Fatalism as a style of life
Basically, our project is about thinking. As I understand, we have to concentrate on meaning of the words and at the same time we should widen our mind trying to find alternative way of using them. It sounds hard for understanding, however, I had several ideas about the given words in advance. Actually, my words are fatalism, ink and fold. Thus, we went to the library to try to collect all the information we could find. After couple hours in the library, I have such a big mess in my brain. Almost all finds are such unexpected and I need to one or two most interesting ideas. I began to think about the fatalism.
Ink vs balloons
"Our young brothers who have a burning desire to help the religion of Allah with words and deeds can carry out graffiti attacks, that is, they paint Islamic slogans on the walls of houses and buildings, which will remind people of Allah, His religion and jihad." is said in an article from the online newspaper from December 2011.
However, true philosophers, philanthropists and fatalists do not cry out, what they have been hammered into since childhood. To begin with, they all analyze, read books, share their thoughts, write them down in ink, because The pen is mightier than the sword. Thus it can be said that the balloon is in the hands of a street artist, like a pen in the hands of a writer. They have equal force of impact.
the blot as an art
Ink is a dyne of the most common materials in use. Most of them are use as a material for writing or drawing. However, not everyone knows how to handle ink properly, because, in my opinion, it created a story. We live in an era of electronics and began to forget all the power of ink, because all the decrees, laws, letters that have decreed the destiny of mankind were written exactly with ink. However, no one is immune from blotting. In the classic understanding of the blot, this is a mistake. Nevertheless, the blot can be regarded as a kind of a stroke, perhaps, even an outlet of emotions. A vivid representative can be Pollock, whose special manner is extremely expressive and having special a significance in contemporary art. Firstly, he thought out the basic composition and concept and then he let the chance happen without knowing exactly how the paint would fall. As a conclusion, Pollock is also a fatalist.
Conclusion
To sum up, I think,that each of us is a little fatalist, even if we try to fight the circumstances. We can never know for sure what will be the end result of any kind of our activity. Let it be creating a new silhouette or just writing a letter.
inspiration by Frieze Art Fair exhibition
I took inspiration from teamLab "Dark waves», because it it one of the most eye-catching esthetic installation and everybody can find something specific for theim selves in it. Moreover, the piece of art made me think about identity through the seeing just our shadow reflection in the screen with the waves, which are like a style of life-up and down | lull or storm . The visual experience from other works in Frieze helped me to create my ideas as I was interested in how my expressions and emotions were hidden behind the headpiece, symbolising how we often bottle up emotions.
I feel film worked well in black and white as it allows the viewer to fell more the esthetic of the emotions i wanted to develop. I also feel that the music added a good dynamic to the film, because people can hear certain words that express the idea .
Into The Past NERO
Is this gonna be our end?
I can feel the light
Somewhere in the darkness
I'll follow you
I'll follow you
I would develop my idea by creating more full video of images interesting angles next time.
Nicolas Gescière 1997 - 2012
Only in 1997, when the young, energetic Nicolas Gescière came to the post of creative director, Balenciaga House began to regain its former greatness. In general, before all three creative directors whose names have appeared on the pages of the House's history since then, there has been a fundamental choice - to develop the heritage, or it is indicative with it to break. Zheskier chose the first path. And it was right. It turned out that he built his whole concept of the Balenciaga brand around the key codes of Christobal himself: there is a rigid structural silhouette, and architectural forms, and futurism.
Alexander Wang 2012-2015
took recognizable Balenciaga silhouettes and connected them to street fashion. The compromise came out "good," but no one needed it. Not a revolution, not even a little scandal, Vang did not betray. That is why, as agreed later in the opinion of the criticism, Alexander Wang did not manage to stay in Balenciaga for a long time.
And his hopes were great. It would seem that sports street aesthetics, sharpened for commercial comfort, in a batch with the French couture had to give an explosive mixture. But it did not happen. It happened that Vang thinks commercially, and not conceptually. So he was released in peace. Well, no luck. And this we are not talking about talent and not about the ability to decipher the DNA of a brand. With this, Vanga is all right.
