Wednesday, 18 September 2013

Five Biggest Influence


In this task I should take five people give my influence in this filed. These can be designers, artists, musicians, writers and so on.

 This is my five biggest influence :-

1 . PABLO PICASSO

                Pablo Picasso was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer who spent most of his adult life in France. As one of the greatest and most influential artist of the 20th century, he is known for co-founding the  Cubist movement, the invention of constructed sculpture, the co-invention of collage, and for the wide variety of styles that he helped and explore. Among his most famous works are the proto-Cubist.  Picasso, Henri Matisse and Marcel Duchamp are regarded as the three artist who most defined the revolutionary developments in the plastic  arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting, sculpture, printmaking and ceramics.



                                               
                                                The artwork of Pablo Picasso

2 . Typography

                The  aritist of typography is Craig Ward is a British born designer and art director currently in New York. Occasional artist, sometimes author and a contributor to several industry journals, he is known primarily for his pioneering typographic works. This website reprsents a selection of his output since his graduation in 2003. Underpinning all of his work-be it typography,illustration or a music video-is the belief that the end result should be largely informed by the process that gave birth to it. His love to create original and unrepeatable letterforms using various  uncontrolled and unconventional means or materials and also fond of juxtaposing clean, classically designed typography with chaotic and organic materials and processes.




Artwork of Craig Ward  

3.  Neville Brody

                Neville Brody is an internationally renowned designer, typographer, art director  and brand strategist. As founder of the Research Studios network and partner in each of our operations, his insight, methodology and appetite for excellence inform every aspect of our work. Neville Brody is one of the most influential graphic designers of the late 20th Century.
His work in the 1980’s revolutionised the look of magazines, advertisements, album
covers and packaging. He is most well known for his ground-breaking design and
typography ( lettering) for the magazine The Face.’ He is also known for his album
cover designs for the record company, ‘Rough Trade’, and various poster designs .
He grew up in Southgate, North London and said that for as long as he can remember
he wanted to ‘do art or painting’, consequently he studied Fine Art at Hornsey
College of Art. However he began to feel that the Fine Art world was becoming
elitist and that if he continued in this area his work would only find a limited
audience, he thought,” Why can’t you take a painterly approach within the printed
medium?” He wanted to communicate to as many people as possible, so in 1976, he
began his degree course in Graphic Design at London College of Printing. Brody is mainly known for his use of typography. Brody’s opinion was that people
read magazines in a different manner from the way they read books. When reading a
magazine people tend to browse; they don’t read it straight through from the
beginning to the end. Readers tend go back and forth picking out the interesting bits.
Brody decided to use this idea as a basis for his designs. This meant that a variety of different
sizes and styles of lettering would be on the same page, which was very unusual at
this time. In his designs for the “The Face” magazine, he arranged the type in
diagonals or in circles, some letters were extra large, some undersized. Brody decided that the typography (i.e. lettering) should be an integral part of the whole design and
be given equal importance. 




Artwork of Neville Brody

4.  Photographer

Mark Graf is an internationally published nature photographer from Detroit, Michigan with more than 15 years experience in creating and providing fine art nature photographs. With an interest in a wide range of nature subjects, his lens has drawn him to explore natural wonders in the depths of the Pacific Ocean, to the wildlife and majestic landscapes of Alaska, to intimate details and patterns formed over millennia in the depths of stone. One of his guiding philosophies was best remarked by John Muir in 1869; "When we try to pick out anything by itself we find that it is bound fast by a thousand invisible cords that cannot be broken, to everything in the universe. "  Examples of this are everywhere, from wildlife habitat and behavior to the smallest details of a section of stone, to looking out towards the galaxy.. These connections in nature become a muse for his photography. They also guide his philosophy in support for wildlife and habitat preservation, from our mountains to the depths of our oceans. Landscape, creative macro and closeups, abstract wall art, black and white, wildflowers, artistic rock pictures, and wildife imagery for sale as fine art nature prints, gallery canvas wraps, and stock photos. Featuring a specialty in Michigan and the Great Lakes region for scenic landscape photography.


 Mark Graf



Image by Mark Graf

5.    Salvador Dali

   Salvador Dali it is Spanish painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and designer. After passing through phases of Cubism, Futurism and Metaphysical painting, he joined the Surrealists in 1929 and his talent for self-publicity rapidly made him the most famous representative of the movement. Throughout his life he cultivated eccentricity and exhibitionism (one of his most famous acts was appearing in a diving suit at the opening of the London Surrealist exhibition in 1936), claiming that this was the source of his creative energy. He took over the Surrealist theory of automatism but transformed it into a more positive method which he named `critical paranoia'. According to this theory one should cultivate genuine delusion as in clinical paranoia while remaining residually aware at the back of one's mind that the control of the reason and will has been deliberately suspended. He claimed that this method should be used not only in artistic and poetical creation but also in the affairs of daily life. His paintings employed a meticulous academic technique that was contradicted by the unreal `dream' space he depicted and by the strangely hallucinatory characters of his imagery. He described his pictures as `hand-painted dream photographs' and had certain favorite and recurring images, such as the human figure with half-open drawers protruding from it, burning giraffes, and watches bent and flowing as if made from melting wax (The Persistence of Memory, MOMA, New York; 1931). In 1937 Dalí visited Italy and adopted a more traditional style; this together with his political views (he was a supporter of General Franco) led Breton to expel him from the Surrealist ranks. He moved to the USA in 1940 and remained there until 1955. During this time he devoted himself largely to self-publicity; his paintings were often on religious themes (The Crucifixion of St John of the Cross, Glasgow Art Gallery, 1951), although sexual subjects and pictures centring on his wife Gala were also continuing preoccupations. In 1955 he returned to Spain and in old age became a recluse. Apart from painting, Dalí's output included sculpture, book illustration, jewellery design, and work for the theatre. In collaboration with the director Luis Buñuel he also made the first Surrealist films Un chien andalou (1929) and L'Age d'or (1930) and he contributed a dream sequence to Alfred Hitchcock's Spellbound (1945). He also wrote a novel, Hidden Faces (1944) and several volumes of flamboyant autobiography. Although he is undoubtedly one of the most famous artists of the 20th century, his status is controversial; many critics consider that he did little if anything of consequence after his classic Surrealist works of the 1930s. There are museums devoted to Dalí's work in Figueras, his home town in Spain, and in St Petersburg in Florida.


                                                                          Salvador Dali



Painting by Salvador Dali



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