Peace room

I started off by making a variety of colours that I could use to splatter on paper. The artist that inspired me was jackson pollock I really like the way he works as its a mess but looks good. 

I started doing some experiments first,I started on white paper and used black as a base for the brighter colours on top to stand out in this I used black orange and grey. I really like these colours together as the orange stands out from the dull grey and black.the middle of the page you can see that the paint started to run i dont like this but it is where i had picked the paper up to move it and the colours ran.

After doing splatters I thought I would try and do something different so i used my wrist to make this strip of paint i did this by moving my wrist back and forth instead of using all of my arm. I prefer doing these lines of paint with little splatters as i dont like to fill the page with paint.But i dont like the colours together

Life drawing year 2

Art Nouveau

the alor of art
1890s astablished
harkles reno mackintosh-Glasgow school of art

William morris

The 1950's design

free world
colour
cars
1950's Russian car

1950s british design
kitchen
 housing
 lifes
utilities

1940s' war in Britain , throughout war trade routes were cut off,
what happened in Britain in war? rations- making food last,because trade roués were cut off
rationing finished?
because of ration it wasn't just food so design slowed down a little.
restrictions on metal and had to buy whitwear.-utility wear
ship ceramics to America decorate export wear not home wear.

1952 7 years after war finished still rasioned

after rasions every one goes mad after being starved of things so crave colour ect

Festival of Britain 1951
research into this,logo

to give the British a feeling of recovery in the aftermath of war and to promote the British contribution to science, technology, industrial design, architecture and the arts

1950's Britain.
bombs
attacked culture-cathedrals bombed
loose a lot of houses,
1950 buildings,flats tarraced houses, toilets outside.

pre-war experience
housewives
start fire first thing
cooking
then boil water
wash
cook again.

appliances in the post-war
both men and women could go to work.
electricity into the home
washing machine
afford it as both working so more money

coronation

furniture
fabrics
ceramics
plastics

DADA

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven was a German-born avant-garde, Dadaist artist and poet. He influenced dada by suggesting the urinal to Duchamp.

Marcel Duchamp - He was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Dadaism and conceptual art,

The Fountain:- It was voted as the iconic image of the 20th century and the most influential. Fountain was rejected by the committee, even though the rules stated that all works would be accepted from artists who paid the fee. Fountain was displayed and photographed at Alfred Stieglitz's studio, and the photo published in The Blind Man, but the original has been lost.

What is DADA? Dada was an art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. begun during first world war. Many claim Dada began in Zurich, Switzerland in 1916, spreading to Berlin shortly thereafter but the height of New York Dada was the year before, in 1915 Dada was an informal international movement, with participants in Europe and North America. Artists had their aim to destroy what art was and to create their one new style.

Founder of dada was an German writer called Hugo Ball
He led the Dada movement in Zürich, and is one of the people credited with naming the movement "Dada", by allegedly choosing the word at random from a dictionary.

Dada comes from the dictionary. It is terribly simple. In French it means "hobby horse". In German it means "good-bye", "Get off my back", "Be seeing you sometime". In Romanian: "Yes, indeed, you are right, that's it. But of course, yes, definitely, right". And so forth.

In 1916 Hugo founded a nightclub called cabaret voltaire it was used for political proposes and by artists

Below is an image of Hugo performing at cabaret voltaire

Alfred Jarry influenced dada and himself was very absurd in his work. The first and most famous of Alfred Jarry's Ubu plays is Ubu Roi or Ubu Rex.




Ubu Roi:-
Ubu Roi is a play by Alfred Jarry. It was first performed in Paris at the Théâtre de l’Œuvre, causing a riotous response in the audience as it opened and closed on December 10, 1896

abstract expressionism

Abstract expressionism was first used in Germany in connection with Russian artist Kandinsky in 1919. It later became commonly associated with post WWI American art and was influenced by surrealism an cubism. The first major American art movement.
There were two major groups within expressionism

Colour field painter:-
Artists used to search for a style of abstraction that might provide a modern, mythic art and express it. To achieve this they abandoned all suggestions of figuration and instead exploited the expressive power of color by deploying it in large fields that might envelope the viewer when seen at close quarters.

Gestural painters:-
This is where artists used to be energetic and expressive when doing brushstrokes deliberately emphasizing the sweep of the painter's arm or movement of the hand. Therfore, paintings will expresses the artist's emotions and personality just like a person's gestures reflect their feelings in everyday life. Gesturalism also emphasizes the physical act of painting itself, drawing attention to the "process of creating".

