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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Problems with leaving comments
Hi everyone,
something has changed with my account, so it wont allow me to post comments on all your good work (with out having to go around the very long way)
sorry if I have not commented on all your great work, but I have been looking through the blogs ...so keep it up. Well done!
something has changed with my account, so it wont allow me to post comments on all your good work (with out having to go around the very long way)
sorry if I have not commented on all your great work, but I have been looking through the blogs ...so keep it up. Well done!
Friday, October 28, 2011
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Monday, October 24, 2011
Competition
Calling all budding artists / designers!
Design a logo for the Google homepage. 75 finalists receive notebook computers and Google goody bags. The overall winner will have their doodle on the Google homepage in March.
You can design the logo using pencil, crayon, felt tip, paint or on the computer using drawing / design software.
Your design must be accompanied by a 50 word supporting statement.
For more information check out the website:
Sunday, October 23, 2011
Friday, October 21, 2011
Thanks Pamela-Ann
What Makes A Good Logo
What makes a good logo? A good logo is distinctive, appropriate, practical, graphic, simple in form and conveys an intended message.
There are five principles that you should follow to ensure that this is so…
An effective logo is (in no particular order):
- Simple
- Memorable
- Timeless
- Versatile
- Appropriate
- 1- Simple logos are often easily recognized, incredibly memorable and the most effective in conveying the requirements of the client.
- 2- Ultimately, the only mandate in the design of logos, it seems, is that they be distinctive, memorable, and clear
- 3- Leave trends to the fashion industry
- 4- Ask yourself; is a logo still effective if:
- Printed in one colour?
- Printed on the something the size of a postage stamp?
- Printed on something as large as a billboard?
- Printed in reverse (ie. light logo on dark backgroud)
and finally
- A logo derives its meaning and usefulness from the quality of that which it symbolizes, appropriate for its intended purpose.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Thanks to Jessica!
Monday, October 17, 2011
Monday, October 10, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Themes for the Junior Cert
Themes for the junior cert project
<!1.The big clean up
<!2.Waiting at the bus stop
<!3.Good food
<!4.Looking at nature
<!-5.A helpful hand
<!6: POEM; Trees
Friday, September 30, 2011
Fresh film festival, !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.freshfilmfestival.net/
GO to link and check it out or else........POW!!!!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Kawaii Wolf: Animation Tests
Kawaii Wolf: Animation Tests: Fly machine box thing __________________________________________________ Sketchy Animation Tests :B
by Emma in 2nd year
Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Art competitions for everyone
Hi everyone, 2 competitions with cash prizes below, one is design a cover and the other is a photographic competition.
Please talk to me in class about them
Monday, September 19, 2011
Friday, August 26, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Everyone check this out
http://a-place-in-my-mind.blogspot.com/
then go to the storyboard!!!! True Genius!
then go to the storyboard!!!! True Genius!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Introduction to Art History
Check out this SlideShare Presentation:
Introduction to Art History
View more presentations from John Ricard.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Saturday, February 26, 2011
The Art of Protesting
Egypt protests
A tweet
* "I am a writer and I just want to tell people in the free world who are afraid that Islamic fanatics can take over, that this will not happen in Egypt. When Egyptians enjoy real freedom, they will never let fanaticism to take over." *
For those of you unfamiliar with Twitter(1), it is a social-network, micro-blogging service that is becoming an entity in itself. Though attempts have been made to quash it or kill it, none have been able to silence it. It has become a means of expression for many, writers, artist and others alike. When thinking upon tweets, I am reminded of a sonnet or haiku which have boundaries or structures. They could be seen as limiting in one way, as they act, exist like edge of a canvas. I see them as challenging, as I have yet to find the limit of a canvas. The written word will be just one way the protests in Egypt will be portrayed through the arts, be it tweet, prose, blog or newspaper, the event will be a feast for many artists of varying disciplines. Many artists wish to comment on the world, it affects on them or others. Events that change the life of even one person are like a lovers call to the artists mind.
