WORK EXPERIENCE I was lucky and honored to have been proposed this year to design the "ENTIERRO DE LA SARDINA" poster by a Madrid association in charge of organizing this event, well known and rooted in Spanish culture and one of the most popular festivals, Old and fun of Madrid. The Madrid City Council, within the Carnival festivities, orders the organization of the work on the last day of these holidays to the association called ALEGRE COFRADÍA DEL ENTIERRO DE LA SARDINA. The party consists of a parade of the people of the brotherhood by the center of Madrid to the rhythm of the Band of Music that accompany them, and finished this one with the burial of the sardine deceased in the more extensive park of Madrid - the House of Field -, accompanied by hundreds of people from all walks of life and ages, the Music band, and the National Police as escort of the entourage. With this in mind, the cofradía association is in charge of preparing everything that involves the celebration: to talk with the different organizations that participate, to hire the music band that accompanies the burial, to decorate the streets through which the parade passes, to commission The decoration of the coffin and the design of the poster, buying candy to distribute among the children, torches to parade at night, etc. Normally, the design of the poster is entrusted to one of the cofrades, since many of them belong to the world of art and the bohemia of Madrid. But this year, to my surprise and pleasure, it has fallen on me, being therefore a true honor. Once the work is finished, I realize that it has been a really fabulous experience, because in addition to being my first work experience, it has been a very pleasant satisfaction to check the joy of my fellow brothers, the surprise for the result so original and Different from the usual posters, and receive their emotional and affectionate congratulations. Therefore, I am happy to present this first work result, which has been fully realized and supervised at this school -Manchester College-, and as a job to contribute to my school curriculum. ORIGIN OF BURIAL OF THE SARDINE Carnival is a pagan festival that goes back to the Middle Ages. Within the Carnival festivities, the Burial of the Sardine is one of its main events and is celebrated on Ash Wednesday, the last day of the holidays. It symbolizes the burial of the vices and sins committed during those days, before the beginning of the religious period of Lent. The beginning of the Burial of the Sardine dates back to the second half of the 18th century. At that time, there was a period of food shortages in the capital of Spain. To try to mitigate part of the hunger of Madrid, King Carlos III ordered a shipment of sardines to Madrid from the north of the country, with such bad luck that, upon opening the cargo, it turned out that the sardines had rotted and It was impossible to eat them. Then, to mock authority, the neighbors organized a parade with music and dancing to bury the smelly fish, which was the beginning of the burial today. Over time, the festive and popular custom of sardine burial has been a source of inspiration for various artists. Among them is Francisco de Goya, one of the best Spanish painters, who in 1815 painted a painting with that motif. THE BURIAL OF THE CURRENT SARDINE The celebration of the funeral, by its disrespectful character towards the authorities, has been prohibited in different times, more still in those that were governed by the military. A few years after the Spanish Civil War, a group of friends from Madrid's Rastro - a kind of second-hand open-air market, similar to the Portobello market in London - set out to recover the tradition of the Burial of the Sardine. The idea arose from a well-known antiquary and painter of the Rastro, who, surrounded by other friends painters, craftsmen, sculptors, potters, guitarists, journalists and friends, founded the Joyful Brotherhood of the Burial of the Sardine in 1960. Among the founding brothers was My grandfather, journalist and close friend of the person who had the idea. Since then, the cofradia has been celebrating the burial annually. Every year, an artist is in charge of decorating the coffin, and another of designing the poster to announce throughout the old Madrid the party. All the cofrades are dressed in the traditional Spanish coat and a top hat topped the head of the city, they walk through the old Madrid all day, accompanied by a band, singing and dancing, eating and drinking in the bars that invite the brothers. In all the bars is hung the poster of the funeral. The parade ends at night, with the brothers carrying torches to illuminate the route, and ends at the park of the Casa de Campo, where a large bonfire is mounted to burn the remains of the sardine, thereby ending the Annual party WORK CHARGE For years, the City Council of Madrid has commissioned the association of the Joyful Brotherhood of the Burial of the Sardine to organize the party, so that it prepares the parade. The poster, commissioned by the cofradía, is designed each year by one of the cofrades, to print it - this year 2017 printed 150 cards - and then be placed throughout the burial route, both in bars and restaurants as in the streets Of the old Madrid. Once the burial is finished, the coffin and the poster of each year are kept in the headquarters of the brotherhood, where they are exposed in a small place of the Rastro so that it can be visited by the tourists, previous permission of the responsible of the brotherhood . PURPOSE OF THE POSTER The parade of the Burial of the Sardine is open to all the world, being able to participate in him the people who wish it. There is not much order in the formation of the caravan, but neither is sought. The music alternates between gay themes - during which the brothers dance to people from the audience - with funeral marches - moments in which the brothers discover their heads as a sign of mourning for the sardine and parade with military step and sore appearance , Even tearful, by the death of the sardine. In any case, it is a totally festive act, and I am very proud to have been able to participate in it with the poster design. Click here to edit.
