For my first image which was inspired by Modern Art, I decided to mimic a piece made by Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz. This artist designed in expressionism, and one item of focus during this time was on the poor and unfortunate. Suffering women and children were depicted in their struggles because of the artist's experience and insight of the poor. I decided to create my own basic poster where a young boy was shown with Save Darfur was at the bottom to give it some sort of title. I really like the pencil strokes that Kollwitz used, so I did the same sort of thing in my sketch. One thing I was really inspired was how you could make out the face, but there's no way you could ever give the face a name because it's unrecognizable. It pushes the meaning further because we don't need a specific name to know that poverty is out there and people are suffering.
My next piece was also with help from the Modern Arts. I was inspired from the futurist period through their use of text to convey a meaning... and text alone. I took a quote from a great song and tried to quickly tell a story based on the location of the text. It isn't much, but I played with the terms 'far away', 'mistakes', 'contained' and 'away'. It was fun to do this because it's a little more challenging and you really have to think about how to write something.
And now for this image, which was inspired by Peter Behrens in the Genesis of Twentieth Century Design. I noticed in a lot of his work that he used many borders with geometric patterns. I made up my own poster for snow cones (?). Don't ask my why I chose snow cones, I think it's because I saw an ad on TV for a snow cone maker,...and I want it. I used this particular design because of his work on page 239, where he created the magazine cover for Mitteliungen Der Berliner Elekricitaets Werke. It's a very simple and flat design, basic colors and yet has a bit of an illusion to it. I tried to mimic the uppercase letters that were all centered in the middle.
For my first image which was inspired by Modern Art, I decided to mimic a piece made by Kathe Schmidt Kollwitz. This artist designed in expressionism, and one item of focus during this time was on the poor and unfortunate. Suffering women and children were depicted in their struggles because of the artist's experience and insight of the poor. I decided to create my own basic poster where a young boy was shown with Save Darfur was at the bottom to give it some sort of title. I really like the pencil strokes that Kollwitz used, so I did the same sort of thing in my sketch. One thing I was really inspired was how you could make out the face, but there's no way you could ever give the face a name because it's unrecognizable. It pushes the meaning further because we don't need a specific name to know that poverty is out there and people are suffering. 
My next piece was also with help from the Modern Arts. I was inspired from the futurist period through their use of text to convey a meaning... and text alone. I took a quote from a great song and tried to quickly tell a story based on the location of the text. It isn't much, but I played with the terms 'far away', 'mistakes', 'contained' and 'away'. It was fun to do this because it's a little more challenging and you really have to think about how to write something. 
And now for this image, which was inspired by Peter Behrens in the Genesis of Twentieth Century Design. I noticed in a lot of his work that he used many borders with geometric patterns. I made up my own poster for snow cones (?). Don't ask my why I chose snow cones, I think it's because I saw an ad on TV for a snow cone maker,...and I want it. I used this particular design because of his work on page 239, where he created the magazine cover for Mitteliungen Der Berliner Elekricitaets Werke. It's a very simple and flat design, basic colors and yet has a bit of an illusion to it. I tried to mimic the uppercase letters that were all centered in the middle.
I think you do a good job mimicing the styles in these three pieces. I too like the pencil strokes that you keep in your sketch, and I agree that the facelessness of the person in the Darfur poster makes it stronger because it also shows that there is a mass of people out there suffering, not just one.
ReplyDeleteI like the ways you play with the text in the second piece - you picked out good words to focus on.
The snow cone ad is also good - amusing that you chose snow cones - but your design looks very Behrens-y with the linear and circular geomtry. (I think we must have both been inspired by the same poster!)
I enjoyed looking at all 3 of these images. Before just looking at the images and not reading the descriptions I was a little confused, but once you described why you drew the poor person it made more sense. The modern artists did like to use poor and homeless people as their inspirations. I like your 2nd one because I tried to do something with futurism and just using text, but I didnt like how mine turned out and I really like how you worked with this one and changed the text around on the page. For the last one, i like how you chose snow cones, not sure anyone else would have, but I like the type, it really catches my attention and I also like how you incorporated the flavors in there, kind of hidden but it makes me want to look around the image.
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