8 Art Forms For Your Design Inspiration
How different form of creative art blends with creativity in all forms
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On a very interactive and creative Monday morning, we had a brief discussion on looking for a new design inspiration. Hence a lot of researching and brain storming went into it.
The result for a writer- a blog that has 8 Art Forms for your Design Inspiration.
Read on for the ultimate list to get your next design inspiration.
Pixel Art
Pixel art is a form of digital art, created through the use of software, where images are edited on the pixel level.
Creating or modifying pixel art characters or objects for video games is sometimes called spriting, a term that arose from the hobbyist community.
Some traditional art forms, such as counted-thread embroidery (including cross-stitch) and some kinds of mosaic and beadwork, are very similar to pixel art.
There are some similarities of technique and style between pixel art and older artistic movements like Impressionism, Abstract Art, and especially Cubism.
Pixel art is useful for mobile phones and other portable devices still have low resolution and therefore require skillful use of space and memory. Sometimes pixel art is used for advertising too.
Duo Tone Art
Duotone is a halftone reproduction of an image using the superimposition of one contrasting colour halftone (traditionally black) over another color halftone.
This is most often used to bring out middle tones and highlights of an image. The most commonly implemented colours are blue, yellow, brown, and red.
Duotone color mode in Adobe’s Photoshop computes the highlights and middle tones of a monochrome (grayscale or black-and-white) image in one color, and allows the user to choose any color ink as the second color.
Mosaic Art
A mosaic is a piece of art or image made from the assemblage of small pieces of colored glass, stone, or other materials. It is often used in decorative art or as interior decoration. Most mosaics are made of small, flat, roughly square, pieces of stone or glass of different colors, known as tesserae.
Mosaics have a long history, starting in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium BC. Mosaics with patterns and pictures became widespread in classical times.
Modern mosaics are made by professional artists, street artists, and as a popular craft. Many materials other than traditional stone and ceramic tesserae may be employed, including shells, glass and beads.In styles that owe as much to videogame pixel art and pop culture as to traditional mosaic, street art has seen a novel reinvention and expansion of mosaic artwork.
Lyrical Abstraction
Lyrical Abstraction is a seemingly self-defining term, and yet for generations its origin and meaning have been debated.
The American art collector Larry Aldrich used the term in 1969 to define the nature of various works he had recently collected that he felt signaled a return to personal expression and experimentation following Minimalism.
In the 1910s, several artists were working with this art each in a unique form. Cubist and Futurist artists were working with imagery from the real world and altering it in conceptual ways to express abstract ideas. Suprematist and Constructivist artists were working with recognizable forms in their art, but using them in ambiguous or symbolic ways, or in a way that attempted to convey universalities.
In the modern times, this form of art has evolved into a more lyrical, sensuous, romantic abstractions in colors which were softer and more vibrant.
Cubism Art
Cubism is an early-20th-century art movement which brought European painting and sculpture historically.
The term is broadly used in association with a wide variety of art produced in Paris (Montmartre, Montparnasse and Puteaux) during the 1910s and extending through the 1920s.
In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up and reassembled in an abstracted form — instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from a multitude of viewpoints to represent the subject in a greater context.
Cubist paintings aren’t meant to be realistic or life-like in any way. After looking at the subject from every possible angle, the artist will piece together fragments from different vantage points into one painting.
The various forms of Cubism are:
Analytic Cubism, what comes to mind when people think of Cubist artwork.
Synthetic Cubism, is a natural extension of Analytic Cubism.
Pop Art
Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid-1950s in Britain and the late 1950s in the United States.The movement presented a challenge to traditions of fine art by including imagery from popular and mass culture, such as advertising, comic books and mundane cultural objects.
Among the early artists that shaped the pop art movement were Eduardo Paolozzi and Richard Hamilton in Britain, and Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns among others in the United States.
Pop art and minimalism are considered to be art movements that precede postmodern art, or are some of the earliest examples of postmodern art themselves.
In the United States, pop art was a response by artists; it marked a return to hard-edged composition and representational art. They used impersonal, mundane reality, irony, and parody to “defuse” the personal symbolism and “painterly looseness” of abstract expressionism.
Expressionism Art
The style extended to a wide range of the arts, including expressionist architecture, painting, literature, theatre, dance, film and music.
Its typical trait is to present the world solely from a subjective perspective, distorting it radically for emotional effect to evoke moods or ideas. Expressionist artists sought to express the meaning of emotional experience rather than physical reality.
Expressionism art includes elements of peoples soul as through a filter which rids them of all substantial accretions to produce their clear essence. This is then assimilated and condense into more general forms, into types, which is transcribed through simple shorthand formulae and symbols.
Op Art
Op art, short for optical art, is a style of visual art that uses optical illusions.
Op art works are abstract, with many better known pieces created in black and white. Typically, they give the viewer the impression of movement, hidden images, flashing and vibrating patterns, or of swelling or warping.
Artists create op art in the best known method, is to create effects through pattern and line. Often these paintings are black-and-white wavy lines that are close to one another on the canvas surface, creating a volatile figure-ground relationship.
Another reaction that occurs is that the lines create after-images of certain colors due to how the retina receives and processes light.
As Goethe demonstrates in his treatise Theory of Colours, at the edge where light and dark meet, color arises because lightness and darkness are the two central properties in the creation of color.
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