Tuesday, February 15, 2011

VALENTINES WEEK!

This was my favorite week so far. I've never studies the time period of work, but I think it may be my favorite.

Rudolph coch
-believed the alphabet was the pennacle of human achievment.
-used the font Newland
-pennacle of German typography
-looks chisled
-returning to crafts and art movement
-also used gothic faces
-remained popular in Germany for the longest
-ironic
-newland is most typically used in african and carribean enviornments
-Germany is not usually accepting
Art nuvou
-follows arts and craft movement
-arts and crafts, but ok with machinery (uses it to their advantage)
-machinery and quality
-Jules cheret
-father of the modern poster
-looks victorian
-has series called "the arts" la pantomime (1900)
-uses central female figure with movement and atmosphere around her
-type placed around the scene
-very similar to lautrec
-Eugene Grasset
-heavy black lines and flat panel of color
-looks like wood
-Histoire des quatre fils aymon
-breaking the frame
-image running through the center of the type
-very unique detailed
-Author Mackmurdo
-chair
-line variation
-hand crafted
-creates the century guild
-hobby horse (magazine)
-selmin image title page (1884)
The studio(mag)
-Shows work of Aubrey Breadsly
-bad boy of art nuavou
-famous for illustrations in Mort d'Arthur(1893)
` -INFLUENCE FROM MORRIS

-The Yellow Book
-high contrast illustration reminecent of block print
-Alfans mhcua
-christmas eve (1894)
-customer needs rush job
-for a famous actress-sarah bernhardt
-plants and flowers
-elements of folk art
-signed him for 6 year contract
-exotic stylized female figure
-whiplash tendrals (hair)
-frames( intricate)
-does cover for wiener chic
-peacock feathers
-amazing sketches
-pattern design was popular
-emanuel orazi
-flat stylized female figure
-ge logo
-classic art nuevou design
harpers magazine
-hire europeans to do cover art
-art nuevou comes to america
-lois reed
-art nuvou in america
-bright vibrant colors
-does front cover and back ads
William bradley
inspired by morris and later and author
-covers for the inland printer
-"bradley his book"
-establishes wayside press
-Edward penfield
-illustrator
-poster supporting harpers
-wierd r's
-narratives
-Henri van de Felde
-influence of japanese prints and art novoe and art and crafts
-letterform initials
lievmont
-poster for coffee
-commerce in life
-jugend (art nuvoe in german)
-youth style
-more traditional elements
-peter barons
-the kiss
-about creating new forms
-becomes increasingly reductive
-influence from asian prints
-The Glasgow school
-the four(margret and francis mc donald, herbert mcnair, charles renne macintosh)
-geometric, curvilinear elements, rectilinear structure, use of floral, symbolism,
-margret design book plate (article about glasgow school)
wisdom protecting her children under a leaf(tree of knowledge
-symbolism
-posters for fine arts show
_charles
-redesigned resturant
-rising verticles
-talwin morris
regular working guy
-introduces glasgow ideas to british common
-starts experimenting with glasgow ideas
-famous spines
The vienna succession in austria
-gustav climt, kolo moser, joseph hoffmann
-very intellectual
gustav climt- the kiss