Art & Design

BCU -  Art & Design L4   Jiaying Bao 

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Evaluation of the Resubmission Module

As a resubmission module, I took it seriously, from the notes to my finished products were referenced to the requirements of the brief. I am very grateful to the teacher for giving me the chance to show myself again.

What I am doing with this module is to transform some waste debris. I made one scene pattern collage series, and one “show bag” . I chose both as a display of my finished product because they represent the ability to make handwork and the ability to use electronic software.

I conducted various aspects of research, such as zero waste, DIY of IKEA package bag, and two outstanding artists：David Mach and Claes Oldenburg, and so on. At the same time, I also explored pop art, and my collage also tried to move closer to pop art. I also took the names of each of them. They are respectively “up and down,cheese” “Half of the scour” “butterflies or hair accessories?”  “dumbbells garden”.

Through this module, I learned to enjoy sharing my thoughts with friends, to realize the design inspiration should come from everywhere around things, I usually need to pay more attention to detail, taste dull life, but also to try to give the old things of life, so that our life will be full of infinite possibilities. Learn to enjoy the freshness of the challenge while not afraid of the challenge.

Talk about my another final product－“show bag”, to be honest， I'm not particularly satisfied with its final quality. I feel it's a bit rough, but I'm glad to see it using so many different materials. Secondly, it is more practical and functional than the manual work in the previous module. I still feel a bit better about that.

I have to mention some of my shortcomings, first of all, the exchange of ability to exercise, I think it still needs to strengthen, although already more than before dare to speak, but the communication between teachers is still not enough. Second, personal time management skills, I admit that I have problems in this area, I always try to do everything best, but I neglect that only a little bit of accumulation will be a qualitative upgrade. In addition, after visiting some graduation exhibition, I found that a designer has a clear style of works is a very important thing, only in this way, you can focus more on one area study, you work in the final presentation will be unified and orderly. So I think that's what I need to focus on over the next school year - setting up a clear personal style. Finally, I really love the art & design profession, because it is very flexible, you can do all the things you are interested in the interdisciplinary environment, whether in painting, sculpture, textile and so on. Also differently exhibitions are very attractive to me, I enjoy watching the exhibition with friends then we like  exchange the same works of different ideas.

In a word, I enjoy all the experiences I've studied here. Thank you for your patience and help. And I'm looking forward to more change and progress.

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Visiting of excellent graduation exhibition works

（bcu＋rca）

While opening up my horizons, I realized the gap between myself and the master. I also like art and design more and more. Because of its intelligence and variety, which always brings me different surprise.

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A rough model of the final product

It is very interesting to use different materials to tie the rope at the junction of the fixed parts.

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Explore of  Further Development （sneaker design）

Through the research of the structural drawings, the materials and the finished model, I have a better understanding of the design of the shoes.

In return to the sandal made by IKEA bag, let me clear up the general goal of my final product, I do not want to do is just a single transformation of IKEA bag, I hope I can use the IKEA bag with the materials I collecting before together, to make a product for the one and only.

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Research of  Technical Support (sneaker&mask)

Interest is the best mentor, I hope I can adhere to my interests, and find the most suitable style of my own works.

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source  of  inspiration － sneaker & mask

Because I usually like all kinds of shoes, then I have the opportunity to get into touch with these messages, it is also a very fashionable move, people will be converted into a mask of sneakers. In my opinion, this is a bold and novel attempt. I hope I can make my own mask in the future.

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My Final Work Part 1 －  Scene pattern collage series

In order to consolidate the previous study, this time as a series of my finished product, I use the traditional digital software, let my daily photography works with the initial light and shadow photos (door handle projection + shower head projection) ，show the colorful collage display.

A total of four pictures: 

up and down,cheese

Half of the scour

butterflies or hair accessories？ 

dumbbells garden

I try to show a little bit of Pop Art, but it seem that not strong enough.

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Art school Research — Pop Art

The research of Claes Oldenburg again awakened my memory of Pop Art.

Pop art is also called popular art, also known as Neo-Realism (Neorealismo), because Pop Art's POP is often regarded as "popular, fashionable" Popular abbreviation. It represents a popular culture. In the United States under the influence of modern civilization produced an international art movement, mostly in the image of the upper class or the occasional events in the drama as the performance content.

It first emerged in England in the early 1950s, and flourished in America in the mid 50s. The representative artist is Andy Warhol, who is the initiator and principal advocate of the American pop art movement.

In 1962 he exhibited by Blilo and its famous "sculpture" soap box. His drawings are almost stereotyped. He put those from mass media images, such as Campbell, Coca-Cola bottles, cans, like Monalisa Marilyn Monro and bill head, as the basic element in the painting on repeated row. He tried to completely eliminate the manual elements in artistic creation. All his works are made by screen printing technology, and the images can be repeated many times, bringing a unique mechanical effect to the picture.

