Monday 20 April 2015

Time

With More time...


- With more time i would compile more information into my pact. I would include a few sections on ideas on how to get started with Art Nouveau and move on to make different products and pieces of art.

- I wold also Include many different artists ranging from the beginning of Art Nouveau right up until the present day to show how the development of Art Nouveau came and went exactly.

- Finally I would show how Art Nouveau links into different themes and cultures so that persons may add more context to the themes and ideas that they may be exploring. 
 






Linking Artists to my own designs

- using my research to inspire deigns I used Victor Horta's swirls and vine like designs to influence me in my Wild Wood themed designs.
- I also used Charles Rennie Mackintosh's use of colour and negative space to bring a more modern look to my designs.
He uses a very matt palette to illustrate the naturalistic designs that he does portray within the wildwood themes and designs.
- Alphonse Mucha can be used in very naturalistic designs and wild wood themes. His borders of vines and negative space provide a solid base for any of these themes.
- Rene Lalique is a very specific style.







Presentation

Other ways Research Pack may be presented...


- At the current moment in time i have presented my Research Pack in the form of a blog, however with more understand of the computer software i would of added hyperlinks so that users may navigate themselves around the blog with even more ease.

- The research may also be presented as a leaflet printed and laminated so that these could be used in schools and taken into workshops and used over and over again. However with this idea it would be very many leaflets or the information for young children would have to be highly compacted meaning less  information and pictures included.

- Another way of presenting my research pack would be to make a video to inform users of the later generations of Art Nouveau and this would be even easier to use and would open up the target audience and those who are able to access the videos and therefore the information on Art Nouveau.

- Finally the last way i have considered presenting my pack would be in a box. What this essentially comes to is a simple box where inside there would be a selection of different items. This would include a selection of physical items that represent Art Nouveau exactly such as: laminated leaves, flowers etc. The box would also have in it a selection of cards and pictures of different artists, products, and Art Nouveau itself. This opens up the target audience to children of a lot younger. 

Modern Art Nouveau

Modern Art Nouveau Deco...

this reminds me of Salvador Dali and also how terrible the outcome would be of a drinking party surrounding these stairs.

- Lastly this is a great example of modern Art Nouveau within furniture. The organic forms mixed with a white simple finish gives a real modernised look to the piece of design, a refreshing look which can sometimes be harder to find in the Art Nouveau era.


Line
- Here this follows the classic Art Nouveau style, the lines are flowing and free. The lines are shaped like a tree going upwards and up following a non regimented style which is the essence of Art Nouveau.


Colour
- The colour is a organic brown, with a flowing white back to it which modernises the design completely and adds a new and fresh feel to the product itself. 


Abstract Art Nouveau Design

Modernised Art Nouveau Imagery...


Trial in black and purple of stencil related to the stencilled back of the armchair, designed by Charles Rennie Mackintosh for the 'Rose Boudoir', Modern Decorative Art exhibition, Turin, 1902  Hunterian Art Gallery Mackintosh collections: GLAHA 41334


- Here is a modern example of Art Nouveau. This is a picture of a modernised picture of a classic. Although it still is easily recognisable as something from the Art Nouveau era it has some very modern aspects of it and uses negative space and simplistic colours to contrast the Art Nouveau.


Line
- Here there are regimented straight lines down the middle of the piece, however around the sides there are the usual Art Nouveau naturalistic curves and organic shapes swirling around to make the piece a true Art Nouveau.

Space
- The space is very compacted meaning that this is very closely follows the criteria of Art Nouveau. Its non regimented gaps means that the style is very free and flowing.

Colour
- The colour is what sets this design apart from the rest of the Art Nouveau. The colours consist of black and a deep purple, very unlike the organic colours that is usually associated with Art Nouveau.

Art Nouveau Designs

Art Nouveau classic Wallpaper designs...


Art Nouveau Wallpaper for Walls | A Shade Wilder


- This is a very classic pattern for Art Nouveau and explores the themes and colours very well. It is a repetitive pattern which shows us that this is not a modern design but one thats much older and more classic.

Line
- Here is a very repetitive pattern, this wall paper has a very curved pattern that portrays flowers and does not use any straight, regimented lines, but rather organic natural patterns, that is very typical to the Art Nouveau of its time.

Space
- Here the patterns are very compacted and repetitive. Meaning that throughout the piece negative space is not used just like in the natural world, everything is winding throughout and around.

Colour
- Finally colour, the colours in this piece are ever so slightly different to what you would expect in a Art Nouveau piece of art. The colouring is more blue deep, and turquoise there are also shades of purple in there. This is unlike the natural Art Nouveau as it is unlike colours that are found in the natural world.

Modern Art Nouveau

Modern Art Nouveau in furniture...


St. Germane Bed by Tripoli Designs..really like this bed frame! very different:)

St. Germane Bed by Tripoli Designs


- The bed truly shows how Art Nouveau has developed over the generations. However in some senses this piece of furniture contrasts the typical Art Nouveau style making this piece of work slightly different from all the other Art Nouveau products.

Line
- Here we have no straight or regimented lines, each line is smooth curved, as well as each being seemly free and wild. In this sense this product follows the theme of Art Nouveau completely bringing a new light to the theme.

Space
- In this piece there is a lot of negative space used, this shows how Art Nouveau has been modernised minimalising from what you would usually expect in a Art Nouveau Product. 

Colour
- The colour is Black. This contrasts greatly to what Art Nouveau colour palettes usually consist of which are usually very naturalistic colouring.  However this shows how Art Nouveau has been modernised.

Modern Art Nouveau

Example of Modern Art Nouveau in Architecture form


Modern Townhouse Designs with Wood Touches in Art Nouveau Style

This is the perfect example of some modern day Art nouveau. Many think that this theme only is present in pictures however there is a strong industry for Art Nouveau in Architecture, decor and furniture.

Line
- Art Nouveau uses line in a very specific way, generally there is no straight lines within art nouveau art, however when there is use for straight lines there will be a very natural, organic look to the product. Here on this house we have a very straight regimented back ground despite the organic wood that it is made out of. However on top of this regimented style there is another layer that consists of just curved lines and a very wild look to it contrasting the straight lines.

Space
- The natural/curved lines do no fill the whole space but rather creep up and off the building leaving a sweeping feel to the house.

Colour
- The colour is a natural wood which extends over the whole of the building. However there are shading under some of the curved lines, This gives depth and shows the imperfections that is the natural world.