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Noam Chomsky’s influence on art.

Noam Chomsky was a American philosopher and scientist, where he studied the human mind and how it works and came up with theory's to how the mind works and how we act like we do and learn languages. Chomsky was also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.     

 

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Chomsky’s linguistic theory

Chomsky during his life came up with a linguistics theory to do with the structure and language, of the human mind, how language was nothing more than human beings making noises at each other, where from child hood we learn from surrounding environments, which helped influence are understanding of the world around us and as people.

 

Chomsky believed that with a human child and a kitten are both capable of understanding, if they are both brought up to the same linguistic data, the child will always be able to understand and learn a language, while the kitten will never be able to understand.

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 How Chomsky changed artist’s views
 

Giving his linguistic theory in how we learned to reacted to each other, it changed the way in which artist’s saw the world because his theory of how we learn I imagine would have influenced how young artist are taught to understand human  language and movement and the way how artist think about showing what they intend to produce, where some artist like to show human body language and text in some of there work, where Chomsky believed language is nothing but noise that in reality language does not really exist.

Chomsky also had strong views on politics, where Chomsky had criticized Americans foreign policy's, where a lot of illustrators are meant to have strong views on politics, where in some national newspapers illustrators create cartoon sketch's based around government events and figures.  

 

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  How Noam Chomsky influenced art
 

Chomsky’s biggest influence on art for me has to be his views on how the human mind learns in which, it would have changed the way children are taught from a young age, therefore influencing how young artist are taught, in the way how some teachers like art, English and media teachers like to teach there students in how to record human body language, speech and emotions, through books, films and through other artist work, which in term would teach young artist in how to record what they observe.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edward Bawden final essay 2671 words

 

Edward Bawden who best known for his prints, books and posters, who became an war artist along with his friend Eric Ravilious who were taught by another war artist Paul Nash who's brother John Nash was also a war artist, at the Royal College of Art. Bawden who worked in different mediums, illustration, graphics, where he was known to be a painter and print maker, who taught at Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art. Bawden was also part of the Great Bardfield artists movement, which was a series of artist that lived in the Great Bardfield village during the 20th century.

Some of Bawden paintings/illustrations during his time as an war time artist can be found at the imperial war museum, In an Air Raid Shelter, Dunkirk Bombs are dropping, a watercolour painting of the inside of an air raid shelter, which pictures wounded soldiers taking cover.

Bawden's work can also be found in the Tate collection Cairo, the Citadel: Mohammed Ali Mosque, Eric Ravilious, Paul Nash and John Nash's work can be related to Bawden's work, where some of the themes, basic ideas and environments are the same, where they produced paintings of events which took place during the second world war, where they were all war artist, Louis Wain's work can also be related to Bawden's cat pictures, where Bawden took inspiration for Wain's cats images, which inspirited his own.

Edward Bawden as a child began studying drawing of cats by Louis Wain, where he would create his very own cat prints, he also studied Brune Jones's illustrations, Bawden took an interest in calligraphy and the work of Aubrey Beardsley, Richard Doyle, William Morris, along side other Victorian artist during that era. 

In 1922 be studied Illustration at diploma level which concluded in 1925 at the Royal College of Art and met fellow artist Eric Ravilious. where they would become good friends and work together along side each other, who were taught by future war artist Paul Nash.

Bawden's early work included working for Curwen Press, which he work with Ravilious and Paul Nash creating illustrations for London underground and Westminster bank. Bawden also created a mural for the refectory at Morley College, Bawden also worked for Stuart advertising agency, where he produced work for Imperial Airways. Bawden also created tiles for London underground.

In an Air Raid Shelter, Dunkirk Bombs are dropping. Produced around, 1940.


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Bawden's water colour painting which shows soldiers taking cover from an air raid, in my opinion is very clear are showing the soldiers expressions and there body language, where Bawden has also used good tone in his work to show the different lighting effects within the shelter Bawden in my opinion has used a good tone of line within the painting mostly for the outline shapes of the soldiers.

