Journal development

I did some research on pieces where both fine art and design are used. I found a piece by Picasso where there were several pieces of a bull, it started of realistic then information was taken away with each drawing until it became an outline only displaying the key information. I found this really relevant to my project as it shows the differences between the aim of design compared to fine art. Design needs to be simple and easily display the key information, especially for commercial art so whoever sees the piece will instantly understand what the piece is telling them. Fine art is more to show skill and aims to display every detail to make it a quality drawing, when someone sees this they are expected to think it is a bull and not a piece resembling one. I am glad I used Picasso for this part of my journal as he went through a journey himself from realism to abstract art.

I tried this out for myself and did a portrait of Bruno Munari using lots of lines and removed some of them in each drawing until I got to the key information. I think this went well however, I think I started off too basic as I became difficult to remove that information in the later drawings as there wasn’t many lines left. I think I need to start of realistic and end very simple, to replicate the effect in Picasso’s bulls and so it is fine art to design.

I am finding it difficult to pick one of line, shape etc. as the different art types often use different elements. One way to solve this would be to have a portrait as a posterize effect and then remove and rearrange sections in each piece until it is in its simplest form, that way it would all fall under shape.