Melbourne Sports Museum Critiques

The symbol of the Olympic Games was originally designed in 1912 by Barron Pierre de Coubertin, the dounder of the modern Olympic Games, even though it is known to be design in 1912, adopted in 1914 and debuted at the Games. It is composed if five interlocking rings (blue, yellow, black, green, red) on a white field.

This is such a successful and meaning ful design as the five rings represent the five parts of the world which now are won over to Olympism and willing to accept healthy competition. The rings somehow meant continuity and the human being, and they are interlaced which represent the relationships, unity between parts of the world. The colours of the ring and white are taken from the flags of all countries in the world since you can easily spot at least one of these colours in every flag.

The Richmond Football Club, nicknamed ‘The Tigers’, is an Australian rules football club which competes in the Australian Football League. Richmond’s club mascot is called “Tiger Stripes Dyer” named after AFL legend Jack ‘Captain Blood’ Dyer.

At first the team wore a blue uniform. One of the most important features of a nineteenth century footballer's uniform was his headgear, and Richmond opted for yellow and black striped caps, the same as the cricket club. After a couple of years, yellow and black stripes replaced blue as the colours of the team's guernseys. The team was variously called the "Richmondites", the "Wasps" or, most commonly, the "Tigers".

The club guernseys

The club was found in 1885. Richmond's colours were originally a blue guernsey with a yellow and black striped cap. A yellow and black striped guernsey was worn from 1888. The black guernsey with the diagonal yellow stripe was introduced in 1915, becoming the norm from 1924. Known popularly as the Richmond Tigers since the 1890s, the war cry 'Eat 'em alive, Tigers' has been used since the 1920s. During 1992 the Richmond Football Club logo was redesigned to its current 2009 form by Rob Perry, while he was working as an art director at the advertising agency George Patterson Bates in Melbourne. The illustration of the tiger was done by Lex Bell, the in-house illustrator of the agency.

The home jumper is black with a yellow sash which goes from top left to bottom right. The Clash jumper is the same as the home jumper with the addition of yellow side panels and inverse number on the back. The guernseys are made by sportwear company KooGa.

The logo and uniform are successful in my opinion. The logo with the tiger head roaring is a very strong illustration which create a strong and powerful appearance. The colours black and yellow is very eye-catching, one emphasizes the other. The uniforms/guerseys are very simple (black with yellow sash) which is easy to remember itself. Also. The two colour somehow give me a feeling of secure, stability, strength and power.

Source: 

http://www.google.com.au/images?client=safari&rls=en&q=richmond+football+guernseys&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=893&bih=675

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Football_Club

Critiquing tools

Art Vocabulary List

Demographic: The target audience includes gender, race, age, income, disabilities, mobility, educational attainment, ect.

Symmetry: refers to balance, geometric transformations such as scaling, reflection and rotation.

Stroke: it is the boder of the objects, can be thin, thick, heavy and such.

Positive Space: The space that the artwork fits in, the size of the artwork compared to the size of the presentation.

Blur: Unclear, can be used to describe that the design/artwork is visually unclear, vague.

Adjective List

Primary: Primary colours are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors. For additive combination of colours, primaries are Red, Green and Blue. For subtractive combination of colours, the primaries are Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black.

Contrast: The difference in color found between the light and dark parts of an image.

Tint: A color is made lighter by adding white, this is called a tint.

Blurred: to be made unclear or an effect to perform in photography.

Linear: refers to type of gradient.

Principles and Elements of Design List

Stability: Stability is the concept of visual equilibrium, and relates to our physical sense of balance. It is a reconciliation of opposing forces in a composition that results in visual stability. Most successful compositions achieve balance in one of two ways: symmetrically or asymmetrically. Balance in a three dimensional object is easy to understand; if balance isn't achieved, the object tips over.

Dynamics: Dynamics is the arrangement of visual elements in a composition to suggest the illusion of movement or direction. The effective use of dynamics in a design can add an emotive characteristic to your design making it appear restful and calming or active and energetic.

Rhythm: rhythm is about the rate the eye moves throughout the work of art.  This is usually because the eye moves, jumps or slides from one similar element to another in a way similar to music.

Scale: Proportion refers to the relative size and scale of the various elements in a design. The issue is the relationship between objects, or parts, of a whole. This means that it is necessary to discuss proportion in terms of the context or standard used to determine proportions.

