Saul bass

Saul bass

Saul Bass was born in 1920 and died 75 years later. In his life time or in a career that last 40 years he was a known graphic designer as well as film maker.

Better still, he will be remembered for his design of film posters and picture title sequences.

Saul bass was the son of Eastern European Jewish immigrants he attended James Monroe high school and studied art at student league in Manhattan and later Brooklyn College. He got his break when he collaborated with a filmmaker by the name Otto Preminger to design the film poster for his 1954 film Carmen Jones. Saul bass Impressed Mr. Preminger so much that he asked him to produce the title sequence as well.  What shone the lime light on him was the title sequence for the film “ The Man With The Golden Arm (1955).

Many in the filming industry credit Saul bass as the pioneer or father of the sequences, contemporary filmmakers like martin Scorsese and James L. brook re- introduced him into what he knows best. Himself and his wife Elaine Bass created the title sequence for films such as Good fellas (1990), Cape fear (1991) , The Age of Innocence (1993) and Casino (1995) – which was the his last title sequence. He moved from his traditional optical techniques into computerized effects. Some of his work includes – Carmen Jones (1954).

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman

Cindy Sherman is an American Film Director and Photographer. She is first a photographer before a film director. She was born in 1954 in New Jersey. Cindy started out as an artist in buffalo state college. She however became bored and disillusioned about her then course she then decided to pursue photography.

Many regard her as promoting or using her work to high light the plight of women. And consequently form her as a feminist. Cindy is most known for photographing her self in various costumes. She is known to shoot her self in her studio she is very competitive and says this in this regards, ‘I’m still really competitive when it comes to I guess the male painters and male artists’.

Cindy’s directorial credentials have seen her direct a comedy horror film in 1971-called Office Killer. This was her only film to date. Before are lists of some of her artist works.  

·      Bus Driver (1976)

·      Film Still (1978)

·      Rear Screen Projection (1980)

·      Centre fold (1981)

·      Fashion (1983)

·      History Portrait (1990)

She’s currently active in the art world and is still a female icon.

Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce

Sonia Boyce is a British Afro – Caribbean artist. She is also known or considered a painter, draughts women and a multi-media artist. Sonia Boyce was born in 1962, attended East Ham College and later Stourbridge College of Art. She left later in 1983.

Her early works of chalk and pastel drawings centered around the very volatile issues of race, ethnicity and contemporary urban experiences. These she also used in depicting friends and family. She used her work to question racial stereotypes that was in the daily media and lives of ordinary people.

Currently Boyce’s work has shifted or progressed from pastel drawings, photographic colleges, the questioning of racial stereotypes into conceptual material art. Boyce will let anybody know in plain words that her works are at re – orientating and re-negotiating the position of Black or Afro Caribbean art within mainstream of culture. Whether this is in Britain or out side Britain.

Since the 1980s Boyce’s mark in the mainstream art world was made through the medium of drawings. However, she has decided to diversify into photography, installation and mix media. Boyce has attended many art related seminars and held numerous exhibitions and attended many more. She has a residency at the university of Manchester. She doubles as the creative practitioner and co-director of the African and Asian and Visual Artist Archive her works include

·      Black female hair styles (1995)

·      One afro, twenty – five people (1996)

·      The audition curtain (1998)

·      Choral 1 and 2 (2000/01)

For some one who started her career at the British Home Stores. Sonia Boyce has done well to establish her self a  black female artist. 

Identity

The word Identity is much easier to spell than define. Why one might ask. A persons identity can be varied and complex. identity can be how people either see you or perceive you. Again ones identity can also be how one wants to be see. A man who has siblings who have children and is married with his own children and surviving parents who is a school teacher has various identities. his identities will change depending on where he is and who is asking. his somebody's brother. sons, husband , father and uncle and teacher. one man with multiple identities .his gender , race and place of origin have not being included though.  

Semiotics

Semiotics is the study of signs I am going to define and explain the meaning of semiotics. In this matter signs can be an image of a meaning to the context like what does an apple represent to us it would say its a representational sign to us because it has many other meanings than of just an apple for instance the sign has a meaning of the listed means life, a fruit it is a meaning coming from literal to lateral meanings signs how ever we see in our every day life for instance simplify means a object and simplified means too what transform the meaning too which ever a flower represents love and compassion. Signs are how ever can be hand made or can be from nature we represent signs in knower days to give us information and sense of direction to our daily lives too the world we live in has many sign to tell us what they are. The word signs conjure various meanings to different people some times these meanings are a reflection of our profession or every day lives. To a driver, road signs will jump to mind a pub-crawler will think of pub signs. A pilot will think of the many signs in the cockpit of his plane.  

To me signs mean information for example such as roads signs and also traffic lights. 

Modernism/postmodernism

Modernism is new terminology which conjures a new form of art ,which is an off spring of postmodern movement both are very differently to each other because they are variant art styles. and both existed in different centuries. Modernism was in the 20th century while postmodern movement was in 19th century is how they came to live the splitting of the two movements. They are the worst of enemies because of there differences of art they are battling with the modern and postmodern era of art the stylistic movements have change or spread to larger cultivated movement during from the Vietnam war to big demonstration to political actions in the world has changed the art which we now call modernism and postmodern art is doesn’t want to be forgotten off or gotten rid off as they’d feud on too distinction. Modern art is the now term for art we see or use now the modern art is how is Folding over the postmodern era. The art, which we see, are modern view like clean tidy and slick and trendy. The moral is like. “Your speculation that great art involves both poles of the self is fascinating and should be pursued”. By Heinz Kohut