Blog 3 - Term 2 Posters

Batman: The Movie (1966) 26 october
The Dynamic Duo faces four super-villains who plan to hold the world for ransom with the help of a secret invention that instantly dehydrates people.

This is the Batman poster from back in the 1960's, i like this one because i view batman as a great hero as a child and even now, though he may be a fictional character. This poster is used to advertise the movie Batman through out the world as this one is from Italy. The image of Batman and Robin in bright colours to capture the viewers and the bold title to tell them what they are advertising and that is "the movie BATMAN" and by adding the texts at the top making the viewer feel like that he/she needs to see it.
If it was used today it would be seen as a parody to the Batman movies today even though this is one of the originals, some would brush it off as a fake because they do not know that these were one of the classic batman posters back in the day. To compare this batman to the modern day batman is showing how much of the actors now a days have worked on their body to make it like the real Comic/Cartoon batman including the armour painted in all black but to the old batman his body is not really that similar to the batman in the comics and cartoons even the colour of the costume.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060153/



"We Can Do It!" is an American wartime propaganda poster used in 1943 produced by J. Howard Miller for Westinghouse Electric as an inspirational image or goal to boost workers self esteem morale. The poster is generally thought to be based on a black-and-white wire service photograph taken of a Michigan factory worker that goes by the name Geraldine Hoff. The poster was seen very little during World War II. It was rediscovered in the early 1980s and widely reproduced in many forms, often called "We Can Do It!" but also called "Rosie the Riveter" after the iconic figure of a strong female war production worker. The "We Can Do It!" image was used to promote feminism and other political issues beginning in the 1980s. The image made the cover of the Smithsonian magazine in 1994 and was fashioned into a US first-class mail stamp in 1999. It was incorporated in 2008 into campaign materials for several American politicians, and was reworked by an artist in 2010 to celebrate the first woman becoming prime minster of Australia. The poster is one of the ten most-requested images at the National Archives and Records Administration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Can_Do_It!


"Keep Calm and Carry On" is a motivational poster made by the British government in 1939, several months before the beginning of the second World War, used to raise the morale of the british public in the aftermath of widely predicted mass air attacks on major cities. This poster is still being used but now modern day society has changed the meaning in to other meanings, thus being used to humour many other people instead of trying to motivate people for upcoming hard times. I think this because there are many others like the original now a days that it is being used for the wrong purpose instead of giving people the right idea of what it really was meant for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keep_Calm_and_Carry_On

History of printmaking

Planography (Lithography)

Eugène Delacroix

Royal Tiger, 1829
Eugène Delacroix (French, 1798–1863)
Lithograph, second state of four; 12 7/8 x 18 1/2 in. (32.7 x 47 cm)
Bequest of Susan Dwight Bliss, 1966 (67.630.7)

Delacroix had great empathy with the natural world and was fascinated by animals, although he seems never to have encountered untamed ones in the wild, even during his trip to Morocco in 1832. Having to rely upon the resources of the Paris zoo, he began studying felines there in the late 1820s, probably not long before making this lithograph. In this terrible, beautiful picture, Delacroix demonstrated the Romantic penchant for tragedy, torment, and violence in scenes that showed nature "red in tooth and claw" some decades before Charles Darwin publishedOn the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859).

This poster was used for showing how tragic and beautiful nature can be. using the dark grey colours to bring out the death in this picture. I do not like the background though because it does not blend well with the image in the front. But it does give it the image up front a more darker image. 

Andy Warhol 

Stencil : Serigraphy

A stencil is a sheet of paper, fabric, plastic, metal or other material with designs cut, perforated or punched from it. Ink is forced through the openings onto the surface (paper, fabric etc.) to be printed. Sometimes called silk screening, serigraphy (seri means silk) is a type of stencil printing. A stencil is fastened to a sheet of silk which is tightly stretched across a wooden frame. Or, an area of the silk is "blocked out" using glue, gum arabic or shellac. The frame is placed against the material to be printed. A squeegee (rubber mounted in wooden handle) is used to push the ink through the open areas onto the material or paper below.

Stencil & Serigraphy - History: A long time ago in the Fiji Islands, stencils made of banana leaves were used to apply patterns to bark cloth. The idea of using silk fabric as a screen was developed in 1907 by Samuel Simon of Manchester England.

The work was completed during the weeks after Marilyn Monroe's death in August 1962. It contains fifty images of the actress, which are all based on a single publicity photograph from the film Niagara (1953).The twenty-five pictures on the left side of the diptych are brightly colored, while the twenty-five on the right are in black and white. It has been suggested that the relation between the left side of the canvas and the right side of the canvas is evocative of the relation between the celebrity's life and death.

The piece is currently owned by the Tate. In a December 2, 2004 article in The Guardian, the painting was named the third most influential piece of modern art in a survey of 500 artists, critics, and others.

Relief Printing

=Van Gogh

Japonaiserie (English: Japanesery) was the term the Dutch post-impressionist painter Vincent van Gogh used to express the influence of Japanese art.

1887

 This is printing from a raised surface. A simple example of relief printing is a rubber stamp pressed into a stamp pad and pressed onto a piece of paper. Relief printing plates are made from flat sheets of material such as wood, linoleum, metal, styrofoam etc. After drawing a picture on the surface, the artist uses tools to cut away the areas that will not print. A roller - called a brayer - is used to spread ink on the plate. A sheet of paper is placed on top of the plate and the image is transferred by rubbing with the hand or a block of wood, or by being run through a printing press. The completed print is a mirror image of the original plate.

