Liceo Artistico Statale, Treviso (ITALIE)

La Luce 

Com’è il mondo alla luce delle lampade, .. Per questo progetto ho deciso di parlare del tema dato tenendo conto dei lati più umani e naturali che la parola “luce” può rappresentare. Vari sono stati i ragionamenti sul significato del termine, spesso associato alla ricerca della verità e quindi alla rivelazione di un mistero, al candore e alla felicità di comprensione. Molti pensatori, poeti e artisti hanno lavorato e scritto riguardante questo argomento e tutti in modo diverso inteso la luce come sinonimo di bene e calore. La decisione di sviluppare un lavoro caratterizzato da elementi letterali e non specificamente in chiave della Fisica deriva da una più facile spontaneità del sottoscritto nel produrre un lavoro con questi connotati. Il lavoro è prettamente grafico, senza l’utilizzo di elementi plastici o multimediali : si divide in due cartoncini di misure 50x70 cm di colore grigio nei quali ho inserito in una composizione, 4 rettangoli di misure 12x19 cm nei quali sono intervenuto con tecniche differenti. Esse sono il collage e l’utilizzo della grafite negli inserimenti di tipo grafico e letterale. La chiave di lettura di tutto il lavoro sta nella suddivisione in coppie degli inserimenti. E’ chiaro il parallelismo tra il significato letterale della delle frasi inserite e le immagini scelte! L’intento era quello di descrivere i vari significati umani che si possono dare a queste onde elettromagnetiche e le sensazioni che possono trasmettere le parole legate alle foto utilizzate. Inoltre ci tengo a sottolineare il fatto che le foto sono state scattate dal sottoscritto e non scaricate da qualche browser.

Brief history of lighting

With this work, I want to represent the major landmarks of the light which lighted the days and the nights of the men from the prehistory to these days and age. In this work I have represent both the natural elements (as the sun, the lighting and the fire) , and the artificial elements (from the oil-lamp to the light bulb).

The earliest light source obtained by men was the fire, c.a. 50000 years ago. Initially, the torches were obtained from conifer’s woods and shrubs, and then they used wood covered by pitch and animal fat.

Then there was the invention of the first oil-lamp, that is closed bowl made of terracotta or of blown glass, equipped with an handle, a central hole for the oil, and a spout from which came out the flame.

There are proofs which demonstrate that the candle was already used by the Etruscans and probably also by the ancient Egyptians. Initially, the candles were made of animal fat mixed with straw and at a later stage with beeswax. The first candle as we know it took light in 1818, when the French Braconneau e Simonin invented the steric candle. Its completion needed 15 years (the major problem was the wick)
In 1783 the Swiss chemist François Ami Argand invented the oil lamp. Few years later, this innovation, which permitted to benefit of a more widespread of light than a candle, permitted the introduction of the petroleum and, at a later stage, the kerosene.

In the 1792 the Scottish engineer William Murdoch succeed in the utilization of the natural gas for the industrial lighting. That was the first stage for the global lighting.

In the 1879 Edison invented the bulb lamp, inserting a charred cotton thread (for the resistance) and two platinum thread (for the conduction) in a glass ampoule.

 

Viscuso Giada

5fs

Liceo artistico treviso

I have choosen to create a collage of photographs to enclose different moments in a single image. In this way the impact of the content is direct and immediate.

Every photo shoot shows a drop of ink expanding in a glass with some water, until the black ink occupates all the space. 

The reflection of the light fades with the advancing ink, and in the last picture the light beam is almost completely disappeared.

The intention is to capture the changing of time from the sunlight to the darkness of the night , the natural rhythm of life.

Riccardo Pasqual 5f

RELAZIONE DEL PROGETTO SULLA LUCE

Titolo/Title: Revelations

Tecnica/technique: fotomanipolazioni con inserti pittorici/ Acrylic and computer graphic photomanipulation

Description: “Revelations” is a triptych based on original photos and reworked thruough computer graphic and small pictorial interventions with acrylic colours.

This work wants to exalt the importance of light's presence in nature. That's the reason why the original photos are just b/w. In my mind I pictured to underline the importance of colured light by its absence. In the three photos, Light just reflects and shines upon objects. The only exception is the central frame that rappresent a lightswitch: in our modern and civilezed communities we control Light with a simple botton(on or off)... I actually want to remark the fact that Light is not considered so natural any longer but rather a tool.

Then there is the point of colours.

We can't imagine colours without Light, so i just wanted to identify the expressive value of illumination with the use of colours, painted freely.

So, the three frames reveal my suggestion of Light as great maker of colours, the main and most important vehicle for visula art and not only...