Identify 10 significant pieces of source material that you have found interesting, relevant to your own creative interests and worthy of further investigation. You may want to consider the following terms throughout this process:
- Critical analysis - good questions, challenges.
- Aesthetics - what satisfies you & why?
- Designers - taste, inspiration, interpretation.
- Audience - stereotyping, identity, appropriate inquiry.
- Manifestos - passion for a subject, making decisions, taking control.
- Chronologies - what happened when and what was its effect?
1. Haight-Ashbury
Jay Stevens claimed “According to the hippies, LSD was the glue that held the Haight together. It was the hippie sacrament, a mind detergent capable of washing away years of social programming, a re-imprinting device, a consciousness-expander, a tool that would push us up the evolutionary ladder.” [7] The Haight, also known as Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, became a prime area to live, with a rising drug culture and a love for psychedelic rock music such as The Grateful Dead. It was to become a symbol of counter-culture. The Fillmore posters in particular, produced for a music venue also in San Francisco, are an extremely reflective example of the work was becoming visible at this time.
(Essay)
To look into - Elaine Mayes, Haight-Ashbury portraits
(http://www.elainemayesphoto.com/)
2. Meadham Kirchhoff
Jay Stevens claimed “According to the hippies, LSD was the glue that held the Haight together. It was the hippie sacrament, a mind detergent capable of washing away years of social programming, a re-imprinting device, a consciousness-expander, a tool that would push us up the evolutionary ladder.” [7] The Haight, also known as Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, became a prime area to live, with a rising drug culture and a love for psychedelic rock music such as The Grateful Dead. It was to become a symbol of counter-culture. The Fillmore posters in particular, produced for a music venue also in San Francisco, are an extremely reflective example of the work was becoming visible at this time.
(Essay)
To look into - Elaine Mayes, Haight-Ashbury portraits
2. Meadham Kirchhoff
'They threw trends and seriousness to the wind and created an outrageously-styled show full of glitter, tinsel, sequins... and with a strong disco vibe.
The show took place in the Old Billingsgate Market, but disco lights and music transported frowers straight back to the Seventies.
Layering was key, and the more colours included in a look the better.
Clothes came in every colour of the rainbow, with a particular emphasis on yellows and oranges.
Sequinned pants were worn over striped, glittery tights, tartan dresses were worn over paisley shirts, and brightly patterned faux-fur jackets were worn over everything and anything.
The models' faces were colour-blocked with circus-style face paint clashing with their outfits, or simply highlighted with splashes of colour.'
(Lauren Paxman)
3. Ronald Dick
(www.ronalddick.com)
4. Letraset
Letraset was mainly used during the 70s, becoming quite a prominent characteristic of Type Setting in this decade. There was a kaleidoscopic feel to most designs, with the morphing of objects and shapes, which adorned posters, various publications and record sleeves.
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5. Thomas Chatterton (high culture/low)
Thomas Chatterton (1752-70) was an 18th Century poet, a Romantic figure whose melancholy temperament and early suicide captured the imagination of numerous artists and writers.
6. Aesthetics
(Meadham Kirchhoff, Noor Khan, Comme Des Garcons, unknown, Lara Stone by Alasdair McLellan, Yuri Pleskun by Dan Smith Kate Moss by Paolo Roversi)
7. LURVE magazine logo
10. Brandi Strickland
She creates small-scale works of art using techniques of hand-cut collage, painting, and drawing. Her compositions range from simple and impactful to sweepingly ambitious and hyper-detailed. Even while manipulating found images, she manages to create enveloping, otherworldly landscapes. Although collage often lends itself to a certain cleverness, her pieces remain heartfelt and revelatory.
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5. Thomas Chatterton (high culture/low)
Thomas Chatterton (1752-70) was an 18th Century poet, a Romantic figure whose melancholy temperament and early suicide captured the imagination of numerous artists and writers.
Chatterton's tragic early death had a profound effect on the Romantic Poets. Wordsworth referred to him as the "marvellous boy" and Keats dedicated Endymion to him.
The fascination surrounding Chatterton's premature death was further fuelled by Henry Wallis' famous portrait of 1856. However, the portrait was not based on a real likeness of Chatterton but was modelled instead on a young man called George Meredith.
(Tate, http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/chatterton.htm)
6. Aesthetics
Aesthetic qualities in design that are most important to me
1. greyscale
2. photographic (film)
3. pastels
4. florals
5. beauty
7. LURVE magazine logo
8. OZ Magazine
Oz was first published as a satirical humour magazine between 1963 and 1969 in Sydney, Australia and, in its second and better known incarnation, became a "psychedelic hippy" magazine from 1967 to 1973 in London. Strongly identified as part of the underground press, it was the subject of two celebrated obscenity trials, one in Australia in 1964 and the other in the United Kingdom in 1971. On both occasions the magazine's editors were acquitted on appeal after initially being found guilty and sentenced to harsh jail terms.
(wiki)
9. Art for arts sake
- higher/lower culture
- no politics
- no engagement with the world
- beacon of aesthetic beauty
- separation between artist and viewer
She creates small-scale works of art using techniques of hand-cut collage, painting, and drawing. Her compositions range from simple and impactful to sweepingly ambitious and hyper-detailed. Even while manipulating found images, she manages to create enveloping, otherworldly landscapes. Although collage often lends itself to a certain cleverness, her pieces remain heartfelt and revelatory.
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