L3P&GCAE: 2016

Art Nouveau

A style of decorative art, architecture, and design prominent in western Europe and the USA from about 1890 until the First World War and characterized by intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.

Leading practitioners included Alphonse Mucha, Aubrey Beardsley, Gustav Klimt and the American glassmaker Louis Comfort Tiffany. Art Nouveau remained popular until around the time of World War I, and was ultimately replaced by the Art Deco style.

Aubrey Beardsley

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley (21 August 1872 – 16 March 1898) was an English illustrator and author. His drawings in black ink, influenced by the style of Japanese woodcuts, emphasised the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the Aesthetic movement which also included Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant, despite the brevity of his career before his early death from tuberculosis.

Abstract Expressionism

Abstract expressionism is the term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s and 1950s, often characterized by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity.

Artists - Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman,Franz Kline, Robert Motherwell, Hans Hoffmann.

Mark Rothko

American Abstract Expressionist painter, born at Dvinsk in Russia. Emigrated with his family to Portland, Oregon, in 1913. Studied the liberal arts at Yale University 1921-3. Moved in 1925 to New York and studied for a short time at the Art Students League under Max Weber, then began to paint on his own. Taught at Center Academy, Brooklyn, 1929-52. First one-man exhibition at the Portland Art Museum 1933. In the 1930s painted pictures influenced by Milton Avery and Matisse, with simplified compositions and flat areas of colour; co-founder in 1935 with Gottlieb and others of The Ten, a group of Expressionist tendency. In association with Gottlieb, worked in a Surrealist idiom 1942-7, drawing upon the myths of antiquity as Jungian archetypes, and making watercolours and oils with calligraphic, biomorphic imagery related to Ernst and Miró, and horizontal zones of misty colour. Turned to complete abstractionin 1947, with large soft-edged areas of colour, adopting by 1950 a symmetrical presentation. Taught at the California School of Fine Arts, San Francisco, with Clyfford Still in the summers of 1947 and 1949; collaborated with Baziotes, Hare, Motherwell and later Newman in running the art school The Subjects of the Artist 1948-9; and also taught in the Art Department at Brooklyn College 1951-4. His later works became more sombre in colour. Died in New York by his own hand.

Expressionism

A style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express the inner world of emotion rather than external reality.

Artist- Paul Klee, Edvard Munch, Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc,Max Pechstein

Paul Klee

Paul Klee (German: [paʊ̯l ˈkleː]; 18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-German painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism. Klee was a natural draftsman who experimented with and eventually deeply explored color theory, writing about it extensively; his lectures Writings on Form and Design Theory (Schriften zur Form und Gestaltungslehre), published in English as the Paul Klee Notebooks, are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky, both taught at the Bauhaus school of art, design and architecture. His works reflect his dry humor and his sometimes childlike perspective, his personal moods and beliefs, and his musicality.

Modernism

Modern Art or Modernism is the loose term given to the succession of styles and movements in art and architecture which dominated Western culture from 19th Century up until the 1960's. Movements associated with Modern art include Impressionism, Cubism, Bauhaus, Surrealism, Futurism, Pop Art and Op Art.

Artists-

Frank Auerbach,Nadir Afonso,Yaacov Agam, Josef Albers, Francis Bacon, Giacomo Balla, Balthus, Vladimir Baranoff-Rossine, Romare Bearden, Max Beckmann

Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon (28 October 1909 – 28 April 1992) was an Irish-born British figurative painter known for his bold, grotesque, emotionally charged and raw imagery. His painterly abstracted figures are typically isolated in glass or steel geometrical cages, set against flat, nondescript backgrounds. Bacon took up painting in his early 20s but worked sporadically and uncertainly until his mid-30s. He drifted as a highly complex bon vivant, homosexual, gambler and interior decorator and designer of furniture, rugs and bathroom tiles. He later admitted that his artistic career was delayed because he spent too long looking for subject matter that could sustain his interest.

Urban Art

Urban art (from Latin urbanus, itself from urbs ["city"]) is a style of art that relates to cities and city life often done by artists who live in or have a passion for city life.

