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.
Andy Warhol- Marilyn Monroe and the pop art movement
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.
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.
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.
propaganda; information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view.
Religious propagation
The term 'propaganda' first appeared in 1622 when Pope Gregory XV established the Sacred Congregation for Propagating the Faith (Congregatio de Propaganda Fide). Propaganda was then as now about convincing large numbers of people about the veracity of a given set of ideas.
Propaganda and war
Wars have always been a good reason to use propaganda, as governments seek to persuade populaces of the justness of their cause as well as hide the horrors and failures of the front line. Misinformation and disinformation are widely used to distract people from the truth and create new realities.
Entry into the first world war was apparently accompanied with many stories of atrocities that were false. Things have not changed and more recent wars have also had more than their fair share of propaganda and false excuses.
we've all been there and taken procrastination to the next level and have spent hours on the internet or youtube looking at illusions when we were supposed to be doing something else in this blog post I will be talking about what I learnt about illusions in todays lecture. Illusion: An instance of wrong misinterpreted reception of a sensory experience.
optical
An optical illusion is characterised by visually perceived images that are deceptive or misleading. Therefore, the information gathered by the eye is processed by the brain to give, on the face of it, a percept that does not tally with a physical measurement of the stimulus source.
Auditory
An auditory illusion is an illusion of hearing, the sound equivalent of an optical illusion: the listener hears either sounds which are not present in the stimulus, or "impossible" sounds. In short, audio illusions highlight areas where the human ear and brain, as organic, makeshift tools, differ from perfect audio receptors (for better or for worse). One example of an auditory illusion is a Shepard tone.
Temporal
A temporal illusion is a distortion in the perception of time, which occurs when the time interval between two or more events is very narrow (typically less than a second). In such cases, a person may momentarily perceive time as slowing down, stopping, speeding up, or running backwards.
Tactile
Examples of tactile illusions include phantom limb, the thermal grill illusion, the cutaneous rabbit illusion and a curious illusion that occurs when the crossed index and middle fingers are run along the bridge of the nose with one finger on each side, resulting in the perception of two separate noses.
what is semiotics? semiotics is the study of signs and symbols and their uses or interpretations.The word 'semiotics' dates back to ancient Greece, but its use in modern linguistics was propelled in the 19th century with the research of Ferdinand de Saussure. Saussure was a Swiss linguist who contributed greatly to the study of semiotics, also sometimes referred to as semiology. Not only this but semiotics can be how WE interpret messages with in a mean such as how an advert can portray a message using the product it is trying to sell by linking it with hard working families ECT
