Saturday 12 December 2009

Session 3 notes on lecture

The cloths we wear tell us what Society we live in, as individuals.
Graphic Design- a sign is “something which stands to somebody for something in some capacity”
Charles Sanders Pierce, 1977
Paolo Uccello- demonstrated to represent European perspective. (Western) “The Battle of San Romano”
Aboriginal Art- Top view different markings different views ect.
Chinese Art- landscape, everything same size but stuff towards the top is further away.
Cave paintings- 40,000 years ago large wild animals, humans and hand prints. What were the images for?
• Visions. Forms of communication.
• Drawing of sense of place.
Petra Cliffs- Engravings in Rocks. Used as communication, the first words. Contemporary- don’t look old/ out of place now.
Geo cliffs- large scale landmarks done by people who physically could not see them. Pictogram, ideogram, logograms.
Chinese language nearly 50,000 different characters, we have 26. Chinese calligraphy = Artist
Hieroglyphics- Egyptian writing
Chester Beatty museum in Dublin in Dublin Castle, best book museum in the world.
Dura- Typography, 15 hundreds, 16th century

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