Chupa Chups brand

Nowdays everyone is writing about Salvador Dalí, as a branding genius and his famous logotype of Chupa Chups lollipops. Simple, recognizable, placed in the right spot of the candy wrapper and designed by the master back in 1969.

Since that time the logotype developed slightly, but the main shapes still remain the same.

Impression of Impressionism

Recently I have started to read a book by John Rewald Historyof Impressionism (1946), which became the reason to write this post. 

Impressionism is an art movement which was formed in 19^th century by a group of Paris-based artist, who were trying to change established by that time standards and techniques of painting.

 

In mid 1800s French art was ruled by Académie des Beaux-Arts. The Académie was a preserver of traditional standards of paintings, so historical, religious subjects and portraits were valued. Even the landscapes were not popular.  The paintings had to be drawn with details and accurate lines, so one could examine them closely.  According to that standards, Académie had an annual art show called Salon de Paris, where the artists could win prizes and gain a prestige.  Thus, there were mainly being presented the works of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alexandre Cabanel. 

Alexandre Cabanel - Albayde

Jean-Léon Gérôme -  Pollice Verso 

Other young artist( like Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, Paul Cézanne and others) were always rejected.

In 1863 was organized Salon des Refusés, where were presented all the refused works. It drew a lot of attention and attracted more visitors than the regular Salon.

Édouard Manet - Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe 

 Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Les Fiancés

After that in 1874, a group of artists(Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley) called the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs (Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors, Printmakers) organized an exhibition in Paris, where participated approximately thirty artists.

Bright  colors, new unusual technique were shocking for eyes accustomed to the more sober colors of Academic painting. The exhibition was criticized. The critical response was mixed, but  Monet and Cézanne received the harshest attacks.

Claude Monet's Impression, Sunrise(Impression, soleil levant) (Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris) gave the Impressionist movement its name when the critic Louis Leroy accused it of being a sketch or "impression," not a finished painting.

Claude Monet - Impression, soleil levant

Impression—I was certain of it. I was just telling myself that, since I was impressed, there had to be some impression in it ... and what freedom, what ease of workmanship! Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape.

The term "Impressionists" quickly gained favor with the public. Even though they were a diverse group in style and temperament, unified primarily by their spirit of independence and rebellion, Impressionism was a movement of enduring consequence, as this breakthrough of modernity made a way for later avant-garde art in Europe.

Honesty - WHITE

Definitely color of honesty is WHITE. This is when a person looks into your eyes and without any word you can read on his face what he wants to say.. "I love you, I'm wrong, I'm afraid" or "You are an idiot, I was disgusted, it's awful, your new dress makes you fat, I’m just not in a mood..."
How easily we could live if everyone says what he thinks, or at least if people could read each other’s minds. Then everything had to be white. You won’t expect that anything is happening behind your back, you won’t afraid to be misunderstood. Maybe that’s why color of heaven is chosen white.

WHITE: without patterns, bumps and shadows.

Black

"I've been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black." -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir



In Wikipedia is written that Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light. Although black is sometimes described as an "achromatic", or hueless, color, in practice it can be considered a color, as in expressions like "black cat" or "black paint".

It is strange that black is so appealed to us. It is associated with death and evil, but at the same time with religion, fashion, sexuality, power, strength and intelligence. It stands for completely opposite ideas like: sin and holiness, wealth and poverty, good and bad.

The colour attracts us so much in everyday life. Basic things that surround us..black sky, black hair, black eyes(it is so fascinating to see black eyes . Especially when they are “burning” with an idea).


I guess it's really the "queen of all colours" , the mix of all that attracts the most.

Explorer of the world

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Meissen porcelain

Meissen porcelain is the first and for a half a century the best porcelain in Europe. Founded in 1710 as the Royal Saxon Porcelain Manufacture by Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, at Meissen, near Dresden. It set a very high standard even in China.

The latest initials on the products were AR (Augustus Rex, the monogram of the King), K.P.M. (Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur), M.P.M. (Meissener Porzellan-Manufaktur), and K.P.F. ("Königliche Porzellan-Fabrik), but then in 1725 were replaced with crossed swords . Variations in the "crossed swords" logotype allow approximate dating of the wares.

In 2010 the manufacture will celebrate its 300th anniversary.

Good technique

The worst thing when you’re on your own, a self-taught person is that you have to improve your creativeness and technique simultaneously, and you need much time to make progress in your job.
When you’re going to an interview there is a question about your future, like "what you would like to be after 10 years". Recently I was thinking about the question, and I've got an answer. I’d like to have a great technique in representing my surrounding world.Because otherwise it's like you have an idea,but don't know how to say it.

There are 3 images that I've found at deviantart.com and understood that this is exactly what I need.

A photo

Vector image

3D image