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Entopic Graphomania is a surrealist technique to draw by depending on the dots on a worded paper to draw lines to create a pattern or a line drawing.

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This is an example found from the internet of what patterns Entopic Graphomania can produce.

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I have created my own design using the technique and for each step I took I took a picture to show how I have connected one line to another dot.

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he applied the principles of his abstract studies and film montage to realistic photographs from the city of Berlin.

1934 he was employed as a director by UFA and made cultural, industrial, commercial, and propaganda films. On July 15, 1941, he died in Berlin after an operation.

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James completed seven short films over four decades and collaborated with his brother John for some of his film work.
James spent 3 years working on the 8mm film “Variations on a Circle” (1942), which lasts some 20 minutes.
Then, he became more involved in spiritual interests such as Jungian psychology, alchemy, yoga, Tao, and Krishnamurti. These interests heavily influenced his later work.

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A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s to the 1950s. Set to classical music by the likes of Bach, Saint-Saens or Shostakovich, and filled with colorful forms, elegant design and sprightly, dance-like-rhythms, Bute's filmmaking is at once formally rigorous and energetically high-spirited, like a marriage of high modernism and Merrie Melodies.

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Hy Hirsch worked all his life as a camera operator and a photographer in advertising. In 1937, he turned to avant-garde cinema and collaborated on a few projects as a comic actor and a camera operator in San Francisco.

His disorderly life and his lack of interest in his own works make his filmography very difficult to compile. Many films have been lost, and any conjecture about the actual form of his surviving works is impossible, as some of them have been mutilated.

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in order to make my Gif, I first looked at some images on the internet to use for my collage.
After finding images that compliment each other, I opened up photoshop and started cropping out relevant parts of the image to create the desired GIF thats I wanted.
I wanted to inspire my work with the work of a surrealist artist called ' Them Easton'. After researching a few surrealist artist, his work really caught my attention. I liked how his work had a twist of modern art but he kept some parts retro.

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Dolfi or Dolphi Trost was a Romanian surrealist poet, artist, and theorist, and the instigator of entopic graphomania.

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The printing process isn’t as difficult as you might imagine and a makeshift darkroom can be set up in a bedroom, at one end of the garage, in a cellar, in a shed or even under the stairs. All that is needed is an enlarger, three trays, a power socket and a red light. The stop and fix you used to process your film can be used for printing, but a different developer is needed for the paper.

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USING THE ENLARGER

Once the chemicals have been measured out, place the negative in the enlarger carrier with the shiny side upwards and the numbers away from you. Set the enlarger at the correct height to give a projected image big enough for the chosen print size. Each time you alter the height, refocus the image.

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POSITIONING

Turn on the enlarger and alter the aperture ring of the lens until the brightest image is projected onto the baseboard. Focus the image on the masking frame. Turn the lens’s aperture ring until you feel two clicks and see a slight darkening of the projected image. This should be 2 stops darker than the lens’s maximum aperture.

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CHECK SHARPNESS

Check for critical sharpness by using a focus finder if you have one, but remember to set it for your own eyesight first. Turn off the enlarger until ready for exposure. Now remove a sheet of paper and cut it up to use for test strips. You should be able to get roughly ten 10 x 5cm pieces from a 10 x 8in sheet.

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DEVELOPING THE IMAGES

Place the exposed paper into the tray of developer and gently rock the solution back and forth, trying to get the paper submerged all at the same time. Timing is important – 1min for RC paper, but this will need longer in cold conditions. Avoid poking the paper with tongs as this can leave marks on the image.

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STOP & FIX

Remove the paper from the developer after the allotted time and drain briefly. Slide the paper into the stop bath and gently rock the stop bath tray for 10secs. Remove, drain and slide it into a tray of fixer, gently rocking again (10secs for test strips, 1-2mins for finished prints).

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REVIEW

Remove the test from the fix and view by white light (make sure your box of unexposed paper is closed). Counting from the lightest end of the test in fives, look for the first exposure that looks correct, and this will be your exposure time for the full print. This method will produce good ‘beginner’ prints.

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ADJUSTING CONTRAST

If the print is too high in contrast, replace the Grade 2 filter with a Grade 1 and re-test. If the improvement is only slight, move down to Grade 0 and re-test. However, if the print is grey and flat, replace the Grade 2 filter with a Grade 3 and re-test. If the improvement is only slight, move up another grade to 4 and re-test

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FINAL PRINT

When the correct exposure and contrast grade have been established, place a sheet in the masking frame and expose. Develop and stop as you did for the test, fix for 1min and wash for 5-10mins. Don’t leave prints in water for more than 30mins. Hang the fully washed print up to dry or lay it out on blotting paper.

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Abstract art uses a visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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Chantal PornillosEvaluationAbstract Animation Project Unit 7

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Chantal PornillosEvaluationAbstract Animation Project Unit 7

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For this project we have learnt many things such as using different kinds of technology and resources to create beautiful GIFS , animation and pictures. For this project my aim was to develop my knowledge on how to use photoshop to create collages inspired by different artist such as surrealist artist to influence my work. I have managed to complete this by following the task sheets that were provided and have managed to input these different techniques into my head. I have managed to also create GIFS and animation by implying those skills.

The first this we done for this project was looking at how to manipulate images and how to cut them equally to create a surrealist image altogether by using 2 images that differ from one another. I have then completed this task and had made 2 more. My first image was inspired by an artist who manipulates images to create another image.

We continued to complete those tasks for another week or so then we continued to learn about graphomania. I found these lessons very useful because I have managed to apply another skill and type of abstract art that I can use in further projects. I didn’t know what Graphomania was until we learnt about it and I found it so interesting that I have also applied this skill to my FMP project. I have created a quick animation to show this skill and what techniques I have picked up form this.  While I was working on my work, I have been recording each step in my personal padlet and I have been updating my padlet whenever I upload my pieces and artists researches that inspire my work.

After working on these animations, I have created my own version of a surrealist video inspired by an artist called Macabees and used magazines as images to create my short clip. I used photoshop to edit my video and my phone to take pictures. After I have created one clip, I then thought about adding music to the background t make my short video more interesting. I used a video editor in order to add music and then uploaded this in my padlet.

All in all, everything that I have learnt in these lessons, I have applied to my other art work and have found every piece of information useful. I have recorded everything that I have learned in my sketchbook and in my padlet. I have included drawings and artist research and diaries in my work to keep record of what I have done in every lesson.