5 Designers Relating to Media Specificity
Scott McCloud
- American - 1960 to present
- "Cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_McCloud
http://www.scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/trn-intro/index.html
http://www.scottmccloud.com/2-print/index.html
Norman McLaren
- Scottish/ Canadian - 1914 - 1987
- Animator and film director and was a pioneer in a number of areas of animation and filmmaking, including drawn on film animation, visual music, abstract film, pixilation and graphical sound.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_McLaren
- http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/446775/index.html
- "Norman McLaren was one of the most significant abstract filmmakers of the British inter-war period. Born in 1914 in Stirling, Scotland, he entered the Glasgow School of Fine Arts in 1932, where he became interested in film and joined the School's Kine Society. His earliest extant film, Seven Till Five (1933), a "day in the life of an art school", was clearly influenced by Eisensteinand displays a strongly formalist attitude."http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/446775/index.html
http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/libraries/collections/spcoll/McLarenHome.php
Vincent Ward
- New Zealand - 1956 to present
- Film director famous for film What Dreams May Come which was filmed on Velvia film, Fujifilm which is said to make the viewer feel as if they are a part of the world of the canvas.
- http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0911910/
- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120889/
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_Dreams_May_Come_(film)
- http://www.asgard.ie/velvia/
Alfred Stieglitz
- American - 1864 - 1946
- Photographer who worked towards and influenced photography becoming an art form.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Stieglitz
- http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgp/hd_stgp.htm
- "Born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in 1864, and schooled as an engineer in Germany, Alfred Stieglitz returned to New York in 1890 determined to prove that photography was a medium as capable of artistic expression as painting or sculpture. As the editor of Camera Notes, the journal of the Camera Club of New York—an association of amateur photography enthusiasts—Stieglitz espoused his belief in the aesthetic potential of the medium and published work by photographers who shared his conviction. When the rank-and-file membership of the Camera Club began to agitate against his restrictive editorial policies, Stieglitz and several like-minded photographers broke away from the group in 1902 to form the Photo-Secession, which advocated an emphasis on the craftsmanship involved in photography. Most members of the group made extensive use of elaborate, labor-intensive techniques that underscored the role of the photographer's hand in making photographic prints, but Stieglitz favored a slightly different approach in his own work. Although he took great care in producing his prints, often making platinum prints—a process renowned for yielding images with a rich, subtly varied tonal scale—he achieved the desired affiliation with painting through compositional choices and the use of natural elements like rain, snow, and steam (58.577.11) to unify the components of a scene into a visually pleasing pictorial whole."
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgp/hd_stgp.htm
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgp/hd_stgp.htm
John McCracken
- American - 1934 - 2011
- Contemporary artist working within the minimalist movement.
- http://www.galerietanit.com/bios/mccracken/mccracken.htm
- http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/john_mccracken/
- "The geometric forms McCracken employed were typically built from straight lines: cubes, rectangular slabs and rods, stepped or quadrilateral pyramids, post-and-lintel structures and, most memorably, tall planks that lean against the wall. Usually, the form is painted in sprayed lacquer, which does not reveal the artist's hand. An industrial look is belied by sensuous color."
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/10/local/la-me-john-mccracken-20110410
http://www.galerietanit.com/bios/mccracken/mccracken.htm
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/aipe/john_mccracken.htm
