The World`s 50 Best of Art ( Part 1)

Show 3 from The World`s 50 Best of Art:

The human race has been making art for thousands of years. Here, in chronological order, critic Martin Gayford chooses his 50 artistic wonders of the world





1. Sculpture of Khafre (Chephren)
(c2800 BC) Cairo Museum
Getting there: straightforward
Statue of Coaticlue (15th century)
Nightmarish: Statue of Coaticlue (15th century)

The painter Francis Bacon concluded that the ancient Egyptians were the greatest artists of
all. No work supports that judgment better than this sculpture of the Pharaoh Khafre, in black
diorite with white veins, his head embraced by the hawk god Horus. It has a concentrated force and presence unequalled over 5,000 years.

Locations: Cairo

some of Video and history:

1. Khafre, the 4th King of Egypt’s 4th Dynasty
2. egyptindex
3. List of Dynasty


2. The Hunts of Ashurbanipal
Relief sculptures from Nineveh, northern Iraq
(c645 BC) British Museum
Getting there: easy

Narrative art achieved a fresh level of naturalism in the decorations of Assyrian royal palaces, none more so than those depicting the hunts by the ruler Ashurbanipal. They portray the triumph of the king over beasts such as the lion. But, paradoxically, the dying animals are represented with such delicate observation that it is hard not to see them as poignant victims.

Locations: British Museum, London

History
http://en.wikipedia.org
http://www.encyclopedia.com



3. Riace Warriors
(mid-5th century BC) Museo Nazionale della Magna Grecia, Reggio di Calabria, Italy
Getting there: straightforward

These two bronze figures, discovered on the seabed in 1972 by an Italian scuba diver, are among the noblest works to survive from ancient Greece. Even more so than the Parthenon Marbles, they embody the Greek conception of humanity - anatomically accurate, but more vigorous and poised than flesh-and-blood mankind. They seem both calm and charged with force. As images of an idealised human race, they are unsurpassed.

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Check it:
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https://www.utexas.edu


My references from :
http://www.telegraph.co.uk

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Points of Interest

One of the most basic rules in photography is “the rule of thirds.” And it bears repeating because once you understand it you’re on your way to capturing brilliance. Portraits or landscapes, the rule stays the same. The rule states that an image can be divided into nine equal parts by two equally-spaced horizontal lines and two equally-spaced vertical lines. The four points formed by the intersections of these lines can be used to align features in the photograph. This technique
can definitely create more tension, energy and interest in the photo than simply centering the image.

The points of interest in the photo don’t have to actually touch one of these lines to take advantage of the rule of thirds. For example, the brightest part of the sky near the horizon where the sun recently set does not fall directly on one of the lines, but does fall near the intersection of two of the lines, close enough to take advantage of the rule.

Timing

What’s so special about dawn and dusk? It has to do with the angle that light hits objects. And there is such a wide spectrum of colors that you get at thirty minutes before and thirty minutes after sunrise or sunset. It’s in this time period you get cloud formations, weather, shadows and color changes in the sky. Just a matter of minutes or seconds can drastically change a photo.
Another interesting factor is shutter speed. If we are talking digital camera the camera’s shutter speed allows you to freeze action or use motion blur to create many interesting and stunning visual effects.

Shutter speed is dependent on the length of exposure and is expressed in fractions of seconds. High shutter speed, eg 1/1000 of a second, can even freeze the fastest moving subjects. But there are several things to take note of.

Lighting

Light has three main qualities: Intensity, direction and color. Another important factor is the angle of the light entering the frame. Think about what kind of shadows you want, and whether you want to use fill-in-flash. Great affects can be achieved if you are shooting at night. You can create all sorts of cool effects like lights in motion, pictures with moonlight, or silhouettes. Lighting can be the deciding factor as to whether your photograph will be spectacular or displeasing to the senses.

Landscapes

What makes a good landscape? Many factors go into this genre but one of the most important things to remember is the KISS factor. Keeping it Simple is true in many areas of life and landscape photography is one of them. Of course you don’t want it so simple that it’s boring. The main thing to keep in mind is the balance between the background and foreground.

Street Photography

Street photography is truly an art; usually done in black & white, often concentrates on a touching moment in time in the blink of an eye. It can be a documentary that features subjects in candid situations within public places. It can show humor, joy or heartbreak down on the streets of skid row. Street Photography brings out the best in most freelancers and gives photography a feeling of purity, like a pure vision of something, like holding up a mirror to society.The art of a good street photographer is to go unnoticed and keep the subject from being aware that he or she is being photographed. Perhaps follow in the footsteps of one profoundly famous French photographer.

He was considered the father of modern photojournalism who was known to wrap a large handkerchief around his camera and pretend to blow his nose while he took the picture.

