Jean Paul Gaultier - Contemporary Fashion Design Artist

Jean-Paul Gaultier is a French artist that specific in fashion design. He was born in 24 April in 1952 in Arcueli, Val-de-Marne, France. He never had been learning in a formal school he was from young drawing sketches of fashion designs  of his way.When he was a child he used to develop his ideas from his grandmother in her closet wardrobe. Only when he was at an age of 13 he began making some designs for her mother and grandmother also. He used to always look for fashion magazine to see what was the trend  and to take ideas. When he used to see all the top designers he used to send some of his sketches and one day he send the sketches to Pierre Cardin and Jean Patou and saw some talent so they helped him. These where the most two fashion designers,  that recognized his talent , so they helped him to success the way he succeeded now a day.  He began to work as an assistant for Cardin and then he also moved to Jean Patou. When he was around he was a lot influenced by the work of Yves Saint Laurent.  After he returned to Cardin and there he began as a designer.

Gaultier is the designer that opened the fashion on skirts on a man in the 1980`s and then he also design the cone bra that Madonna worn in the 1990`s. Then In the 1976 he made his first exhibition of fashion design  with his own runway that was made in Paris. After that he opened a business for his own.  He changed the fashion so he was used to be called the bad boy  of the fashion. He changed the styles to punk and street style . He invented the leather jacket  with a sneakers and a skirt. He is also popular for the sailor sweater and jaunty trench-coat, This was made with his first collection and he had help from his parents. The dresses where very funky , playful and extraoisrdinary, but he had a lot of complains.

After in the 1997 he had the money so he can open his own collection of dress. 

After that he opened a business for his own.  He changed the fashion so he was used to be called the bad boy  of the fashion. He changed the styles to punk and street style . He invented the leather jacket  with a sneakers and a skirt. 

He was called the` Enfant terrible` that means bad boy. in the world of fashion. Jean Paul Gaultier now a days  he is a big businessman how loves to create different and inovitev clothing. He became popular tough his creativity and his character because he never gave up to his dreams. His work isn`t popular only for clothing but also for jewelry.

Now a day he include also perfume , one of them has the cone bra-shape bottle .He made his first perfume in the 1993 for woman. He exploded a lot in his designs so now he design menswear, ready to wear, and more.. He also began to design furniture and wine bottles.

In the 2003 he became a chief designer at Hermes. His work also began to be used in the films "Dangerous Liaisons," "City of Lost Children," and "The Fifth Element.".

In the exhibition that he had of the Spring / Summer collection in the 2005 one of the most inspiration that he had was the Africa Bold Colours and animal print.

Some of his work :

This is the cone bra dress that he made for Madonna and it is dress on a model.

This is one of the perfume that he made but the bottle was  the inspired by the cone bra of Madonna.

This is a design of  handbag  made of leather . It has a classic design that has a professional look.

This is a wedding dress that is designed in a very original way.

Here we can see that he also design  normal clothes but in his fashion trend.

All About Jean Paul Gaultier. 2013. All About Jean Paul Gaultier. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.essortment.com/jean-paul-gaultier-44766.html. [Accessed 09 April 2013].

Constructivism Architecture :

Constuctivism is a type of art that had began in Russia in the late 1913. This type of art reflects geometric and abstract forms of art , and by that it will reflect his name and his characterized level of technical and perfection. It had been started before the Bolshevik Revolution 1917-1935

This is a type of Architecture of a glass tower that is made by the designer Valdimir Tatin. This Is structure that was made in this movement, in the late 1920- 1930. It was designed for the new socialist regi me in Russia. These used to call the self constructivists because they believe that  the design can be made in constructions. There work used to be in abstract form and used to have a lot of emphasize on geometric forms that are functional.
This designs used to be combined a lot with engineering and technology. These architects wanted to make a different idea trough the human and architecture to developed an innovative  design.
This most famous architecture was never built. This unbuilt project  was called Tatlin`s Tower and it was made with spiral forms so they can reflect to us as the revolution of the people in the World War I. Inside it was going to be made with three glass-walled build units and a cube, pyramid and a cylinder would go around i different speeds. It was going to be about 400 meters long so , it would be bigger than the Eiffel Tower of Paris if you could recombinant them. This was going to cost them a lot of money and would be one of the biggest building. Even that this tower wasn`t been built this design helped the Constructivism movement a lot trough the design. 
After 1920 the Constructivism  been spread out alover , so many people used to call them self like them. So after some years they fade away.