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We start writing on a board familiar things and strange things that came to our mind. Then we mixed and wrote strange and familiar, which was quite an easy step. After this we start thinking about the theme we will choose for the final project. This was a very hard step as it envolved all the work. All we do and all of our art pieces will have to be related to that, or it will be focus mainly on that theme. I´ve chosen parkour as my strange but familiar theme and write the Project Proposal. I would like to explore and make various pieces of art, and make them in various ways and styles of art. My strengths are fine art, photography and moving image. It could be considered as weaknesses portraits, realistic drawings and project management. For me, danger or adrenaline are strange and familiar because it´s difficult to achieve that state or feeling and means you´re trying something risky but in my case, as I practise everyday it´s normal so familiar. My theme for Strange but familiar is Parkour. Parkour is a dangerous sport and it could be even a lifestyle. I´ve chosen this sport because it is not normal, it is really unusual (strange) due to its short elderly. It was created around 1990 but it has become very famous so fast as it is very visual, and some photos impact many people for their impossibility, but that impossibility is only achieved with constance and hard training everyday. That´s why it is familiar. I use to practise it everywhere, even in my house when it´s raining. As I chose parkour I went to my cousins house in Nottingham and took some photos flipping on a trampoline to give that huge jump impression. I really love this session because it looks like if I am flying, and thanks God it was a sunny day. I thought it could be a great idea mixing the most ancient art piece with the newest art pieces. I took the Greek god´s sculptures from the ancient art and the graffiti as the newest art forms. So many ideas where on my mind at that point. I used the sculpture just as a mural, not as a person filled up with tattoos. This idea comes because I wanted it to look nice, not dirty, as lots of people look to completely tattooed people. This is the first sketch I did on this idea and I did it very simple because of the time we had, which was around 20 minutes, so I didn´t complicate it much. I just draw one arm and a bit of the other, and did every Atalanta with the same typography, so it was really boring. GRAFFITI RESEARCH. Its origin is related with the start of the human race in the prehistory, with the cavemen. Humans have always got the need of leaving their marks such as cavemen hands and hunting scenes, egyptian symbolised inside pyramids, greek inscriptions and roman critics on doors and walls. The graffiti is a completely free way of drawing and free theme. Graffiti is characterized normally by its illegality, because of these, many people hate graffiti and see it as a damage to property. There are many different types of graffiti : TAG : Tag is the most basic and the most prevalent form of graffiti. It is usually written with marker or spray paint and in one colour. This style is called tag because it is a very easy technique and it requires less time to do it. This technique originated at the beginning of modern graffiti, before the graffiti styles battle appeared. Because of this, writers tried to write them in the most understandable way, and in as many places as they could. There are different types of tags and this are the most common : BROGWAY ELEGANT : Manhattan's style, very thin, tall and closed letters. BROOKLYN : Brooklyn's style, very separated letters with crowns, arrows and spirals. BRONX : Bronx;s style, it is a mix of the previous two styles. OUTLINED TAGS : When the fat caps appeared lots of possibilities were open for writers. This gives birth to the outline. THROW-UP : As in the previous drawing was everything the same typography, I investigated typography books in the library and found lots of different ways of writing. Many of them, are invented by me, but they are all mixed up as I just used it to find new ways to then reproduce it in another place. As they were just sketches, I have just write the four letters of my sign, Atalanta -ATLN- to occupy less space and save time. I have always loved typography, writing letters, doing all the project titles since I was a little kid, and making names for my friends. As letters and colour were so important for me, graffiti catched very well my attention, so I started searching, looking other people videos and copying first other's, but always in paper. I have never supported the idea of illegal painting, and even more if its just tags and throw-ups, which are dirty and completely damaging. I didn't even understand why would people like to show how bad they paint, but I understood it when I started researching graffiti. There are some branches in graffiti which don't give importance at all to esthetic, such as the