Artists don't give their work a name as it gives/shows an image the vast majority number them.
Also the canvas' started to get bigger

Arshile gorky-1904-1948
Gorky was one of the most powerful American painters of the twentieth century,
find images of his work
looks automatic painting

Jackson Pollock
1912-1967
main name associated with abstract impressionism
first major art star
article on internet... and video on youtube
fluid movement to create his work.
had a wife whos an artist and supported him with his work

direct painting on floor,large canvas, uses a stick, sand broken glass string
express feelings


Willem de kooning
1904-1997
dutch artist
painted figurative abstract
find pictures of work older work and recent

Robert Motherwell
1915-1991
find art work

Franz kline
1910-1962
find art work

Mark Rothko
1903-1970
jewish artist but American
watch documenters

Hans Hofmann
1880-1966

Bernett Newman 1905-1970
zips
colourist and abstraction
structured composition to destroy or omform omposition rules

clyfford still 1904-1980







docuwatch

Art Deco

Art Deco first appeared in France after World War I and began flourishing internationally in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s before its popularity waned after World War II. It is a style that combines traditional craft motifs with machine age imagery and materials. 
Art Deco Lost natural element to art nouveau. Coined in 1960s refers to a style that spanned a boom of the roading1920s
Normandie-

Normandie was a cruise, the most largest ocean liner at the time and the worlds fastest She entered service in 1935 . The image of the ship is pointed upwards. It is man made by  Saint- Nazaire, shapes bold its a machine technical developments looked at a period of technological change but relied on old images. Narmandie went France, Southampton, new York -art deco capital! Buildings that are typical of 1930-40s such as empire state(1930s) 
Technology art deco uses it with design 
Designs were left behind because of technology.


It drew on tradition and yet celebrated tetanised modern world
It embraced both art and craft and machine production, exclusive works of high art and new products in affordable materials
it responded to the human need for pleasure and escape




Willaim Moris fabric design to alphonse mucha poster for sarah

Flapper
Jacob Epstein

It was the style of the flapper girl and the factory, the luxury ocean liner and the skyscraper, the fantasy world of Hollywood and the real world of the Harlem Renaissance. Womens dresses hung straight so there was no shape to the body, also they had short hair.

Futurism

it was an artistic movement which  begun in Italy in 1909 before the world war, it strongly rejected traditional forms and embraced the energy and dynamism of modern technology. Launched by Filippo Marinetti, it had effectively ended by 1918 but was widely influential, particularly in Russia on figures such as Malevich and Mayakovsky.

George Sorel, who influenced the entire political spectrum from anarchism to Fascism, also argued for the importance of violence.

Giacomo Balla:- was an art teacher and participated later in Futurism. In his art he created a pictorial depiction of light, movement and speed.

Futurist manifesto:- It initiated an artistic philosophy, Futurism, that was a rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth and industry; it was also an advocation of the modernization and cultural rejuvenation of Italy.

Filippo Marinetti

Marinetti is known best as the author of the futurist manifesto, which he wrote in 1909. He wrote this because he loved speed, and he had a minor car accident outside Milan in 1909 when he veered into a ditch to avoid two cyclists. He referred to the accident in the Futurist Manifesto: the Marinetti who was helped out of the ditch was a new man, determined to end the pretense and decadence of the prevailing Liberty style.

He discussed a new and strongly revolutionary programme with his friends, in which they should end every artistic relationship with the past, and burn libraries to get rid of the past and look at machinery and mechanism future.

Vorticism

The movement was announced in 1914.vorticism led from futurism and was inspired by cubism, tending towards abstraction, They imagined they were in the vortex, stood in centre of vortex. The Vorticism group began with the Rebel Art Centre which Wyndham Lewis and others established after disagreeing with omega workshops founder Roger Fry, and has roots in Cubism and Futurism.

Percy Wyndham Lewis 
Lewis himself saw Vorticism as an independent alternative to Cubism, Futurism and Expressionism.

Cubism
is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement pioneered by Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso, that revolutionized European painting and sculpture, and inspired related movements in Music, literature, and architecture. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century.


Henry moore was influenced by jacob
'The Rock Drill'

Between 1913 and 1915 Before war Epstein created 'the rock drill' which consists of a figure modelled in plaster. The extraordinary thing about this mechanised abstracted human figure is that it sat on top of a real miner’s rock drill,as Machines joined with humans to make future.  


Epstein said: “I made and mounted a machine-like robot, visored, menacing, and carrying within itself its progeny, protectively ensconced. Here is the armed, sinister figure of today and tomorrow. No humanity, only the terrible Frankenstein’s monster we have made ourselves into…” After the war he dismantled it and took the drill away from the sculpture dismembered the figure and cut it in half, leaving a one-armed torso which was then cast, initially in gun metal and ultimately in bronze.

Gaudier-brzeska- Brzeska died in 1st world war,he took on name brzeska as a double barel from his Polish partner. 
Gaudier-brzeska was Killed in first world war in 1915 aged 23
Created mechanical objects After coming under the influence of Jacob Epstein in 1912, he began to believe that sculpture should leave behind the highly finished, polished style of ancient Greece and embrace a more earthy direct carving, in which the tool marks are left visible on the final work as a fingerprint of the artist. A crucial meeting with Jacob Epstein strengthened Gaudier-Brzeska's determination to pursue a more experimental direction.

empire states building