Hah, I was surprised to see Mr. Yap Sau Bin again as I though his lecture has already ended long time ago. Anyway, he claimed that "Creative in art design and multimedia" is really his last lecture of this semester.
If we look back the art history way back, probably about 100 years ago, many art examples has slowly been absorbed into the commercial and communication industries. They give us a variety of visual communications and opened new door in creativity.
Back in the Dadaist century, they did not want to show reality as for them the reality is always about war. They wanted to create something away from the truth, showing their imaginations and dreams, bringing the Surrealism art. Juxtaposition is being widely applied by merging two different unrelated things in a new form to create new meaning. A lot of myth creatures were created through this process such as Centaur, body of human and legs of horse. Then the photomontage technique such as Raoul Housmann's work of cutting and pasting form newspapers and magazines, which all of these now been used in the Photoshop design.
Surrealism Art
Raoul Housmann's Art Works
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The point of the lecture is to tell that creativity is not some instant things. It undergoes from centuries to centuries as artists with new idea "opened a small door" and then continued by others, through a long continuation of process. The idea or creativity is slowly being absorbed, sometimes added or improved as time past by, just like the scenario above.
We should open or expand our view of references while we are creating something as all of the past artists picked up ideas from many ways through inter-discipline and did not look only into the art form.
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Some interesting topic to be discussed while hearing the lecture.
What is the future issues in art and does digital tools make you more creative?
This is my answer, after given some thought.
1) In the future, art in advertisement for example would turn to be more realistic with 3D visualization giving the opportunity for consumer to see the actual size and look of the products. There is high possibility of art works urging consumers to save the environment as we might undergoes shortage or nature resources.
2) Indeed digital tools such as Photoshop has shorten the time but I do not find it make you creative unless you've totally mastered the tools. Obviously, you definitely could not create a creative art work if you have restriction due to unable to create the effect you wanted in digital tools. You would try to change and apply what is capable of and in the end you would back to the stereotype.
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