Saturday, July 16, 2011
week seven, exploring line
1. Using my hand as a subject matter for drawing was pretty complex. It was hard because I have very wrinkly hands so there were a lot of lines to try to draw and see and figure out where they go in reguards to another set of lines.
2. I used pencil as my media, actually a colored pencil to give it a little bit more life with the contours of my hands.
3.I felt very awkward creating the drawing with my non-dominant hand but as I was doing it, I realized it really was not all that bad, I'm not the best artist in the world but it came out way better then the 2 year old drawing I thought it was going to look like.
4. I never worked on drawing my hands much. Just for assignments, if I have free time I think it would be a fun thing to play around with and try to improve. I think as far as a playful assignment and trying to explore these things, they were successful.
5. I think if I were to do something a bit more abstract, it would be pretty cool to try and maybem lay a background down with my right hand and try to maybe retry it with a different media on top with my left and see where it could go.
2. I used pencil as my media, actually a colored pencil to give it a little bit more life with the contours of my hands.
3.I felt very awkward creating the drawing with my non-dominant hand but as I was doing it, I realized it really was not all that bad, I'm not the best artist in the world but it came out way better then the 2 year old drawing I thought it was going to look like.
4. I never worked on drawing my hands much. Just for assignments, if I have free time I think it would be a fun thing to play around with and try to improve. I think as far as a playful assignment and trying to explore these things, they were successful.
5. I think if I were to do something a bit more abstract, it would be pretty cool to try and maybem lay a background down with my right hand and try to maybe retry it with a different media on top with my left and see where it could go.
Friday, July 15, 2011
week 5 ceramics blog post
1. Some of the key concepts I learned were that some of these are the oldest mad made materials and it is still being experimented and used today. Most of these materials are replacing wood and stone which was used long before any of us existed.
2. These videos put our readings into a visual. Many of our readings come to life and we can see people like you and I working with these materials. We can see how they interact with things not just read about it. We see details and beautiful end results.
3.I thought the videos were interesting. Coming from a family where my uncle blows glass, I've seen a lot of the glass work and learned about it, but from a different perspective is very cool. They touch on some things that our book does not have room to elaborate on, and it's sometimes better to go more in depth in learning about these crafts, fine arts.
2. These videos put our readings into a visual. Many of our readings come to life and we can see people like you and I working with these materials. We can see how they interact with things not just read about it. We see details and beautiful end results.
3.I thought the videos were interesting. Coming from a family where my uncle blows glass, I've seen a lot of the glass work and learned about it, but from a different perspective is very cool. They touch on some things that our book does not have room to elaborate on, and it's sometimes better to go more in depth in learning about these crafts, fine arts.
week 5 architecture
1. Frank Gehry: Architecture as Art
They try to create something that Interacts with human responses and feelings. Many buildings should have something in them that expresses feelings. Sense of movement was found when you put feeling into a building. It connects with the people and makes it humantinistic. Everything has an emotional response.
Architecture: The Science of Design
Through this video, is it talked about that any building is not just build to stand up but to withstand certain aspects of our day to day life. Wind, water (both hurricanes and rain, earthquakes if you live in certain parts of the world, areas where years of these issues can be withstood. The scientific aspect of this also looks at the “smart houses” that do everything from making your coffee to heating and using electric to help you in your day to day life.
2. Again, these videos put our text into more detail. We learn to see things from a bit different perspective and have a different understanding.
3. I look at architecture and I never really think too much of it because I trust whoever made it to an extent. I never thought too hard about the types of weather they must be built to withstand, aside from a class or two that I have taken that explores these. After 9/11, I wanted to be built to create some structures that could withstand certain conditions of heat so high that it could melt metal pillars.
4. I chose my video randomly because I figured it would be okay whichever one I chose.
They try to create something that Interacts with human responses and feelings. Many buildings should have something in them that expresses feelings. Sense of movement was found when you put feeling into a building. It connects with the people and makes it humantinistic. Everything has an emotional response.
Architecture: The Science of Design
Through this video, is it talked about that any building is not just build to stand up but to withstand certain aspects of our day to day life. Wind, water (both hurricanes and rain, earthquakes if you live in certain parts of the world, areas where years of these issues can be withstood. The scientific aspect of this also looks at the “smart houses” that do everything from making your coffee to heating and using electric to help you in your day to day life.
2. Again, these videos put our text into more detail. We learn to see things from a bit different perspective and have a different understanding.
3. I look at architecture and I never really think too much of it because I trust whoever made it to an extent. I never thought too hard about the types of weather they must be built to withstand, aside from a class or two that I have taken that explores these. After 9/11, I wanted to be built to create some structures that could withstand certain conditions of heat so high that it could melt metal pillars.
4. I chose my video randomly because I figured it would be okay whichever one I chose.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
video review-blog
Explain why you selected each of the FOUR videos you choose from the selection listed above.
Leonardo da Vinci:
The Mind of the Renaissance- chose this because I have always teken an interest in da Vinci’s work. The title of video could mean so many different things, I thought it would be interesting.
La Primavera-
I chose this because I like Botticelli’s work and he was talked about quite about in the first video.
The Drawings of Michelangelo-
I chose this video one, because I needed another video and two, because some of Michelangelo’s works interest me.
The Night Watch-
This video was pretty much a requirement, I didn’t have another video that jumped out at me and this one sounded kind of cool so I chose it.
