Gilets Jaunes Recent Riot News

I have researched these news sites as they allow me to see how the news stations are reporting on the riots and whose side they are taking. We can see a difference between the English and French reporting as the English reporting tend to report more neutrally whilst also placing judgement on the French people for rioting rather than being more peaceful. The French media will choose either the governments side or the protesters side, they tend to sympathise with the French people more as they themselves are affected by the same problems. (Both sides of the political spectrum are involved in the Gilets Jaunes riots.)

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Artist Representations of the Revolutions

I began researching Neo-Classicism and Rococco style in my sketchbook, and would eventually add some of my research to my blog but I did not add all of my research as I felt that I did not need it all on my blog as well as in my sketchbook. I feel that my time was a little bit wasted in researching the style of art used during this period, however my research on how the revolutions were represented was necessary in my understanding of my subject matter and helped me to infer on how the French saw themselves when protesting and causing riots or revolutions.

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Helmo

https://helmo.fr

Lux +

Helmo is a French University. The work that they produce is experimental and visually interesting. Their work have a modernist feel to them as they are minimalist and the work they produce is timeless. I like the colours and typography used in their work, it ranges form formal styled font to a strange, hand made typography. They mix the formal font style with a chaotic placement within the piece to add to the depth of the piece and to represent the theme of jazz and festivals. (the middle 2 and the bottom right piece.)

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Harvard Referencing

Books I’ve used

France contemporary art + literature handbook by Sidra Stitch. 1st Edition published by art-sites Bertelsman in San Francisco CA. 1999

A World History of Art by Hugh Honour & John Fleming 6th Edition published by Lawerence King publishing Ltd. in London 2002.

Revolution Française by Sophie Pedder, published by Bloomsbury Continuum London. 1st published in GB 2018.

Information Graphics – Innovative solutions in contemporary design by Peter Wildbur and Michael Burke. 1st Edition, H&Y Printing Ltd.

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