POP ART – ROY LITCHENSTEIN

POP ART

Pop Art is a very popular art movement that was based in the mid-1950’s in Britain and the late 1950’s which moved to the United States. Pop art was used from popular culture such as advertising, news,  etc. Pop art is also an art style for comic books and mundane objects. Pop art is very eye catching for the viewer in any way, the colours are bright and enthusiastic which draw peoples eyes to it. Pop art has been used for advertising and logos, such as Andy Warhols Campbell’s soup cans.

ROY LITCHENSTEIN

Roy Litchenstein is a very popular artist in the pop art movement. He was a leading figure in the movement who created bright images of large comic book panels, recreated in a colourful unique opposed to the original art work. He originally experimented with the Abstract Expressionism style, but it turned out differently to the pop art style he did later on. When he came across the idea of pop art, he used paint on a canvas to make a comic book image. He refines the image with think black lines to make a comic book feel to it.

His known trait is the dot texture that appears in his work. In his early pop art work he used the dot texture on faces and hands which makes it look different than a block colour for the skin.

Eugene Grasset Presentation – By Megan and Matt

Eugene Grasset’s original lithograph, Napoleon in Egypt Is printed on nineteenth century wove paper and with full margins as published in New York by ‘the century’ June 1895 and is signed by Grasset with his monogram in the lower left corner. Napoleon in Egypt is a fine original example of the art created by the French artist, Eugene Samuel Grasset.

He had been linked with the art movement Art Nouveau in France. His images often show women with long flowing hair and designs in the Art Nouveau style. It said that his work in the poster field had a massive impact on art. He also created two posters in 1895 called Napoleon for century magazine. The posters are ‘the sun of Australites’ and ‘Napoleon in Egypt.

In 1898 he drew a block typographical alphabet which inspired many people to do the same thing. In 2012 Dick Pape created a few typefaces based on Grassets alphabets.

How does this relate to Art Nouveau and their style of art and design.

• Eugenes work relates to Art Nouveau because he uses most of the key features in Art Nouveau work. He uses the subject of women who have long hair, which is painted in the same way as other Art Nouveau artists. They have also used the subject of nature in the background of his work, which is a common subject that would be used in other art nouveau artists.

 why they are important in the early stages of graphic design

• Grasset turned to Graphic Design in 1877; he created different designs on products such as postcards and postage stamps. His poster design has been well known and has been used with a lithograph, he has also created his own typefaces to advertise and convey a message to an audience.

 what else they did that was important in a creative sense

• Aswell as his work in Graphic Design and Art Nouveau. Grasset has been inspired by Japanese art, which has even been influenced in his own work. In between 1869 and 1970, Grasset had moved onto working on painting and sculpting and in 1871 he created furniture, fabric, tapestries aswell as ceramics and jewellery.

Complementry Colours

Complementary Colours are different pairs of colours which can be combined but they cancel each other out. So if they are combined with white and black they would be produced lighter and darker colours.

Green Complementary Colours

Impressionism

Impressionism is originated in the 19th century, it was first pioneered from French artists from Paris. Impressionists are the first artists that wanted to do something different with the art movement. Impressionists have managed to break the tradition of the mainstream art.

Claude Oscar Monet

In the lesson we looked at a painting by Claude Monet. Monet painted different oil based paintings. In this painting Impression Moonrise the painter has used large brush strokes. Most impressionism painters use thin and small brush strokes and some of their work havent been finished. Exhibitors wouldnt allow unfinished paintings into an exhibition unless its completly finished. There have been relatively harsh reviews on his work, there was a newspaper article saying that the painting is just a sketch and can hardly be stated as finished work. His paining is now in Paris in the Monet Museum.

I personally think in this work that the newspaper reporter is right. His work doesn’t look finished to the correct  standards and it doesn’t look like much of a painting. His work is sort of child like created in a way than other artists use.

The impressionists have increased with respect from the public and has also been accepted by other artist movements themselves. The impressionists have been known to being different than other art movements so they are more of a diverse group.

The Red Dye Descriptive Writing.

In todays lesson we had learned about interesting things and talking about them. We were then set a task to write about the pouring of the food colouring into a cup of water. We written about it using descriptive writing. By looking at the cup and the red dye you would come up with a good descriptive story.

‘The red crimson fluid that looked blood red poured into the water. The essence of the fluid had exploded into a bright smoky red mixture that soon died down to cover the whole of the water in the red oblivion.’

 

 

Intentional Fallacy and Affective Fallacy

On Monday I learnt the meanings of Intentional Fallacy and Affective Fallacy. Intentional Fallacy means that person wouldn’t understand the message that is being displayed in a design or image etc. In many designs you can’t always guarantee that the audience will understand the message, therefore you cannot not communicate to people.

Affective Fallacy is where the design has generated an emotional or judgmental response to the design or the image. There are many examples of Affective Fallacy, in the lesson we looked at a few designs from companies and designers and looked at the ways the designs made us either feel emotional or judgemental. In a few designs people had described that one of the designs are disturbing or shocking.