I am not writing this with any in-depth knowledge of the politics of Egypt, far from it in fact, but instead “hand on heart“, I write this as an ignorant observer. The Event at first glance may seem unrelated to art in every way possible but I argue that the protest itself is art and also a catalyst for the creation of further art. Some of these future art pieces we may not see for years, decades, and more might be made after all our protests against the eternal sleep have been given to the winds.
The relationship between The Media, The Event and The Arts is one that intrigues me, and the more I investigate, the stronger the connection becomes. The cyclical nature of some images from front-page headliners, moving to features in the culture section and back to front page is not without precedent (Picasso's Guernica is one such example http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6583639.stm ). The New York Times is currently featuring information about the museum in Auschwitz 60 years after the holocaust. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/index.html
Other connections can be found. The first Flash-mob (2)was created in Manhattan in May 2003, by Bill Wasik, a senior editor of Harper's Magazine . I have long associated Editors as curators, selecting images and prose for public viewing but never as creators of art experiences. Flash-mobs are usually planned by telecommunications (Twitter or Facebook for example) similar to the protests in Egypt. The term Flash-Mob is usually given to pointless gatherings and not to ones such as protests but where do we draw the line. When did something have to be pointless to be art? It was organized in the exact same way, but were the intentions different? Did the “million man march” happen? Numbers vary from source to source but does it matter? Do we judge an artist or group by their intentions, processes or their displayed work? This was an experience an event, did everyone have the same one... definitely not. But do we ever experience a piece of art exactly the same way as another wood?
The gathering was perhaps intended to be a Smart-mob (3), a peaceful intelligent protest but it was disrupted by other mobs (I refer here to the Police presence and the Camel Owners Group) with their opposing views and intentions. This is not the first time artists have argued, but perhaps it could be viewed as a first among “art-collective-entities”, clashing over styles and ideals.
The Passion of the gathering not its Pointlessness made it art.
A further connection between the media and art is open to discussion.
As I looked at coverage of the event in newspapers and news programmes from all over the world it was obvious the skill involved, by the writers, the photographers and the editors. The selection process of all is as result of the intent, to make something for others to interact with. I was intrigued to watch on Sky News that Egyptian protesters were refusing to comment to their reporters because of how they were portraying the event. They were not just reporting/observing but as we know they were relaying the information in a packaged way. In fact a lot of their coverage was set in a triptych style, similar to my own first love, painting. This made it a very different viewing experience.
Again I would like to point out that I am focusing here with the presentation of the information and the thinking behind that. We are no longer so innocent that we believe what is reported “Weapons of mass deception rather than destruction are more easily found”. Despite my cynical tone I am not concerning myself here with the politics behind the selection and packaging of images by any news group but just pointing to the fact that it happens. Similar to any artists process, “What we put in, versus what we leave out”. The mood of each image or article can vary from paper to paper, programme to programme and country to country for any number of reasons. Some focused on the negative angle some focused on hope. As consumers of these packages we should be conscious of this as we go back time and again to the writers we associate with, and similar publications. Unlike The Protest Art earlier we can enjoy this from the comfort of our own home.
“I don’t know much about the news but I know what I like”.
The images and information that filter out to artists from the media are often the source of further artworks. Iconic images are a stimulus for continuous creation. Pictures of the protestor in Tiananmen Square have been elevated to usage at an almost exhaustive level, as has the image of the tortured Iraq prisoner. They arguably have become contemporary icons. One could say certain artists scour the news like ambulance chasing lawyers in order to create the next icon of a human experience. Is it wrong or is it an essential part of being an artist, holding up a mirror to society? Does it make it good, bad or relevant art? Goya’s painting “The third of May 1808” ticks all the boxes, a brilliant piece that is relevant to art and history alike. We will not have to wait long for this event to inspire contemporary artists as images are already seeping on to the net. http://www.artcriesout.com/homepage.html
The only issue with this event is the time-line, when did it start and when will it end? Some argue it started decades ago and may never end. I have focused on the few weeks in late January, early February 2011 as the world watched and recorded made judgements and were inspired. We must record our existence, as it is our nature to be creative and selective in every aspect of our lives. The selection process can be the art itself. The action or process can be the art and resulting words and images are surely art, and yet....
