Scientific Discovery

Scientific Discovery

In the 19th century impressionist painters were forced to react to photography as it became more popular and challenged their art. They were encouraged to be true to nature and to exploit aspects of painting that photography couldn’t achieve such as colour. Impressionists wanted to capture reality in a different way. Photography inspired artists to pursue other means of artistic expression.

marmaduke duke

This website is for a band. Their theme is strange, bizarre and old fashioned, the website reflects this. The book is ripped and tattered and dirty to set this old fashioned atmosphere. The site also has a mystical feel to it with the videos playing on the page making

THe reduced cost of digital technology and software

Computer technology is continually increasing in power and dropping in price. In 1981 an IBM PC with 256Kb of RAM and CPU: 477Mhz cost £1736. Now in 2009 a DELL XPS is available with 3Gb of RAM, CPU: Dual 2.66GHz for $899. As computer power increased so did software capability. Because of competition of a range of specialized tasks, software is becoming cheaper and is even available for free. Using software to create digital art is becoming more common and is a hobby for the average person, because of this the cost barrier has been removed for Digital art and design and freeware is available for almost all aspects of digital art and design. Like software, technology has become more popular to the average person e.g. Video cameras and Digital photography cameras. Digital art and design has become more accessible as the cost of technology has fallen and power has increased.

Punk - 1977

Bold colours lots of contrast

Displays attidute and her expression shows a devious and rebelling look.

modern technique no traditional media as punk bebelled against old people, rockers and hippies.

International Typographic Style.

Emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivity

Characteristics of the style are asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans-serif typefaces like Akzidenz Grotesk, and flush left, ragged right text.

Surrealism - 1924

Characteristics of surrealism include

inexplicable happenings, dream like themes and hallucinations.

Like symbolism meanings are fed to the viewer through a strange art language which we have to de-code. The artist has used oil on canvas to create a realistic dream like world.

Bauhaus - 1933

It shuns ornamentation and favors functionality

Uses asymmetry and regularity versus symmetry

It grasps architecture in terms of space versus mass

Bauhaus buildings are usually cubic, favor right angles,

(although some feature rounded corners and balconies);

they have smooth facades and an open floor plan.