Bawden has not used a range of different shades of colour in his work, where most of the colours used are dark to show the gloomy nature of the environment, which in contrast, where seen as dark times, when the British army was struggling, which I believe this painting shows well, where Bawden was in Dunkirk at the time.

St Paul's Cathedral, linocut, 1966


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Bawden's linocut which pictures St Paul's Cathedral I believe shows the structure of the Cathedral in good detail, the print has also has a good lighting effect, where Bawden has created the image showing the darker and lighter nature of the buildings, Bawden has not used a wide range of colours for the print, where I believe the image has a dark and dull feel mostly to do with the dark grey skyline, again I believe Bawden has use line well to identify the different sections of the structures also showing the different shapes of the structures, like the dome of ST Pauls and the windows of the house on the left side of the print.

The Catholic Church, Addis Ababa, 1941


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This painting which Bawden developed using ink, water colours and crayons is off a Catholic Church in Addid Ababa, where I believe Bawden was trying to capture the Church and the environment surrounding the structure, where I believe Bawden intended to use shadow and lighting, which can be seen with the different tones of the sky and the structure to show the darker and lighter sections of the Church as well as the surrounding environment like the people cutting across the image.

The painting also has in my opinion a good use of line to show the different shapes of the Church like the open areas of the Church on the left of the Church where you can see the inside of the Church and the light passing through from the other side of the structure.


 
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This linocut which Bawden producted pictures a man and a women in bed, where the women is a cat, which shows her reaching out for a mouse. Once again I believe Bawden has used good detail to show facial features of the cats face, the bedding and the man’s fingers. I believe Bawden has also use a line to perfection to show the detail of the image well mostly with the figures body parts. I personal find the lino cut joyful and lively with the movement of the cat and the mouse and the facial expression of the man.   

With Bawden's work I sense he likes to create illustration using tone, where Bawden doesn't use a wide range of colours, where I also find some of his work to be dark, which I believe Bawden tents to show the true nature of what he see's and chooses to produce different illustrated pieces of work showing this.

Bawden also shows in good detail the figures, buildings and landscape in his  illustrations, in terms of shape, positioning, shadow and lighting effects and colours of the environments, where there mostly of a dark nature, I also believe Bawden has a good sense of design and rhythm which is shown in some of Bawden's illustrations like his cat illustrations, some of Bawden's work is also lively and joyful, where he did tent to use a wider range of colours and animals in some of his other illustrations.

Eric Ravilious like Bawden was another war artist who also created illustrations of war time events, where he developed illustrations of planes, ships and he also created images of people,  where Ravilious producted a painting of Bawden, which is in the Royal College of art collection.

Eric Ravilious died in 1942 while on duty and was declared missing in action.

Painting of Edward Bawden by Eric Ravilious, 1930




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Morning on the Tarmac, 1941



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HMS Glorious in the Arctic, 1940



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Eric Ravilious work in my opinion is similar to Bawden's because they both have developed illustrations of war time events during the war where they both focus on events that were happening, they both worked using the same mediums like watercolour and I feel where both good at showing the environments of what they were capturing, I feel they both were good at showing different tones within there paintings identifying the lighter and darker tones of the environments and the objects within the paintings, ships, planes, buildings and people.

Eric Ravilious work in my opinion is a lot of colourful than Edward Bawden's work, where Ravilious tented to use a brighter  and wider range of colours for his illustrations, where his work above in my opinion is a lot more colourful and brighter than Bawden's work, but in my opinion Bawden has a better use of line, where the outlines of the environment are shown clearer, which in term  identifies the surrounding environment better and I feel Bawden's illustrations have a better shading effects due to the darker nature of his illustrations.

