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 In today's lessons, we got acquainted with two artists who created as a couple in real life. Alfred Stieglitz was an American photographer (born in New Jersey, 1864-1946). He was this artist which decided to prove that photography is an art like painting or drawing. His photography was inspired by realism (art movement) and they showed normal life of those times, but they also had some hidden meanings. Good example of this will be his photography called "The Steerage", which is one of the most important photographs of the 20th century.                                                          Alfred Stieglitz  The Steerage This photography represent both realism and symbolism. It is a black and white photo, which artists shot in year 1907. This picture has many "layers". It symbolizes the great immigration movement of his era, showing...

 There are  many architects that I have thought of in connection with my project. The first and perhaps most famous is American architect-Frank Lloyd Wright. Already as a child I saw a photo of the building designed by this architect, where the house is in amazingly blended into the natural landscape in which it is located.                                                      Frank Lloyd Wright  Fallingwater     There are many interest architects, who inspiring me, where the buildings blending into the landscape. Here are a few examples:                                                                                     ...

 For this project I will create six 2D outcomes of concept sketches and plans for a Family home set in a forest/hills location. The topic will be the connection between architecture and nature. This will be buildings that will fit into nature in such a way as to harmonize with it. The topic I chose is Earthly Delights, as it suits to my concept. I will create this six 2D drawing by week 8 in order to give myself the time to complete and finalize my work for my presentation on my Design Boards. I will hand draw the images and will use my digital skills in Photoshop and Sketch Up  which I am in the process of learning. learn in the first term to digitalize those drawings. I will include every step of development of my project to the blog, where I will include my research, development of concepts and my sketches. I will add my six 2D outcomes  to my website at the beginning of June.

 This is my initial ideas development, by using one of three methods which we have to pick. I chose method two: Mountain & Valley, where I will draw an image of a mountain and valley. Then I will explore my ideas by adding writing, drawing or signs in to the mountains and valley graphic. 

 I start thinking about architecture, which is my progressive route and the three themes that we have to choose from. From the start I liked the Earthly Delight theme the most, because I love the nature, just like the architecture, and I think that one needs to cooperate with the other. I enjoy watching the natural landscapes, the nature scenery, and I think that architecture needs to blend with the space where will be built. I am very inspired by the modern architecture of Eastern Europe, where the buildings are planned so that they do not destroy or change the space in which they are located. They are perfectly blended into scenery of forests, hills and fields. I would like to design a house that will harmonize with nature in such a way, a house where people would have a relationship with nature. A place of peace and rest, I think I would like to live in such a place myself.                               ...

 Today we were introduced to our Project Set for this term, where we have to make six 2D outcomes in our continuation route. We must to choose one of the three themes listed, which are: Purple Haze, Earthly Delights or Expressionism.  I start thinking about my progressing route, which is architecture and those three themes that I mentioned earlier. I think about Earthly Delights theme for my Set Project, where I would like to design building which cooperate with the nature. My idea is to design timber house which will blending with the surrounding. My initial ideas about location is my country Poland. In south-eastern part of the country there is many beautiful landscapes, with forests and hills. This area ia called Bieszczady and it reminds me of Wales, with lots of lakes, forests and hills. I am thinking of designing a family house in a traditional shape for this area. However I will give it more modern features and shape. 

 Odilion Redon (1840-19160) was a French symbolist artist, which was a painter, printmaker, draughtsman and pastelist. He worked almost exclusively in charcoal and lithography. Till today he is one of the most important and original symbolist artists. His visionary works concern the world of dreams, fantasy, and the imaginations. He first became famous for his Noirs series, which was monochromatic compositions, where the main and most important color was black. First half of his career, he worked almost exclusively in black and white. Later on he started working with a more colorful palette. His art became very bright, full of colors.                                                                Odilion Redon  Apparition

As the first task in the new term, we have to draw a self-portrait. This also has to be our ice breaker task after our brake. I decide to draw a portrait from a picture of me, where I am sitting at the desk and drawing something. Only the back part of the body is visible because I wanted to focus only on the activity that I was doing then, just learning, practicing, drawing. This picture is important to me because it is reminding me that now is time for daily development, daily exercises, as this is how I will spend my next few years. Below I put a photo that I used and even below my finish self-portrait.

 Welcome back after three weeks of holidays. I spend this time at home, resting and gaining strength for the new term. Today we were introduced to the structure of our Art Portfolio classes, our assessments and discussed materials and resources. We discussed about our blog, which we will be using as a sketchbook, just like we did in Digital Arts in the first term. My holidays passed really quick, but I felt refreshed and ready for new challenges. As I mentioned before, I spend this time at home, going for walks or watching an interesting movie or document. One of them was dedicated to a Brazilian architect called Oscar Niemeyer, and about his project-new Brasil Capital, which has been over 60 years old now.                                                                  Oscar Niemeyer  Brasil It is an amazing proj...