Visual Art Presentation Handout

Le Nabis vs Feminism by Dana Travers

Le Nabis

·         Art movement that started in the 1890’s in France by a (rebellious) group of friends

·         These artists were Post Post-Impressionist avant-garde

·         They used their interests in art and literature to create the art they created

Nabis Landscape By Paul Ranson

Characteristics

·         Art movement that started in the 1890’s in France by a (rebellious) group of friends

·         These artists were Post Post-Impressionist avant-garde

·         They used their interests in art and literature to create the art they created

Feminism

• ·         An art style that communicates the accomplishments and successes of women
• ·         Started in the 1960’s
• ·         Feminists used the idea of “What makes us different than men?” as one of the ideas that was used
• ·         Feminists used examples of men throughout history who dominated women and viewed woman as nothing but mothers of his children. This quickly turned into a Women's Rights movement
• ·         Often use sexuality, Identity, power and human rights to communicate messages

By Barbara Kruger

Stolen Art~In the Music Industry

   We started talking about Artistic Plagiarism in Visual Art. This started to get me thinking about how mad I get when I find out about musicians stealing from other musicians. The huge issue right now involving the music industry is Pop musicians stealing from Metal and Punk musicians. As an artist and a Metal-Head, this makes me mad.

Now, you might disagree and say "But everyone does it! it's just music!" Let me ask you something: If you had a band and you got an artistically talented friend of yours to design an album cover, would you want someone stealing that design for their own use? A close friend of yours designed that for your band. That would have meaning and sentimental value to you. Secondly, it's not "just music". Music is art, and when someone steals a riff, or a lyric for their own personal gain, without crediting the artist, that's plagiarism. That lyric or that riff most likely had a special meaning for whoever wrote the lyric or the riff. To have that stolen by someone without getting credit, is hard to take.

I understand that it's hard to create original music. A series of chords in one song by someone, may be identical to another song by a completely different artist, but it's  99% unintentional. It's unintentional because most musicians know that stealing something from another band or musician is a stupid-head move. It's not nice, and it stirs up controversy.

Examples of Plagiarism in Songwriting:

•  Led Zeppelin was accused of plagiarism in 2014 for Stairway to Heaven. The intro of the song apparently sounds just like the intro Taurus by Spirit. 
•  Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams were accused of plagiarising Blurred Lines after a family realized that it sounded similar to Gaye's Got to Give it Up, which was a huge hit in the 70's.

Examples of Physical plagiarism:

Stealing a band's font, symbol or logo, album cover design or style, are all examples of ways to plagiarize. 

Here is Kanye West's Yeezus font. Look how similar it is to the font Thrash Metal band, Metallica' uses. MetalINjection explains here in this link: Metallica vs Yeezus

Another example is Venom vs Thrasher:

Venom was a Thrash, Black and Speed Metal band from the 70's. Thrasher is a skateboarding brand. Even though the two are two different brands and organizations, their logos share similarities. The Devil head in Venom's logo looks like the goat head in the Thrasher logo. I think Thrasher stole Venom's logo because of all the similarities. Venom has been around way longer than Thrasher. I wouldn't be surprised if I was right about this.

In conclusion, plagiarism of any kind is bad, and it's a criminal offense in some countries. Plagiarism in the Art and Music Industries is sad because someone or a group of people just see something they like and simply take it without crediting the artist. "I'm acknowledging the artist!" How about giving the artist credit and asking for permission, before you steal someone else's work? Musicians and artists work hard for their designs and music. They shouldn't have to worry about someone or some company stealing their work for their own personal gain. It's not a nice thing to do. Musicians do steal from other musicians, and that isn't okay either. People need to be creative and come up with their own designs and ideas.






Other Links:
10-musicians-who-make-their-living-ripping-off-other-musicians.php

The 5 most famous musicians who are thieving bastards 

Kanye West and the Art of Stealing

Culminating poster Reflection

a) The design I used for the poster was a sad, "emo" looking one. I used a plain black background with a white tree to symbolize the dark, sad and angry emotion that is in the music video. This is an effective promotional piece for the band because Let it Die is a popular Three Days Grace song and it will catch the attention of teens who like their music. The poster will also catch people's attention because it has a very deep, emotional feel which will make people wonder "why does this look so sad?" or "I like this. This totally shows the emotion in the song".

b) The symbolism in the music video would be the anger and the love. I recently read an article Click Here! about Adam Gontier (The frontman for TDG at the time) and how he was in rehab for the majority of 2013, (but was dealing with drugs way before then) and while he was in rehab and going through his drug addiction and surviving his "need" to die and commit suicide, he was writing songs. Those songs that are on the One X album are about his drug addiction. For example, Animal I Have Become is about how Adam realized that he needed some serious help with his addiction to OxiContin. Let it Die, is about how he made big, horrible mistakes in his life and how they almost pushed him over the edge. But again, those mistakes are his drug addiction and how it was tearing his family apart.

c) I have around 20 steps. They consisted of picking a black background, and going online to pick a tree image I wanted. Then I put a white filter on the tree and made it transparent. After that, i put a fading gradient on the band to fade them behind the tree. I then downloaded a font that I thought had an edgy feel for the release date. For The Three Days Grace and the One X parts, I found the title image and cropped it in Photoshop.

d) I really liked how the finished result. I do think that I could've added more, but since the deadline was tight, I did what I could. I do, really like it.