I prefer Edward Bawden's Illustrations to Eric Ravilious images because even if I do believe Ravilious has used a better range of colours and has made his work much more colourful than Bawden's, but I prefer Bawden's work because I like the way Bawden's illustrations have a darker tone, feeling, and I like his use of line better in his illustrations like, In an Air Raid Shelter, Dunkirk Bombs are dropping, where the dark nature of the painting gives a better inside view to what the solders where feeling, where Bawden has shown there facial expressions.

Paul Nash who taught Bawden at the Royal College of Art was another war artist, who was also a surrealist painter, who was seen as one of the most important landscape artist of the twentieth century, who like Bawden and Ravilious Nash developed illustration while on duty as an war artist, during both World Wars

Wire, 1919

 

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We are making a new world, 1918



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The Menin Road,1919



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Paul Nash's paintings are similar to Edward Bawden's illustration's in my opinion because they have both developed illustrations of war time environments, in which they have both showed the different lighting and shadow effects within the environments and some of there illustrations involve people as a part of the environment, where they both have produced illustrations in showing the detail of the environment like the shapes, objects and colours within the environments.

Some of Paul Nash's illustrations are lighter than Bawden's where like Ravilious, Nash has used a wider and bright range of colours, like some areas of the sky in Nash's illustrations are a lot of brighter than the colours Bawden used, Nash's work tents to be more about the landscape environments, while Bawden tented to produce illustrations of buildings, people as well as the surrounding environments, which I believe makes Bawden's images more interesting in the way he's including a structure and also adding a surrounding environment.

I do find Paul Nash's painting very interesting in the way he had chosen similar landscapes in his work, where their tents to be wastelands in a way with the feeling of death involved, but I prefer Edward Bawden's illustrations because I like the way he has used good shadow and lighting effect when he has not been using a wide range of colours, I also prefer his use of line to Nash's where I believe bawden's use of line is stronger in showing the outlines of structures, people and other objects within his illustrations.

John Nash the brother of Paul Nash was a painter who focused on landscapes and still life, he was another war artist like Bawden where he served as an official war artist with the rank of Captain in 1940 than promoted to acting Major in 1943, John Nash like his brother focused a lot on landscapes imagery, creating a lot of landscapes paintings.

Over The Top, 1918

 

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Oppy Wood, 1917


 
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 The Cornfield, 1918



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Like Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious I do see similarities between John Nash's and Bawden's  own illustrations, where they both had produced land scape images based around the theme of the world wars where they both have involved soldiers in there work, showing there movements and what they were doing during different events of the wars, like Bawden's In an Air Raid Shelter, Dunkirk Bombs are dropping shows soldiers taking cover from air raid bombings and John Nash's over the top oil painting shows soldiers advancing on the battle field.

There are a number of differences between the two artist work, where John Nash mostly work with oil paints when Bawden work mostly with water colours, John Nash's work like the other two artists is a lot more colourful, than Bawden's paintings, John Nash those tent to show some shadow within his paintings,

In my opinion Bawden's use of shadow is far greater with his darker use of colours, Bawden tent's to use a lot more outline in his work than John Nash in terms of showing the soldiers positioning, therefore showing there body language from his painting In an Air Raid Shelter, Dunkirk Bombs are dropping.

Out of the two artist I like Bawden's illustrations better than John Nash's work mostly because I like the dark nature of Bawden's work, while John Nash's work tent's to be quiet colourful which I do like, because I believe he has shown the true nature of what he see's well, but again Bawden for me has created illustrations of structures also showing natural soundings around the structures like St Paul,s he has added a house that was blocking part of the view of the structure, which in my opinion has given Bawden the edge in terms of showing what he see's in good detail, where I believe his use of outline improves the quality of his illustrations.

Louis Wain was an English illustrator who like Bawden created cat illustrations, where Wain was well known for his cat illustrations, Wain also created landscape and other animal illustrations, where Wain created dog illustrations too. Some of Wain's work is very colourful, where he tented to use colourful patterns in some of his illustrations of cats.

