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For this project, I was asked to create my own repeat patterns and to look at the work of pattern designers such as William Morris to help me with my work.
For this project, I was asked to create my own repeat patterns and to look at the work of pattern designers such as William Morris to help me with my work. I found out how designs can be made for fabrics wallpapers and tiles. I learnt how to develop some of the skills needed to do this I started by making observational drawings of small objects such as padlock, key, pencil, scissors, sharpeners and key rings. William Morris started in a similar way by making drawings from nature. I explored his drawing design of a tile pattern, which is very detailed it has light and dark blue flowers and petals. It also was a symmetrical drawing. I took sections from my original observational drawings and developed pattern designs using different colour schemes. William Morris also developed a number of alternative designs and chose the best one from his commercial work. I was also asked to visit the William Morris museum in Walthamstow, East London. There I saw examples of his work, which inspired me with my own work. By understanding his work, I was able to use some of the techniques in my own work. From my eight repeat pattern designs I chose the best one and enlarged it in a different material. I chose to use tissue paper for my final material as it has an interesting texture. I felt that the design I enlarged was the most successful because it gave me a greater
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Art Evaluation
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Impressionism was the most important Art movement of the nineteenth century, having a great influence on the development of Modern Art.
Impressionism was the most important Art movement of the nineteenth century, having a great influence on the development of Modern Art. The name impressionism itself comes from a painting ´´Impression sunrise´´ created by Claude Monet (a member of the group) being influenced by Japanese Art 863 was considered to be the start of Impressionism. However the name of the group did not appear until 1874, when the first exhibition was held. Impressionism consisted of landscapes, seascapes, snow scenes, ballet dancers, horses, everyday life and still life but the most common themes were seascapes and landscapes. It consisted of a fairly loose group of painters who first got together because of their dissatisfaction of Academic Art and who opposed to the romantic idea that´s main purpose was to create emotional excitement. These ´´rebels´´ were Claude Monet´s main artist of group- Edgar Degas, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Henri Toulhouse Lautrec, Alfred Sisley and Edouard Manet all exploring ways of showing color and light whilst painting outdoors in front of their chosen subject matter and trying to capture the constantly changing qualities and effects of natural light. Born in Paris on the 14th of November 1840, Claude Monet was the main artist of the impressionist group. His childhood was spent in Normandy where he met the artist Boudin who influenced
French Impressionism.
Impressionism: French Impressionnisme, a major movement, first in painting and later in music, that developed chiefly in France during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Impressionist painting comprises the work produced between about 1867 and 1886 by a group of artists who shared a set of related approaches and techniques. The most conspicuous characteristic of Impressionism was an attempt to accurately and objectively record visual reality in terms of transient effects of light and colour. The principal Impressionist painters were Claude Monet (see photograph), Pierre Auguste Renoir (see photograph), Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley, Berthe Morisot (see photograph), Armand Guillaumin, and Frédéric Bazille, who worked together, influenced each other, and exhibited together independently. Edgar Degas and Paul Cézanne also painted in an Impressionist style for a time in the early 1870s. The established painter Édouard Manet, whose work in the 1860s greatly influenced Monet and others of the group, himself adopted the Impressionist approach about 1873.These artists became dissatisfied early in their careers with academic teaching's emphasis on depicting a historical or mythological subject matter with literary or anecdotal overtones. They also rejected the conventional imaginative or idealizing treatments of academic painting. By the late 1860s, Manet's art reflected a
Life and influences - Vincent Van Gogh
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Surrealism and Contemporary Surrealism
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