Dada - Art History Basics on the Dada Movement - 1916-1923. 2013. Dada - Art History Basics on the Dada Movement - 1916-1923. [ONLINE] Available at: http://arthistory.about.com/cs/arthistory10one/a/dada.htm. [Accessed 09 April 2013].

Pop Art

Pop Art had began in Britain in the 1950`s. The first pop art painting was made from the group that called them self the Independent group. They were a part of the institute of Contemporary art.

The Pop Art is an art that appreciate every different culture, it doesn`t critique the concept because it is a simple art that shows the nature fact of the word.

By this type of art much more magazines and advertisement where sold because it was effecting the mass production to the people by movies, theater, television, newspaper and mostly magazines.  By this people where expressing them self in a different way not as the usually detail art.
Pop art is the movement that modern art came in and it was in the late 1970`s. This was a contemporary art and also it had some modernism style that had been part of this movement by making   the art like a mirror of the society made in a contemporary way.
Then after time this art fadded and there was the Post modernist.

The Pop art is an art that has a recognizable image that is drown by different media. They usually use bright colors. The picture will be flat and it was influenced from comic books. they used to us celebrities faces on  comic book or magazines made with this technique.












Pop Art - Art History Basics on Pop Art - mid-1950s to Early 1970s. 2013. Pop Art - Art History Basics on Pop Art - mid-1950s to Early 1970s. [ONLINE] Available at: http://arthistory.about.com/od/modernarthistory/a/Pop-Art-Art-History-101-Basics.htm. [Accessed 09 April 2013].

Exhibition Of Mr.Chircop

This is a visit in the 8 April made by Mr. Chircop in the Malta tourism Studies.

This is an abstract painting made on canvas. It is made with bright acrylic colors.  In this painting  we can see that in his abstract work we can see faces as you see it in more detail and even figures.
For me this painting is one of the best because usually I don`t like abstract art , but this painting effected be a lot.





In this painting we can see that it is an abstract piece that has a lot of force as a painting.  This type of feeling is build by the color that he used that we made by a lot of thinking. He used different techniques like splashing and strong brush strokes.
As a painting it gives you a lot of life and that`s why this was one of my choosing painting. It shows that the artists wanted to show his feelings.







This painting has a lot of color mixed together in a bright way. He used as a base colors mixed and blended together and then he made splashes with the brush with white color. He didn`t made the splashes every where , but he made them with a thinking to show a strong force as I saw it.







This painting has is like in a forest made in a different abstract way. It has some brush strokes on the right corner  that are made in an interesting way. If you look closely you can see that you can see an animal face. The most interesting thing is that these paintings in every corner you see the image can be different.





In this painting we can see that it has a lot of textures, but it is made like three sections of colors.
One the top he used natural colors we stroke texture and in the middle he used a cerulean blue with a lot of water so he could make that texture.

Shadows in White - Exhibition

This is Christopher Ebejer and he is a ceramics sculpture. I visited his exhibition of `Shades in White in the 8 April. This exhibition was in The Historic Palazzo Messina In Valletta. We can see how he can express his passion, creativity and that beautiful detail  that he made tough his work in white ceramics. As an artist he was inspired from various themes but mostly he was inspired form the baroque style.

He is an artist that began from painting and continued studying and found that 3-dimention was his best way that he can express him -self as his best. He designed several work in the cinema but one of the most popular is the work of the horse of Troy the film  `Helen of Troy`.

He works from designs, interiors to fine art.

1 / Teatro Veneziano :
This is one of this work that represent the carnival of Venezia. It shows like a theater or a carnival team. As it is a sculpture it has a very interesting features of light and dark. I also like the way that the fabric is done , it has been made with a lot of technique in my eye that you can even tough that it is real fabric.













2 / Metamorphosis 1 :
This is a wall hanging sculpture that has a very nice effect of how the butterflies are like escaping form the box. It has a feeling of liberty and freedom as I saw it.














3 / Winter Drops :
This one of the best wall hanging piece that I saw in the exhibition. It has a very nice effect in the part from the hair is like flying tough the wind and making the effect of drops in the same time, so it was made in a very interesting way.








