Henri Matisse

Born 1869 was one of the leaders of Les Fauves movement.

In 1890, He studied under Bouguereau at the Academic Julian.

Henri Matisse's work is of the fauves style for two major reasons. the main reason is because he was one of the founders and leaders of the fauvist style. He also is known for his powerful brush strokes and exaggerated use of color.
I think that he is the best artist that illustrates the Fauves style because he is the most well rounded. He is able to use powerful strong brush strokes and dramtic colors with out the painting being overpowering. He has the perfect balance between color, brush strokes and overall technique.



Andre Derain

Andre Derain, as well as Matisse was also one of the founders and leaders of the fauvist style.

He is one of the more significant artist who practiced this style because his paintings had everything. He was known for his drastic brush strokes and dramatic colors however he was known more for his landscapes in this style.

Fauvism

Les Fauves (French for the wild beast) refers to how wild and strong the brush strokes were in these paintings in the early 19th century.

This style's main focus was on strong powerful brush strokes and powerful color. This style began around the 1900's however this style only lasted only lasted a couple of years, and it only had three major exhibitions.

Fauvism to artist meant using extremely intense colors in a unnatural way.

The fauvist movement was a group of artist who painted landscapes or people in wild colours and distorted brush strokes. For the purpose of expressing an object in a new non realistic way. It was a new form of expressionism.

This style was only popular for a short period of time because many artist thought that it was too dramatic for that time period.

This style started in the early 19th and was over by 1910.

There were many significant artist in this time period. Henri Matisse and Andre Derain were two of the really significant artist of this time period. Maurice De Vlaminck was also one of the really significant artist of this time period.

History Of Typography

Before type people would print either by chiseling, brushing or writing via pen or pencil. The history and development of typography started with early printers (people who could write), who essentially were typographers.
The first independent typographer was Claude Garamond, Claude was the first to make a variety of type available to printers. Garamond's type was based on Griffo, a roman font. The development of typography was a long process, and there were many times when the progression of typography was almost non-existent. One of the weakest periods for type development was between the 16th and 17th century. At this time many newsprints, fliers, and advertisments contained muxes of size fonts and styles on a single page.
Moveable type was invented in Europe around 1440 by Johannes Gutenberg. Although the invention of moveable typography was an undertaking, no one knows exactly how long it took. Moveable typography was done with the casting of each individual letter, symbol and punctuation. This meant that they all had to be individually cut into steel by hand. After each letter symbol and punctuation was cut they could then be assembled and re-assmbled to create various words.

El Anatsui was born in Anyako in 1944. he is one of the world’s best sculptors as well as professors and had done outstanding work across the world. His recent project that he has been working on is his acclaimed cloth series. He has made large cloth/blanket using bottle tops and has designed many of these blankets to resemble traditional African woven blanket designs. These art pieces are representative of mosaics and are really amazing.

He uses metal bottle caps as his medium to portray that metal doesn’t have to always be rigid and hard but it can be portrayed as a soft and pliable material. This with the right manipulation can be show as something completely outstanding. El Anatsui’s art tends to be on the larger scale which only emphasizes the detail and dedication he has towards his passion.

His message to the world is to portray the ignorance and in a way blindness of the way people act and the actions that they make. To emphasize all these barriers and boundaries of society. With his help and his art we can only start to break down these walls. This is consistently shown throughout his work. His art also shows the importance of usign material from your own surrondings and that there needs to be amovement of change, and that he has taken the first step with his art.

I personally connect with not only his work but his message because I agree with it. I truly believe that we need to take a step to better the planet instead of destroy it. Which is why I not only support his message but I also want to do something about and be apart of that change. The first steps starts with my participation ROM project. I believe that art is not just something you look or do. I believe that it is something you feel and that you grasp which is why I feel that art should be emotional, mental and physical.

Above are pictures of his work and a picture of the artist himself El Anatsui.

