My first task of the day is to make a Mind map of all the commercial arts available.

Visual example for each commercial types, I’ll be starting with Video and Performance.

Half of this type of commercial is on the internet. So thats social media and the TV. each person watched one or the other. About 90% are social media so more is directed towards slight advertisements based on your search history and will aim videos or even simple picture advertisements towards you. One of the best examples of this is Instagram. every so often you get an ad directed to something you like and the people you follow. For an example I got this video AD today.

This is one AD I’ve had from Samsung. The whole advert is very loose, and free spirited and is something to grab the attention of anyone.

Next is Entertainment

Entertainment advertisement is like the media one. you’ll be seeing it on social media as well as the TV. performance is more for the TV. Perfume adverts have elements of acting to them and causes senses of tension and build up. A very easy target of this are old lynx adverts.

This is one of the many Lynx adverts that caused a under a minute of entertainment thats showing us a basic body wash and body spray. Girl Broken Down Lynx Rise Wake Up Calls-Funny Commercials – Bing video

next is Visual Communication.

The strongest example is the ‘We can do it!’ Now in the 20th century we have ‘Just do it!’ Its not as flashy as the ‘we can do it!’, the art represents the struggles of women in the war, so instead of feeling worthless they got to work and made women powerful with this one piece of art and the slogan. Where as now its honestly really bland and basic, no 𝒻𝓁𝒶𝓋𝑜𝓊𝓇.

Fashion

This is one of the most easiest form of advertisement to get people to but more of the product while wearing it. Something that’s flashy WILL sell. Back in 2015-16 the THRASHER jumper, hoodie, and shirt was all people wore, not any people knew who they were they just wore it because it looked good, That’s what got people interested in the brand and looked more into it. Its very recognisable with the flames and simple design.

This magazine company set a brand out without people knowing it, this is yet again a very good way of sneaking anything into clothing. just make sure it looks good and fits the youth of today.

Environmental

This is something we all most likely see at a shopping canter in any shop. a display of some sort with clothing and or items. This isn’t just in stores, you can easily cut a bush into something such as a globe if you’re talented enough perhaps even make it the planet. simply taking a picture of any global disaster is something for people to want to go look at and see for themselves.

Packaging

This is yet again an easy way to advertise. McDonalds, Monster energy, Heinz- ANYTHING with a packet is targeted for an advert. Food is an easy target, people litter and most would rather have their brand slapped across the package for people to see when they walk past or even pick it up to throw away. Its just sad that some people need to put advertising on things that are so easily thrown onto the ground. paper cups and any type of food packaging, more McDonalds than anything.

Ornamental

This is a little harder for me to get as I don’t really see an ornament and think what brand is that its just, that’s cute where can i get it. Its mostly what shop instead of what brand the actual ornament is. If anything, it would have to be a frame that recognisable, most vintage ornaments aren’t recognisable, but expensive branded ones are. you have to literally set your brands name on it so you know what it is and where its from. This is a risky was to advertise but can pull off. And yes, this is a real ornament.

Product

These are very useful. We all see reusable bags, when we go shopping its either a bag for life or a branded big bad from any store with their name on. so if you think ‘i need a big bag to carry shopping in’ you look at someone else’s and know where to go and grab it from. Its always in a place to notice at the Till, if not asking an employee is very simple.

Decorative

Decorations have the same effect as the Ornamentals. You wont know unless its a particular style, its not like people will be dropping their decorations in the street, the only other way to get the brand across is to invite people into your house or take pictures and upload them to social media.

Publishing

This meets the sneaky advertising to sell. Say if an artist releases a single, youre going to go by off their brand and name. You look for a theme, something that seems like them, making sure its flashy or more toned down. This all really depends if the cover is something worth looking out for. This works for movies and book covers, you wont want to be interested if you only saw the words, you’d want to visualise what it’ll be about, The whole colour pallet is to do with whatever will be inside.

