Wednesday, July 21, 2010

.:Pop Art:.

Pop Art is an art movement that arose in England after the end of the 2nd World War in the early 50's, when artists want to celebrate the daily objects ( soup cans, soda bottles, washing powder, etc) in popular culture using a corny way to downgrade the serious and stylized style of the Abstract Expressionism, even Pop Art won many follower, critics saw it as vulgar, sensational and with out merit.

In the late 50's and beginning of the 60's pop art arrived in America, with Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, but the most famous American artist is Andy Warhol for bringing the pop art to the public with a couple prints like the coke bottle, the Campbell's Soup or the different portrait of famous celebrity just like Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor or Jacki Kennedy. Other American Follower of the Pop Art was Roy Lichtenstein using stencil-like dots, thick lines, bold colors. Between Andy W. and Roy L, made that Pop Art become to see it as part of the high culture.

Others country where artist became fan or follower of this movement was Spain and Japan; in Spain Eduardo Arroyo should be on of the most important artist of Pop Art, with his art he show the interesting about the environment and found the way to criticize the media culture of mass media communication, other famous group of artist is El Equipo Cron
ica that existed in Valencia in the period 1969 - 1981 using comics, publicity images and simplified photographic compositions. In Japan Pop Art was inspired in anime, ukiyo-e, the traditional art and the Japanese street culture, expressing it using a surreal, obscene and shocking images images from Japanese hentai.









Monday, July 19, 2010

.:Alice in Wonderland:.

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Alice. One afternoon when she was studying in the forest she saw a hurried rabbit with a coat running in front of her with a big clock. The curious girl decided to follow the rabbit so she could find what was going on and why it was so hurried. When she started to follow the rabbit she fell in a hole and after falling for a couple of minutes she finally arrived in a room with a tiny door in one of the corners which she couldn't pass. In that room she discovered a little bottle with a card that said "DRINK ME" and a small cake that said "EAT ME". She took a little of this liquid and she started to grow until she hit the roof of the room and after that she tasted a bit of the cake and she started to shrink until she became the perfect size to go through the door to a new world called WONDERLAND.

In that place Alice met some weird and incredible creatures, like the rabbit with a coat, a blue caterpillar that smoked from a pipe, roses that talked and sang, others different kinds of animals and a greedy Red Queen, who ruled Wonderland and who wanted to be the unique queen for all times even though the creatures didn't want her as queen, so that was why the rabbit had gone to the real world to find a person that could take the place of the queen. That was why they decided to create a golf championship to see who could be the new Wonderland’s queen. After a day of competition the little girl who came from a different place won the golf championship and became the new queen of WONDERLAND. After a great party, all the creatures from this uncommon land lived happily ever after.



Sunday, July 11, 2010

.:What a Designer should be?:.

A designer no matter which industry belong(graphic, fashion or commercial design) should made every work with passion, because is something that will be for the public in general. from a logo of a company(image of one of my sketch) , a fashion line or even the place where we living. A designer should know about colors, fonts, symbol and how to put all this elements in a good way to give the message that the client want to give.




As a designer, i like to work clean, using the less elements as possible in each of my work, So that why i can say that my way of design is Minimalism: "where in the subject is reduced to its necessary elements", but as designer i should know for which kind of client i can use this trend or not. ones of my favorites colors that i like to work are Blue, Green and Orange and talking about font there are many type that i like to work just to name it: verdana, neuropol, bankGothik and many more. I've been working in two are of graphic design, designing stands for trade-show events and as a web-designer. And maby some day i will design for the fashion market that is something that i like but just like hobbies.

One of my favorite designer is David LaChapelle, even he's a photographer and video director, he has been working in fashion and advertising, most of his work are colorful www.lachapellestudio.com. and another one is Toulouse-Lautrec, a french painter who live in the area of the Mouling Rouge.





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