Monday, March 21, 2011

Melbourne Sports Museum Critiques


Geelong Football Club
Founded: 1859
Competition: Australia Football League

Logo:

Philosophy/theory:
The club’s traditional guernsey colours are white guernseys with navy blue hoops, navy shorts and navy and white hooped socks and the team song is “We Are Geelong”. The club’s nickname, the ‘Cats’, was first used in 1923 after a run of losses prompted a local cartoonist to suggest that the club needed a black cat to bring it good luck.
Elements and Principles:
This logo use the  colour and shape and form. The colours are clear and exciting. They can easy to eye-catching The logo use the geometric to express the logo background.
This logo is a dynamics and scale. It is because the symbol ( cat) look like angry. It want to attack you. Then, the logo are symmetry and have a strong meaning. 

I think they are apply the logo is effective. They believe the cat bring their good luck so in the logo, they are use the cat for focus. They use the shape and colour are eye-catching. This is my reason I like this logos. This easy to remember the logo fro which football club.





2008 Australian Olympic Uniforms 

Uniform

Artist: Adidas
Date: 2008
Media: Thermoplastic Urethane



Theory:

The uniform use the green and gold colours. Green & Gold colour have been used by Australia sporting teams since the 1800’s were proclaimed the official National Colours of Australia in 1984. Green & Gold represent the colours of the Australian landscape and also our National Floral Emblem, the Wattle.



Elements and principles:


The uniform colour is bright and calm. There give the people are eye-catching. The texture are shiny and smooth. The designer feature Thermoplastic Urethane Power bands for muscle compression in selected areas of the body, depending on the sport. There give the player are comfort and active.

The principles of design are dynamics. There use the elasticity material and design different  sport player’s uniform.
I think this uniform is success. The designer think over the player are comfort and active. They use the special material to design the uniform.

I think when I design the uniform should think the player are comfort and active. I should think the what is the main colour or have symbol for my logo and uniform.






Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Critiquing Tools

Art Vocabulary List

Back Ground: The image's background should be change the colour to mix the topic.

Proportion: The image's size such as the person's head and the one image is too big and small.The font and Typa

Diagonal: The image's location and the font.

Flowing: The line and wave have flowing.

Cross Hatch: The image is equally in the artwork. They use the cross hatch.

Adjective List

LINE :  The image is flowing so light.
COLOUR : The colour should change the hue. Hue are red, green, blue, and yellow. The color appearance are colorfulness, chroma, saturation, lightness, and brightness.
SHAPE AND FORM: The colour so dark to make the shape deep.
TEXTURE: This printing use the rough to description of the meaning.

Principles and Elements

Elements
LINE  : is the most fundamental and versatile of all the design elements. This can be straight curved or irregular and generate expression.
COLOUR : is most expressive element. Colour heightens the emotion & psychological dimensions of any visual image.
SHAPE AND FORM: Shape is created and 2 dimensional.When add dimensions to a shape, Form is created. The form is considered 3 dimensional.
TEXTURE: refers to the look, feel quality & characteristic of a surface. There helps create variety & depth in a composition.

Principles

Stability : Elements are arranged the same or very similarly on either side of a central axis.
Dynamics: The design is balanced visually but not in a symmetrical manner.
Rhythm and Scale : Rhythm is related to movement in a design or the way the eye travels through the image.
 


Monday, March 7, 2011

Style Time style

1.Action painting

Action painting, sometimes called “gestural abstraction”, is a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied. The resulting work often emphasizes the physical act of painting itself as an essential aspect of the finished work or concern of its artist. There is closely associated with abstract expressionism.
This style is from the 1940s until the early 1960s. There often drawn between the American action painting and the French tachisme.
The style is a blur and asymmetry.
The American critic Harold Rosenberg coined the term in 1952, and the aesthetic perspective of New York School painters and critics.  The earlier critics sympathetic to their cause, focused on their works “ abjectness”.
Over the next two decades, Rosenbarg’s redefinition of art as an a sct rather than an object, as a process rather than a product, was influential, and laid the foundation for a number of major art movements from Happenings and Fluxus to Conceptual . Performance art, Installation art and Earth Art.

2 artirs/design
James Brooks
Philip Guston












2. Digital art


Digital art is a general term for range of artistic work and practices that use digital technologies an essential part of the creative and presentation process.
Sine the 1970s, various names have been used to describe the process including computer art and multimedia art and digital art is itself places under the larger umbrella 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.


