Monday, March 22

Melbourne Sports Museum Critiques

Logo

The choosen logo is from a footy club of St Kilda, situated in Melbourne, Australia.

The original colours of the St Kilda Football Club are red, white and black. In the early years of the St Kilda Football Club, from 1873 to 1896, the Saints wore a thinly striped, red, white and black jumper which was also used in selected games during 2004 and 2005. It later changed to thicker red, white and black stripes. In 1915 St Kilda changed its colours to red, yellow and black. In 1923 the club returned to using the club's original colours of red, white & black. The club crest first appeared on the St Kilda Football Club jumper in approximately 1933. Le Saint logos have been developed for supporters of the wonderful St Kilda Football Club. They cost absolutely nothing to download and should be used to help promote the club. The 1873 and S73 logos were developed to highlight the foundation year of the club - something all supporters should feel very proud about. The Seagull Logo was the clubs logo in circa 1940.The C'arn the Saints logo is based on the 1961,universal symbol of love, loyalty and friendship - very much St Kilda.
In 1977 the VFL introduced official logos for the first time. Prior to 1977 logos were generally done by outside companies for sales of merchandise but were in no way official. All the club's logos were printed on shields and had navy blue top halves to represent the league. In 1980 the St Kilda logo had the border replaced with the club colour of red. In 1989 the logo changed to include the then AFL logo and the St Kilda crest sitting on the point posts.

The Olympic History of the Olympics.

The Olympic Games are a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in different competitions. The Games are currently held every two years for the winter Olympics, alternating also every four years for the summer games the first modern game were held in Olympia, Greece, Baron Pierre De Coubertin founded the 1st International Olympic Commitee (IOC) in 1894. The IOC has since become the governing body of the Olympic Movement.

The very first Olympics were organised by the Anciant Greek, who beleived that the sportman who won their respective races were considered to be Gods, hence where the Hercule's history came from, and the Legend of the 10 Herculian works.

Critiquing Tools

Among the whole Art Vocabulary list, 5 listed down will be detailed.

PROPORTION

In art, body proportions are the study of relation of human or animal body parts to each other and to the whole. These ratios are used in veristic depictions of the figure, and also become part of an aesthetic canon within a culture. Reference ;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportion

BLUR

The result of blurring an image used in graphics software, is used typically to reduce image noise and reduce detail. The visual effect of this blurring technique is a smooth blur resembling that of viewing the image through a translucent screen, distinctly different from the bokeh effect produced by an out-of-focus lens or the shadow of an object under usual illumination. Reference ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussian blur

DIAGONAL

A diagonal is a line joining two nonconsecutive vertices of a polygon or polyhedron. Informally, any sloping line is called diagonal. The word "diagonal" derives from the Greek(diagonios),from dia-("across") and gonia ("angle). Reference ;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagonal

CURVING

In education, grading on a curve (also known as curved grading or simply curving) is a statistical method of assigning grades designed to yield a pre-determined distribution of grades among the students in a class.

AESTHETICS

Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste, and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.It is more scientifically defined as the study of sensory or sensori-emotional values, sometimes called judgments of sentiment and taste http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aesthetics
Adjective List :

MONOCHROMATIC

Monochrome is a term generally used to describe painting, drawing, design, or photograph in one color or shades of one color. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochromatic : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Parrot_EGA_monochrome_palette.png

FUZZY HORIZONTAL

Many people are able to perceive polarization of light. It may be seen as a yellowish horizontal bar or bow-tie shape (with "fuzzy" ends, hence the name "brush") visible in the center of the visual field against the blue sky viewed while facing away from the sun, or on any bright background when looking through polarized sunglasses. Reference ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Haidingers-brush03.jpg : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haidinger%27s_brush

BACKGROUND

A Background is the part of a composition that appears to be farthest from the viewer, the part of a pictorial representation that appears to be in the distance and that provides relief for the principal objects in the foreground, or only the general scene or surface against which designs, patterns, or figures are represented or viewed. Reference ; http://www.thefreedictionary.com/background