Demna Gvasalia 2015 - present time
From the interview for Vogue Russia
Demna Gvasalia: Interestingly, most American online stores and department stores can not sell this print - it's too provocative. In general, this season was full of similar messages. It was a way to express your emotions! Everyone had a certain aggression, a lot of everything that was heavy, dark, unpleasant. And each of our team contributed. My bridges were. I know who this Fuck'n Asshole was ... By the way, all these slogans came from the network. Such a concept: all that we wanted to say, someone already said for us on the Internet. In Instagram, on Facebook - all these things we found somewhere. They spoke to us, but they were not our words.
GG: Maybe it's the dialogue of today's youth with us, with the global industry.
Jean-Michel Basquiat is a street style influencer
Jean-Michel Basquiat is an American graffiti artist and neo-expressionist. His vivid style was developed largely under the influence of Picasso, Andy Warhol and abstract expressionists, as well as the work of street artists graffiti. The popularity of Basquiat and his paintings grew in 1988 after the death of the artist.
For three years, Basquiat and his friend created graffiti under this name, investing in their work an important message: you need to open your eyes and see behind the brightly decorated walls of Manhattan artists who do not know how to draw still lifes and portraits, but who also has something to communicate to the world. Drawing attention to graffiti as an art, Basquiat began to get acquainted with the expanses of the art industry and its figures. Not leaving to the last day the idea of a graffiti project "Samo", Basquiat, nevertheless, tries himself in painting. Choosing new materials for his work, Jean-Michel does not strive for classical standards. Everything in his work screams about the independence of his chosen path.
"Samo is dead." The last graffiti-inscription created by the artist. He outgrew the street art, it is from this record that the life of the Basque-Neo-Expressionist begins. "New wild" artists and artists, among them were Eric Fischl and Julian Schnabel, opposed themselves to the art of the 70s, such a minimalistic, cold, abstract, creating works full of vitality. Basquiat possessed an internal fire, which, while burning, made him create with incredible passion. To create in all directions!
The canvas "Hollywood Africans", depicting another get-together, which were Basquiat and his friends. A close-up viewer will easily find on the canvas a self-portrait of the artist. The attitude of the master to the art market is reflected in numerous inscriptions and figures on the canvas - here and the "Oscar" characterizing movie stars, to which Basquiat himself was despised, and the popcorn, the food of the lower classes, and the name speaks for itself - where Did you see that Africans were living in Hollywood?
Fashion & Textiles project
The project exercise was to draw styled models in sketchbook using the mood of the music,trying different materials and technics. When I was drawing I tried to make sketches full of lines and color and express the type of fabric or the plot of the look by it. I remembered at once one of my favorite artists Edgar Degas, because my favouite matirial is pastel and use it mainly because of its colors and its pleasantness to the touch. Degas liked to depict people, especially women, but not posing in a frozen posture, but as if taken by surprise for their studies, in their characteristic poses, with their gestures. The artist drew the theme of the ballet in the 1870s. When portraying dancers, the artist tries to capture them not on the stage in all its splendor, no, he prefers to show us the labor behind-the-scenes everyday.From the 1870s, he was carried away by pastel, combining the qualities of painting and graphics at the same time. This technique suited the artistic tastes of Degas, who bowed before the line. "I'm a colorist through the line," he used to say. Impressionists also prayed to another god - the color.
After 1880, Degas almost constantly works pastel. In the 1880s the first series of works appeared - naked women at the toilet. The theme, to which the artist returned constantly, and which so shocked contemporaries Degas. Also a popular theme in Degas were horse racing. Drawing horse races, like dancing dancers or women behind the toilet, Degas followed his most important principle in creativity - this is the transfer of movement. Psychology of movement, harmony of lines and contour continuity. After 1890, Degas' work acquired some decorativeness. He used sharp colors and paid more attention to the surface of the picture, depicting the milliner, laundress, and dancers only schematically, reducing details to a minimum.