2 Artists/Design
 Ryohei Hase
Nala Dunato









3. Graffti

Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire. This style from 1968 to start.Because Because the student protests and general strike of  saw Paris bedecked in revolutionary, anarchist, and situationist slogans  expressed in painted graffiti, poster art, and stencil art. In the U.S. at the time other political phrases became briefly popular as graffiti in limited areas, only to be forgotten. A popular graffito of the 1970s was the legend "Dick  Before He Dicks You", reflecting the hostility of the youth culture to that U.S. president.

The term graffiti referred to the inscriptions, figure drawings, etc. Found on the walls of ancient sepulchers or ruins, as in the Catacombs of Rome or Pompeii. Usage of the word has evolved to include any graphic applied to surfaces in a manner that constitutes vandalism.


Graffiti isms is reflect their resentful. They have lots of idea but no one understand their so they are playing graffiti. 


2 Artists/Designers
Banksy
Joe Angert

4.Folk art


 Folk art encompasses art produced from an indigenous culture or by peasants or other laboring tradespeople. Folk art is primarily utilitarian and decorative rather than purely aesthetic.
 As a phenomenon that can chronicle a move towards civilization yet rapidly diminish with modernity, industrialization, or outside influence, the nature of folk art is specific to its particular culture.


2 Artists/Designer
 Guy Cobb
Alebrije


5.Neo-Dada

Neo-Dada is a label applied primarily to audio and visual art that has similarities in method or intent to earlier Dada artwork.
The term was popularized by Barbara Rose in the 1960s and refers primarily, although not exclusively, to a group of artwork created in that and the preceding decade.
Dada is an anti-art movement, so the Neo-Dadaists promoted their anti-aesthetic agenda. It didn't hurt that Duchamp happened to have moved from Paris to New York and was sharing his ideologies with artistic peers. Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns quickly picked up on the philosophy of incorporating nontraditional elements in artwork as they began creating collages and assemblages with found materials.




2 Artists/Designer
John Chamberlaim
Kommissar Hjuler

6. Colour Field

Color Field painting is a style of abstract painting that emerged in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s.The movement places less emphasis on gesture, brushstrokes and action in favor of an overall consistency of form and process.

They are  using formats of stripes, targets, simple geometric patterns and references to landscape imagery and to nature.

2 Artists/Designer
Jack Bush
Morris Louis
7. Figurative art


Figurative art, sometimes written as figurative, describes artwork—particularly paintings and sculptures—which are clearly derived from real object sources, and are therefore by definition representational.  
“Since the arrival of abstract art the term figurative has been used to refer to any form of modern art that retains strong references to the real world."
Painting and sculpture can therefore be divided into the categories of figurative, representational and abstract, although, strictly speaking, abstract art is derived (or abstracted) from a figurative or other natural source. However, the term is sometimes used as a synonym for non-representational art and non-objective art, i.e. art which has no derivation from figures or objects.


2 Artists/Designer
Pablo Picasso
Edgar Degas

8.Pop Art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States.Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art. Pop removes the material from its context and isolates the object, or combines it with other objects, for contemplation. The concept of pop art refers not as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that led to it.

2 Artists/Designer
Alex Katz 
Peter Max
9.Mingei
Mingei is the Japanese folk art movement, was developed in the late 1920s and 1930s in Japan. Its founding father was Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961).
The philosophical pillar of mingei is “hand-crafted art of ordinary people” (民衆的な工芸 (minshū-teki-na kōgei?)). Yanagi Sōetsu discovered beauty in everyday ordinary and utilitarian objects created by nameless and unknown craftsmen. According to Yanagi, utilitarian objects made by the common people are “beyond beauty and ugliness”. Below are a few criteria of mingei art and crafts:


    * made by anonymous crafts people
    * produced by hand in quantity
    * inexpensive
    * used by the masses
    * functional in daily life
    * representative of the regions in which they were produced.
2 Artists/Designer
Kawai  Tōru
Kawai Akiteru
 

10.Symbolism

Symbolism was a late nineteenth-century art movement of French, Russian and Belgian origin in poetry and other arts. In literature, the movement had its roots in Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil, 1857) by Charles Baudelaire.

Symbolism in art represents an outgrowth of the darker, gothic side of Romanticism; but where Romanticism was impetuous and rebellious, symbolist art was static and hieratic.They believed that art should aim to capture more absolute truths which could only be accessed by indirect methods.

