Collage Assignment

God creation, Human destructionIt is about a new born life is going into a destruction cause by human themselves. The foot steps shows all people living now want to be small again knowing nothing and won't harm the earth by the air pollution from factories and the high-rise building are broken soon by all the toxic in the factory producing.
The foots are cut from magazine, the baby is use colour pencil, factories are in markers and the buildings are used with crayon.

Inner Landscape (part 1)

Research and develop ideas

I am doing on no.2 'The secret garden is nothing but a toilet bowl'.

These are some of the ideas that come into my mind when i see this title.

When seeing the word 'secret garden', first thing come into my mind is the book last time i read. It is about a little girl staying in a house which is big and quite broke down. There is a garden been locked up which is this secret garden.



















So the first drawing i drew was the secret garden.And someone living there.




Then later i think about putting the toilet bowl inside a flower and flowers inside the toilet bowl.



I think in the toilet bowl, there might be creatures living.The cute types and the monster types.



Last of all, i think that flowers are growing on the toilet bowl. And then i think of the toilet bowl is the only thing that is beautiful, so outside the toilet bowl is ugly.


Synopsis outlining mood/ tone pace & key moments:

The happiness of living without knowing that their world is inside the toilet bowl.What we see in life might not be real.The mood is quite joyful to sadness after knowing what is their world is.The tone pace is from lively fast to slowly down to sadness. The key moment is when they all find they are in the toilet bowl.

Inner Landscape (part 2)

Concept development

My 5 sets of thumbnail sketches are:

1.


This girl come out her house and saw the place are all flowers.Like any normal living things.Then, it start to rain and something started to drop down and form houses. And guess what they are living in the toilet bowl which a person have just finish doing his business.
The first shot is a P.O.V shot.Second is a full shot. Third is a full shot. Fourth, i want to do a upshot. Fifth, i wanna do a pan shot. Lastly, is a zoom out.

2.


It shows some seed growing out into some creatures. And they start to dance around happily.Zooming out is actually showing they are the shits in the toilet bowl and the person started to flush it.And they are all gone.
First is a full shot. Second is a full shot too. Third is to down shot. Fourth is zoom out. Fifth, i want to do a down shot too. Lastly is a full shot.

3.


A guy went into the toilet and look at the toilet bowl for a while.He pick it up and break it into 2.In it is a secret garden, there are small creatures living inside. The small creatures die as their world was been discovered.
First is a over the shoulder(o.t.s). Second is a down shot from the boy. Third is a full shot. Fourth, i want to do a point of view shot(p.o.v). Fifth is a zoom in shot. Lastly is a wide close-up.

4.


She is in a scary graveyard and suddenly saw zombies coming out walking towards her. All the dead people start to rise from the death and wolf started to howling.She ran until a dead end,she was so frighten that she pee out. She jump out of the toilet bowl and flush it. Opening the toilet's door, all the monster are still outside.
First is a full shot. Second is a pan shot. Third, i want a over the shoulder(o.t.s). Fourth is a full or down shot. Fifth is a middle close-up shot. Lastly is a over the shoulder(o.t.s) or point of view shot(p.o.v).

5.


A boy jump into the toilet bowl. Inside he starts to do meditation while floating. He comes to an island and saw small creatures. They started to play together. But he suddenly took a sword out and kill all the creatures. He jump out the toilet bowl and flushing it,but he didn't know someone is flushing him too.
First is a full shot. Second is a pan shot. Third is a over the shoulder(o.t.s) or a wide close-up. Fourth, i want it to be a upshot or full shot. Fifth is either a full shot or upshot(to let the audience to feel being the victim. Lastly is a zoom out out shot.


All have the main message is
" Never Overlook or Underlook on what we see."



The artistic influences:

I am influences by Edward Gorey. Most of his works are surrealist art. Some people classify him as a cartoonist, an illustrator who wrote or writer who drew. His work are literary nonsense(plays with convention of language and logic through a careful balance of sense and non-sense element. Its strict to structure is balanced by semantics chaos and plays with logic. Usually formal diction and toner genre is easily recognizable by various techniques it uses to create nonsense is often caused by an excess of meaning, rather than lack of it.) , yet there is no one category that can encompass the great variety of style and subject in his many books.
I am influence by him with his cartoon drawing, his story are mostly cartoon in a more frightening ways.


Robert Sabuda, is a leading children;s pop-up book artist and paper engineer. He does fantasy storys, his famous pop-up story is 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' and 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'.
I am influence by his cute cartoon in a more adventure likes.


