T-Shirt Designs - Unit 3

The colours included highlight the helmet and hair of the woman inside it, having smooth, thick, clean, colour gradient lines for the helmet, the hair having much thinner defined lines with a warm yellow. The other lines that make up the woman's expression and the inside of the helmet uses a the background colour instead of the basic black outlines, both thick and thin. The shattered glass of the helmet had no lines to define them apart from the space in-between the shards, having a unique look with the different kinds of lines and colours that has been used throughout the design. I enjoy how the bright colours of yellow, orange and red stands out on the dark blue/purple background, along with the stars showing through all of the other layers, giving the effect of the helmet and woman's skin seeming see-through. I chose this design because it has an interesting look to it, using light and bright gradient colours against a dark background as well as using a space/astronaut theme to it, this would appeal to people who enjoy the use of bright colours against dark and the idea of space and astronomy.
The kind of ideas it gave me for creating my own design were the use of colour and how they could be used, not having to use a black line to define shapes but instead using the background.

The use of seemingly having only the colours black, white and grey making up the design gives it a silhouette/shadow and lighting effect. Most of the buildings on the left side are mostly made up of white, greys and blacks making up the windows and lines of them, while most of the buildings on the right are made up mostly of black, using white for windows, lines and the top of the buildings. The point of view that has been created with the city-scape has it look like it was a photograph that had been taken from a higher building or form of aircraft. These colours merge with the blank black background, not creating any sudden stops of lines to the artwork, yet instead used a white petal like effect around the bottom of the buildings. One of the buildings in the center that is made up of mainly black had two thin white lines that lead down, following and joining past the petals, out of the main drawing and to the silhouette of a child, making the view of a swing with the silhouette sitting on it and looking up at the city. This would be appealing to those who like


The design is of a males head with text covering the eyes and looks like it has came from an old poster assert that were used in the times like 1930's where they used coloured drawings of people in adverts instead of actual photographs that would've mainly been black and white anyway. Main colours included in the design is mainly black and white with some discolouring, the outline of the head having thick and thin lines to create the hair, shadowing and creases in the face, though a dotting technique has been used all over the face so it looks like a darker/different colour when actually it's still using black and white. Red is used to create the simple look of the males nose bleeding, purple around the right eye while the actual eyes are covered by the text and the faded pinks and purples around the purple and on the left cheek, all of this giving the idea that the character of the design has been beaten up. The text covering the eyes would appeal to people due to it being a band name as well as the design being their main logo.

The overall design of this is very different and unique from other designs. The design takes over half the top part of the shirt

This Is Modern Art

Salvador Dali

 

Dali was born on the 11th of May 1904 in Figueres, Spain, died on the 23rd of January 1989 at the age of 84 in the same area he was born; Figueres, Spain.

He was considered to be a skilled draftsman as well as being known for his bizarre images of his surrealist work in paintings, sculptures, photography and films.

• Took and changed everyday objects shape and textures into surrealism art, even feces.
• He was only commercial with his work During the 20th century
• Dali brought Al Capone's car and used as part of sculpture that he put in the courtyard of his museum since he was so rich for his ideas, work in his paintings, sculptures and films. 
• He really enjoyed the amount of money and gold he earned
• Was rejected by people since they thought his work was too strange and 'rubbish'
• He recognized and got ideas for his art work from through both his conscious and unconscious mind, taking images and objects he may have seen in dreams and making them reality as a sculpture, painting or a movie.

 One of his famous art pieces 'The Persistence of Memory' which was completed in August 1931.

Luis Brunuel - Un Chein Andalou

• Black and white silent film.
• The beginning started off with the sharpening of what seemed to be a small barbers knife.
•  Using props e.g. , books changing into guns through a jump-cut, cows head when cutting eye open, bodies of dead cows, chopped off hand
• Environments; street, apartment room, the beach, in a spacious forest/park
• Included sexual acts; fondling of the breasts, imagining of the female actors body etc.
• All the things happening in the film kept my attention since they were so strange and I tried to make sense of it as it went on.
• The film and it's plot seemed like it was going somewhere but then it changed and went somewhere completely different.

