- Semiotics
- Identity (race and gender)
- Modernism/Postmodernism
- Barbara Kruger
- Saul Bass
- Ed Fella
- pop arts movements
- Women in Comics
- I'm No Lady
- Digital Media (photography)
- inspiration since 40s posters
- Rees,AL (1999) A History of experimental film and video, London BFI publishing
Symbolic signs and architecture:
In symbolic signs could be related to something or someone or place or perhaps a timeline in history or even a religion could be symbolized or could be known as by symbolic sign. But how can architect art be a symbolic to a religions or centuries?
Umbertoeco said: Semiotics is concerned with everything that can be taken as a sign (eco 1976,7), as visual sign could be drawing, paintings, photograph, words, sound, gestures body language and objects architectures found the way of making the shapes out of the symbols which made every city known from the designs in which country it belongs or which religions it follows, if we see the history of Islamic architecture they used symbolic signs and colours like(green) for expressing the traditional culture and feelings like for example (joy, sadness, happiness, devotion, ect). As the same thing we see in church and the symbolic images or drawings signified the Jesus or symbol of believers in god and colours like black: death, blue: heaven, yellow: corruption and degradation. Since there no more new religions until this day architecture art achieved many styles and designs using the same symbolic signs still signified the culture or the religion of the city or the place.
links
watch
book
semiotic the basics by Daniel-Chandler
Signs,Symbols&Ornaments
Rene Smeets
Signs,Symbols&Ornaments
Rene Smeets
Pistol girls
Since 90s music industry has changed and made an impact on modern music changed from lyrics, video, films ,magazines, and games. The most big impact of them was what we see every day from music videos that influences young generation mostly girls how to be seen from their opposite sex. In music industry especially in hip hop and r&b the more girls exposing their bodies the more successful the video clip gets and that how they get famous. Before the 90s male singers and producers wanted to show in their videos the (dream girl) or more in love with the classic girl, as they gone abet feather hip hopers tried to show off more explaining about money and what can do like houses, cars, money and girls (the more sexy girls the more money they have) by used by the people who buy this images of (pistol girls, hip hop honeys)sexy girls showing there parts as the idea of what man like to see because that what they need as long as welling to pay as much we see that on the videos as without us knowing that deep inside some where unconsciously always presenting man so powerful, strong and have a voice in the same time women is less as that what we can see on videos in this days and how its reflect on the young generation making boys look at girls in disrespectful or less in the opposite sex think that is how they should be like or that’s they way boys thing which make it hard for both of them communicate in normal way.
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postmodernism from modernism
When you hear or read about modernism first thing will come to your mind Bauhaus, Dada and the less is more theory, scene the first world war after the Russian revolution abstract art in design existed in way was changing point for design in Europe in the same time the influence of the British designer William Morris said “Have noting in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful,” it wasn’t only a revolution for freedom but it also was revolution in all Europe artist witch had an impact on their work from graphic to architecture, so many designers, authors, artists like Louis Sullivan, Walter Adolph Georg Gropius, Robert Adams, Virginia Woolf, William Morris etc. they all had their famous words of description of meaning (definition) of modernism art and design that influenced people until the present day. As when we say postmodernism I think of pop art as both they have the same way of manipulating media as we see in Andy Warhol or Roy Liechtenstein. You can’t really find the exact word to define Postmodernism in the same time it dose exist through some artist work. After modernism came postmodernism witch is a mixture or reaction of reality explained or interpreted essence that humans can understand reality from the same view but different perspective, we can say postmodernism is the furthest ideas of explanation of what modernism is in more individual way experiencing everyday life or subjects.
links:
http://www.modernisminc.com/
http://www.artsmia.org/modernism/
http://www.mastersofmodernism.com/?page=Modernism
http://www.william-morris.co.uk/history.aspx?P=1
Barbara Kruger
She born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1945 started to study graphic design in 1964. She left school of design in 1965 and worked at Conde Nast
She worked in many different fields related to her interested such as graphic designer, art director, and freelance picture editor. In her life she left a remarkable effect in her work that influenced people with her particular type of work she shared many topics and translated in her own view absolving in aggressive way insulting even the viewers displaying her disagreement and interrogating politics, feminism, classism, consumerism, sexism and many other topics that she interested in. her photos is full of impressions, signs using body parts or movements as body language by adding symbols signifying the images or highlighting parts also adding words using bold text in white and red text box in large scale cross the image that impressively completing the images, even though she make clear messages but some of her work could be mysterious or has a hiding meaning that could be most intense or profound part. Her work is well known in galleries and museums as she also interacts with public in billboard, posters, stations and buses.