Cats on the green



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Colourful cat



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Cat's Christmas



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I do believe Wain's images and Bawden's images of cats, are similar in the way they both have created illustrations based around the same types of animals, where some of there illustrations in my opinion are cheerful and full of life, which they both had created different images of cats in there true nature and in human nature, where they show cats acting like human in some of there illustrations.

Louis Wain's work I believe is more colourful than Bawden's cat images, where he tents to use a colourful pattern for his background for some of his cat illustration like for the colourful cat illustration. Some of Bawden's images of cats tents to lino prints where he has black and white images of cats.

I prefer Bawden's illustrations because I prefer the detailed nature of his cats better, where Bawden has only used black and white in his illustrations to show the body language and details of the cats in his illustrations, I also prefer the black and white images to Wain's coloured images of cats because I like the dark nature of bawden's work to the lighter, colourful nature of Wain's work.

Overall I believe Edward Bawden was right up there with the best illustrators during his life time, due to him being well known to many artist and his work to this day still being displayed in big well known galleries such as the Tate galleries and the Imperial war museum as well as John Nash, Paul Nash and Eric Ravilious war time illustrations, where I believe all there work relate with Bawden's illustrations, where they all created war time illustrations and landscape images.

I believe all three other war time artist had a big influence on Bawden's development, where Paul Nash taught Bawden at The Royal College of Art, John Nash I believe would have meet Bawden also helping him develop as well as Eric Ravilious who became good friends with Bawden working together influencing each other’s giving each other feedback about their own work, which is why I believe there work is similar in different ways to Bawden's illustrations, giving their use of colour, themes and ways of showing different environments.

Louis Wain had a big influence on Bawden as a young upcoming illustrator, where Bawden from a young age studied and drew cats based around Wain’s work, where Bawden would go on to create his own cat illustrations in his later life.

I believe Bawden is best known for his time as an artist and for his cat illustrations, where a lot of his work was lively, joyful, but I found some of Bawden’s work to be dark too, but what I mostly liked about his work was the detail of the surrounding environments in some of his illustration’s, the low range of colours used like for The Catholic Church, Addis Ababa and finally for the use of shadow, dark tone used in his work.       

    














 

Relative merits of pencil and pixel

 

I watched a BBC documentary Imagine - from pencils to pixels, where the documentary showed both the history and workings of hand drawn animation and computer animation and how they have changed animation over the years.

 

I found with hand drawn animation it can be combined with real life, Looney Tunes back in action  combined the violence of the cartoon world with real life, where they had the same basic animation and personality for the characters form the cartoon brought into live action, where the cartoon characters mixed with real life actors, which with computer animation it can't be done because with computer animation they tent to try and make their films realistic without using real life props, also with drawn animation you get the power of lines which cannot be seen in computer animation and with hand drawings there easier to do because anyone can pick up a pencil and make a quick cartoon drawing, but with a computer it's a lot more harder to do with the detail involved. I also find hand drawing a lot more creative than computer animated work because hand drawing artists have to think a lot more about what there doing because there is a limit to the amount of mistakes that they can make while with computer animation there mistakes can easily be undone like Photoshop work, also hand 2D animation can be used on a computer like with Looney Tunes back in action and used to projected moving images from different series of hand drawn images.

 

I believe with computer animation the work produced is a lot more realistic than 2D animation, where every last detail is worked on like with finding Nemo the objects moving around in the sea are all work on to the very last detail. With toy story the documentary showed how Pixar when working on the character of woody, where with woody they showed how they made it look like he was thinking just by moving his eyes side to side and how it made the animation look like it was alive in term Pixar had turned computer animation into a Fine art medium. With computer animation you can be more experimental with use of colour where with hand drawn animation you have to choose there and then how you want to colour you drawings, while with computer work like Photoshop you can easily undo colour changes.

