Lecture 3: Historical and Artistic Backgrounds: The Visual World

Historical and Artistic Backgrounds: The Visual World

This is a focus on 20th century Avant Garde (after revolution/renaissance period) artists and poets.
Futurists include: Dada, Surrealism, Bauhaus, Letrists and Concrete poetry.
20th Century experimental designers and artists.
21st Century language media art: Artists/Poets and Writers

They were all well known for breaking boundaries, changing designs and experimenting with ideas out of the norm.

Prominent Names to look up:
Marinetti
Speakermann
David Carson
Neville Brody
Glen Ligon
Jasper Jones
Jenny Holzer
Shirnan

Using Photoshop

I have created some 'Andy Warhol' style images within my seminar workshops. These images play around with different hues, saturations, colour styles and effects.

I used a "canvas" on photoshop to create the four different images as one larger image.