Line: Line is the basic element that refers to the continuous movement of a point along a surface, such as by a pencil or brush. The edges of shapes and forms also create lines. It is the basic component of a shape drawn on paper. Lines and curves are the basic building blocks of two dimensional shapes like a house's plan. Every line has length, thickness, and direction. There are curve, horizontal, vertical, diagonal, zigzag, wavy, parallel, dash, and dotted lines.

Colour: Color is seen either by the way light reflects off a surface, or in colored light sources. Color and particularly contrasting color is also used to draw the attention to a particular part of the image. There are primary colours, secondary colours and tertiary colors. Complementary colours are colors that are opposite to each other on the colour wheel. Complementary colors are used to create contrast. Analogous colors are colors that are found side by side on the color wheel. These can be used to create color harmony. Monochromatic colors are tints and shades of one color. Warm colors are a group of colors that consist of reds, yellows, and oranges. Cool colors are group of colors that consist of purples, greens, and blues.

Texture: Texture is perceived surface quality. In art, there are two types of texture: tactile and implied. Tactile texture (real texture) is the way the surface of an object actually feels. Examples of this include sandpaper, cotton balls, tree bark, puppy fur, etc. Implied texture is the way the surface of an object looks like it feels. The texture may look rough, fizzy, gritty, but cannot actually be felt. This type of texture is used by artists when drawing or painting.

Form: Form is any 3 dimensional object. Form can be measured, from top to bottom (height), side to side (width), and from back to front (depth). Form is also defined by light and dark. There are two types of form, geometric (man-made) and natural (organic form). Form may be created by the combining of two or more shapes. It may be enhanced by tone, texture and color. It can be illustrated or constructed.

Style Time Line.

- Art Brut - 

Art Brut as an art for appeared around 1945, created by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside the boundaries of official culture. Art Brut is also called “Art of the insane” or “Outsider Art”.

Some noticeable artist are Nek Chand, Henry Darger, Ferdinand Cheval, Madge Gill, Alexandre Lobanov, Martin Ramirez, Achilles Rizzoli 

- Digital Art -

Digital art is a general term for a range of artistic works and practices that use digital

technology as an essential part of the creative and/or presentation process.
Existed since 1970s.


Famous artists: Yvonne Hakkert, Gary Tonge

- Impressionism - 

Impressionism can be defined as a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based painters who began publicly exhibiting their art in the 1860s.

Impressionist Paintings were charcterized by visible brushstrokes, light colors, open composition, emphasis on light in its changing qualities (giving the impression of the passage of time), subject matters which werent out of the ordinary and innovative angles.

Famous artist: Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet.

- Graffiti -

Graffiti is the name for images or lettering scratched, scrawled, painted or marked in any manner on property. Graffiti is any type of public markings that may appear in the forms of simple written words to elaborate wall paintings. Graffiti has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to Ancient Greece and the Roman Empire.

The earliest forms of Graffiti date back to 30000 BCE.

Famous artists: Banksy, Cool Chaser.

- Typographic Style -

Typographic style is the art and technique of arranging types, type design, and modifying

type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading (line spacing), adjusting the spaces between groups of letters (tracking) and adjusting the space between pairs of letters (kerning).

The typographical principle, that is the creation of a complete text by reusing identical characters, was first realized in the Phaistos Disc, an enigmatic Minoan print item from Crete, Greece, which dates between 1850 and 1600 BC.

Famous artists: Aerosyn Lex Mestrovich, Craig Ward.

- Lyrical Abstraction -  

Lyrical Abstraction is a French style of abstract painting current in the 1945 -1960. It is a descriptive term characterizing a type of abstract painting related to Abstract Expressionism.Famous artists: Arshile Gorky, Norman Bluhm

- Pluralism -

Pluralism, in painting, implies an eon on art scene, which is not specifically identified by a particular genus. The earlier eras in painting have been characterized by some underlying philosophies, where one artistic mode followed the other, in succession. Existed in the 20th century.

Famous artists: Annette Labedzki, Jonathan LeVine

- Realism -

Realism is a pragmatic approach to art in which subjects are presented in as straightforward a manner as possible, without idealizing them and without following rules of the formalist theories, appeared in the 19th century.

Famous artists: Johannes Vermeer, Hendrick Terbrugghen.

