Traceys Lesson - War of the Worlds

George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty Four 

One of the most influential dystopian novels ever written, 1984 has had a profound effect on the world.

Published in 1949 many of its concepts have entered modern day language. Big Brother, doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak and Room 101.

Orwellian is now a term to describes official deception, secret surveillance, and manipulation of the past by a totalitarian or authoritarian state.  Orwell hoped that by writing 1984 he’d help stop such a state ever coming to pass.

Compare the book covers - 

In my sketchbook 

Description of the novel Nineteen Eighty Four

•X4 book covers with your analysis and comparisons

 Make sure you include any relevant context

•Information about Penguin Book

•Your extract from the book

•X3 thumbnail sketches

•X1 developed design

•Review your design – explain your idea and compare it to the covers you have analysed



Orson Welles during broadcast 30th October 1938 

Hg Wells 

The original illustrations was done by Warwick Goble

How have the developments in printing methods on illustration and design?

surrealism project - Tracey Lapwroth

Dada - 

1. 
   Dada was an artistic and literary movement that began in Zürich, Switzerland. It was as a reaction to World War I and the nationalism that many thought had led to the war. Influenced by other avant-garde movements -such as Cubism, Futurism, Constructivism, and Expressionism. There was many outcomes such as performance art to poetry, photography, sculpture, painting, and collage. Dada's aesthetic, marked by its mockery of materialistic and nationalistic attitudes, proved a powerful influence on artists in many cities, including Berlin, Hanover, Paris, New York, and Cologne, all of which generated their own groups. The movement dissipated with the establishment of Surrealism.
   These are all artists that had an influence Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Andre Breton, Hans Arp, Tristan Tzara, Kurt Schwitters, Hugo Ball, Hannah Hoch
   
   
   Sources; http://www.theartstory.org/movement-dada.htm
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   

Theresa Jackson Lesson - Equisite Corpse

Equisite Corpse

Here I have used photoshop to create an exquisite corpse 

I used the colour range and clicked on the background and then added a sample using the paint tool, It then deleted the background.

Using the magic lasso to cut around the legs to make sure they look good and sharp.

Jamie Reid Screenprint collage artist - Surrealism

Screen Printing

equipment needed; spoon, acrylic paint, acrylic medium, squeegee, packaging tape.

The screen is made from a fine mesh material which is fixed to a metal frame. A stencil is placed under the screen and ink is forced through the stencil on to the material below. Screen printing with stencils is best for blocks of colour.

Firstly your positive film positive used will be exposed and will harden the light sensitive emulsion on to the tight fabric which is already on the metal frame, then you have to tape up all the yellow areas and the sides of the metal frame. Once you have done this you can then put your mix of acrylic ink with acrylic medium on to the top of the frame and then squeegee the ink across the screen stencil forcing the ink through the open areas, then lift your frame back up and squeegee ink back across to keep the screen wet otherwise it will dry up.

Raoul Hausmann - ABCD

This piece "ABCD" was completed by Raoul Hausmann in 1923/1924 this piece is a collage and photomontage on paper and is 40.4 x 28.2 cm. Haussmann was one of the leading men of the Berlin dada art period, Raoul Hausmann is attempting to distort the image by adding a variety of different pictures in.  Housman is also being very expressive because it just looks very unusual and looks like Hausmann has just sticked '        '  images on the collage. I think Hausmann worked from imagination  and using found imagery fro different sources. The work makes me question what the artist is is trying to achieve because it doesn't make a lot of sense. The artist has sed very dull colours , reflecting the time that the art was produced as such Hausmann appears to have little choice about the colours he has used. Raoul was part of the surrealist movement so this would have influenced his work, I like this piece because it has no meaning therefore you are forced in to asking yourself questions also the use of juxtaposition works well.


Raoul Hausmann has a very antiquated style you can tell by the colours of the piece "ABCD", the colours are very dull in this piece so this where as the colours of my work are very bright and vibrant due to me taking my pictures out of a magazine . Both mine and Hausmann style is "cut and paste" his work is very surrealistic where as mine isn't very surrealistic.


You focus on the face first as this is biggest part of the artwork, also the colours play a part as you focus on the big black writing on the orange background, isn't very realistic as it looks like the photos and letters have just been stuck on.

Sally Stone - Darkroom - Surrealisim

Dark Room recap; Ensure hands are clean, ensure negatives are clean, set masking frame to appropriate size, leave 1/4 gap around all sides for example a 7" x 5" would be 6 1/2" x 4 1/2". Then load your negative in to the film career shiny side up! 0 on all the dials magenta, scan and yellow, set the F to the brightest F, then use the focus finder to focus, then carefully turn F down 2 steps, carry out a test strip to determine the exposure by doing 2 seconds all over and then using the card to cover up horizontally or vertically and do this till your test strip is all done.

Reasons for making a test strip: to save money on photographic paper, to determine the exposure time therefore saves you a lot of time as you do it all on one piece of paper.

Here is my original picture a nice use of tonal range although if i was to do it again I would make sure that the background had a different exposure time!

Here Man Ray has inspired me with the objects placed in my picture. the use of juxtaposition here makes the image much more interesting.

1. Firstly chose your negative that you want to print (make sure it is clean, no scratches and no dust on it)
2. Hold the negatives so you can read the numbers, then turn the negative round (not over) so the number is furthest away from you. 
3. Place your negative in the film carrier in to place. 
4. With a lens on full aperture, turn on the enlarger. Place a normal piece of paper on the easel and use the focus finder to focus the image (use the focus on the enlarger to focus the image).
5. Change the aperture back to f8 to increase the sharpness of the image.
6. If the picture looks flat increase the amount of magenta on the enlarger. 
7. Produce a test strip (3 seconds for light photos & 5 seconds for dark photos), develop the test strip as normal.
8. Then I placed my objects on top of my photo and turn on the enlarger for 6 seconds.

Screenpritning - health and safety - Surrealism

Screen Printing

equipment needed; spoon, acrylic paint, acrylic medium, squeegee, packaging tape.

The screen is made from a fine mesh material which is fixed to a metal frame. A stencil is placed under the screen and ink is forced through the stencil on to the material below. Screen printing with stencils is best for blocks of colour.

Firstly your positive film positive used will be exposed and will harden the light sensitive emulsion on to the tight fabric which is already on the metal frame, then you have to tape up all the yellow areas and the sides of the metal frame. Once you have done this you can then put your mix of acrylic ink with acrylic medium on to the top of the frame and then squeegee the ink across the screen stencil forcing the ink through the open areas, then lift your frame back up and squeegee ink back across to keep the screen wet otherwise it will dry up.