The top row of these developments explores scale in making the piano keys bigger. This idea creates a better sense of the distorted shapes, however, deters away from the visual that they are piano keys. Further on from these developments, I looked at introducing hands that played the keyboard. These visuals, along with he hand and the hammer help portray both sides of this event - fundraiser for a rebuild and music performance.
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Updated: Oct 10, 2018
Recently we have been caught in two minds as to how we develop our poster. Lecturer Lee has told us it needs work and perhaps a second rhetoric such as a hand that interacts with the keys. Klauss, however, is saying that we are looking really strong at the moment.
Flynn and I, therefore, came to the idea that we do need to perhaps develop our poster further to give it more emotional value. To do this I explored adding hands. These hands interact with the keys and aim at rhetorically portraying the idea of fixing/tweaking/building. These words bring forth the idea of repair, which is what this event hopes to ultimately fund for the Town Hall improvements.
This genre of art is something that has inspired our current visual style. The color woodcut is a color image recproduction technique that was already known at the time of the early printers and in which different woodcut plates were used for different colors. In the Japanese colour woodcut, the different colors are applied by hand to the printing plate. Below are some artists whose work I find really visually appealing, as they interpret shadows and highlights using largely black and white.
Conrad Felixmüller
Oskar Kokoschka
Photos taken from the book 'Art for All' by Taschen (sourced from the library)
From the book 'German Expressionist Prints' by The Marcia and Granvil Specks collection
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