Raoul Hausmann

Raoul Haussman was an Austrian artist and writer. One of the key figures in the Berlin Dad, his experimental photographic collages, sound properties and institutional critiques would have a profound influence on the European Avant Garde which wAas in the aftermath of World War 1.

The photomantage became the technique most associated with the Berlin Dada which was used very widely by Haussman, and would have great influence on artists such as Kurt Schwitters, El Lissitsky and overall with the Russian Constructivist era.

At the same time, Haussman began experimenting with sound poems which he calle ‘phonemes’ and ‘poster poems’ which were originally created by lining up letters by a printer without Haussman’s direct intervention. After this, poems used words which were reversed, chopped up and strung ou, then they were either typed out using a  range of different typographical stratergies, or performed with boisterous exuberance. 

Emma Dibben

Emma grew up in Sheffield and discovered that she found a love of nature in the close by, peak district. She had wanted to live by the sea sice she was very young and this urge took her to cornwall in 2001 where she began studying illutration at falmouth college of arts. This included a term studying etching and stone lithography at the academy of Fine Arts In Warsaw.

On graduating in 2004, with a first class BA Hons degree in illustration, she moved to bristol where she created images for prestigious clients including Waitrose, The Guardian and the BBC. 

She soon then moved to the bigger studio on Jamaica street.

Based in the heart of the city, the studios and the thriving community form a integral part of the bristol art scene.

She has become well known for her splatters, fingerprints and splodges, a visual language that she has carefully developed and is now a part of  her trademark style. 

Food is not only important to emma’s illustration practises, it informs a big part of her life. Her love of nature and her desire to live a low impact 

Gustav Klutsis

Gustav Klutsis was a very keen photographer and a memeber of the Constructivist era in the early 20th century. He is most commonly known for his Soviet revolutionaryand Stalinist propaganda which he created with his wife and collaborator Valentina Kulangina.

Klutsis had worked with a wide range of experimental media. He liked to use propaganda as a sign or revolutionary background image. His first prject of note, in 1922, was a series of semi-portable multimedia agitprop kiosks to be placed on the streets in Moscow, integrating “radio-orators”, film screens, and newsprint displays which were all to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Revolution. Like the majority of other Constructivists, he created sculptures, exhibition installations, illustrations and ephemera. 

Klutsis is most primarily known for his photomantages. The names of his and his wifes best known posters, such as “Electrification of the whole Country”, “There can be no Revolutionary theory”, and “Field shock workers into the fight for the socialist reconstruction”, all held fresh, powerful and sometimes even eerie images. For economy reasons, they often sometimes posed themselves into these montages where they were disguised as shock workers or peasants. His dynamic compositions and distortions of scale and space, anged view points and coliding perspectives make them modern. 

Klutsis, like Raoul Haussman, claimed on having created the sub-genre of political photo montage in 1918.

Paul Rand

Paul Rand was an American graphic designer who was best known for his logo designs such as IBM, UPS, Enron, Morningstar, Inc,Westinghouse, ABC, and also Steve Jobs’s NeXT. He was onee of the first American commercial Artists to embrace and practice the Swiss Style of graphic design.

Paul Rand’s logo design is very inspirational work, he has created many well known logos which are all very simple. One of these which is the IBM logo is used vey simply, the font style is a slab serif font and it is in block capitals, this logo is still used today for the IBM and has been used since 1972, it consists of blue type however it looks like a simple technique of 7 white lines which go through the the type. This is a very clever piece of logo design as it is really noticeable a and when yousee the logo you immediately know it is IBM.

Chesterfield college Fashion Show 2013

On Tuesday 25th of June my class went down to the refectory to watch the 2013 Chesterfield College Fashion Show which all the clothing and accessories were made by the fashion students in years 1 and 2. There were various students modelling the clothing which had been made and there were many people watching the show including students from local schools around the area. There were a variety of categories such as the 60s, 70s, African, futuristic and re-birth. These were just a few of the many categories which were shown and each shown the distinctiveness of the era and theme. I did enjoy the show, it was the first fashion show that I have been to and I was impressed with it and how it progressed. There were a number of models presenting the work of the students and they carried it out very professionally and used the cat walk very well.

Life Drawing                                    19/03/13

Today we have done life drawing in the west block on John, I did life drawing from around 9:30-1:00pm

which I used charcoal for except today we were using the method of collaging after we had drawn our pieces. I started off by doing two charcoal drawings  on a sheet of newsprint which lasted ten minutes each and then at around 10:15 I started on another piece which I had to use more straight lines and get the outline of john's body and then later add the tone and increase the detail to the image. After break I went back up to the west block where John maintained the pose as he did in the morning and I started collaging with brown paper, newspaper, brown tissue paper and masking tape and then drew over thatto create the picture on top, I finished this piece at 12:45 which then I went to lunch and later sprayed them both with hairspray so the charcoal did not get everywhere.





Life Drawing

Today we have drawn the Model john with charcoal which was the same techniques as last week, here are my results: