Melbourne Sports Museum Critiques

Tokyo Olympic 1964
by Hara Hiromu and Kamekura Yusaku

Well done on using positive and negative spaces. The color combination matches the design. But the point that might have made a mistake to this design is the spacing between the Japanese flag and the Olympic rings. It might be better if there are more spaces between them because it looks like they are one logo.
I like how simple the logo it is. By only adding the red circle represents the country Japan, it won't mess up the composition, the simple san-serif typeface works well on the positive spaces. I think although the image isn't complicated, but less is more, I think the logo has a strong message to the audiences that it represents Japan and it's truly attractive.

Critiquing Tools

Art Vocabulary List

Stroke - The connection line between a dot to another dot.

Hierarchy - Definition of how the design been placed (Levels)

Cross Hatched - Any objects or forms repeated, overlaid or located at the same place but slightly different angle, direction.

Transparent - Opacity of the object been reduced and it can be see through.

Blur - Object that are in pixels that cause the image is not showing clearly.

Adjective List

Line - The length of the path.

Color - Humans visual perceptual property.

Shape and Form - How objects are presented/ located.

Texture - The rough surface from objects that forms irregular shapes and shows in different formations.

Style Time Line

Name: Arts and Crafts Movement

Style: Arts and Crafts are International design movement. Bbjects were in simple plain form. They look complicated with objects repeated but it’s still visible. This style was taken up by American designers with their different styles of results. The Arts and Crafts style was also known as “Mission style” or “Aesthetic Style” in the United States.

Date: It was popular between 1860 and 1910

Artist: William Morris/ John Ruskin

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/british_galleries/bg_styles/Style09a/objects/objects_home.html

Name: Graffiti 

Style: Graffiti is a artwork style that has been done on walls and public surfaces by using many different techniques like drawing, scratching, scribbling, spraying, painting etc.

Date: 1985

Artist: Banksy/ Inkie

http://www.banksy.co.uk/

http://www.inkie.co.uk/

Name: Rococo

Style: Rococo is an 18th-century artistic movement. It’s also known as also known as “Late Baroque”. It includes different art techniques like painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music and theatre. Sources like creamy, pastel-like colours, asymmetrical designs, curves and gold has been applied a lot to most of the designs. 

Date: 1700 - 1760

Artist: Antonio Bellucci/ Carlo Carlone

http://www.huntfor.com/arthistory/c17th-mid19th/rococo.htm

http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/ancien.html

Name: Shock art

Style: Shock art includes disturbing imagery, sound or scents to create a shocking experience. It is a contemporary art that has used the way to disturb “smugs, complacent and hypocrite” people. 

Date: 1917

Artist: Andres Serrano/ Tracey Emin

http://andresserrano.org/

http://www.emininternational.com/

Name: Net Art

Style:  Net Art refers to artists creat artwork from internet. It means the internet is the only way to create this type of artwork. Sometimes line art might look simular to net art but it has no attach to it. Net art can be used to spread a message

Date: 1994

Artist: Caterina Davinio/ 

http://xoomer.virgilio.it/cprezi/caterinadav.html#net-poetry

Name: Abstract Art

Style: Abstract art is art pieces that has a form of composition by using color, form and line forming objects in separate different angles and directions. It’s a visual composition with wide space and contrast. They could be formed by shapes in different colors in wide space or objects in same color but presented in different movement.

Date: 1945

Artist: Pablo Picasso/ Piet Mondrian

http://pablo-picasso.paintings.name/biography/

http://paintings.name/piet-mondrian-biography.php

Name: Magic Realism

Style: Magic Realism is a form of magical elements or imaginations combine with the real word. It’s presented in fantasy objects or backgrounds but at the same time it carries the feeling of realistic.

Date: 1940s

Artist: Ivan Albright/ George Tooker

http://www.cegur.com/html/frameAlbright.html

http://www.dailyartfixx.com/2011/03/31/george-tooker-1920-2011/

Name: Ukiyo-e

Style: Ukiyo-e is a Japanese painting technique on artwork been done in a floating style, it can also be called “Japanese Woodblock Paints” or “Woodcuts”.

Date: 1620s

Artist: Toshusai Sharaku/ Kitagawa Utamaro 

http://www.viewingjapaneseprints.net/texts/ukiyoetexts/ukiyoe_pages/sharaku3.html

http://www.ikon-gallery.co.uk/programme/current/event/367/kitagawa_utamaro/

Name: Dada

Style: Dada has many variations. It includes visual arts, poetry, art manifestoes, art theory and graphic design. It has used anti-art cultural artworks to clearify the anti-war politics. Its was also anti-bourgeois and anarchistic in nature.

Date: 1916

Artist: Louis Aragon/ Tristan Tzara

http://www.enotes.com/louis-aragon-criticism/aragon-louis

http://www.arthistoryarchive.com/arthistory/dada/Tristan-Tzara.html

Name: Op Art

Style: Op art is a method of painting that includes illusion and picture, also between understanding and seeing. It is also known as Opitical art. Op art works are abstract artwork that have only used black and white. When the audiences looks at them, it gives out the feeling of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibration, patterns, or alternatively, of swelling or warping.

Date: 1960s

Artist: Yaacov Agam/ Heinz Mack

http://www.aejv.com/agam-bio.htm

http://www.kettererkunst.com/bio/HeinzMack-1931.shtml

Greek God - Poseidon

Poseidon

History

AKA “Earth-shaker“. Grew up in a flock of lambs. One of the top 3 of Greek gods that rules the sea. God of the Sable Locks. He controls thunder and earthquakes. He was the ancester of the royal families(Thessaly and Messenia).

When he’s in good mood, he will create new lands. But when he’s in a bad mood, he’ll causes volcanoes eruption, massive waves from the sea and earthquakes.

Symbols/Represents

Trident, waves, water, ambiguous, unstable, extreme, emotional, powerful, violent

Advantures

Poseidon brought in and introduced the first horse in Greece. He lost the contest of taking over Attica to Athena the goddess.

Laomedon failed to pay Poseidon for building the walls of Troy, Poseidon sent a sea monster to ravage the Troad.

Relationships

His wife is Amphitrite. He-maid: Triton. Daughter: Rhode. He’s brother of 2 other gods Zues and Hades and goddesses Hera, Demeter and Hestia. Father of Pelias and Neleus

Appearance

Mature, muscular man with dolphins, and the trident. His carriage was a huge shell and it’s drawn by horse/sea-horses.

Sports/Symbolise

The Chief Festival

Neptune(From Romans)

Bibliography

http://www.casawomo.com/essays/a-history-of-poseidon

http://ancienthistory.about.com/od/poseidonmyth/p/Poseidon.htm

http://www.history.com/topics/poseidon

http://www.greek-gods-and-goddesses.com/greek-god-poseidon.html

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0881990.html

Here's my own illustration of Poseidon ↓↓↓↓↓↓↓

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