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There is no doubt that he is a great artist, a real artist. He seems to want to see anything in everyday life into any artifacts, it is these tedious necessities for him to bring a steady stream of inspiration, which will be very ordinary things into a magnificent spectacle. He transforms the secular things into a place of sculpture by transforming the daily necessities into a sculpture of "sculpture monument" and hope to replace those traditional classical majestic monuments. When the folder into a huge landscape sculpture, women with lipstick instead of the fountain on the square, huge incomparable scissors were proposed to replace the obelisk of Washington, etc., they simply become a use the real dream of the composition of the real.

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Artist Research - Claes Oldenburg                                                                   

Claes Oldenburg, he is so easy to be able to put an ordinary life into art. Odenberg’s work is not only easy to understand, easy to close, but also the only wave of art in the world to pass down the public works of art. Odenberg makes people realize that “art is a happy thing.”  he is perhaps the most radical and creative of the pop artists. After a period of experience in the use of graffiti-like combination of waste materials in the practice of art, in 1976, he began to carry out the creation of concrete art, talking about his work, Oldenburg said: “I use the simple Imitation, which is not due to my lack of imagination, nor is it because I want to talk about everyday life. I imitate: one, ordinary items; two, to create out of the items, such as symbols, which do not engage in artistic intentions, and I have also tried to develop these things through my own pristine simplicity, which is to enrich their strength and deal with them carefully. I do not want to make them into art. It must be made clear that I am imitating these things for a purpose of reason because I want people to be accustomed to the power of ordinary objects.

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Artist Research - David Mach

http://www.davidmach.com  His personal website link

Through the suggested research in the module brief, I chose David Mach as the first artist to investigate. He is an artist from Scotland. The pictures I selected above are all his works - magazine sculptures.

This group of supermodel "magazine sculptures", conceived in the 1980s and early this century, looked more like surfing in magazines - any space in the room, any object, such as a car, a furniture, an airplane, By the magazine, or the information media giant engulfed the state!

Through the large-scale objects placed, color contrast, a strong sense of reality to express their own understanding of the community, not only to the viewer immersive, let people more understanding of the reality of the existence of - these, it is also david mach works Most notable features.

The reason to attract me is because he used a very common object－magazines, completed such a magnificent sculpture, which is what I admire. Second, look at the color and layout of the work, I appreciate this very shocking sense, this let the works be rich soul.

Using simple objects to create stunning visual effects, this is where I need to learn

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So, people are making clothes out of IKEA bags now

And it’s Scandi-lous

Further research －IKEA BAGS

Through this article, let me feel the two design principles.

1. The first point is that the source of a design task can be easily considered from the small things of daily life,and then lead it to feel the latest developments trend.

2. The second is that constant trade-in, giving new life to waste materials, which will make design life full of infinite possibilities.

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Research－ diy of Ikea Bags 

Because I usually like to pay attention to some of the street fashion messages, it is not difficult to find the recent fire suddenly is IKEA's various creations. When brand shopping bags have been transformed into all kinds of fashion items, hats, messenger bags, and even underwear, you will be amazed at the trendsetter creativity and practical ability.

These also gave me the urge to challenge, so I established the body object of this module —— IKEA BAG.

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Research－Zero Waste

After my friend's suggestion, I searched online for pictures of zero waste, such as this way of reuse , which can actually be inspired to my works on this module.

It also made me aware of the importance of communicating ideas and opinions, and each person's different suggestions brought me new discoveries in the new field, and I enjoyed the sharing of resources more and more.

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Exploration of exhibition sites and daily life + initial idea

The four picture is at first I was taken in the exhibition area, it is the first time with the teachers and students to go to a strange hall, I was attracted to the light, so natural to record some light and shadow.

The other four sets of photos were taken in my apartment's toilet, because of an accidental discovery, I was pleasantly surprised to see the “foot” on the door, which made me very excited, then I also uploaded it to my Instagram, the results is the user on the network after another point of praise and comments, I can have such a resonance with strangers made me feel very wonderful and amazing.

So my initial idea has been set up to make a bag that can be hung at different locations. It should look like a cartoon character's shoe. The next thing to do is to make different research, and then find the appropriate object.

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Initial material selection

Coincidentally, some of the items that were sorted out before moving were just in line with the material requirements of this module - the items that were borne in the daily life（one object from a group of everyday and affordable functional items.）, and I was keen to collect all kinds of debris, such as scrap bags, cartons, pins on the needle and so on.

I'm looking forward to the different types of debris in the picture that can spark a different spark（complete a quality transform from ordinary to extraordinary）. At first, it will stimulate my creative ideas. Who knows what interesting stories would happen between the egg boxes and Shoelace? Let's go on exploring.

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Resubmission Module Notes

For some personal reasons, I regret the past without my work at the right time to upload, and missed the first exhibition opportunities. But as a resubmitted module, even though its final score will only be just passing through, I'll try my best to complete this interesting module. The above pictures are my notes and planning of this module.