Francisco Goya, he did more on scary painting.Goya was himself undergoing a physical and metal breakdown. 'Saturn devouring his sons' which display a greco-Roman mythological scene of the god Saturn consuming a child, reference to Spain's ongoing civil conflicts. 'Deafened and driven half-mad' the scenes are singularly disturbing, an outraged conscience in the face of death and destruction.
I am influence by his work in doing a little scary into my drawing.Using some frighten image in my drawing.


I adapt all this artists in different ways to put in my sketches to create my own. Mostly, or should i say all is into cartoons and in a journey to inside the toilet bowl.Edward Gorey's style made me to do my sketches to be cute and the same time give people a feeling of nonsensical in my thumbnail sketches. While Robert Sabuda influence more in the using other people's ideas to become your own. So i do all my sketches is more cartoon like style.


pls do give comments to improve my work.

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition

Juxtaposition provokes comparison and contrast betwwen different objects put together.Juxtaposed object often convey ideas that contradict each other. A contradiction arises when two ideas make each other seem impossible or illogical. Artisits may use juxtaposition to draw our atention to certain objects in an artwork or make us think more carefully about the objects that are put together.

Example1: Golconda
The piece depicts a scene of identical men dressed in dark overcoats and bowler hats, who seem to be falling like rain or floating like helium-balloons (though there is no actual indication of motion), against a backdrop of buildings and blue sky. It is humorous, but with an obvious criticism of the conventional effacing of individuality. To let people think that in reality human really can not fly







Example2:The Liberator, 1947

The man in the painting is shown holding a candlestick with a beautiful face in it in one hand and a walking stick in the other. These two objects are juxtaposed.
Which want to show us that peace is wanted, the life of his is how.















Example3: The Son of Man

The painting consists of a man in a suit and a bowler hat standing in front of a small wall, beyond which is the sea and a cloudy sky. The man's face is largely obscured by a hovering green apple. However, the man's left eye can be seen peeking over the edge of the apple.

The name "Son of Man" is believed to have derived from the Abrahamic creation story. The modern businessman is the son of Adam, and the apple represents temptation (with which one is still faced in the modern world).
Shown it is impossible to have the apple stick on the face.

abt Andy Warhol

EARLY CAREER
Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1928, Andy Warhol graduated from the Carnegie Institute of Technology before moving to New York. His first big break was in August 1949 when Glamour Magazine asked him to illustrate an article called "Success is a Job in New York". Although born Andrew Warhola, he dropped the 'a' in his last name when the credit mistakenly read "Drawings by Andy Warhol."He gained fame for his whimsical ink drawings of shoe advertisements. These were done in a loose, blotted ink style, and figured in some of his earliest showings in New York at the Bodley Gallery.

The 1960s

Campbell's Soup I (1968)

In 1960s, Warhol began to make paintings of famous American products such as "Campbell's Soup Cans" from the Campbell Soup Company and Coca-Cola, as well as paintings of celebrities like Marilyn Monroe, Troy Donahue, and Elizabeth Taylor. He founded "The Factory", his studio during these years and gathered around himself a wide range of artists, writers, musicians, and underground celebrities. He switched to silkscreen prints which he produced serially, seeking not only to make art of mass-produced items but to mass produce the art itself. By minimizing the role of his own hand in the production of his work and declaring that he wanted to be "a machine", Warhol sparked a revolution in art. His work quickly became very controversial and popular.

Warhol's work from this period revolves around American Pop (Popular) culture. He painted dollar bills, celebrities, brand name products and images from newspaper clippings - many of the latter were iconic images from headline stories of the decade (e.g. photographs of mushroom clouds, and police dogs attacking civil rights protesters). His subjects were instantly recognizable and often had a mass appeal. This aspect interested him most, and it unifies his paintings from this period.

Shooting

On June 3rd, 1968, Valerie Solanis, founder and sole member of SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men), walked into Andy Warhol's studio, The Factory, and shot him three times in the chest. He was rushed to the hospital and doctors said he was dead. Still, they decided to open up his chest and massaging his heart - just in case. It did the trick and Andy Warhol survived. Valerie turned herself in, was put in a mental institute and was later given a three-year prison sentence. After recovering, Andy continued to work. He started interVIEW magazine and published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again. And though bullets didn't do him in, his own gall bladder did.

The 1970s

Warhol becoming more entrepreneurial. According to Bob Colacello, Warhol devoted much of his time to rounding up new, rich patrons for portrait commissions—including Mick Jagger, Liza Minnelli, John Lennon, Diana Ross, Brigitte Bardot, and Michael Jackson. Warhol's famous portrait of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong was created in 1973. He also founded, with Gerard Malanga, Interview magazine, and published The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (1975). In this book, he presents his ideas on the nature of art: "Making money is art, and working is art and good business is the best art."