HORIZONTAL LINE

The line at which the sky and the earth appear to meet, and in arts it is described as a straight line drawn to the opposire to a vertical line . http://www.entheosweb.com/fireworks/scanned_line_image.asp : http://www.digitalcoding.com/artimg/tutorials/delphi/neon-horizontal-line-gradient.jpg

CONCAVE

Concave is the process of curving inwards.In Arts its having one or two surfaces curved or ground in the shape of a section of the interior of a sphere, paraboloid, etc. a concave lens or having an obsolete word for hollow Refference ; http://www.thefreedictionary.com/concave ; http://laser.physics.sunysb.edu/~wise/wise11/spring2001/reports/MountSinai/mirror2.jpg

Monday, March 8

Style Time Line

Among the whole Style Time Line list, 10 listed down will be detailed.

ABSTRACT ART 

Abstract art uses colors and lines to create a composition which may exist from visual references in the world. The logic of perspective and an attempt to reproduce an illusion of visible reality also forms part of it. By the end of the 19th century many artists felt a need to create a new kind of art allying with changes taking place in technology, science and philosophy. The sources from which individual artists drew their theoretical arguments were diverse, and sometimes ireal, and it was mainly from western cultures at that time.Abstraction indicates a departure from reality in depiction of imagery in art. This departure from accurate representation can be only slight, or it can be partial, or it can be complete.

Example of an Abstract artist is, James McNeill Whistler.His art, Nocturne in B

lack and Gold: The Falling Rocket (1874), describ

e perfec

tly the subject. Reference : http://www.paintingsdesign.com/images_art/abstract-art-1.JPG and Henri Matisse,a well known French Artist.Reference :

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rt/abstract-art.jpg

ART DECO 

The term Art Deco is used to describe stylistic changes that occurred to in everyday life before and after World War 2. It covers "modern" approaches to architecture, fashion, art, graphics and film. Art Deco is also found in industrial design, furniture, transport, communications, and in household items. Its introduction occurred concurrently with massive changes in technology that saw the introduction of new materials and manufacturing techniques that allowed goods and items to become available to the masses.

Two famous Art Deco Artists from their Artwork are 

namel

y Deran Ludd Reference : http://www.vintageseattle.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/02/art_deco_card_01_front.jpg, and Tamar

a De Lempicka, Reference :

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lempicka_musician.jpg

ORPHISM 

Orphism or Orphic Cubism, was thirst interpretated by the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire,(1910-13).It was a little known art movement during the time of Cubism that focused on pure abstraction and bright colors influenced by Fauvism and the dye chemist Eugene Chevreul. This movement were rooted in Cubism but moved toward a pure lyrical abstraction, seeing painting as the bringing together of a sensation of bright colors, this movement retained recognizable subjects but was absorbed by increasingly abstract structures.Chemist Eugene Chevreul. Most famous for discovering margarine, delved in dye chemistry as well as the aesthetics of simultaneous contrast of colors. Refference :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillaume_Apollinaire http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Apollinaire_by_Vlaminck_1903.jpg ( pick )

DIGITAL ART

Digital art is the term used for artistic works and practices that utilize digital technology. Since the 1970s various names have been used to describe what is now called digital art including computer art and multimedia art but digital art is itself placed under the term new media art.The impact of digital technology has transformed traditional activities such as painting, drawing and sculpture, while new forms, such as net art, digital installation art, and virtual reality, have become recognized artistic practices.The term digital artist is used to describe an artist who makes use of digital technologies in the production of art. In an expanded sense, "digital art" is a term applied to contemporary art that uses the methods of mass production or digital media. Two famous Digital Artists are namely ;Desmond Paul Henry and Benoit Mandelbrot. Refference : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_art ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_Paul_Henry

FAUVISM

George Braque adopted a Fauvist style,and this even after his earliest works were impressionistic, but after seeing the work exhibited by the Fauves in 1905, will create the Fauvism mouvement.The Fauves is a group that included Henri Matisse and André Derain, two artist who uses brilliant colors and loose structures of forms to capture the most intense emotional response. Braque worked most closely with the artists Raoul Dufy and Othon Friesz, who shared Braque's hometown of Le Havre, to develop a somewhat more subdued Fauvist style.His works were exhibited in Paris for the first time in a large-scale, museum-like retrospective in September 1907. Two example of other Fauvism artists is Raoul Dufy and Eugene Boudin. Reference :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georges_Braque#Fauvism ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:DufyRaoul_RegattaAtCowes.jpg