4 / The Swan-Lake 
This is an other wall hanging piece that shows a swan-lakes that are showing a sense of happiness.
I liked it because it shows a spirit of love between each other as I see it.











5 / Bavaria
As a wall piece it has a two faces that are like two angels and a very detailed designs around that makes it very interesting as a piece.

Exhibition of Fine Art in The National Museum of Fine Art

Visit on the 8 April .
This is an exhibition of Fine Art that that respresnt European artistic style made by Maltese artists that is made in The National Museum of Fine Art  .We can see a  range of Italian art and there are some of the painting made by the artist Mattia Preti but there are also paintings from other periods.
In this exhibition there where sculptures, landscape, portraits in different styles.



1 / The Mother and The Child [19 Century]

This is a three-dimensional sculpture that represent The Mother and The Child. It has a strong It has a strong line around the mother and it is formed by the mantel. This is forming a triangular shape and makes a good effect. It showing an exterior contur as it is a 3D sculpture. Here linearity shows a lot also and  it is made by the light and dark.
As a sculpture I liked it because it shows a sens of feeling between the mother and her child. I saw it like a message that she is never going to live him. It also impressed me the detail that is made on the mother and the child and how it was worked. It think that it is one of the best 3-D work of how the artist showed the feelings. 

2 / Crossing The Brook made by Giuseppe Cali

It is a two-dimensional painting in fine art style made on canvas.This painting has a strong pointliness effect between the girl and the background . It also shows a lot of focus by putting the girl on a spot as a main focus by that. As a texture is is very smooth and has a nice blending with color in detail.It also has a strong effect of chiaro scuro.
I liked this painting because it shows a bit of the romanticism style made by the way of the girl is dressed and how he made the effect shows. 

3 / Wedding Processing made by Gianni Vella

This is a painting made in a fine art style made by the artist Gianni Vella . It is an oil on canvas in a two-dimensional way and it is made with a colorfull and bright colors. As a painting it express a feeling of happyness and this is expressed by the people expressions. As a painting has a 3-dimensional effect that is made also with dark and light tones.
This is one of the painting that I liked in this exhibition the most because it has a sense of happy family feeling that are celebrating the wedding. It is a nice painting for me not for the details but how the people are made in normal life as smiling not always as posing.

4 /  Patio delas Munecas at The Alcazor made by Capell Jose` Montenegro 

As a painting this is two-dimensional and it is made by the artist Cappell Jose`Montenegro.It has a  strong light and dark effect made with a very well detailed designs on the building.As an effect of light is coming from the left corner.Also the designs are all different but are made with a lot of thinking.
This painting I liked it because it has the designs are very different and detailed. A focus there is the small plant that is showing more interest.

5 / Neo-Classical vases , Late 18 century , Porcelain

This are two porcelain pieces of vases from the late 18 century. These have small designs in the center of the vase and in the other it has also some text written. It has a very shiny and smooth texture . The designs are made with black , and by this is shows more contrast by the design.
I liked this painting because the design are very detailed. They are also interesting because one has a the figures and the other has writing written describing the figures.

Who You Are ? - Art exhibition

This is an exhibition that I had visited in the 8 th April.

It is held in The Fine Art Museum.
As an exhibition it is about your own personality and how it reflect to each other. All of this reflect your own personality by the facial expressions of each bust that is made. This exhibition shows the personality of each structure with a lot of detail.












 1/ The Very Elegant Women made by Antonio Sciortino.

This is a bust of a person that shows that this person is a very elegant person. It shows a sense of class also.
I liked this bust because it shows a lot of details in her expression.

2 / Men In Elegant Suit made by Vincent Apap.

In this structure of this bust of an elegant men in suit  is showing a lot of strength of a gentleman. It also shows a character of a silent men as it shows from his expression in this face.
I choose this as one of my best pieces because even if it shows that he is a person that has money you can see that he is not that happy so it gives you some tought and that`s why I liked it.




3 / Men In Uniform made by Vincent Apap

This is a bust of a man in uniform that has a very serious expression in the way he is dressed. He is showing a sens of respect to his own uniform in my eye. As his face expression are also serious in a way.

4 /  Smiling Girl made by Antonio Sciortino

This is a bust of a smiling girl that has a very happy expression. It shows from her simplest way how a simple girl can be happy by not be popular or important that is in a high level.