The meaning Un Chein Andalou - Andalusion Dog

 The title of Un Chien Andalou and it's meaning is discussed but rarely described of it's actual meaning, though the title was used for a film title, being a silent surreal film that was 21 minutes long made in 1929 by Spanish director Luis Bunuel, it being his first film, and the surrealist artist Salvador Dali that was released 1929, though when it was first released it had limited showings in Paris, but it soon became popular and was shown for eight months in studios in Paris.
The film is widely considered to not have much of a plot, in the sense of the word, the film itself seems disjointed and scattered with the characters, events, dates and times changing a lot throughout the film.

Giorgio de Chirico

Born in  Volos, Greece, on the 10th of July 1888 and died on the 20th November 1978 in Rome, Italy, Giorgio was an Italian artist.

In the years before the World War he had founded the scuola metafisica art movement which then went on to influence artists and surrealists. After 1919 he had became interested in traditional painting techniques, working in a neoclassical or neo-baroque style while revisiting the 'metaphysical' themes of his work from before.

He studied art in Athens under the guidance of the Greek painters Georgios Roilos, one of the most important and  influential Greek painters in the late 19th and early 20th century, and Georgios Jakobides, a painter of one of the main representatives of the Greek artistic movement of the 'Munich School'.  

The Uncertainty of the Poet

The torso in Giorgio de Chirico's work is the sculpture of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love, beauty, procreation and pleasure, also identified with the planet Venus. The block like, distorted shadows supposedly the conventions of  pictorial space and time. Though his early work was embraced by many other surrealists who saw them as dream-like and in a parallel existence.

Rene Magritte

Born on the 21st of November 1898 and died on the 15th August in 1967, Magritte was a Belgian surreal artist who became famous for his work during his 50s.

He was influential in the transformation of surrealism art including the pop art movement and his own work he created, having a distinct style.

Most of his work takes normal everyday objects and rearranges the figures, backgrounds, locations so the viewer takes a deeper look at the image to understand what is truly being presented.

"The Treachery of Images" was painted when Magritte was 30 years old. The picture shows a pipe with the text under it of "Ceci n'est pas une pipe." meaning "This is not a pipe" since it is an image of one and not an actual physical pipe.
It creates a three way paradox out of the notion that objects correspond to words and images, it sometimes given as an example of 'meta messaged' conveyed by 'paralanguage', comparing with 'Korzyski's' "The word is not a thing" and "The map is not the territory".

The Empire of Light

"The Empire of Lights" was a series of oil canvas paintings that were painted between 1953 and 1954. They show the 'paradoxical' image of a daytime time sky with a night time street below it that was lit by a single street light. The series of paintings actually inspired a scene in the horror film in 1973 "The Exorcist".

Paperwork for 3D Art

Idea for 3D Art Character

A quick idea for my characters story I did while also designing what the character would look like.

I made it into some kind of form of a poem as it would tell the reader only a small bit about the actual character as I wanted the readers to decide what the character felt and acted.

"Strangers"

"He was inside his room most of the time,

People to HIM were just strange and scary.

They were so unpredictable, making some of the dangerous.

HIS family members were strangers to him,

Never feeling comfortable when talking to THEM.

The only comfort HE had was being alone,

Where only HIS thoughts and HIMSELF were present.

HIS world was scary,

The air was to heavy for HIM.

He thought how could anyone else breathe?

How could THEY act and talk normal when HE had trouble breathing around anyone.

Will this last forever for HIM?"

Research

This is some pages of the research I did for the idea behind the set and character, having windows and picture frames. The picture frames having random names, faces and figures in them to represent a family or individual person in the characters story, the windows would be looking "outside the set" where chimneys, smoke, crowded buildings and pollution would be referenced to.

I did some basic and detailed work of how I would have the back side of the set look, taking evidence that I've used research to support and create my idea. I drew a window and multiple picture frames to match the story of the character I constructed. I was considering of using the printed out picture frames and windows to glue onto the set, giving some parts of it a real look and colour or discolouration. 

Surrealism

Guillaume Apollinaire "to describe a form of expression that surpasses realism" 1917 - 1924

In the 1920's surrealism was a artistic and literary movement, used to express the dreams artists may have had and the imagination that were free of conscious control of reason and convention.
Releasing dreams or nightmare like images they have in their mind onto paper.

Surreal art can either be pretty and calming, just straight out weird or unnerving, spooky and unsettling.

Two styles of surrealism being the dream like works and automatic work.