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Digital Photography Tips

1. Warm Up Those Tones

Have you ever noticed that your shots sometimes have a cool, clammy feel to them? If so, you're not alone. The default white balance setting for digital cameras is auto, which is fine for most snapshots, but tends to be a bit on the "cool" side.When shooting outdoor portraits and sunny landscapes, try changing your white balance setting from auto to cloudy. That's right, cloudy. Why? This adjustment is like putting a mild warming filter on your camera. It increases the reds and yellows resulting in richer, warmer pictures. If you don't believe me, then do a test. Take a few outdoor shots with the white balance on auto, then take the same picture again with the setting on cloudy. Upload the images to your computer and look at them side by side. My guess is that you'll like the warmer image better.

2: Sunglasses Polarizer

If you really want to add some punch to your images, then get your hands on a polarizing filter. A polarizer is the one filter every photographer should have handy for landscapes and general outdoor shooting. By reducing glare and unwanted reflections, polarized shots have richer, more saturated colors, especially in the sky.What's that you say? Your digital camera can't accommodate filters. Don't despair. I've been using this trick for years with my
point-and-shoot cameras. If you have a pair of quality sunglasses, then simply take them off and use them as your polarizing filter. Place the glasses as close to the camera lens as possible, then check their position in the LCD viewfinder to make sure you don't have the rims in the shot. For the best effect, position yourself so the sun is over either your right or left shoulder. The polarizing effect is strongest when the light source is at a 90-degree angle from the subject.

3. Outdoor Portraits That Shine

One of the great hidden features on digital cameras is the fill flash or flash on mode. By taking control of the flash so it goes on when you want it to, not when the camera deems it appropriate, you've just taken an important step toward capturing great outdoor portraits. In flash on mode, the camera exposes for the background first, then adds just enough flash to illuminate your portrait subject. The result is a professional looking picture where everything in the composition looks good. Wedding photographers have been using this technique for years. After you get the hang of using the flash outdoors, try a couple variations on this theme by positioning the subject so the sun illuminates the hair from the side or the back, often referred to as rim lighting. Another good technique is to put the model in the shade under a tree, then use the flash to illuminate the subject. This keeps the model comfortable and cool with no squinty eyes from the harsh sun, and this often results in a more relaxed looking portrait.Remember, though, that most built-in camera flashes only have a range of 10 feet (or even less!), so make sure you don't stand too far away when using fill flash outdoors.

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Digital photography

Digital photography is a form of photography that utilizes digital technology to make digital images of subjects. Until the advent of digital technology, photography used photographic film to create images which could be made visible by photographic processing. Digital images can be displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted, and archived using digital and computer techniques, without chemical processing.

Digital photography is one of several forms of digital imaging. Digital images are also created by non-photographic equipment such as computer tomography scanners and radio telescopes. Digital images can also be made by scanning conventional photographic images.
















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references: http://en.wikipedia.org

what is a Photography

Photography is the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a film, or an electronic sensor. Light patterns reflected or emitted from objects activate a sensitive chemical or electronic sensor during a timed exposure, usually through a photographic lens in a device known as a camera that also stores the resulting information chemically or electronically. Photography has many uses for business, science, art and pleasure.Lens and mounting of a large-format camera.

A historic camera: the Contax S of 1949 — the first pentaprism SLR.
Nikon F of 1959 — the first 35mm film system camera.The word "photography" comes from the Greek "light" + (graphis) "stylus", "paintbrush" or "representation by means of lines" or "drawing", together meaning "drawing with light." Traditionally, the products of photography have been called negatives and photographs, commonly shortened to photos.

The discipline of making lighting and camera choices when recording photographic images for the cinema is dealt with under Cinematography

references: http://en.wikipedia.org
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Controlling the photographic exposure and rendering
Uses of photography
History of photography
Photographic processes
Digital photography
Photographic modes of production
Photography as an art form
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Font, typeface and type family

In professional typography the term typeface is not interchangeable with the word font, which was historically defined as a given alphabet and its associated characters in a single size. For example, 8-point Caslon Italic was one font, and 10-point Caslon Italic was another. Historically, fonts came in specific sizes determining the size of characters, and in quantities of sorts or number of each letter provided. The design of characters in a font took into account all these factors.

As the range of typeface designs increased and requirements of publishers broadened over the centuries, fonts of specific weight (blackness or lightness) and stylistic variants—most commonly "regular" or roman as distinct to italic, as well as condensed—have led to font families, collections of closely related typeface designs that can include hundreds of styles. A font family is typically a group of related fonts which vary only in weight, orientation, width etc., but not design. For example, Times is a font family, whereas Times Roman, Times Italic and Times Bold are individual fonts making up the Times family. Font families typically include several fonts, though some, such as Helvetica, may consist of dozens of fonts.