The 1980s

By this period, Warhol's work had engendered controversy as to whether he had merely become a "business artist". In 1979

unfavorable reviews met his exhibits of portraits of 1970s personalities and celebrities, calling them superficial, facile and commercial, with no depth or indication of the significance of the subjects. This criticism was echoed for his 1980 exhibit of ten portraits at the Jewish Museum in New

York, entitled "Jewish Geniuses", which Warhol, who exhibited no interest in Judaism or matters of interest to Jews, had described in his diary as "They're going to sell."

In hindsight, however, some critics have come to the realization that Warhol's superficiality and commerciality was in fact "the most brilliant mirror of our times", and that "Warhol had captured something irresistible about the zeitgeist of American culture in the 1970s."

Warhol also had an appreciation for intense Hollywood glamour. He once said: "I love Los Angeles. I love Hollywood

. They're so beautiful. Everything's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic."

Sexuality

The question of how his sexuality influenced Warhol's work and shaped his relationship to the art world is a major subject of scholarship on the artist, and is an issue that Warhol himself addressed in interviews, in c

onversation with his contemporaries, and in his publications (e.g.Popism: The Warhol Sixties).

Warhol produced erotic photography and drawings of male nudes. Many of his most famous works (portraits of Liza Minnelli, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, and films like Blow Job, My Hustler, and Lonesome Cowboys) draw from gay underground culture and/or openly explore the complexity of sexuality and desire. Many of his films premiered in gay porn theaters. That said, some stories about Warhol's development as an artist revolved around the obstacle his sexuality initially presented as he tried to launch his career. The first works that he submitted to a gallery in the pursuit of a career as an artist were homoerotic drawings of male nudes. They were rejected for being too openly gay. In Popism, furthermore, the artist recalls a conversation with the film maker Emile de Antonio about the difficulty Warhol had being accepted socially by the then more famous (but closeted) gay artists Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg. De Antonio explained that Warhol was "too swish and that upsets them." In response to this, Warhol writes, "There was nothing I could say to that. It was all too true. So I decided I just wasn't going to care, because those were all the things that I didn't want to change anyway, that I didn't think I 'should' want to change ... Other people could change their attitudes but not me". In exploring Warhol's biography, many turn to this period - the late 1950s and early 1960s - as a key moment in the develo pment of his persona. Some have suggested that his frequent refusal to comment on his work, to speak about himself and even the evolution of his Pop style can be traced to the years when Warhol was first dismissed by the inner circles of the New York art world.

Religious beliefs

Warhol was a practicing Byzantine Rite Catholic. He regularly volunteered at homeless shelters in New York, particularly during the busier times of the year, and described himself as a religious person. Many of his later works contain almost-hidden religious themes or subjects, and a body of religious-themed works was found posthumously in his estate. Warhol also regularly attended Mass during his life, and the priest at Warhol's church, Saint Vincent's, said that the artist went there almost daily. His art is noticeably influenced by the eastern Christian iconographic tradi tion which was so evident in his places of worship.


Death
Andy Warhol died February 22, 1987 after routine gall bladder surgery. In May of 1994, The Andy Warhol Museum opened in Pittsburgh.

Paintings

POP ART was an experimental form that several artists were independently adopting; some of these pioneers, such as Roy Lichtenstein, would later become synonymous with the movement. Warhol, who would become famous as the "Pope of Pop", turned to this new style, where popular subjects coul d be part of the artist's palette. His early paintings show images taken from cartoons and advertisements, hand-painted with paint drips. Those drips emulated the style of successful abstract expressionists (such as Robert Rauschenberg). Eventually, Warhol pared his image vocabulary down to the icon itself—to brand names, celebrities, dollar signs—and removed all traces of the artist's "hand" in the production of his painting. To him, part of defining a niche was defining h is subject matter.His friends suggested he should paint the things he loved the most. In his signature way of taking things literally, for his first major exhibition he painted his famous cans of Campbell's Soup, which he claimed to have had for lunch for most of his life., so he painted them as well. From these beginnings he developed his later style and subjects. Instead of working on a signature subject matter, as he started out to do, he worked more and more on a signature style, slowly eliminating the hand-made from the artistic process. Warhol frequently used silk-screening; his later drawings were traced from slide projections. Warhol went from being a painter to being a designer of paintings. At the height of his fame as a painter, Warhol had several assistants who produced his silk-screen multiples, following his directions to make diff erent versions and variations.

