Lecture 4 Production
For this fourth lecture, we are focusing upon production and mass production. Within this lecture I am solely focused upon the creative side of production. Within this lecture I have been greatly, influenced by the original nineteenth Century arts of wooden letterpress type within the print room in the university, which I have access to. Within my project of “People and Places”, I feel that I can communicate ideas via typography, our area of interest is Digbeth is a very industrial area just outside the city centre of Birmingham. I feel that i can reflect this mood through block type printing, which I can then develop further digitally upon Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, creating graphic work to place upon our 3D sculpture in cardboard of Digbeth. Taking inspiration from the nineteenth century, block printing towards commercial use of posters and advertisements. This was the start of variations created in type, the start of type design (typography), the start of this enabled people to advertise their products using the power of type design.
In the mid nineteenth century factories were introducing mass production of sellable goods. Robbing craftsmen of their skill set, this was the introduction to the “industrial revolution”. The industrial era influenced the movement of cubism, which I should link in with the artwork of the dutch artist “M.C Escher” printed in March 1960 of “ascending and descending” a lithograph in black ink. Reflection of the treatment of workers, they were treated as objects as a part in the wheel of mass production. This is reflected in “Metropolis” a film created by Fritz Lang in 1927, he focused upon the depressive state of the workers in the mass production industry, themselves given the meaning of being massed produced.
I am highly influenced by paintwork so when pop art was mentioned with Andy Warhol, I automatically knew I would relate this, with my own work in my project. Warhol created screen prints of famous stars in the sixties and fifties, his most recognised piece being of the actress of the day Marilyn Monroe. My specialised area being Digbeth has many illustrated pieces across the buildings one, imparticullar being a mockery of Andy Warhol’s screen print of monroe’s head piece print. I have never experimented with screen printing, I am very ambitious to investigate many printing techniques, very excited to experiment with different techniques within screen printing also, to develop my ideas and designs towards our final outcome of a three dimensional Digbeth, concentrating upon the street art.