post modernism Theory as practice

Postmodernism

Today we learned about postmodernism and how it changed and effected art. In this post ill be talking about what Postmodernism is. 

Postmodernism describes a broad movement that developed in the mid to late 20th century A general and wide-ranging term which is applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others. Postmodernism is largely a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific, or objective, efforts to explain reality.

The post modernism art moment includes; 

• Dada.
• Jackson Pollock and abstract expressionism.
• After abstract expressionism.
• Performance art and happenings.
• Assemblage art.
• Pop art.
• Fluxus.
• Minimalism.
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Andy Warhol- Marilyn Monroe and the pop art movement

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Minimalis art moment 

process and production still life

In this session we were asked to draw some setups which our tutor had created using objects such as boxes, equpment and giant letters that were layed out. we had to use different tecnieques to draw then such as tone, line and texture using different equipment like pencils, pens and markers. I really enjoyed this session because my skills on tonning and shading were bettered and i learnt new techneques that will better my drawing.

design and emotion

In todays lecture we learnt about design and emotion and how design made us feel and think. In this session we looked at a series of illusions which made us feel different emotions. there was a task where we had to try cnnect nine dots using only one line which was quiet dificult. I am not sure what i learnt in this session other then illusions sometimes dont work and that design can make us feel different tings from just the colours and layout.

   

 

The second part of the lecture was to create a sequance or type that gave an illustion of change. I didnt think I captured this task very well becasue the work i produced doesnt show a sequance.

 

christmas advert semiotics theory as practice

In todays session we were learning about semiotics and how they influenced design. we looked at some christmas adverts from this year and previous years and we had to write nots about all the semiotics we could see and how they related and made us think about christmas.

The advert below is sainsburys 2016 christmas advert for this I wrote that it had he message of family warm and joyful. it was like stopmotion/claymation, the song was a message inits own right putting the idea forward that parents struggle to get things done at christmas and are very stressed they dont get to spend time with family the advert also links strongly to family christmas traditions.




The next advert is john lewis's christmas advert for 2016 I though this advert was very playful and fun. It plays with emotions by involving small woodland creatures and a family dog. you see things like family, christmas trees and presents in this advert which makes you assume its christmas.





 






 This advert is for m&s this advert is quiet clever in the fact they use Mrs clause as a powerful figure instead of Santa. the message i got from this is that the woman is always going to be secretly hidden away behind the sense when men are away working or doing what they do and that they will always try to cover and help other people when necessary. I also got the semiotics for christmas from the red cloke and the christmas trees and snow also a figure I assume was santa.