Friday 12 December 2008

for the half working website see

http://members.lycos.co.uk/autumn1824/

Monday 8 December 2008

Print Screen of Interactive Time Line

Hey Guys
Well done today i think we did a good job :)
This is a print screen of the time line made in Flash, Mark said to have this and then list the info underneath it for the portfolio.
Wishing you all the best of luck
-Beka x

My Presentation

Hi Beka
How are you?
HAPPY EID :D I hope well, im sorry for sending this late, but i couldn't send it before.here's my presentaion in words, as i couldn't record it.

My topic is about art, and as you can all see.I have done a research about 3 artists, Jackson Pollock, whom was was an influential American painter and a major force in the abstract expressionist movement. Pollock was introduced to the use of liquid paint in 1936, at an experimental workshop operated in New York City by the Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros. He later used paint pouring as one of several techniques in canvases of the early 1940s, such as "Male and Female" and "Composition with Pouring I." After his move to Springs, he began painting with his canvases laid out on the studio floor, and developed what was later called his "drip" technique. The drip technique required paint with a fluid viscosity so Pollock turned to then new synthetic resin-based paints, called alkyd enamels. Pollock described this use of household paints, instead of artist's paints, as "a natural growth out of a need". He used hardened brushes, sticks and even basting syringes as paint applicators. Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting. With this technique, Pollock was able to achieve a more immediate means of creating art, the paint now literally flowing from his chosen tool onto the canvas. By defying the conventional way of painting on an upright surface, he added a new dimension, literally, by being able to view and apply paint to his canvases from all directions.

And I have done a research about Picasso as well, was an Andalusian-Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor. As one of the most recognized figures in twentieth-century art, he is best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) and his depiction of the German bombing of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War, Guernica (1937). Picasso's work is often categorized into periods. While the names of many of his later periods are debated, the most commonly accepted periods in his work are the Blue Period (1901–1904), the Rose Period (1905–1907), the African-influenced Period (1908–1909), Analytic Cubism (1909–1912), and Synthetic Cubism (1912–1919). In 1939–40 the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, under its director Alfred Barr, a Picasso enthusiast, held a major and highly successful retrospective of his principal works up until that time. This exhibition lionized the artist, brought into full public view in America the scope of his artistry, and resulted in a reinterpretation of his work by contemporary art historians and scholars.

And my last research was about Marcel Duchamp whom was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art. He advised modern art collectors, such as Peggy Guggenheim and other prominent figures, thereby helping to shape the tastes of Western art during this period. A playful man, Duchamp prodded thought about artistic processes and art marketing, not so much with words, but with actions such as dubbing a urinal "art" and naming it Fountain. He produced relatively few artworks as he quickly moved through the avant-garde rhythms of his time. Duchamp's early art works align with Post-Impressionist styles. He experimented with classical techniques and subjects, as well as Cubism and Fauvism. When he was later asked about what influenced him at the time, Duchamp cited the work of Symbolist painter Odilon Redon, whose approach to art was not outwardly anti-academic, but quietly individual.

-- Fatima

Sunday 7 December 2008

Time line

The actual Time Line is an interactive 'flash' webpage.

