stephen dixon ceramics
philip eglin

Artists research

Vicky lindo
While visiting The Harley Gallery i came across Vicky who's work automatically struck me s interesting and very vibrant.Her work also came across as quite funny as some pieces had funny
sayings on them.Most of her art pieces are pots and sculptures of cats(she herself has said that she uses her cat as a real life modal for her work).

This is one of my favourite pieces of work is the one above.

I love how the large centre of the plate and the cat

Vicky Lindo Ceramics is the creative partnership of Vicky Lindo and William Brookes.  Producing earthenware slip cast ceramics, they use coloured underglazes and slips to illustrate and decorate their tableware and animal figures.

Taken from The harley gallery website.

Another one of the plates i liked was the very bright plate that i saw on sale the other day.

I love the bright red and darker blue.

She didn't just do plates she also did modals and sculptures that she would paint and her partner 

William Brookes. 

William Brookes

American Abstract Expressionist
Painter/sculptor
Apprentice at 12 at a firm of commercial artists and decorators
At first he got money through painting signs,department stores displays,carpentry, etc
In 1930s/early 1940s painted abstractions and figures.
Worked mainly in black and white with high velocity,erotic shapes.
Had his first one man exhibition was at New York in 1948 at Egan gallery.
Since 1969 he's made a number of sculptures.

American painter from Armenian
Some if his work reflected both artists traumatic past as a Genocide survivor and the exquisite beauty of his early childhood.
He named his abstract compositions with titles refers n g to particular objects and places.
His work provides the most important link between Europena modern style and abstract expressionism.
Some of his influences are
Paul cezanne,Joan Miro,pablo picasso.

American Abstract Expressionist
Painter/sculptor
Apprentice at 12 at a firm of commercial artists and decorators
At first he got money through painting signs,department stores displays,carpentry, etc
In 1930s/early 1940s painted abstractions and figures.
Worked mainly in black and white with high velocity,erotic shapes.
Had his first one man exhibition was at New York in 1948 at Egan gallery.
Since 1969 he's made a number of sculptures.

Mark Rothko

Abstract Expressionist
American painter/ Jewish descent
Began writing in 1936 about similarities in the art of children and the work of modern painters.
Went from representation to rectangular fields of colour and light.His inspiration was exploring subjects other then urban and shape and form.
Suffred from depression after divorcing again.
May abstract expressionist discussed their art as aiming towards a spiritual experience and a emotional feeling.
His style was composed of bright colours,vibrant,particularly reds and yellows.Expressing energy and ecstasy.1950s he changed to dark blues a and greens due to his dark personal life.He sometimes used natural substances like egg and glue as well as Acrylic resins,phenol formaldehyde,and others.
There is a Rothko chapel located to the Menil Collection and the University of st.Thomas in Houston,Texas.It's a Geographical post modern structure.It was supposed to be a uplifting chapel which people would get married in.There were bibles and other religious literature in it.
Febuary 25,1970 he killed himself and was found dead after slicing his own wrists.and a overdose on anti- depresnts.there was a lawsuit by his cildren(For ten years) regarding that fact that his sales advisor had sold his paints to the Tate and had split half and half.
some of his work is below:

His Subway scenecs was a painting he did;

completed in the late 1930s.

Jackson polluk and other artists

Paul Jackson Pollock, known professionally as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. He was well known for his unique style of drip painting.
he had a volatile personality, and struggled with alcoholism for most of his life

Pollock signed a gallery contract with Peggy Guggenheim in July 1943. He received the commission to create Mural (1943), which measures roughly 8 feet tall by 20 feet long,^[14] for the entry to her new townhouse.

my painting does not come from the easel. I prefer to tack the unstretched canvas to the hard wall or the floor. I need the resistance of a hard surface. On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.

I continue to get further away from the usual painter's tools such as easel, palette, brushes, etc. I prefer sticks, trowels, knives and dripping fluid paint or a heavy impasto with sand, broken glass or other foreign matter added.

