Transformation in Art (The Bather)

Transformation

In Art

                 The Valpinçon Bather

                  

                  The Turkish Bath

                A Neoclassical artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres painted this famous painting called The Valpincon Bather in 1808. At first was called the seated woman but then they changes the name to be more suitable. He painted this while he was studying at the French academy in Rome. At first it did not quite did a success because it’s first exhibition was 50years after its making. He was inspired by the human figures and he did some other nude woman earlier this painting. In this painting we see a peaceful seen with a lot of drapery flowing around and not moving, with a quiet image, even the pose and the look of the woman it makes the look more calming. In his life he continued to paint even in his eighties. When he was 82 years old he painting a seen of a Turkish Bath in 1862 showing nude women in a harem. His work was intented to be rectangular but some how it was pronounced as tondo in a circular frame. When he was painting this he did not look from real life models or poses he just copied other women from different paintings the best known that had been copied is The Valpincon Bather. One of his early works, she has almost the same pose but with her legs crossed and her arms raised.  Her clothing on her head is exactly the same shape and colour. The woman next to her with her arms raised above her head is the artist’s wife Madeleine. Here we see a transformation of the same figure but in different artworks and more than 50 years of making from one to another. There is also a transformation where in his Valpincon Bather is a calm seen whether the Turkish bath looks confusing. 

Bibliography:

E.H. Gombrich- The Story of Art, Pocket Edition 2006, website www.phaidon.com.

Transformation in Chairs

Transformation

In Design.

 

    

  Wassily Chair known as the Model B3 chair.

 

       Odyssey- Lounge chair.

                                             

In the 1919 there was an art school in Germany called the Bauhaus that combined crafts and fine arts. Many artists learned and been taught well and great designs were produced. Where as one of the famous designs was the Wassily Chair a designer called Marcel Breuer.  The tubes of gas inspired Breuer. Where as artists before him had the same idea but they connect them with connectors to hold them together but the pipe would not be neat. Breuer used a single tube and turns and twist till he got the shape of a chair and welded some parts for support. He covered it with draper so the person would sit comfortable. This product was made in1925/ till 1926. Some years later the Bauhaus had to be shut down because of the World War 2. It was a shame to unlock such a beautiful school with tons of talent, but there was nothing they could do. After the war the Bauhaus remained closed. Years of production and different minds of designers, today many achieved quite a good designs of chairs where thousands of different chairs are produced with distinctive materials, shapes, colours, textures, relaxing and much more. Alvin Huang is one of the newest designers today where he designed a special chair for a lounge. It is recommended for a lounge because of its shape and the simple white colour on it. He named the chair Odyssey, with the help of the design it can come up with the furniture and even its place or location of the new lounge.

Bibliography: 

Wikipedia, Wassily Chair,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Chair last Modified on the 3rd December 2012, [Online], [accessed on the 17th December 2012]

Minimalisti, Odyssey Lounge http://www.minimalisti.com/furniture/furniture-design/04/the-odyssey-ultra-modern-lounge-chair-design.html [online] [accessed on the 17th December 2012]

Trandformation in Film (Romeo and Juliet)

Transformation

In film.

              

  Romeo and Juliet in 1968

 

Romeo and Juliet in 1996

Romeo and Juliet is a play that William Shakespeare did. This is one of his famous works. When everyone hears about Romeo and Juliet remembers the famous scene of the balcony. The story was simple, two teenagers fell in love with each other but their family are enemies, they tried to meet and be together by hiding from their families and never let them know. Then it ended where Juliet drank a potion to be in a deep sleep so she will stay seen as dead, not marry some other guy. The word ran much more than the letter that it tells the truth about Juliet but Romeo rushed to Juliet and poisoned himself. When Juliet found him like that she killed herself to be with him.

            In the first movie in 1968 was shot as in a old age with horses, swords, old English accent, no electricity to make it realistic. They used almost the same script as Shakespeare did and with all those quotes that rhyme. Romeo and Juliet had about 15 years old where the second film they were something around 17 or 18 years old.

Trailer of Romeo and Juliet 1968

            In the second film that was launched in 1996 had the same story but with a lot of different features. Example the clothes are bright and funny at some times where from the first movie were at their best, they used guns instead of swords, cars and not horses and much more that make the movie much more interesting with special effects and sound effects that make the movie a hit. They still moved on the same plot but it also had some minor changes most notably was when Romeo poisoned himself in the second film Juliet was already awake saw him dying and shot herself in the head. Where the first film Romeo was already dead when Juliet saw him and she killed herself by stabbing herself with a small sword.         

                                       Trailer of Romeo and Juliet 1996

                                                                                                                                             

Bibliography: 

Wikipedia, Romeo+Juliet, Last Modified on the 17th December,2012 [Online]                    

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_%2B_Juliet [accessed on the 17th December 2012]

: Wikipedia, Romeo and Juliet (1968 film), Last Modified on the 16th December 2012, [Online] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_(1968_film) [accessed on the 17th December 2012]

Trailers from Youtube.

Transformation in Design (Mobile Phones)

Transformation

In design.

First Mobile Phone in 1947.

 

Iphone 5 most advanced Mobile Phone in 2012.

       The history of wireless phones had began in the second world war, where they used radio telephony it is like a normal wire phone but with a really big and heavy box that helps the phone connects wirelessly. In 1973 general manager of the company’s communication division invented the first mobile phone that you can carry with you. He walked down the streets of New York calling his first call from the mobile phone to the chief competitor at bell labs making him jealous of hearing Martin Cooper the official inverter hearing him from the noisy streets. The phone was possible to carry but very heavy it use to weight about 11.5 kg it wouldn’t be easy to keep it near your ear. The phone had nothing special on it just to dial numbers and a small display for the digits to appear and with a large antenna.

            Where as today almost 40 years later we use the most advanced technology in our smartphones. They are no longer mobile phones because their importance was just to call and send messages where smartphones helps you with every little thing you need in the middle of nowhere with the help of Wi-Fi the wireless internet, applications that even doctors use to save life’s and teachers to help her students to learn much more. The newest smartphone that Apple launched was the iPhone5 in October 2012. It has already a lot of history behind it but in just couple of years it came to perfection. Many people wonder what it has to come in the future of smartphones. Compare the size and weight is incredible to the first mobile phone. The iPhone 5 weights only 112grams it means you need average of hundred iPhones to be balanced to the one of 1974. These smartphones are like our genius in our pockets helping us and guide where we are stuck. The evolution of mobile phones was slow at first from 1974 till the year of 2000, the suddenly the companies exploded and started producing new and better phones.

 

Bibliography:

Impact Lab published on the April 4th 2011[Online] http://www.impactlab.net/2011/04/04/worlds-first-cell-phone-call/ [accessed on the 17th December 2012]

: Apple Iphone [Online]http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/ [accessed on the 17th December 2012]

: History of Mobile Phones, Last Modified on the 12th December 2012,Mo

[Online]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_mobile_phones [accessed on the 17th December 2012]