Helen Frankenthaler was an American Abstract Expressionist painter. She was well-known for her bright-colored canvases and lyric qualities. She was born on December 12, 1928, in New York and died on December 27, 2011, in Darien, Connecticut. She studied at Dalton School in New York and at Bennington College in Bennington. In 1960, she started to use acrylics on canvases. Then later in her life she also did some lithographs on papers. This Morning’s Weather (1982) and Yoruba (2002) were her famous artworks that show great landscapes in her paintings. I like her paints as they were softly painted with dramatic colors.
For the survey 6 project, I was assigned to be a designer of the typeface and I did a regular spread on it. At the very beginning, I decided to work on the Akzidenz- Grotesk typeface and did some research on that. I found out that Akzidenz-Grotesk typeface was created by a typeface company called Berthold and it owns the publishment of that. The Berthold was a company that published a lot of high-quality classic typefaces, such as Formata, AG Book, Imago and corporate ASE were all its typefaces. For the poster, I would like to present it in a newspaper format as it is a part of the printing technique and it’s related to typefaces. I would give me a grade B- as the image of the Chinese metal is not related to Akzidenz-Grotesk and maybe can work more on the bottom left corner. Also, there are not enough words in the poster, maybe I can tell more about who or where this kind of typeface has been used.
Erich Heckel was a German painter, printmaker, and sculptor during the Expressionism period. He was born on July 31, 1883, in Döbeln, Germany, and died on January 27, 1970, in Radolfzell, West Germany. His paintings and woodcuts of landscape and nudes are well-known. He studied Die Brücke architecture in Germany and Dresden. In his early paintings, strong outlines and bright colors. Later his work that was created in Berlin was more focusing on formal pictorial composition and was more melancholy. He was also good at woodcuts. Sleeping Negress(1908) and Crouching Girl (1912) were all his popular woodcuts. I like the “Stralsund” as the shapes in the woodcut are really well and clear.
I was assigned to be a designer of color a few weeks ago. I am doing research on colors during the Rococo and Baroque periods. First of all, I did research on Baroque periods and I found the colors of most of the paintings are painted in rich colors. For instance, Dark red, dark green and dark blue always appeared in the paintings. Besides, paintings during that period were more focusing on the palette. For the Rococo period, my teammate David did some research on it and he found that compare to the colors of the Baroque period, the colors of the Rococo period paintings were more light and worked more focused on the lights and shadows. For the Rococo period, artists used lots of golden yellows, light pinks, and light blues. For my poster of this research, I had the idea of split the poster into two sides and each side explain one period of colors. Then, I have an idea of putting a color wheel in the middle of the poster, which can clearly show each period’s unique colors. Also, I came up with an idea of putting some unique patterns in the very middle which related to each period. Finally, I put some Baroque period patterns at each of the corners. I will get myself of a grade B as I think I can work more on the fronts on the words.
During the beginning of World War I, neither sides have effective methods that can pinpoint the location of the enemy artillery and they have no clue where were the big guns as there were usually placed outside sight. Thus, they created a tactic called Triangulation.
Triangulation is a technique for the soldiers to determine the location of a ship’s or aircraft, and the direction of roads, tunnels, or other structures under construction. It is based on the laws of plane trigonometry, which state that, if one side and two angles of a triangle are known, the other two sides and angles can be readily calculated. One side of the selected triangle is measured; this is the baseline. The two adjacent angles are measured by means of a surveying device known as a theodolite, and the entire triangle is established. By constructing a series of such triangles, each adjacent to at least one other triangle, values can be obtained for distances and angles not otherwise measurable. This triangulation method has been used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and other peoples in the early centuries.
This new triangulation method was conceived by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe before the end of the 16th century but was actually created by a contemporary Dutch mathematician called Willebrord van Roijen Snell as a science.
In 1669, a French astronomer called Jean Picard. He first used a telescope in determining the latitude and in measuring angles in triangulation that consisted of 13 triangles and extended from Paris 1.2° northward. His observations and results were very important as his length of the arc on a perfect circle corresponding to 1° were used by the English physicist and mathematician Sir Isaac Newton in his theoretical calculations to prove that the attraction of Earth is the principal force governing the motion of the Moon in its orbit.
Diego Rivera was a Mexican painter during the Post-impressionism period of time. He was born on December 8, 1886, in Guanajuato, in Mexico and was died on November 25, 1957. He was the painter who loves paint large scale murals which revival of fresco painting in Latin America. He studied in Spain and settled in Paris and became friends with some leading modern artists. Around 1917, he abandoned the Cubist style and be closer to the Post-impressionism. He used the simple form and bold color in his painting. I like how he used both warm and cold colors in his painting.
