Art Work title： The City Night
Visual Treatment: 
i) Art Movement:Post-impressionism

ii) Reference Artist: Vincent Van Gigh

iii) Theme Chosen: Environment

iv) Idea & Concept: I dream of the star, I think of the star, I wear of the star, I put up the stars around me, but I never see real stars on the sky. Where are those stars? Are they disappeared from this world? NO, isn't. Stars are just disappeared in city's night sky, because the lights are brighter than them. 

Art Work By: Chen Ting Ting

Student ID: B1100454

Art Work title： Tears make me alive
Visual Treatment:
i) Art Movement:Post-impressionism

ii) Reference Artist: Vincent Van Gigh

iii) Theme Chosen: Environment

iv) Idea & Concept: I have a job, which is make human fell happy, but I'm crying, because I miss my home, the blue ocean, big and freedom. I need every tears fell into the pool as water to support my living.

Art Work By: Chen Ting Ting

Student ID: B1100454

Art Work title：Natural Love

Visual Treatment: 
i) Art Movement:Post-impressionism

ii) Reference Artist: Vincent Van Gigh

iii) Theme Chosen: Environment

iv) Idea & Concept: The meaning of this painting was already shown in the title. To love natural, to love peace. Hope you feel worm when seeing this painting. 

Art Work By: Chen Ting Ting

Student ID: B1100454

Personal Blog Address: http://rainctt.blogspot.com

Project 3: Photoshop

1.The City Night

a)ermmm...Ya, I scan the color drawing into my computer. Nest step is use transform to fit the picture into right size.

b) After that,i use eraser to clear the background, next step I use brush to color curtain and sky (double layers), one of the sky layer i use filter-artistic-smudge stick.

c) Add moon on the sky, and add stars and moons on curtain, color the chair. The moon i use double layers, one of the layer i use brush to make effect.

d) do shadow, makes it more like 3D.I select black color brush, adjust the opacity to draw the shadow.

e) final step is use brush to color those buildings, use a lot of layers and filter.

2. Natural Love 

a) scan drawing into computer, i use transform-scale to make it more bigger, also use adjustment-levels to make the line more clear.

b) I use orange color as background, add white color lines(use brush tool).

c) use brush painting hands and love sharp, i only do 1 love sharp, another 1 is copy and paste.

d) use brush draw grass and tree.

e) add different color maple leaf into my painting.some of the maple leaf are draw by myself, some are use brush.

3.

a) scan the drawing into computer, clear some background i don't want. After that, i use transform to make the dolphin more bigger, and use adjustment-level to make the line more clear.

b) draw a ball in another window, an than copy it to my drawing. There are 2 layers, 1 is the color of ball. another layer is the starts (use brush tool).

c) use brush select different level of blue to color dolphin， and draw some spray beside it.

d) water～i use double layers, one layer behind the dolphin, another layer is in front of dolphin. An than, draw eye and tears, I only draw one tears.

e) i was decided to draw a wall as background(double layers), means dolphin is being trap.

f) add some balls (tears) into water. The remaining blank space i draw some mountains, birds and sun as outside world, represent freedom and natural. 

Project 2: Creativity & Innovation

Theme: environment

Reference Artist: Vincent Van Gogh

Art movement: Post-Impressionism 

Introduction

The reason I choose environment becuase most of the paintings of Post-impressionism are related to environment. For example: Van Gogh's Vincent Room, Sunflower, The Night Cafe. Besides, nowadays, our earth is facing many very serious environment problems, such as air pollution, water pollution, sound pollution and many more. I really hope ocean and sky can keep natural and beautiful forever, stars are shining in the night sky, fish are freedom living in the sea. Also, I want every breath is fresh and health.

Problem Statement

Every second, human are destroying our environment, including you and me. Unfortunately, we can't fully to stop it, but we can to reduce and to save it. Look around our environment, all of high buildings, roads and cars etc. I am thinking, one of the day in the future, the blue sky and sea will only shown on our books or pictures.

Purpose of Content

The main purpose of content in my drawings are to love and protect natural, but not only to develop city to fulfill our own wills and happiness.

Research questions

Love natural? Protect natural?

My 18 Sketches

More new drawings will upload soon, because my laptop sent to repair...

The tears make me alive

The dolphin can't freedom living in the sea, because human only want fulfill their own happy. Dolphin is playing the ball to make people fun, but in dolphin's mind, it is unhappy and it is crying. Another hide meaning is, tears are represented water, and dolphin is living can't without water. 

Elements of the Design

Line: use straight line and horizontal line

Sharp: original sharp of dolphin, non-original share of people.

Colour: the ball and background are use vivid colour, dolphin in blue.

Texture: smooth

Eye movement: yes, dolphin, ball and smile faces.

Principles of the Design

Contrast: happy face and tears, blue colour of dolphin and tears also represent sad emotion

Balance: no much balance in this drawing

Scale: the dolphin and balloon are bigger in the drawing

Unity: yes, it terms of vivid colour

The City Night

The girl stand on the chair, wanted to see the starts and moon on the night sky. But, in city night lights too bright make the sky can't see any starts and moon. The mean purpose I want to carry out is, city development destroy the natural environmental.

Elements of the Design

Line: use straight line and horizontal line

Sharp: original sharp

Colour: vivid, black, blue and yellow

Texture: smooth

Eye movement: yes, dark sky

Principles of the Design

Contrast: dark sky and bright city

Balance: left and right are balance in this drawing

Scale: the dolphin and balloon are bigger in the drawing

Unity: yes, it terms of vivid colour

Natural Love

The mean idea is to love natural.