Famous work: “your gaze hit’s the side of my face 1981”, “we won’t play nature to your culture 1983”, “we don’t need another hero 1985”, “I shop therefore I am 1987”, “your body is a battleground 1989”, “face it 2007”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIHkpUKiFaI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7hbDkJql8&feature=related
Saul Bass
links:
http://www.limelightmovieart.com/galleries/saul-bass.php
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000866/bio
videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZEfNJAgM4&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGnpJ_KdqZE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtRcd-BXQ8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1A7bJD3atk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tek8QmKRODw
Ed Fella
Ed Fella
He born in 1938, educator and graphic designer in Detroit.
When you say Ed Fella I remember the first time when I research about him and how I was amazed with his work. His unique style of drawings collages, posters and typography created a body series of sketchbooks that later influence generations. His drawing comes from inspiration of what he see in every day life exploring many types of font and illustrations and integrating repeated copies breaking it to parts using so many techniques and basic tools such as scribbles brush typesetting, rubdown letters, ect.His entropy of using typography in loss way comes from his inspiration of freedom: “I am really interested in type that isn’t perfect”. says Berry Deck “type that reflects more truly the imperfect language of an imperfect world in habited by imperfect beings” He worked as commercial artist for 30 years before he received MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy Art 1987. Since he been a to teaching at the California institute of the arts.
Pop art movement
Pop art is a definition of how we criticize or conclusions how media or advertisements and televisions are reflects on culture. In 50s pop art emerged from UK and around the 60s in the USA but both had a different reflects in every state for example in America pop art was more iconic and that goes back to Andy Warhol and how pop art was amplified celebrities from movies or politics, and presented them as brands; and how also his masterpieces become so famous and reproducing it again like his Campbell soup cans. In other side it was Lawrence Allowy description of pop art as “mass culture” in other term “mass pop art” which many pop art pieces combines a concept of a object or material from every day life. pop art its mixture abstract movements could present some of the fine art but its also has photography and comic drawings and messages that some could be understood for the viewers and some just hiding concept that only the artist understand that’s so we have to learn or read about the artist him self to know his perspective. One of the important sides in pop art is typography and that has perspective in pop art as we see in famous brands Pepsi, KFC, Coca Cola, Disney and more. Pop art is famous around the world not only in UK or the states its in Europe to as still artists mix pop art with different work composing other styles of art.
links
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/pop-art.htm
http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=226
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-pop-art.htm
video
http://vimeo.com/3770376
http://www.ehow.co.uk/video_4755766_what-pop-art.html
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http://www.modernisminc.com/
http://www.artsmia.org/modernism/
http://www.mastersofmodernism.com/?page=Modernism
http://www.william-morris.co.uk/history.aspx?P=1
Barbara Kruger
She born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1945 started to study graphic design in 1964. She left school of design in 1965 and worked at Conde Nast
She worked in many different fields related to her interested such as graphic designer, art director, and freelance picture editor. In her life she left a remarkable effect in her work that influenced people with her particular type of work she shared many topics and translated in her own view absolving in aggressive way insulting even the viewers displaying her disagreement and interrogating politics, feminism, classism, consumerism, sexism and many other topics that she interested in. her photos is full of impressions, signs using body parts or movements as body language by adding symbols signifying the images or highlighting parts also adding words using bold text in white and red text box in large scale cross the image that impressively completing the images, even though she make clear messages but some of her work could be mysterious or has a hiding meaning that could be most intense or profound part. Her work is well known in galleries and museums as she also interacts with public in billboard, posters, stations and buses.
