The Anatomy and Physiology of Fitness

Fitness and sports take up a big chunk of my seventeen year old life. As a college bound student athlete, going to the gym and practicing my sport are important to me. What fascinates me the most is how my body works together to allow me to execute. The anatomy and physiology of the human body is absolutely amazing; our bodies have over 650 muscles and 206 bones, attached by ligaments, tendons and protected by cartilage. All of these parts work in unison to allow our bodies to do millions of things, and my passion for learning about the human body is shown through this project, using Adobe Illustrator.

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This first piece is a page that consists of strictly fills in black, grey, and white tones. The focal point of the theme is the three runners in the middle. The original picture, that is now a silhouette in the middle of the page, was the progression from the skeletal system, the muscular and skeletal systems together, and finally the entire human body with all systems in tact. I thought adding the mosaic tile fill in the background would help to move the viewer's eye across the page. The smaller runners in the camo-like pattern and their shadows were a last minute add-in; I felt that the silhouettes alone were not enough to make the piece interesting, so I decided to take the actual picture and add a fill to it, with a shadow for depth. My inspiration for this piece is the unity of the body; the bones depend on the muscles and the muscles depend on the bone in order to work properly. All of the systems are needed to move, and shown in the piece is running. Since running is my least favorite exercise, the smaller runners are camouflage since I believe anyone who has a passion for running is a true trooper.
You go girl.





This second piece was my favorite piece to craft, since it involves color. Working in black and white for a majority of the project was not as entertaining, but with color the possibilities are endless. My original idea was to show the progression, once again, of the skeletal system, to the muscular system, to the whole body. The last picture has a similar emphasis to this one, with the idea that the body is a system with many parts that allow us to move. However, in this picture it shows the individual parts and shown at the bottom is the parts all working together. My focal point of the image is the woman flexing in the dead center, she is larger than the other images which makes her stand out. This image relates to my theme, The Anatomy and Physiology of Fitness, because it shows the anatomy, "What is it?" and the physiology, "What does it do?" as well as the fitness aspect.






The focus of the third page is split between the bottom half with the woman leg pressing and motivational quote, and the top with the lines drawing attention to the dumbbells where the lines intersect. This is the fitness focused page, since it only includes fitness equipment and working out as the theme. My main goal was to make an interesting picture with image tracing and lines that followed my theme. This page was the simplest page for me to make because I duplicated and image traced weight room equipment and added lines of various opacities and thicknesses that overlap.






 Finally this last piece was creatively, the most challenging piece to make. How can I illustrate the anatomy and physiology of fitness through patterns? Well, I decided to take photos of muscular and skeletal tissues under a microscope and collage them together to make an abstract pattern. To give it some depth I took the image and made it larger and more opaque as it gets farther away, and more focused and smaller when it gets to the front. To give some kind of hint as to what it is the viewer, I assed an image trace of the human skeleton and muscular systems, hoping to give the viewer some clue. This was the most difficult and unclear piece of my collection.

This is the front view of the book fully assembled. I wanted to keep a clear and simple cover to compliment the complexity of my piece.








This is the inside of the book, fully assembled. I wanted to break up the black and white scale, by putting the colored piece between them. I'm really glad how my first project came out, but I learned what TO do and what NOT TO do for next time.








~r.h.

Bauhaus School of Design, 1919-1933

The origins of digital design may live in Weimar, Germany, but its new home is right here in America. This remarkable school of the arts was founded by Walter Groupius, in 1919 and crafted a new and unique curriculum for its students to learn. This included, "a utopian craft guild combining architecture, sculpture, and painting into a single creative expression" (Winton, The Metropolitan Museum of Art). Products that came out of the school included, furniture, jewelry, buildings, modern art and many more; the possibilities were endless. The Bauhaus changed the way the world saw art, all before the World War II era. From the Bauhaus emerged multiple well known artists, including Marcel Lajos Breuer, Herbert Bayer, and of course, Gropius. 

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Marcel Lajos Breuer

DOB: May 21, 1902

DOD:  July 1, 1981

Breuer's work was focused in modern furniture. His furniture is can be simple in its design, or complex. All of his work is architectural and he is best known for his furniture. He also focused on the theory or International Furniture, where his most famous design The Wassily Chair No B3 (shown on the left) came from. Breuer worked with bended steel frames, which had never been seen before in               the architectural world of furniture before; he also worked with wood, seen in the chair in the right, later in his career. One element that stands out to me the most in Breuer's work is the shape of his work. He made abstract looking furniture, which is interesting to me.

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                                                         Herbert Bayer

                                                               DOB: April 5, 1900

                                                            DOD: September 30, 1985

   

Bayer's work is .my favorite out of the three artists that we are studying. His work has sharp and vibrant color mixed with his interesting images grabs the viewer's attention. He is well known for abstract images, but he was also skilled in architecture, painting, sculpting and interior design, to name a few. Much of his work can be seen in magazines.The element of design that I like the most in Bayer's work is by far color. His pieces has rich and loud colors, which makes his work have an attention grabbing appearance.Bayer was the latest living Bauhaus mentor.

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Walter Gropius

DOB:May 18, 1883

DOD: July 5, 1969

 Finally, the mind behind the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius. Groupis was skilled in multiple fields, but his strongest was architecture and design. His focus was primarily on designing buildings and designing interiors. However, he did work with typography as seen in the photo on the bottom right, for Bauhaus. He too, like Breuer, were the architecture masters of their time. The element I like the most about Gropius' designs is the space he has and uses in his artwork. He uses a lot of positive and negative space in his work which is really interesting to me. 

-r.h.