Branding

The easiest type of advertising is making something yours, adding an interesting flare to it, catching to the eye and something that’ll make people look and think ‘I recognise that’. just the design wont take you all the way, you need to have your own colour pallet and a theme in mind to match your brand, having mixed signals through the branding and actual product is very annoying for potential buyers.

Advertising

Now, advertising advertising can be something a little tricky, you actually need to be interested in it to want to search for it. Any Painting•Illustration•Photography•Videography•Guerilla.

Commercial Art

It can be created within theboundaries of marketablepossibilities.•Or, it can becreated as a fine piecefirst and thenapplied to aproduct.​•It has some ormanyfunctionalrequirements​•It can follow an art movement.

Fine Art

This can be used to motivate people, just like how the BLM movement with creating art pieces of all the people who died, this inspired people to get along with the movement, not to buy a product but to help a cause.

Our final task was to draw a portrait without taking our pen off the paper, this was hard as im so used to taking small sketching movements, I like how un natural this looks and how off putting it is in a way.

Death of Socrates​

The Death of Socrates – Artist: Jacques-Louis David – Dimensions: 1.3m x 1.96m​

Location: The Metropolitan of Art – period: Neoclassicism – Created: 1777-1787 – Subject: Socrates – Medium: oil on canvas​

Although he consulted Father Adry, a scholar on the subject, David’s depiction of Socrates death contains many historical inaccuracies. He removed many characters originally described in the dialogues of Plato. However, he included Apollodorus, the man leaning against the wall just within the arch, even though he is said to have been sent away by Socrates for displaying too much grief. David also historically misrepresented the ages of many of the pupils of Socrates, including Plato. Plato would have been a young man at the time of Socrates’s death, but in this painting he is the old man sitting at the foot of the bed. Even the face of Socrates is much more idealized than the classical bust that is typically used as a reference portrait of Socrates.[1] This underlines that Socrates life is projected out of Plato’s mind, whereas the old Plato idealises Socrates. Thus, the painting can rather be seen as an analysis than a failed historic depiction.​Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Death_of_Socrates​Yes that was from Wikipedia but this was the only source I could find of Davids painting had some sort of viewpoint on how he personally saw socerates death.​His references Bordes, Philippe. “David: Paris and Versailles.” The Burlington Magazine’ 132, no. 1043 (Feb. 1990): 154–156.​De Caso, Jacques. “Jacques-Louis David and the Style ‘All’ antica’.” The Burlington Magazine 114, no. 835(Oct.1972):686-690.​De Nanteuil, Luc. Jacques-Louis David. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1990.​Lajer-Burcharth, Ewa. Necklines: The Art of Jacques-Louis David after the Terror. New Haven: Yale, 1999.​Maleuvre, Didier. “David Painting Death.” Diacritics’ 30, no. 3 (Fall 200): 1–27.​Plato, Eva T. H. Brann, Peter Kalkavage, Eric Salem . Phaedo. Focus Publishing/R. Pullins: Bloomington,1998.​Vidal, Mary. “David among the Moderns: Art, Science, and the Lavoisiers.” Journal of the History of Ideas56, no. 4 (Oct. 1995):595–623.​

A few years ahead of the French Revolution, The Death of Socrates was commissioned by the Trudaine de Montigny brothers, two radical political reformers who were calling for an upheaval of French norms by promoting a free market system. To them, Socrates was a hero who sacrificed himself to his principles rather than accepting banishment and shame. In this painting of stoicism in the face of death, David was creating a clarion call for how the rebels should push toward their goals, not with cowardice and outcry like Socrates’s students—save for Plato and Crito!—but with self-control, honor, and fearlessness. ​

In 1784, David debuted Oath of Horatii, which depicted a Roman legend with vibrant colors of crimson and blue.This palette was panned by critics, who called it “garish.” As such, art historians suspect that David chose to subdue his reds in this piece. Notably, the colors grow more vibrant toward the center of the painting, thus drawing our eyes to Socrates and the young man holding the cup of poison. Source: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/501955/15-things-you-should-know-about-jacques-louis-davids-death-socrates​

