Assignment 5- Colour

The experimentation of colour has changed the understanding and use of different ways we use it. We now use techniques such as light and shading to create realistic interpretations of what we are trying to create. Experiments such as the colour wheel which was created by Newton in 1704 helped us realise which colours work well with each other and which are opposite. After a while there was a change in which people thought colours were a science ( Newton) to what you felt the colour should be or should not be or more of a emotional interpretation (Van Gogh)

Van Gogh took this in to account and painted what he felt colours looked like in “The Night Cafe’”. The colours in the painting are off but it is his emotional interpretation of what he saw. He used contrasting colours in the empty space to create tension .Van Gogh said "Everywhere there is a clash and contrast of the most disparate reds and greens…” (Gage, 1993) which shows why he used contrasting colours in the space.

Even though Newton and Van Gogh had to completely different views on the topic of colour I believe that they have both revolutionised the way in which we see colour and how we use it in everyday life and design.

References
Gage, J. (1993). Colours of the Mind in Colour and Culture: Practice and Meaning from Antiquity to Abstraction (pp.191-212) New York: Thames and Hudson.

Assignment 4 Ornament or Nature

I believe that Adolf Loos was right in arguing that we should remove ornamentation from our objects of daily use. I believe this because I think that it is a waste of material and pointless. By adding lots of decoration for the sake of adding decoration seems unjustified. Also by removing most of the ornamentation from the objects would make them look purposeful rather than just for show. If you look at some of the ornamentation from the Rocco period you can see that a lot of it looks pointless and over dramatised to a point in which real designers such as Pugin thought that it looked bad and didn't have any design principles or rules such as decoration having a purpose. 

However because of the middle class people who were buying these objects don't know what good design is they brought these over decorated objects because they are cheap. These over objects were cheap because they were mass produced and therefore didn't have any real value. So the need for education was in order so that Adolf Loos's argument of the removal of ornament could become true.I think that this process helped in the history and today as we don't often see over decorated things in our daily lives or as much as in 1908.

 

Assignment 3

“Construction should be decorated. Decoration should never be
purposely constructed.”

When Owen Jones argued this in 1856 he ment that when you a decorating things the decoration should have a purpose in the design such as holding the weight of the stucture not to just be on the design just becuase it looks nice. I agree with Jones because when looking at his designs they look solid and true to what the desgin is trying to be but when I look at some other designs that do not follow what Owen Jones said the desgin look over decrated and over the top such as this table which was desgined in the Rococo time period.

 

The legs have alot of decoration and dont serve any perpose to the structure of the table. The table is ‘decoration constructed’. But if we look and one of Owen Jones's designs it dosent look over decorated and it still looks good and this table is ‘construction decorated’. 

Continuing curve assginmnet 2

An example of the continuing curve is this chair called the  "la Chaise" by Charles and Ray Eames. This chair is described as having "exquisite beauty and functionality". I was designed by Charles and Ray in 1948 for a competition at the New York Museum of Modern Art. I believe that it is a result of the "sensuous impulse" because it has a feminine and seductive look to it which entices us to want to sit in it and to look comfortable. This chair appeals to our softer senses which is why I believe it is a result of the "sensuous impulse.