Overall when comparing the two mediums I prefer hand drawn animation because as an Illustrator it's fits in better with my way of working, while computer animation is seen more of an Fine art medium, I find 2D animation better than computer animation because with hand drawings they have to worked hard on in order to produce a quality drawing with shape, line, detail and shading, while with a computer you can easily just undo and make changes easily, while with hand draw work you would have to start again, so in term I also find hand drawing animation a hard form of working out of the two because hand drawn artist have to think about every think their are doing with there drawings.  

 

             

Plato's cave comic stripe

This is a two page short comic stripe based around the story of Plato's cave, where I watched a short video about four slaves, which from childhood were chained, where they were shown shadows of objects, and what would happen if one of the prisoners were released, where they could explore a world, which they didn't know existed.  

 

My intention was to create a comic stripe showing the key and most telling parts of the story like when the prisoner see's sunlight for the first time and how the prisoner would first react to the world beyond the cave and how it would effect him. 

 

With the comic stripe I wanted to create a good series of images, where they show the different processes of the story well and where they are shown clearly, I was wanted to modify the story to more of a modern day theme, like where the prisoners are shown the shadow of a television.  

 

I do like some of the drawings, where I believe they show what is happening during the story well, where they also show the cave from the sixth image well, as well as the tree and it's shadow on the seventh image, but some of the colours used have not work well like the dark grey colour for clothing and the writing has not been planed are placed at all well, where some of it is hard to read from these images and going over coloured areas of the comic with the text made the written even harder to read.      

 

 

Three Temple Place drawings

This is a series of three drawings I did at the Two Temple Place, where I wanted to focus on the positioning of the figures in the drawings and the darker tones within the illustrations. The three drawing are based from three illustrations from the same display within the structure.

 

Agnes Stringer, The King Goes to the Post, 1908

 

This is the first of the three drawings I did, where I wanted to put the focus of the hole drawing on the king, where I wanted to try and show to the last detail his positioning, what he was dressed like the dark tones on the figure and the objects he had in his position, I also included his shadow in the drawing. As a result I did not included all the fairy's from the original illustration because they were overlapping the king, so I choose to leave a few out so the fully body of the king is shown. I also wanted to draw the structure that was around him in good detail with a good shadow effect.

 

I like the drawing because I believe the darker tones have been shown clearly in the drawing and the position of the king is very similar to that from the original illustration, but again I fell I let myself down with the head shape and the figures face.    

 

Thomas Rowlandson, Yawning, early nineteenth century

 

Here for the second drawing I wanted the create an image showing the body position of the man yawning on the chair, also trying to add good detail from the man's clothing I like this drawing because I believe the man and chair fit in well together with there poisoning like from the original illustration, but I feel I needed to draw some sections of the chair with better detail and with the man's clothing. 

   

Harry Furniss, Home Rule, early twentieth century

 

For the third drawing I wanted to focus on developing a good shading effect as well as the poisoning of the figure with the way the figure is stood. I like the drawing because I believe the figures standing position has transferred well to my hand drawn image as well as the shading effect from the original image like the figures shadow, but I needed to draw the figures shoes with better detail.    

 

The images from the display were most often adapted for print from original drawings or paintings and this wall presents a selection from over 500 such originals collected by James Hardcastle.

 

As well as works by contemporary illustrators like H.M Brock and Cyrus Cuneo, the collection features pieces by important eighteenth century artist and cartoonist like William Blake and Thomas Rowlandson as well as work by Victorian illustrators Phiz (Hablot Knight Browne) and George Cruikshank, both best known for illustration of the works of Charles .

Goya's Witches and Old Women Album drawings

Here are three drawings I produced while I was at the The Courtauld Gallery exploring through Goya's The Witches and Old Women Album, where the gallery had a series of drawings from a book Goya developed based around the theme of witches and old age in the later stages of his life, I drew the figures from three different pages from the book, where I focused on showing the positioning of the figures, where I wanted to drew the figures with accuracy also showing the darker areas of the illustrations, like the shadows of the figures. 

