Muriel Cooper was a famous twentieth century graphic designer. Besides being a book designer, she was a researcher and educator as well. MIT Press wanted her assistance for a very longtime as an art director. Furthermore, she founded MIT’s Visible Language Workshop and co-founded the MIT Media Lab. Also Cooper was one of the first graphic designers to apply her skills to the computer screen. Having co-founded the Visible Language Workshop at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973, she ran it until her death in 1994, and taught many of today's most gifted software designers. Muriel Cooperdigitally changed Bauhaus aesthetic in to elegancy the covers of some of the 20th century’s most influential academic books, on subjects
Nowadays, people can use computers or pencils to compile their works. “Which way is more competitive?” has become a controversial issue. “An Ode to the User-Friendly Pencil” by Bonnie Laing, explores “the pencil wins over the computer hands down” by using irony.
George Lois (1931- ) is a writer, art director, graphic designer and advertising legend. Lois is historically significant because of his memorable, historical and risk taking designs in the form of magazine covers that showcased in MOMA, and advertising campaigns for top brands that put companies on top.
Catherine Moore was born on October 22, 1752 and grew up with 10 siblings. She lived with her family in Piedmont, South Carolina until she married Andrew Barry at age 15. During the Revolution, she was an important part of warning people of the British attack during the battle of Cowpens in 1781. Her extensive knowledge of the area helped her navigate quickly through the Indian Trails to notify the colonial military forces of the approaching army. With that knowledge, both she and the general set a trap for the British army. After the trap was a success, General Cornwallis of the British army retreated right into the hands of George Washington in Yorktown, Virginia. Catherine was soon named the heroine of Cowpens.
On the 23rd of October in 1885, a Man was born with no knowledge that he will become one of the seven artists of capturing Canada’s identity. A representational painter was his first inspiration in his early years of painting within Canada. Yet, he soon came to realize that his passion in painting would take a shift more towards abstraction within his paintings which resulted in his up rise within Canadian history.
In 1990, the second Modern Language Association Literacy Conference was held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During the conference Mary Louise Pratt a Stanford Professor delivered a keynote/lecture that revolutionized how people think about their social spaces. She introduced a revolutionary way to think about these social spaces, instead of calling them communities she started calling it the “contact zone”. According to Pratt a “contact zone is a place where cultures meet, clash, and grapple” (Pratt 487). While lecturing her fellow colleagues Pratt argues that our idea of community is strongly utopian. She continues to plead her case by saying that societies often profess, “embodying values like equality fraternity and liberty, but systematically fail to realize”. (Pratt 493). Pratt wanted her colleagues to realize that it comes down to seeing your social spaces as “communities” or as “contact zones”. Although, she makes a strong case stating that communities are considered utopian and therefore social spaces should not be seen as such. I believe social spaces should be seen as “contact zones” and that we should embrace that clash of cultures it creates because it has the potential to make us stronger. After all, the laws of celestial mechanics dictate that when two objects (cultures) collide there is always damage of a collateral nature. While reflecting on how the concepts of “community” and “contact zone” affect me and how I perceive my social spaces, I could not think of a better example than the “Northeastern University Community”. It made me think of how one gets to be part of a social space, how being outside or inside of such space can influence the point of view one has on it, and even how could it be possible that we suc...
Roy Lichtenstein was born in New York City on October 27th, 1923. He described his childhood as quiet and uneventful. His father was a realtor; his mother was a housewife. Art was not taught at the school Roy attended, but when he turned fourteen he began taking Saturday morning classes at the Parson’ School of Design. After he graduated from high school in 1940 he attended the School of Fine Art at Ohio State University. He was drafted however in 1943 in the middle of his education at Ohio State. While he was in the military he served in Great Britain and Europe. When he returned to the U.S. in 1946, he completed his studies for his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree at Ohio State University in 1949. After he got his degree he immediately began teaching at Ohio State and kept teaching there until 1951. He then taught at New York State University College, Oswego from 1957 until 1961 when he transferred and began teaching at Douglas College of Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ he stopped teaching there in 1963. Later that year Roy moved to New York where he was commissioned by the architect Philip Johnson to produce large format painting for the New York State Pavilion at the World’s Fair in New York. This year he also had his first one-man exhibition in Europe at the Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris. He was given his first American retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Cleveland in 1963 also. Other exhibitions where Roy was represented in ...
