Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, born on 27th March 1886 and died on August 19th 1969 is a German and American architect; He was known as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture in many of his post-World War I contemporaries, where he established a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He then created an influential 20th century architectural style with clarity and simplicity and used modern materials like steel and plated glass to build his mature buildings made use to define interior spaces. He then used minimal frameworks of structural order to balance it against the implied freedom of free-flowing open space. He called his buildings "skin and bones" architecture. His architectural style would guide the creative process of architectural design and is known for his use of the aphorisms "less is more" and "God is in the details".
This is Ludwig Mies van der Rohe chair design called the Barcelona chair. I chose this chair because he designed the steel bars as swirly and curvy and also made the legs flat.

Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol born on 6th August, 1928 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA is an American commercial illustrator and artist who does his artwork from an art movement called pop art. His artwork includes varieties of peoples, celebrities and cartoon characters with emotional expressions and cultures.  The media he used in his artwork includes hand drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, silk screening, sculpture, film, and music. Until 1984, he was introduced to a new computer art using Amiga computers. He went to the School of Fine Arts at Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1949, where he studied commercial art for his artistic talent. After his graduation in June 1949, He moved on to New York City and began a career in magazine illustration and advertising as a commercial illustrator. He began another career in Glamour magazine in September and still continued being a commercial artist in the 1950s.



This is his illustration of men fashion in pencil. Not only had I chosen this because he did not include colour in this design, but he used black shadings for the coat, trouser and hat. He also use light for the tie and left out the face, shoes, shirt and collar as white.

Monday, 7 January 2013

Charles Rennie Mackintosh


Charles Rennie Mackintosh, born on 7th June 1868 in Glasgow is a Scottish architect, designer, water-colourist and artist. He died on 10th December 1928 in London from throat and tongue cancer at the age of 60. He did his designs from Arts and Crafts movement and Art Nouveau.
In 1899, he works for the Honey man and Keppie architectural practice where he first started his major architectural project, the Glasgow Herald Building. After he completed his several building designs, he then became a partner of them in 1907, when his economic hardships were caused by many architectural practices to close in 1913.
He got resigned by them and was attempted to open his own practice. On his extended holiday in Suffolk he started painting his designs with many floral watercolours, he then moved to London where he continued to paint and design textile designs. In 1916, he received a commission to redesign the home of W.J. Bassett-Lowke with his architectural and interior design project.
This is Charles Rennie Mackintosh chair design called the willow chair. I chose this chair because he designed this chair in style of Art Nouveau and he included shapes and patterns in his chair. He made the seat and backrest of this chair as a semi-circle.