Beka

Friday 5 December 2008

Timeline info. However there are gaps!!! :S - Beka

1910
King Edward VII died.
Famous and memorable black Ascot meeting
Lucian Bernhard designs CEG posers for German power company
1911
King George V is crowned at Westminster.
Lucan Bernhad designs trademark for Manoli cigarettes
Georges Braque - During World War II Braque remained in Paris. His paintings at that time, primarily still life’s and interiors, became more somber. In addition to paintings, Braque also made lithographs, engravings, and sculptures.
1912
Wassily Kandinsky - The artist named this period of his creativity to be "really a picturesque fairy tale". During the war-time period because of the shortage of materials the formats of his pictures become ever less, up to that moment when the artist was compelled to be content with gouache painting on cardboards of a small format.
1913
Suffragette Emily Davison runs out in front of the Kings horses at Epson.
Hemlines started to show a little ankle.
American magazine begins using colour in advertising
Franz Marc - Marc entered the army when World War I broke out. He stopped painting, but he kept a sketchbook in which he depicted problems of growth, such as Plant Life Coming into Being and Arsenal for Creation. On March 4, 1916, he was killed at Verdun.
1914
Cyrprus is annexed by Britain after four centuries of Ottoman rule.
Ludwig Holwein designs Red Cross fund-raising poster.
Marsden Hartley - “I am not a ‘book of the month’ artist and do not paint pretty pictures; but when I am no longer here my name will register forever in the history of American Art and so that’s something too.” — Marsden Hartley
1915
lucian bernhard designs German 'Das Groshere Deutschland' periodical cover
Alexander Archipenko - It is generally agreed that Archipenko did his best work between 1910 and 1920. He was so dexterous that much of his sculpture appears facile. This is particularly true of his later work, in which he often appears to be straining for novelty and effect. For instance, in 1924 he started using motors to cause parts of the sculpture to move; he called this genre "Archipentura." His later sculpture is more complicated and decorative, and he seems to have been distracted by superficialities such as color.
1916
David Lloyd George takes over the Liberal party making him Prime-minister.
Edwina Dumm becomes one of he first women editorial cartoonists
Jean (Hans) Arp - His sculpture in the round, like the wooden reliefs, is curving and vaguely suggests the world of nature, such as hills, clouds, or part of a torso, rather than the world of machines. Arp always brought his material, the stone or bronze, to a high degree of finish. He described his sculpture as "concretions." "Concretion," he wrote, "designates solidification, the mass of the stone, the plant, the animal, the man. Concretion is something that has grown."
1917
The Russian revolution began.
Dada artists produce periodicals and books that influence the New Typography
Jacques Lipchitz - His subsequent works were modest in intent and composed of "found objects," frequently incorporated with clay, the whole then being cast in bronze. He also executed portraits.
1918
Coco channel started producing TWINSETS
Grand Duchess Elizabeth died
London Underground symbol is redesigned by Edward Johnston
Max Beckmann - Beckmann's style in the immediate postwar period appears to have been affected primarily by German Gothic art. Its compressed space was well suited to his increasingly philosophical and poetic compositions. The powerful color and roughhewn forms of the Gothic also appealed to Beckmann. Among the paintings of this period the most important is Night (1918-1919)
1919
The IRA is formed in Ireland
El Lissitzky designs 'Beat the whites with the red wedge' poster
Fernand Henri Léger - Léger served in the military from 1914 to 1917. His “mechanical” period, in which figures and objects are characterized by tubular, machinelike forms, began in 1917. During the early 1920s he collaborated with the writer Blaise Cendrars on films and designed sets and costumes for performances by Rolf de Maré’s Ballets Suédois; in 1924 he completed his first film, Ballet mécanique, which was neither abstract nor narrative but a series of seemingly unrelated images (a woman’s teeth and lips, machines, ordinary objects, and routine human activities).
1920
(Coco) WIDE LEGGED TROUSERS for woman. (Based on bell bottoms)
Oskar Schlemmer is appointed Bauhaus Master of Form
Hannah Hoch - Though her work was not acclaimed after the war as it had been before the rise of the Third Reich, she continued to produce her photomontages and to exhibit them internationally until her death. In her work, she used photos, other paper objects, pieces of machines and various other objects to produce images, usually quite large.
1921
Ireland is split leaving Northan Ireland still under British rule but the rest of Ireland independant
Camel cigarette ad 'I'd walk a mile for a camel' is created by N.W.Ayer & Son
Stuart Davis - Exposed at this exhibition to the work of such artists as Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, Davis became a committed "modern" artist and a major exponent of cubism and modernism in America
1922
The conservative party win the general election making Andrew Bonar Law prime-minister
(Coco) wider generously cut BEACH PJAMAS
Oskar Schlemmer designs the Bauhaus seal
Paul Klee - Major Klee exhibitions took place in Bern and Basel in 1935 and in Zurich in 1940.
1923
King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother) were married
El Lissitzky publishes 'Topography of Typography
Naum Gabo - In 1913 Gabo went to Paris to see Pevsner, who had a studio there and who introduced him to friends involved in the modern movement in art. Gabo and Pevsner went to Oslo after World War I was declared, and there, in 1915, Gabo made his first sculptures. These pieces were cubist. He used sheet metal and celluloid to build abstract likenesses of human beings; one example is his Head of a Woman (1916), composed of opaque celluloid cut, bent, and attached to a flat plane to become a high relief extending from a flat surface.
1924
For a brief period Ramsay MacDonald from the Labour party became prime-minister making him the first Labour prime-minister for over 200 years.
Austin Cooper designs collage-like London Electric Railway posters
Samuel Peploe - Samuel John Peploe (27 January 1871 - 11 October 1935) was a Scottish Post-Impressionist painter, noted for his still life works and for being one of the group of four painters that became known as the Scottish Colourists.
1925
Queen Alexandra died
BRASSERIERS became adjustable and have division between breasts. By late 20’s Kestro Company made 2 triangle pieces of fabric with a dart at the front creating the ‘cup’. By late 30’s Boning was introduced.
The 'New Yorker' magazine launches, declaring itself "not for the old lady from Dubuque"
Edward Weston - Weston had his own portrait studio in Tropico, California and also began to have articles published in magazines such as American Photography, Photo Era and Photo-Miniature where his article entitled "Weston's Methods" on unconventional portraiture appeared in September, 1917.
1940
The Battle of Britain begins, as German bomber planes begin attacking British airfields
Winston Churchill takes over the Conservative party from Neville Chamberlain making him prime-minister
The first issue of Print magazine was printed
1941
Adolf Hitler declares war on the United States
Prince William of Gloucester is born
1942
Over 1000 British bombers attack Cologne, Germany, devastating 600 acres, including hundreds of factories, and leaving 45,000 homeless
Prince George Edward Alexander died
1943
The British 8th Army begins landing on Italy, across the Strait of Messina, from Sicily
Alvin Lustig 'Duration Apartment'
1944
The final British bombing in the Battle of Berlin is made. Of 811 bombers, 71 are shot down, killing 392 crew members. Since August 1943, 10,000 sorties were flown, dropping 30,000 tons of bombs. The British official history considers the battle an operational defeat for Britain
Prince Richard Alexander Walter George, Duke of Gloucester was born
Herdeg Grahis 1st issue
1945
German armed forces surrender unconditionally to the Allies
Labour win the vote making Clement Attlee prime-minister
CCA Allied Nations advertisements
1946
1947
Princess Elizabeth married Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Ruder and Hoffman join Basel school of Design
1948
The Welfare State is officially set up (NHS)
Matter design for Knoll
1949
Advertisements Skyrocketed with the increase in products introduces into the market in the US as the war ends.
1950
August-Princess Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise was born
CCA Great Ideas ad
1951
Sir Winston Churchill and the Conservatives win the general election again
1952-
February-King George VI died.
1953-
Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Stankauski designs AG logo
1954-
Frutier designs Univers typeface
1955-
Sir Winston Churchill retires due to ill health, leaving Sir Anthony Eden to take over as prime-minster.