Every time a camera’s shutter closes the debate of the thinking behind it opens.
Is it simply a record of an event or is it art?
- Twitter is a website, owned and operated by Twitter Inc., which offers a social networking and micro blogging service, enabling its users to send and read messages called tweets. Tweets are text-based posts of up to 140 characters displayed on the user's profile page. Tweets are publicly visible by default; however, senders can restrict message delivery to just their followers. Users may subscribe to other users' tweets—this is known as following and subscribers are known as followers. (wikipedia )
- Flash-Mobs: A flash mob (or flashmob) is a term coined in 2003 to denote a group of people who assemble suddenly in a public place, perform an unusual and sometimes seemingly pointless act for a brief time, then disperse, often for the purposes of entertainment and/or satire. Flash mobs are organized via telecommunications, social media, or viral emails. (wikipedia )
- A Smart mob is a group that, contrary to the usual connotations of a mob, behaves intelligently or efficiently because of its exponentially increasing network links. This network enables people to connect to information and others, allowing a form of social coordination. (wikipedia )
Friday, February 25, 2011
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Monday, January 17, 2011
Banish all Poets and Artists
“Banish all poets and artists”. The warning cry of Socrates still holds true. He believed that if you want a true and just society all poets and artists are to be banished since they are harmful purveyors of false illusions.
A strange way for an Art Teacher to open an article on the importance of art you might say but let us ask ourselves do we need art?
Socrates was not a foe of the arts as the quote above might suggest. His meaning was not as it may first appear from this statement but rather quiet the opposite. A true humanist and seeker of truth, he proclaimed that one cannot call themselves educated unless they have an education in the arts. In fact he went as far as to say it was inhuman not to have a will to create.
His point was thus; Artists dream of a better world and ask “why can’t it be so?” In fact all inventions come from the creative side of the mind but Socrates says humankind does not need art, like a beast they can be born, find shelter, food and die all without the aid of art… but few do.
We have no rational physical need for cave paintings, or for music or poetry or storytelling. It's just that anthropologists (a person who studies the science and development of human beings) have found no culture so poor and desperate that it doesn't have them.
What separates us from animals is our will to create, not like a spider whose creative webs are a means to capture; from the moment quality enters our mind we become artists. This is a feature in all of our lives, from picking the clothes that suit us to the choice and arrangement of our material goods in our homes.
Some impulse takes us beyond the bare bone requirements of existence. Our ancestors didn't just mold clay into a container to carry water, they decorated it with pictures of animals and flowers and gods. A church needs no more than walls and a roof to fulfill its mission, but that doesn't stop us from adding spires and stained glass. We need no more than bare stitchery to hold our clothes and blankets and quilts together, but we add embroidery and carved buttons. A plain box-shaped house will meet our actual needs, but we add gables and bay windows and parquet floors, and then we rearrange nature to suit and order the flowers and shrubs and trees that will surround us. Our babies need diapers and bottles, but to stimulate their senses we also give them mobiles and teddy bears.
Art is not just a means of escapism, a dream of a better world or time. It is no coincidence that I included a character from “Prison-break” the hit TV series to adorn the top of this page. The idea of the art on his body will be his salvation is what appealed to me. The tattoo draped around his torso containing the prisons blueprint submerged in a work of art reminds the open minded amongst us that art truly is the path to freedom. This is becoming more and more evident with the dramatic development of Art Therapy. All though Art has always been used in the attempt to understand the workings of the human-mind, please remember when shown an ink-blot by a psychoanalyst and asked “What do you see here?” It is just an ink-blot but it is the creative mind that imagines it as “a bat”, “two penguins kissing” and so on.
