1. My expectations for the course were to be able to look at art a different way, not just for its beauty but for its time to make, effort, and meaning. Aesthetics are a great plus believe me, but to see the detail an artist put into a piece really gave me a new appreciation for art.
2. Art is human expression of feelings in a physical yet not always tangible entity. Art can be a scrapbook, a painting, a performance, a sculpture etc. my initial posting was similar however lacked understanding of what art means. I've learned you can't always look too deep into art, but its also fun to look deep into art.
3. I started by saying I didn't have a favorite artist, maybe mentioning a few famous artists however I have now confirmed that my favorite 3 artists are Michelangelo, Raphael, and Leonardo Di Vinci. There is a difference in my confidence as to who my favorite artists are, now I can say it with honesty that I enjoy the work of the three I mentioned.
4. Now that I have completed this course, I feel good about taking online classes. My answer is basically the same as my previous answer only this time, I feel like I have a good well rounded grasp on using online sources, and I learned a few new things about blogging, and embedding links to turn in assignments.
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Saturday, May 7, 2016
Art Gallery visit # 3
(Left to Right)
The first inspiration image is a self portrait by Frieda Kahlo (Oil on Masonite) 1938 and is called Self Portrait with Monkey.
Note* The Albright Knox museum only had one work that was technically a self portrait, and that was the work by Frida Kahlo. The rest of the pictures I took at the museum, were portraits of other people done by various artists. I know it strays from the guidelines, but I was inspired by the portraits and the idea of how we view ourselves as opposed to how we view others.
The second inspiration image is a piece called Tam Gan by Robert Henri (Oil on Canvas) 1914
The third inspiration image is a piece called Life's Extraction by Olivia Carney (Charcoal and Watercolor) 2016
The fourth inspiration image is a piece called Mysterious Faces by Eli Dreyfuss (Photograph) 2016
1. I selected the inspiration pieces because they each piece was a different take on representing a face.
2. I chose pencil to do my self portrait because it was easy and more accurate to work with than charcoal.
3. I didn't face any challenges when creating my self portrait, I actually just looked at my main features, and used the photograph of myself plus my self image of myself to sketch what I think I look like to the world.
4. The picture represents how I look when I go out of the house, or to work.
5. I applied line when sketching out the shape of my features and texture when sketching detail to those features.
6. I did enjoy working on this project, I really like drawing.
7. I think my final artwork is pretty good for an average Joe. I mean I work in a machine shop, you should see the looks I get when I walk into a refined place such as the art museum.
Saturday, April 30, 2016
Week 13-14 video review
All three videos made taught me that there are many versions or curating works of art. I always thought that curating had to do specifically with exhibits being uniquely tied together. However the videos showed me that entire museums can be curated to examine a specific them. The Tate video showed me that interactive art is a theme that can be used to guide a visitor through a museum, while the metropolitan video showed me that curation technique and innovation in doing so can hold a visitors attention to each piece as they move through a gallery. The lowbrow video showed me that art can be "lower class" but still have important points or deep concepts that aren't necessarily intellectual or formal. These lowbrow works reminded me of Cream's Disraeli gears album cover and somewhat of Jimi Hendrix Axis Bold as Love cover.
The videos did relate to project #4 in that curation itself is an art, in putting it together I realized how much work goes into the arrangement of art so the exhibition flows seamlessly. Curation and the creation of art each make the other one look like easier work, when indeed one is not more work than the other; but an exercise of the creativity of the mind.
The films were great, they expanded my view on the curation process and were fun to watch. They filled in ideas of curation I was confused about before starting the project.
The videos did relate to project #4 in that curation itself is an art, in putting it together I realized how much work goes into the arrangement of art so the exhibition flows seamlessly. Curation and the creation of art each make the other one look like easier work, when indeed one is not more work than the other; but an exercise of the creativity of the mind.
The films were great, they expanded my view on the curation process and were fun to watch. They filled in ideas of curation I was confused about before starting the project.
Creating my curating project
My process in creating my project was pretty straight forward. I began by choosing a theme that I would be able to find multiple pieces of art that represented it. I then began selecting works that I found that common theme in. I was then able to interpret each piece of art and find what I thought represented my theme and talk about it a little bit. I thought creating a power point style presentation was perfect for this assignment, it was very easy to work with the images and organize a neat presentation.
Sunday, April 17, 2016
Art Gallery Visit 2
The Exhibition:
1. The Title of the exhibition that was at the Albright Knox Art Museum was Erin Shirreff.
2. The theme of the exhibit seemed to be pieces that represented Form.
The Gallery:
1. The exhibit consisted of five rooms and the lighting in the gallery was well lit in the main room of the exhibition. In the four other rooms that were used, two were dark (One using a television, and one using a projector to display pieces). Out of the other two rooms, one was well lit and the other was dim lit, and very quaint. All rooms seemed to use a spotlight on each piece of art, except for the two dark rooms.
