Modern Art in Relation to Graphic Design

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History of Design

How Modern Art in relation to Graphic Design

I/ Introduction:

Art has been developed over thousand years. Between Art and Design, there are so many differences and similar to each other. In the following paragraphs, I am going to explain the relationship between Modern Art and Graphic Design with some Art moments and examples.

a) What is Modern Art?

Modern Art refers to the arts that created in the period time in 1860s to 1970s. Modern Art was created with no purpose; every single art had been created with its own style and traditional on specifically time (Esaak, 2014). On this essay, there is three art moment will be used to prove the relationship between Art and Pop art, which will be using Realism Art, Expressionism Art, Pop Art and Postminimalism. From these art moments, that would be showed how the relationship between Modern Art and Graphic Design.

b) What is Graphic Design?

Graphic Design is the art has combined with the way to communication and problem solving through image or artistic (Miller, 2014). Graphic designers uses for combination of techniques like typography, visual art and page layout to produce the final work. Graphic design is commonly used in logos and branding, print advertisements, posters, packages and so on. For Graphic Design, it creates with purpose to attract the audience on it. In the following paragraphs, it will show how the Graphic Design being influenced and impact by Modern Art.

II/ How Modern Art influenced Graphic Design:

1/ Realism Art:

1-a) What is Realism Art?

The Realism Art is an art movement that revolted against the emotional exaggerated theme of Romanticism in the year 1840 to 1880. Beside, it also known as the artistic or image that ...

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...as created based on personal interest. It just showing simple 3 cameras, but behind it got big meaningful on it.

III/ Conclusion:

Finally, between Modern Art and Graphic Design, they have a big relationship because the most of movement art are influencing a part of Graphic Design on the painting and the Image with combining different style and feeling from the art movement works to the Graphic Design work.

IV/ Reference:

Esaak, S. (2014). About. Retrieved March 24, 2014, from What is Modern Art: http://arthistory.about.com/od/modernart/f/what_is.-Eoj.htm

Miller, E. (2014). About. Retrieved March 24, 2014, from What is Graphic Design?: http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/graphicdesignbasics/a/what_is.htm

Morris, R. (2013). Postminimalism. Retrieved March 26, 2013, from theory story: http://www.theartstory.org/movement-post-minimalism.htm

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