To me the message was clear that something was going on. Without knowing who the man actuially was, it had to of been some tragedy.​

Untitled wall around Donald Trump’s Walk of Fame star​

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A Tale Of Two Hoodies (racism)

Pietà

Here to stay,​
“Illustrations to dismantle patriarchal nonsense and systemic racism.”​

Image by Australian street artist “Meek”,​
stencil art of his “Begging for Change”

FREEDOM TO LEAD​

Ester Hernandez, “Sun Mad,” 1982​

Justice for breonna                  Justice for Ahmaud                    Justice for George​

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Pablo Picasso  

Libby Forbes 

Name of work: Responding to war 

Year created: 1941 

Medium used: Oil paint 

To me this piece caught my attention as I find it quite rare to find something that represents war in the way this painting does. To me after reading the description already on what it’s about, the thought of war comes to mind in a different way, almost as if a it was a savage time in history. The dogs represent the soldiers at their prime time, no weapons just defending what they had, even if it wasn’t a lot. It communicated every man for himself situation. Theres not a pack it’s just two dogs seemingly defending scraps of food from whatever may be threatening them. 

The one thing I really liked about this was that Picasso didn’t want to go out and take pictures of the brutality like what most artists do, instead he interpreted war in his own mind . I personally find this piece to stand out more than any other war piece. All the others if you simply type into google come up with images of very detailed scenes of death and destruction, or even for that many revolutions. However, without context this would simply look like 2 dogs that are angry, its far more than that.  

The colors seem to be sinister. The use of black and red are the main colors that correspond to darkness and blood / violence. The shading used is a nice simple way of shading, this is the same type of shading when I want to draw a piece that can get a message across without getting distracted. As this was painted during WW2, he wasn’t looking for something to depict like a photographer. I am assuming that from what he has heard and possibly even experienced he knows that war is something that changed people. We all know dogs for being fluffy and loving, rather friendly, I like how he made them the opposite in this case. May that be on purpose it still gave a message. Sure you might not think of it as war when you see it, but you think of some violence, there’s some killing going on, or the bones wouldn’t be there, there would be no reason for them to be there unless he was fixated on painting the war in a natural way to the wild nature of the animal. The line on this piece is very thin, it’s more of a fine painted piece, there’s no brush stroked to really indicate how he would have painted this, may it been taken his time on it or actually was fast and rough with it. For me I can’t see any brush strokes, so this tells me that he did spend a lot of time on this, as it did represent something with a heavy heart at the time. 

Expressionism  

What is Expressionism  

Expressionism, artistic style in which the artist seeks to depict not objective reality but rather the subjective emotions and responses that objects and events arouse within a person. The artist accomplishes this aim through distortion, exaggeration, primitivism, and fantasy and through the vivid, jarring, violent, or dynamic application of formal elements.  

It’s all about non-naturalistic art, brush strokes mainly playing the puppeteer over the paint. Expressionism can be used by any era, it was most popular in 20^th century.  

Source: https://www.britannica.com/art/Expressionism 

How it works 

Artistic style that the artist seeks out to depict not objectify reality, subjecting emotion response with a person and its surroundings. A good example of this is Vincent Van Gogh, the scream is the most notable one there is to recognize, although his other pieces are expressionism you wouldn’t think that, it could be that you’ve mistaken it for bright colors and bold lines. 

Artists 

It may be said to start with Vincent Van Gogh and then form a major stream of modern art embracing, among many others, Edvard Munch, fauvism and Henri Matisse, Georges Rouault, the Brücke and Blaue Reiter groups, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Paul Klee, Max Beckmann, most of Pablo Picasso, Henry Moore, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, Jean Dubuffet, Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer and the neo-expressionism of the 1980s. 

Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/e/expressionism  

Artists examples: 

1 Madonna, Completed in 1895 By the artist edvard Munch, Oil paint. 

Although this is the oldest piece out of the three, I’ve picked out to have stranded out to me the most I feel it’s the most polished one here. The only Item of clothing is a red hat, and the rest is in the nude with the natural beauty of the woman body. 

