ART DECO

Art deco is a global inspiration art form with a wide-ranging style that draws on many sources; it was the firstly embraced design movement by artists and artisans (artistic craftsmen that work alone or in small groups and make furniture, clothes or even food creatively) across the world. The term ‘art deco’ originated from Paris from the 1925 art exposition at le muse des arts decoratifs. The exposition was meant to be a display of nouveau designs from around the world, but U.S. Secretary of commerce Herbert Hoover declared Americans off limits from entering, as he felt no contemporary architecture was “new” enough. The 1925 french art exposition “international des Arts decoratifs” served as the element for designers mixing exotic glamour with clean, masculine lines. It is captivated by much of the style of the roaring twenties and the great depression era. During the styles uprising, it was referred to as ‘Style Moderne’ and ‘Art Moderne’ by strict critics such as Jazz Modern. The term ‘jazz’ was an insulting term in traditional circles.

Bevis Hillier

Art deco was not published until 1968, were British art historian Bevis Hiller published ‘art deco of the 20’s and 30s’ that the name finally stuck; but due to the fashion era of the twenties evolving into a more modernised design in the thirties, some designers continued to have their doubts about identifying a collection that could be accurately labelled Art Deco. Although in 2003, a large exhibition on Art Deco was hosted by Victoria & Albert museum, finally confirming its acceptance as a genuine and distinct style of its time. Designers continue to pay a tribute to the art forum of Art Deco today, through architecture, furniture, furnishings, objects, art, fashion and jewellery. Reinterpreting the movement for the 21^st century. The London Art Deco society celebrates this by featuring Art deco new waves venues. 

One of the inspired artists that interests me from this art form is Tamara de lempicka. Her work was of portraits of writers, entertainers, artists, scientists and industrialists; it consisted mainly of rich and successful people. No one from underclass, since In her childhood she was spoilt by the age of 14 by her grandmother with clothes and travel, after her parents were divorced. This is what bought her, her critical acclaim, social celebrity and considerable wealth.  After her second husband death she went on to live near her daughter to start painting with different materials such as a palette knife, much in vogue at the time.

HISTORY OF PRINTMAKING

Printmaking- is the process making of making a variety of artwork by using the method of printing, normally on paper, but also sometimes on such materials and objects as wood, lino and metal depending on the printing style. Printmaking normally covers the quality and originality of creating the prints, rather than just having a photographic reproduction of a painting.

105 AD – is cited as the year in which papermaking was invented in china.

Woodcut print

1380- Woodcut Printmaking, a relief printing plate made by carving marks in blocks of long grained planks or plywood. Long-grain refers to the grain following the direction of growth. For example, parallel to the tree trunk/ branch the piece of wood was cut from.

engraved print

1420-30- Printed Engraving is a method where metal plates begin to replace the use of carved wooden printing blocks for the reproduction of works of art. A plate of soft metal is used, most often copper, and the design engraved (cut into) into the surface using a tool called a “burin” which is a square tool-steel rod, sharpened diagonally at one end so that the prominent corner becomes an effective controllable cutting edge.

LetterPress print

1440-50- Letterpress Printmaking is a technique of relief printing using a printing press. A worker composes and locks movable type into the bed of the press, inks it, and presses paper against it to transfer the ink from the type. Which creates an impression on the paper. 

Etching print

1513- Etching is a traditional process of using strong acid or mordant to cut into the unprotected parts of a metal surface to create a design in intaglio (relief) in the metal. 

lithography print

1796-8 – Lithography originally based on the immiscibility of oil and water. Printing is from a stone (lithographic limestone) or metal plate with a smooth surface. 

Photogravure print

1852- Photogravure is intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with light- sensitive gelation tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a highly quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a photography.

Black is like the silence of the body after death, the close of life." painted by Wassily Kandinsky in 1991

This painting to me gives off a sense of an indie type of music; the reason being is because of the colour scheme. indie artist album covers always included light colours such as cream, which in the painting is the background colour. and other colours such a blue, yellow and green. each colour is a light shade, making them suttle; something that is sometimes used within indie music videos and album covers. looking at the painting, from my own judgement, I see a deformed guitar within the painting taking full shape of a normal guitar as if its in the process of being made; this also links into indie music because they also involve guitars in their acoustics set. Paul uses a variety of colours, but used a sort of cream/green/blue background that blends together well making the different shapes within the painting stand out clear to the viewer but also complementing the background colour. something that is very hard to create, but beautifully done by the blending of different shades of colours within this portrait. Using light shades of the selected colours really made the painting more intriguing and interesting to look at because the colours make you feel happy rather than confused about the object trying to be represented. what makes this painting unique and different is how he does not try to portrays or make a clear visual of an object that you normally see within a variety of different artworks and paintings, but the work still looks like a master piece because Paul used colour to be his painting and used different shapes to add onto the beautiful mix of colours.




This pieces represents EDM (electric dance music) a broad range of percussive electronic music genres produced primarily for dance-based entertainment environment such as nightclubs, raves and festivals. the explosive artwork and colours represents the emotions felt when listening to such music as EDM. also with EDM music, the majority of songs include a base drop, which is represented through the painting with the light colours on the edges of the piece, showing tranquillity and the middle of the pictures shows the thrilling main body of the song for example at the start of where are u now, it articulates a sense of peacefulness whereas once it reaches the base drop, an explosion of sound and almost even colour is presented, just as in the painting. looking at the piece, visually all I see is a explosion/ chaotic scene. as if something bad has happened but then it turns into something beautiful. although there's no visible object I can see, I still manage to be able to see a scene and a story happening through the artwork itself.  The colours that Paul uses within this painting is what gives the painting its loud and dangerous, but fun effect on the viewer cause the colours are bright and very noticeable while the background is a settling colour that is not as bright, but more complementary to the explosive colours.


 judging from this piece of art work by Wassily Kandinsky; i get the sense of a jazz themed oil painting. for example the colours used within the painting represent the effects and emotions you would feel, when listening to the music genre; they expresses the sense and energy of jazz, expanding your mind and soothing your soul, as what jazz music does for people. Also another reason to why the oil painting represents jazz through my opinion,is because within the painting contains musical objects such as drums, piano and other instruements that are the basic intruments used when making such music as jazz, and the different symbols around the figures contained within the piece coyld be representing the different emotions and dances created by the mood and rhytm of the music created through jazz.