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BOOKS

JAPANESE PRINT BOOK SCANS

FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES

Picasso linocuts acquired by the British Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f920zLzxs3E

Preview | Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty | MoMA LIVE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7lepfLW8T8

Culture.pl - Mariusz Knorowski  What exactly is The Polish School of Posters? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMAm5791hD8 

Giger's Alien - 1979 Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEf3z1WnVI4

Andrzej Klimowski. (Polish Poster art). 

Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOTGiW9-MTc 

Polish Posters 1945-89; Exhibition in MoMa. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlsO6AStaHs 

New Adventure Cinema . Top 50 Polish Posters for English Language Films https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3acrfsRq59U 

The BEST Surrealists~Max Ernst

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6ooYPP61lw

Edgar Degas: A Strange New Beauty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8L2O7I0wk&t=3s

The Art of Screen Printing and Paper Stencil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3dL8BoIJv4 

The Alien Legacy (1999), documentary about 1979 ALIEN film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTr-ptJGp0c&t=2339s 

David Lynch - Eye of the Duck. 

https://vimeo.com/81181273 (Accessed October 11th 2020)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2w0IFm7JOY

https://nypost.com/2017/08/31/gorilla-suits-and-flipping-houses-the-craziest-behind-the-scenes-secrets-from-close-encounters/

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/sep/13/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind-review-stephen-spielberg-francois-truffaut-richard-dreyfuss

https://www.re-printmakers.com/articles/

https://www.atelier-kitchen-print.org/gallery/ana-sladetic/

https://sparkboxstudio.com/the-joy-of-kitchen-lithography/

NOTES FROM ZOOM + 1-1 TUTOR ZOOM

FILM POSTER PROJECT NOTES

Mack Film Poster Notes

WJT Mitchell- additional reading

What is an image- different form of writing

Outsider art- making powerful imagery- Bill Trailor

Images culturally embedded language

Semiotics- we read signs – as a society we agree what visual language is- how we interpret

images- Social Semiotics

Body of drawing, collage, print- in response to oneiric

Semiotics:

Explicit- shown, picture of something, clear-designated- its denoted not connoted

Implicit- ambiguous, leaves viewer with lots of interpretation. Connoted = implied. its not

bang on obvious

Need to be able to articulate- use the right lingo, Lexicon.

Oneiric= relating to dreams or dreaming

Jean Cochteaux- beauty and the beast- Belle et Bete

Visual Language being more ambiguous.

Whole sequences of film being silent. Atmosphere= very important

Watch all films- make and add notes from what Mack is saying. Analyse your chosen film.

Read about the films.

- How do you visualise the film- make subtle art from it.

- Human relationships. What is the film’s message/love/ecology

- All the chosen films are good- not Hollywood trash. They are sensitive and subtle.

Evidence of visual responses to the protagonists, their motives, and the landscape/habitat,

sense of place they inhabit.

Environment shapes the person- Terroire (enriched grapes from the volcanic soil).

Landscape can sometimes be the strongest character in the film. Habitat is very important.

How do you depict a certain atmosphere?

How is the atmosphere depicted through colour.

Typography element- work with towards the end.

Can print them off in A2 towards the end in A4 and more

EXPERIMENT. Try not to pick a film that is suited to your drawing- push yourself and try to

bond with the film.

ERRIDITE

Instagram and social media- everything is tailored and filtered down to you = the

importance of Mack- importance of having knowledgeable tutor such as Mack- LEGEND

Watch the films and soak it up.

- Mise en scene- how a director creates an ambience, a scene using props etc.

Costume design, typography. That person that you’re looking at – that person is like

you. Their emotional intelligence.

Shakespeare- Universal, intemporel/timeless messages.

- Verisimilitude- the appearance of being true or real- being seduced into watching

reality. - the enactment of reality but its not real.- when things are done beautifully

they appear real.

Those feelings that the protagonist is feeling… How the fuck can you transfer that into a

drawing?

