It was also important for the Neo-Expressionism of the 1980s.
Key
Points of the expressionist movement
1.
One of the most influential groups of this movement/art style was
the Die Brücke (
the bridge), founded in Dresden by
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and others. Their move to Berlin
in 1910 prompted a new confrontation with the modern, urban world, and led them
to develop powerful social criticism.
2.
The Expressionists gathered around the Munich-based Der Blaue Reiter group
were also significant in lending a mystical and spiritual cast to
Expressionism. This was important in shaping the work of Franz Marc and Alexej
von Jawlensky, and led to the development of pure abstraction by Wassily
Kandinsky.
Two of the most influential artist of
this movement include Edvard Munch and Vincent Van Gogh which I’ll be
discussing in detail.
Vincent Van Gogh
Van Gogh was born
in 1853, in the Netherlands in Holland. Van Gogh was born
in 1853 and grew up in Holland. He was raised in a religious family with his father
being a minister. When he finished school, Vincent followed his uncle’s
profession and became an art dealer learning the trade in artworks in his birth
place Holland and then working in England and France.
Vincent became a
successful and initially happy with his work. He soon became tired of the
business of art and lost interest in the trade. After returning home, Vincent
began to study theology. While very passionate and enthusiastic, he failed exams
to enter a couple programs. During this period, he worked as a missionary in a
coal mining community living with hard working poor common people. As his
development as a preacher was stalling, his interest in those around him was
increasing. His life as an artist was beginning.
At the age of 27,
Van Gogh entered the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium. The
following winter, living in Amsterdam, Vincent fell in love, had his heart
broken, and began painting. The next few years would result in little success
both in love and art.
He painted his
first major work Potato Eaters in 1885. By this time, he was still having
difficulty finding love, but was beginning to receive interest in his
paintings. He was now fully devoting himself to painting. His paintings were
difficult to sell.
Vincent moved to
Paris where his art began to take on the style that would make him famous. In
Paris, he was discussing art with some of the most avant-garde and influential
artists of his time – painters like Gauguin, Bernard, and Toulouse-Lautrec. He
was using more colour, applying the paint with thick, bold brushstrokes (called
impasto), and painted all that surrounded him. Van Gogh arranged to show his
work, to positive reviews, but was still unable to sell any pieces.
Vincent moved to
Arles where he was joined by Gauguin. While he was there, Van Gogh entered the
most productive and creative period of his life painting his famous sunflower.
It was also a terrible time for Vincent, he to spend more time in the hospital,
as this was a period of hospital stays for mental illness and physical decline.
Vincent had an eccentric personality and unstable moods, suffered from
recurrent psychotic episodes during the last 2 years of his extraordinary life,
and committed suicide at the age of 37.
After just ten
years of painting and producing some 900 paintings, Vincent van Gogh took his
own life in 1890. Never fully appreciated in his own time, it wouldn’t take
long for the art world to recognize the genius they lost.
Examples of his work
The potato
eaters
The starry night
Self-portrait
Manifestos and Design
Manifestos and Design
5 Different art/design Manifestos
Definition of Manifesto:
v An art manifesto is a public
declaration of the intentions, motives or views of an artist or artistic
movement.
l 5 Different Manifestos:
1. Dada and Surrealism:
v Dada is life with neither bedroom slippers nor parallels; it is
against and for unity and definitely against the future we are wise enough to know that our brains are going to become
flabby cushions, that our anti-dogmatism is as exclusive as a civil servant,
and that we cry liberty but are not free a severe necessity with entire discipline nor morals and that
we spit on humanity.
vWe declare that the motor car is a feeling that has cosseted us
quite enough in the dilatoriness of its abstractions, as have transatlantic
liners, noises and ideas. And while we put on a show of being facile, we are
actually searching for the central essence of things, and are pleased if we can
hide it we have no wish to count the windows of
the marvellous elite, for DADA doesn't exist for anyone, and we want everyone
to understand this
vDADA is
neither madness, nor wisdom, nor irony, look at me, dear bourgeois
2. For Sustainable Design:
vContext before absolutely
everything.
Teach Sustainability.
vTalents should be balance.
vDesign for impermanence.
vThe systems comes before artefacts.
vDesigns support the societies where
it is created in.
3. Conscious Art:
vWants to promote the values of
goodness and purity.
vLikes to share his inspirations and
creations with others.
vWants his work to be an instrument
to the Absolute Truth.
vWants to utilize his art to help all
people without limitation or discrimination.
Searches for ways to express his sadness about the abuse of
this world and its living creatures by misuse of free will by ignorant people
4. Post Post Modernism:
vRecognizes that artistic expression
has spiritual and emotional content whether the artist chooses to validate it
or not.
vA complete lack of meaning is a
meaning in it’s own way.
vThe artist take on the own
responsibility to do the internal work and attempt to gain understanding of the
spiritual and emotional content of their work.
5. Manifesto of
Futurism:
vFuturism was established as a
revolutionary movement in which all the arts were to test their ideas and forms
against the new realities of scientific and industrial society.
vVoiced enthusiasm for war, the
machine age, speed, and modern life.
Group Manifesto:
vDesigns should be functional but
also creative.
vIsn't limited to a single medium.
vPainters are not the only artist.
vDesigners has the freedom to
experiment with new technologies.
vEvery design should be a conscious
act with a meaningful concept.
vArt should always have a good
intention with how it is created.
vA good designer evaluates his
surroundings and adapts just enough to commemorate a change.
vArtist/ designers should always aim
to break any form of Nihilism in society.
vDo not just make art for consumers,
make consumers of art.
vArtists should design with an
objective mind and also look at other art objectively.
vNot limited ourselves to reality
when designing, but create our own.
vDesigners have to create a 21st century art that is vibrant and a
meaningful part of our culture.
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