Week 9! Create in art and multimedia ^^

Yea! "Creative in art and multimedia" is the topic for this week's lecture. Actually, I'm quite enjoyed this week's lecture cause it was fun! Conducted by one of my favorite lecturer, Mr. Yap Sau Bin. In class, Mr. Yap wanted us to think back to 100 years ago and think about what artist did at that time. He mentioned that the artworks at that time already value the element of Visual Communication which is an very important element in an artwork.

About 100 years ago, surrealism is certainly one of the mainstream and art movement. Talking about surrealism, Dadaist is also a must to be mentioned. Dada? They don't want to apply the concept of reality in their art and because for them reality is not a good thing. The breakout of this movement is also due to the horror of World War I. Dadaist artist abandoned the reality and showing their creative imagination and dreams in their art. Most of the time, they also used Juxtaposition in their art by combining two things together and creative a brand new thing that never existed in Earth. Example is that combining the head of eagle and the body of lion to become a new creature which often known as the Gryphon.

Gryphon- Creature that have head of  an eagle and body of a lion

Raoul Housmann

There are another form of art that is appeared to be famous at about years ago. Guess what? This form of art is quite alike to one of the art form these days. Photo montage is the answer. Photo montage is a composite photograph that is a result of combining few photographs into one. Well, I guess some one you already know what is it similar to. Photoshop of course! When Mr. Yap talked about this in class, I'm amazed because 100 years ago there were artist already using this knowledge to create art and before this I thought Photoshop is one of the latest technique used in art. Of course they were not using computer to do it because computer hasn't existed yet! What they do is cutting the images in the newspapers and magazines and joining them together and finally create a creative artworks. Raoul Housmann is one of the famous photo montage artist in that time. Pictures below are the famous artworks created by Raoul Housmann.

It's assignment time!

What is the future issues in art and does digital tools make you more creative?

For me, I think that art in future does not focus on 2D anymore because it has its own limitation compare to the 3D artwork as artist can apply their creativity more in a 3D artwork. 3D will be one of the mainstream art in future and 2D artworks will be eliminated soon. Not only that, I believed that 4D artworks will also be popular in the future too. 4D? Ya. 3D still has its own limitation too. Artist may not be able to communicate well with the one who looking at their artwork because of lack of something. By 4D artwork, the message can be delivered more clearly to the one who look at it and also 4D is something that must be think out of the box that required lots of imagination and thinking.
Below are some example of 4D artwork.

Digital tools are sure powerful and can help us in create tons of good artworks. But nowadays, too many people relay on the digital tools and they failed to create artwork when there is no digital tools in assist. Digital tools also made most the artist create almost the same kind or same style of artworks because this is the limitation of using digital tools. When I search artwork created by artist, I found that most of them are almost the same and this make them lose their originality. Although there are exception in this case but relaying on digital tools surely limit our creativity. Looking back to surrealism arts, they did not depends on digital tools and yet they created tons of amazing artworks and there are all unique and differ from each other.



Source:
http://www.research.ibm.com/distributedmessaging/gryphon.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photomontage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:RaoulHausmann.jpg
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/06/4d-art-show/
http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/reality-invading-4d-artworks/