When finding designers that used Bridget Rileys work and prints I found a number of well know designers however im only going to mention the designer which most people would be able to relate to. The designers i am planning to mention are:

• Zandra Rhodes


• Vivienne Westwood


• Oscar de la Renta


• Laura Ashley


• Roberto Capucci


• Marc Bohan (design director for Christian Dior)

I have also found a good image which shows one of Roberto Capucci's Op designs.

Also Sash I have found a good image that brings inspiration from Riley's prints into the modern day, I am not sure if this image with help or if you need it but I thought I would post it anyways.

Op Art Helmet- Eley Kishimoto Collaboration with Ruby Helmets 2008.

"OP and the commodiciation of the future"

After reading over the weekend from the book "Embodied Visions:Bridget Riley, OP art and the sixties" I took some notes, picking out sections which link her art work and prints with the media and fashion industry.

• At the beginning when OP art first started to become popular it was frequently described as "uncomfortable physical efftect" by the media.


• After "The Responsive Eye" exhibition in May 1965 OP art became more popular among the people. A month after the exhibition had closed art critic Mario Amaya from the finacial Times on the wide varitey of consumer goods were currently being done with OP designs.


• Soon OP pieces of Art and Prints were copied and used for mass-production goods where the imagery was used for decoration, fashionalbe commodities (body and clothes) as well as for within the home.


• They art work and prints first became most popular in New York USA however by June 1954 it already reached Britain with a huge craze for the prints.


• Evening gowns, Wall paper and even some bibles were made based on OP art.


• Such commercialisation of this type of fine art became a phenomenom and changed the future within every public exhibition shop, as where every public art exhibition everyone would be able to buy its own T-shirt or souvenir with its picutres or prints.


• The craze attracted international attension and controversy .


• For Bridget Riley the widespread appropriation of her paintings by designers of consumer goods was strongly resisted by her as she felt it was trivializing her work. Concern with grew amongt those art critics whom first supported OP art.

yeh baby !

Yeh baby ! Austin Powers clip 5second in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPEMiCLjur8

Meeting

Are people able to meet up tomorrow sometime, to discuss the progress of our presentation even if it is just a quick chat to see that ever one is on the right track .

Bridget Riley

After our last meeting, I stumble across this video when I was researching into Bridget Riley. I thought that I would post it, as it might help with our presentation or we might find a quote that we could useful. One thing that was interesting about this video is that it names I think two artist, that we could use for the Historical examples part of our presentation.

Sorry I couldn't post the video on here directly, so I had to post the web address instead.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11791205

RErun

after our meeting on Thursday i thought i would upload all the images and information i researched on Bridget Riley and fashion trying to put it in to a a power point but doesn't want to work !
below is a few images and text that i will place into PowerPoint when i get it working:

Bridget Riley took the world of fashion by storm but not by choice !
Her work was used and interpreted into many items of clothing and furniture and the swinging sixties was awash with her work.
Not since the 1920's had fashion changed so radically with a growing teenage revolution in the making music, film ,clothing and culture in London formed the sixties into what we know now !
There was no more dressing like you parents a sense of style was created and Bridget Riley's trippy designs were used as the pattern.

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The Mod look was about looking to the future sharp, bold and minimalist prints MOD-ernist
The monochrome geometric prints of Op Art perfectly complemented the bold shapes of the mod look

(image 2)

As Op Art and the artists at the movement’s forefront gained recognition; the youth culture explosion of the sixties was gaining momentum. Mod bands such as The Who crossed over to the U.S. and everyone wanted a piece of The London Look
(images)

Just a roughly outline of what i will talk about images will be added later hope this is OK ?

Meeting

Are people able to do a group meeting on friday morning to discuss further the presentation?

After we spoke last have been looking in to Guiseppe Arcimboldo (1527-1593) an Italian painter creating bizarre imaginative portraits by painting and arranging objects such as fruits, vegetables, flowers, fish and plants creating human like resemblances.
i have continued to look at his work and other artist inspired by his style let me know if you have discovered anything similar
(http://foodonmylens.blogspot.com/2009/07/giuseppe-arcimboldo-strange-food.html)

Hey everyone
Lauren and I spoke today about meeting up this week to discuss the next presentation, both of us do not have uni on wednesday however Lauren is not sure she will be able to make it. If you two can I will still be happy to have a meeting. If not, Lauren and I should be finished at uni at around 1 on Thursday and are happy to have a group meeting in the afternoon if you are free, please let me know.

To Lauren

Can you do the historical examples and the cultural context that we discussed in a previous meeting.

- Ptolemy V
- Obelisks
- Steles

left is a screen shot of PowerPoint i have been working on for steles it continues to link to Egypt and I have referenced all the photos and quotes I assume this is what they want with most of the information coming from us so i have written Prompt cards for myself to follow alongside with the powerpoint any feedback would be appeciated

Final Meet Up Urgent

We were thinking that we need to meet tomorrow at 3pm all of us in the library to put our presentation together. Bring all you research, notes , sources/references and any anything like any sides that you mite have already done. If you can not make we can re arrange a time but definitely need a meet up tomorrow to make sure we have a presentation that ruins smoothly on Thursday.

I am happy to write seperate sections but is there no way of us all meeting tomorrow cause then we can at least go through it proberly before the actual presentation? Just so we know it flows together?

If you agreed with my last blog then i would personally like to look at the historical context Egyptology the Pharaoh ect ect please let me no you views asap

The final countdown

As our presentation is thursday i wondered every ones view on just writing a personal section each if every one could choose a section and we will have to get together on thursday and just jump straight in as time is now up in terms of meeting get back to me asap i personally feel that due to other commitments we havent been able to share our research as well but there is no excuse not to blog so have no fear i will blog like mad this evening !

Let me no what you think either on the blog or on my email ella_choc_123@hotmail.com as it is direct to my phone

The Time Machine 9

For those who need it and for a fresh reminder here are the 9 key things we have to include in the presentation:

1) A clear introduction to your presentation, which should also mention the different published sources you have used and your reasons for choice. You should use no less than 5 published sources to inform your presentation.

2) A clear definition of key ideas relating to your given topic, with supporting evidence in the form of, no less than, 3 quotations from 3 different published sources. Quotations must be interpreted and their importance discussed, they should also be referenced correctly using the Harvard method.

3) The cultural context (political and social) in which the topic came out of/was in reaction to.

4) An illustrated ‘who’s who’ of key individuals associated with given topic, with a clear explanation of what you think their significance is and why.

5)  Historical examples of key words/images/artefacts associated with given topic and an assessment of their importance.

6) Contemporary examples of key words/images/artefacts associated with given topic and a comparison to the historical examples.

7) A ‘bullet point’ conclusion.

8) A bibliography and illustration list correctly set out using the Harvard method.

9) A PDF version of presentation for uploading to myUCA.

review

hi everyone we both think it is important to meet up asap and discuss further our presentation and our own research if you could let us know when is best for you ?
many thanks

Rough Presentation Plan

After our meeting the other day I've decided to put up a rough plan of the presentation so that we all can see it.

Intro:

• What is the Rosetta Stone
• Sources and why

3 Key Points:

• Discovery of a lost culture
• Relation to the philosophy of Enlightenment
• Relation to Neoclassicism

Cultural Context:

• 3 forms of language
• Hierarchy 

Who's Who:

• Young
• Bankes and Belzoni
• Champollion

Historical Examples:

• Ptolemy V
• Obelisk
• Use of Steles

Contemporary Examples:

• Rosetta Project
• Joseph Kosuth Replica
• Mary Kelly

Conclusion

The Rosetta Stone

I have been looking into the dates that surround The Rosetta Stone to help with creating a timeline like we discussed so this is what I gathered so far.

　

The Rosetta Stone itself is a valuable key to the decipherment of hieroglyphs. The inscription on the Rosetta Stone is a decree passed by a council of priests. It is one of a series that affirm the royal cult of the 13-year-old Ptolemy V on the first anniversary of his coronation.The decree is inscribed on the stone three times in three different languages. First hieroglyphic (suitable for a priestly decree), second demotic (the native script used for daily purposes), and third Greek (the language of the administration).Because the Rosetta Stone presents essentially the same text in all three scripts, it provided the key to the modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

 

Soon after the end of the fourth century AD, when hieroglyphs had gone out of use, the knowledge of how to read and write them disappeared. In the early years of the nineteenth century, some 1400 years later, scholars were able to use the Greek inscription on this stone as the key to decipher them. Thomas Young, an English physicist, was the first to show that some of the hieroglyphs on the Rosetta Stone wrote the sounds of a royal name, that of Ptolemy. The French scholar Jean-François Champollion then realized that hieroglyphs recorded the sound of the Egyptian language and laid the foundations of our knowledge of ancient Egyptian language and culture.

　

Soldiers in Napoleon's army discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799 while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta). On Napoleon's defeat, the stone became the property of the　British under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria (1801) along with other antiquities that the French had found. The Rosetta Stone was transport to the British Museum and has been on exhibition since 1802, with only one break. Towards the end of the First World War, in 1917, when the Museum was concerned about heavy bombing in London. They moved it to safety along with other, portable, 'important' objects. The Rosetta Stone spent the next two years in a station on the Postal Tube Railway, 50 feet below the ground at Holborn. Ever since its rediscovery, the stone has been the focus of nationalist rivalries. Including its transfer from French to British possession during the Napoleonic Wars. Also a long-running dispute over the relative value of Young's and Champollion's contributions to the decipherment, and since 2003, demands for the stone's return to Egypt.

I looked at the work by Joseph Kosuths work and he actually began to produce work in 1965 with a basis on language where he linked images, object and texts into simple and self-referential pieces. From this Kusuth's pieces are linguistic in character because they express definition of art.

Joseph Kosuths piece on the Rosetta Stone is kept at Jean-Francois Champollion's birth place and i found that it is is also situated on the "Place des Ecritures" which when translated means "Writings Place".

I've found something which personally I found quite interesting which we can connect the Rosetta Stone being brought forward into the modern day as well as into the future.

Through some research i have found a group of people who have called themselves "The Rosetta Project" and together have produced a modern day version of the Rosetta Stone. Useing a non-corroding metal (nickle is mentioned in one account) which measures 3 inches and has been microscopically engraved with the languages of the world. The text would originally take up 15,00 pages of text however this writing can only be seen using a 500x microscope. Only a few have been produced and currently cost £25,000 each.

The idea behind "The Rosetta Project" is for it to be the modern day Rosetta Stone for the people thousands of years in the future with its intent on preserving as much information as possible on currently spoken languages as it is feared that many existing world languages will become extinct by then end of the century.

Also just discovered an American conceptual artist named Joseph Kusoth i thought this might move our subject into the now as he recreated a giant version of the Rosetta stone which was placed at the birth place of Jean Francois Champollion this was made recently and i think would be a good reference to an artist inspired by the Rosetta Stone
see link below
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Place_des_ecritures_Figeac.jpg

british museum

http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/aes/t/the_rosetta_stone.aspx


Hi everyone taken from what we spoke about in our meeting today i had a look at the British museum achieves above is a link to the website page on the Rosetta Stone it all so has some book references which we might find interesting.

Meet up

Hey everyone

Seeing as how tomorrow is our self directed study for the Time Machine project Sasha and I were thinking that we could meet up at some point and get a move on with the project.

If you can come, I am going to propose we meet up in the library around 11ish but it depends really when you're available.