Jamie Reid

Jamie Reid, born in 1947 is an English artist and anarchist with connections to the Situationists. His designs is about letters form cut out from newspapers and magazines in the style of a word heading, came close to defining the image of punk rock where he was best known for making a cover for the Sex Pistols album ‘‘Never Mind the Bollocks’’ and ‘‘Here's the Sex Pistols’’, and the singles "Anarchy in the UK" & ‘‘God Save The Queen".

This photograph of Queen Elizabeth II was told with an added safety pin through her nose and swastikas in her eyes, described by Sean O'Hagan of The Observer as "the single most iconic image of the punk era"), "Pretty Vacant" and "Holidays in the Sun".

My thought on this was that the sex pistol wanted to mock the queen in her early age. What is surprising about this picture is the subject. The queen should be respected and this image is disrespectful.

Jamie Reid uses the size and font for the word lettering from newspapers and magazines to cover the queen’s eyes and mouth. He scans the lettering and did it digitally.

The artist has used these materials and techniques to create this image to shock the audience and get their attention and also confuse them because the image appears to be dis respectful but the wording is respectful "GOD SAVE THE QUEEN".

This image communicates rebellion, confusion, shock, angry, lack of respect, but it also show the respect of wording. By covering the eyes and mouth it stops the queen from communicating and takes her power away.

I like this image because it uses different lettering to cover anywhere around it.

Agnes Decourchelle

Agnes Decourchelle is a French artist who was graduated from the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs in Paris and move on to the Royal College of Art in London.

This is an image of a yellow sports car. I chose this because I like the drawing style she used from designing an actual car.

The technique she used is line drawing with are lighter and darker shading on her images as well. Not only she use coloured the yellow for the car and licence plate, she also coloured the back and side of the windows and the wheels as black and red for the lights and the bottom board of it with the engine are not coloured in.

Gerrit Rietveld

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, born June 24/06/1888 in Utrecht & died June 26/06/1964, is a Dutch furniture designer and architect studying the skills & techniques in architecture.

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld designed the 'Zig Zag' chair in 1932 as a display for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. I like the 'Zig Zag' chair because he designed the Z shape stand underneath the chair instead of the 4 legs.

In 1911 he started to opened his own furniture workshop in 1911 where he then started to create the 'Red & Blue' Chair in 1917, he was influenced by ‘De Stijl’ movement in 1918, of which he became a member of it in 1919 when he wanted to change the colours of his chair to a familiar style.

I like the 'Red & Blue' Chair because he used only the 2 colours, red for the back rest & blue for the seat. plus black for the 2 arm rest.

The same year in which he started to design the Rietveld Schroder House in 1924 for his cooperated friend, Truus Schroder Schrader in Utrecht. the house is asymmetrical because it was guided by geometric forms and is also a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000.

Gerrit Rietveld then shopped using the ‘De Stijl’ movement and switched to the Nieuwe Zakelijkheid in 1928, as the same year he joined the Congres Internationaux d' Architecture Morderne.