EXOPLORING TEXTURE

Christian Dior

Dior focuses on using expensive and elaborate materials like silks and satins. However, in the 1940's he was heavily criticised for the not following the 'make do and mend'trade but instead was very much influenced by Paris and making women look and feel expensive. Dior ignored the affects the war was having on Britain and introduced his 'new look' having texture in mind as the most imporatant element of his designs.
Basso and Brooke

Exploring Texture

Texture can be both real and imagined. In two-dimensional artworks, the artist may produce a smooth or a rough surface in the application of the medium. In the image above Basso and Brooke's design creates the illusion of texture the red cropped sleeved jacket resembles blood vessles. The plastic effect also gives a very realsitic illusion.

Peter Fargo

Perfect Hurts: for FORM MAGAZINE

Peter Fargo uses wool andthe technique of knittng to create a three dimesional form. In this image Peter creates the form of an armour and pads around the head piece and shoulders to create a more outspoken piece.

EXPLORING FORM

Peter Fargo

Exploring Form
This term has multiple meanings and may be used in the following ways.
1. A verb meaning to shape or order as in " The ceramist formed the clay into a pot.”
2. Organization or composition, as "The form of the work is elegant."
3. The illusionistic representation of a three dimensional form on a two dimensional surface.
4. A mold in which plaster or another material is poured.
5. A three dimensional solid or contained space.
For purposes here, the term form will be used to describe three-dimensional solids and contained spaces. In this context, form has both mass and volume, whereas, shape has only mass. To illustrate this, consider a flat piece of paper. It has two sides, each of which have equal mass. When the same piece of paper is rolled into a cylinder, it possesses both mass and volume.

EXPLORING SHAPE

Exlporing Shape

Sandra Buckland

Sandra Backlund, 33, Swedish, Womenswear/Knitwear

What inspires her designs?

Moments and stories from her everday life. I live an extremely hard working life right now and everything that is going on, both private, as a designer and as the head of my own company I deal with through my work.

How she describes her work/designs.

With the human body as the main starting point she improvises through a three dimensional collage methode to discover ideas of shapes and silhouettes that she could never come to think about in her head.

EXPLORING SHAPE

Christian Dior

Exploring Shape


Like line, shape is an important element in both the rendering and seeing of art, it is used by the artist for three fundamental purposes.
1. To suggest or represent a physical form.
2. To achieve order, variety, and harmony in the composition.
3. To express different qualities of moods and feelings.
The term shape refers to any area of a real or imagined object which is defined and rendered by other elements such as line, texture, colour, space or light. Shapes may be either organic, geometric, symmetrical, or non-symmetrical or a combination of both symmetrical and non-symmetrical. Flat shapes may create the illusion of three dimensions on a two dimensional surface and also appear on the surface of a three dimensional form. Unlike form, shape is actually two dimensional, possessing mass but not volume.

Gareth Pugh

EXPLORING LINE

Christian Dior

EXPLORING LINE

The 20th century German artist, Maholy Nage described line as "a record of a path of motion." However, line can be much more than that. It is also a record of vision and feeling. Line is a human invention which allows the ability to communicate what we see. The path made by a moving point can be described as two basic line types: straight and curved. Line may also consist of actual marks that can be drawn, or it can refer to the external edges of a shape or form. In paintings lines also occur by contrasts of light and shadow or through colour or shape. Whether seen or implied, line is unquestionably one of the artist's most articulate tools. It encloses or liberates space, expresses feeling, conveys movement, suggests mass or volume and creates an image. It may be used evenly or in a modulated way to express a wide range of qualities from fast to slow, from serene to frenetic, or rigid to relaxed.