2 Artists/Designer
Albert Samain 
Valery Bryusov

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Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Clash of the Titans


    1)   Who are the Titans?
The titans is a god of Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. 
2) Are the any interesting motifs you see frequently appearing (Eg. Lightning bolts)? How do you interpret their meaning? Can you name a modern version, of this motif, used today? 
     I see the sea, war, poor, war , dead motifs etc. I think motifs the scorpion and Gorgon Medusa were interesting. Because the scorpion is a toxic biological and cut off Perseus way. They look like be killer. Gorgon Medusa is a key person. When the stygian witches and are told that the solution lies with the head of the Gorgon Medusa, they can go to fight in the Underworld. But the end they can’t fight in the Underworld. 
3     Is your Greek character in the movie? If so, does the film's interpretation match your research? 
    I think this isn’t my Greek character Because they don’t talking much about muses. I think the muses is about when Titans were finally defeated by their sons Zeus), Poseidon, and Hades. Muses were  Celebrate their win.  
4)Are any of the characters, in the movie, related (Eg. a mother or father, wife or husband, brother or sister) to your Greek myth? If so, how? 
Zeus were Muses ’s father. He and Mnemosyne were the Muses.  
5) Is their a constellation of stars named after your Greek character?
I don’t think their constellation of stars named after the muses. It is because they’re early to them. They were after the titans.
6) How is Medusa killed? Does your Greek character have a weakness?
Perseus behead her head. I think the Muses is a art and music character. They aren’t fighting.
 


 
 
 

Muses

The Muses in Greek mythology, poetry, and literature are the goddesses who inspire the creation of literature and the arts.




History
The Muses in Greek mythology, poetry, and literature are the goddesses who inspire the creation of literature and the arts. There were nine Muses who played, sang, danced, and inspired others to do the same.
Adventures
In myths, the Muses often punished or rewarded mortals. Hesiod claimed that they gave him knowledge and inspired him.  In myth, the muses had 2 things to talk the people the muse’s adventures.
One of the Odyssey tells of Demodocus, a man who was blinded and then given the gift of song by one of the Muses. She claimed that song was even more precious than sight. Although the Muses could be generous, they resented mortals who questioned their supremacy in the arts.
Second of myth tells of the Pierces, nine sisters who lived in Macedonia, north of Greece. The Pierces challenged the Muses to a contest. The Muses won and then turned their challengers into chattering birds
Relationships
 In the myth , the Muses was a group of nine sister. The nine muses: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania. Each had her own domain:Poets and other artists often called on them for inspiration. Zeus, the king of the gods, was the father of the Muses. Their mother was Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. But some  client say their parents were actually Uranus (Sky) and Gaea (Mother Earth).
Appearance of the hero
The Muses were brought to life to make the world dismemberment the evil and relieve the sorrows and to praise the gods.


 Symbols associated with the creature and interpret it s evolution through history

  • Calliope is chief of the nine Muses. She was the patron of epic poetry. Her symbol was a writing tablet.

  • Clio is one of the nine Muses. She was the patron of history and inventor of historical and heroic poetry. Her symbol was a scroll.

  •   Erato is a the Muse of lyric poetry about love and eroticism.  Her symbol was a Citrate.

  • Euterpe is a the Muse of lyric poetry and music. Her symbol was a aulos.

  • Polynomial is the somber and beautiful one. She was the Muse of Sacred Hymn and of Eloquence. Her symbol was a veil.

  • Melpomene was the muse of Tragedy and that was it.  Her symbol was a tragic mask.

  • Terpsichore was the Muse of dancing and choral singing. Her symbol was a Lyre.

  • Thalia presided over comedy and pastoral poetry which explains why she holds a comic mask.  Her symbol was a Comic mask.

  • Urania was a muse of astronomy and astrology (One of the nine Muses Her symbol globe and compass.





After the Titans had been defeated and Zeus had consolidated his rule and established himself as the supreme Olympian, Zeus needed to create someone to sing of his glory. The result was the Muses. Because I think this is why have the muses and sang of his greatness.
he muses were inspire poets and promote the arts and sciences.  