The first "extended" font families, which included a wide range of widths and weights in the same general style emerged in the early 1900s, starting with ATF's Cheltenham (1902-1913), with an initial design by Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and many additional faces designed by Morris Fuller Benton.[2] Later examples include Futura, Lucida, ITC Officina. Some became superfamilies as a result of revival, such as Linotype Syntax, Linotype Univers; while others have alternate styling designed as compatible replacements of each other, such as Compatil, Generis.

Typeface "superfamilies" begin to emerge when foundries begin to include typefaces with significant structural differences, but some design relationship, under the same general family name. Arguably the first superfamily was created when Morris Fuller Benton created Clearface Gothic for ATF in 1910. The "superfamily" label does not include quite different designs given
the same family name for what would seem to be purely marketing, rather than design, considerations: Caslon Antique, Futura Black and Futura Display do not meet this criterion to be included with the Caslon and Futura families. Additional or supplemental glyphs intended to match a main typeface have been in use for centuries. In some formats they have been marketed as separate fonts. In the early 1990s the Adobe Systems type group introduced the idea of "expert set" fonts, which had a standardized set of additional glyphs, including small caps, old style figures, and additional superior letters, fractions and ligatures not found in the main fonts for the typeface. Supplemental fonts have also included alternate letters such as swashes, dingbats, and alternate character sets, complementing the regular fonts under the same family.[1] However, with introductions of font formats such as OpenType, those supplemental glyphs were merged into the main fonts, relying on specific software capabilities to access the alternate glyphs.

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what is a font ?

A font is a set of printable or displayable text character s in a specific style and size. The type design for a set of fonts is the typeface and variations of this design form the typeface family . Thus, Helvetica is a typeface family, Helvetica italic is a typeface, and Helvetica italic 10-point is a font. In practice, font and typeface are often used without much precision, sometimes interchangably.

An outline font is a software typeface that can generate a scalable range of font sizes. A bitmap font is a digital represention of a font that is already fixed in size or a limited set of sizes. The two most popular outline font software programs on today's computers are TrueType and Adobe's Type 1. TrueType fonts come with both Windows and Macintosh operating systems. However, Type 1 is a standard outline font (ISO 9541). Both TrueType and Type 1 fonts can be used by Adobe's PostScript printers (although Adobe says that Type 1 fonts makes fuller use of the PostScript language).

Independent developers and graphic designers create new typefaces for both TrueType and Type 1. Adobe states that there are over 30,000 Type 1 fonts available. Fonts (in addition to those that come with your computer) can be purchased as individual typeface families or in typeface collections.

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Lets watch Lat Kampung Boy

Kampung Boy :Kampung Boy is a favorite of millions of readers in Southeast Asia. With masterful economy worthy of Charles Schultz, Lat recounts the life of Mat, a Muslim boy growing up in rural Malaysia in the 1950s: his adventures...

kampong boy part 1:



Mat lives with a younger sister, Ana and his parents Yob (dad) and Yah (mom). Opah is Mat's superwoman paternal grandmother, always at hand to offer good words of wisdom. Opah has a close friend in Pak Din, a village elder who is also grandfather to Mat's heart-throb, Normah.

kampung boy part 2:



Set in a rural "kampung" (village) in Malaysia, Kampung Boy is a two-season animated series about a young Malaysian boy, "Mat" (pronounced as "Mutt") and his two boy-buddies "Tak" (pronounced as "Tuck") and "Bo". Mat is a naive and somewhat mischievous boy, while Bo is the bright one and Tak, well, a self-proclaimed genius.

kampung boy part 3:




Yob (Mat's dad) is a half-baked inventor, conjuring up devices which are neither necessary nor worthy of any use. Yah, his wife however, is a well-mannered, calm and motherly woman, always seeing the foolishness of her husband as something neither harmful nor tolerable! The series begins with Normah, Pak Din's orphaned granddaughter, moving to the kampung to live with him. Up till then, Normah was a city girl much used to the modernity of life only found in big cities. Moving to the rural kampung means a lot of getting used to the laid-back, unsophisticated and "hillbilly" lifestyle. She fitted in awkwardly, but with the help of Mat, Ana, Bo and Tak, she soon blended in. Pay special attention to Mrs. Hew, the children's school teacher...

kampung boy part 4:



Kampung Boy showcases lots of real-life ups-and-downs of rural lifestyle in the typical kampung. Dato' Lat, the creator of Kampung Boy, is a very popular cartoonist in Malaysia. His comics appear regularly in Malaysian newspapers, always poking fun at Malaysians, the Malaysian attitude and plain everyday life in Malaysia.

references:
1. Kampung Boy come to frankfurt
2. Interview with Lat
3. Story about lat
4. News about lat

cartoonist on my life...