As a sculpture I liked it because it has a very natural expression and also the way that he sculpted it.

5 / Peasant made by Joseph Maria Genuis

This is sculpture of a bust that shows an old man that is a peasant type.It has a very nice good working techniques and effects of the way is expressing him self as a mirror this old man.
I liked this sculpture because it shows how the artist wanted to shows the character of the person by sculpture.

Pre-Raphaelite

In the 1848 , there was a revolution in Europe in there social that was known as Chartism, in Britain. Seven men rebellious young men called them self , The Pre-Paphaetlite Brotherhood where artists that where formed in London so then can express them self by creating new British Art. They used to include also other subjects like Nature and literature from the Bible , Shakespeare , like his poems.There name was called from the chief source of inspiration from contemporary paintings. There Art always  translate a sense of sincerity, seriousness and truth trough the nature.

After they had an exhibition in London that showed in the 1849 and many painting where exhibited.There paintings where on canvas and there aim was so they can express there feeling against corruption.There feelings where justice, piety and familiar relationship.

There work was always critical and it was made with there composting of working. They used to use a lot of shadow , Flatten there forms and used to make a wet white ground to coloration.One of there best was the writer John Ruskin. He was a supporter to painting from nature that lead him to Gothic Revival paintings.This type of work was plein-air made with little detail. In the 1850s the brotherhood diapered but some of them remained close friends. When this happened , it appeared new inspiration tough William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Morris in the 1861 opened a company and he used to design hand-craft object, household objects, and it was the beginning of the Arts and Crafts Movement.
In 1860s, new artists, including Edward Burne-Jones, Simeon Solomon, and Albert Moore, were introduced to Pre-Raphaelite so they could be a refresh influence. This new group by new individuals was named as the Aeasthic Movement in the 1870s - 1890s. This new design was reflecting the Victorian period as the beauty of the woman in there harmony, form and composting was the most important. As there work became also more and more decorative they where also producing also new designs and be developed in Murals, Stained Glass, Furniture, Textiles, Jewellery and also wall designs.

In the  Delaware Art Museum's Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art has about 150 works, including paintings, drawings, photographs, decorative arts, and illustrated books. It is the largest collection of Pre- art outside England.

Lady Lilith, 1867

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, 1828–1882)

Watercolor and gouache on paper

Cabinet, 1861

Philip Webb (British, 1831–1915), Designer; Morris, Marshall, 

Faulkner & Co., Maker; Sir Edward Burne-Jones 

Made in England

Painted pine, oil paint on leather, brass, copper

"Pink and Rose" wallpaper design, ca. 1890

William Morris (British, 1834–1896)

Hand-block-printed wallpaper

Delaware Art Museum - Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. 2013. Delaware Art Museum - Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.preraph.org/. [Accessed 06 April 2013].

Delaware Art Museum - Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. 2013. Delaware Art Museum - Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.preraph.org/. [Accessed 06 April 2013].

Hector Guimard-Art nouveau

Hector Guimard is an architecture, furniture designer and crafts artist. He was born in Lyon, France in 1867 and died in 1942. He studied as a specification in decorative art and architecture in Paris and after he made his own exhibition. Guimard , inspire him self from new architechual theories of that time in the 1800s.  

After the first time that he saw the Art nouveau building he began to produce furniture and interior decorations for houses that where a part from his work know. 
His architecture and designs work are also characterized as fluid, unusual lines, and vibrant curves . He also liked to inspired him self from nature , shapes contrast of materials like wood and metal and lightning.

One of the most popular projects that he made was The Paris dwelling Castel Beranger , 60 rue La Fontaine [1894-1897].This is in the Paris Metro , which was made in the time of the Word Exposition.The design is one of the finest piece in the metro`art as Art Nouveau. It is made in 1903 and has a different style made by green cast of iron, shaped in curves. By this design Hector Guimard was regarded to the leading expo of this type of new Art that was called The Style of Guimard in France. 

This design was a new page for him and it was documented in his portfolio as `L`art dans l`Habitation Moderne` and there is included  the photos and designs of his work from the beginning.

His Art was not a design of usually they where designs that has unusual concept of design in a very brilliant way. He didn't wanted to show details because he didn't want to give importance to that. By his design the Art deco`grew a lot. 
In 1938 Hector Guimard emerged to New York , where he died. 