Elements of the Design

Line: use simple line

Sharp: love sharp and square sharp

Colour: red, orange and yellow

Texture: smooth

Eye movement: yes

Principles of the Design

Contrast: bid love sharp and small love sharp

Balance: left and right quite balance

Unity: yes, it terms of natural colour

Memory

Broken Heart

Rainbow in the sea

Wind's power

Mountain

Firework

Sunflower

Waiting

I without you

Village

Beach

Project 1: Research and Refrences

Referral Art Movement:  Post-Impressionism

Referral Artist: Vincent Van Gogh

Post-Impressionism

           Post-Impressionism is the term coined by the British artist and art critic Roger Fry in 1910 to describe the development of French art since Manet.
          Post-Impressionism is come out from Impressionism. Georges Seurat and his followers are disagree the triviality of subjuct matter and the loss of structure in Impressionism paintings. So, they are create a new art movement, which is call Post-Impressionism. Why this new art movement call Post-Impressionism? This is because they continued using vivid colors, thick application of paint, distinctive brush strokes, and real-life subject matter, but they were more inclined to emphasize geometric forms, to distort form for expressive effect, and to use unnatural or arbitrary color.
          Famous artists in Post-Impressionism movement included Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Rousseau, Charles Angrand and Georges Lemmen, etc.

Artworks of Post-impresionism

Van Gogh                      Georges Seurat                  Georges Lemmen           Pierre Bonnard

 

          

Vincent Van Gogh Biography (1853-1890)

         Vincent van Gogh (March 30, 1853 - July 29, 1890) was born on 30 March 1853 in Zundert, a village in the southern province of North Brabant. He was the eldest son of the Reverend Theodorus van Gogh (1822 - 1885) and Anna Cornelia Carbentus (1819 - 1907). Vincent was a quite child without no obvious artisitic talent in his early years. He received a fragmentary education. At sixteen he began working, but he was dismissed from his job at the beginning of 1876.

         He did not succeed become an art dealer, missionary. In his short life then most of the time the job is "vagrants". Only his brother Theo to understand him, support him, supply cost of his life and creation. Van Gogh lived on this "parasite" living up to suicide. Van Gogh's life gone through ups and downs, he was often struggle with hunger. He pursued the woman refused him. When doing missionary in a mining area, abandoned their all to help the poor to enjoy the miners, and is given the church's dismissal. When he found himself in the twenties true artist should be, after career, began to explore the art. However, his intention for the world of painting is not recognized, life time is not achieved by the desire to make a living painting. He was being called as a madman, because of his specific behavior.

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Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear-1889 

When Van Gogh in a nervous breakdown, he cut off his ear. This is one of his self-potraits.

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One of the book is about Vincent Van Gigh's self--portraits I had read.

Vicent Van Gogh's Famous Artwork

Starry Night-1889

『Vincent Van Gogh’s genius hauntingly shines in the swirled brushstrokes, vivid colors and distorted forms of “Starry Night.” A Dutch Grand Master, Van Gogh (1853 – 1890) was an astoundingly prolific post-Impressionist who produced all of his work in 10 years, but only sold one painting in his life. While institutionalized, Van Gogh created “Starry Night,” his most famous painting, completely from memory. It now hangs in the permanent collection in New York’s Museum of Modern Art. 』
(picture taken from: http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Starry-Night-c-1889-Posters_i4028527_.htm)
The painting depicts the view outside his sanitarium room window at night, although it was painted from memory during the day.

Element of Design

Line: These lines are the focal point, or center of interest, in the entire piece. 
Shape: Uses actual lines in the swirling shapes of the stars seen in the sky.

Color: The bright yellow of the stars and moon, and blues night sky. Those colors are vivid and arbitrary.

Texture: Texture is implied. 
Direction: The sky in horizontal which suggests movement and cation.

Principles of Design
Contrast: The yellow stars and moon contrast against blue night sky and the village, which makes the yellow color stand out more.
Harmony: The dark and light are quite balance in this painting, it creates harmony.
Balance and Rhythm: The yellow stars and moon are repeat in this painting, it creates the feeling of balance and rhythm

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The night cafe-1888

Vincent's Room-1888

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Left side picture is photographer Lincoln-Harrison shot a group of amazing long exposure photos, up to 15 hours recoding time. This long exposure photography to bring the beautiful sky picture, it is reminniscent of the Post-impressionism painter Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night".

(picture taken from: http://www.paper.edu.cn/index.php/default/hotpaper/hotpaper_detailpic/5797)

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This song expresses the whole life of Van Gogh——short, sadness and lonely.

What does mean "You have a Van Gogh's ear for music"? This is akin to calling said person tone deaf.

Theme: Environment
Refrences

1. http://www.post-impressionism.org/

2. http://www.vangoghart.org/

3. http://www.johnlovett.com/test.htm
4. http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/gogh/

Perceptual Vs. Conceptual Drawing

Perceptual art is a form of art. You really can see something from perceptual drawing in a very direct way. Perceptual is like a photograph or snapshot-in-time, and is how we would actually perceive it in “real life”.  

Example of perceptual drawimg

Example of perceptual drawing

Conceptual art is represent a contemporary form of artistic. Which is a specific thought, concept or idea come from artist's mind. Conceptual is based on a negation of aesthetic principles. Including personal , complex and inclusive.

Example of conceptual drawing

Example of conceptual drawing