Image: Aesthetic, Functional, and Valuable - by Annette Labedzki

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Image: Aesthetic, Functional, and Valuable

Image – The Concept

The word ‘image’ comes from the Latin word ‘imago.’ It refers to a picture that resembles an object, a living entity, or a scene. Broadly speaking, images may be created both, manually and digitally (with the use of latest computer based technology). Most of the manually created images include carvings, drawings, and paintings. On the computer, images can be generated using input devices and various creative software programs. The three most commonly used image file formats for scanning, internet, and printing use are JPG, GIF, and TIF.

Types of Images

Images can be two-dimensional (2-D) or three-dimensional (3-D). While 2-D images include screen displays, photographs, maps, graphs, and even abstract paintings, 3-D ones have an ‘illusion’ of depth in them. Applicable in videos, photos, and statues mostly, this effect is created by presenting a slightly different image to each eye. There are special software available in the market to create 3-D images. The various types of images include:

• Fixed – Also called as hard copy, it refers to a type of image, processed digitally, or photographed, and transferred on fabric or on paper.
• Volatile – This type of image has a temporary existence. It could be something as simple as a mirror reflection of an object or their display on a cathode ray tube.
• Moving – This refers to movies, videos, and animated display. Moving images are created with the help of a video camera that takes a series of photographs rapidly in the strips of film.
• Still – Referring to a non-moving, static image, this term implies the ‘non-mobile’ ones. Photographs are an excellent example of this type, where the images are captured through a device called camera. The medium of recording in a camera can be either a photographic film or digital memory. Digital images can be stored electronically and can be reproduced on paper as well.
• Mental – This type of image exists in the mind of an individual as either memory or imagination. It refers to the perception of an object, scene, or event not actually present for the senses. The subject in question may not even be real and may exist simply as an abstract concept. Sigmund Freud’s theories on human behavior are based on mental images.

Conclusion

Images have come a long way with the developments in technology. Graphic designing is now a full-fledged career option with scope in almost every field. Medicine, entertainment, engineering, designing, and animation – today images play an invaluable role everywhere, facilitating a fertile, growth-oriented future.

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His Most Famous Assemblage (Canyon) � Robert Rauschenberg - by Annette Labedzki

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His Most Famous Assemblage (Canyon) -   Robert Rauschenberg

Born into a family of Fundamentalist Christians on October 22, 1925, Milton Ernst Rauschenberg or Robert Rauschenberg was one of America’s most prolific and significant artists. He got his art training from the Kansas City Art Institute and at New York’s Art Students League. Robert Rauschenberg hands worked at various creative mediums and styles, such as photography, printmaking, papermaking, performance, and dance. He gained fame in the 1950s for his atypical transition of ‘Abstract Expressionism’ to ‘Pop Art.’ Robert Rauschenberg is well known for his “Combines,” especially “Canyon,” an innovative and somewhat chaotic compilation of painting and sculpture, using eclectic everyday provisions and items.

Robert Rauschenberg’s “Canyon” (1959), a mural ‘Combine,’ is an assemblage of buttons, photographs, a stuffed bald eagle, carrying a rope attached to a pillow that is perched from the main panel and tied to a string. The 87″ x 70″ x 24″ mural is promptly pulled down to the ground with an assured gentle landing. “Canyon” is a soft insinuation towards Rembrandt’s ‘The Rape of Ganymede’ (1635). To maintain a relentless rapport amongst the pictorial subjects in “Canyon,” Rauschenberg delved greatly to bring out new items such as, sheet metal and enamel on wood. The artist once said, “I think a painting is more like the real world if it’s made out of the real world.”

Art that was appealing and interesting, created out of the banal, formed the core & the emphasis of Robert’s creation over beauty, a fact well corroborated through his “Canyon.” The ‘Combine’ employed a broad spectrum of elements, such as oil, house & tube paints, pencil, paper, metal, photographs, fabric, wood on canvas, buttons, mirror, stuffed eagle, cardboard box, pillow, and nails. This diverse work of multiple connotations, unifies just one creative philosophy, that of free & independent randomness. To clear his understanding of art, Robert once commented, “It is neither Art for Art, nor Art against Art. I am for Art, but for Art that has nothing to do with Art. Art has everything to do with life, but it has nothing to do with Art.”

All through his artistic journey, Robert Rauschenberg urged to communicate to the audience through objects and items that played as representational aids, giving American contemporary art and sculpture a new meaning and aspect. Robert Rauschenberg’s other famous assemblages, other than “Canyon” are ‘Gloria’ (1956), ‘Summer Rental III’ (1960), and the famous ‘Monogram’ (1959). The master of creative experimentation, Robert Rauschenberg, died on May 12, 2008 due to heart failure in Captiva Island, Florida. His ‘Contemporary Art’ piece “Canyon” presently graces the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

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Western Art � Electronic Art: The Crossroads of Technology & Creativity - by Annette Labedzki

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Western Art – Electronic Art: The Crossroads of Technology & Creativity

Electronic Art – The Concept

Originated in west, Western Art dominates most parts of the world. It is of course one of the oldest in the history, dating back to approximately 3000 B.C., with a very clear line up of creative competence. Creative improvements and widening were witnessed in the form of carvings, paintings, standing stones, and other sculptures. Presently, Western Art is more a high-tech zone, involving the use of electronic media and equipment for the development of creative – a horizon known as Electronic Art. Owing to its immensely accurate, intricate, and creative output with tremendous efficiency, this technical genre is considered the strongest pillar of the art history.

The Details

Creatively, Electronic Art can be divided in the following elements:

• Information
• Media
• Video
• Digital
• Interactive
• Internet
• Electronic Music

Of these, Media Art is the one involving creativity in the most fundamental sense such as painting. A mix of Conceptual and Systems Art, the designing part in Electronic Art is done with the help of electronic devices. High precision cameras capable of producing some effects help capture the shots, which are then digitally processed and improved on computer to get the desired artworks. Owing to global technology proliferation and quick & accurate turnaround, Electronic Art is fast gaining a lot of popularity. Digital paintings are given the perfect touch with the help of modeling software, some digital cards, and often robotics too. Digital colors in huge variation of shades well compensate for ‘messy to many’ water or oil colors.

The Pre-requisites & Scope

The only pre-requisite with Electronic Art is that you need to have the advanced digital skills. The artist needs to learn to use the graphics software to attain the required result. Once adept, the range of creativity can be encashed through general artistic exhibitions, architecture, civil engineering, movies & animations, digital outdoor advertising, stage designing, web designing, video games. The artists may project themselves through their websites or subscribing to various online art supporting organizations. Therefore, apart from satiating the creative senses, Electronic Art is one of the most rewarding careers.

The Artists

Roy Ascott (British – 1934), Maurice Benayoun (Algerian – 1957), Angie Bonino (Peru – 1974), Heiko Daxl (German – 1957), David Em (American – 1952), Ken Feingold (American – 1952), Ingeborg Fulepp (Croatian – 1952), Perry Hoberman (American – 1954), and Eduardo Kac (American – 1962), are some of the key Electronic Artists.

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