Life drawing

-Inversion of value

-not knowing what good is

-aesthetical taste about drawing – proper drawing, powerful, visceral, original.

Rude things – add to work.

Hairy Who- male and female, fresh, huge influence, group of American comic zine, graphic

artists.

Poster project = a massive time to evolve thinking and practise.

Experiment lots and lots and don’t be afraid!!!

Andrzej Klimowski – greatest poster maker.

Terry’s Film Posters

Czech and Polish film posters. Hannah Bodnar- very good resource Czech illustrator did

Vertigo, Terminator.

Human emotion- Sturm und drang = full of emotion

Where the word angst comes from

Human emotion, relationship between protagonists. Habitat with human representation.

Don’t be too literal, takes a lot of bad ones to make a good one.

Best posters are often the most simple.

Work at A2- large, inky drawings, pastels

Arm, wrist, elbow drawings, full body and use of limbs and joints- put all of your effort and

body into the drawing.

Work on newsprint, work with image in Photoshop and preview.

Scan in, they can become sophisticated- needs to work compositionally.

If composition isn’t there= it will look crap.

Composition is key.

Work on other materials – Varnish, oils, paints.

The simpler the better, loose drawings and then add text at the end

Scan it in, tighten it up

Don’t draw/hold your pen like you’re writing a letter to your grandparents.

Cognitive dissidence.

Work on bigger size and scale. A2!!!

A2 loose drawings

Think about composition, draw from the TV

Film Stills.

Put Paper on the TV- map out the composition. It’s not tracing, just getting the shape and

composition.

Don’t stop the way you work. Have complete freedom and liberty to make work that excites

you!!

Billy Childish work.

Rose Wiley

Start following the hashtags of particular artists work- constant immersion with brilliant

artistic influences.

Work in ink- indian ink, quink and bleach.

Just University work- no spare time work – got too much work to do.

In film, breaking the fourth wall= turns to camera and breaks the verisimilitude= explicit.

Try new stuff/methods, full body portrait, have a broad Palette

Go crazy and make the most of the facilities in Uni.

Develop Something that is fresh= good catalyst to make you work.

Change motifs- never stick to something, change it up.

Experiment for first few weeks- watch films, relax. Treat projects as projects.

Combine uni work and spare time work.

Make list of key words after watching films on a key level. Basic level.

Pull out words from the script.

David Lynch, eye of the duck - where he places the eye of the duck? Where something

comes together- the key/pivotal moment of the film. Find that scene in the film and can you

visualise it and do a drawing of it/ about that scene.

Complex= lots to chew on. Get stuck in the film.

Scenes in the film where the character has to respond to what happens- breaks down,

amazing feats of strength and determination. How do you visualise that?

Soundtracks are there to manipulate the viewer

Focus on the film- ambience, just have the film on, no distractions, no chatting, no lights,

phone off…

Resonance= activates the atavistic response.

Atavistic response to the film. Hairs raised on the back of your neck. We are no different to

our stone age ancestors- electric charge. Respond in a sensorial way, a sensory perception

of something.

Mise en scene= strong

Verisimilitude= strong

Whiplash effect.

The best design makes the viewer slow down and look- stop in your tracks.

Needs the drawing to have empathy

More sensitive Monoprints- subtle linework

Exquisite Corpse drawings- the trick is to add a couple of inches between the sections.

Big drawings- Mack trick at Unit that no one else knew how he did it!!! Inky wet drawings,

put them in the shower, let the ink bleed and run off. Drips, stains.

Use blue Quink, bleach. Convey the Mise en Scene for ‘You were never really here’.

Ambience is extremely important.

Work on hand- rendered typography

Point of sale = something that can sell. Turn into postcards.

FOP- discount dvds

Simplify the drawings, scan them in, use preview.

Ron Searle, Japanese prisoner of war drawings. Reportage illustrations- historic.

Not so much line on white standard paper- have coloured, pre-prepared paper and

backgrounds- linseed oil

Scan in drawings and reverse on photoshop.

