Luke bertus
Office located in AB125
Appointments by arrangement
MW 1830-2120
'BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE MOST MARVELOUS YOUTH, AND YOUTH IS THE ONE THING WORTH HAVING.'
This course is an introduction to design. It exposes the student to lectures/discussions, studio projects and lab time.
Prerequisites: Art 115, 116 and hopefully 120
Course overview:
Through the development of personal projects, guests & ongoing class discussions the students develop a shared understanding of formal layout sytems, grid, composition, linear sequence, type classification, Image & text, creative thinking, mapping, design incentives, paper specific, books, binding, lulu press. Students develop a practical understanding of design.
Sept 29 introduction
design compositions > 10 type "posters" 8.5X11, 1 color, 2 color, 3 color, 4 color, 1 poster of choice in 22x17
Oct 1
Oct 6 + Oct 8
Oct 13 + Oct 15
Oct 20 design a lulu book, sequencing, rhythm, pattern,
Oct 22
Oct 27 + Oct 29
Nov 3
Nov 5
Nov 10 + Nov 13
Nov 17 + Nov 19
Nov 24
Nov 26 Thanksgiving
Dec 1 project water action day
Dec 3 final crit
Attendance Policy:
Attendance will be taken at the beginning of each class.
Do not miss more than 3 classes total.
Your final semester grade will be lowered if you do:
- by 1 letter grade for 4 absences
- by 2 letter grades for 5 absences
- to an automatic “F” for 6 or more absences.
Grading Policy:
Grade Scale
A Excellent 4.0
B Above Average 3.0
C Average 2.0
D Below Average 1.0
F Fail 0.0
Projects will be passed in and grades will be given based on:
- Process as presented in discussion & process books
- Development of ideas and concepts
- Completion of the work
- Participation in discussions & critiques;
- Responsiveness to new ideas, suggestions, criticism;
Product
- Craft: use of tools and materials
- Attention to detail, follow-through
- Inventiveness, originality, deeper exploration & understanding
10 comments:
Avant-Garde means "advanced guard" or "vanguard"
refers to experimental or innovative work.
Dadaism, Situationalism, Nihilism, Futurism, Decadence.
Duchamps "Fountain" - an upside down urinal marked R. Mutt. Reusing an existing object. It was hidden from a 1917 exhibit that claimed all artwork would be excepted - it was quietly removed.
"Fountain was not the first of Duchamp's readymades, and it was not the only artwork to scandalise polite society. But this work was so irreducible that nothing else could plumb the depths more completely, more subversively, more resonantly, more wittily."
http://www.primitivebirdgroup.co.nz/mxart2.html
http://digitalphilosophy.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/marcel-duchamp.jpg
"As pioneers, avant-gardes have shunned popularity, seeing those who are popular as producing complacent or compromised work. This is also why avant-gardists have abhorred fashion, judging it to deal in stereotypes, falsehoods and insincere sentiments. Their iconoclasm has witnessed avant-gardes taking positions against current trends; but as pioneers they will also adopt a strong ‘down-with-the-past’ attitude. Vanguardists are committed to new ideals, seeing traditions, institutions and orthodoxies as outmoded prisons of convention."
"According to its proponents, Dada was not art — it was "anti-art" in the sense that Dadaists protested against the contemporary academic and cultured values of art. For everything that art stood for, Dada was to represent the opposite. Where art was concerned with traditional aesthetics, Dada ignored aesthetics. If art was to appeal to sensibilities, Dada was intended to offend. Through their rejection of traditional culture and aesthetics the Dadaists hoped to destroy traditional culture and aesthetics."
"The origin of the name Dada is unclear; some believe that it is a nonsensical word. Others maintain that it originates from the Romanian artists Tristan Tzara and Marcel Janco's frequent use of the words da, da, meaning yes, yes in the Romanian language (Engl. equivalent: yeah, yeah, as in a sarcastic or facetious yeah, right). Still others believe that a group of artists assembled in Zürich in 1916, wanting a name for their new movement, chose it at random by stabbing a French-German dictionary with a paper knife, and picking the name that the point landed upon. Dada in French is a child's word for hobby-horse. In French the colloquialism, c'est mon dada, means it's my hobby."
http://warpost.blogsome.com/wp-admin/images/HannahHoch-CutwiththeKitchenKnifeThroughtheFirstEpochoftheWeimarBeer-BellyCulture1919.jpg
Mara, Kailina, Christina
Arts and Crafts Movement
• Wallpaper
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Artichoke_wallpaper_Morris_and_Co_J_H_Dearle.jpg
http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/53/95653-004-D5263BC9.jpg
• William Morris
Kelmscott Chaucer
http://www.citrinitas.com/history_of_viscom/images/19th_century/kelmscott.html
• Gustav Stickley
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d9/Mission_San_Juan_Capistrano_4-5-05_100_6553.JPG
Edward Burne-Jones
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/00/Red_House_window_detail.JPG
Charles and Ray Eames
Charles (1907-1978) and Ray (1912–1988) Eames (pronounced /ˈiːmz/) were American designers, married in 1941, who worked and made major contributions in many fields of design including industrial design, furniture design, art, graphic design, film and architecture.
Recognizing the need, Charles Eames said, is the primary condition for design.