Woodcut - Historical uses: Textiles and other decorative purposes, playing cards, calendars and book illustrations.

I find this work really interesting by how Van Gogh was affected by japanese art. I like its colours and how it brings like a swampy kind of mood but it is yet beautiful, he plays around with the art style of japanese art and tries to make it his own.

A Short History of painting blog 1 term 2

Van Gogh

Iris

I think this work has great colours to it, making it look like a bright cheerful day. the background is a bright colour giving the iris more attention with its dark colours. I think the artist is trying to tell that even when their are good days there are still gonna be bad things. that showing that some iris are dying.

1. Created: 1889
2. Media: Oil paint

Irises is one of many paintings and prints of irises by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. Irises was painted while Vincent van Gogh was living at the asylum at Saint Paul-de-Mausole in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France, in the last year before his death in 1890.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irises_(painting)

Hokusai

The Great Wave

I like this work because it is japanese and i like japanese art. I think japanese art have interesting ways showing their art styles are very different than others, making it a great piece of work. this artist is telling that life will drown you sometimes but along as you still stay strong then it will be alright. Given the colours it is not very bright and also not very dark giving it a great view of both dark and light, the Sea being dark coloured while the sky is Light coloured.

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   Period: Ukiyo-e
2. Genre: Marine art
3. Created: 1829–1832

The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏 Kanagawa-Oki Nami-Ura^?, "Under a Wave off Kanagawa"), also known as The Great Wave or simply The Wave, is an ukiyo-e woodblock print by Japanese artist Hokusai, published sometime between 1830 and 1833 in the late Edo period as the first print in Hokusai's series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku sanjūrokkei^?). It is Hokusai's most famous work, and one of the best recognized works of Japanese art in the world. It depicts an enormous wave threatening boats off the coast of the prefecture ofKanagawa. While sometimes assumed to be a tsunami, the wave is, as the picture's title notes, more likely to be a largeokinami ("wave of the open sea"). As in all the prints in the series, it depicts the area around Mount Fuji under particular conditions, and the mountain itself appears in the background.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa


Leonardo da Vinci

The Mona Lisa

Year: c. 1503-1506, perhaps continuing until c. 1517

Genre: Oil on poplar

Dimensions : 77 cm x 53 cm (30 in x 21 in)

I like it because it has a very old but calm setting with the background, it has very calm colours with the realistic  image of the mona lisa. The image is said to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo. That was when one of Da Vinci work was made and noticed by King Francis I of France.

 This is the portrait i have chosen to use as my forgery, it is one of many works painted by Leonardo da Vinci. I chose this as a challenge to see if i have improved any better at painting, i do not know the name of this painting but it is one of Da Vinci.

I tried to challenge myself by doing one of Leonardo Da Vinci work but it seemed to be more challenging then i had thought. Painting and trying to get the right skin tone color was one of the difficult things i had to do in this task.    

Blog 1 - Term 2 Craig Ward

Craig Ward (born 1981) is a British-born, New York-based designer and art director primarily known for his pioneeringtypographic works and often scientific solutions to projects. A frequent speaker, occasional artist, published author and contributor to several industry journals, he has created award winning typography for a diverse array of clients across the advertising, publishing, fashion and music industries. His work has been shown and documented globally in countless magazines, books and exhibitions.
Ward was born in Boston, Lincolnshire. Following a one-year foundation course in Fine Art and Graphic Design, for two years, he trained as an art director at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College (now Buckinghamshire New University), eventually switching to the Graphic Design course from which he graduated in 2003. Following his graduation he moved immediately to London and for the next 6 years, worked his way through a handful of advertising agencies including CMW, Elvis/MCBD and CHI & Partners for clients such as HSBC, Porsche and Lexus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Ward#Words_are_Pictures




Craig Ward - Ink and water don't mix

The text used in this art is a bit messy showing why text and ink don't mix. The Font showing that it should not be used for any newspaper company. the colours being black and white giving it a bold statement. He says that is does not work well together but in some uses  it does work very well.

http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Misc-Typography/92669

Craig Ward - FEAR

The text is used in a smoky or steamy kind of font, to show that fear is something we make ourselves but can easily overcome. By using the colour white in a dark background, highlights the font in front. The font itself is really interesting "FEAR" in a smoky or steamy king of way, meaning that we make "FEAR" out of thin air.
Or this can be Advertising Smokes.
As i found more information about this it seems it is chalk dust. This work may have been made by using photoshop by coping a picture and creating the image again and again.

Created as part of Secret's Olympics campaign, this type was created to reflect the chalk dust used by athletes. A combination of chalk and flour was used and the final piece was a composite of approximately 80 photographs.
Typography created to accompany a campaign for Secret Deodorant in the US by Leo Burnett Chicago.

http://www.behance.net/gallery/4854085/FEAR-typography-for-Secret-Deodorant-Leo-Burnett

Craig Ward - Love

The text is made out of Money showing that money Cannot Buy Love. By using money it is stating more that no matter how much money you have you can never buy love with what ever amount of money you have. The font of the text is really amazing and very creative. It is a bold statement, simply yet brilliant. He may have used photoshop to copy a picture of stacks of money and just used them to make it bigger to be able to read  , but it still is amazing. The sticker below is advertising the new york lotto.

http://wordsarepictures.co.uk/kp0ypmlpag0c8gkj6vtrbyw2hauma6