KITSCH

The mean of kitsch is a lowbrow style of mass produced art or design using popular or cultural icons. It's artwork that was a response to the 19th century art with aesthetics that conveys exaggerated sentimentality and melodrama. In some cases kitsch is used as a concept of being camp or gay. Its was founded 1860s and the 1870s, discribing cheap or to popular.

My opinion on kitsch is that it's a bit tacky or over used in a certain marketing area. I also think it can also be used in a controversial way, to say that you know it tacky and over used but you have it just because it's considered as Kitsch.

HND ART AND DESIGN REVIEW 1

PRINTING TODAY MAGAZINE.

This magazine is about the work of David Hockney and his contributions and progress towards printing. The article is about Hockney and his work over the years the years of printing and the way that he looks at printing. Thier are some influence quotes by Hockney him self saying " I'm not a print maker, I'm a printer who makes a few prints." It's also talk about his studies and how he got in to the printing industry by doing graphic design because of the free use of paint provided by the college. It shows some of his well know prints and discusses the means of these prints.

The reason I was interested in the article is because of my own interests in print and it gives me some inperation of some of my work that I'm going to do later on I the year. It's give an independent view of the Write expressing there thoughts of the of Hockney's life.

This was published by Cello press. The writers name is not given.

Chesterfield College Fashion Show 2013

The end of year fashion show was held in the heart space in the middle of college. The clothes in the fashion was made by the students on the course. All of the years took part in make there clothes in the fashion show. The first years went first with different looking styles. Some of the styles 80s, 90s and many more. Some of the fashion students were fashioning some of there own clothes. In part of the fashion show the girls did mess up and so did the music by the show went on.

Life drawing

We did these drawing on John in the west block. We were allowed to do draw the first image in pastel and pencil.On  the first image we had to use the black pastel we had to just draw what we see if we wanted we could chose a section of t he body to draw. On the second image we could do the same but we could use pencil as well and if we wanted. After drawing the image then put news paper on part of the drawing with pva and when we drew over the out line again. Also on the second image we didn't have to draw detail but we had to capture the shape of the body.

Stenberg Brothers

The Stenberg brothers, whose father was a Swede and whose mother was a Russian, were both born in Moscow, Russia but remained Swedish citizens until 1933. They first studied engineering, then attended the Stroganov School of Applied Art in Moscow, 1912–17, and subsequently the Moscow Svomas(free studios), where they and other students designed decorations and posters for the first May Day celebration (1918). 1919, the Stenbergs and comrades founded the OBMOKhU (society of young artists) and participated in its first group exhibition in Moscow in May 1919 and in the exhibitions of 1920, 1921 and 1923. The brothers and Konstantin Medunetskii staged their own "Constructivists" exhibition in January 1922 at the Poets Café Moscow, accompanied by a Constructivist manifesto. 

The Stenbergs practiced in a range of media, initially active as Constructivist sculptors, subsequently as theater designers, architects, and draftspeople. Their design work covered the gamut from clothing, including women's shoes, to rail carriages.The brothers were at their prime during the revolutionary period of politics and artistic experimentation in Russia, centered in Moscow. There was a shift from the illustrator-as-creator to the constructor-as-creator or nonlinear-narrator-as-creator. In the visual language of the constructor or Constructivist, the Stenbergs and other graphic designers and artists assembled images, such as portions of photographs and preprinted paper, that had been created by others. Thus, the Stenbergs and others realized wholly new images or compositions which were no longer about realism.

Aleksandr M. Rodchenko

Rodchenko was born in St. Petersburg to a working-class family. His family moved to Kazan after the death of his father, in 1909. When Rodchenko decided to become an artist, he hadn't had any exposure to the art world. He drew much inspiration from his early influences, which were mainly art magazines that were available to him. In 1910, he began studies under Nikolai Feshin and Georgii Medvedev at the Kazan School of Art, where he met Varvara Stepanova, whom he later married. After 1914, he continued his artistic training at the Stroganov Institute in Moscow. In 1921 he became a member of the Productivist group, which advocated the incorporation of art into everyday life. He gave up painting in order to concentrate on graphic design for posters, books, and films. He was deeply influenced by the ideas and practice of the film maker Dziga Vertov, with whom he worked intensively in 1922.

In 1921, Rodchenko executed what were arguably some of the first true monochromes (artworks of one color). These paintings were first displayed in the 5x5=25 exhibition in Moscow. For artists of the Russian Revolution, Rodchenko's radical action was full of utopian possibility. It marked the end of easel painting – perhaps even the end of art – along with the end of bourgeois norms and practices. It cleared the way for the beginning of a new Russian life, a new mode of production, a new culture. Rodchenko later proclaimed, "I reduced painting to its logical conclusion and exhibited three canvases: red, blue, and yellow. I affirmed it's all over."

El Lissitzky

El Lissitzky was born on November 23, 1890 in Pochinok, a small Jewish community 50 kilometers southeast of Smolensk, former Russian Empire. During his childhood, he lived and studied in the city of Vitebsk, now part of Belarus, and later spent 10 years in Smolensk living with his grandparents and attending the Smolensk Grammar School, spending summer vacations in Vitebsk. While he passed the entrance exam and was qualified, the law under the Tsarist regime only allowed a limited number of Jewish students to attend Russian schools and universities.

El Lissitzky's entire career was based on his that the artist could be an agent for change. Lissitzky, who was Jewish, began his career illustrating Yiddish children's books. This was to promote Jewish culture in Russia, which had just ended its antisemitic laws. He started teaching at 15; and taught throughout his life. Over the years, he taught in a variety of positions, schools and artistic media, spreading and exchanging ideas.