Exhibit Of Optical Toys

I think that this site is very straight forward and to the point. I think that it explains the history and the background of a variety of optical toys. My favorite optical toy would have to be the phenakistoscope. This optical toy works by using a variety of pictures in a movement sequence that is on one slide. The other slide contains a plank disk with slots in it. When both disks spin together at the same time and viewed in a mirror it creates the illusion of a moving picture. I think that this could use a little more of an exciting layout to draw the viewers attention but other than that it was a pretty interesting site.

Pinhole Photos

Pinhole Write Up


For our cyberarts trip we went to gallery 44 to make, use and learn about pinhole photography. We learned how to make our own pinhole cameras with some simple items, such as a tin or coffee can, a piece of tin foil and some electrical tape.


Pinhole photography is a when you take a photograph of a scene/image in the negative by using photographic paper which is sensitive to sunlight and a pinhole camera. In the pinhole camera we used the hole in our tin can which was the aperture, the electrical tape was the shutter and the photographic paper was the film.

To make a pinhole camera you must first spray the inside of a tin can of some sort completely black so that it is not reflective and it is light tight. When that is done you must drill a hole into a side of the can, then cut out a circle of tin foil and carefully create a tiny hole using a pin or a tack and tape it with electrical tape in front of the hole you drilled. when this is done put a piece of electrical tape over the tiny hole you just made, making your tin light tight. The last step is to cut a piece of photographic paper that fits inside your tin can but does not block the hole, then but the lid on and you have your own pinhole camera.
We learned how to do this on our trip but when we put the piece of photographic paper in our pinhole camera we did it in a dark room so that the paper wasn't exposed to light. To take the actual photo we went outside and set up the camera to face the image we wanted to take. Then we took the electrical tape off of the small hole on the tin foil on the can (aperture) to expose the photographic paper to light, by doing this photographic paper takes a negative picture of the image you placed it to take because the photographic paper picks up the sunlight and takes the image. This process toke about one minute and thirty seconds or less depending on the size of your hole in the tin foil.
To develop the photos we went back into the dark room and placed the photos in a series of three chemicals. Then put them to dry and when they were done drying you had you own pinhole negative picture.

I really liked going on this trip because I learned something new and it was a fun experience. I thought that the most exciting part of this trip was the process of taking the pictures because it was fun to learn how the photographic picture took a negative image of the surrounding area. I really liked this trip and I would want to go on another trip like this again.

FASHION WEEK

In summary this article is a mini biography on the photographer Cyndie Burkhardt. She talks about the equipment she uses and the difficulties she faces while shooting. In this article the main topic is what the people going to fashion week are wearing. Cyndie decided to do these shots instead of shooting the actual fashion show because she wanted to use natural light and expose the people attending the fashion week.

This article is worthy of having it written about because it shows the creativity and the range of imagination that this photographer has. She thinks outside the box and is not limited to the boundaries that society sets.

My thoughts on this article are that it makes me want to become a better photographer so that there are no limits to my images. This articles shows me that you don't always have to follow the rules and that you can be spontaneous and unique in you pictures.

This article gave me ideas on future pictures that I take, and that I will always look for a different angle in photography.

LINES

I think that this image bes represents lines in photo composition because the lines on the water tower make the image look bolder. This image looks bold and strong because this image has a variety of lines in a variety of thicknesses and there all going in different directions. This image also has the characteristics of other photo compositions such as light and shadow, camera angles and linear.

DIAGONAL ' N ' RHYTHM

In my eyes I can't only choose one photo composition element because I believe that it best represents two elements, diagonal and repetition. The way it represents diagonal is that this picture was taken on top of the wall and pointed it at in an angle to give a diagonal movement across the image. It also represents repetition because it is a wall with the same kind of brick just repeatedly used. Using the same kind of brick over and over again creates rhythm throughout the image.

CAMERA ANGLE

This image is all about camera angle. It expresses the point of image by varying the way in which I held the camera. It creates a dynamic image. For this shot I had to go upside down and backwards to get the shot of this water pipe which doesn't really look like it at first glance because of the angle i choose. This image can also represent light and shadow because the scale of lights and darks vary throughout the image to express it's meaning.