Relate what is said in this chapter to a work/artist/designer you have seen in lectures. Image, brief description, link to a source of information on the web.
In this chapter McCloud explores the idea of a picture invoking an emotional or sensual response in the viewer: ""...the power of line, shape and color to suggest the inner state of the artist and to provoke the five senses" [p.g.123]
He futher goes on to explore the idea called "Synaesthetics":
"Kandinsky and his peers were searching for an art that might somehow unite the senses, and in doing so, unite the different art-forms which appealed to those different senses. We call this idea Synaesthetics." [p.g.123]
I believe the idea that elements of a picture such as line, shape and colour could be manipulated in order to make the viewer respond in a pre-ordained manner, or feel emotions or have a response that is somehow planned by the artist, is a very possible and exciting concept!
This idea could be said to have had its birth in the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch, both of whom were artists belonging to the "Expressionist" period of art history. Expressionism could be described as "a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world."[Ref: New Oxford American Dictionary"]
These artists produced works that were an honest expression of the inner turmoil they were going through. For example:
[Ref: http://www.vangoghgallery.com/ ]
"The Skull" by Vincent Van Gogh
[Ref: http://www.alibaba.com/catalog/11100639/Rep_Edvard_Munch_The_Scream_Oil_Painting_Art_Prints.html ]
"The Scream" by Edvard Munch
In the week 8 lecture, we explored the ideas of Synaesthesia in various media, mainly focusing on the means of making images and sounds more "graphic". A quote from class is as follows:
"A picture is only “graphic” if it is exaggerated, explicit, or otherwise carefully contrived to have particular impact. Abstraction, composition, exaggeration are important elements of making “graphic” material. Graphic images show us things in a way that are not normal"
The above idea could be said to link to "Expressionism" as they are ideas that are not represented as is; they are images and pictures and sounds that try to get a response from a viewer; they try to invoke certain thoughts and feelings in the audience.
In class we viewed contemporary T.V. commercials where the main idea was obscure and incomplete, however the images and sounds and other aspects of the commercials all combined to form a sort of complete "Picture" that was perceived differently by everyone in the audience.
"Levis Engineered Jeans in Odyssey" Advertisement (as viewed in class)
[Ref: http://www.duncans.tv/2005/levis-engineered-jeans-odyssey ]
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