Chosen typefaces and colour swatches

These are my chosen colours for my poster and I will be using similar one through out my project. I sampled these colours from Francis Picabia's Udnie piece of artwork.

Cardborad box

I got ideas of how the net of my box would look like on the internet, there were many to choose from, but the one I have drawn below is what I decided to recreate. This template of a box was only the bottom and did not include a lid, so to create a lid I did exactly the same template but made it less deep and slightly wider so it would fit over the bottom. To make sure that this would work I first made the box in wallpaper which was rather flimsy but gave me a good idea of how and if it was going to work. I made sure that the length of my box would accommodate my poster once it was rolled up. I then made it for real, I chose blue card to make it in and did not glue all sides to begin with, I just paper clipped the sides so I was definite that this was going to work.

dada

Dadaism is a cultural movement, it began in Switzerland during World War I. This movement involved mainly visual arts, literature, poetry, art manifestos, art theory, theatre and graphic design. However it also delved into anti war politics, by using anti war cultural works, other activities that Dada got involved in were many demonstrations and public gatherings. This movement was a major influence to later styles for example the Avant - garde, surrealism, and pop art.

Dadaism is the main movement that layed a strong foundation for the surrealist movement. Below is a piece of work by a artist called Francis Picabia and this particular piece of his work is called Udnie.

Hear are some other works of art from the Dada movement, the one below has names of artists that were involved in that movement.

My chosen Movement

After researching a few movements that interested me the most, I decided to do Dadaism possibly combined with Surrealism. I found these movements very interesting and thought provoking, the artists that I found to be essential in these movements were Salvador Dali and Rene Magritte work for surrealism as these were the two most prominent artists in this movement. However I found that both of these movements crossed, Dadaism was also very interesting to me, a particular artist caught my eye was Francis Picabia.

Francis Picabia, he had a successful career as an impressionist painter as well as being a part of the surrealist group. By 1912 he was a member of the Dada group, he influenced and encouraged Dadaist tendencies. Through out his career he had a vast array of styles as can be seen in his Spanish Night painting (1922) and The Happiness of Blindness (1947).

In this project I would like to mainly focus on Francis Picabia, however I would also like to incorporate some of the surrealist style into my project. I will combine both of these movements as the converge into each other, but my main influence will be Francis Picabia.

Egyptian Revival

Egyptian Revival is another movement that was particularly interested in researching. This movement consists of borrowing the most spectacular elements, decorative elements are then given new life through new uses. The idea of this movement was not to copy what had already been previously done by the Egyptians but was to re create, or to give them an appearance of renewed vitality, a function other than the purpose for which they were originally intended. The Egyptian revival was an popular architectural style in Europe and the United States during the 19th century. It is generally dated by napoleon's conquest of Egypt and, in Britain, to Admiral Nelson's defeat of Napoleon at the Battle of the Nile in 1798. Below are a few examples of Egyptian Revival.

Surrealism

Surrealism is a movement that is dedicated to imagination as revealed in dreams, free from conscious control of reason and convention.The work of a surrealist usually contained realist imagery arranged in a nonsensical style in order to create a almost dream like image.

This movement was founded in 1924 by Andre Breton with his Manifesto of surrealism, the movements principal aim was 'to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality'. The major artist of this movement were Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Rene Margritte and Joan Miro. The impact of this movement can still been seen today, it is a popular choice by many advertisers.

Surrealism can be divided into two parts, Automatism and Vertisic Surrealiam. The first automatism focused on expressing subconscious ideas, they divided their imagery purely for spontaneous thought. The second Veristic surrealism, this artists aimed to to represent the connection between abstract and real material, in other words they transformed objects from the real world into their paintings.

One world renown surrealist artist was Salvador Dali, he was a Spanish Catalan surrealist painter born in Figueres. He was known for his rather bizarre surrealist work, one of his best known pieces of work is " The persistence of memory "

This piece from his collection consists of landscape forms that slowly change from one object to another. There are lots of spaces and the contours of the shapes are very interesting, however the image as a whole remains unified.

Another surrealist artist that caught my attention was Rene Magritte, he was a Belgian surrealist, over the years he has produced many thought provoking images. I found that with many of his images, he liked to use blue sky and clouds, below are a couple of examples.