Fatima 1940-1955

1940
Jacob Lawrence
Jacob Lawrence (1917-2000) was an African-American painter whose works depict his passionate concern for the plight of his people.
www.topblacks.com/arts/jacob-lawrence.htm
www.topblacks.com/Profiles/Arts/Lawrence,-Jacob.aspx
www.rogallery.com/lawrence_jacob/lawrencej-biography.htm

1941
Albin Polasek
Albin Polasek (1879 - May 19, 1965) was a Czech-American sculptor and educator. He created more than four hundred works during his career, two hundred of which are now displayed in the Albin Polasek Museum and Sculpture Gardens in Winter Park, Florida.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Cb-sower2.jpg
www.polasek.org/artman/publish/about_albin.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albin_Polasek_House_and_Studio
orlando.about.com/od/museums/a/albinpolasek.htm


1942
Paul-Émile Borduas
Paul-Émile Borduas (November 1, 1905 - February 22, 1960) was a Canadian painter known for his abstract paintings. He was also an activist for the separation of church and state, especially for art, in Quebec.
In 1955 he moved back to Paris where he died of a heart attack in 1960.
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_e.jsp?mkey=41993
www.exalead.com/wikipedia/results/Paul-%C3%89mile www.wcities.com/en/record/,271243/612/record.html
http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_zoom_e.jsp?mkey=8752




