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Continuing looking at art movements we looked at Impressionism. The huge developments in technology effected the Impressionist movement and had a huge impact on how artists depicted paintings. Things were changing with the introduction of the steam engines, ready made paint tubes, ready made fashion, street lighting, advances in colour theory and the first portable cameras. The trains allowed artists to travel to the countryside and paint, making me think they must have had assistants! could you imagine lugging everything you need onto a train and then back again... But in saying that the camera made it possible for an artist to use photography to capture or freeze a moment in time and then be able to reference back to them for later painting. For Example... After the Bath (Woman Drying Herself) Edgar Degas 1896 - Oil painting Pierre-Auguste Renoir was a French painter who was a leading artist in the development of the impressionist style.  Renoir introduced what had bec...

For our new unit we are looking at art movements. We started by looking at the characteristics of romanticism and realism. Romanticism  Beginning in the 18th century, it was largely centred in Germany. From 1685 - 1815 Science, society, politics and philosophy had a dramatic changed in direction. This time is known as The Enlightenment and caused a reaction from artists during the romanticism period who focused on themselves and others as individuals, with emotions, irrationality, wonder and awe. Nature and bettering the human condition seemed to be where they turned to for inspiration. I think this is an interesting thing to turn to for inspiration, perhaps with the change in society artists saw nature as a way to get a break from city life and everything that came with it. Even today it is still seen as this, a way to get away from everything. It also interests me to think of how, we, as humans react to nature and how we react in it. I wanted to look at a few Artists wit...

We started by taking two images both the same size and putting them on photoshop. I decided to use two images i had taken in the studio of my friend Alex.  we then learnt how to overlay them on top of one and other. I liked doing this even though i knew how to do it, some stuff i did not know about, i usually dragged the images on top of each other but this way was much better for previewing it and also for blending.  I decided to blend mine as one image inverted, i thought it made it look quite interesting.  We then looked at some editing, curves, filters and contrast, black and white ect.  We also learnt how to make something CMYK instead of RGB. Which i didn't know how to do so that was really interesting.  We learnt how to use different tools like lasso, liquidize, Clone and how layers work. For me this was the most fun i have had in a while, i have been feeling a bit lost with my ...

James Boswell was born in New Zealand on 9 June 1906, but moved to London in 1925.  He made many drawings, painting and prints of life in Britain during the 1930s and of life in war-time Britain.  The Theatre - 1939 - Lithograph on Paper This print i really like, it shows a man in a theater and it remind me of some of the Shakespeare plays i went to go see in Stratford upon avon. I also love that it is in a circle and not filling the whole page. I love the small detail in this image. To me its like looking through a hole in the wall to see a theatrical performance... i think its the sense of depth from the strong black and white contrast. It is also part of a series i found out that includes these other prints :  The Cinema 1939 - Lithograph on paper The bit about this print i like the best is the Usher in the foreground shining a torch for a couple to find a seat, i think its such a nice detail. I think cinemas were really popular in the 1930's ...