2  Woman with Red Hair Completed in 1917 By the artist Amedeo Modigliani, oil paint. 

This one is very different, this was the “middle child” of the three pieces and yet this one has more emotion than all of them. It’s a nice simple body piece with nice flat line colors, blacked out eyes. This could do with the artists religion or it could have been a choice that would make it stand out from the rest. 

3 Underground Fantasy, Completed in 1940 By Mark Rothko, Oil paint 

This to me is the weirdest one out of the three. A tall man with longer legs than body, holding seemingly what seems to be a baby in a blanket. This to me makes no sense unless it was a visualized piece that he the artists took a photo off or either drew it then and there. I really can’t put my finger on that this piece is about or makes me feel, although I could research what it’s about for the artist it should really be focused on what it’s about for me in a way, and I just can’t think of what. 

Neo Expressionism 

What is it? 

Neo-Expressionism, diverse art movement (chiefly of painters) that dominated the art market in Europe and the United States during the early and mid-1980s. Neo-Expressionism comprised a varied assemblage of young artists who had returned to portraying the human body and other recognizable objects, in reaction to the remote, introverted, highly intellectualized abstract art production of the 1970s. The movement was linked to and in part generated by new and aggressive methods of salesmanship, media promotion, and marketing on the part of dealers and galleries. 

Source: https://www.britannica.com/art/Neo-Expressionism 

How it works? 

At the start of the 20th century, Expressionism turned the art world on its head. Spearheaded by German artists aiming to distort reality and “express” emotion, this modernist movement called for bright colors, bold brushstrokes, and energetic compositions. While Expressionism’s popularity waned by 1920, it has since sparked several styles and genres, with the Neo-Expressionists—a pack of daring artists—leading the charge. 

Source:https://mymodernmet.com/neo-expressionism/ 

From simply looking at images of this, its all bright colors on a black background with wild patterns and designs making a whole piece- such as a portrait. 

This one especially caught my eye. I love how its simple but can convey a message so quickly. 

Artists 

1 United Skull, completed in 1981, Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, Jean-Michel Basquiat. 

2 Turning over a new leaf, oil on canvas,  

Research of surrealism 

Surrealism began in literature in 1924 through the poet andre breton. 

Surrealism rose from the ashes of Dada. 

Like Dada, it was an avant-garde movement, surrealism was also influenced by the ideas of symbolism.  

Symbolist artists such as Gustave Moreau were seen by Brenton as precursors. Surrealist artists sought to liberate the subconscious mind in their art did this through depiction of dreamlike images rendered in precise detail. 

Other artists like Miro explored atomism the means of creating expressive images without engaging the rational rotational mind.   

In 1963 the International surrealist exhibition was held in London, Brenton and Deli gave lectures there. 

As the second World war ravaged Europe many surrealists fled across the Atlantic. 

Abstract Expressionists, such as Jackson pollock were inspired by the Surrealist approach to automatism for the unconscious mind. 

What is Surrealism 

Surrealism aimed to revolutionize human experience, rejecting a rational vision of life in favour of one that asserted the value of the unconscious and dreams. The movement’s poets and artists found magic and strange beauty in the unexpected and the uncanny, the disregarded and the unconventional. 

Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/surrealism 

Artist research 

 I chose to do André Breton, I find his work to be odd in the best way possible.  A French writer and poet, His writings include the first Surrealist Manifesto of 1924, with this he defined surrealism as “pure psychic automatism”. He was born 1896 in the beautiful Tinchebray. As an only child, As a medical student, Breton was interested in mental illness; his reading of the works of Sigmund Freud (whom he met in 1921) introduced him to the concept of the unconscious. Influenced by psychiatry and Symbolist poetry, he joined the Dadaists. His inspiration was Tristan Tzara a poet, Tristan Tzara, Tristan Tzara yet anther poet and many more. With his first three inspirations he must have been inspired more by poetry, he was one to write and dabble in poetry along with his art. 