1943
Paul Cadmus
Paul Cadmus (December 17, 1904 - December 12, 1999) was an artist born in New York City. He is best known for his paintings and drawings of nude male figures. His works combined elements of eroticism and social critique to produce a style often called magic realism. He painted with egg tempera, a medium which had been associated with Greek icons.


www.answers.com/topic/cadmus-paul
www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/cadmus_paul.html
www.glbtq.com/arts/cadmus_p.html
www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/pastexhibits/piano/cadmus.htm



1944
Frida Kahlo
Her paintings, rooted in 19th-century Mexican portraiture, ingeniously incorporated elements of Mexican pop culture and pre-Columbian primitivism that, in the 1930s, had never been done before. Usually small, intimate paintings that contrasted with the grand mural tradition of her time, her work was often done on sheet metal rather than canvas, in the style of Mexican street artists who painted retablos, or small votive paintings that offer thanks to the Virgin Mary or a saint for a miraculous deliverance from misfortune.
Frida let out all of her emotions on a canvas. She painted her anger and hurt over her stormy marriage, the painful miscarriages, and the physical suffering she underwent because of the accident.

http://www.answers.com/topic/frida-kahlo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo
www.brain-juice.com/cgi-bin/show_bio.cgi?p_id=19
1945
David Alfaro Siqueiros
David Alfaro Siqueiros (1896-1974), one of the great Mexican mural painters, introduced technical innovations in his murals and easel paintings.
http://www.rogallery.com/siquieros_david_alfaro/w-33/siqueiros-self_portrait.html
olvera-street.com/html/_siqueiros_.html
artscenecal.com/ArticlesFile/Archive/.../Articles0597/DASiqueiros.html




1946
Francis Bacon
Bacon never attended art school, he began to draw and work in watercolor. Upon his return to London in 1929, he established himself as a furniture designer and interior designer. In the fall of that year he began to use oils and exhibited a few paintings as well as furniture and rugs in his studio. His work was included in a group exhibition in London at the Mayor Gallery in 1933. In 1934, the artist organized his own first solo show at Sunderland House, London, which he called Transition Gallery for the occasion. He participated in a group show at Thomas Agnew and Sons, London in 1937.
The artist died April 28, 1992, in Madrid.
http://www.artquotes.net/masters/bacon_biography.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Studies_for_Figures_at_the_Base_of_a_Crucifixion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Bacon_(painter)




1947
Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti was born on 10th October 1901 in Borgonovo in Val Bregaglia to Giovanni, a neo-impressionist painter, and Annetta Stampa. http://www.answers.com/topic/alberto-giacometti
http://albertogiacometti.tripod.com/giacometti-biography.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Giacometti



1948
Andrew Wyeth
Andrew Wyeth (born 1917) remains one of the most popular American painters of his time. His paintings, meticulously rendered, convey a deep sympathy for people and a sense of the hardness and brevity of life.
http://www.essortment.com/all/biographyandrew_rgwd.htm
http://www.bpib.com/illustrat/wyeth.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Wyeth


1949
Salvador Dalí
In 1923, in Madrid, at the Residencia de Estudiantes, Dalí met the poet Federico García Lorca who promptly fell in love with him. A close and passionate friendship developed in the following years. In the summer of 1927 Lorca twice tried physical intimacy with a somewhat complacent Dalí. He, nevertheless, became fearful of the homo-erotic aspects of the friendship and distanced himself of Lorca in 1928.
In a relatively recent retrospective at the Tate Modern in Britain, a panel declared that Salvador Dali had designed the Tarot Cards in "Let Live and Let Die".
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198557/bio
http://www.answers.com/topic/salvador-dali
http://www.3d-dali.com/gallery-III.html






1950
Jackson Pollock
With the advent of the New Deal's work-relief projects, Pollock and many of his contemporaries were able to work as artists on the federal payroll. Under government aegis, Pollock enrolled in the easel division of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project, which provided him with a source of income for nearly eight years and enabled him to devote himself to artistic development. Some of Pollock's WPA paintings are now lost, but those that survive--together with other canvases, drawings and prints made during this period--illustrate his complex synthesis of source material and the gradual emergence of a deeply personal pictorial language. By the early 1940s, Native American motifs and other pictographic imagery played a central role in his compositions, marking the beginnings of a mature style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackson_Pollock
http://www.answers.com/topic/jackson-pollock
http://www.jackson-pollock.com/biography.html



1951
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.