one born in Brazil called Pixacao or lots of New York bands, which use graffiti just to mark their territory. I saw all this information in a 1:30 hour long documentary called Infamy. This video really shocked me, and I even thought of leaving all my graffiti and my drawings. But after a while of thinking, I just realised it was confirming my idea of the Gentleman Graffiti, so I just continued. This drawings are in a very small scale. I did it on Liverpool´s Walker Art Gallery. My favourite and the best is the first one, has the best proportions, shadows and I also like the position, but it is very simple because of the time I had to draw it, which was really short, as it happened with the next two drawings. I must say this three drawings were really difficult as we can appreciate in some parts because the portraits were sculptures. Pictures are much easy to draw as they are already in 2D, but I think I captured really well the 3D after erasing everything several times. The easiest part of this drawings was the scale. As I took a din a5 sketch book, the scale of the drawings were very little. This second drawing is just copied from the fist one, as it is a very big drawing copied from a very little drawing, there are many muscles and details that were very complicated, and as I did just wanted it to fill it with letters and graffiti, it finished very sketchy. I also did this two photos on the trip to Liverpool because it´s similar to what I have done. This is architectural and mine is painting, but both are combining old art with the modern art, and when things are done correctly they can combine in a perfect way. Here in the photos, they are combining the old church with very modern structures such as that long white building. Paragraph. Haz clic aquí para editar. START OF FMP What is time-based media? Time-based media is a way of art in which the works could change meaningfully with respect to time. That could be a video, experimental film or audio - anything that depends on technology. What is animation? Animation is the process of making the illusion of motion and the illusion of movement by means of the rapid display of a sequence of images that minimally differ from each other. Animation has been everywhere since the start of human civilization, such as the paleolithic cave paintings, where animals were often depicted with multiple legs in superimposed positions, clearly attempting to convey the perception of motion. Probably, the world´s oldest example of motion was found in Iran, five sequential images depicting a dessert goat jumping to eat the leaves of a tree. Since that, which was 5,200 years ago, all the different civilizations have tried to achieve it, such as chinese with the shadow puppets, greeks, romans...up to 1894, when the Lumiere brothers tried to take animation a step forward inventing the cinematograph, that allowed moving pictures to be shown successfully on a screen. In the 19th Century, new animation methods were introduced such as: - The phenakistoscope invented in 1832, was the first widespread animation device that created a fluent illusion of motion. It can be compared to a GIF animation as it has a short duration and plays as a loop until the viewer stops it. - The zoetrope, invented in 1834, is one of several pre film animation devices that produce the illusion of motion by displaying a sequence of drawings or photographs showing progressive phases of that motion. - The praxinoscope invented in 1877, was again an animation device, the successor to the zoetrope. Like the zoetrope, it used a strip of pictures placed around the inner surface of a spinning cylinder. The praxinoscope improved on the zoetrope by replacing its narrow viewing slits with an inner circle of mirrors. Someone looking in the mirrors would therefore see a rapid succession of images producing the illusion of motion, with a brighter and less distorted picture than the zoetrope offered. In 1877, the first animated movie was invented in France by Charles Reynaud, which created the Praxinoscope. Since that, the animation movies have extended and have experimented different techniques such as: - The traditional animation,also called cel animation or hand-drawn animation, was the process used for most animated films of the 20th century. The individual frames of a traditionally animated film are photographs of drawings, first drawn on paper. To create the illusion of movement, each drawing differs slightly from the one before it. The animators' drawings are traced or photocopied onto transparent acetate sheets called cels, which are filled in with paints in assigned colors or tones on the side opposite the line drawings. The completed character cels are photographed one-by-one against a painted background by a rostrum camera onto motion picture film. The traditional cel animation process became obsolete by the beginning of the 21st century. Today, animators' drawings and the backgrounds are either scanned into or drawn directly into a computer system.
