Hidden Messages: [Though the technique of light on type] : 2013

2013年11月30日星期六

Hidden Messages:

[Though the technique of light on type]

[QIANG FU] | [MA Graphic design] | [04 Dec 2013]

我想做的是一个关于hidden message的设计项目，从我们的日常生活为切入点，用发光的设计元素去设计隐藏的信息，

作为一个国际学生我很可能有更多的社会现象可以进行比对，不同的文化社会环境更能摩擦出更多的创造力的火花，同时给了我更多更广阔的空间去进行发现和体验，也能发现更多的问题去解决。

it is generally believed that one of the famous hidden messages in art would be those hidden information within the painting which drew in 15th century to 16th century by Leonardo da Vinci, it is said that there are quite lot of information can be decoded in his famous drawing, especially the Vitruvian Man, the Detail of The Last Supper and the Virgin of the rock, and these covered informations related to the secret of the holy grail, priory of sion, even the mystery of his death. (Brown,2003) People in the very long past hide secrets into paintings aim to wait someone who capable to decode these uncover informations then solve mysteries even use it to conceal their treasures. Early 20th century, modern pop artist Andy Warhol design UV light to protect his secrets pornography film posters by using UV bulbs and ultraviolet inks with silk-screen technique, be designed to avoiding discovery by the polices.(Ingledew,2011)

However such demands in nowadays has no one shows much interest in it; most of temporary artists like to use hidden messages as approaches to increase the connotation of their artworks, demonstrate their personal emotions or designed the hidden messages to make use of a sarcasm meaning.

Chinese photographer Yao Lu has created a group of photography works "New Landscape", inspired by traditional Chinese painting style and Japanese Ukiyo-e painting style. You might think these are classic oriental landscape paintings of waterfalls, cliffs and mountains at first glance, but take a closer look you will found Yao's works are entirely artificial elements. All the natural scenic images are open waste-yards and obsolete construction materials overspread by green net used to prevent dust blowing away from construction sites. (www.brucesilverstein.com,2013).That's a really clever and excellent idea to use illusive technique to put two excessive sensations into a same picture, and presents his twisted feeling whereby these photos, additionally illusion are twice as potent as other means of communication.(Ingledew,2011). Yao's works expressed the rampant urbanizing renovation and environmental pollution in China, it has become a threat to the ecological environment. Yao said,"today, China is developing dramatically and many things are under constant construction. Many things have disappeared and continue to disappear. The rubbish dumps covered with the 'shield', a green netting, are ubiquitous in China."(uk.phaidon.com, 2013)

Messages can remain under covered or coded intentionally and hidden through different methods, some of these might able to uncovered in a certain of conditions, such as time, place, light, temperature, etc. On the another hand, the hidden message just designed for a specific communities of people, only select viewer can read it as a image or a code. When people decode a hidden message, they will obtain a feeling of enlightenment.(Ingledew,2011)

In recent years, more and more artist published their design works with hidden messages with different techniques, one of popular approach is to make use of light and shadow to create a visual sensation, Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita created a series of sculpt using light and shadow, which inspired by research of two kinds of materials (solids) and intangible (light and shadow). (Kumi, 2012)

2013年11月29日星期五

Story of Andy Warhol With Hidden Message

When Andy Warhol was inspired to create some porn painting he was fearful that any exhibition of the pictures would be raided by the police and he would thrown in jail. He had the brilliant idea of using ultraviolet inks to silk-screen the images on the white canvases so that they were visible only when illuminated with ultraviolet bulbs. If the police arrived the paintings could be hidden by turning off the bulbs that made them visible. The normal lights simply showed gallery-goers gathered around a series of blank canvases. Once the police had gone Warhol would be able to reveal the paintings again too the delight of his friends.

2013年11月28日星期四

Shadowlands: Kumi Yamashita

Shadowlands: Kumi Yamashita shows us the wonders of cast light and form

Posted by Catherine Gaffney, Tuesday 03 July 2012

Kumi Yamashita’s work has an understandable tendency to go viral. With an ingenius use of materials that draw attention to the shadow-casting capabilities of relatively simple materials, the New York-based artist presents dual and mutually compatible works that are both abstract and extremely naturalistic.

Take, for example, the Fragments works from 2009; each shadow-profile cast by every piece of resin in the series is a portrait of a different individual Kamashita got to know during her travels in New Mexico. Looking at the shadows cast on the wall, they all appear to be realistic representations in the manner of Victorian silhouette-outlines, but solely focusing on the physical piece responsible for the shadow evokes a much more simplified and abstracted image.

Kamashita has always worked with space: “Even when I was young I enjoyed making objects and all through my schooling and various art classes I had to create and make three-dimensional sculpture. So it was a form with which I was already familiar and enjoyed.”

Interestingly, the Post-It-esque quality to the facial portrait pieces, along with the use of toy-like numbers to cast shadows and the puppetry this evokes, masks the extreme spatial complexity involved in the successful and convincing formation of the shadow: “When it comes to the numbers, letters and building blocks that I use in my Light & Shadow work however, those have all been hand made by me. Sometimes I even have to create my own font so that I can get the organic shape I need for the specific work. While they may look mass-produced, they are all individually unique so as to fulfill their specific function.”

Naturally, there are restrictions when it comes to using light as one of her premier tools: “Ambient light is my nemesis! I am always battling light spill (which causes other shadows also) when installing in new spaces. Unintentional excess light or shadow can really destroy the integrity and poetry of the work. The key is to have an environment which can be controlled.”

山下田来未的作品有一种可以理解的倾向，去病毒。随着各种天才使用了提请注意的相对简单的材料的阴影投射能力的材料，在纽约的艺术家呈现双和相互兼容的作品都是抽象的，非常自然。

举个例子来说，该片段的作品从2009年，每个阴影轮廓投下的每一块树脂系列中的是一个不同的个体Kamashita了在她在新墨西哥州的旅行要知道的肖像。看着投射在墙上的影子，他们都似乎是在维多利亚时代的剪影，轮廓的方式逼真的陈述，而只是注重于造成阴影的物理块唤起了一种更加简化和抽象的图像。

Kamashita一直致力于与空间： “即使当我年轻时，我喜欢通过我的学校教育和各种艺术班，我不得不创造，使三维雕刻制作对象和所有。因此，它是一种形式与我已经熟悉和喜欢。 “

有趣的是，报事贴式的质量，面部肖像作品，随着使用玩具般的数字投射阴影和木偶这唤起，口罩参与成功的和有说服力的形成阴影的极致空间复杂： “当谈到我在光影的工作不过使用数字，字母和积木，这些都被我被手工制作。有时我什至要创建我自己的字体，这样我可以得到有机的形状，我需要的具体工作。虽然他们可能看起来大批量生产，他们都是各自独特的，以满足他们的特定的功能。 “

当然，也有限制，当涉及到利用光作为首要的工具之一： “环境光就是我的克星！我一直在争夺光溢出（这会导致其它的阴影也）在新的空间安装时。无意多余的光或阴影真的可以破坏作品的完整性和诗歌。关键是要具有可控制的环境“。