1952
Willem de Kooning
Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) is widely considered to be one of the greatest Abstract Expressionist painters of the post-World War II period, his dominance rivaled perhaps only by Jackson Pollock. Remembered for his large canvases as well as the controversial melding of both abstract and figurative imagery, de Kooning lived much longer than his contemporaries, many of whom had untimely deaths. The group of painters that would be identified as the New York School was made up of de Kooning and contemporaries such as Arshile Gorky and Edgar Denby, and they helped to establish New York City’s reputation as a center for artistic activity. http://www.answers.com/topic/willem-de-kooning
http://www.zappa-analysis.com/kooning/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willem_de_Kooning



1953
jean dubuffet
Dubuffet was born in 1901 in Le Havre. In 1918 he went to Paris where he gave up his course in painting at the Académie Julian after six months and started working on his own. He knew the painters Dufy and Leger and both had some influence on his otherwise 'self-taught' approach to art. By 1924 he had given up painting entirely and instead concentrated on running a wine business.
http://www.artnet.com/artwork/425470877/488/jean-dubuffet-fougere-au-chapeau.html
http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/dubuffet_jean.html
http://www.dubuffetfondation.com/bio_set_ang.htm






1954
Jasper Johns
Jasper Johns (born 1930), American painter and sculptor, helped break the hold of abstract expressionism on modern American art and cleared the way for pop art. Versatile in several different artistic fields, he has given the world sculptures, lithographs, and prints, as well as paintings.

http://www.leninimports.com/jasper_johns_bio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasper_Johns



1955
Oswaldo Guayasamín
He showed an early love for art. He created a Pan-American portrait of human and social inequalities which reached international recognition.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswaldo_Guayasam%C3%ADn
www.nashvillescene.com/2008-02-21/arts/the-view-from-the-equator
Fashion from 1900

1900 the BRASSIERE

1900 -1915 HAIR, pads and frames of false hair was used to make hair appear fuller.


1902 the ‘TRANSFORMATION’ pompadour style. Transformation was a product used, made from natural hair it was waved. The transformation support often referred to as a pompadour frame was easy to buy.


2 Types of Edwardian Hair Frames
Edwardian Back Hair Tournure Frames for the Empire Style of Hair Dressing


Marie Stuart Frame
Other frames including the Marie Stuart frame like the one below gave a heart shaped Elizabethan look to the hair once covered over with billows of hair natural or false.


Hair was often collected from by the maid from the wearer’s hair brush, so that the hair could be added to the piece, making it fuller till and matching perfectly in colour!

Natural False Hair Pieces
False rosettes, false switches and plaits (1) ensured a wide range of coiffure styling. Women also used extra curls and small wave pieces (2 and 3) that they pinned in to fill in gaps in their hairstyles.
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The hair roll support on the end (4) ensured the Edwardians were able to make big fat sausage curls all around the head. These hair roll supports came in all sizes from about 4 inches to 18 inches in length.
1902 Cloche Hat


1910 famous and memorable black Ascot meeting where all participants wore black and large wide picture hats (in respect of King Edwards’s death).

1910 Poiret’s famous maharaja turban design became very popular.



1913 Hemlines started to show a little ankle.

1918 Skirt lengths were just below calf length.

1918 Veil Hat

1918 Coco channel started producing TWINSETS.

1920 (Coco) WIDE LEGGED TROUSERS for woman. (Based on bell bottoms).

1922 (Coco) wider generously cut BEACH PJAMAS.

1925 BRASSERIERS became adjustable and have division between breasts. By late 20’s Kestro Company made 2 triangle pieces of fabric with a dart at the front creating the ‘cup’. By late 30’s Boning was introduced.

1926 the LITTLE BLACK DRESS first appeared in Vogue (Coco Channel)