Critical Study in Art and Design (DCC 2084)

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Road safety advertisement.

Description
- Use an in image of car falling into the liquor bottle.
- Many car were dump in the liquor bottle.
- Material that used: Folded a4 paper, 2 string, 2 pair of paper clip, strong typeface.
- Abstract element: the bright color of the liquor,repetition image of car.
Analysis
- used the space well and 
- used bright color to highlight the liquor in the bottle.
- simple typeface with strong message.
- used the image of the bottle as the point to the audience understand what happen when drink while drive.
- the repetition image of the car falling down into the bottle, to support the intend of the massage. 
Interpretation
- create awareness and intentions to all the drivers.
- the artist want all drivers don't drink while driving, and it may caused death of the love once.
- clues that i see is the strong typeface, image of the liquor bottle and the falling car. Judgement
- this road safety advertisement are related to social function of art, that influenced the collective behavior of people.

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Vodka bottle designed by Jose Luis Garcia Eguiguren.

Description
- Mix connection and vodka fruit blend.
- Contain emotions such as love, sadness, happiness, fear and anger.
- Mixed emotions cocktails evokes an emotion that change your attitude.
- color-full bottle design.
- spiral from top to bottom bottle.

Analysis

- used the element of design spiral line.
- used color to create and visualized of emotion.
- the proper alignment v shaped order.
- interest with the spiral design and color.

Interpretation

- based on emotion and feeling.
- sell emotions through a product.
- new variety of drink mixing cocktails.
- clues is the typeface at the bottle and the label that show the intention to sell the product.

Judgment

- my understanding of this product are its related to social function of art in form of personal for above the age, in social to attract attention among the drinker. Make more enjoy to feel the mixing cocktails vodka for new experience.

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 Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture by Anthony McCall.

Description
- light installation.
- illusion 3-dimension shaped.
- digital projection light.
- solid  light films.
- haze and light.
- used element of design of shape with stylization and design representation.
Analysis
- contrast in the installation.
- strong composition.
- transformed an old railway station to a cinema space.
- fill with haze and veils of light.
- dark place make the light and haze completed the art.
Interpretation
- make the audience shock and wonder how.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsGWjpfxa8c
Judgement
- on this art work are really true class and beautiful, this light installation related with social function, in a sense the works of art perform. its also show some physical function in connected with the effective operation in criteria of efficiency, appearance and appeal.

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Miniature House by Vesna Gusman.

Description
- clay miniature house sculpture.
- solid shaped house.
- stretch element.
- texture on the surface of the house.
- contrast have tone and value, proper alignment.
- space between the model house, different sizes, and more shaped.
Analysis
- semantics form the symbolic small house villages.
- show naturalism.
- with the type of miniature house design are more likely people watch because of the element and principle that the artist used.
Interpretation
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Judgement

Visual Communication in Art and Design. (DVI 2034)

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  Milky Way.

  Spiral galaxy containing our solar system. An estimated two hundred billion stars or more, it is seen from Earth as an irregular band of hazy light across the night sky.

Its measures about 100,000 light-years in diameter and is the second largest galaxy, after the Andromeda Galaxy, in the cluster known as the Local Group.

*( Andromeda Galaxy: A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere, contains a spiral-shaped galaxy that, at a distance of 2.2 million light-years, is the farthest celestial object visible to the naked eye.)

Milky Way in Culture.

  The Milky Way is also the swath of light in the night sky produced by the other stars in the galaxy.

Cosmos

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 The universe especially when it is understood as an ordered system. An orderly harmonious systematic universe — compare chaos, order, harmony.

Cosmology

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1. The philosophical study of the origin and nature of the universe.
2. The branch of astronomy concerned with the evolution and structure of the universe.
3. A particular account of the origin or structure of the universe: Ptolemaic cosmology.
4. A specific theory or model of the origin and evolution of the universe.

*Ptolemaic: conception of the universe.

Visual Communication in Art and Design. (DVI 2034)

Keith Barry Critchlow.

Biography

• Born 16 MARCH 1933.
• Nationality UK.
• Occupation professor of architecture, author.

Educated at the Summerhill School and the Royal College of Art. Performed national service in the Royal Air Force from 1951 to 1953. Other than that,  originally trained as a classical painter, he authored many books on geometry, including Order in Space, Islamic Pattern as a Cosmological Art, and Time Stands Still.

  Formerly a lecturer in London for twelve years, and had been a professor of Islamic Art at the Royal College of Art in London from 1975 for many years. He is a leading expert in sacred architecture and sacred geometry and founded Kairos, he served there as director of studies.

*  Kairos is an ancient Greek word meaning the right or opportune moment (the supreme moment).

The following books have been written or edited by Keith Critchlow:

• Time Stands Still : New Light on Megalithic Science. London : Gordon Fraser Gallery, 1979; revised edition, Edinburgh : Floris, 2007.
• Order in Space. London : Thames & Hudson, 2000 (Originally published: 1969).
• Islamic Patterns : An Analytical and Cosmological Approach . London : Thames and Hudson, 1976; Inner Traditions, 1999.
• Keith Critchlow and Jon Allen, The Whole Question of Health : An Enquiry into Architectural First Principles in the Designing of Health-Care Buildings. London : The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture, c1994.
• Issam El-Said, Islamic Art and Architecture : The System of Geometric Design, edited by Tarek El-Bouri & Keith Critchlow. Reading : Garnet, 1993.
• Research : Principles, Policy and Practice. London : Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture, 1993.
• The Soul as Sphere & Androgyne. Ipswich : Golgonooza Press, c1980.
• Earth Mysteries : A Study in Patterns, edited by Keith Critchlow. London : Research into Lost Knowledge Organisation Trust, 1978.
• Into the Hidden Environment. Oceans;  Lifestream of Our Planet. London :  G. Philip, 1972.

Online resources about Keith Critchlow

• The page on Prof. Keith Critchlow on Wikipedia has additional biographical facts and links.
• The Temenos Academy explains its origins, in which Dr. Critchlow played a seminal role, in this way: "In 1980 the poet and scholar Kathleen Raine, together with Keith Critchlow, Brian Keeble and Philip Sherrard, launched Temenos, a journal devoted to the Arts of the Imagination. The journal sought to give space to poets, artists, writers and thinkers who subscribed to the belief that man is firstly a spiritual creature with spiritual needs which have to be nourished if we are to fulfil our potential and be happy.…From these early beginnings the Temenos Academy was launched in 1990 as a teaching organisation dedicated to the same central idea that had inspired the Journal."
• Dr. Critchlow founded Kairos, "an educational charity specifically founded to promote the recovery of traditional (perennial) values in the Arts and Sciences." The Kairos website has additional biographical information on Keith Critchlow, as well as announcements on the foundation's activities.