When I am in my painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It is only after a sort of 'get acquainted' period that I see what I have been about. I have no fear of making changes, destroying the image, etc., because the painting has a life of its own. I try to let it come through. It is only when I lose contact with the painting that the result is a mess. Otherwise there is pure harmony, an easy give and take, and the painting comes out well.

—Jackson Pollock, My Painting  1956

some of jacksons work include:

(wide walls)

(Number 8)

Franz Kine:

ranz Kline was born and raised in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, a small coal-mining community that offered few opportunities for artistic development. His childhood was marred by a complicated relationship with his parents. His father, a saloon keeper, committed suicide in 1917, when Kline was only seven years old. His mother later remarried and sent her son to an institution for fatherless boys, which the artist referred to as "the orphanage."

American Abstract Expressionist Franz Kline is best known for large black and white paintings bearing abstract motifs set down with strident confidence. By the end of his life he had achieved immense international recognition, and his unusual approach to gestural abstraction was beginning to influence the ideas of many Minimalists.The powerful forms of his motifs, and their impression of velocity, were intended to translate into an experience of structure and presence which the viewer could almost palpably feel.

For my infergraphics I wanted to make them in a style that would be easy and fluid. For this I decided to use one of the cutest and simple features which for.me is the paw pads.
I used a example of a paw pad that I found online which is this:

This then helped me to get a idea of the size and how much of my instructions I could put inside on paw pad.My finalist des for my infergraphics is very simple but and use bold lines I plan on making the inside pictures bolder so they will go with the back ground.

This is my start to the infer graphics and the instructions.I have hand drawn them out and will be working on them in Photoshop and illustrator.The actual instructions are quite simple.
1)First take you Proud pets product
2)Open the container
3)Apply to the your Proud pet

The update to my work;

Here is my final infergraphic coloured up in black and applied to my back ground box:

I am very impressed with how it has turned out in the end and how much better the paw prints look in black as well.The images i hand drew came out a lot better then i thought.
The writing also came out quite well and i feel that my instructions are very easy to understand and follow.

point of sale idea

Great advertising found in Sainsbury's that also had paw prints leading to the shelfs.I have taken the idea of the cat on the top and adapted it.

For my unit 50 I wanted to make my point of sail(which I want to be a stand in some way).

My idea is to make a sign with a cat at t he top.like the one I spotted in Sainsburys yesterday. There would be slots to hold my products in.

I shall be making a drawing below:

My hand drawn idea of one of my p.o.s

My boxes stacked how they would be on the shelf (opposed to how they would look on the case i made:

Final work

Here are some of our happy customers(pictures taken by class mates and myself)

Billboards and advertisements: using the same idea as the poster but in a bus shelter format this is also very catchy and will attract people.

For the inspiration of my ad shelter i researched others as influences for example;

I used this photo mostly(and others to try achieve the border advert i was after).While searching i was unable to find pet averts as a example.Having a box (or in my case a cat) was the midpoint of the design. 

Advertisement on bus shelter.
Done using Adobe Photoshop and illustrator.

Poster:Using illustrator and includes company slogan and catchy colours to hook people in.

Original idea that was sketched out and coloured up.

Shows a diffrent composition.

The cat on the picture was worked on through illustrator.

Billboard:

To begin with i just used the same colour back ground as what was on my poster.Nothing matched and the white font looked horrible.

Taken from This idea below(using right hand border show product in a simple way):

For my billboard layout i found the perfect cat poster:

I took a lot of layout influence from this picture.The borders and the placements as well.Even the placement of the title is in a similar speech bubble.

Taken from the advertisement shell idea.
My practice stetchs before my final work were these:

My original sketches for my logo(using the infludence ).

Above is the company logo that has been turned white for the poster(easily recognisable) and is detachable as well.

Logo for my company (detachable)Also comes in white (which is used for the billboard).

Infer-graphics used for box (Which have been drawn up by hand and drawing in illustrator) 

Simple and easy to understand with wording that all can get:

Sketches of my infergraphics and what i planned to do.