Famous work: “your gaze hit’s the side of my face 1981”, “we won’t play nature to your culture 1983”, “we don’t need another hero 1985”, “I shop therefore I am 1987”, “your body is a battleground 1989”, “face it 2007”.
links:
books:
Love for sale
Remaking History
Power, Cultures and the World of Appearances
videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIHkpUKiFaI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP7hbDkJql8&feature=related
Saul Bass
American graphic designer, born in 1920 Bronx/New York, he studied at the Art students ‘League in Manhattan; His been known well with his work with films titles sequence and credits, his magnificent idea of titles related to the film subject follow the intro of the movie, it’s his way of making the film interesting from the bagging and never miss the end credits, his way of using animated graphic or emblematic designs related to images or communicate with the concepts of the movie. His aspects of showing part of the film or translating the title to visual language also had massive impact on the films titles fonts, he used to do all by hand which made it more unique and the reason behind it his way of particular abstract drawing not only in films between 1991-1996 he created a lot of famous posters and logos. His started working on his own in 1955 ‘Saul Bass & Associates’ before that he worked as a commercial artist and art director for Thompson company and advertising agency.
His famous work “1954 for Otto Preminger’s Carmen Jones, 1955 for Robert Aldrich’s The Big Knife and Billy Wilder’s The Seven Year Itch. For Preminger’s The Man with a Golden Arm , 1959 for Hitchcock’s North by Northwest and Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder, 1960 for Stanley Kubrick, Spartacus, Hitchcock, Psycho, 1962 for Edward Dmytryk’s Walk on the Wild Side, Apples and Oranges. Marries Elaine Makatura, 1963 Stanley Kramer for it’s A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, 1973 Designs the corporate identity of United Airlines, 1990 titles for GoodFellas, 1991 for Scorsese’s Cape Fear and a poster for the 63rd Academy Awards. Bass designs the Academy Awards poster for the next five years, 1995 Designs titles for Scorsese’s Casino.”
http://www.limelightmovieart.com/galleries/saul-bass.php
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000866/bio
videos:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaZEfNJAgM4&feature=fvst
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGnpJ_KdqZE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLtRcd-BXQ8&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1A7bJD3atk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tek8QmKRODw
Ed Fella
Ed Fella
He born in 1938, educator and graphic designer in Detroit.
When you say Ed Fella I remember the first time when I research about him and how I was amazed with his work. His unique style of drawings collages, posters and typography created a body series of sketchbooks that later influence generations. His drawing comes from inspiration of what he see in every day life exploring many types of font and illustrations and integrating repeated copies breaking it to parts using so many techniques and basic tools such as scribbles brush typesetting, rubdown letters, ect.His entropy of using typography in loss way comes from his inspiration of freedom: “I am really interested in type that isn’t perfect”. says Berry Deck “type that reflects more truly the imperfect language of an imperfect world in habited by imperfect beings” He worked as commercial artist for 30 years before he received MFA in design from Cranbrook Academy Art 1987. Since he been a to teaching at the California institute of the arts.
Pop art movement
Pop art is a definition of how we criticize or conclusions how media or advertisements and televisions are reflects on culture. In 50s pop art emerged from UK and around the 60s in the USA but both had a different reflects in every state for example in America pop art was more iconic and that goes back to Andy Warhol and how pop art was amplified celebrities from movies or politics, and presented them as brands; and how also his masterpieces become so famous and reproducing it again like his Campbell soup cans. In other side it was Lawrence Allowy description of pop art as “mass culture” in other term “mass pop art” which many pop art pieces combines a concept of a object or material from every day life. pop art its mixture abstract movements could present some of the fine art but its also has photography and comic drawings and messages that some could be understood for the viewers and some just hiding concept that only the artist understand that’s so we have to learn or read about the artist him self to know his perspective. One of the important sides in pop art is typography and that has perspective in pop art as we see in famous brands Pepsi, KFC, Coca Cola, Disney and more. Pop art is famous around the world not only in UK or the states its in Europe to as still artists mix pop art with different work composing other styles of art.
links
http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/pop-art.htm
http://www.tate.org.uk/collections/glossary/definition.jsp?entryId=226
http://www.theartstory.org/movement-pop-art.htm
video
http://vimeo.com/3770376
http://www.ehow.co.uk/video_4755766_what-pop-art.html
Women in comic books
Since the golden age women been taking places in comic books or comic strips and giving her different roles considering what women around the 30s and 60s were, comic books started to share societal constructs gender roles unequal political and personal power between men and women. In the golden age 30s early 50s first appearing with romantic stories showing women has noting in life except loving a men and focusing on their role of a wife looking after her husband kids, in other stories having another role showing women after war world II a women as nurse, teacher, police women which start to show the positive changes, around the 50s when science fiction in America released a collection superheroes which become so popular as Fantomah by Fletcher Hanks and Wonder women by William Moulton around both characters showing women In power but that did not stay for long as another issue accorded in our moderns time which is the way of presenting women in posters films covers and comics books especially young girls body by drawing them in sexy positions or skinny, making big breast or big carves as bringing more attention to the sex, as a lot of women against because it leads to the same genders women identity.
