H.R. Giger was born on February 5, 1940, in Chur, Switzerland. He was raised in a middle class environment, and his dad was a pharmacist. His dad recieved a human skull as a promotional peice from a pharmacy institution when he was very young, and this sparked H.R. Gigers interest in the strange and macabre. His mother encouraged his artistic ability, though she often failed to understand his strange fascinations. In 1953 he attends the cantonal school in Chur (a technical school), and in 1957 attends the Institute Haute Rampe, Lausanne. In 1958 he goes to Alpina College, Davos, and then in 1959 he becomes an apprentice to architect Venatius Maisen, Chur, and the developer Hans Stetter Chur. Later that year he joined the Military College in Winterthur - as a mortar firer with light mobilized troops. And finally in 1962 he attends the School of Applied Arts, Zurich, in the department of Interior and Industrial Design.
	As Giger went through college, he produced many drawings, with ink and other mediums like glue and chalk, and ink paintings with such a large amount of ink that a razor was used to scrape out the details. Underground magazines and the occassional reputational art magazines published many of his work, and eventually one of Giger's freinds helped him create posters. He even had a 10 minute interview done on him by a freind who was a movie director. Soon, Giger began getting work on movies, in creating the monsters and sometimes environments. His residences for the most part were all in condemned buildings, using the wide space for art studios. Giger also began using the airbrush, and has become known as the best aircrush artist in the world.
	After college Giger's interest expanded into sculpturing and he became a master of a very broad amount of mediums. His work uses dark tones, usually black, grey, dark greens, and sometimes dark blues. Light is usually only used in his work to accent the darker tones to the peice. He developed the "biomechanicle" style, where it seems to mix the feel of something living and organic with the technicality of a machine. As a result, his peices are always eerie and often disturbing. His style would be best described as surrealism.
	His two most interesting movie exploits were the series of movies "Aliens", and "Species". One of his sculptures was found by Ridly Scott, Director of Alien, and he decided it was the perfect model for the creature in the movie.
Marcel Breuer, born in the early 1900’s in Hungary, was one of the first and youngest students to learn under the Bauhaus style, taught by Walter Gropius. Breuer started his career designing furniture, using tubular, or “handle bar like”, steel (Dodd, Mead, and Company 32). One of the most popular of these furniture designs was his Club Chair B3designed in 1922. In the 1930’s, Breuer moved to the United States to teach and practice architecture. In the 1950’s, he received the Medal of Honor from the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). Between 1960 and 1980, Breuer was honored with several honorary doctoral degrees from several universities around the world. After retiring in 1976 due to poor health, Breuer was awarded several other awards, and his work was displayed in exhibitions around the world. Breuer died on July 2nd, 1981, at the age of 79 (Marcel Breuer Associates 6).
He got a lot of his inspiration from his mother. She loved painting with water colors and making
Frankenthaler's long career as a Master in her field has led the way for other artists searching for their own identity. Without copying others work and making it her own she developed her own style and way of expressing her conceptualizations and presenting them to the world. Her development and perseverance and unbridled experimentation of mediums has defined her as a pioneer of her time.
Jonas, the main character in The Giver by Lois Lowry, is a very strong person, which allows him to go farther in life then the people that surround him. Throughout Jonas's life he has known nothing but "sameness". He lives in a Utopian community where there are no choices and everyone in his world has their lives laid out for them. But, Jonas is given the job of "Receiver of Memory". He alone knows the truths of the world, a world with colors, pain, and choices. What he does with these truths will bring obstacles to his life that will show the readers not only his strengths but his weaknesses as well.
Ridley Scott is who I chose because he has produced and directed a range of very successful films in multiple genres and has made a remarkable impact on the film industry. He has directed as many as 22 films to date and produced more than 45 films in his film career so far. I believe he has proven himself a force to be reckoned with in the film industry. While he has at times received criticism for some of his films, he has also been declared as one of the best in the film industry. Scott has directed a number of films that where seen as flops but he has also had far more films that have been a phenomenal success. I will look at some styles, techniques and film making practices used by Scott accompanied by achievements, critical acclaim and
If you cannot remember the pain in life, you will not feel the pleasure in living. If you do not feel the loss of losing someone close to you, you never felt the love. If you do not know what is wrong, you will not know what is right. Yet, the people who live in Jonas’s community, presented by the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, have lived peacefully without all the pain, suffering, loss, and wrongdoings. Everything was just…perfect. But soon Jonas realizes the truth: You really cannot live a good life without pain; the pain makes the other things in life worth living for. Once the truth is uncovered by Jonas, he figures out even more secrets that ruin the image he has of the perfect community he lives in. Basically, he does not see it as this perfect place he grew up in, anymore. This ‘utopian’ community is definitely not utopian because no one here can precisely express themselves, the people have adapted to ‘sameness’, and they perform inhuman tasks, which all add up to a less-than-perfect society.
