Final evaluation
In this unit, I learnt about the different key art movements from the Renaissance to Digital Art, which have shaped art history.
I learnt about the Renaissance, Impressionism, Cubism, Surrealism, The Bauhaus, Socialist Realism, Pop art, Post-modernism, Concept Art, Young British Artists and Digital Art.
I enjoyed learning about most of them, however, my favourite are the Pop Art movement and the Conceptual Art movement. I find these two the most intriguing art movements.
I created this blog to write posts about the different movements and document my ideas as well within my sketchbook.
At the end of this unit, I had to choose one art movement to make an in-depth, independent research. Moreover, I had to create a 2 minute time lapse film to visually show the key artists, works, concepts, ideas and theories.
My choice was the Land Art, which is the part of the Concept Art movement. I chose this because I could think a lot about the different artworks; what were the concepts and the ideas and what was the point behind them. It had moved my mind, my imagination and that what I was looking for; an art movement which arouse my attention and inspired me.
The Land Art has absolutely impressed me. It can show me the power of nature and the fact that I don't need expensive tools and materials to create amazing and breathtaking artworks; everything surrounds me, I just have to look around.
Mainly, I focused on the key artists, their artworks and my own Land Art works as well. I was a bit inventive; I built in pictures about the artists (how they look like) and the country/city where they are/were from which is an interesting fact about them. Moreover, my mum took pictures of me when I held pieces of paper with different questions and statements. I think it was a successful idea to make the boring statements more interesting, 'colourful' and 'build in' myself in the animation (making the animation more personal).
I put my own Land Artworks in the beginning and the end of the animation. I really enjoyed creating these three artworks as I have never made similar one's before. It was a new experience for me and I realised that I love to create artworks about nature using natural materials and represent the natural beauty of the nature surrounding me.
The only failure, what I have to improve, is the technique how I create the actual animation. I used Photoshop to make an animation and I could not reach that upshot what I wanted, so for me that was a big failure. I can not use the Photoshop pretty well, so I could not resize all pictures to be the same size, that is why there is a white background behind every picture which look really unprofessional. In the future, I want to learn more about how I use the Photoshop successfully.
I think I could summarize this art movement successful with my chosen pictures; what this art movement was about and how it was look like. Moreover, I show my own land artworks and I am pleased with them. I feel this is another technique what I can develop in the future.
