Artistic Movements

Abstract Impressionism is a type of abstract painting (not to be confused with Abstract Expressionism, a similar but different movement) where small brush strokes exhibit control of large areas, expressing the artists emotion and focus on inner energy and sometimes contemplation, creating expressive, lyrical and thoughtful qualities in the painting. Its their own impression but in a abstract way.
























Art Nouvea is a style of art that appeared in Europe during the late 19th Century, though its influence is global and continuous. The artistic style which takes its name for the French, meaning 'New art' and is characterised by the use of organic shapes and dramatic curving lines that encompass many forms of art. Many of its themes are taken from nature, though presented quite abstractly and includes plants flowers and naturally curved lines 

Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th Century. It emphasised and glorified themes associated with concepts of the future, including speed technology youth and violence and objects such as the car.     

Minimalism describes movements in various forms of art and design, especially visual are and music, where the work is set out to expose the essence of identity or a subject. By eliminating all non essential forms, features or concepts. It rooted in the reductive aspects of modernism and is often interpreted as a reaction against abstract expressionism and a bridge to post minimal art practices 

Photo Realism is the genre of painting based on using the camera and photographs to gather information creating a painting that appears photographic. The term is primarily applied to paintings from the US art movement that began in the late 1960's and early 1970's.

Studying  these different artist movements I made a timeline in photoshop: 

Magazine 1

I made this in photoshop for an idea of my double page spread. I used and image from google, and deleted the background and sky so it looked more part of the page and not like a stuck on image. I want this to be the main image, with the main focus point just above it with the title. I have shown where I will put the text and also where another picture is. I felt with a white background it would be too plain so change the opacity of an american flag to use as my background.

Magazine Layouts

 Here are some magazine layouts I found on google images to give me ideas for my double page spread.

The 3 different layouts here I really like. The first one i like how there is a main image but it brings the article together. Then with the typography used you look straight there afterwards. Its not to over crowded and its effective, also though black grey and white colours I like these other two layouts, and the use of colour on them. The simple colours make it aesthetically pleasing and with text going in different ways and being different sizes makes it interesting, even thought there is quite a lot going on its still easy to understand and read.

 I like how the only colour on this one is the yellow background. Which is also used as a speech bubble on the other side, like the reverse.

Where as these two magazines here I dont really like, the first one is too blank. There isnt anything that tells or shows you what is going on beacuse there are no pictures. Even thought the one underneath has images, its very over crowded with a lot of text. It does include much colour, but also looks like not much thought went in to making it.

Joseph Muller Brockman

Josef Müller-Brockmann, (May 9, 1914, in Rapperswil – August 30, 1996), was a Swiss graphic designer and teacher. He studied architecture, design and history of art at both the University and Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. In 1936 he opened his Zurich studio specialising in graphic design, exhibition design and photography. From 1951 he produced concert posters for the Tonhalle in Zurich. In 1958 he became a founding editor of New Graphic Design along with R.P. Lohse, C. Vivarelli, and H. Neuburg. In 1966 he was appointed European design consultant to IBM. Müller-Brockman was author of the 1961 publications The Graphic Artist and his Design Problems, Grid Systems in Graphic Design where he advocates use of the grid for page structure, and the 1971 publications History of the Poster and A History of Visual Communication.

He is recognised for his simple designs and his clean use of typography, notably Akzidenz-Grotesk, shapes and colours which inspires many graphic designers in the 21st century.



I used some of his graphics work for inspirtation to create my own inspired peice. Using photoshop i decided the best way to create a graphics piece similar to his would be to use shape and colour in a way that he does.

Research

I have decided to use the September 11 attacks for my double page spread. I will be using terorism as a form of conflict. I want to include the conspircay theory and if it has anything to do with the american government. I will be using cs3 photoshop to create a few different magazine ideas and also chose one to be my final piece.

9/11 Attacks Conspircay/ Are the American government behind it?

·         September 9th 2001

·         Washington

·         New York

·         Flights 11, 77, 175, 93

·         WTC made of steel and planes made of aluminum: plane nose and wings would have been destroyed instantly

·         Instead the plane went through the tower

·         Every piece of footage from the attacks, show very bad quality – could be computer generated

·         Each different picture of the plane hitting the 2^nd tower are all different. Some blue, grey, black, and white.



Josh Vanover

Born and raised in North Carolina, designer/illustrator. Often working in black and white, Vanover masterfully fuses hand-drawn elements with stark photographic source materials. He is an unfettered manipulator of original and found imagery; his style informed by an encyclopedic knowledge of visual sources ranging from cult film footage, erotica and video stills to cartoons, war photography and even psychedelic. Vanover’s signature style and workman-like approach have attracted the attention of clients such as Nike, Stussy and Hennessy, and mostly recently having done album artwork for the likes of Linkin Park.