Friday, May 21, 2010

Banksy's work




Banksy was born in England in 1974, Bristol, Dad is a photocopy machine technician. BY the mid-80s wave of graffti writing graffiti began his famous works in London Zoo's first elephant bar. Early in the New York subway graffiti style hand and did not let Banksy feel satisfied, it touches on version of the paper in addition to Banksy graffiti more confident in writing, he found that repetitive visual graffiti paper mold and accurate texture than hand lines to attract the viewer's attention more graffiti, so as to stimulate the audience's visual impression. Banksy graffiti more than a considerable degree of political satire and adolescent rebellion, such as shoes to be worn round Stalin, face changing as the British Queen Elizabeth monkey portrait, event advertising billboards monkeys to rule the earth we declare the coming era, and carrying rocket launchers in the RCA dog and so on. His work and the other molded paper graffiti artists difference is that injecting / implying more directly convey the message map the surface and leave the view of the considerable space to think and even re-creation. For those who do not want to anger despite the body of the kid who only painted, Banksy's graffiti work is to have a collection of impulses, Banksy graffiti British paper mold shaped for the version under a different definition of style, as he quoted the words of picasso: the desire for destruction is also to create for himself . However, for Banksy, Picasso gave him the desire and courage to undermine the achievements of Picasso could not reach the age of things.








Thursday, May 20, 2010

Week 7




Industriation and Art




1. Define the Industrial Revolution and Industriation.


Industrial Revolution refers to the earlly history of industrial capitalism, namely, the completion of capitalist production, handicraft workshop to the machine from a large industrial transition stage. Based machines gradually replace manual labor, to replace the individual large-scale factory production factory production and manual production of a technological revolution, and later expanded to other industries empty.


2. Research Monet's painting ' Impression Sunrise' (1873) to analyze the work in relation to Industrialisation.


As research, the painting ' Impression Sunrise ' is the port of Le Havre, France, Monet painted a foggy morning scene: water was dyed purple dawn, the sky was reddish various blocks of colour washes into the water waves by the thickness, paint strokes of varying length on, three boats swaying in the thin coating of colored dots appear dim fuzzy, ship silhouette vaguely discernible in the distance of the factory chimneys, cranes and other large ship looming. Painter to see from a window on the canvas of this impression revenue, so bold with the messy brush strokes to show the picture of the fog blending is unprecedented, the painting shocked the art world.




3. Olafur Eliasson's 'Weather Project' (2006) is a contemporary work that relates to Monet's famous landscape.


Olafur Eliasson and Monet 's works are all show the natural environment.




4. Research the project to identitify the artist's intentions, as well as the site (space or venue) chosen for the project, to provide depth for your answer.


Olafur Eliasson borns in Iceland, Denmark, growing up mostly in the cold bleak northern part of the climate and natural environment through the atmosphere, which influenced his creative future content. Sunlight, rainbow, water, fog and other natural phenomena in his works occupy an important place to modern science and technology to create situations like really illusory. His work transcended the traditional 'watch' Art of the way, the viewer must go to experience immersive experience, the human perception is often at his time was triggered inspired by the natural man to lead the viewer into the situation created by the artist the colored and color world.