Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Class #8 - February 27, 2013

Summary:
Art Nouveau:

  • Starts within the Arts and Craft's movement
  • Begins in France
  • Youth style: Style for young people/kids/teens
  • Influences of asian aesthetic
  • Around until about 1914
    • 1914: WWI
  • Branding is starting to develop 
  • Starts in Europe and takes a long time to come to America
    • Covers/art created in Europe and shipped to USA
  • Popularity and growth of art journals
  • Flat panels of color were popular
    • What id dimension?
    • What is flat?
    • Abstraction
  • Overlapping
    • Copy + Paste
  • Harper's Covers
    • Illustration based
    • Starts to become more abstract
    • Playing with spacial relationships
  • Lippencott's Covers
    • Flat backgrounds
    • Influenced by Harper's

Aubrey Beardsley:

  • Influenced by Morrison
  • Used Morrison's works as inspiration for his work
  • Influenced, also, by asian design 
    • Flat
    • Negative space
    • Abstract form
    • Dark sensuality to his work

Alphonse Mucha:
  • Gets a big job that changes art
  • Sarah Bernard commissioned Mucha
    • Mucha got his reference from past art
    • Didn't finish project= new aesthetic
    • Mucha was influenced by asian design
  • Mucha draws amazingly
  • Abstraction is a dominant



Charles Ray Macintosh: 
    • Working with abstraction
    • Androgyny was popular
      • Sexual experiments in art
    • "The Four"
      • 4 students with similar art-forms and techniques
      • Immediately click when put together
      • Purvy artists
    • The Glasgow School
      • Rectilinear structure
      • Uses Curvilinear structure for interior 
      • Very spiritual -- it shows in their motifs 
      • Purvy artists
    Versacrum:
    • Versacrum = Magazing
    • metaphors within artwork
      • Tree busting out of the pot
      • The fruit>three=three guys> phallic symbols
    • Influenced by French Art Nouveau
    • A lot of experimentation
    • Going against "The Man"
    Peter Barrings
    • Circles and Squares
    • 1st Identity logo
      • geometric shapes
      • typography
      • metaphors in designs
        • honeycomb motif
        • "it takes more than one man"
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