I love how This is such an old piece and yet its so original, it seems like it’s a regular picture of him with a 20^th century twist to collage to it. The goofy atmosphere of this piece can define how he sees himself as an artist but yet the stern surrealness sets his work. His use of minimal colors makes this appealing to the eye as its not too in your face. The use of green, red and brownish yellow gives this almost bland piece a pop of color. As I’m struggling to find words to describe this I asked my sister what she though, as shes not much of an art head her words were “it looks like there’s a marshmallow on his head smoking a cigar” and looking into it as a modern perspective it does make sense where she’s coming from. Going into this blind with no knowledge on him or his work it can look odd. 

The song I listened to while doing this was Alpha by c418. As it’s a Minecraft track, I found it very relaxing. The one thing I know is that there needed to be some sort of plants in this, I wanted it to a subtle but there. While listening I conveyed my emotion from the song to my pen. I knew there had to be a person, so I got to work on a side portrait.  I had this on loop while I was doing the whole piece, it’s very slow and flowy, so it’s something I could take my time on, make sure it looked alright and there wasn’t too much stiffness.  Listening to this song made me feel safe and emotional, I knew there was no way this would be a normal portrait, so I made it upside down. Gave her no eyes as who would need eyes with beautiful sound such as this.  

This has come out just how I wanted it to. As this is a digital piece it was very tame so, for my next piece I will be doing a wilder traditional approach with some acrylic paint and pencil work maybe. I haven’t quite decided yet, but I know what I want to do and what music will inspire that. 

 For this next one I listened to Goodbye to a world by Porter Robinson. It’s a very nuclear, and with what the world is going through now it’s fitting. It’s a song that has robotic like vocals that sums up the future of technology. I tried to do rough and quick marks and not spend too long on each part as it was a quick chaotic song that I personally connect to a chaotic end of the world with people screaming and panicking with the other half just knowing it’s the end and nothing can happen.  

My third piece I listened to IC3PEAK Плак-Плак (Boo-Hoo).  The colour theme of the video inspired me to have the same colors. The feel and undertone of the song made me want to do something quick without really sketching it, something menacing but very clear and almost blending into  

 Spirals, similar to what the song is about, blending in- so, that’s what I did. 

Nowhere to run ; Stegosaurus rex. A waste land with nothing but bloodthirst…  

This is my second piece with mostly black and red with white. These colours contrast well wioth how I feel when listening to to music. 

While doing this task I misunderstood the task at first as I watched the videos and saw they were drawing whatever came to their mind and for me, I drew what came to mind roughly in the time of the video length. The first one I had on repeat to really feel the emotions of the song and started to draw what comes to mind. I don’t do well drawing what I’m feeling with patterns, I most likely have to draw whatever I think off, may that be an animal or  a human, yet even a place, I need to draw it, sketch it and see what im doing, that’s where I get most of my emotions and ideas from, just listening to one genera of music while sketching and lining. 

Susanna Phillips (née Burney) 

This image to me makes me believe she’s a rich woman, someone with power but has a tender heart. She’s dressed very softly; her clothing is white that give me the sense of purity. the yellow and blue on her clothing, the yellow is supposed to mean the concertation and does not get distracted, the blue is someone loyal, witty and sarcastic. The colours could have little meaning but as this was painted in 1927 it would have to have meant something. 

To me, this is a very beautiful piece, something that I can’t draw my eyes away from. The background is seemed to be set on the outskirt of a woodland area, perhaps a cottage manor, I can tell this from the background, there seems to be a dark green in the background that’s allowing us to peek behind to the outside. The sun is either setting or rising, as there is gold like on the background i can assume it from the sun rise. 