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/eames/furniture.html
Molded plywood furniture design:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eames_Lounge_Chair_Wood_(LCW)
Prefabricated houses (Eames house):
http://www.archiplanet.org/buildings/Eames_House.html
Plastic resin, fiberglass, and wire mesh chairs:
http://www.productwiki.com/eames-eiffel-plastic-side-chair/
http://www.hermanmiller.com/CDA/SSA/Product/1,1592,a10-c440-p39,00.html
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/eames/images/vcf38.jpg
Eames lounge chair:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eames_Lounge_Chair
Fabrics:
http://www.eamesfabric.com/
"Powers of 10" (narrated by the late physicist Philip Morrison), gives a dramatic demonstration of orders of magnitude by visually zooming away from the earth to the edge of the universe, and then microscopically zooming into the nucleus of a carbon atom.
Sales site: http://www.eamesgallery.com/
fluxus is an art movement that embodies the idea we have come to know as d.i.y. it is an interdisciplinary movement, fluxus artists coined the word intermedia. fluxus set out to create new pathways for art. they continued the dada path of "anti-art" but with a bent towards community and positivity. they felt it was important to recognize art in everything. they were against the commodification in art. and placed importance on consciousness, being "present".
http://www.fluxus.org/12345678910.html
http://www.fluxus.org/FLUXLIST/maciunas/
http://www.artnotart.com/fluxus/hiredcenter.html
http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/03.08/photos/17-fluxus5-450.jpg
http://reconstruction.eserver.org/061/images/Fig3BrechtBead.jpg
Modernism-Cultural movement rooted in the changes of Western Society in the late 19th century and early 20th. Its goal was to create, improve, and reshape the environment, finding new, progressive, therefore better ways of reaching traditional ends.
http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/02_01/PichetEPA_468x362.jpg (picasso) http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/matisse/matisse.fillettes-jaune-rouge.jpg (Matisse)
http://www.biddingtons.com/content/images/lichtensteindrowning.jpg (lichtenstein)
Bauhaus began in 1919 and then closed in 1933. There were three locations, Weimar, Dessau, and Berlin.
Founded by Walter Gropius http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Gropius.
The Bauhaus had a great influence on art, architecture, graphic design interior design, industrial design, and typography.
Famous artist of the Bauhaus include:
Josef ALbers
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_59.160.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/geab/ho_59.160.htm&h=302&w=300&sz=60&hl=en&start=3&um=1&usg=__dYTkDgdjSknjmOOe8xVgrV2Btq0=&tbnid=OsnKXshgGCAh1M:&tbnh=116&tbnw=115&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbauhaus%2Bartist%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
Paul Klee
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/images/h2/h2_1984.315.57.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ho/11/euwcm/ho_1984.315.57.htm&h=450&w=300&sz=66&hl=en&start=39&um=1&usg=__JstUNf62TOZvON-QwrVwRP_Qdfc=&tbnid=7jSgMdFKhUYbCM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=85&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPaul%2BKlee%26start%3D20%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
Piet Mondrian
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.losal.org/14722012814132413/lib/14722012814132413/mondrian1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.losal.org/14722012814132413/blank/browse.asp%3FA%3D383%26BMDRN%3D2000%26BCOB%3D0%26C%3D55952&h=306&w=300&sz=34&hl=en&start=83&um=1&usg=__L7rjFvy47Mv5Ib-_xhwcdNxEl3A=&tbnid=VQs8VrBrrp52qM:&tbnh=117&tbnw=115&prev=/images%3Fq%3DPIET%2BMONDRIAN%26start%3D80%26ndsp%3D20%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN
http://www.newkicksontheblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/nike-dunk-low-sb-mondrian.jpg
Wassily Kandinsky
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.geocities.com/wassily_kandinsky_painting/wallpaper/01/wassily_kandinsky01.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.geocities.com/wassily_kandinsky_painting/index.htm&h=768&w=1024&sz=306&hl=en&start=6&um=1&usg=__zSjwCoU-igM07J1vav_sEJxfLo0=&tbnid=y0PtdLSfqks54M:&tbnh=113&tbnw=150&prev=/images%3Fq%3DWassily%2Bkandinsky%26um%3D1%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG
Corals blog: www.design118.blogspot.com
Black Mountain college, a progressive liberal arts college, was founded in 1933 by Theodore Dreier, John Andrew Rice, and other faculty from Rollins College. The school was small and privately run near Asheville, North Carolina. The teaching style differed in that rather than be constructed of book learning, students were to learn through interaction in real life with other students. This learning style stemmed from the progressive education movement.
The college's unique learning atmosphere housed and nurtured many designers, musicians, writers, helping to further the avant garde movement in America and the explosion of experimental art. Students and professors lived and worked together, sharing all tasks and learning in real life situations.
Instructors at Black Mountain College included Josef and Anni Albers (Joseph was the first art teacher at BMC), Merce Cunningham, Buckminster Fuller, John Cage, and many other influential poets, musicians and designers. The school closed in 1957, but it has lived on through the many artists that came there after the post-war era. It has served as a model for other creative alternative schools such as Evergreen State College, Goddard College, University of California and others. There is a museum project dedicated to showing process and products from the Black Mountain College, and also an online archive project with more in depth information.
Here is my blog for Art 118, thank you for letting me join in so late.
Thanks,
Katie Dukovcic
This is a really neat page. Everyone's comments are much appreciated. Avant-Garde was a a military term, which gave birth to the new social term. It was the advance guard, or scouts which would explore the area ahead of the rest of the army to see if it was safe and where the best route was. They were going where the rest feared. And so it has taken on that meaning socially, to do something that no has done before, or in a way that no one has done before. It implies bravery and creativity.
http://www.foremostinteriors.com
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