Monday, 23 March 2015

Vintage project evaluation

I chose to research the 1960s which is also the rock n roll era because it was the begining for my favourite type of music and i loved doing the research on where rock came from and how it evolved and how it has made rock music the way it is today. From the 1960s i chose to research the music as my chosen focus and i also looked at fashion, transport, the vietnam war and the comic book heroes of this time. The main cultural influences of the 1960s were mainly the music where rock n roll started to become popular with bands such as the Kinks and the Beatles which were from the UK as well as the comic book movement that started to become massively popular especially with in the US and the minimalistic life style, influenced by an architect known as "Mies Van De Rohe" he believed that less was better, having a space that wasn't over filled and had just the essencials. Through the 1960s there were many artists and designers, i researched into the architect called mies van de rohe who ive named above, then there was the graphic designer Stanley Mouse who designed film posters and some of the work from the sphycadelic art movement. Then there was roy lichenstiene who was a big part of the pop art movement. Then there was the minimalism movement with in the art world where i researched donald judd and tony smith who were sculptures from the 60s. In my opinion the art and design in my chosen era was pretty wide in verity with sculptures made from metal and wood in simple shapes to comic book like pop art with bright block colour and paterns that caught your eye. In my sketchbook I've kept to my usual media such as acrylic and water colour paint and pencil both shading and coloured with some use of oil pastels because I didn't like the thought of ruining my sketchbook with experiments with art that would go wrong so i kept to what i was comfortable with. With my chosen media i think it was effective as I mostly used paint for block colour or background with easy to do detail then i used pencil to add fine detail and some block colour. To be honest my annotations aren't that creative as I've just written on my pages in black ink as I don't think annotations need to be fancy. Like with all my projects i think i could have managed my time better with doing more at home than just one or two pages so if i were to do this again i would do at least 3 to 4 pages for each day of homework and try to do maybe 4 to 5 pages in class. I am satisfied with my sketchbook over all i think ive tested myself with some painting like the mighty chrysler painting and the lizard drawing from the spiderman comics was something I'd not tried before but i do think i could have put in more acrylic paint work andd maybe some scraffito work in one or 2 places like the fashion pages and the music pages.

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