Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Beggarstaff Bros


A trip to China town 1890

He used font that is asian style. There are no lines suggesting folds of  his clothing and  any details.  Using red as the background really stands out.
Using complementary color (red and green) draws a lot of attention. 
As far as composition goes square inside square is interesting.



"Kassama" Corn Flour 1900

The artist used simple design and simple color but still have a point across. 
He worked with contour lines, and there are no values or shadows. Although the color is flat it has great feel to it because usage of colors and shapes.





Girl on a sofa, 1895

Here again he used only few colors, but great usage of negative space. 
It is well balance, and red stripes creates rhythm.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Jules Cheret


Casino de Paris, 1891

The artist used primary color for this poster. To bring out the focal point he used bright yellow for the dress and other creatures fade in with the background. It's obvious that the artist's aim wasn't for realistic, therefore there aren't great details of textures and values. To make the posters balance he filled right side with words.


La Loie Fuller, 1893
The artist mostly used warm colors to create energy,passion. 
Dark background definitely bring out the warm colors more. A lot of his paintings/posters are in action of doing something fun. They have great sense of movement and expresses great energy.


Music 1898

The artist used diagonal line to express feeling of movement.  The drawing is fun and energetic. Using white choral to create high light makes the drawing pop out of the paper  


Monday, February 1, 2010

Gustav Kimt

Most of Gustav's art was on woman. fill with mythical, magical and free spirit paintings.
Often in his painting Woman's body were erotic.He expressed human figures very freely and he used many organic forms. he also used repeated shapes such as rectangle often. 
He painting are bright, fun but also elegant as well. 































































The Friends (1916~1917)