January 2017

There were 2 posts published in January 2017 (this is page 1 of 1).

HELLO! my name is

We did a little exercise to kick start our 2D Sem 2 course! It was an exercise used to present three characteristics of ourselves, using type/ or symbolism in “HELLO” name tags.

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My first characteristic is Cynicism. I created an extremely colourful background filled with swirls, something that mimics the look of lollipop representing the sweet and innocent. My name then acts as “cynical filter” to destroy all the colour that is shown behind it, this is the way I presented my cynicism.

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My second characteristic is me as a social chameleon. In different company and social situations, I behave and act according to how my surrounds are like. Therefore, the empty bottle represents me as a vessel, carrying and transforming according to what (people and circumstance) is “poured” into me.

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The last characteristic is me as someone would is rather private. However, I do like to talk to people a lot, so I represent the outgoing part of me as a colourful triangular pattern used to hide a more serious side of me, as represented by my hidden name in the background.

This concludes my Hello my name is project. Looking forward to working on the firstproject of 2D 2!!

Project 1: Initial Stages – Research

Back in 2D second semester!! For the first lesson, we were given the brief for our first 2D project, and tasked to research certain topics. The topic I chose was Dada-ism.

DADA-ISM
Dada-ism is a Switzerland artistic and literary movement that doesn’t focus on aesthetically pleasing objects but making works that generated difficult questions about the society, the role of the artist, and the purpose of art.

HANNH HOCH
Hoch is a German photo montage Dada artist. She is concerned with the issue of gender and the figure of woman in modern society.

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I like how the artist uses surrealist and dada-ist techniques to create meaning in her artwork. For example, in the above artwork, “Untitled, From an Ethnographic Musuem”, she distorts the female figure with an exaggeratedly large eye to suggest how society judges women as though they are looking at a piece of sculpture, objectifying the female. 

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Furthermore, in this painting she placed two cut-out Germany statesmen, looking comical in their swimsuits in a setting of embroidery-pattern background, sending out a message of how the statesmen were unaware of the political and financial problems faced by Germany and its citizens.

I think that both the art movement and this artist i researched on has extremely interesting styles and techniques. However, whether I will end up using them in Project 1 requires more thought.