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Monday, February 7, 2011

Muses research


The Muses (Ancient Greek αἱ μοῦσαιhai moũsai [1]: perhaps from the o-grade of the Proto-Indo-European root *men- "think"[2]) in Greek mythology, poetry, and literature are the goddesses who inspire the creation of literature and the arts. They were considered the source of the knowledge, related orally for centuries in the ancient culture, that was contained in poetic lyrics and myths. The compliment to a real woman who inspires creative endeavor is a later idea.
In Boeotia, the homeland of Hesiod, a tradition persisted[3] that the Muses had once been three in number. Diodorus Siculus, quotes Hesiod to the contrary, observing:
Writers similarly disagree also concerning the number of the Muses; for some say that they are three, and others that they are nine, but the number nine has prevailed since it rests upon the authority of the most distinguished men, such as Homer and Hesiod and others like them.[4]
Three ancient Muses were also reported in Plutarch's Quaestiones Conviviviales (9.I4.2-4).[5] The Roman scholar Varro relates that there are only three Muses: one who is born from the movement of water, another who makes sound by striking the air, and a third, who is embodied only in the human voice. They were:
The Classical understanding of the muses tripled their triad to nine goddesses who embody the arts and inspire creation through memorized and improvised singing, theater, writing, music, and dance.
In one myth, King Pierus, king of Macedon, had nine daughters he named after the nine Muses, believing that their skills were a great match to the Muses. He thus challenged the Muses to a match, resulting in his daughters, the Pierides, being turned into chattering magpies[6] for their presumption.
Sometimes they are referred to as water nymphs, associated with the springs of Helicon and with Pieris. It was said that the winged horse Pegasus touched his hooves to the ground on Helicon, causing four sacred springs to burst forth, from which the muses were born.[1] Athena later tamed the horse and presented him to the muses.
The Olympian myths set Apollo as their leader, Apollon Mousagetēs. Not only are the Muses explicitly used in modern English to refer to an artistic inspiration, as when one cites one's own artistic muse, but they also are implicit in words and phrases such as "amuse", "museum" (Latinised from mouseion—a place where the muses were worshipped), "music", and "musing upon".[7]
According to Hesiod's Theogony (7th century BC), they were daughters of Zeus, the second generation king of the gods, and the offspring of Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. For Alcman andMimnermus, they were even more primordial, springing from the early deities, Uranus and Gaia. Gaia is Mother Earth, an early mother goddess who was worshipped at Delphi from prehistoric times, long before the site was rededicated to Apollo, possibly indicating a transfer to association with him after that time. Pausanias records a tradition of two generations of Muses; the first being daughters of Uranus and Gaia, the second of Zeus and Mnemosyne. Another, rarer genealogy is that they are daughters of Harmonia (the daughter of Aphrodite andAres) which contradicts the myth in which they were dancing at the wedding of Harmonia and Cadmus. This later inconsistency is an example of how clues to the true dating, or chronology, of myths may be determined by the appearance of figures and concepts in Greek myths.[citation needed]
Compare the Roman "inspiring nymphs of springs," the Camenae, the Völva of Norse Mythology, the apsaras in the mythology of classical India, and the three chief goddesses of pre-Islamic Arabian religion, Al-‘UzzáAllāt, and Manāt.



Muses in myth




According to Pausanias in the later 2nd century AD,[8] there were three original Muses, worshiped on Mount Helicon in BoeotiaAoidē ("song" or "voice"), Meletē ("practice" or "occasion"), and Mnēmē("memory"). Together, these three form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in cult practice. In Delphi three Muses were worshiped as well, but with other names: NētēMesē, and Hypatē, which are assigned as the names of the three chords of the ancient musical instrument, the lyre. Alternatively they later were called CēphissoApollonis, and Borysthenis, whose names characterize them as daughters of Apollo.
In later tradition, four Muses were recognized: ThelxinoēAoedēArche, and Meletē, said to be daughters of Zeus and Plusia (or, of Uranus).
One of the persons frequently associated with the Muses was Pierus. By some he was called the father (by a Pimpleian nymph: called Antiope by Cicero) of a total of seven Muses, called Neilo (Νειλώ), Tritone (Τριτώνη), Asopo (Ἀσωπώ), Heptapora (Ἑπτάπορα), Achelois, Tipoplo (Τιποπλώ), and Rhodia.[9]
In one myth, the Muses judged a contest between Apollo and Marsyas. They also gathered the pieces of the dead body of Orpheus, son of Calliope, and buried them. They blinded Thamyris for his hubris in challenging them to a contest.
Though the Muses, when taken together, form a complete picture of the subjects proper to poetic art, the association of specific Muses with specific art forms is a later innovation. The Muses were not assigned standardized divisions of poetry with which they are now identified until late Hellenistic times.