LibGuides: ART121 Two-Dimensional Design: Films on Design

What is FOD?

Films On Demand is a state-of-the-art streaming video platform which provides educational films that can be shown in their entirety without fear of copyright. You can incorporate these outstanding educational programs into your course in classroom or an online course in Blackboard.

Bauhaus: Less Is More This program provides an outstanding historical overview of Bauhaus, the most controversial and forward-looking school of art and design of its time. The conflicting artistic philosophies of the school’s key figures are considered, from Walter Gropius’s espousal of expressionism to László Moholy-Nagy’s overriding belief that fewer aesthetic ambitions would yield more functional products—that less is more. With a stellar faculty that also included Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Breuer, Josef Albers, and Mies van der Rohe, the Bauhaus inspired the artistic and constructivist principles that gave rise to many icons of 20th-century design and architecture. A Films for the Humanities & Sciences Production. (32 minutes)

Composition Everyone has the desire to arrange things in a way that is most pleasing to the eye. In painting, composition involves arranging every ingredient—shape, color, texture, and light—so that working together, they create artistic balance. In this program, artist Ray Richardson deliberately chooses a long, slim canvas to challenge his compositional abilities. As he confronts his quest to create a cinemascopic work, students begin to appreciate the composition techniques of painters such as Piero della Francesca, Tintoretto, Degas, and Matisse. (30 minutes)

Design: Elements and Principles Design projects must apply the basic elements (line, shape, form, point, tone, texture, color, and letterform) and principles (balance, contrast, cropping, hierarchy, figure-ground, scale, proportion, and pattern) of design for function and aesthetics.

Art and Design: Insights into the Visual Arts Where do abstract painters and fashion designers find their muses? To what extent does the creative process differ between video artists, sculptors, and fine art embroiderers? How do illustrators and mixed media artists handle the business side of their work? Using capsule interviews with contemporary figures on the U.K. visual arts scene, this program draws viewers into the studio space and immerses them in the hands-on processes and limitless possibilities of art and design. Section one, “Artists and Ideas,” explores sources of inspiration, the foundational importance of drawing, and a variety of functions for sketchbooks and journals. Section two, “Art Practice,” considers contextual referencing in art, the development of ideas, artistic materials and techniques, the relative merits of criticism, and the synergy between artist, environment, and tools. And section three, “Art at Work,” addresses making a living from doing art and the relevance and value of art in public spaces. (59 minutes)