Warhol produced both comic and serious works; his subject could be a soup can or an electric chair. Warhol used the same techniques—silkscreens, reproduced serially, and often painted with bright colors—whether he p

ainted celebrities, everyday objects, or images of suicide, car crashes, and disasters (as part of a 1962-1963 series called "Death and Disaster"). The "Death and Disaster" paintings (such as "Red Car Crash", "Purple Jumping Man", "Orange Disaster") transform personal tragedies into public spectacles, and signal the use of images of disaster in the then evolving media.

The unifying element in Warhol's work is his deadpan Keatonesque style—artistically and personally affectless. This was mirrored by Warhol's own demeanor, as he often played "dumb" to the media, and refused

to explain his work. The artist was famous for having said that all you need to know about him and his works is already there, "on the surface."

Warhol's work as a Pop Artist has always had conceptual aspects. His series of do it yourself paintings and Rorschach blots are intended as pop comments on art and what art could be. His cow wallpaper (literally, wallpaper with a cow motif) and his oxidation paintings (canvases prepared with copper paint that was then oxidized with urine) are also noteworthy in this context. Equally noteworthy is the way these works—and their means of production—mirrored the atmosphere at Andy's New Yo

rk "Factory."

Some Art Work
Gee merrie shoes

















portraits of the artists 1967

Chairman Mao 94












Double Torso unique

Sand H green stamp

Semiotics

Semiotics is the study of signs and their relationship to the actual objects or things that they represent. It look at the language and asks the question of whether a word or image can represent object it names and hoe effectively it can do so. This some time, the designer will use language and images to represent the real-world concepts and to evoke a genuine, emotional response from an audience.

Sign: the smallest unit of meaning. Anything that can be used to communicate (or to tell a lie).

Symbolic (arbitrary) signs: signs where the relation between signifier and signified is purely conventional and culturally specific, e.g., most words.

Iconic signs: signs where the signifier resembles the signified, e.g., a picture.

Example :


For example, the letters on the screen spelling "rose" would be the signifier, and the signified would be the concept of the particular flower (not the image above, but the concept in your head).

It's important to remember that this graphic representation of how signs work is itself made up of signs. The image of the rose above is not really the signified, it's another sign, that I'm using to signify the signified. (The signified, remember, is what's in your head.) One of the reasons semiotics can be so difficult to understand is because it inevitably involves using signs to talk about signs.


SOCIAL AND VISUAL SEMIOTICS



Social Semiotics is defined as 'the use of signs, symbols, and icons whose meanings are socially agreed upon and culturally-bound.'

Example :
A picture of a tree will be seen as a tree to each person usually, but it may signify many different things. For one person they may see the tree as clean air, or to someone else history, or to someone else family origins.


Visual Semiotics in advertisement

Example 1:

The Nissan ad shown here was part of a campaign targetting a new model of car primarily at women drivers (the Micra).

We notice two people: in soft focus we see a man absorbed in eating his food at a table;

in sharp focus close-up we see a woman facing him, hiding behind her back an open can.

As we read the label we realize that she has fed him dog-food (because he didn't ask before borrowing her car).

Example 2:

This adv said that drinking this brand of water you will feel like you are flowing.
Example 3:




Example 4:


It is saying about smoking is bad for you but there may have miracle for you to survives is very low chances to break out of smoking too.

Example 5:

Most viewers of this ad, in turn, will also associate such a health club with wealth and the luxurious forms of leisure one might imagine that frequenters of such a desert resort might be accustomed to. The gold, shiny color of the plaque strengthens this connotation, because gold is generally associated with wealth.

Other signs in this ad, particularly the Faberge egg (most famously known as an item of conspicuous consumption in the collection of millionaire and apologist for the rich, Malcolm Forbes) and the written sign, the word "wealthy." Together, all these signs suggesting wealth constitute a cultural paradigm, a chain or collection of signs which invoke each other because they are culturally, or paradigmatically, related: a collection of related associations.

The cleverness in this ad is that the verbal syntagmatic relations of the phrase "healthy, wealthy, and wise" are used to establish a visual sequence that builds a relationship between otherwise unrelated images: the plaque, the egg, and the Canadian Club symbol.

And by this means, the advertisers are able to associate their product, not only with paradigms of wealth and health, but -- most improbably -- with wisdom.


These is all i found out of about 'semiotics' that i know about. Thanks for taking ur times to read what i know about semiotics.