ITAP; week 1, Principle 1 - Working By Hand

Principle 1 Draw Work By Hand

 

Working by hand is very personal creating a more in depth meaning to each piece that you create, using a deeper thought pattern behind each piece, gives each item that you create a substantial reason for existence, taking each element of your work to the next step through extensive thought pattern. Creating an image is not about creating something of substantial beauty, but of being able to control your habitual critical judgement when creating a concept, coming to a clarified solution after drawing, without being aided by computer technology or imagery taken from a camera.

 

Tommy Kane is very personal and private about his illustrations, and paintings, exposing his lack of ability to
control his habitual critical judgement, through keeping his passion and exploration so secretive. Kane often includes within his imagery memories of places he has visited, his own perspective upon reality creating a certain style of surrealism in an illustrative form and allows his fantasies to come to life upon paper, no matter how sexual or unnerving these images may be. It clearly shows his imagination and personal experiences, creating an emotional connection with the audience, making it relatable upon a range of levels. Although his drawings may not be functional recordings for a concept, whatever the image he has created it is shown with clarity and coherence.

   Despite it being obvious that there is emotion and personal meaning behind each piece created from Kane's imagination, it is hard to depict this due to the limited use of text used with some of his pieces giving no notification of his thought process, therefore allowing the audience to infer what they wish to about his work, and have their own personal opinions and perspectives. As an artist, Kane uses and extensive range of techniques and processes, pushing the boundaries with each medium, giving the impression of a child like demeanour with his stylisation of particular pieces and his expressive nature.

 

Here are a select few images where the accompaniment of text has been accommodated with the image, entailing details of his personal opinions, stories of occurrences within these places, or just notations of overheard conversations. Through the use of textual additions to these pieces, it intensifies the connection with the audience, communicating in a more direct approach still allowing the audience to have their own inference, but controlling some of the ideas portrayed.
   The way in which Kane creates his pieces, generates a print like quality enhancing the aesthetics of the piece; through his particular stylisation of drawing and mark making, he is able to create very textured pieces creating an etched effect, which suits particular pieces which relate to period work, or cultural aspects.   The varied subjects of his work makes Kane’s work more interesting, as he is observant when creating his illustrations, focusing upon characteristics of buildings, people and inanimate objects. Also he is diverse how he approaches cultural based pieces, using humour as the connection from his observations.

 



ITAP; week 1, Principle 3 - Develop Visual Language

Principle 3; Develop Visual Language

The idea of the development of visual language is to be a complex amount of ideas that associates comprehensible understandings, creating a far more effective manner to understand material without the necessity of a textual description.

   Tony Buzan, is a psychology author who particularly stylises his work in the format of developing visual language, this is to strengthen the function of memory, and enhance problem solving abilities, all in which are displayed in a simplistic mannerism.

   Through the use of imagination and association, he creates Mind Maps to help remember select information in this format. Buzan has created an innovative way to help expand the idea of memorising, problem solving and revision through a simplistic technique. What makes his style so memorable and visually exciting is due to the minimalism of text, this helps create a visual way of thinking and memorising important information. His practises encourage a more intimate connection between each area of work, either to pieces he is referencing to, or when he is generally reflecting upon his ideas. The minimalism of text upon Buzan's work ensures that it is more easily digestible, and makes it more fluent to read through helping trigger a memory, or simulate a thought process through key words apposed to sentences.

   Buzan's work is extremely influential, and many readers have adopted his techniques and stylisation of formatting their work in this way because of its creative nature. It encourages the idea that you can use word association with and image to remember key elements through imaginative sources creating that more intimate connection. This technique also uses both halves of the brain, both the right cortex and the left, combing the organised knowledge to be remembered through a more creative practise. Many of his techniques used create a visual vocabulary, which encourage creating a deeper meaning and connection because it relates to each person in a different way, making it more individual to the creator of the mind map, yet still clearly understandable to a viewer because of the creative tools used.

A clear demonstration of the effectiveness, the organisation and the visual impact these artistic styles have upon an audience. The clear colour co ordination keeps the structure in balance, giving clear guidance and division from each individual section. Within the 2 particular pieces the small diagrams make the imaginative link with the associated word, creating clarity and intimate detail when trying to reference, revise or remember a select piece of information. However the Mind Map using post-it notes, is yet another affective approach as it can be alternated to create further possible links, the only disadvantage with this piece in particular is the limited use of colour showing no clear connection.

Personal reflection from the lecture;

For personal development I could potentially use the method of Mind Mapping, this would encourage my creative thought process to extract key ideas to expand on their potential. Also I wish to use this method to create clarity when planning, summarising ideas and decision making, refining only the important details, extracting select pieces which would be useful for help within my practices and planning.