I'm No lady!!
Brands name, logos; how we come up with names? And names become famous brands? Could it be just the name!! if so then why companies spends millions to come up with names and logos!! As I find it interesting to explain logos and brand I want to identify the meaning! Logos is a simple design that refers to the company name or brand, brands is defending the quality in markets which later comes with the logos name.
There are two ways of making people interested in to the subjects or objects that you want to talk about. One way is to put the names that already existing in fame like Gucci, Prada, Braun, Swarovski etc….
The other way is to put names that will effect on people psychologically so that people will find themselves naturally get interested in to that subject or object ex: spice girls shoes, toy story toys, spider man costumes etc. according to Silvana Annicchirico book “I’m No lady” theory he wants people to get interested in the name of the objects and his idea of the women name related to the object it self of As he says “name is sign, it gives identity and character to a person or object that carries it interfere with the nature itself”. brands and logo its not only quality or identity for the company but its also about what we get interested of which it could lead to your identity and what this object presents in you.
Book:
Permanent collection of Italian design( I'm no lady)
Digital Media (photography)
Photography is one way of communication that can express the point of view of an artist. its very strong subject that interferes with everything especially in advertisement, which they use it for selling product for companies or entertaining like movies or discovering as a knowledge and recording as facts it always captured the viewers eyes. Since the first advertisement on TV and radio in 1971 people started to get used to the idea of having options to buy as the companies started having different kind of visual advertisements. As we all know there is a huge effect on buyers when companies has strong concept behind their advert. In 70s,media had the power of advertisement however as in the present media has the power to use the latest technology of the photos. Today photo has high stand quality using the computer editing that it not only make the product look nice but also making it perfect that they use programs and manipulating the photo as much we talking about perfect photos there is also the bad side as media only like us to see what they want us in the end photography and high digital media have the power of showing facts but in the same time can hide it too.
Inspirations since the 40s
Every thing we see today had beginning such as art, music, movies, magazines, radio, and newspaper but if we go back to history of posters we will clearly see the different or the changing point in posters as around the first third of the twentieth century history has changed in Russia art and how is reflected on politics and social life and work and had influenced all the generations until this day we still go back and look thought many and many artists incredible work such as Kandinsky, Malevich, Jean carlu, F.E Stanley, A.M.Cassandre, Leonetto Cappiello, Marianne Brandt…ect they all had impact how to make posters less drawing and strong message and how the design was more simpler even if they use two colours black ,white, red still look beautiful with the type face bold sending strong messages; in this days we depend more on technology even if we see a lot of good work now days and bright artists but we still feel technology is taking the quality of the poster and replace it with material quality rather then sense. There are advantages and disadvantage on the digital work for a poster but as we seems ahead now to the future maybe new way of posters its not going to be a still poster that you have the time to look and read the message it will be a moving poster that tells u something or more then one thing in few seconds, as we approaching to a machines world we still go back centuries and get inspirational.
links
Book:
Russian Art of The Avant Garde Johne.Bowlt
Rees,AL (1999) A History of experimental film and video, London BFI publishing
A.L Rees’s a history of experimental film and video can be referred as the developments that has been applied from the beginnings of the cinema to the present day. It is pointing out the relationship between art and film. It has the context of modern and post-modern art that margins cinema history.
The book has talked about two main topics. The first is more international perspective of looking at the range of experimental film practices from 1910 to the 1960s and the second main topic is about the practices in Britain over the last thirty years.
However the interesting thing about this book is for the reader it is hard to see the evaluation of these film practice between these years. It is difficult to see prints of film works by artists who are the main characters that gives the effects of the current scene. You can walk into an art gallery and easily see on public display paintings and sculptures which span the 20th century, but there is no such an easy way to film and video that works from the equal time span. It is actually a measure of Rees’s book that is enthused and timed well that makes reader want to know more and see more to get to the biggest picture of it.
