Native American Motifs

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Washington Redskins

The Washington Redskins is the logo and mascot for the NFL team in America.

(Talking about the main logo from the top) The logo is of a circular enclosed logo with the Native American side profile in the middle. The logo consists of the elements shape, colour, line, texture.

http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=168

To break this logo down the main element is shape, how the logo is enclosed by a golden/yellow circle which captures the native American in the middle. Second element is colour how they used the golden/yellow on the circle and use of the feather. i guess they used yellow since it was one of the first colours that native americans discovered. As well as the Maroon/brown which is depicting the colour of the skin of native American. Also they used black for the use of the outline of the mascot and the colour of the hair. They Used line to actually create texture for the logo. The way that they used that is by breaking the lines taking very sharp corners giving the texture of the feather.

http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=168

The concept behind the logo is that it very tribal team by having a native american as the mascot as well as having the feathers on the left side coming off the circle. It also depicts that when they verse another team they should be considered the enemy and as a threat to other teams for when they play.

http://www.sportslogos.net/team.php?id=168

I believe that it this pretty nice logo compared to the other cultural american team logos. This shows respect to native americans how they dont depict them as a cartoony animated mascot like the Cleveland Indians, which looks demeaning.

Bibliography: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Redskins

Melbourne Spots Museum Critiques

The Olympic Rings
The Olympic are five colours which are red, yellow, blue, green and black. The design of the Olympic rings was designed by Pierre de Coubertin who said of the colours when combined with the white background of the flag; "These five rings represent the five parts of the world now won over by Olympism. . . the colours thus combined represented those of all nation with no exceptions. This is a real international emblem". The Olympic rings is to said that at-least one out of the 6 colours is to be in every countries flag. The first time the flag was flown was at the Antwerp Olympic games in 1920. Flag was emblem was created in 1913.

The flag consists of five rings, which are made up of 5 round lines which create circles. The rings over lap and link up to create form. The Emblem is also a structured in a structured way how all the elements are placed in the middle, making the rings the focal point. The colour of the flag are effective because they are bright and strong and all are link together with a right amount of space which captures the audience attention.

If there had to be any style about the emblem i reckon it could be De Stijl. Reason behind this is that it is a very structured design and includes all the primary colours + black and green.

I believe the motif behind this design in unity, by the logo represent the colours as the parts of the world all linked up together and being a community.

I also reckon its a strong and effective logo because it represents the world in the one flag. It also is globally recognized by everyone and hanst been changed since 1913.

Bibliography:http://www.janecky.com/olympics/rings.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_symbols
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/What_do_the_five_rings_on_the_Olympics_emblem_stand_for

The sydney 2000 olympics games logo, also known as the millennium athlete, depicts the portrayal of an athlete running with a touch or stream of some substance off it's hand.

The logo is inspired by the ochre colours of the country, representing the earth, water and sun. The depiction of the elements portray the boomerang as a pair of running legs, the head as the sun and the stream of blue representing the sydney opera house. The technique used for the logo is a rough/raw sandy painted, brushed stroke look.

The motifs behind this logo would be two, which include, aboriginal, by incorporating the tradional colours of ochre to incorporating aboriginal tools (boomerang) into the logo. The other motif is the city or Sydney by representing the Sydney Opera House which is one of the most recognizable of Australia.

I honestly reckon its a successful logo just how its really recognizable, its creativity to represent Australia as a country and to also represent the city. It is such a simplistic design but makes such a massive impact which is really successful.



Bibliography:
http://www.mapsofworld.com/olympic-trivia/images/olympic-emblem/sydney2000.gif
http://www.marimari.com/content/australia/best_of/2000_olympics/main.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Summer_Olympics

Critiquing Tools

Art Vocabulary List
Value: Is the lightness and Darkness of a colour, showing the difference between light and dark
Art: Is the complete work of an artist that displays, their expression, creativity and imagination on a canvas or their choice. Can be displayed 2d, 3d, portrait, landscape or the following of the artists choice.
Technique: A skill that an artist picks up or posses. It displays how they use that skill applied to their work. Such skills can be splatter, cut outs, sculpture, drawing, painting, stencil etc.
Media: Is a range of equipment, utensils and tools that an artist uses to create their work. Range of media can be paint, brushes, ink, pencil, texters, aerosol paint, air brush, paper etc.
Monochromatic: Is a colour scheme of a single hue which displays the shades and tints on the one hue.

Adjective List:
Colour: bright, dull, heavy, light, monochromatic, analogous, inspiring, distressing, boring, shady, dark, impact, strong.
Line: stright, bent, zig zag, grided, dynamic, align, stoked, rough, clean, crisp, paintily.
Shape: 2d, 3d, abstract, structured, even, bulk, skinny, symbolic, satanic.
Point: stipple, dashed, focal point, repeated, dense, light, align, aim, added up, directed, symbolised.
Textured: pebbles, rough, smooth, prickly, spiky, dense, dangerous, mild, strong, organic, man made,

Elements:
Shape/Form: Shape and form can be; 2d or 3d, dynamic, structure, hollow, full, negative space, positive space.
Texture: Many techniques of texture are; stipple, pointed, dots, rough, smooth, harsh, painterly, cross hatched, lined, shaded, rendered, grass, metallic, glossy.
Colour: Bright, dark, shaded, tinted, opacity, dull, PMS, CMYK, RGB, monochromatic, analogous, inspiring, blinding, distracting, attractive, hideous etc.
Line: Can be; short, long, wavy, zig zag, strong, weak, broken, bent, swirly, rhythmic, dashing, structured, tall etc.

Principles:
Stability: When a placement of objects are position with on a grid in a specific place. Also the elements are positioned with in the canvas.
Dynamic: When a placement of object are position on mainly angles and nothing is really vertical or horizontal. Also the elements are placed going off the canvas to create a dynamic effect.
Rhythm: Rhythm can be created by and element or some kind being continuously repeated creating a movement effect.
Scale: Scale refers to the comparison of the size of the element, big to small. But mainly refers to the proportion of the size such as 1:100 which is 1mm to every 100mm, mainly used in architecture to compare size of building in plans.

Bibliography:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_elements_and_principles
http://www.johnlovett.com/test.htm
http://www.digital-web.com/articles/elements_of_design/
http://www.artincanada.com/arttalk/arttermsanddefinitions.html
http://www.artlex.com/

Style Time Line

Symbolism:

18th-19th century. Still currently around.
Jean Michel Basquiat, Carlos Schwabe

Impressionism:

1870s-1880s. 19th century.
Claude Monet,Alfred Sisley

Neo-Impressionism:

1880s-1890s
Georges Seurat, Paul Signac

Romanticism:

second half of 18th century- second half of 19th century.
Francisco Goya, J.M.W. Turner

Post-Impressionism:

1900s
Vincent Van Gogh, Mischa Askenazy

Pop Art:

1950-Present
Andy Warhol, Richard Hamilton

Realism:

1850-19th century
August Rodin,Goustave Courbet

Cubism:

1907-1911
Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque

Luminism:

1850s-1870s
David Johnson, Fitz Henry

Futurism:

1910s-1930s
Umberto Boccioni, Giocommo Balla