CUBISM ART

Cubism was a 20th century art movement, directed and influenced by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in music and literature. It was thirst known as Analytic Cubism, between 1907 and 1911 in France, then as Synthetic Cubism. The movement spreaded and remained vital until around 1919, when the Surrealist movement gained popularity.English art historian Douglas Cooper describes Cubism in his seminal book The Cubist Epoch. In cubist artworks, objects are broken up, and re-assembled in an abstracted form at seemingly random angles, removing a coherent sense of depth. The background and object planes interpenetrate one another to create the shallow ambiguous space.Two examples of Cubism Artists ; Pablo Picasso and Georges Bracque.Refference :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubism ; http://www.stevenorton.com/shop/media/Cubism.jpg

STREET ART 

Street Artists are normally traditional graffiti artists who have primarily used free-hand aerosol paints to produce their works."Street art" encompasses many other media and techniques, including: LED art, mosaic tiling, murals, stencil art, sticker art, street installations, wheatpasting, woodblocking, video projection, and yarn bombing.Nevertheless, street art is a label often adopted by artists who wish to keep their work unaffiliated and strongly political. Street artists are those whose work is still largely done without official approval in public areas.Typically, the term street art or the more specific post-graffiti is used to distinguish contemporary public-space artwork from territorial graffiti, vandalism, and corporate art. Two wellknown street artists are namely : John Feckner and Johnny Thunders. Refference :http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_art ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:2007_011_CES_Schelling_Monsters.jpg

PIXEL ART 

Pixel art was very often used in older computer and video console games. With the increasing use of 3D graphics in games, pixel art lost some of its use.Drawings usually start with what is called line ars,which are usually traced over scanned drawings and are often shared among other pixel artists. Image filters (such as blurring or alpha-blending) or tools with automatic anti-aliasing are considered not valid tools for pixel art, as such tools calculate new pixel values automatically, contrasting with the precise manual arrangement of pixels associated with pixel art. Two well known Pixel Artists who is actually using that techniques (in mainly bussiness computing purposes ) are namely Microsoft Windows and Nintendo DS. Refference ;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel_art ; http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/The_Gunk.png

DADAIM

One explanation maintains that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco's frequent use of the words da, da, which, translated into English is equivalent to yeah, yeah, as in a sarcastic or facetious yeah, right. (Da in Romanian strictly translates as yes), and Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922.The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature,poetry, art manifestoes, theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a rejection of the prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Its purpose was to ridicule what its participants considered to be the meaninglessness of the modern world. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature. Two well know Dadaim Artists are namely ; Jan Thieler and Ingo Giezendanner. Refference ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dada ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hoch-Cut_With_the_Kitchen_Knife.jpg

SPACE ART

Space artists may work closely with space scientists and engineers to help them to visualize and develop their scientific and technological concepts making the dream of space exploration a reality. Other forms of pictorial space art bring the viewer to inner visions inspired directly or otherwise by the fruits of the expanding vision of Humanity. Some aspects of such art pay visual homage to outer space, popular ideas of life on other worlds including alien visitation visions, dream symbology, psychedelic imagery and other influences on contemporary visionary art.Space art is a general term for art emerging from knowledge and ideas associated with outer space, both as a source of inspiration and as a means for visualizing and promoting space travel.The first painting to be brought to Earth-orbit was a radiant study of the golden sunlight on a Soviet space station by Russian artist Andrei Sokolov, carried aboard the Soviet Mir space station in the mid 1980s. In 1984 Joseph McShane and in 1989 Lowery Burgess had their conceptual artworks flown aboard the Space Shuttle utilizing NASA's 'Get Away Special' program. Refference ;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_art ; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Earth_seen_from_Apollo_17.jpg