Final box design including logo,window so product can be seen,cruelty free and fair trade logo along with recyclable logo and barcode.product relates to my other methods of advertising.My products bright colours and vibrant design would make it a eye catcher while on the shelf:

The box's background and the reason i choose it:

Using illustrator i created this psychedelic 60s high end art(i used the below picture as a big inspiration:

This artwork by Laura Gentians is one of the biggest inspirations to my artwork.I loved the way the multicolour drips splatter down the page.This for me is a extremely eye catching piece that i wanted to re create in some way.Here was the back ground of my box(And also what i started with before i decided my other parts)

My interpretation is different of course but i still kept the drips.I took out the blue as it didn't go with the psychedelic style.The background to my picture is black(but only showed up on my box).

The box's final net:

My first idea was to have the boxes in different fur types(as my products are for different lengths)

The first attempt tempt really boring and generally lacked in drawing anyone in,in any way.

 For medium fur (products name)
 For short fur(product name)

For long fur

Logos used for my box include the Vegan symbol,recyclable symbol and the use by date;

POS(Point of sale):It will be stopping ked up on the shelf as such to ensure the product is professionally placed:

This would be the stand for my products.

I think this is a great way to advertise.my products as I feel t is very eye catching.

The stand it's self was inspired from one I saw at Sainsbury that was advertising a cat book.

The above is my box made up. My hands are around the box to make sure it stands u straight as the box is very thin due to the paper.If I made the box again I would make it on . I will now be try to stack the paper up. The shape of my box is simple and effective and is easy to stack.

This is the way my products would be stocked in shops:

I drew out the very simple holder and of my products inside. Each holder has all the diffrent types of product that will be sold.

A extra I made Was the idea to give out my product(or advertise more or less).

Bob

Roberta Smith is a art critic.Se had a job at the museum at art
His dad went to art school who was later blown up and died quite a young man. His dad said make art not war and this inspired a pierce.
He speaks of donald Judd and says his art has been mortgaged to his family and his art is glossy on boards and the fact he's a art man. He likes the idea that they can be a formal thing and the font is a adwordian and the colours are modern and they are at odds with the history.he'd like the audience that children would think certain things and language and how we speak to each other. He says that politics always rap up their words in a certain way and that we should not take language for granted.

displacement and degenerate art

Books,writers,and artist were attack.1937 held up the art the hated 30000 went to it and laughed.
Many artists flees and other killed themselves.The nazis called it modern artist were degenerate.
The art scared the nazis and they wanted to control it.back then hitler was rejected by the college and he thought that only true art was the one that represented the world. He painted and sold post cards to make money.This put towards his hate of the art.expressionism art was made to go beyond figures and used violent colours.people reacted badly to it as it was considered mad (kukoskas work).1914 young Germans fought.kukoska went mad and even sketched a wound he was going to have and soon got.the effects of war got to all.Adolf found happiness in the war until german surrendered and he became unhappy soon going into politics.Germany was in chaos and Hitler made the National socialist party.in 1924 emerged from a prison for trying to over through German politics he blamed all that had made him suffer calling them jews and degenerate (central aspect with symptoms).In Berlin modern artist florist.Few people cared about Hitler's idea and Berlin became the capital of the art world.Max beckman was praised as a true German and artist but was transformed as of the war and was discharged.1920 Beckman was still haunted by the war.1929 broke the german country's back and 50,000 people lost jobs people felt betrayed and Jews along with others were blamed (they were called a sickness).1933 German parliament deadlocks and Hitler is appointed Minster (?)books were soon burned in fires made by the Nazis.Carl marks and eimstein we're just some whos books were burnt.people Tryed to hide there views in fear or were taken to camps.bauhouse was closed by the nazis and others fired.
films were effect and band and abstraction was forbidden.Classics were not permitted.All forms of modern music was attacked and band.Streams of propaganda were everywhere.1000s of Marchs celebrated the years of German culture.1937 the house of German art open and selected by hilter who said it was German art(which was for sale).'Racially pure women and men' people spoke.Art there was quite macho and nudes which were many.
People said it was close to the pornographic.art was subjective to women and sexist either showing women naked or as mothers.People found this attractive as it held up paintings that were not considered good.The nazi war against work came to a close and many were stolen.they were told these pictures were sick.
112 artist we're singled out as degenecente.Artist the nazis didn't like we're going to be llquidated.
The death of Art in Germany great work was being mocked.renaming art work.June 1938 committed suicide
(Ludvick kurkner).he destroyed his own work.omeali noldver the nazis put the cop to follow him so he couldn't paint and people could smell the oil.van gosh,mertis etc paintings were all sold.Everyear Hitler had a new expedition and he would buy a lot of work (264 were bought one year).1933 tomis mon great writer fled Germany saying that there are not two Germans one being good and bad and no one can say they are good or bad.
Expressionism-Considered themselves the mentally ill in the world of art.
National socialism were the opposite of politics.
Every year there was a exerbition of hitlers favourite work.