Pablo Picasso  

Libby Forbes 

Name of work: Responding to war 

Year created: 1941 

Medium used: Oil paint 

To me this piece caught my attention as I find it quite rare to find something that represents war in the way this painting does. To me after reading the description already on what it’s about, the thought of war comes to mind in a different way, almost as if a it was a savage time in history. The dogs represent the soldiers at their prime time, no weapons just defending what they had, even if it wasn’t a lot. It communicated every man for himself situation. Theres not a pack it’s just two dogs seemingly defending scraps of food from whatever may be threatening them. 

The one thing I really liked about this was that Picasso didn’t want to go out and take pictures of the brutality like what most artists do, instead he interpreted war in his own mind . I personally find this piece to stand out more than any other war piece. All the others if you simply type into google come up with images of very detailed scenes of death and destruction, or even for that many 

 revolutions. However, without context this would simply look like 2 dogs that are angry, its far more than that.  

The colors seem to be sinister. The use of black and red are the main colors that correspond to darkness and blood / violence. The shading used is a nice simple way of shading, this is the same type of shading when I want to draw a piece that can get a message across without getting distracted. As this was painted during WW2, he wasn’t looking for something to depict like a photographer. I am assuming that from what he has heard and possibly even experienced he knows that war is something that changed people. We all know dogs for being fluffy and loving, rather friendly, I like how he made them the opposite in this case. May that be on purpose it still gave a message. Sure you might not think of it as war when you see it, but you think of some violence, there’s some killing going on, or the bones wouldn’t be there, there would be no reason for them to be there unless he was fixated on painting the war in a natural way to the wild nature of the animal. The line on this piece is very thin, it’s more of a fine painted piece, there’s no brush stroked to really indicate how he would have painted this, may it been taken his time on it or actually was fast and rough with it. For me I can’t see any brush strokes, so this tells me that he did spend a lot of time on this, as it did represent something with a heavy heart at the time. 

Dada & anti-war protest art 

Dada artists felt the war called into question every aspect of a society capable of starting and then prolonging it – including its art. Their aim was to destroy traditional values in art and to create a new art to replace the old. As the artist Hans Arp later wrote:Revolted by the butchery of the 1914 World War, we in Zurich devoted ourselves to the arts. While the guns rumbled in the distance, we sang, painted, made collages and wrote poems with all our might. In addition to being anti-war, dada was also anti-bourgeois and had political affinities with the radical left.The founder of dada was a writer, Hugo Ball. In 1916 he started a satirical night-club in Zurich, the Cabaret Voltaire, and a magazine which, wrote Ball, ‘will bear the name ”Dada”. Dada, Dada, Dada, Dada.’ This was the first of many dada publications. Dada became an international movement and eventually formed the basis of surrealism in Paris after the war. Leading artists associated with it include Arp, Marcel Duchamp, Francis Picabia and Kurt Schwitters. Duchamp’s questioning of the fundamentals of Western art had a profound subsequent influence. 

Source: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/d/dada#:~:text=Dada%20was%20an%20art%20movement,satirical%20and%20nonsensical%20in%20nature  

In this image, there’s a lot going on and yet these are all things that have happened in time. Theres people tied up and on the floor being treated horribly. Theres some racial tension here. We can see men in the middle making some kind of deal from one  side to the other. art movement of the European avant-garde in the early 20th century. An artist speaking up about troubles of his time. Their aim was to destroy traditional values in art and to create a new art to replace the old. (tate) 

He used a variety of scultpure, collage, sound poetry, cut-up writing, and sculpture. They were also experimental, provocatively re-imagining what art and art making could be. Using unorthodox materials and chance-based procedures, they infused their work with spontaneity and irreverence. Wielding scissors and glue, Dada artists innovated with collage and photomontage. Source: https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/themes/dada/  

To me this image is a deal between men of different sides, wanting what the other has. Violence in exchange for “protection” and food/supply’s, and in exchange they can have the citizens of that country to use as slaves. War, food, death and deals. This is a lot to break down as there’s so much to reveal. To me this is a chaotic, and I really think this is what they were going for, for a message of chaos while looking chaotic and can make the mind overwhelmed and confused.