Early in his career he created one of horror film, Nosferatu (1922); his last film was Tabu (1931), a documentary film in the South Seas. He was one of the pioneers in the technical side of the film industry, experimenting special effects in Nosferatu and Faust and the use of the moving camera in The Last Laugh. But at the same time he was a master storyteller, a director who could describe simple stories with a vast range of emotion and meaning.
Herbert Bayer, as Glaser explains, was an important figure bringing European ideas to the U.S. George Salter was a book designer who also taught calligraphy and lettering at Cooper Union, for whom Glaser was a student. Lester Beall was a poster artist whose consistency and graphic rigor was well respected. “I was personally influenced by Paul Rand,” says Glaser. “He created a kind of platform for everyone to work from.” Joseph Baum was actually one of Glaser’s clients, who gave Glaser the freedom and mobility to produce as desired which was necessary absolutely necessary for pure
uses a lot of blue colours as he did in his painting around this time
Have you ever gone to a movie theater, watched a movie, but come out disappointed because it was nothing like the book? The book,and movie adaptation, The Giver, By Lois Lowry shows us that little changes can make a big impact. In The Giver, Jonas lives in a world with sameness, with no memories about the past, but he is chosen for the special role of being the receiver of memories. Every day, Jonas receives memories from the Giver,and with these memories he starts to feel different emotions, and starts to see colors. From there, he wants to give the memories back to the people,and make them feel emotion again. He takes Gabriel and himself and leaves the boundary of memories, and gives the memories back to all of the people in the community .The book, The Giver and the movie are different because of plot, characters, and setting.
This man is not only one of the greatest directors but also one of the most gifted, talented and successful director of all times. He started out with small single movies at first, and after catching people’s attention he started to develop methods in his own movies. He has years of experience in the film industry, and all of his films are well known and popular to this very day. He has received many winning awards for his movies, and was also nominated for best director. This director started at a young age, and has become one of the most talented directors today.
“ He killed it! My father killed it!”. Woah! , now that is something unexpected for both Jonas and us . In The Giver book Jonas changes over the course of the novel by realizing how his society handles issues go against his values , by knowing the past , and making decisions that would impact the rest of his life.
As a result of his moral attributes “intelligence…integrity, and courage” (p.62), at this same age Jonas was selected to be the Receiver, a job of great honor, along with a set of rules which were more like privileges that also included the right to lie. The Giver trained Jonas as his own replacement, imparting to him all the complexities of memory such as the color grass, flowers, and sky; the pain and tribulation of war-time; and the joy and love of family relationships on holidays like Christmas. As Jonas matured as a Receiver the colors grew more vivid and the emotion of love flowed from him to the Giver, to his friends and to his family. A pivotal point arose in Jonas life when he ask his parents if they loved him, they were amuse and told him that word, love, was obsolete. Furthermore around the same time as he learned that Gabriel was going to be released, he planned his escape and took Gabriel along as well. The Giver loved Jonas but was committed to remain at the Community, because when Jonas left the memories would return to the people and they then would require his help to manage the flood of joys and sadness they would experience. Jonas and Gabriel endured a long and dangerous journey, when near the end if his resolve he found the sled (from his memory) and begin the fast slide, downhill to Elsewhere. And, for the first time in his life he heard what the Giver described as
He took part in actions with Yves Klein, with whom he had been discussing subjects such as Zen Buddhism and astrology since 1947. He married Eliane Radigue. He was impressed by a Kurt Schwitters exhibition in Paris in 1954 which inspired him to begin his work with stamp imprints, the Cachets. He earned his living during this period through occasional jobs, selling furniture and harpoon fishing. He had his first one-man exhibitions in London and Paris in 1956. In 1957 he travelled in Persia, Turkey and Afghanistan. In 1958 he dropped the "d" in his name, inspired by a printer's error. He started his monotypes using objects, his Allures. In 1959 he did his first Accumulations and Poubelles. The Accumulations were assemblages of everyday objects and similar consumer articles displayed in boxes. The Poubelles were similar, but used collections of rubbish. In 1960 he became a founding member of the Nouveaux Réalistes. Through this group he made contact with members of the Zero group. He showed in New York and Milan in 1961 and made his sliced and smashed objects (Couples, Colères). In 1962 he showed in various European cities and also in Los Angeles, where he was assisted by Edward Kienholz. He started his so-called Combustions, or burned objects, in 1963.
Paul Gauguin was a leading French post impressionist artist whose focus was his imagination. He worked in a studio and experimented with color. His wo...