Design (Semester 1)

Task 1

King George V coins

Date and time visited: Nov 7, 2016, 14:34pm

Place/Exhibition visited: Wignacourt Museum

Name of practitioner: George V (1910-1936)

Title of work: King George V coins

Techniques used:  Bronze and Metal

Formal elements: These coins were used for trading and buying back at the time. The coins consisted the face of the king to show who was the king during that time so that way they could be recognized. The coins also had a smooth round shape.

English Mahogany Piano

Date and time visited: Nov 7, 2016, 14:40

Place/Exhibition visited: Wignacourt Museum

Name of practitioner: Broadwood and Son ,London 1805

Title of work: English Mahogany Piano

Techniques used: Wood

Formal elements: The piano consists of a smooth surface. This piano was used my people to learn, study and make music. This piano is made from high quality wood as from the condition seen in the picture.

Wax group depicting the deposition of Christ

Date and time visited: Nov 7, 2016, 14:41pm

Place/Exhibition visited: Wignacourt Museum

Name of practitioner: 19^th Cent Maltese Craft

Title of work: Wax group depicting the deposition of Christ

Techniques used: Wax

Formal elements: Wax was used when it was still hot so that way he can shape it than place it since wax becomes a kind of sold when cooled down a lot. Wax needs to always stay cool other words this piece of work would melt down. This used to be used during a certain Maltese feast as a decoration for home.

Wrought iron double lectern from The Choir of St Publius’ Church, Rabat

Date and time visited: Nov 7, 2016, 14:48pm

Place/Exhibition visited: Wignacourt Museum

Name of practitioner: 19^th Cent Maltese Craftsmanship

Title of work: Wrought iron double lectern from The Choir of St Publius’ Church, Rabat

Techniques used: Iron

Formal elements: This used to be used by priests in church. They used to place the Bible and other church book on it to read. The Design for this lectern is very beautiful even for the eye.

Carved wood silvered and glided revolving exposition throne backed by brilliant rays

Date and time visited: Nov 7, 2016, 14:49pm

Place/Exhibition visited: Wignacourt Museum

Name of practitioner: 19^th Cent Maltese Craftsmanship

Title of work: Carved wood silvered and glided revolving exposition throne backed by brilliant rays

Techniques used: Wood

Formal elements: This used to be used by priests to place the loaf of Christ in it; nowadays similar thrones are still used to do the same thing. This shapes used for this throne are very elegent.

Task 2

De Stijl

Figure 1 Dress Inspired by De Stijl

De Stijl was born in Germany. The meaning of De Stijl in Dutch is ‘The Style’. The artists that were mostly recognized with the movement were the painters Theo van Doesburg and Piet Mondrian, along with the architect Gerrit Reitveld. The movement consisted of simplicity and abstraction through in which they could express a Utopian idea of harmony and order. The harmony and order originated from pure geometric forms and primary colours. The distribution that Die Stijl speaks to the most noteworthy work of visual communication from the development, yet the thoughts of diminishment of shape and shading are the actual impacts on the development of visual communication as well. De Stijl was influenced by the cubist paints from their perfect geometric shapes such as the perfect straight lines we mostly see in De Stijl.

Figure 2 Bags Inspired by De Stijl

Figure 3 Shoes Inspired by De Stijl

De Stijl influenced a lot of people in their design. It influenced a lot of fashion designers to make their own designs with it. The style was mostly used on the dresses for the patterns, shoes, bags and more fashion items in which we can see in figures 1, 2 and 3. It is also very popular with interior designers. This affected on how the room would look and how the furniture would be affected by it as well and we can see this in figures 4. It also influenced on nowadays vehicles on their body paintwork to show its beauty as shown in figure 5.

Figure 4 House Furniture Inspired by De Stijl

For me De Stijl is an amazing style and in which I can see why it inspires many different people and designers in what they create and shows their passion in it. I like the design of its simplicity and the few number of colours that is used in it and I do not see why this beautiful design would not inspire. In the future I, might try to create a design in which it consists this style of design.

Figure 5 Car Bodywork Inspired by De Stijl

Bauhaus

Figure 6 Teapot Inspired by Bauhaus

            Bauhaus was born in Germany. This was a school of design. It was founded by the architect Walter Gropius, in which he combined 2 schools, the Weimar Academy of Arts and the Weimar School of arts and Crafts, into what he called Bauhaus or also known as house of building.

            The Bauhaus was built for the reason to increase the art in design. This school was succeeding and inspiring a lot of young artists to start in the way of art in design of useful items for everyday life, such as teapots, coffee tables and chairs in which all can be seen in figure 6, 7 and 8.

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            The Bauhaus was the most powerful pioneer workmanship school of the twentieth century, one whose way to deal with instructing, and comprehension craftsmanship's relationship to society and innovation, had a noteworthy effect both in Europe and the United States long after it shut. It was moulded by the nineteenth and mid twentieth hundreds of years’ patterns, for example, Arts and Crafts development, which had looked to level the refinement amongst fine and connected expressions, and to re-join inventiveness and assembling. This is reflected in the sentimental medievalism of the school's initial years, in which it envisioned itself as a sort of medieval artworks society. Be that as it may, in the mid-1920s the medievalism offered path to a weight on joining craftsmanship and modern plan, and it was this which eventually ended up being its most unique and vital accomplishment. The school is likewise eminent for its staff, which included specialists Wassily Kandinsky, Josef Albers, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Paul Klee and Johannes Itten, planners Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and originator Marcel Breuer.

Figure 8 Chair Inspired by Bauhaus

            Although that the school did not stay around that long it made a huge impact on art and design itself since it inspired many artists to study there and continue their own crafts and designs after it was shut down. I would have loved if it was still ongoing till this day since it was a very important step in art and design and I would have loved to visit it if it was possible.