AN EXPERIMENTAL ART MAGAZINE
C E WAVES An overview of the way in which the ocean inspires artists and designers
MINIMALISM The role of minimalism in the present day art and design landscape
Throughout history, blue and gold have been important in art and design in their respective ways. Blue is the most liked colour amongst men and women. According to evolutionary psychologists, humans learned to associate blue as a positive colour, as during hunter gatherer times it was associated with clean water, and clear skies.
most prominently are often leaning more towards primary colours, and gold is not seen as often. This publication aims to explore a combination of of clours not often seen in publication design and unify them as a sort of design experiment.
During the baroque period, Johannes Vermeer bought so much of the pigment that it put his family into debt. It is obvious that this colour is important in art history, but what about gold? ssssss Modern magazine publication is often heavily influenced by the modernist and minimalist art movement, featuring bold strokes, lines, and directions as well as consistency. The colours that feature
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For a large percentage of the worlds population, the ocean is a source of livelihood and keeps many of us alive. How does the ocean inspire artists and designers?
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The horizon bisects the Of course the ocean There is also no shortage of image exactly at its appeals to photographers up-and-coming artists who midpoint. too. The Japanese artist paint the sea. The young In contrast, Charles Hiroshi Sugimoto began Brazilian painter Lucas March, whose series photographing it in Arruda, for example, whose Seascape was shown 1980, since which time recent show at David at Hamiltons Gallery in he has created well in Zwirner in London was full London last September, excess of 200 meditative of evocative seascapes prefers to focus painted from only on the Atlantic, memory and specifically the coast almost abstract in "Water has inspired artists of Eleuthera in the form. and designers for centuries, Bahamas, where Celia Paul’s he’s been spending ongoing exhibition the ocean is a lot like holidays for the past at Victoria Miro in coming home" 20 years. Venice is entitled His prints have an The Sea and impressionistic the Mirrorand monochrome seascapes, painterly quality – he runs until 16 December. shot all over the world, has said he tries to use The Latvian-American from the Atlantic (from his camera, a Leica SL, artist and printmaker the west coast of Ireland as a brush. He agitates Vija Celmins has made and Cape Breton) to the the camera during long extraordinary hyperTasman Sea, by way of the exposures, amplifying the realistic monochrome Baltic (from Rügen), the movement of a subject paintings of the ocean’s Black Sea (from Ozuluce), that is perpetually in surface in oils. She also the English Channel, the motion. works in drypoint and in Norwegian Sea (from Overall, the ocean has pencil, making hundreds Vesteralen), the Tyrrhenian been positively invaluable of thousands of marks in Sea (from Priano) and so in providing great design order to produce a level on, to create very dark, inspiration and will do for of detail that fools the eye abstracts. years to come. into thinking it’s a photo.
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Minimalism—it’s a word we often hear, but what does it really mean? Depending on your perspective, minimalism can pertain to many different things. For instance, the tiny house trend was partially driven by the idea of simple living. This minimalist lifestyle asks people to reflect on what’s really essential in their lives and reduce the clutter—whether physical or spiritual. Minimalism is also important to the visual arts and
design. While it may seem like a simple principle, achieving excellence in the Minimalist style requires great skill. It asks artists, designers, and architects to break things down into their essential elements, using simple forms to produce harmonious work. Greatly influenced by Japanese culture and philosophy, Minimalism is a Western art movement that appears after World War II. Since that time, it has remained an enduring aesthetic choice that
continues to appear in contemporary art and design. While many cultures practice concepts of aesthetic simplicity, Minimalism draws its greatest influence from Japan. The Zen philosophy, wil no doubt remain influential for centuries to come.
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