Today's lecture was based on the subject of 'material'. Material can be interpreted to mean many things, for example, fabric 'material', 'material' in terms of consumer goods and brands, and 'material' as in the matter of the universe. Everything that we can physically experience is in fact a type of material.
We began to look into material typologies, which is when the same 'type of thing' are grouped together. It can be defined as, "a classification according to general type, especially in archaeology, psychology, or the social sciences." [1]
Taxonomies are a "scheme of classification" [2], e.g to group the same thing together, but to arrange them in size or colour order. This type of arrangement commonly creates captivating and 'pleasing to the eye' compositions, which can be commonly found in many artists work.
Taxonomies are a "scheme of classification" [2], e.g to group the same thing together, but to arrange them in size or colour order. This type of arrangement commonly creates captivating and 'pleasing to the eye' compositions, which can be commonly found in many artists work.
Materialism to me means to own and purchase branded items. In a growing modern and technological world, it becomes increasingly harder to avoid, and many of us find that we unintentionally fall into the category of being a materialist. Due to advertisement, consumerism and just trying to fit in with society, we all purchase the branded items that we have been 'brainwashed' to desire.
As part of Tuesday's lecture, we all had to bring in an item that we would normally have in our pocket or bags. We all laid these out onto the table, and as a whole they were all categorised into smaller groups. From this we had to produce a series of different observational drawings, which we had to produce a poster of a particular collection (a typology). I decided to draw travel items, and things you would commonly take with you on your travels: passport, train ticket, headphones, keys etc.
We were told to work in our preferred medium, I chose watercolour and coloured pencil, in order to create my finished poster:
[1] Oxford Dictionaries (2016). [online]. Definition of typology in English. Available at: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/typology [Accessed on 8th November 2016]
[2] Oxford Dictionaries (2016). [online]. Definition of taxonomy in English. Available at: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/taxonomy [Accessed on 8th November 2016)
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