GUIMARD, Hector GUIMARD biography by Senses-ArtNouveau.com. 2013.GUIMARD, Hector GUIMARD biography by Senses-ArtNouveau.com. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.senses-artnouveau.com/biography.php?artist=GUI. [Accessed 02 April 2013

Hector Guimard. 2013. Hector Guimard. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.metrodemontreal.com/art/guimard/metro.html. [Accessed 02 April 2013].

Japonisme

In the 60`s begin the Art known as the Japonisme that begin in Western Europe mostly in France. Then in the mid-1800s  the west began using this techqnie also , so there was a lot of places that where using Japonisme  Art. This type of Art was inspired from western Art in the 19 century  , two years after The Crystal Palace was build. There was a shop that was called The Chinese Gate and he used to sold Japanese prints that where made on wood blocks made by artists like Van Gogh, Mary Cassatt, Gauguin, Whisler, Degas, Gustav Klimt and more of the same style.

Many of the Artist where traveling from France to Japan so they can express there painting trough real life. By this there where a lot of media involved by magazines, news-paper and more.This type of Art was very popular and many painter used to paint the background with this style or all the scene.

There painting used to have a distinction of depth and not faded shading. One of the artist that used this type was Manet that was inspired by the Japanese Art. This was made so it can appear a three- dimensional. They also used to make wrong symmetry and emphasize on flatness.
I think that  the most influence part of this element is how the artist  emphasis on  nature and recording it in a way that the painters never made. 



One of the most important painting and the one that I like the most is this painting that is The Eagle Flying over the Fukagama District. This is a scene of winter time that  captured a bird  that has bright blues and whites colors. There is also snow-topped and mountains in the back  made a lines. He emphasize on the flatness on the lake to show that the lake is frozen  and made the top darker. He made this effective with the tones of blue but mostly amazing part for me is the part of the top where he made a lot of dietel on the eagle that catch your eyes for the first time you see it. I think that as a hole painting it is beautiful.









Here we can see that Japonisme Art is not only made on wooden blocks but also on ceramics. Thing that are used in every day life painted on objects as 3-D form.

Thou Art History: Japonisme. 2013. Thou Art History: Japonisme. [ONLINE] Available at: http://thouarthistory.blogspot.com/2009/03/japonisme.html. [Accessed 01 April 2013].


Japonisme | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 2013Japonisme | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/jpon/hd_jpon.htm. [Accessed 01 April 2013].

The Crystal Palace and The Great Exhibition

In the Mid-nineteenth century in 1851 there was The Great International Exhibition in london, this was made to show the industrial , military and economic to give more importance to the Great Britain. Even The building that had been built for this Great Exhibition was brilliant with the engineering.We can see that this design was inspired by The Victorian Architecture and Moorish designs.As an original  sketch it was made by Sir Joseph Paxton`s and a design had an enfecy on the construction of the roof that was made with glass and iron vaulted.

The Great Exhibition was a history from the start because it was made in a very short time. This was made by Henry Cole , he was a member of the Society of Art  but then he stopped and begin supporting Sir Robert Peel.To attract the people Cole got Prince Albert back to the royal in the 1851 and told them that is was his idea , and by that they will attract more people. Even this wasnt the Prince idea it helped because he was a dedicated person to his word and hard-working man. There was an expert that talked in a speech in march 1850 to reach some support so they can continue in The Exhibition. 

This exhibition was made so they can make better level of industrial production in bigger markets. It was open in Hyde Park for five months and fifteen days and it was the biggest exhibition in the history. There was about six million people that has visited and they came to see some of the inovitev machines by fourteen thousand exhibitors that where made into sections.


When they first opened this exhibition they had a high price and after a month they lowered it a bit and that`s why they had a lot of visits . After a century and a half they took about £506,100, one third of the expenses that they made to build the Crystal Palace and to make the exhibition.


The Great Exhibition - History of London on History . 2013. The Great Exhibition - History of London on History . [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.history.co.uk/explore-history/history-of-london/when-london-made-an-exhibition-of-itself.html. [Accessed 01 April 2013].

Great Exhibition Introduction. 2013. Great Exhibition Introduction. [ONLINE] Available at: http://spencer.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/greatexhibition/contents.htm. [Accessed 01 April 2013].