 

I did like the Goya's illustrations, where I found Goya work very interesting in the way he focused on dark themes in his work with loneliness being a large part of that. 

 

Just can't go on at the age of 98.

This drawing is a drawing of the illustration Just can't go on at the age of 98.

 

The original image is the last known page of the Witches and Old Women album. Goya presents a universal image of old age; an ancient person shuffling forward with the aid of two sticks.

The figure's isolation is suggested by the placement low on the sheet and the absence of any setting.

The caption underlines his or her mental and physical frailty.

Despite this infirm state the figure's struggles on' thus embodying an ideal that the artist himself always followed even in his own old age.

 

 I like this drawing I produced because I believe I have drawn the figure very accurately, with the position of the figure being similar to that from the original image, but I should have drawn the hand and different parts of the figures clothing with better accuracy.  

 

What folly, still to be thinking of marriage.

This is the second drawing I produced based around another one of Goya's Illustrations.

 

Isolated on the page as she is in the world, this haggard old women is accompanied only by her shadow, walking stick and Rosary beads, which she fondles with her knotty hands.

 Her folly is to be dreaming of marriage, even in the extreme old age.

Goya often addressed the subject of marriage in his work, including commenting on violent and unequal unions.

His Perspective here may not be entirely sympathetic as the old crone obsessed by her unrealistic fantasies can be interpreted as an example of the world turned upside down. 

 

I believe this drawing is alright because again the position of the figure is similar to that from the original image, but next time I need to as if it was coming out of the sleeve and to draw the figures face and head shape more accurately, I prefer the other two drawings to this one.

 

Showing off ? Remember your age Valentias ? 

This is the third and last drawing I developed again from one of Goya's illustrations. 

 

 The acrobatics of the women tumbling headlong down a flight of steps may initially seem to be captured spontaneously.

However scraping and small changes around the head and torso indicate that Goya deliberately reworked the drawing in order to fit the women's body precisely into the architecture of the stairs.

The inscription addresses the figure directly.

It may also refer ironically that Goya himself, still flaunting his bravura with brush and paper in his advancing years.

 

I like this drawing because out of the three I felt in terms of the position of the figure and stairs it was the hardest to draw, but I believe I have drawn it well where the figure I feel has been placed right in my drawing, similar again to Goya's illustration I feel, but next time again I have to draw the figures face with much better accuracy because it looks nothing like her.     

Lawrence Zeegan

Lawrence Zeegen's lecture was mostly about him as an artist his past, present and his own personal advice, like to be yourself, be creative, be afraid challenge yourself, try new things and many other ways to go about, look for opportunists

Lawrence Zeegen lecture is about is past, where he studied at Master’s Degree level at the Royal College of Art, which he knew he was interested in music, but didn't know what he wanted to study, Zeegen also gave an inside of Heart an agency he started, but left to teach and create an illustration and graphic design course in Brighton.

Lawrence Zeegen also showed books he had written about illustration, where he created a number of different books to do with illustration, which he also gave inside details into the process of creating books, where he revealed publishes won't allow people to design their own book covers and title the book.

In the lecture Zeegen gave his own personal views about illustration, where he believes illustration is what we all have a connection with, where Zeegen gives his details about his early illustration connections with illustration, linking it with children cartoons and book he used to watch and read as a small child, which spurred him on. 

During the lecture Zeegen shows how he believes each decade had a different effect on illustration during those era's, 1960s an era of utopian idealism, 1970s a decade of discontent, 1980s the designer decade, 1990's the digital dawn, 2000's a new wave, in which Zeegen showed different illustration pieces of work, which were produced during those era's.

Lawrence Zeegen's lecture was good in giving advice, be proactive, make your own luck, keep on keeping on, the lecturer showed ways in which he took risks in leaving agencies and creating an illustration and graphic design course, which in term lead Lawrence Zeegen to become the only professor in illustration in the country.