Evaulation - Print Making

Evaluation – Print Making

First, Although I found it difficult to find out about what I needed to do for my Printmaking Project, but then I found it clear that I had to produce a range of design ideas based on different prints linked to the Bank of China, which inspired me to get pictures of different people who represented China as a settled country for example: I created my own design on lino using Bruce lee, I also created my own design on lino using Pat Morita and a another lino cut with anime cartoon characters I picked out, which I combined with the Bauhaus building. For my final piece, I put together two of my best lino prints, and then I produce a 'nearest neighbour' print that leads the two prints printing one after the other.

My first thoughts on receiving this assignment brief were quite boring in my opinion. This is because I was given a task to create my own version of a Bank of China logo, which is really being creative in terms of getting to do a lot of fun, this is because for more than one print design idea that I was inspired by Brenda Hartill. Her work in my opinion is really dynamic, the reason is that she uses a wide range of different media. To be honest, the designs wasn't as great as I thought it would be. I had to create a wide range of Prints ideas. I collected some information from different artistic views and I put it in my own words. Some of the researches I took for e.g. Brenda Hartill print making designs were quite dynamic; the media that he uses is developing wax and paint, the prints that he creates whilst she uses paint is quite astonishing.

I found that seeking and handling the information was quite difficult because when I needed to find the specific information for each one especially from Brenda Hartill, Her work explores the texture, pattern and light of the landscape, and ranges from finely drawn figurative works to bold, heavily embossed abstract images. For the past 10 years she has been most interested in drawing abstract imagery from the landscape, rugged mountain erosion, structure of the land and the dynamics of plant growth. 

She is becoming increasingly interested in painting, creating a series of embossed watercolour paintings, as well as her mixed-media collage paintings using oil paint and encaustic wax.  Her recent work includes a series of unique mono-prints, in muted colours, and black and white, and there is a strong element of embossing in the latest prints.        

To be honest, before I didn't think my designs would be high quality, but then at the end, I was more than satisfied with some of my designs which I put more quality into. On the other hand, I do feel that I could have improve some of my work to a high standard like improving every single mistake that I have committed on my Print Making final piece, I spent a lot of time mixing my own colours together to make on unique A1 canvas piece, especially with the Gold and Blue colours, I some of my work to be a time consuming exercise, even though I particularly enjoyed how the final outcome turned out great. From the experience of making this piece of work I have learnt that perseverance is really important to ensure a high quality outcome.             

Before we started our task, I was finding it difficult to pick my designs because some of them were simply not good enough, then I had to create better new designs for my final piece. I planned out each of my designs and I picked out the best planned out designs which I used for my Print Making project. The techniques, process and materials I use are three primary colours and those three colours to produce secondary and tertiary colours by print ink which I used to paint my own Bank of China Logo.

I think during my time at GCSE level, it was much easier because if you didn't understand what you needed to do, you will be provided with a lot of help from your teachers to assist you. However, at the moment BTEC Art and design Level 3, it's much harder because there is a lot more work given to you by more than one teacher, mostly I have to work independently on my assignment. 

Evaulation - Map Project

At first, I found it difficult about what I needed to do for my Map Project, but then I found it clear that I had to produce a range of design ideas that inspired me through the Whitechapel Gallery were on my Piet Mondrian tree diagrams, Josef Albers’ Photoshop work, Kasimir Malevich’s black and white squares Photoshop work, Richard Long’s special awareness task and my own version of Wassily Kandinsky’s final piece.  

My first thoughts on receiving this assignment brief were quite boring in my opinion. This is because I was given a task to create my own version of a map, which isn't really being creative, but it is anyway because for more than one map that I was inspired by Keith Coventry and to be honest the designs wasn’t as great as I thought it would be. I had to create a wide range of design ideas. I collected some information from different artistic views and I put it in my own words. Some of the researches I took for e.g. Yakov Chernikov architectural designs were quite dynamic; the media that he uses is acrylic paint, the straight fluid lines that he creates whilst he painting is quite astonishing.

I found that seeking and handling the information was quite difficult because when I needed to find the specific information for each one especially from Keith Coventry, Keith Coventry work was all about expressed during the balanced and the neat language of modernism.  He uses color on his work by creating the main bold efficient colors including the three primary based colors which are Red, Yellow and Blue and he uses monochrome colors in his work including Black and White. He creates a lot outline and negative spaces in his work, and with images which he gets his inspiration from human society. What I gained by looking at his work was the satisfaction of creating my own version on Keith Coventry's final piece on society.
He has mostly produced a lot of beautiful geometric shapes which he designed; it took me quite a long time to find some of the information I needed.

To be honest, before I didn't think my designs would be high quality, but then at the end, I was more than satisfied with some of my designs which I put more quality into. On the other hand, I do feel that I could have improve some of my work to a high standard like improving every single mistake that I have committed on my Wassily Kandinsky final piece, I spent a lot of time mixing my own colors, especially with the grey, I found this to be a time consuming exercise that I didn't particularly enjoy however the final outcome was great. From the experience of making this piece of work I have learnt that perseverance is really important to ensure a high quality outcome.             


