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Month October 2019

Survey 6 : The First Film

Were rolling it back to when the worlds visual history had no color. The first film in history was a black and white cinematic created by the Lumière brothers. Auguste Lumiere (1862 – 1954) and Louis Lumiere (1864 – 1948),… Continue Reading →

Edouard Vuillard

Edouard Vuillard is a member of the Nabi’s group of painters as all, a painter, printmaker, as well as a decorator. He was mainly known for his unique intimate interior designs in his paintings. He studied art form 1886 to… Continue Reading →

Survey 5 : The Influence of Japonism

The introduction of Japanese art and design to Europe brought about revolutions in composition, perspective and colour during the renaissance in the west. Japonism refers to the influence of concepts of Japanese art into European art and design. It is… Continue Reading →

Medieval Military Technology Blue Spread Rationale

In my blue spread for Medieval warfare technology, I wanted my subjects of my spread to be knights as they were the “soldiers” of the era. I wanted to create a gradient of knights from left to right so the… Continue Reading →

John Constable

John Constable was a British icon known for countryside landscape painting. He was primarily known for the paintings he did of the River Stour, although after his painting of the river became famous, people called it “Constable country.”  Constable country… Continue Reading →

Survey 4 : The Steam Engine of the 16th and 17th century

The Watt Steam Engine One of the biggest problems of the 16 and 17 century was removing water from mines and thus the steam engine was created to create a vacuum from condensation. In mid 1700’s James Watt was a… Continue Reading →

Survey 3 : Witch Hunting in Germany

Although witches are known to be fiction in our present day they weren’t thought the same back 500 or so years ago. Witches were considered actually a vast majority of people in certain communities almost making 50%. The existence of… Continue Reading →

Nicolas Poussin

Background Nicolas Poussin was the french creator of the classical tradition movement. Throughout his life he spent most of it painting in Rome. His painting theme was historical, such as biblical and ancient history. Most of his paintings demonstrated a… Continue Reading →

Survey 2 : Medieval Military Technology

Big swords, shiny armor and bright colours clashing into one another in total chaos, the bigger army taking all is how medieval warfare is commonly viewed to most. But though my research I found that certain uses of their medieval… Continue Reading →

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