Ai Weiwei(artists and movie)
Activist.Art critics against them.Police storm how studio and arrest him.Some of his work shows this.walks around London carrying a blanket with another artist.he sometimes promotes himself in diffrent way.Ai weiwei talks about his work at the royal academy saying he feels such a fascinating character with the chess player saying he is admirable.his work he says he has very little knowledge and he was contemporary he likes disot Paul.he loves warhol axcisty as a modern man.he says he has been victimized by the political struggle he says he trays to escape from that.if. He has strong opinion he says he will express it this he speaks of is his job.
One of the exhibition pieces were pots that had be dipped in paint.Some had companies painted on them like coca-cola and such. Another part was the series of three pictures that had him dropping a historical pot.this was supposed to symbolize that he loved the culture but he wanted something new.
He says he would have no regrets being in prison if he spoke his mind.He says he was heavenly monitored and had his health checked a lot.h says in art you have to transform your feeling into something that can tell a story to another and you can not fore some one to feel the same way as you. But you have a responsibility to make sure your language is clear.Sunflower seeds work to search talking about you are walking on the population people would Lay on them but caused a risk because of the dust.Some were picked up.They were made from different factors.porcelain is the pinical material of clay and is expensive.Seramics is basically mud.he chooses porcelain because of the way it is thought to be expensive marital and how the people who uses it pretty mush work with mud.His place is called Tofu as in the food
The making of straight:
70,000 were killed in the earth quake.children were killed as well.
He had six or seven days he didn't write anything due to feeling speechless and people questioned it.He went to feel reverent and stood in one of the earthquake and spoke about the bodies under his knees.He wanted to find out who's dead ans he saw pack backs.they sent out groups to find out who they were and 40 groups got arrested.He put all the names on his blog y saying who they were,how old they were etc.he did a mural for a mum that lost her dancer child using back packs in the picture.He was soon arrested in 81 days(for tax evasions)  and he came back to his staff still working even then which gave him joy.theses worked on pipes.he's done conditions for the bejing stadium (the birds nest).

 

This personally is my favourite work by Ai with the pots. His pictures and work have been renowneded and at one time a protester smashed one of his 1m pots.

changes to box design using 60s high end psychedelic art

A massive change to my box layout is the back ground style.I decided to go with brighter colours as it makes my design more interesting and a lot more catchy.By making this change it helps me make my advertisments. Some art work i plan to take inspiration from is pictures like this;

I really like the minimalistic but still full art work that has been made here.

I have already made my leaflet in this kind of style and can easily make my billboard this way as well.

My biggest inspiration and what i plan to make my box to represent is the below picture:

This picture was done by Laura Gentians is one of the biggest inspirations to my artwork.I loved the way the multicolour drips splatter down the page.

here is my rendition of this idea and what i plan to use on my box and other ideas:

This is a lot bigger version  of the last design and a more simple one as well.