Chesterfield College Fashion Show Evaluation

Fashion Show Evaluation

On Tuesday the 25^th of June we attended the college Fashion Show. This was a show where the fashion and textiles students wore and showed off the unique patterns and clothes designs that they have made for what I assume was the final project of their courses.

The show was roughly about 45 mins long and showed off a lot of different styles of clothing in that time. There were elements from the 50’s, 60’s, 80’s and even work that was designed around the artists image of the future.

The show itself wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be and in fact some of the clothes that had been made looked fairly good, although a very high percentage of the work was designed for females which may have been the reason some of the work looked very similar. It feels like there wasn’t a wide enough range on the things that they had, which was one of the major negative points about the whole event.

Probably the main things that ruined the show was the fact that the models had clearly chosen the song choices due to the fact that  some of them did not fit the theme of the show. Strutting down a catwalk wearing 50’s styled dresses to a modern day pop song just seems a bit odd to me.

All in all the show was not too bad, and apart from the couple of negatives I listed it was enjoyable. The parts that didn’t have any faults were surprisingly good and a lot of the clothes looked neat and very professional although I did not understand why some of the clothes were so ‘unique’.

I can’t see myself attending another in future although that may not have been solely down to this show. 

Life drawings 19th March

On the 19th of march we did some more of our life drawings but we added a more unique method to it. We used collage techniques to add tone to our pictures. You will be able to see how it has worked in one of the images. I was never a big fan of collage but i think it has worked pretty well.

Life Drawing

On 5th of March we did our first bit of life drawings using an eisle. We learnt simple ways to keep our work in proportion using our equipment. We also did a little bit of resesrch into Da Vinci and the methods he used to keep his work to scale.

Contextual Influences: Photomontages

Laszlo Maholy-Nagy

This is a piece by Laszlo Maholy-Nagy an Hungarian photographer. He does a lot of photomontages as well as his photography. After looking through some of his work this one stood out. I really like how this piece looks. I like they way that the grey beams overlay and create darker sections. I love how simple this piece is. As a graphic design student i really like this piece, Laszlo Maholy-Nagy has utilised his space really well, as the white space draws your eyes to the centre.

Jan Tschichold

This is a photomontage by Jan Tschichold this is another really nice pice of work, I really like how she has used the white space and I also really like the red lines used which ads a bit of depth to the image. The way the images are put together looks really professional. I think this artist is really talented and is one of my favourites that I have found.

Man Ray

Man Ray is a very famous and high rated designer and artist. He does a lot of wacky and strange work that stands out well and looks very good. This is a piece found and I decided I would use as an example. I really like this piece as its quite strange and can be hard to make out, i like the facet that he has only used 2 colours ,black and white, but the main thing i like is that you can look at it for a a long time just trying to work out what it is you are looking at.

Contextual Influences Photo montage

Dave McKean

Dreaming – Comic cover

-Dave McKean has used very modern techniques to create this image.

- Surrealism art is often referred to as a nightmarish dream land. With the title being ‘Dreaming’ it suggests this is something that would be featured in a dream, so to me it fits the Surrealist category perfectly.

- I really like how this image looks. I like the way how you can clearly see a face but if you look at the shadows you can make out shapes, like the crow and a hand, which to me gives away what this picture is about, like an insight to the book.

Hannah Hoch

-Bauerliches Brautpaar (Peasant Wedding Couple) 1931 

- This kind of art tends to be referred to as Dada and surreal.

- Dada art is art made from pieces of found scrap images. They use these images to create a brand new piece of art.

- Some of Hannah Hoch’s work is much like the work of Salvador Dali because of the fact they both do very surreal work.

-In this image the first thing you see are the two figures stood at the front. With this piece of art being called ‘Peasant Wedding Couple‘ I would assume they are the couple to be wed.

-The woman in the image has been given a Gorrilas face which suggests that Hannah may think, being a peasant and doing this kind of work is only for the animals.

-There is also a black man stood next to her. This may also suggest that work like this is also for black people, this may seem racist but at the time it wouldnt have been seen that way. 
John Heartfield

Jesus

-John Heartfield was considered the pioneer of photomontage as he would use his art work as a weapon and to help create anti Nazi movements.

-I think this picture is trying to say that the Nazi’s were not just killing of people but there beliefs as well.

-The way John Heartfield has done this picture I think is really good. At first glance I would have thought this image could have been on Photoshop because of how well it is done. E.g. colours fit well, its hard to se a definite edge between each separate image.

Kurt Schwitters

-     The Merz

-Here Kurt Schwitters has made a piece of art that was really unique at the time.

-This picture is made during the Dada movement but Kurt Schwitters went about making it different to any body else during that era.

-I really like this picture for one main reason, and it is that it has no hidden political meaning.

-Most people who did Dada art (like Hannah Hoch) would try to put a hidden political message in it, but Kurt Schwitters hasn’t. He made this picture because not everything has to be political. Sometimes art can just be a pretty picture.