Play with water-spray water over it using spritzer bottle/plant spray bottle. Inky monoprints.

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Keeping things simple and suggestive/suggested narrative

Ambiguity

Sydney Sherman's work, American Hollywood film, strength of stills, Sherman's portrait.

Playing with Verisimilitude.

I have drawn something that is theatre- mimicking the mimicry - not overly explicit. 

My work now has that extra level of thinking to it = less is more.

Hairy HOO

My work has taken a shift - to the poetic, its not slushy, nice vibes to it, metaphorical

Look at sky phenomena, old prints and documentation recording the events. 

Look at the Polykettle hashtag.

Charlemagne - sky phenomena.

Documentation in the public domain archive documents. Comets depicted, drawn plates.

-Peter Doig's paintings = Forest scenes, Rainbows, Ghosts.

-Feminine side: go into more sensitive places.

Caspar David Friedrich = Paintings that are/were massively inspirational to cinematographers= existential pieces. Northern European Existentialism = Very fresh. Jean Paul Saitre.

Young man (possibly the autobiographical self) stood staring into the cosmos

Ambiguity is key

-You become that figure, put yourself in their shoes. Make an autobiographical connection.

Religious paintings, depictions.

Pantheism = nodding towards the idea that nature is the religion; Mother Nature is the God.

Lovelock wrote books on: The Gaia Theory; that planet Earth is a living organism, has self regulation, is self sustaining which is 100% true.

Lovelock is ahead of the curb

We are insignificant and very little compared to the scale of the Universe. 

Spielberg based his film Close Encounters of the Third Kind off the theories by Jaques Vallee = lead to UFO speculation.

Don't veer off all of a sudden - small brief on sky phenomena, old sky phenomena portraits of events: Charlemagne, Volcanic eruption prints and ephemera. Turner, Constable documented and captured these skies in their work. Salmon Pink. Treat this brief same as Close Encounters work, (can still add figures) Same methods, process and continuation.

676 AD Viking invasion, Viking Raid - Charlemagne.

Stick with your thing, absence, simplicity, oscillating, subtle movements

Look at Tarkovsky's Solaris (original) Watch the remake first with George Clooney dir. by Steven Soderbergh. Very Powerful film : the sky phenomena in space enacts/enables the dream of the person to happen - not always a good dream. 

Don't alter or change colour palette massively slight alterations. Keep it the same.

Do a set of prints for Solaris that have visual panache (for the remake) and maybe a couple for the Tarkovsky original.

For Book jackets: key tip is to aim for Symmetry. When you approach the design think of symmetry. 

When it comes to life drawing, normal drawing, prints, printmaking and experimentation = throw the rules of symmetry out.

Janus heads; Janus = Roman God of gateways and thresholds. Double facing head, double sided heads. On coins and statues.

Have the confidence to have your own authorial practice, don't veer off and do something different. For (self) integrity and self respect say NO to commissions that ask to alter your style or artistic licence. Don't let people down (yourself, parents, tutors) by being subservient for the client.

Computer generated drawing of house interior. Time passes, things alter. Time book of a room from 1901 - 1996/2006, same view of the room but it changes.

Many graphic novels don't need lots of text.

Country mile- longer than a normal mile, not straight due to gradients and topography. Some graphic novels just need the title and some captions/notes

DON'T STOP NOW : KEEP ON THE DRAGON RIDE IT TO A FIRST AND SOME MORE INCREDIBLE PRINTS.

Why would you change when people think what you are doing is so impressive. 

Take Mack's advice and tutor's advice, after Degree you can draw, print, make whatever you want.

Stubbornness is rude - instagram followers aren't specialist tutors, don't take their advice.

Why come on a degree course if you won't listen and expand your learning and practice. 

MMU: Mack and John and Ians are the premiere league of tutors. 

Trust what Mack is saying. 

Experiment and follow Mack's advice and reap the rewards - it is a formula that works. 

respond with sonic sound with visual literacy, emoting evoking the sonics via visual language