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week twelve: deadline

Deadline week. not much to post about this however i’ll post an excerpt of my essay

Historically, the illustrations used within the Grimm fairy tales play an interesting role within the society of the time. It was believed that the brothers took folktales that were most commonly told by the lower class and compiled them into a book called “kinder und Hausmärchen”, however they primarily gathered their tales from the middle class range as well and expanded each tale with improvements to the characters and their meaning (Zipes 1983). This allowed them to connect the oral tales of the lower class, and the folktales of the middle class into one place that would satisfy a general audience. The books were heavily criticised by the church for not being christian enough at the time so the brothers began editing them to input more religious themes. For example in the  the third brother added christian symbols within the illustrations and wilhelm added a lot of the religion's proverbs to appeal more to the church.

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week eleven

i went through all my lecture notes to see if i had missed any information sources i could look into. planned a bit more of my essay to include disney and modern interpretations of the grimm fairy tales

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week ten

Week ten i dont think i did much to contribute to my essay, still was struggling in finding the motivation to write, at this point i hads maybe 200-500 words just on the historical and social aspects of the grimm brothers. Below are some of the bullet points i made earlier in the month, organised in which section they would go into

Historical

Historical: collection of fairy tales marketed towards ‘lower’ class audience

They were rejected by the church for not being christian enough, so the third brother added christian symbols within the illustrations and wilhelm added a lot of christian proverbs within the stories to appeal more to the audience.

Social

Despite being titled ‘kinder und hausmärchen’ it wasn't a child friendly book.

However focus shifted to children and the sex was toned down, yet the violence was increased to scare children into obedience

strongly against step-mothers

Zipes suggests the sociological reason for the animosity between step-mother and step-daughter in the stories is because of during that time a lot of women died from childbirth and there were many instances of the father remarrying a younger woman that is usually around similar to the eldest daughter

Political

Some the stories have anti-semitism

 They believed a lot of these stories revealed the national german identity

Made during the napoleonic wars whilst the french were occupying germany so a lot of symbolisms that were seen as french were removed (the three fairies in ‘Sleeping Beauty’ changed to three wise women)

Technological 

Lithography

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image referencing

week nine taught us image referencing in our essays

images in text usually are referenced like this

fig number: name of image (creator/illustrator and year of creation)

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usw harvard referencing

had a lecture on how to reference my essay properly.

(using  example for referencing a book)

1. Author /editor (surname before initials)

2. Year of publication (in round brackets)

3. Title (in italics)

4. Edition (only include the edition number if it is not the first edition)

5. Place of publication: Publisher

6. Series and volume number (if applicable)

my reference in my essay:

Zipes, J. (1983) Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion. United States of America: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd.

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field trip to the V&A, London

The V&A held a video game exhibition where they had developer sketchbooks and storyboards for various genres of games. This wasnt related to my essay however i am highly invested into gaming and it was great research into the hobby im into. Alot of the stuff i saw was also inspiration in my other modules

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tutorials and development

Had individual one on one tutorial about our essays. I was initially struggling with getting anything written due to lack of motivation, but managed to write some bullet points down for each section of my essay

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critical analysis continued

historical: where the original tales came from, religious symbols in the illustrations, academic text

social: scaring children into obedience, anti step-mother viewings

political: anti semitism, stories revealed german national identity (nazi approval later on), napoleonic war

technological: lithography copper plate engravings

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critical analysis

Historically, the illustrations used within the Grimm fairy tales play an interesting role within the society of the time. The brothers took folktales that were most commonly told by the lower class and compiled them into a book called “kinder und Hausmärchen” which gave stories for entertainment to the lives of children living in the 19th century. However these stories were often heavily criticised as they were far too dark to be considered ‘child friendly’ so as they reprinted editions, the stories were edited. The illustrations within the book followed the same pattern, becoming less of a dark twisted fairy tale picture and more of a whimsical setting. Over time other interpretations of the stories were made, such as Disney, that sugar coated all of the violence that were originally told in the Grimm books.

Iit is believed that there also political aspects held within the Grimm fairy tales. The brothers had a second thought in mind where the main purpose of those stories were to be compiled together to give off a sense of German nationality and pride.

During when the first editions were printed, the common form of printing illustrations into books were by using metal plates that were engraved onto. Each book had to be individually printed using the plates. The second edition was the first to be illustrated

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/publication-grimm%E2%80%99s-fairy-tales

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special collections

for week 3 we went to special collections at cardiff university for some pvisual research.

some of the illustration techniques was helpful for my essay as the Grimm brothers illustrated their booiks using lithography method

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primary and secondary sources

Illustration for literature

primary sources:

books owned

library books borrowed

second hand book shops - recording visual analysis of each book that interests me

exhibitions of book illustrators

drawing from books - creating my own illustrations from text

contacting illustrators for their processes etc

secondary sources:

online - quotes etc from books

online academic sources, journals, news articles

government websites

historical archives

illustration for product

primary sources:

informative textbooks/ brochures i already own

exhibitions (science, botanical etc)

collectiing new information - new textbooks, leaflets, magazines etc

secondary sources:

news articles online

illustrators websites and online portfolios

illustration for moving image

primary sources:

visitiing exhibitions on animation, game design, story boarding , concept art etc.

collecting art books of games and animations

contacting illustrators and developers of animations, film, games etc

secondary sources:

already written or recorded documentaries about the illustrators

online art portfolios

game developers social media

illustration for product

primary sources:

documenting all adverts you see of products outside

collecting books, journals, magazines about product design

secondary sources:

online sources, news articles, journals about new products

documentaries about product design/ product design illustrators

artists website

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moodboards

https://medium.com/alice-s-adventures-in-wonderland/sir-john-tenniel-s-classic-illustrations-of-alice-in-wonderland-2c3bbdca3a77

http://hazelterry.blogspot.com/2014/12/ludwig-emil-grimm.html

https://www.drseussart.com/illustration-art/yawning-cat

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-illustrations-that-brought-roald-dahl-s-books-to-life-1.2776176

https://www.polygon.com/2019/1/21/18190441/steven-universe-change-your-mind-recap-season-5-finale

https://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/snow-white/241629/disneys-snow-white-the-risk-that-changed-filmmaking-forever

https://www.polygon.com/tv/2016/9/29/13106100/adventure-time-ending

https://www.unilad.co.uk/gaming/destiny-2-concept-art-seemingly-leaks/

http://www.emster.com/detailed-product-illustration/

https://www.brettesims.com/product-illustration

https://www.freepik.com/free-vector/camera-illustration-collection_1176850.htm

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/384776361900300547/?lp=true

https://tforia.com/art/illustrated-nostalgia/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/stunning-undersea-images-from-a-prodigious-19th-century-scientist/2017/12/29/77ccea3c-eb1f-11e7-9f92-10a2203f6c8d_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.62c68bfb0ee0

http://www.visualmedics.com/2016/06/02/learn-more-about-history-of-medical-illustratio/

https://dumielauxepices.net/wallpaper-506550