2. The wall color in the main room was (bright white), in the room with the television (black), in the room with the projector (brown), in the room with the photos of clay knives (bright white), and in the room with the photos of people looking at art (forest green).
3. tables were used in the interior architecture to display two steel sculptures, the rest of the artwork was hung on the walls.
4. The movement didn't flow very well for this exhibit, in fact I had to check each info tag to make sure the work in the other four rooms were still part of the exhibit (they were).
The Artwork:
1. The artwork was arranged with all of the sculptures in the main room of the exhibit, two separate rooms had pictures but they were different concepts (hence the different rooms), the other two rooms; one used a projector, the other used a television.
2. The artworks are similar in that either they were scultures, or photos of sculptures that represented a theme of form. The only art that was different that I liked were the photos of people looking at art in the Albright Knox. These themselves put a different perspective on form.
3. The artoworks are different in that they use different media. The sculptures used Scraps from a metal cutting process, the photos of sculptures depicted sculptures made of clay, and the pictures of people looking at art depict humans as a form.
4. The sculptures were not framed, but were either hung on the walls or leaned up against the walls. The pieces that were framed used black frames, and were very clean and modern looking.
5. The artwok was identified and labeled with white paper tags that stuck on the wall near each piece. The info. for the pictures of the people looking at art was actually text painted on the wall of the room that they were in.
6. Aside from being in separate rooms, the actual spacing between pieces in the same room ranged from three feet between pictures to ten feet between sculptures.
Art Criticism:
1. The three pieces have an excellent theme of form, although the second two are sculpted from different materials by Shirreff, and the first a photograph of someone else's sculpture they represent form well.
2. I see a form of a boulder sculpted in the first photo, with detail to texture. The second photo depicts the form of a knife (molded out of clay). The third is an abstract form created out of steel scrap metal.
3. The elements of texture and implied shape are used in photo one. Texture being that of a boulder and implied shape being the shapes formed when light is shined at the boulder which is what Shirreff did to capture the image. The element of form is really evident in photo two because we can see how the blade is arced and golds its form. Implied shape is used in photo three because pieces are cut out of the steel that are circular or semi circular, and when you walk around the sculpture, the shapes change based on the material behind them.
4. I don't see anything in the work as far as metaphor or symbols but the metal piece in picture three reminds me of the water jet class that I took at ECC when I went for machining. The Jetstream of water could cut steel into even more intricate shapes than these, but its the same princeble.
5. I think Sherriff was trying to say that no matter what form we take on, we are all here and can be expressed in any way. Each piece is made out of different material, and its kind of like humans in that we are all created looking different from one another but we can express similar feelings.
Documenting:
These are some pictures of what I experienced during my visit
1. The Title of the exhibition that was at the Albright Knox Art Museum was Erin Shirreff.
2. The theme of the exhibit seemed to be pieces that represented Form.
The Gallery:
1. The exhibit consisted of five rooms and the lighting in the gallery was well lit in the main room of the exhibition. In the four other rooms that were used, two were dark (One using a television, and one using a projector to display pieces). Out of the other two rooms, one was well lit and the other was dim lit, and very quaint. All rooms seemed to use a spotlight on each piece of art, except for the two dark rooms.
2. The wall color in the main room was (bright white), in the room with the television (black), in the room with the projector (brown), in the room with the photos of clay knives (bright white), and in the room with the photos of people looking at art (forest green).
3. tables were used in the interior architecture to display two steel sculptures, the rest of the artwork was hung on the walls.
4. The movement didn't flow very well for this exhibit, in fact I had to check each info tag to make sure the work in the other four rooms were still part of the exhibit (they were).
The Artwork:
1. The artwork was arranged with all of the sculptures in the main room of the exhibit, two separate rooms had pictures but they were different concepts (hence the different rooms), the other two rooms; one used a projector, the other used a television.
2. The artworks are similar in that either they were scultures, or photos of sculptures that represented a theme of form. The only art that was different that I liked were the photos of people looking at art in the Albright Knox. These themselves put a different perspective on form.
3. The artoworks are different in that they use different media. The sculptures used Scraps from a metal cutting process, the photos of sculptures depicted sculptures made of clay, and the pictures of people looking at art depict humans as a form.
4. The sculptures were not framed, but were either hung on the walls or leaned up against the walls. The pieces that were framed used black frames, and were very clean and modern looking.
5. The artwok was identified and labeled with white paper tags that stuck on the wall near each piece. The info. for the pictures of the people looking at art was actually text painted on the wall of the room that they were in.
