THE REVOLUTION IN ART AFTER WORLD WAR I Between 1908 and 1914‚ two young artists—Frenchman Georges Braque (1882–1963) and expatriate Spaniard Pablo Ruiz Picasso (1881–1973)—began a series of artistic experiments in Paris that revolutionized the direction of Western painting. For nearly five hundred years‚ painting in the West had attempted a reconstruction on canvas of a real or ideal world “out there” by the use of three-dimensional perspective and the rules of geometry. This artistic tradition
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Hundreds of miles away from the center of Europe stretching into the Arctic‚ great civilization is still growing. For thousands of years‚ Scandinavian people found out their very own way to not only survive with the endless blizzard‚ but also to live a life full of happiness. The secret is probably all hidden in their brilliant minds. Design has become something that flows with their blood inside of them. They changed not only their lives‚ but also the understanding of design of the entire world
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DECO1400 Web Design: Assignment 1 | April 12 2013 | Student Number: 4321386 | | Executive Summary: I have been given the task to design a web based personal portfolio of myself aimed at potential employers. The website functions as an online resume for employers to view at their leisure. It will have number of pages containing data that would be sought after by employers. The webpage must be designed in a way that would appeal to employers in the field I wish to be hired in. I have
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CLCIK TO DOWNLOAD CGD 218 Assignments‚ Discussion Questions‚ Journals Week 1 CGD218 Week 1 DQ 1 Using Visuals to Communicate Regardless of where you work or what your career is‚ learning how to communicate effectively and professionally is important if you want to succeed. Further‚ learning how to successfully utilize visual media in your communication can dramatically enhance the effectiveness of your message. As you will learn‚ preparing and packaging visual communication is critical
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Quotes: 1. What a piece of work is a man! How noble in reason! How infinite in faculties... – hamlet 2. Man is born free‚ yet everywhere he is in chains. Rousseau 3. Modern society is rotten even at its roots. Rouseeau 4. Get back to Nature … Noble Savage .. SOCIAL CONTRACT - rouseeau 5. Reason is supreme . Human reason can solve every problem facing humankind. - descartes 6. A work of art is a public dream – frued – Oedipus complex 7. We live in an ordered‚ rational‚ understandable
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the Esquire magazine. In addition to his long hours spent at the Esquire office he took on some more creative freelance work‚ designing ‘Directions’‚ a cultural magazine. His covers were a homage to the Bauhaus-ideas. “When I was doing the covers of Direction I was trying to compete with the Bauhaus‚ Van Doesburg‚ Leger and Picasso. Compete is not the right word‚ I was trying to do it in the
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criticized its carelessness. From type‚ to layout‚ to ornament‚ to binding – Morris preaches a return to detail and craftsmanship– a microcosmic critique of the changing art scene as a whole (Morris). In Walter Gropius’s “Program of the Staatliche Bauhaus” he explains the way the arts exist in isolation‚ and can be rescued only through conscious cooperative efforts of the craftsman. He
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amalgamation of new technologies and processes and drew from many worldwide influences. However‚ the greatest influence of the movement was the new visual language‚ color and iconography of the avant-garde art world: Cubism‚ Fauvism‚ Futurism‚ De Stijl‚ Bauhaus and Constructivism to name a few. As Helen Appleton Red described the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes‚ "The Exposition marks the coming of age of a new decor...as inevitable
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Futura Book In typography‚ Futura is a geometric sans-serif typeface designed in 1927 by Paul Renner. It is based on geometric shapes that became representative visual elements of the Bauhaus design style of 1919–1933.[1] Commissioned by the Bauer Type Foundry‚ in reaction to Ludwig & Mayer’s seminal Erbar of 1922‚ Futura was commercially released in 1927. The family was originally cast in Light‚ Medium‚ Bold‚ and Bold Oblique fonts in 1928. Light Oblique‚ Medium Oblique‚ Demibold‚ and Demibold
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has always existed‚ it has always been there for artists to express themselves and documents show that it goes back to the late 19th century at least but in my opinion graphic design never became more important and known until the Bauhaus was opened in 1919. The Bauhaus or House of Building was an art school in Germany which pioneered simplistic design and became a style of design itself‚ although it only existed for 14 years. The style is still heavily popular today within examples such as Ikea who
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