As we had to make the final outcome in group we decided to make a dress in gothic style. I liked the idea very much, however it was not in my way of thinking that day. This way, I offer an idea of capturing this look. The main idea of the our little photoshoot was the movement, as the reason for making it more impressionist style. Unfortunately it didn't work in color, so I supposed to change it in monochrome like at the exhibition. From that point it began to be in an appropriate style, but it didn't loose its impressionists esthetic.
Philosophical doctrine of the media
LOGICAL FATALISM is a philosophical doctrine that states that it is only from the laws (principles) of logic everything in the world is predetermined and therefore a person does not have freedom of will. Argument of logical fatalism with the aim of refuting it was invented by Aristotle in the famous 9th chapter of the treatise 9th Interpretation. The argument itself can be presented in the following form. Suppose now it is true that tomorrow there will be a sea battle. From this it follows that it can not be that there will no sea battle tomorrow.
Accordingly, the media every day convinces us that everything that happens in the world,for example, politics, it's like rock and none of us can change the course of events. If a person tries to somehow overcome what is happening, tries to protest, then such people are quickly besieged, as this breaks the system. Thus, urban graffiti, which artists produce trying to make people think is illegal. But even if the artist manages to attract attention, like Banksy, the media turns it into a sensation and business.
The philosophy of folds
The philosophy of folds has always interested mankind, for example, in origami, in textiles or in architecture. Alexander McQueen is a vivid representative of the experimenter, whose strength was not the fear of folding the fabric and producing a completely new silhouette. When you come up with a design, you start to pick up the fabric and give it a shape, you never know the final result. This happened in 1999 during the performance by McQueen. A completely new art object was born on the podium, when robots sprayed the paint on the white dress . With this gesture, McQueen tried to convey that the fashion industry had become a soulless robot that only commerce was interested in.
"Scarlet Sails metamorphosis"
Century of Balenciaga: a retrospective at the Museum of Victoria and Alberta
The exhibition is dedicated to the work of Cristobal Balenciaga and his ability to work with form and volume - the main components of his design. Retrospective will be the first in the UK and timed to the centenary of the opening of the boutique in the designer's hometown, San Sebastian in Spain, and the 80th anniversary of his famous Paris salon. Cristobal Balenciaga became one of the key figures in the development of post-war fashion, embodying a new understanding of the volume and proportions of the female silhouette. The Victoria and Albert Museum will feature more than 100 costumes and 20 hats, previously not shown drawings and photographs, as well as factory materials.
50th years as the most productive period of Balenciaga's work. It was then that his famous narrow straight silhouette in the form of the letter I appeared, and also a coat-car, a balloon dress, a trapeze dress and a sleeve 7/8. In 1945 he introduced square shoulders into women's clothing, and in 1951 - clothes with open necks and shoulders. Balenciaga did not change much of the female silhouette.
Demna Gvasalia
Demna is not afraid to hold shows in an unconventional setting. Vêtements is positioning itself as an avant-garde brand. Gvasalia introduced four collections in different unusual places - the last was the famous restaurant Paris Chinese Chinese, where they deployed the podium for the presentation of the spring-summer collection of 2016.
Gosha Rubchinskiy's S/S 2016 show referenced the Dizelasi practice of tucking track jackets into tracksuit bottoms, which were in turn tucked into socks and The glamorous look of turbo-pop star Ceca is much copied. 5 Nike Air Max, the Dizelasi footwear o
Strategies for using collection
Usually collections consist of pictures of improvisation, where objects are removed of their original context, stripped of their ordinary function and yet often rendered functional in an altogether new and unexpected way. He furthermore registers chance encounters of oddities and discrepancies in the modern landscape.
- REMOVAL OF DIFFERENCE (overlaying)
- Elements used to make specific form: components selected for specific placement.
- DUPLICATION
- METAPHOR; Methodology (of straightening and repair) used as an act to embody a desire to repair and fix the remnants of a humanitarian disaster.
- NON VISUAL COLLECTIONS (Auditory/ phonology)
- PERFORMANCE AND RE- ENACTMENT
- LONGEVITY: collecting over a long period of time.