Gender credo has signified political and cultural values in Greek and Roman era. In particular women representation in artwork has pondered and reinforced the values of their times. In the articles, "Parthenon and Parthenoi: A Mythological Interpretation of the Parthenon Frieze" by Joan B. Connelly and "The Muted Other" by Natalie Boyment Kampen, the Parthenon frieze, the Ara Pacis: Imperial Family frieze, and Cornelia: Mother of the Gracchi, are pieces depicted to characterize women in their implemented roles.
Robertson, Jean, and Craig McDaniel. Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art after 1980. New York:, Oxford UP, 2013.
Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. His father worked in the family brewery, Kuhlmbach & Geisel, which locals pronounced, "come back and guzzle” until prohibition. His mother’s maiden name was Seuss. She was the daughter of a baker in Springfield. Seuss had an older sister named Marnie (Kibler, 1987).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning uses multiple elaborate metaphors and comparisons to establish vivid imagery that actively involves her audience in her verse novel Aurora Leigh.
Contemporary art is the art that has been and continues to be created during our lifetimes, which can include and represent the Australian culture, politics and music as well as in art forms such as portrait and landscape. Contemporary art is defined as art that is current, offering a fresh perspective and point of view and often employing new techniques and new media. Current art means work by both emerging and also established artists. Rosalie Gascoigne and Imants Tillers are honoured for their contribution showing the Australian landscape in fresh, new and transformational way. Whilst both are similar in their use of text and original interpretation of our landscape they are vastly different in their approach and creating meaning for their
During the 1980’s Graphic Designer, Paula Scher helped design and define the decade of color, music, and fun. Scher began her graphic design work by creating designs for the inside of children’s books. Later on, the artist received a larger gig working for record labels such as CBS and Atlantic Records. After she began her work as an album cover artist, Scher’s artwork became known for its exaggerated use of typography and its unique style. Early in her work, Paula built her credibility with her design of the Boston album artwork from 1976. From there Scher continued to shape the decades of the late seventy’s and the early eighty’s by designing albums for Cheap Trick, The Blue Oyster Cult, The Rolling Stones and more. After some time, Paula resigned form the record industry and began her own design company with her friend Terry Koppel. The two designers called the company Koppel & Scher and ran the business for seven years until the recession, which eventually caused them to go their separate ways. By 1991 Paula received an irresistible job offer to work for Pentagram as a graphic de...
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils, Marie Gabrielle Capet and Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond was done Adelaide Labille Guiard in 1785. It was done in Paris, France and the medium is oil on canvas. Adelaide Labille Guiard was born in 1749 and died in 1803. She was one of few to practice and master at miniatures, pastels and oil paintings. Due to male dominance in these practices, women were not accepted as pupils, due to society perception that women are not able to follow instructions as easily as men.
Her activism in the community was not only limited to the works that she made, which are provocative and beautiful, but as a recruiter to the feminist art cause. In 1970, when she began teaching at the Fresno State College, she began a feminist art program where she gathered young women to the cause. In an art journal published in 1971, Judith Dancoff interviews Chicago about the selection process of women artists for the program. Chicago apparently asked the girls the question “who wants to be an artist?” Although the question seems simple enough, to Chicago it had much more implications when the question was posed to girls as it really begged the question if they “[…] were prepared and strong enough to relinquish make-up, relinquish being
Hegeman, J. (2008). The Thinking Behind Design. Master Thesis submitted to the school of design, Carngie Mellon University. Retrieved from: http://jamin.org/portfolio/thesis-paper/thinking-behind-design.pdf.