Before we started our task, I was finding it difficult to pick my designs because some of them were simply not good enough, then I had to create better new designs for my final piece. I planned out each of my designs and I picked out the best planned out designs which I used for my map project. The techniques, process and materials I use are three primary colors and those three colors to produce secondary and tertiary colors by using acrylic paint which I used to paint my own Keith Coventry map.

I think during my time at GCSE level, it was easier because if you didn't understand what you needed to do, you will be provided with a lot of help from your teachers to assist you. However, at the moment BTEC Art and design Level 3, it's much harder because there is a lot more work given to you by more than one teacher, mostly I have to work independently on my assignments that are given to me to do.

If I had Extra time, the changes that I would make would be to spend a lot on each map design at a time. I just completed my work on time. To me, I think I rushed one of the planned map design and my final piece.

Evaulation - Drawing Project

What I found difficult on my work is how I tried to use different media on my primary observational drawings and my secondary observational drawings on my drawing project. In my opinion, my first thoughts on receiving this assignment, was complicated because I thought because I didn’t do as well as I thought on my first assignment but now I feel like I can do quite better on the second assignment that I just finished a while ago.


Each of my Individual work on this Drawing assignment, especially on my visual diaries and in the lesson when I drew different still life’s and my final piece. In my opinion, this task has been quite successful. the color arrangement of the work is quite monochrome. 

To be honest, before I didn't think my drawing designs would be high quality, but then at the end, I was more than satisfied with some of my drawings which I put more quality into for example: I can choose different media. 

On the other hand, I do feel that I could have improve some of my work to a high standard like improving every single mistake that I have committed on the assignment on the drawing project, that way I would have earned more marks on my second assignment, instead I could be getting a grade that I'm really not expected to get from my teachers.  


Before we started our I was finding it difficult to pick my designs because some of them were simply not good enough, then I had to improve on the drawings designs for my final piece by adding the tonal detail. 

I planned out each of my designs and I picked out the best design from my Profolio, stick your drawing on to A1 and then presenting it. The techniques, process and materials I use to edit my unfinished drawings and create different colors using different media.


If I had Extra time, the changes that I would make would be to spend a lot on each task in my book at a time by producing quality not quantity. I just completed my work on time. to me, I think I rushed on some of the drawings I created yet I didn't finished them especially the continuous drawings, which was the last drawing I need to improve on before finishing the drawing assignment.

Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky was born on December the 16th, 1866 and died on December the 13th, 1944. He was raised up in Moscow, Russia. As a child he loved to play music and learned.

He applied streaks and blobs of colors onto the canvas with a palette knife and made them sing with all the intensity he could.

From what he said earlier in his career: “To this Color is the keyboard, the eyes are the harmonies, the soul is the piano with many strings. The artist is the hand that plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul.”

Was a lecturer in Law at University at 1895 in Russia, but gave up his job to study painting in Munich.

He was a member of the avante-garde painting group called the Blue Rider. Show his abstract style of paintings with the group.  

The first I thought about Kandinsky and his  was very spiritual about his art making.

He was commented as saying, that his belief in art is based on the harmony of color and form.

He believed that every color had an inner voice and a meaning.

He carefully plans each painting to express, through the colors and abstract forms, exactly the feelings and spiritual ideas he wishes to communicate.






















In my work, in my opinion I have created a final piece inspired by Wassily Kandinsky.
As his work related to music i thought that i could create artwork based on Afrobeats. 

Afrobeats music is quite loud and uses a lot of base therefore I decided to use strong colors to represent this feeling and experience. I also used a series of musical objects such as speakers as these relate to the circles and squares that feature in Kandinsky's work. 

I think the strengths of my work are the composition and the way I have refined the overall finish. I think that I have represented the music accurately i particularly like the speakers perspective. I spent a lot of time mixing my own colors, especially with the grey, I found this to be a time consuming exercise that I didn't particularly enjoy however the final outcome was great. from the experience of making this piece of work I have learnt that perseverance
is really important to ensure a high quality outcome.             

Kazimir Malevich

 

Kazimir Malevich was born on the 23rd of February 1879 and died on the 15th May 1935 was a Russian painter and art theoretician. He was a pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde, Supremacists movement.

KAZIMIR MALEVICH BIOGRAPHY


Malevich was born in Ukraine to parents of Polish origin, who moved continuously within the Russian Empire in search of work.

Kazimir was the first of fourteen children.

His father took jobs in a sugar factory and in railway construction, where young Kazimir was also employed in his early teenage years.

He spent most of his childhood in the villages of Ukraine, amidst sugar-beet plantations, far from centers of culture. Until age twelve he knew nothing of professional artists, although art had surrounded him in childhood. He was happy in village, and in decorated walls and stoves

Without any particular encouragement from his family, Malevich started to draw around the age of 12. With his mind set firmly on an artistic career, Malevich attended a number of art schools in his youth, starting at the Kiev School of Art in 1895.