Nobody sees the world exactly as you do; what seems simple and obvious to us is a totally novel or wrongheaded notion to someone else. Whether we believe we are right and must convince everybody else, or that we are all blind men examining an elephant, each with a portion of the truth, we seem driven to show others what the world looks like to us. (See end of article for story of the blind men and the elephant).
Art will always be the oldest recorded language, whether its cave paintings, Egyptian hieroglyphs or some other series of symbols carved or painted. But it is not just a means to communicate with our piers but with all those that come after us. That need to make the world acknowledge our presence seems every bit as basic as our drive for food and water. As the only species that realizes we must die, we leave our signature to force the world to remember us. We pass on the stories of our tribe -- our loves, our hatreds, and our years of wandering in the desert. In poetry and drama and paintings we tell about the gods who loved us and the tricksters who deceived us. With rock paintings and skyscrapers and tombstones and "I was here," we demand the world's respect. Though we may be such things as dreams are made on, we are "the hungry ghosts, crying remember me, remember me."
And sometimes, art has no greater justification -- and needs none -- than sheer playfulness. Maybe you make up a poem with three syllable rhymes because it's a challenge and it's funny and people clap if you pull it off. Or it might be a way of answering the IF questions: you're wondering what would happen if humans had to compete with plants on an equal basis, and so you write a story like The Day of the Triffids to figure it out.
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." Plato
This brings me back to the original question I posed, “Why do we need art, and why do we need artists?” I believe that art, like food, shelter and clothing, is a fundamental requirement of life, necessary for our humanity, for our human quest for wisdom, where, in the words of our wonderful Robert Henri, "There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. Such are the moments of our greatest happiness. Such are the moments of our greatest wisdom. If one could but recall his vision by some sort of sign. It was in this hope that the arts were invented. Sign-post on the way to what may be. Sign-posts toward greater knowledge”
Remember, “We are the Music Makers and we are the Dreamers of Dreams” from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Every person should be encouraged to create .Is there anything more important?
From the creative department
Mr. Delohery
The Elephant and the Blind Men
Once upon a time, there lived six blind men in a village. One day the villagers told them, "Hey, there is an elephant in the village today."
They had no idea what an elephant is. They decided, "Even though we would not be able to see it, let us go and feel it anyway." All of them went where the elephant was. Everyone of them touched the elephant.
"Oh, no! It is like a rope," said the second man who touched the tail.
"Oh, no! It is like a thick branch of a tree," said the third man who touched the trunk of the elephant.
"It is like a big hand fan" said the fourth man who touched the ear of the elephant.
"It is like a huge wall," said the fifth man who touched the belly of the elephant.
"It is like a solid pipe," Said the sixth man who touched the tusk of the elephant.
They began to argue about the elephant and everyone of them insisted that he was right. It looked like they were getting agitated. A wise man was passing by and he saw this. He stopped and asked them, "What is the matter?" They said, "We cannot agree to what the elephant is like." Each one of them told what he thought the elephant was like. The wise man calmly explained to them, "All of you are right. The reason every one of you is telling it differently because each one of you touched the different part of the elephant. So, actually the elephant has all those features what you all said."
"Oh!" everyone said. There was no more fight. They felt happy that they were all right.
The moral of the story is that there may be some truth to what someone says. Sometimes we can see that truth and sometimes not because they may have different perspective which we may not agree too. So, rather than arguing like the blind men, we should say, "Maybe you have your reasons." This way we don’t get in arguments. In Jainism, it is explained that truth can be stated in seven different ways. So, you can see how broad our religion is. It teaches us to be tolerant towards others for their viewpoints. This allows us to live in harmony with the people of different thinking.
This is known as the Syadvada, Anekantvad, or the theory of Manifold Predictions.
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