- Ukiyo-e -

Ukiyo-e (浮世絵 literally "pictures of the floating world") is a genre of Japanese woodblocks print (or woodcuts) and painting produced between the 17th and the 20th centuries, featuring motifs of landscapes, tales from history, the theatre, and pleasure quarters. It is the main artistic genre of wood block printing in Japan.

- Underground commix -

Underground comix are small press or self-published comic books which are often socially relevant or satirical in nature. They differ from mainstream comics in depicting content forbidden to mainstream publications by the Comics code authority, including explicit drug use, sexuality and violence. They were most popular in the United States between 1968 and 1975 and in 1973 and 1974 in the United Kingdom.

Famous artists: Robert Dennis Crumb, Richard Alden Griffin.

Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/
http://www.ethnicpaintings.com/popular-painting-styles/art-brut.html
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23757&page=12
http://ezinearticles.com/?Western-Painting---Pluralism---The-Multiplied-Art&id=3082948
http://www.braincrumbtrail.com/?p=47

Clash of the Titans

1) Who are the Titans?

- The males were Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, Cronus, Crius and Iapetus and the females were Mnemosyne, Tethys, Theia,Phoebe, Rhea and Themis.

2) Are the any interesting motifs you see frequently appearing (Eg. Lightning bolts)? How do you interpret their meaning? Can you name a modern version, of this motif, used today?

- The atonal sound design for Medusa, who has no real theme but instead a motif of plucked strings and rattles. Also, the wrath of the Gods is a motif as well.

3) Is your Greek character in the movie? If so, does the film's interpretation match your research?

- No, my Greek character is not in the movie. And it doesn't really match my research.

5) Are any of the characters, in the movie, related (Eg. a mother or father, wife or husband, brother or sister) to your Greek myth? If so, how?

- Yes, Zeus. Zeus ordered Hephaestus to mold her out of earth. Hermes gave Pandora a shameful mind and deceitful nature, the power of speech, adorned her with a garland crown and the name Pandora.

6) Is their a constellation of stars named after your Greek character?

- There are no constellation of star named after my Greek character Pandora.

7) How is Medusa killed? Does your Greek character have a weakness?

- Draco sacrificed himself by distracting the injured Medusa, so that Perseus could cut her head off her neck. My Greek chracter's weakness is her curiosity, she couldn't control it and open the box that wasn't supposed to be opened and let the creatures/evils come out.

Pandora research.

Appearance 
Pandora was the first woman in Greek mythology, created by the gods out of clay (from earth and water). She exudes an entrancing aura of seduction with breath-taking beauty, divine grace, charm and harmony. She is a perfect, flawless woman and once Pandora rose from the earth, she was immediately clothed by gitts of the gods. She always carries a box with her (a jar) as known as Pandora's box.


History
According to the Greek myth, Zeus wanted revenge on the god, Prometheus, for stealing fire from the immortals and giving it to the mortals. He ordered the god, Hephaestus, to create Pandora, the first woman and ordered the other gods to lavish her in a way that would entice mankind. Athena, the goddess of wisdom, gave Pandora clothes while Aphrodite, the goddess of love, gave her beauty. Necklaces, created by Hephaestus, were given to her by the Charites, goddesses of charm.

Adventures
Zeus gave Pandora a box, which he forbade her to open, and then sent her down to Earth. In her creation, the first woman was given curiosity. As a result, Pandora was unable to withstand temptation. When she peered into the box, she released all of the troubles, such as disease and conflict, which would later afflict mankind. In the end, the only thing remaining in her box was hope.


Relationships
Pandora was the first woman in Greek mythology, created by the gods out of clay. She was given the gifts of beauty by Aphrodite, music by Apollo and persuasion by Hermes. She was also given a vessel, known to most as Pandora's Box.


Symbols
The Symbol of Pandora is the box (the jar) with lid, and perhaps a doll. Some says she may be symbolised as a doll because the gods played woth her by dressing her and presenting her to man as a toy. She and her jar may be a symbol for thehope of eternity, as well as a symbol of dire warning for mankind to keep his nose out of what does not concern him. Pandora's box represents the natural instinct that is curiosity.


Sport symbol
Pandora can be the symbol for Poker or any gamble game as you have to keep the card to yourself. It requires secret and raise your curiosity.




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Research source: 
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/1969019
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_are_Pandora's_symbols
http://www.support4change.com/general/women/pandora/myth.html

Pandora

Source: http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=pandora#/d1wx8px