KAZIMIR MALEVICH KEY IDEAS:

Malevich worked in a variety of styles, but he is mostly known for his contribution to the formation of a true Russian avant-garde post-World War I through his own unique attitude of observation and painting, which he termed Supremacist. He invented this term because he believed that art should transcend subject matter the truth of shape and color should reign 'supreme' over the image or narrative.

More radical than the Cubists or Futurists, at the same time that his Supremacist compositions proclaimed that paintings were composed of flat, abstract areas of paint, they also served up powerful and multi-layered symbols and mystical feelings of time and space.  

 


DEATH

Malevich died of cancer in Leningrad on 15 May 1935. On his deathbed he was exhibited with the black square above him, and mourners at his funeral people carried a black square.

His ashes were sent to Nemchinovka, and buried in a field near his dacha. Nikolai Suetin, a friend of Malevich’s and a fellow artist, designed a white cube with a black square to mark the burial site.

BLACK & WHITE Squares

 

In terms of his black and white squares, he overlaps them and this inspired me to increase my flexibility of ideas by adjusting the size and scale of my own boxes. I rotated some of the black and white boxes, experimenting with size too to create what I feel is a kite shape. This meant my work took on the feel of an optical illusion, particularly with the inclusion of black  and white squares round the outside which act as helping the viewer to feel as if they're stepping into the kite. These squares also act as a border and help the focus of the eye towards the centre of the kite squares, making the image more exciting.

Evaluation - Chair Project

At first, I found it difficult about what I needed to do for my chair design, but then I found it clear that I had to produce a range of design ideas on my Gerrit Rietveld red and blue chair and my art nouveau chairand Art Deco chair, the ergonomics quiz helps us develop the measured scale of each chair by deciding to estimate to scale 1:4 on both style chairs that I create. 

My first thoughts on receiving this assignment brief was quite boring in my opinion. This is because I was given a task to create a chair, which isn't really being creative, but it is anyway because for one chair I have to create a wid range of design ideas. I collected some information from different artistic views and I put it in my own words. Some of the researches I took for e.g. Frank Gehry's chair designs were quite dynamic, the properties and materials that he uses is carved wood and in terms of his fluid lines, which he used to create his actual chair.

I found that seeking and handling the information was quite difficult because when I needed to find the specific information for each one especially from William van Alen, his work that he has done has mostly produced a lot of beautiful geometric buildings which he designed, it took me quite a long time to find some of the information I needed. I think that the elements of my research that inspired my designs were the shape and form and the line drawings and the 3D Art Deco chair design’s I done.

To be honest, before I didn't think my designs would be high quality, but then at the end, I was more than satisfied with some of my designs which I put more quality into. On the other hand, I do feel that I could have improve some of my work to a high standard like improving every single mistake that I have committed on my Gerrit Rietveld Red and Blue Chair, if I could do more design ideas from isometric view and from perspective, that way I would have got more marks on my assignment, instead It could be the other way round. 

Before we started our task, I was finding it difficult to pick my designs because some of them were simply not good enough, then I had to create better new designs for my final piece. I planned out each of my designs and I picked out the best six planned out drawings which I used for my chair design. The techniques, process and materials I use are three primary colours and those three colours to produce secondary and tertiary colours by using acrylic paint which I used to paint the Red & Blue chair.

I think during my time at GCSE level, it was easier because if you didn't understand what you needed to do, you will be provided with a lot of help from your teachers. However, at the moment BTEC Art and design Level 3, it's much harder because there is a lot more work given to you by more than one teacher, mostly I have to work independently on my assignments that are given to me to do. 

If I had Extra time, the changes that I would make would be to spend a lot on each drawing at a time. I just completed my work on time. To me, I think I rushed one of the planned drawings for the Art Nouveau chair and Art Deco.

William Van Alen

Brooklyn-born architect William Van Alen, who had a reputation for progressive, colorful design, met Chrysler’s challenge with a seventy-seven-story building, the first in the world to surpass a height of one thousand feet.

Instead of the tall, bland, rectangular boxes that had begun to colonize the city, inventive and dynamic forms began to lend interest and variety to the Manhattan skyline.

The ordinance also focused attention on the summit of a building.

The Chrysler Building (1930) surpassed the Eiffel Tower to become the world's tallest structure.

Today it represents the finest of the Art Deco style and indeed is probably the most beautiful Art Deco building in the world. 

 
The skyscraper no longer a copied gothic architecture (more common in Downtown Manhattan), but incorporated a current architecture style appropriate for its time of design and construction.

As if mocking the ancient gothic style of other skyscrapers, the Chrysler Building adds in gargoyles and decorative top that ends in a spire reaching towards the sky.

The tower ends in a beautiful, tapered stainless steel crown that supports the famous spire at its peak.