I have learnt all these different techniques for doing animation, which I really liked and enjoyed researching. I also learnt the mean of time based media, which I didm´t know at all.
It has really inspired me or shocked me that 5,200 years ago, humans wanted to draw and reflect movement, when they didn´t have nothing. There were much more important things, and they still trying to paint. MAX MAWSON - Was born in 1968. - British photographer. - Currently based in London. - Studied photography at Richmond College, Sheffield, UK. - He had his first camera at the age of 8. - He liked to make photos from liquid colours inside of water, so they made that strange shapes. - He made various personal photographs series called Aqueous. ERNST HAAS. - Born the 2nd of March of 1921 in Vienna. - Austrian photographer and artist. - He died in 1986 in New York, USA. - His first coloured photograph was in the Mexico dessert. - He defined the photography as a bridge between science and art. BILL WADMAN. - Born the 4th of January of 1975. - American portrait photographer. - Currently in Brooklyn, New York. - Studied in the University of Connecticut. - He did a project which consisted in 365 portraits to 365 different people. - His photographs always had movement
First of all, we needed to take some photos involving or expressing movement, so the first idea that came to my mind was a moved photograph. I did it, as you can see below, but that photos were really simple. I just used them to make me an idea and as a start of everything. Then I thought, it could be a great idea to have a mainly dark photo with a bit of light, because that would make you focus on the moved part, which is the light. I think this photography session is quite good, they are not professional as I have used an iPhone to shoot, but the caption of the light, the shapes I've taken with the movement, and the shelves in front of a half closed door, make that wavy forms. The bad thing of taking that wavy shapes was that I had to move the camera so I didn't frame the image so they are some so out from the centre. After making all this photographs, I thought it could be great to take some with a small coloured light because you you would focus even better on the point. More contrast in the picture, just blue and red lights in the middle, but very intense. I think this photography session is one of the best ones, and even more knowing what it really is, just a computer's mouse, but I think it's very interesting. I like very much taking photos of simple things people doesn't recognise in the photos. As I said before, I've done it moving the mouse whilst the static camera and moving the camera whilst the static mouse. If I try this again, I will try moving the mouse further with long distances. In this session I've learnt that non-mac mouses are also useful. After taking all this photographs we tried to take some common photos going to the park and shooting birds, dogs, leaves and whatever we wanted trying to make it beautiful. This is the photography session where I've learnt more about photography because it was the first time I went out to take photos with other people, and because we used the college cameras, which are manual and I hadn't used seriously one of these before, so they teached me how to use one of them properly. I took so few photos because most of them were blurred as I didn't managed very good yet. When I got home, I tried to use my Gopro for some large exposures but it had a maximum of 5 seconds this was all I could do in that time. I bought my Gopro 5 session not very far ago, so I still investigating it. I did the broken circles session with a beeping lantern for my bike. I have introduced this four photos because as I'm investigating the camera, I did this four photos, all of them with the same light as the dark one, but with different modes. I thought it was very cool and wanted to show it. Then, I took a Lumix camera I had and tried some better shoots as it is much better than the Gopro, and it can take until a 120 seconds photo.
Introduccion I have been given the brief called Water Poverty to promote awareness of poverty in third world countries. influences, research and sources Sobre mis búsquedas, ha sido muy largo, al principio estuve mirando diferentes posters de otros autores y estilos para hacerme una idea del contenido que suelen tener, aunque, a su vez, cada uno sea completamente diferente. De todos esos posters escogí tres como los que mas me gustaban, y este primero me parece el mejor con diferencia. la verdad, me parece el mejor de todos porque es claro, simple y muy visual, fácil de entender si lo ves rápidamente. Tiene algúnos colores muy vivos como el amarillo o el naranja, que hacen muchísimo contraste con el negro y los colores tan oscuros de la figura. De todos esos posters escogí tres como los que mas me gustaban, y este primero me parece el mejor con diferencia. la verdad, me parece el mejor de todos porque es claro, simple y muy visual, fácil de entender si lo ves rápidamente. Este es el segundo poster. Este poster me parece también bueno ya que t hace una idea a primera vista de lo "buena" que debe estar el agua en gran parte d Africa. Este tercer poster es el que menos me gusta de los tres, porque por lo pronto si se ve desde lejos no piensas en la pobreza del agua. Además me parece importante en un poster que no haya que leer mucho, y aquí tienes que leer si quieres enterarte de lo que trata la información.