Artists-

Above, Bansky, Vhils, Roa, C215, Mentalgassi, Hyuro, Titi Freak, SpY, Laguna

Bansky

Banksy, a street artist whose identity remains unknown, is believed to have been born in Bristol, England, around 1974. He rose to prominence for his provocative stenciled pieces in the late 1990s. Banksy is the subject of a 2010 documentary, Exit Through the Gift Shop, which examines the relationship between commercial and street art. Banksy began his career as a graffiti artist in the early 1990s, in Bristol's graffiti gang DryBreadZ Crew. Although his early work was largely freehand, Banksy used stencils on occasion. In the late '90s, he began using stencils predominantly. His work became more widely recognised around Bristol and in London, as his signature style developed.

Dada

Dada or Dadaism was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. Dada in Zürich, Switzerland, began in 1916 at Cabaret Voltaire, spreading to Berlin shortly thereafter, but the height of New York Dada was the year before, in 1915. The term anti-art, a precursor to Dada, was coined by Marcel Duchamp around 1913 when he created his first readymades. Dada, in addition to being anti-war, had political affinities with the radical left and was also anti-bourgeois.

Artists-

Pierre Albert-Birot (1876 – 1967)

Guillaume Apollinaire (August 26, 1880 – November 9, 1918)

Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 – December 24, 1982)

Jean Arp (September 16, 1886 – June 7, 1966)

Alice Bailly (February 25, 1872 - January 1 1938)

Johannes Baader (June 22, 1875 – January 15, 1955)

Johannes Theodor Baargeld (October 9, 1892 - August 16 or 17, 1927)

Hugo Ball (February 22, 1886 – September 14, 1927)

André Breton (February 19, 1896 – September 28, 1966)

Gino Cantarelli (1899 – 1950)

Hugo Ball

Hugo Ball was born in Pirmasens, German Empire, and was raised in a middle-class Catholic family. He studied sociology and philosophy at the universities of Munich and Heidelberg (1906–1907). In 1910, he moved to Berlin in order to become an actor and collaborated with Max Reinhardt. At the beginning of the First World War he tried joining the army as a volunteer, but was denied enlistment for medical issues. After witnessing the invasion of Belgium, he was disillusioned, saying: "The war is founded on a glaring mistake, men have been confused with machines." Considered a traitor in his country, he crossed the frontier with the cabaret performer and poet Emmy Hennings — whom he would marry in 1920 — and settled in Zürich. There Ball continued his interest in anarchism, and in Mikhail Bakunin in particular; he also worked on a book of translations of works by Bakunin, which never got published. Although interested in anarchist philosophy, he nonetheless rejected it for its militant aspects, and viewed it as only a means to his personal goal of socio-political enlightenment.

Surrealism

Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in the early 1920s, and is best known for its visual artworks and writings. The aim was to "resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality".

Artists-

Max Ernst, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, René Magritte, Yves Tanguy, André Masson, Giorgio de Chirico

Max Ernst

Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976) was a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and poet. A prolific artist, Ernst was a primary pioneer of the Dada movement and Surrealism.

Layer Blends

How we created the Steven Irwin Response

We have started by taking images of our own surroundings that were a built up areas (town/city). When we had chosen the image that we wanted to create into a creative photographic piece.

Layer blends

Produce 10_8 inch print

Copy and paste into first tab

Command a, command c, command v. Command t to scale

Transform scale- edit, transform scale and hold shift. Crop to size

rotate if required.

Duplicate layer

Untick eyeball on new layer

Image- adjustments-black and White

Change levels if not happy

Or curves

Duplicate the black and white layer

Select the duplicate layer and inverse- select image- adjustments- invert

Eyeball layer 1 copy 2

Change to difference

Magic wand tool- with the layer selected select a tolerance (10-15)

Shift to add to selection

Alt to takeaway

Lasso tool to clean it up

Delete selected part of image

Unhide all images

Duplicate original layer (layer 1)

2 black and white 2 colour( 5layers)

Adjust fill to 80-85%- soft light

On the right layer with sky deleted select magic wand and select sky

Click on top layer, then press delete button

Command d to deselect

Bring back all layers apart from layer 1 copy

Open other image

Command a, command c , command v onto new image

Ensure its transformed, control t

Change layer mode

Move layer to right and adjust levels

Duplicate layer

Flip it edit transform flip horizontal move it over

If see the line use clone tool

Open new layer and use colour range tool select- colour range copy and past onto image

My own Creation

When creating my own version of Steven Irwin's artwork I followed the step by step guide and threw my own twist on it and I used the effect of 'Hard Light' because i feel like it gives the piece more of a dark but you can see the blues and greens in there still.

I feel like i have linked my work well with Irwin's because it has the same sort of feel to it.