Day 2__Project_001 The Bauhaus and Art Deco

Bauhaus and Art Deco are two movements that happened in the earlier part of the twentieth century. A lot was going on in this time period.  The Industrial Revolution had swept across the country causing the uprise of city centers, manufacturing, factories, steel productions, and railroads (which shipped everything everywhere creating nationwide commerce).   Art had shifted too.   Have a look


Art Deco or Deco, is an influential visual arts design style that first appeared in France just before World War I and began flourishing internationally in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s before its popularity waned after World War II.

Deco is a very dramatic style that emphasizes geometric forms: spheres, polygons, rectangles, trapezoids, zigzags, chevrons, and sunburst motifs. Elements are often arranged in symmetrical patterns. Modern materials, such as aluminum, stainless steel, Bakelite, chrome, and plastics, are frequently used. Stained glass, inlays, and lacquer are also common. Colors tend to be vivid and high contrast





BAUHAUS
The second of these two movements centered around an actual school called the Bauhaus.  The Bauhaus, similar in aesthetic to the Art Deco movement is also characterized by a simplistic, modern, and slightly industrial feel.    It's impact on architecture, typography, graphic design, and furniture design are still highly relevant, even today... almost 100 years later.  It could be said that the mid-century modern building that we are sitting in was in many ways influence by bauhaus as well.


Homework:1. Finish the Egon Shiele Assignment. 
2. Watch one (or both) of the overview tutorials of Illustrator

Search the internet (Google Images)  for "Bauhaus" and "Art Deco"  Find four symmetrical images for each art movement, find two symmetrical/asymmetrical images for each movement, for a total of EIGHT images. You will recreate the four images of our liking using shapes in Illustrator.  As you finish these, you will need to save an Adobe illustrator,  .Ai version and a jpg version to be handed in. I will show you how to save these in the next

Remember to keep it simple.  Here are some examples of designs.  You might want to select one of these, which is fine.  But, please research and find images of your own in addition.

digital_foundations_P_01_Deco from Thomas Everett Green

 



DAY 2

Create a folder on your desktop.  Name it "lastname_firstname_week1" then place your illustrator files in the folder, along with your document for the research assignment on "fair use."   

Label: 
“last_first_bauhaus_symetrical” 
“last_first_bauhaus_asymetrical”
“last_first_deco_symetrical” 
“last_first_deco_asymetrical” 
"last_first_shiele"
"last_first_fair_use" 

Once you have your files in your folder,  then you will connect to the server. 

Click on "Finder" then click on "Go"... "Connect to server"..."Dali"

Type in your login and password.    From here you will go to classes and find our course folder  FD170-D.  In the folder, you will see a folder marked "Week_1"  Place your folder in the appropriate folder. 

Research and define the following:

1.fair use 
2.appropriation
3.creative commons license and the 6 different kinds.   

Please type this into a 12 point Word.doc as you will be required to turn this in along with your four deco/Bauhaus designs and your recreation of Egon Shiel's painting "The Poet." This should be a total of 1 to 2 pages.  

I'm embedding a short video about using the "Shape Builder" tool and the Gradient tool below. Please do not feel obligated to use the gradient or the shape builder unless it is absolutely necessary.   I'm also posting some images of previous student work.

Examples of Student work:  To be uploaded soon.