Primero empezamos cerrando los ojos y haciendo líneas continuas simulando movimiento, de ahí los círculos y siluetas redondas, que dan esa sensación. Pensaba que cerrando los ojos saldría un dibujo completamente improvisado, imposible de haberlo pensado anteriormente. Al principio no conseguía realmente ninguno que me gustase, hasta que pasé de página y me salió. Aunque no utilice este dibujo para nada, me ayudo a pensar en nuevas y diferentes formas de hacer esas curvas, y plasmarlas en 3D. Con esto quiero decir que las redes de silicona a continuación son producto de estos primeros bocetos. Aquí hay unas cuantas pruebas más de dibujos que podría haber pasado a 3D, lo que pasa es que me parecía que era demasiado premeditado y pensado para lo que es el agua y la pobreza, tenía que salir de dentro y cerrando los ojos me parecía la mejor opción. Después de todos estos bocetos, se me ocurrió intentar hacer esas líneas con movimiento en 3D, y lo que hice fue con la pistola de silicona, hechar la silicona sobre una superficie de agua fría, con lo que se enfriaba y solidificaba al instante. Con eso conseguía que ninguna de las partes de la silicona al enfriarse se quedase plana, y también al estar sobre agua, al moverse conseguía mas movimiento. Esta prueba fue la que mas me gusto en cuanto a movimiento y longitud para que la circunferencia que iría a hacer después fuese decente, asi que este es el que use definitivamanete. Aqui, lo que hice fueron realmente no mas que experimentos ya que no use nada de esto en la pieza final, y en este caso fue porque no me parecía que quedase bien. Lo que hice fue hechar silicona intentando hacer formas bonitas o curiosas directamente sobre tinta de color, por lo que al llegar al contacto liquida se juntaba y antes de feriarse ya estaba coloreada. Aquí, intente darle color a la silicona de otro modo. Este consistía en echar silicona en olido, no en agua ni en tinta como las anteriores. Con eso conseguía que tardase mas en enfriarse, con lo cual para darle color, le echaba Brusho y al todavía no estar solida poder entrar pero fue un fracaso y no salió bien en ninguno de los intentos. Después de hacer todas estas pruebas y tener ya la silicona hecha, voy al siguiente paso. Después de hacer esta impresión, ya que me gustaron tanto las marcas que hicieron, aproveché para sacarle un par de fotos. Cuando ya tenia las cartulinas hechas, las metí enrolladas dentro de la figura de silicona. Lo que hice fue meter varias una detrás de otra con lo cual sobresalían creando capas. Click here to edit. Lo que representa esta figura en 3D, es una suciedad y falta de higiene, pobreza del agua ya que es un azul muy desvaído y sucio, con con las cartulinas que es lo que esta debajo y ocupa mas, y una red limpia y transparente que envuelve toda esa pobreza, que lo que intenta es sostener esas capas, que si no se desparramarían. Representa la red de ayuda contra la pobreza del agua.