Design Time Capsule - Research

Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau (new art) is an International Movement, not a style. It reached its height at the end of the 19th Century, it became popular due to its style of Art, Architecture, Applied Art and the Decorative Arts. In 1900 World's Fair in Paris is where Art Nouveau was established as the first new decorative style of the twentieth century. This movement very soon became a part of everyday life, with different styles being used for Furniture and Architecture. This movements popularity grew due to the help of a Czech artist Alphonse Mucha most known for his images of women, he influenced and helped to direct the way this movement was going to uptake. Much of his work he produced for example paintings, posters, advertisements and book illustrations, as well as jewellery, carpets, theatre sets and wallpaper was all initially called the Mucha Style but later became to be known as Art Nouveau. Below are two pieces from his collection.

A very interesting designer was Louis Comfort Tiffany, an American designer he trained as a painter in the 1860s with the artist Samuel Coleman. Tiffany had close ties with European Art Nouveau; he made a series of windows, glassware and lamps all ending up appearing at the Paris gallery of Siegfried Bing. In 1902 he became design director of the family silver firm Tiffany & co. Show his glassware

William Morris (1834–1896) was the single most influential designer of the nineteenth century; he was a designer, writer and socialist. Trained as an architect, Morris mixed in Pre – Raphaelite circles before founding his own firm in 1861, which became Morris and Co in 1875. Through his ideas on utility and beauty in design, coupled with his socialist principles, he became the defining figure of the Art and Crafts Movement. He drew on medieval motifs and designed furniture, stained glass, wallpaper and fabrics. His use of stylized floral and organic forms in his patterns was influential in the evolution of Art Nouveau. Show William Morris pictures

The Pre - Raphaelite Brotherhood was made up of a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1984 by William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. The three founders were soon joined by William Michael Rossetti, James Collinson, Frederic George Stephens and Thomas Woolner to form the seventh member "brotherhood". The grouped formed with the intention to reform art by rejecting what they considered to be mechanistic, the brother hood had high regard for classicism they believe that it poses elegant compositions. The Brother hood objected the influence of Sir Joshua Reynolds, the founder of the English Royal Academy of Arts, they called him "Sir Sloshua", believing that his broad technique was a sloppy and formulaic form of academic Mannerism. In contrast, they wanted to return to the abundant detail, intense colours, and complex compositions of the cultural and artistic events of 15th century Italy are collectively referred to as the Quattrocento. Quattrocento encompasses the artistic styles of the late Middle ages (most notably International Gothic) and the early Renaissance.

The Pre-Raphaelites have been considered the first avant-garde movement in art, though they have also been denied that status, because they continued to accept both the concepts of history painting and of mimesis, or imitation of nature, as central to the purpose of art. However, the Pre-Raphaelites undoubtedly defined themselves as a reform-movement, created a distinct name for their form of art, and published a periodical, The Germ, to promote their ideas. Their debates were recorded in the Pre-Raphaelite Journal.

Sandro Botticelli's Annunciation, painted from 1489-1490, is an example Quattrocento art.

William Holman Hunt, one of the founders of The Pre-Raphaelites work was not initially successful, and was widely attacked in the art press for their alleged clumsiness and ugliness. He achieved some early note for his intensely naturalistic scenes of modern rural and urban life, such as The Hireling Shepherd and The Awakening Conscience. However, it was with his religious paintings that he became famous, initially The Light of the World (1851-1853, now in the chapel at Keble College, Oxford; a later version (1900) toured the world and now has its home in St Paul's Cathedral. In the mid 1850s Hunt travelled to the Holy Land in search of accurate topographical and ethnographical material for further religious works, and to “use my powers to make more tangible Jesus Christ’s history and teaching”; there he painted The Scapegoat, The Finding of the Saviour in the Temple and The Shadow of Death, along with many landscapes of the region. Hunt also painted many works based on poems, such as Isabella and Lady of Shalott. For Hunt it was the duty of the artist to reveal the correspondence between sign and fact. Out of all the members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood Hunt remained most true to their ideals throughout his career. He eventually had to give up painting because failing eyesight meant that he could not get the level of quality that he wanted. His last major work, The Lady of Shalott, was completed with the help of an assistant (Edward Robert Hughes). Below are The Scapegoat, The Hireling Shepherd and The Light of the World.