VISUAL ARTS
AGLAIA LITO PAPAGEORGIOU
Cruella de Vill
This project is based on the basic graphic design principles. I selected a picture of Cruella de Vill, the well-known Disney character. With her picture I made a series of paintings using different techniques and media each time (tempera, emulsion paint, ink, stencils, stamp, collage, pen etc.). Many materials are used in this project such as insulating tape, silver foil, and threads. Furthermore, the project has a construction part also. I took a Barbie doll and transformed it in Cruella de Vill (using tempera paint for her hair and sewed a dress of feathers). In addition to this, I placed some of my de Vill drawing on a clothes horse in a garden and some others were hung from the lights of a pub.
Cruella de Vill mixed media techniques size 35x50cm
Cruella de Vill mixed media technique size 35x50cm
Cruella de Vill Cruella de Vill construction part of the project. First picture placed in a pub. Second picture hanging from a clothes horse. Barbie Cruella
Graphic Box
Graphic box is a study of graphic design exercises. I constructed and covered the box (45x29x23 cm) with mottos from newspapers and magazines. On the inside of the box there are three posters (29,7 x 42) portraying anger, happiness and tranquility. It also contains the following: a study of Helvetica font (crop a part of the letter but still understand which letter it is and then make my own drawing to the missing part of each letter). Photographs taken during a walk in nature, each one showing a different letter of the Greek alphabet. Pattern designed with the number 7 on a rise paper. Flip book. Geometrically designed Drawings of the number 5 in two different versions Two 3d constructions. The number 5 made with toothpicks and the number 4 made with Lego bricks.
on the left: Graphic handmade box 45x29x23cm mixed media technique
on the right: Posters 29.7x42cm visualising anger, happiness, tranquility mixed media technique on the left: Study of Helvetica font 29.7x42cm color pencil and pastels Alphabet photographs 29.7x42cm
on the right: Number seven pattern designed with ink on rise paper 16x15cm
on the left: Flip book. Ink on paper 10x5cm
on the right: Number five geometrically designed drawing mixed media technique on paper 21x29.7cm Number five 3D construction with toothpicks 21x29.7 cm Number four 3D construction with Lego bricks 21x29.7cm
Dali stories
During the history of Art course I made a study on the life and art work of surreal painter Salvador Dali. I read a lot about the surreal movement and about Dali’s life and work. I was so impressed by the movement and Dali himself. I collected my favorite Dali paintings learnt their analysis and suddenly an idea came to me. I decided to write surreal stories inspired by Dali’s paintings. My stories are a surreal dream...it all starts when a door opens (the door of the unconscious) and then one dream after another, sometimes a nightmare, leads to the morning light. Through the dreams I describe Dali’s paintings (each dream refers to a different painting). However, the general sense of these stories is how the conscious and unconscious rules our lives and inspires our art and our dreams, in the same way as surreal painters worked. The book has three parts.The first part is the stories, second comes a brief about surrealism and Dali’s life. In the third there is the analysis of the paintings I was inspired to create.
Dali stories Recycled paper book collage and markers size 10.5x14.8cm
Crucifixion
During my second year in the History of Art course, I made a study on the crucifixion theme from the Byzantine years to the modern art period (Byzantine period, the Medieval period, the Renaissance, the Baroque era, the Romantic Movement and reaching modern art). The Crucifixion is an issue that preoccupied artists throughout the years. This project has two sections. The first part consists of a handwritten notebook (21x29,7 cm) including my notes, the painting analysis, comparisons between paintings from different periods and my sketches. Something like a sketchbook – research diary. The second part consists of a mixed media painting on canvas 50x70cm, which depicts eleven Christ drawings.
Christ sketches Color pencil and pen on paper 21x29.7cm
Crucifixion Mixed media technique on canvas 50x70cm
NOTEBOOK Handwritten notes explaining Crucifixion paintings Sketches made with mixed media technique 21x29.7cm
The dancers
A construction project influenced by a detail in the sleeve of the ancient Greek statue of goddess Igeia, dating to 4 century B.C. This statue is made of Pentelic marble. The sleeve’s detail reminded me of the body’s position that ballet dancers have during a performance. After making a variety of sketches I decided how my final proposal would be. I made two maquettes. The second one was closely related to my final project. The final project consists of a wooden base sized 50x70cm, and other smaller constructions of different thickness wire and lamps stuck with silicone.