Empeamos el trabajo en la biblioteca, cogiendo pruebas de cualquier cosa que veamos relacionado con el agua. En este caso son fotos, un montón de fotos que cogí de libros. Esto, aunque luego no me llegaria a ser de gran ayuda, me sirve para fijarme detalladamente en muchos estilos diferentes de dibujar el agua, ya sea con lineas, puntos, pinceladas, masas... Después de este primer trabajo pasamos a una segunda fase, empezamos haciendo unos dibujos cogiendo y usando cualquier material que encontrásemos por la clase. En mi caso, usé principalmente unos polvos de colores, los cuales al juntarse con el agua que previamente había echado, se disolvían haciendo unas composiciones muy curiosas. Después de tener muchas pruebas, escogíamos varias de ellas que nos gustasen y las imprimíamos en diferentes colores, como en mi caso, azul y grises. Este dibujo en concreto es el que escogí para desarrollar principalmente, y la verdad es que fue un acierto, estoy contento con él. Intentaba simular el agua con el color azul, y la pobreza con los grises, ya que transmite tristeza. Aparte de esto, el agua no es solamente líquida, por lo que se puede deducir que estaría evaporizada. Al principio, pretendía usar simplemente el rectángulo mostrado en la foto superior, pero después pensé que podía ir mucho más allá si cogía el conjunto entero y le añadía otros materiales. En este segundo paso añadí unas cuantas tiras de papel azul claro, lo cual simula la lluvia. En este tercer paso pegué toda la composición a un fondo blanco y lo recorté ligeramente por los lados dejando un borde desigual, como es la lluvia, y dándole una cierta profundidad a la composición. También añadí un fondo azul claro irregular para que de mas impresión de lluvia, ya que cuando llueve no se ve todo nítido, sino que se ve pierde ligeramente la visión y se nubla. En este cuarto paso, lo único que he hecho ha sido meter cuatro alambres largos y otros dos mas cortos, lo cual me parece que ha dado muy buen resultado porque refleja la luz, y le da un punto de brillo que le hace ganar mucho al dibujo.
Me parece que el resultado final es muy bueno y sobretodo refleja lo pedido en el proyecto, la pobreza del agua. MINIMALISM ARTMinimal Art, a group of artists who aspire to a more geometrically strict style where the imposition of order is not inflexible but rather moderate. Different forms are reduced to minimum conditions of order and complexity from the morphological point of view. . Both the material properties such as surface and color remain constant in order not to divert attention from the work as a whole. Minimalist Painting is the application of minimalism to the pictorial field. This is an abstract type of painting that originated in the United States, in New York, in the early 1960s, and developed during the 1970s. It is considered to be a reaction against the pictorial forms of abstract expressionism. As influence of minimalism in painting is quoted Ad Reinhardt and his Black Paintings, made at the end of his life. It also cited as precedent painting trend of color fields within the abstract expressionism. These reductive works were in stark contrast to the minimum paintings but full power of a Willem de Kooning and Franz Kline and tended more towards painting of the color fields. It has also appreciated the influence of Art Constructivism. The minimalist painters also received influences composer John Cage, the poet William Carlos Williams, and architect Frederick Law Olmsted. Explicitly they stated that his art was not an expression of themselves, in complete opposition to the abstract expressionists of the preceding decade. Soon they created a minimalist style, whose features were: rectangular and cubic forms, which were not a metaphor for anything; equal parts of the picture, repetition, neutral surfaces, industrial materials, all leading to an immediate visual impact. Usually they make large canvases in which prevails above all color. The first painter who relates specifically Minimalism was Frank Stella, whose striped paintings were featured in the exhibition of 1959, 16 Americans, organized at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The width of the stripes in the paintings of Stellas were determined by the dimensions of the wood used to build the frame that held the canvas. In the exhibition catalog, Carl Andre said that art excludes the unnecessary, Frank Stella has understood necessary to paint stripes. There is nothing else in this painting. Although from this exhibition, Stella received immediate attention, artists like Ralph Humphrey and Robert Ryman had begun to explore monochrome formats to late 1950. Later in 1980, there was a renewal of minimalist painting with trends Neo- Neo-geo and minimal. Op art, also known as optical art, is a visual style art that makes use of optical illusions.
In the works of op art the observer participates actively moving or going round to capture completly the optical effect, so we can say that there is no emotional aspect in the works. The op-art is a pictorial movement while the kinetic art is more sculptural. Key elements of the optical art are straight or sinuous parallel lines, marked color contrasts, either poly or bi-chromatic, changes in shape or size, combination or repetition of forms or figures; it also uses simple geometric shapes such as rectangles, squares, triangles or circles. After World War II a new generation of abstract artists appeared. They didn´t only care about their works communicating feelings, but require the viewer an active attitude. In this works the eye should be watching a play that moves, looking for the beginning and the end. At this time the art center was definitely New York. Its most famous artists were Bridget Railey, Victor Vassarelly. Op art works are abstract, with many better known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or of swelling or warping. |
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