6. Aside from being in separate rooms, the actual spacing between pieces in the same room ranged from three feet between pictures to ten feet between sculptures.
Art Criticism:
1. The three pieces have an excellent theme of form, although the second two are sculpted from different materials by Shirreff, and the first a photograph of someone else's sculpture they represent form well.
2. I see a form of a boulder sculpted in the first photo, with detail to texture. The second photo depicts the form of a knife (molded out of clay). The third is an abstract form created out of steel scrap metal.
3. The elements of texture and implied shape are used in photo one. Texture being that of a boulder and implied shape being the shapes formed when light is shined at the boulder which is what Shirreff did to capture the image. The element of form is really evident in photo two because we can see how the blade is arced and golds its form. Implied shape is used in photo three because pieces are cut out of the steel that are circular or semi circular, and when you walk around the sculpture, the shapes change based on the material behind them.
4. I don't see anything in the work as far as metaphor or symbols but the metal piece in picture three reminds me of the water jet class that I took at ECC when I went for machining. The Jetstream of water could cut steel into even more intricate shapes than these, but its the same princeble.
5. I think Sherriff was trying to say that no matter what form we take on, we are all here and can be expressed in any way. Each piece is made out of different material, and its kind of like humans in that we are all created looking different from one another but we can express similar feelings.
Documenting:
These are some pictures of what I experienced during my visit
Saturday, April 16, 2016
Expressionism video and Dada and Surrealism
I selected the two videos because I was familiar with the concepts of surrealism and expressionism. Last semester I took a cinema class and we covered a chapter on German expressionism in theatre and further into film. The general idea of German expressionism was that it was a technique used where backdrops and props were make dramatic using shading, shadows and color to really help a stage set pop and give intense feelings to the audience. Its movement into film generally went into the genre of horror because the look of German expressionism was creepy, and it flowed well into the genre.
The key concept I learned from the Expressionism is that color was primarily used to enhance the effect of emotion. When a viewer looks on a piece of art, its usually the color of the piece that draws the eye into the work. The artist can then use other elements to move the viewer's eye round the piece in general, or along a guided line meaning the artist can guide you to specific things in a specific order. From the Surrealism video, I learned that both shape and color influence surrealism in that you don't just recreate what you see wen creating something new. The artist can create an image that represents something without looking at all like it.
The videos relate to the readings in the text in that they had more examples of what surrealism and expressionism is. The book does an excellent job of explain it, but its nice to see even more examples than just a few pages worth.
I really liked the films, because they add to the book readings and its nice to relax and be guided through a subject rather than reading nonstop about a topic.
The key concept I learned from the Expressionism is that color was primarily used to enhance the effect of emotion. When a viewer looks on a piece of art, its usually the color of the piece that draws the eye into the work. The artist can then use other elements to move the viewer's eye round the piece in general, or along a guided line meaning the artist can guide you to specific things in a specific order. From the Surrealism video, I learned that both shape and color influence surrealism in that you don't just recreate what you see wen creating something new. The artist can create an image that represents something without looking at all like it.
The videos relate to the readings in the text in that they had more examples of what surrealism and expressionism is. The book does an excellent job of explain it, but its nice to see even more examples than just a few pages worth.
I really liked the films, because they add to the book readings and its nice to relax and be guided through a subject rather than reading nonstop about a topic.
Sunday, April 10, 2016
Creating a 3D Mask
The above three masks are where I drew my inspiration from when I created my mask. I selected them because I like the addition of horns to the mask that really give a 3D effect. I also like how mask #2 had a gold paint that gives a delicate feature to the mask. Masks 1 and 3 have a symmetry to them that I used when creating my mask as well. I ultimately chose these masks because I like the way they look as decorative pieces.
The masks above make use of line, color and shape in the way they are decorated. The use of symmetry is used in masks one and three which I previously mentioned. Mask three has implied shape in the ay its horns make a circle. All of the masks have a texture to them as well.
The picture above is a rough sketch of the mask I wanted to create.
This is the mask I created out of clay. I used a plastic mask as a template to get the shape of a face, and then I formed the exaggerated features and used acrylic paint to paint its design. I used symmetry when creating the mask to achieve balance. I also used color when I painted to mask. I used line when I painted it as well so I could define a white area where I would be painting in a gold design. I also used texture in that under the eyes I did some dot inlays with a sculting tool and later filled them with color as well.
My opinion of the mask is that its ok for not doing any clay modeling in about 10 years. I think if I kept doing this, I could create some impressive pieces of art. I thought creating the mask was fun and I found forming the clay to be relaxing and painting it to be stress relieving.
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