Wednesday, August 15, 2007
The fusion of both styles
The static graphic named ENTAGLED that you can see on your right is a fusion of both my style with Charles Rennie Mackaintosh. I infused his style of using floral-inspired decorative motifs with subtle curves into my style of retro pop art as seen from the man-made circle shapes.
The floral-inspired decorative motifs with subtle curves were used to show a sense of grip and entangleness surronding the bubble like circles. the reason for using this shape was to show my love for retro pop art and that my life and passion is tighly entagled around it. And because of that i wanted to create a new style that would break free from it. As i like Charles Rennie Mackaintosh felt that a designer should always be breaking away from the restrictions and constraints that surronds them and let all this affect their way of designing.
The floral-inspired decorative motifs with subtle curves were used to show a sense of grip and entangleness surronding the bubble like circles. the reason for using this shape was to show my love for retro pop art and that my life and passion is tighly entagled around it. And because of that i wanted to create a new style that would break free from it. As i like Charles Rennie Mackaintosh felt that a designer should always be breaking away from the restrictions and constraints that surronds them and let all this affect their way of designing.
The Artist (charles rennie mackaintosh)
Charles Rennie Mackintosh (June 7, 1868 – December 10, 1928) was a Scottish architect, designer, and watercolourist who was a designer in the Arts and Crafts movement and also the main exponent of Art Nouveau in Scotland.
Born in Glasgow, and suffering from a bad foot and eye problems, he was free to discover and draw sketches of a great deal of the Scottish countryside as a child. He attended the former Allan Glen's School[1]. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to an architect named John Hutchison, where he worked from 1884 until 1889. Also during that time he became a draughtsman with Honeyman and Keppie, a new architectural practice, eventually becoming a partner in 1901. All along he attended evening classes in art at the Glasgow School of Art. It was at these classes that he first met Margaret MacDonald (whom he later married), her sister Frances MacDonald, and Herbert MacNair who was also a fellow apprentice with Mackintosh at Honeyman and Keppie. The group of artists, known as "The Four," exhibited in Glasgow, London and Vienna, and these exhibitions helped establish Mackintosh's reputation. The so-called "Glasgow" style was exhibited in Europe and influenced the Viennese Art Nouveau movement known as Sezessionstil (in English, The Secession) around 1900.
He joined a firm of architects in 1889 and developed his own style: a contrast between strong right angles and floral-inspired decorative motifs with subtle curves, e.g. the Mackintosh Rose motif, along with some references to traditional Scottish architecture. The project that helped make his international reputation was the Glasgow School of Art (1897-1909).
He died in 1928 of throat cancer.
Mackintosh also worked in interior design, furniture, textiles and, metalwork. Much of this work combines Mackintosh's own designs with those of his wife, whose flowing, floral style complimented his more formal, rectilinear work. Like his contemporary Frank Lloyd Wright, Mackintosh's architectural designs often included extensive specifications for the detailing, decoration, and furnishing of his buildings. His work was shown at the Vienna Secession Exhibition in 1900.
Later in life, disillusioned with architecture, Mackintosh worked largely as a watercolourist, painting numerous landscapes and flower studies (often in collaboration with Margaret, with whose style Mackintosh's own gradually converged) in the Suffolk village of Walberswick (to which the pair moved in 1914), and where he was arrested as a possible spy in 1915.
By 1923, he had entirely abandoned architecture and design and moved to the south of France with Margaret where he concentrated on watercolour painting. He was interested in the relationships between man-made and naturally occurring landscapes. Many of his paintings depict Port Vendres, a small port near the Spanish border, and the nearby landscapes.
Biblography.Charles rennie mackintosh.In wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.Retrived 14 august 2007.From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh
references
Charles rennie mackintosh.In wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia.Retrived 14 august 2007.From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rennie_Mackintosh
Monday, August 13, 2007
Influence
Charles Rennie Mackaintosh whose reputation is widely recongnised throughout the world, is considered a father of the glasgow style. however it was in germany and europe that he recieved widespread recongnition of his orginality in his style.
Although his influence on a competitive level was poor without winning a single competition, but his designs were of such marvellous standards that they were later produced as portfolios and exhibited.
One of his reknowned architecture. The Hill House notable for its simple and solid massed forms with little ornamentation, yet internally the rooms exuded light and space, and the use of colour and decoration was carefully conceived, his argument that designers should be given greater artistic freedom and independence, influence the perception of art. by thinking of the box and break the rules he was able to create a style of origingaility and individuality.
today his theory continue to influence mordern designers to break away from the restrictions and think out of the box.
Although his influence on a competitive level was poor without winning a single competition, but his designs were of such marvellous standards that they were later produced as portfolios and exhibited.
One of his reknowned architecture. The Hill House notable for its simple and solid massed forms with little ornamentation, yet internally the rooms exuded light and space, and the use of colour and decoration was carefully conceived, his argument that designers should be given greater artistic freedom and independence, influence the perception of art. by thinking of the box and break the rules he was able to create a style of origingaility and individuality.
today his theory continue to influence mordern designers to break away from the restrictions and think out of the box.
reason
i choose charles rennie mackaintosh because i was looking to try and create a new style .and charles rennie mackaintosh really inspired me to explore his style of art noveau. his argument that designers should be given greater artistic freedom and independence inspired me to complement my style with his as we both shared the same ideas.
his style was most notable for his simple and solid masses accompainied with an organic flow.
the static image that i designed. blends both our styles together. while i used his style of organic shapes and flows, i retain my style of using simple bubble shapes. the colors i used were black and white basically to create a feeling of void in it. as i wanted to create a feeling of void and fantasy in this piece.
his style was most notable for his simple and solid masses accompainied with an organic flow.
the static image that i designed. blends both our styles together. while i used his style of organic shapes and flows, i retain my style of using simple bubble shapes. the colors i used were black and white basically to create a feeling of void in it. as i wanted to create a feeling of void and fantasy in this piece.
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