Let me introduce of my favorite cartoons and cartoonist... The cartoons and inside of the story many, many came with memories and reminiscence me since i kid.

LAT (Mohamed Nor Khalid) is one of the most-read cartoonists in Southeast Asia, and with the continued, widespread reprinting and translating of his cartoons, he is gaining worldwide fame.His annual compilations of his strips into books have been extremely successful with one, Kampung Boy, selling more than 100,000 copies. The first print of 60,000 over copies sold out within four months and it had to be reprinted.


For a country like Malaysia, that response is a big amount. His comics have a very wide range for an audience including children, intellectuals, and politicians who are fansMalaysia's favourite cartoonist Lat (Dato' Mohd Nor bin Khalid) is a household name in Malaysia. His cartoons have been appearing in local papers from as far back as the 1960's, first in Berita Minggu and then in The New Straits Times.
With countless comic books and the successful cartoon series "Kampung Boy" , Lat is one of the most prolific artists in Southeast Asia.In 1998, Lat even undertook a two-month research on race relations across the United States when he was awarded the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship. Lat was selected as the 25th Malaysian to take part in the Fellowship under its Multi-Nation Programme aimed at fostering international understanding, peace and productivity through the exchange of information.
Lat went to an English school in Ipoh in 1962, where his teacher Moira Hew supported his drawing skills.Mrs. Hew was later immortalized as a best loved characters in Lats cartoons, the lady with the butterfly-rim glasses... When friends in school told me “we saw your drawings in a magazine and knew it was you” then I realized I had something, because I did not even have a signature. I was 15 or 16 years old and, at that age, you don't think about money, you don't think about style ... you just want to draw what you feel like. So when my friends told me that, it made me think...

Some collections of LAT’s cartoons:
1. The Kampung Boy

Let’s take a peek at the books written by Lat.

• Budak Kampung
• The Kampung Boy (1977)
• Lat's Lot (1978)
• With a little bit of Lat (1980)
• Town Boy (1981)
• Lots More Lat (1982)
• Lat and his Lot again (1983)
• It's a Lat, Lat, Lat, Lat World (1985)
• Lat and Gang (1987)
• Lat with a punch ( 988)
• Better Lat than never (1989)
• Mat Som (1989)
• Lat was here (1995)
• Be Serious! Lat
• Better Lat than Never
• Entahlah Mak...
• Kampung Boy: Yesterday and Today
• Keluarga Si Mamat
• Lat as Usual
• Lots of Lat
• Lat 30 years later (1994)
• Lat gets lost (1996)
• Lat at large (1999)

Sketch your cartoon...tips for beginners

Cartooning is not about drawing it is about telling stories,even when you are drawing a single illustration you are telling a story. Cartooning is about expressing your thoughts. And it is your thoughts expressed beautifully through your cartoon characters that make you different from other average cartoon makers.

1. Do not start with computers. I agree I run the risk of sounding backdated. But here I am not opposing usage of computer altogether, no sane person can do that. But for beginners there is no alternative to using paper and pencil.There are various software that help you so much that you can go ahead even without learning how to draw a smooth line. This kind of over dependency on computers from the very beginning always backfires down the road.

2. Nail the fact in your mind that construction of human, animal, cars and most of the things that that we see around us are complex 3d structures though we draw them on paper which is 2D. So when drawing you must mentally analyze your model in terms of 3d shapes like spheres and boxes and not in terms of 2d shapes like circles and rectangles.Also when you draw something from paper (i.e. 2D), look for and find out the 3d shapes that make up the character.
3. Most of the cartoon drawing or figure drawing tutorials always start with some basic 3d shapes and after a number of steps end up in a complete and beautiful figure. This technique is very effective in learning how we can draw complex figures starting with simple shapes. But what I am going to tell you will make your pace of learning even faster. It is in fact very simple way of using the same tutorial. Just a lot more effective.



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3. how to sketch
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what is a cartoon?

Cartoons created by : Randy Glasbbegen


Defination of cartoon :

The word cartoon has various meanings, based on several very different forms of visual art and illustration. The term has evolved over time.

The original meaning was in fine art, and there cartoon meant a preparatory drawing for a piece of art such as a painting or tapestry.

The somewhat more modern meaning was that of humorous illustrations in magazines and newspapers. Even more recently there are now several contemporary meanings, including creative visual work for print media, for electronic media, and even animated films and animated digital media.

When the word cartoon is applied to print media, it most often refers to a humorous single-panel drawing or gag cartoon, most of which have captions and do not use speech balloons. The word cartoon is not often used to refer to a comic strip.The artists who draw cartoons are known as cartoonists.

References:
1. Wikipedia
2. Cartoon Research Library
3. Punch Cartoon Library

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