Project Love: MHM Architect

Love the combination of a geometric, deconstructed typeface, embossing, metallic finishes and quality card stocks that have been used in the branding and business cards for MHM Architect, designed by 26 Lettres. via BPANDO.

Project Love: Tilli

Love the bright pops of bold pastel colour in the packaging for Tilli, a new distillery, designed by Studio Weidemüller. via The Dieline.

Project Love: Fort Point

Gorgeous packaging and identity project for craft brewery Fort Point, designed by Manual. Love the use of the geometric pattern and the use of wood with white for the beer handles!

Project Love: Carlotta

Love this delicate, floral brand identity for Carlotta, designed by Anagrama. Love the use of the off set black frame device to ground the fresh florals used throughout.

Project Love; Lucky 21

Nice identity for Lucky 21, designed by Blok. Love the use of the texture throughout and the colour palette with the minimalist pattern. via BPANDO.

Study guide questions and answers...

MAKE SURE YOU STUDY THE PICTURES ON THIS BLOG.  FIFTEEN RANDOM IMAGES WILL BE SELECTED TO BE ON THE TEST FOR IDENTIFICATION.  KNOW THE NAMES OF THE ARTISTS.

Write a C for Caravaggio or and A for Artemisia while comparing their two renditions of the heroine Judith

C…01 Judith looks repulsed

A…02 Judith’s handmaiden gets in on the action

A…03 Evidence that Judith and the King had sexual contact (it has to do with the red cloth rapped around the king's "loins" in Artemisia's, as opposed to the red drapery in Caravaggios)

A…04 Powerful women

C…05 The king can see his slayer

A…06 Used lots of diagonals to create action

 

True or false

F…07 At no time during the history of the Hagia Sophia did Islamic art and Christian art coexist.

F…08 The portrait of Courbet in his studio was an actual event that he recorded with his painting.

F…09 The Death of Marat was an allegory.

F…10  Courbet enjoyed working from decapitated heads and amputated limbs.

F…11 The swords that Rembrandt painted in his depiction of Paul showed the prophets yearning for the “good old days”.

F…12 Chia-Ku-Wen was another form of mosaic.

 

Matching

David… painted the corrupt and vile Marat as a martyr                                     

Gericault… painted propaganda for the navy                   

Boucher… scandal for using his wife as a model                       

Fragonard… a student of Boucher             

Leonardo… hard time finishing the works he started                 

Michelangelo… got even with a mural (fresco)                

Rembrandt… lost most of his family to death and outlived them                      

Caravaggio… died three days too soon                 

Artemisia… used mirrors for a complex self portrait                

Van Eyck… Considered by some to be the godfather of oils                  

Durer… created atmospheric perspective, with line width                         

Bosch… outside of the mainstream Catholic                                 

 

Multiple guess

This artist painted aesthetically beautiful and decorative imagery…Boucher

This artist did intensive studies of anatomy and machinery in his sketchbooks…Leonardo 

This artist’s clothed figures were often way more controversial than his nudes…Boucher  

This artist married a studio model after his wife had passed away…Rembrandt        

 

True or False

T…29 The Book of the Dead was basically a guide for the after-life for Pharos.

T…30 The Rosetta Stone was discovered by Napoleon’s “culture protectors” who travelled with his army.

T…31 Early cave painting had two purposes: story telling and ritual.

F…32 Mosaic painting was done by brushing pigment into wet plaster.

F…33 Japanese art throughout history has been one of constant change in styles.

T…34 The Limbourg Brothers were three brothers who worked together on miniature paintings.

T…35 Geometric painting soon led to black figure in Greek pottery.

T…36 Romans allowed Christians to bury their dead in the catacombs.

F…37 Mosaics were often very flat in tone and rarely had color-shading variance.

 

Symbolism in Van Eyck’s panting of the Oath of Arnolfini

Shoes… holy ground                            

Candle…God                 

oranges… prosperity with children           

pearls… wealth                                             

apple… temptation                           

hand holding… open/honest marriage                            

red cloth…passion               

dog… loyalty                                                                           

 

Multiple guess

This artist was a huge fan of Napoleon…David

This artist was infamous for the stench emanating from the studio due to rotting corpses…Gericault

This artist often used women as tragic figures…Artemisia

This artist was know for being adept at both oil painting and etching…Durer

 

 

Neo Classicism
J. L. David

Romaticism
Gericault

Realism
Gustav Courbet

Hagia Sophia