The dancers wood, wire, lamp size 50x70cm
SKETCBOOK contains research, two mixed media maquettes, constraction photographs
Decorative Screen
I designed a piece of furniture for the entrance of Vienna Secession Museum, which is a decorative screen. The screen was created in order to celebrate 110 years of Secession Museum in Vienna. The Vienna Secession (German: Wiener Secession; also known as the Union of Austrian Artists) was formed in 1897 by a group of Austrian artists who had resigned from the Association of Austrian Artists, housed in the Vienna secession building. This movement included painters, sculptors, and architects. It is an exhibition hall built in 1897 by Joseph Maria Olbrich as an architectural manifesto for the Vienna Secession. The building features the Beethoven Frieze by Gustav Klimt one of the most widely recognized artworks of Secession style (a branch of Art Nouveau). Inspired from an art nouveau painting (head with hair turn into o floral pattern). Wood painted white, print on canvas and at the top there is very fine fabric stuck to the canvas.The different pieces -building blocks- are joined with metallic compounds.
on the left: mixed media maquette scale: 1/20
on the right: Notebook illustrations size 21x29.7cm and some maquette pictures
Upcycling Lamps
I had a large plastic container and I thought of transforming it into a lamp. The materials I needed were an economy lamp, a cable, an intermitted, a plug to the socket, a socket on the lamp, and a cable to screw the socket. I took the plastic container and with either a drill or a washer-saw I opened a hole in the side to place the cable. I made the connections and screwed the socket on. I also opened a hole in the bottom of the plastic container so that air can enter and not allowing high temperatures to develop which could cause a fire. I connected the socket to the economy bulb (this is what I wanted, choice of bulb is according to individuals preference) and our ‘plastic container lamp’ is ready! This construction idea comes from the movement of upcycling or otherwise reuse of products and materials.
Do it your own sketcbook a brochure explaining how to make your own lamp by using a plastic container size 14.8x21cm
Photograph taken at Vakalo art and design college exibition, 2012
Blue print scale: 1/50
Plastic container lamps photograph
Art-work
In this section there is a collection of my visual artistic work during college and post college. There are many different materials used in each project. Also the dimensions of each project are not alike.
Landscape gouach on paper size 30x30cm
Landscape gouach on paper size 30x30cm
Landscape gouach on paper size 30x30cm
Landscape gouach on paper size 30x30cm
On the left: Africa collage on paper, inspired from National geographic picture Size 35x50cm
On the right (clockwise): Untitled: color pencil on paper, size: 35x50cm Untitled: water pencil on paper, size: 14,8 x 21cm Untitled: pencil on paper, size: 35x50cm Untitled: carbon on paper, size: 35x50cm Untitled: carbon on paper, size 35x50cm
On the left: Munsee d’ Orangerie: carbon on canvas, Size: 70x100. Inspired from a photograph I took when I visited Paris some years ago, while I was waiting outside the museum of Orangerie. I was impressed by the shadows on the wall.
On the right: Bronze tree: a cardboard construction with plaster, wire and fluids cooper, size: 25x15x10
On the left: Lazy: pen on paper , size: 14,8x21cm Untitled: watercolor on paper, size: 14,8x21cm Untitled: collage and pencil on paper, size: 14,8x21cm Untitled: pen on paper, size: 14,8x21 cm
On the right: The Ballerinas: pencil, pen and colored pencil on paper, size : 21x29,7cm Waltzing along: water color and colored pencil on paper, size: 14,8x21cm Girl under chair: collage and oil on paper, size: 29,7x42
On the right: Human body observational drawings: pen with color pencil on paper, size: 14,8x21cm Colored pencil on paper, size: 35x50cm
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On the left: Human body observational drawings: pen on paper, size: 14,8x21cm Pencil on paper, size: 14,8x21cm
Dracula castle: a series of perspective sketches of my ideal the Dracula castle. Pencil on paper , size: 14,8x21 cm
On the left: Untitled: pencil on paper, size: 35x50 Untitled: color pencil on paper, size: 35x50 Untitled: color pencil on paper, size: 35x50 Untitled: pencil on paper, size: 35x50
Clockwise: Mother portrait: carbon on paper, size: 35x50cm Self portrait: carbon on paper, size: 35x50cm Musician’s portrait: carbon on paper, size: 35x50 cm Brother portrait: carbon on paper, size: 35x50 cm
Origami tea
In this course, which refers to Product Design, I designed an innovative idea of tea packaging. My proposal is origami tea. To prepare the tea tray we are going to use the origami technique. I made an example using the origami Star box, but any other origami shapes can be made by using the proper origami paper, which is water resistant and not harmful to people’s health. This paper has a extensive variety of colors and patterns but for my module I used a white one. Inside, the tea is placed and the upper section is covered by a kind of industrial cotton (like Lipton tea). At the bottom of the Star Box there are some pinholes helping the tea to come into contact with water. The top is tied with a thread in order to enable consumers to put and remove from the cup. This product is disposable. For the final presentation of origami tea, I created a maquette and three different illustrated posters. In the first one I showed how the origami star box was constructed and I included a small introduction on the historical source of origami art. The other two posters advertised the actual product.
Origami tea posters Four posters 29.7x42cm. First two posters are handame with collage technique. Second two posters are two-sided created in Adobe Ilustrator
Origami tea maquette made with origami paper