Journal #5: Art Nouveau and The Genesis of Twentieth-Century Design

Czech born artist, Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939), was drastically important to the art nouveau style in France. Mucha moved to Paris at age 27, where he rose to fame after printing a poster for a play on New Year’s Day. One of his most famous projects was his women project, his women that he drew had no nationally, age, or period attached to them. The Victorians rejected the art, and called the hair he drew too look like, “noodles and spaghetti.” Ironically, the hair he drew became a hallmark image for the Victorian Era. When Czechoslovakia became independent in 1917, Mucha returned home and his work became influenced by the history of his people. He died a few months after being arrested and interrogated by Gestapo in 1939 when Germany partitioned Czechoslovakia

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Journal #10: David Tartakover

Israeli graphic designer, David Tartakover, was born in Haifa(so was I) in 1944. He was since then opened his own studio in Tel Aviv. He specializes in different aspects of visual communications, specifically Israeli culture and politics. Since 1976, He is a senior lecturer in the Visual Communication Department of the Bezalel Academy in Jerusalem. He is also a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), and president of the Graphic Designers Association of Israel (GDAI). Some of his most notable work, is the Peace Now logo in 1978, and became a bumper sticker. This was the first political bumper sticker in Israel. Tartakover's mural in Tel Aviv, Israel Peace Now logo, 1978 https://www.tartakover.co.il/

Journal #7: Alexy Brdovitch’s Harper's Bazaar Cover

I immediately recognized Alexy Brdovitch’s cover for the June 1951 Harper’s Bazaar. He captured the essence of summer with the bold colors. The cropping of the model’s face and legs draws attention to the beach clothes instead of the fashion model. Harper’s Bazaar is still a huge fashion magazine today along with Vogue, Allure , and countless others.

Journal #6: Modern Art

Drawn by the Spanish artist, Salvador Dali’s Persistence of Memory, 1931, is an iconic surrealist painting. Salvador(1904-1989) described his paintings as “hand-painted dream photographs.” The seaside cliffs in the background, are inspired by Salvador’s Spanish home and are the only object painted with a sense of reality. A technique, Dali often used called “the usual paralyzing tricks of eye-fooling,” meaning, he took placed everyday objects such as ants and melting clocks and distorted in an unfamiliar way. Works Cited: “MoMA Learning.” Willem De Kooning. Woman I. 1950–52 | MoMA , www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/1168-2.

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