Week 1, Hands on Project

This week, i am looking into The Elements of Design, Art criticism and Manual photography.

Elements of Design;

Line / Shape / Space / Texture / Colour / Value / Form. Learning to understand how different techniques can affects art styles. Also explain each definitions.

 

I choices to start off doing colour and texture because it's what I'm best and enjoy doing the most.  

Colour: I choice to do warm and cool colours because it's similar to emotion how we can be cheerful and sorrowful.

What do I learn from this? I learn how to use different warm and cool colours. How it this effects the colour when both colour has a opposite background.

Why did I use this ideas? I wanting to experiment the how warm and cool colour effect eachother and it turn out to be great and I'm really enjoy it.

How did I make it? The material i use is Acrylic colour and soft brushes. Drawing a hand at first with small brushes then after i blending dark and light colour together.

How the quality? The quality of this piece isn't outstanding because what i really wanting to do is experiment the warm and cool colour and i learned from it. 

Texture: At first i made a mistake by trying to make collage but realising that's wrong so i change it. Using line paper to stick inside the hands and paint on the background to make the hand looks outstanding. Materials: Line papers, colour hard brushes.

What do i learn from this/Why did I used this ideas? At first I made a mistake by trying to turn Texture into Collage, which it doesn't went well after I realise I done this wrong. I'm trying to rid the collage out so i can create some texture then it turn out well and I'm really like the outcome.
How did i make it/Quality? Because of the mistake i made and turn it into my favor. I uses acrylic paint and hard brushes to paint the background to create the texture. Personal think this work quality is good because even though i made a mistake, i end up fix it and create more texture into work.

Art Criticism
During the group tutorial, we was learning about art criticism. Learning what's meaning of being art criticism, Who were an art criticism in history and what kind of jobs did they do. Art criticism is involves analysing and evaluating every type of art that you can imagine. Find out how to apply it to the art that you want to study, whether it's photography, music, film, sculpture, dance, literature, etc.

Role of an Art Critic
Being Art critic, is to help other viewer understanding the meaning of the art, how they can improve and making a judgement about specific work. there also different type of art criticism, which is Journalistic (Giving out information) and scholarly art (based on original research or experiment). Basically a reviewer, helping other people understanding the art easier. Art Critic isn't just about explains the information to viewer but you also can be a newspaper reporter, a scholar writing for professional or an artist who writing about other artist's work.

Art critic is also focusing on modern and contemporary art from cultures. 

-Modern Art: Art from impressionists, around 1880-1970s. During World War II. 

-Contemporary Art: From 1970s up to Nowadays. 

What do i mean by focusing on modern and contemporary art from cultures is because not every cultures is same, everyone have their own unique art style. We can't just judge the art, saying they're horrible because it wasn't your style but judges them by showing what's different and explain the meanings so you can give them the knowledges to understand art.

Alistair Sooke

Alastair is deputy art critic of The Daily Telegraph and one of Britain's leading arts journalists and broadcasters. Since joining the Telegraph as a trainee in 2003, he has interviewed many of the most famous artists in the world, including Damien Hirst, Anish Kapoor and Jeff Koons.

In 2010, he wrote and presented Modern Masters, a four-part series about modern art that was broadcast on Sunday evenings on BBC One. He reports on contemporary art for The Culture Show, and has contributed to a wide range of arts programmes on radio and television. He has an MA in art history.

He is also the presenter of Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture, a three-part series tracing the history of British sculpture from the Norman Conquest to the present day, broadcast on BBC Four.

Workshop: Manual Photography

Looking into manual photography basic, such as what's a Aperture, Shutter speed and ISO.
Aperture - the opening in the lens ,
Shutter speed - the amount of time that shutter is open.
ISO - Sensitivity to light. can effect an images.

Even though I don't know much about photography but i still enjoy this lesson because it showing me the different between the quality of photo can be changed, depended of what kind of angle you take, you can change the images and there isn't just one techniques when come to taking an picture.

Heath and Safety in this workshop:
Ensure there no loose cable.
Never leave the studio unattended.

Example of Depth of field:

One that i like the most was Depth of field (Depth of fielded is when the camera can only focus the leans at a single point, making other area blurred.) The reason why i really enjoy this techniques, is because it's focusing on the leans on the point you wanted while other area blurred, creating a great space on the images.

Example of double exposure:
This is an when I'm using Photoshop to turn two different images into a single images. Even though I dislike the way it looks because i didn't know what's double or multiple exposure mean but it's still teaching me the techniques and how affected it is.


Some Example of what am i doing in Manual Photography: