it was such an amazing place and all the costumes they had made were amazing they were so good they were so many different types of costumes, these are some of the pictures that i took in there,
Monday, 30 November 2009
trip to west yorkshire playhouse
as part as our research for tailoring practices we had a trip to the west yorkshire playhouse costume department to have a look at all the costumes they have made for their plays and thier construction techniques in how they were made.
Friday, 13 November 2009
critical studies lecture one asethetics and taste
some problems of knowing
rules of beauty-aesthetics
how do we require knowledge? 1) a knower 2) something to be known
do i know that i exist?
do i know that the world exists?
Rene Descartes-"i think therefore i am" certainty he was thinking.
part material part immaterial-mind and body
body is the vehicle of the mind
mind names sensations and objects of external world.
BEAUTY AND TASTE
"no object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look ugly" - Oscar Wilde.
Plato-truth
reality is an imperfect copy of the forms (truths) art therefore is a much less perfect copy of a copy
PLATO'S CAVE
Plato imagines a group of people who have lived chained in a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to seeing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not constitutive of reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.
Aristotle - art whilst largely mimetic could purge the soul
the Kantian revolution
radical explorations of the condition of knowledge what does it mean to know and what is the result of that knowing
the mind contributes to the experience of objects.
the thing- the thing in itself
noumenon-phenomenon
things in themselves can be known only in the imagination
where is beauty?
not in the object of observation?
nor is it in a reasoned response ?
disinterested not to be confused with uninterested
disinterested-having no interest direct engagement with.
read Rousseau so long until the beauty of expression no longer interferes only then kovnt.
Hegel content v form
- no such thing as the thing in itself
everything in the universe building to something else
art is evidence of revelation of spirit
what cannot be known is nothing
there is no unbreakable thing in itself.
phenomenology- an examination of consciousness and the structures that underpin experience.
what does experience feel like?
what does our life world contain?
HEIDEGGER
thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason glorified for centuries is the stiff necked adversary of thought.
the origin of the work of art 1935-1937
Artworks, Heidegger contends, are things, a definition that raises the question of the meaning of a "thing." As this concept is so broad, he narrows down the definition to "mere things," meaning inanimate objects. He then chooses to examine a pair of shoes painted by Vincent Van Gogh, looking to the work to establish a distinction between artwork and other "things." This was actually typical of Heidegger as he often chose to study shoes and shoe maker shops as an example for the analysis of a culture. Heidegger explains the viewer's responsibility to consider the variety of questions about the shoes, asking not only about form and matter—what are the shoes made of?—but bestowing the piece with life by asking of purpose—what are the shoes for?
a painting is a thing of a certain type.
wearing shoes is different from seeing.
the being of shoes of their usefulness
painted shoes reveal the truth about shoes
LANGUAGE AND WITTGENSTEIN
big questions
how do we understand the world?
is the limit to that understanding?
if so how are parameters to be defined?
TRACTUS 1921
"whereof one cannot speak there of one must be silent"-Wittgenstein
language cannot say everything
language and the world share a common form.
art, god ethics etc reside. outside of language (occupying the realm of the mystical.)
"the limits of my language are the of my world?"-Wittgenstein
language games
meaning is a social activity words are not pictures of objects, ideas and situations they mean only in so far as they can be used.
god, beauty, good etc don't exist (in the platonic sense)
they mean what they do only in the context of how they are used.
MEANING IS USE
beauty is not property that we can come to know
nor is it a type of a response but we know how when and where to use it.
rules of beauty-aesthetics
how do we require knowledge? 1) a knower 2) something to be known
do i know that i exist?
do i know that the world exists?
Rene Descartes-"i think therefore i am" certainty he was thinking.
part material part immaterial-mind and body
body is the vehicle of the mind
mind names sensations and objects of external world.
BEAUTY AND TASTE
"no object is so beautiful that under certain conditions it will not look ugly" - Oscar Wilde.
Plato-truth
reality is an imperfect copy of the forms (truths) art therefore is a much less perfect copy of a copy
PLATO'S CAVE
Plato imagines a group of people who have lived chained in a cave all of their lives, facing a blank wall. The people watch shadows projected on the wall by things passing in front of a fire behind them, and begin to ascribe forms to these shadows. According to Plato, the shadows are as close as the prisoners get to seeing reality. He then explains how the philosopher is like a prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on the wall are not constitutive of reality at all, as he can perceive the true form of reality rather than the mere shadows seen by the prisoners.
Aristotle - art whilst largely mimetic could purge the soul
the Kantian revolution
radical explorations of the condition of knowledge what does it mean to know and what is the result of that knowing
the mind contributes to the experience of objects.
the thing- the thing in itself
noumenon-phenomenon
things in themselves can be known only in the imagination
where is beauty?
not in the object of observation?
nor is it in a reasoned response ?
disinterested not to be confused with uninterested
disinterested-having no interest direct engagement with.
read Rousseau so long until the beauty of expression no longer interferes only then kovnt.
Hegel content v form
- no such thing as the thing in itself
everything in the universe building to something else
art is evidence of revelation of spirit
what cannot be known is nothing
there is no unbreakable thing in itself.
phenomenology- an examination of consciousness and the structures that underpin experience.
what does experience feel like?
what does our life world contain?
HEIDEGGER
thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason glorified for centuries is the stiff necked adversary of thought.
the origin of the work of art 1935-1937
Artworks, Heidegger contends, are things, a definition that raises the question of the meaning of a "thing." As this concept is so broad, he narrows down the definition to "mere things," meaning inanimate objects. He then chooses to examine a pair of shoes painted by Vincent Van Gogh, looking to the work to establish a distinction between artwork and other "things." This was actually typical of Heidegger as he often chose to study shoes and shoe maker shops as an example for the analysis of a culture. Heidegger explains the viewer's responsibility to consider the variety of questions about the shoes, asking not only about form and matter—what are the shoes made of?—but bestowing the piece with life by asking of purpose—what are the shoes for?
a painting is a thing of a certain type.
wearing shoes is different from seeing.
the being of shoes of their usefulness
painted shoes reveal the truth about shoes
LANGUAGE AND WITTGENSTEIN
big questions
how do we understand the world?
is the limit to that understanding?
if so how are parameters to be defined?
TRACTUS 1921
"whereof one cannot speak there of one must be silent"-Wittgenstein
language cannot say everything
language and the world share a common form.
art, god ethics etc reside. outside of language (occupying the realm of the mystical.)
"the limits of my language are the of my world?"-Wittgenstein
language games
meaning is a social activity words are not pictures of objects, ideas and situations they mean only in so far as they can be used.
god, beauty, good etc don't exist (in the platonic sense)
they mean what they do only in the context of how they are used.
MEANING IS USE
beauty is not property that we can come to know
nor is it a type of a response but we know how when and where to use it.
handing in project and presentation
to finsh off our project we needed to do a presentation on our collection as a group to try and sell it to potential buyers (gemma and angie), as a group we put our presentation together with some members of the group been more helpful than others....
for our presentation we got goody bags to give to all of the group with our branding in it and a chocolate from hotel choclat which was even colour coded to our whole collection.
the presentation went okay but i kept prouncing our collection whcih was impossible to define impoosible to design which was embarrassing and then i started laughing to make it even worse so im pretty sure my part of the presentation didnt go so well but never mind.
we handed in our project on wednesday and on the friday we were given a new breif called tailoring processes which sounds really good and should be an enjoyable project and not as stressful as the last one, we also have a trip to the west yorkshire playhouse to the wardrobe department which should be so much fun and i cant wait for!
for our presentation we got goody bags to give to all of the group with our branding in it and a chocolate from hotel choclat which was even colour coded to our whole collection.
the presentation went okay but i kept prouncing our collection whcih was impossible to define impoosible to design which was embarrassing and then i started laughing to make it even worse so im pretty sure my part of the presentation didnt go so well but never mind.
we handed in our project on wednesday and on the friday we were given a new breif called tailoring processes which sounds really good and should be an enjoyable project and not as stressful as the last one, we also have a trip to the west yorkshire playhouse to the wardrobe department which should be so much fun and i cant wait for!
Sunday, 1 November 2009
second year!!!
second year is extremely different to first year its more intense and more work to do and a complete change.
however, its still fun and enjoyable our most recent project has been to work in groups and create a final collection together for a diffusion line for miu miu, it has been a lot of work to do over a short period of time and has been quite hard to keep up but Ive done it and although its been hard i have enjoyed working in a group and seeing how other people work compared to the way i work it has also taught me to plan my work more and make lists on what i need to do and when by.
working in a group has been different as I'm used to working more on my own and making my own decisions instead of making decisions within a group and having to compromise on some things that maybe other people didn't agree on.
i got on quite well with my group and enjoyed working in a group, there wasn't any conflict over who was making what as we all wanted to do different things, e.g. i wanted to do evening wear and Katherine wanted to do work wear so there was no conflicts really.
i chose to make a dress for evening wear and made the bodice using a Japanese pattern book which I'm not going to lie was really hard and i did need quite a bit of help with it but i challenged myself with it and with a little help i final made it and the rest of the dress.
we then had to do a photo shoot for our look books and these are some of the pictures from it.
i quite enjoyed doing the photo shoot and i think my dress looks really good on daisy and has worked out quite well and I'm proud of it even if i do say so myself!!!!
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