Cinema. Short film. The power of IMAGES

Red Hill was the Director of SIGNS, one of the 2009 Cannes Lions winners! A simple short film about communication.

Does it ring you a bell?

Animation. The power of IMAGES

First of all read the following text, and try to guess the meaning of the highlighted words:

Introducing a groundbreaking technique that merges computer-generated and hand-drawn animation techniques, first-time director John Kahrs takes the art of animation in a new direction with the Oscar®-nominated short (2013), "Paperman." 

Using a minimalist black-and-white style, the short follows the story of a lonely young man in mid-century New York City, whose destiny takes an unexpected turn after a chance meeting with a beautiful woman on his morning commute. Convinced the girl of his dreams is gone forever, he gets a second chance when he spots her in a skyscraper window across the avenue from his office. With only his heart, imagination and a stack of papers to get her attention, his efforts are no match for what the fates have in store for him. 

Created by a small, innovative team working at Walt Disney Animation Studios, "Paperman" pushes the animation medium in an exciting new direction.

 

Technical drawing exam

Contents:

• The basics of geometry.
• Simple elements. Study the vocabulary.
• Parallel and Perpendicular lines.
• Parallel and Perpendicular lines, thanks to Eva (1st A).
• Thales theorem.
• Angles. Types of angles. Copying an angle. Adding up angles. Subtracting angles. Bisecting an angle.
• Line segment operations. Copying a line segment. Adding up line segments. Subtracting line segments.
• Perpendicular bisector.

Remember that to study technical drawing you have to DRAW and try the different constructions several times. Study the vocabulary too.

Don't forget to bring your drawing equipment (ruler, set squares, pencils -2H and HB- and compass).

Elements of Art: DOTS

The visual elements of an image 1_POINT

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Dots in Art

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POINTILLISM
Georges Seurat invented the technique known as Pointillism, which uses tiny dots instead of broad strokes to put the paint on the canvas. The individual dots of red, yellow and blue are sucked in through your eyes and mixed up in your head to create a variety of shimmering shades.





Click here to see an hiperrealistic and pointillist video: http://vimeo.com/33091687.


DRIPPING ART
Jackson Pollock (Jack the Dripper) was an American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. Pollock's technique of pouring and dripping paint is thought to be one of the origins of the term action painting.



CINETIC ART
Alexander Calder is the most representative cinetic art sculptor.

Alexander Calder. Point

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Take a look to this wonderful mobiles by Julie Frith.

GEOMETRIC ART
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian-born artist who is often credited as being one of the first modern artists to create abstract art. Kandinsky's goal was to use brilliant color with geometric shapes, lines and points to create images that had no symbolic, figurative, or narrative elements.


DOTS, HUGE DOTS

Sonia Delaunay (November 14, 1885 – December 5, 1979) was a Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design.

Sonia Delaunay from nivaca2

• Proyecto Agrega - El puntillismo. Pointillism. To work with pointillism online. In Spanish.
• Pointillism online fun!. Pointillism. Paint with a pointillator!!.
• Pollock interactive. Dripping Art. It’s a simple click and move the mouse around affair, but the feeling of the paint splodging around is surprisingly pleasant. Each click changes the color. Enjoy!
• Mobiles, Calder style. Cinetic Art. Drag forms, create your own balanced mobile and make it move.
• Kandinsky's kaleidoscope. Geometric Art. Play around with the controls at the bottom right to create geometric art with a kaleidoscope motion!.
• Gaudi's mosaics. Observa los mosaicos del parque Güel y luego haz tú mismo un mosaico a mano (collage).
• Pixelator, "píxel" style.
• Post'it art creator. Another tool to work with píxeles.

• Kusama's world of dots. Work asYayoi Kusama.

Elements of art: DOTS (approach)

Slideshow from wartgames.com. You can download it here.

Create a Picture Using the Pointillism Technique by RFA2009

Sculpture: Plastic Language

Li Hongbo demonstrating, how his paper sculptures work. from Dominik Mersch Gallery on Vimeo.

More information in PLáSTICAMENTE.

What does an image tell? Self-portraits

There are many different ways to make a self-portrait. It doesn’t have to be a traditional drawing or a painting of your face. 

Idea from: http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/elem/selfport.htm#Names

Making a self-portrait is a great way to express and explore your identity.

The idea is to do the silhouettes of your head and fill in your head with a magazine collage of what is going in your brain, what you prefer, what you are fond of...

Ideas to get you started: clothes, music, words, sports, food, people you admire, singers, actors...

Instructions:
Trace your head on two white papers (using the window). Then filled in the head shape with magazine images in one of the papers. The second one will be the template of the final frame of your self-portrait, so, you will have to cut out the inside part. Let's do it.

Here you will find some examples made by last year students.