Field Journal #5

Hello Everyone~
Sorry, I was busy with my other midterm and forgot to release this week's Journal. 
I hope everyone is doing well and not getting sick like I did early this week. 

Doing this week's reading for chapter 11 and 12, I have found significant different from last week.
This week is more like two cultures cross influences each other and new creation, also seeing the Female and male figures have different representation in the art.

Before I went too off topic, this week reading has one of my favorite art.
The famous Japan art collection -- Ukiyo-e  （浮世絵). I was happy when I see it as part of reading.
Especially my favorite one The Great Wave off Kanagawa  by Hokusai in 1831.

I never know Ukiyo-e was influenced by Western culture. I was totally amazed by the creation of two cultures have produced. The influence of Western and Eastern does bounced with each other and created something that's new and still liked by modern world.
I have found the similarity of from both Western Eastern is the usage of colors. The choice of colors made it different from before. It's more like what we would use in our daily. Also the contraction of shades and brightness makes the details more outstanding and easy to define the overall Art.
One of the thing happens I think it's unique is the different gender has different role playing in different Art form.
Females figures have much more variety of roles than male figures which is different from before. More females figures as the main Art works. 
Not only the character changed but the color usage and contraction between same color have much more define. The shades and brightness brought out more details which is what we didn't see before. This is like we can use same colors creating much more different coloring effect in one single Art works.

In chapter 12, I found the book art has developed into different level that is really surprising.  
I see the detail on the typeface and layout of the context. 
Not only the change of typefaces and layouts but also the color and contraction. The art work with different typefaces not making weird but bring out more elegant. Each has different purposes as typeface and layout changed when the content stayed the same.
My favorite will Dutch architect J.L. Mathieu Lauweriks. He used the Geometric patterns in the books. which we have seen it much more common during our time. Plenty of the books have used it as part of their content layouts. 


I feel like this week's reading telling me about creating under influences and different materials. 
We would never know what would creating before we doing it and create it out.