HISTORY OF GOSPEL MUSIC ESSAY

  This design shows a segment of history when there was great human suffering.  The era was during the Post-Reconstruction based  primarily in the southern section of the United States.  The Poster shows how music was a way to relieve the emotional and mental effects that was caused.  The position of the oval shape which includes the text. along with the position of the note, and the pictures follows the rule of 3rd's.  This design directs emphasis towards the note.  The note denotes the fact that the subject  is music.  Alignment is shown by the placment of the note compared with the oval, pictures and the text.  The flow is consistent with the theme of the poster and the bullets and type of text shows repetition.  Contrast is shown by the color of the note compared to color of the leg of the note and background of the Oval.  The picture can also be included to show contrast of this design.  Everything combined shows balance in the design overall. 

History of Gospel Music Final Poster

Digital Study History of Gospel Music

Digital Study History of Gospel Music

history of Gospel Music digital study

History of Gospel Music

WHAT 
History of Gospel Music

WHEN
Post-Reconstuction

WHERE
South

HOW
Gospel Meaning  -  "Good News"

There is a close connection to the Gospel books in new testament and the references  to God's goodness and mercy.  The thematic content remains constant and utilizes a great deal of the repetition which is a carryover from the time when many Post-Reconstruction blacks were unable to read.  The repetition of words allowed those who could not read the opportunity to participate in worship.

Gospel Music over the centuries was meant for those who were downtrodden and disenfranchised.  God comes in nick of time to deliver his people from uncomfortable circumstances in a  consistent theme.  The African slaves  used this music as a relief to survive the uncertainty and danger  of harsh treatment.

Worship music (hymns) of the white masters became the backdrop for the music the enslaved africans would use in eventual worship meetings.  Because it was  unlawful for slaves to congregate in worship they would go to distance areas  to set up camp for meetings. New renditions of traditional hymns were developed because of the unlawfulness of blacks  congregating.  During such meetings great creativity and beauty came from this music in a very dismal period of time.  Gospel music stirs many emotions.

History Project 5 thumbnails

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post modern graphic designs

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modern movement of graphic design

Richard Hamilton, Pop Art

International Typographic Style- Swiss School 1950-1970

The International Typographic Style, also known as th Swiss Style, is a graphic design style developed in Switzerland in 1950s that emphasizes cleanliness, readability and objectivty.  Asymmetric layouts, use of a grid, sans serif typefaces like Akzidenz Grotesk, and flush left, ragged right text

 

Akzidenz Grotesk designed in 1896 for the H Berthold AG type foundry.  the face was a hallmark of the moderist Swiss Style.


Graphic symbols are often functionalist and anonymous



Comparison of distinguishing characters in Akzidenz-Grotesk, Folio, Helvetica, and Universs 55

Art Deco Design

Art Deco is an eclectic artistic and design style which had its first orgins in Paris in the first decades of the 20 century.

 

The Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building in New York, built 1928-1930

 City of Buffalo, New York, an Art Deco building



"The Musician" on canvas by Tamara de Lempicka, 1929

Contructivism art

Lyubov Popova

Constructivism was an artistic and architectural movement that originated in Russia from 1919 onward which rejected the idea of "art for art's sake" favour of art as a practice directed towards social purposes
 Portrait of Philosopher (Artist's brother, Pavel Sergeyevich Popov), 1915



Smithy, 1912  Olga Rozanova  (1886-1918)  State Russian Museum

Bauhaus Designs

Bauhaus (built 1925-1926) in Dessau, GermanyWalter Gropius's Monument to the March of the Dead (1921)

Gropius House (1938) in Lincoln Massachusetts

art noveau images

Art Nouveau-French for "The New Art" An international art movement and style of decoration and architecture of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Characterized by foliate forms, with sinous lines, and non-geometric, "whiplash" curves. 
Emile Galle (French, 1846-1904) Dragonfly Coupe, inlaid, blown, and trailed glass, internal metal-foil decoration, cut, engraved, ht 18.3 cm Corning Museum of glass, NY




Louis sullivan (American, 1856-1924) and George Grant Elmslie (American 1871-1952), Main entrance to the Schlesinger and Meyer Dept Store, Chicago, cast iron decor, 1899-1901


Antonio Gaudi, Wall clock from the Casa Mia Barcelona, 1906-1910, glided wood