Theme for Summer Proj. and 7 Calendar Months

I was looking at some old pictures on my computer of me when I was a child and of my grandparents...and suddenly I thought that, it would have been an interesting theme to investigate and explore the boundaries between youth and senility, therefore, I produced some brainstorming and some drawings to compare an old man and the many wrinkles covering his face, with a young woman and her soft, bright skin. I found the theme quite interesting because it allows me to explore further and I have a clear overview of how creating new ideas for a project relating to this theme.

ee again

My sister was telling me the other day about her trip to Pompei with her class and was talking about the paintings on the walls which still remain today, and so I had a new idea for an EE: visiting archaeological sites and old churches, to investigate and discover how the deterioration of paintings may affect the perception one has of the work of art. By doing this kind of research, I must visit different places and write many notes, therefore, I thought it could have been a good idea for an EE. Today, after lunch, we have a double session on working on our EE and therefore I should start writing and researching about an idea already.

EE Themes

I had already written a post about 1 month ago on themes that could be interesting for an EE in art, but unfortunately I found them to be a bit difficult to develop further. So, today, I was thinking of other interesting ideas for an EE, and they were the following:

1. The evolution of fashion designing from the 1900s to the 21st century- this particularly interests me seeing that I would like to specialize in fashion when I am older, and is a topic which could be written a lot about and something which has always fascinated me, since I started art high school two years ago.

2. Patterns and shapes of Indonesian textiles and fabrics- textiles are different from culture to culture, and are characterized by different use of colours, different shapes and patterns and is something which may be developped further, also because I have always been interested in Indonesian art, culture and traditions.

3. The use of the Batìk technique in different countries of the world- recently I have began to use Batìk and I have researched on books and on the web to discover artists specialized with the use of this art technique, and now I am really curious in discovering if there are significant differences in the use of Batìk in different countries.

Theme of Crowds

I went in Bracciano today with my Geography class and I took a couple of random pictures which then I modified and which turned out to be very interesting...I could use them for my next project, maybe..