2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance
Begins lines on right, left handed, writes mirrored. Unstable temper. Goes to school for art. Ideal model for Botticelli. Become a master of perspective, then know proportions of man and other animals. The greater your knowledge the more your work will be deserving of praise. If you have no experience, do not be afraid to draw from life. First to make an actual landscape a main subject of a drawing.
La Primavera:
People take different messages from all different art works. They are all interpreted different. Primavera has never traveled more than a few miles from the city. Scale makes an impact, 3 inch thick wooden panels and 10 ft long. Primavera means “spring”. All figure (9) drawn from classical mythology. Three graces, cupid, Mercury, wing God of West wind, wood nymph, the transformed into Flora, both depicted in the painting.
The Drawings of Michelangelo:
Many of his works were kept away from almost everyone. Michelangelo would be horrified if he knew we were looking at some of his works. Some drawings are essential ingredients to the drawings that survive. Only a handful of drawings survive because most were destroyed by him, it showed his second thoughts and his process.
The Night Watch:
11 x 14 painting recreated in acting. Western art, 1642. Weighing 337 kilograms, the painting is an object of pilgrimage. Slashed with a knife, acid has been thrown at it, and has been drenched with water. Painting shouldn’t really be called night watch. Rights museum in Amsterdam is where the painting is held.
3. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
I realize I write this answer every time I do a video blog but in all honesty, every video we have watched seems to emphasize our text. It is always interesting to learn a bit more detail about the paintings that we read about and how they became so great at what they do.
4. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?
I thought the films were more interesting than the last few sets. A video that is 50 min long on something I don’t care to learn about is not the best idea but one that I’ve already had a glimpse of learning and I have some knowledge as to what the videos are talking about, it makes them a bit easier to sit for 40 or 50 minutes and watch. They do teach me very interesting things so I am not saying that they are not good by any means. They are very informative and very detailed.
Leonardo da Vinci:
The Mind of the Renaissance- chose this because I have always teken an interest in da Vinci’s work. The title of video could mean so many different things, I thought it would be interesting.
La Primavera-
I chose this because I like Botticelli’s work and he was talked about quite about in the first video.
The Drawings of Michelangelo-
I chose this video one, because I needed another video and two, because some of Michelangelo’s works interest me.
The Night Watch-
This video was pretty much a requirement, I didn’t have another video that jumped out at me and this one sounded kind of cool so I chose it.
2. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.
Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance
Begins lines on right, left handed, writes mirrored. Unstable temper. Goes to school for art. Ideal model for Botticelli. Become a master of perspective, then know proportions of man and other animals. The greater your knowledge the more your work will be deserving of praise. If you have no experience, do not be afraid to draw from life. First to make an actual landscape a main subject of a drawing.
La Primavera:
People take different messages from all different art works. They are all interpreted different. Primavera has never traveled more than a few miles from the city. Scale makes an impact, 3 inch thick wooden panels and 10 ft long. Primavera means “spring”. All figure (9) drawn from classical mythology. Three graces, cupid, Mercury, wing God of West wind, wood nymph, the transformed into Flora, both depicted in the painting.
The Drawings of Michelangelo:
Many of his works were kept away from almost everyone. Michelangelo would be horrified if he knew we were looking at some of his works. Some drawings are essential ingredients to the drawings that survive. Only a handful of drawings survive because most were destroyed by him, it showed his second thoughts and his process.
The Night Watch:
11 x 14 painting recreated in acting. Western art, 1642. Weighing 337 kilograms, the painting is an object of pilgrimage. Slashed with a knife, acid has been thrown at it, and has been drenched with water. Painting shouldn’t really be called night watch. Rights museum in Amsterdam is where the painting is held.
3. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
I realize I write this answer every time I do a video blog but in all honesty, every video we have watched seems to emphasize our text. It is always interesting to learn a bit more detail about the paintings that we read about and how they became so great at what they do.
4. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?
I thought the films were more interesting than the last few sets. A video that is 50 min long on something I don’t care to learn about is not the best idea but one that I’ve already had a glimpse of learning and I have some knowledge as to what the videos are talking about, it makes them a bit easier to sit for 40 or 50 minutes and watch. They do teach me very interesting things so I am not saying that they are not good by any means. They are very informative and very detailed.
Friday, July 8, 2011
week 6 video review
The Measure of All Things: Greek Art and the Human Figure
More Human Than Human Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany
Cairo Museum
Video 1: I needed to pick another video that might interest me
Video 2: required
Video 3: Love renaissance culture
Video 4: Egyptian art is the most interesting to me
THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS: GREEK ART AND THE HUMAN FIGURE
portrait art
realism-produces movement
-impact of humanrealistic vs. stylistic
perfect form-idealized perfect form
MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN
unrealistic figures
trained to exaggerate certain female traits
Eqpytian art and the human body, art and consistency
Greek perfection
CATACLYSM: THE BLACK DEATH VISITS TUSCANY
Black Plague
dawn of the renaissance
Christian mosaicsfear in Europe
Giotto
Developments between 1200-1350-civic government
CAIRO MUSEUM
pharoahs
downtown Cairo
valley of the kings
the treasures of the Cairo museum
2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
In my opinion, I always prefer to watch something to learn about it, so when we read and I get to watch a video to learn more, I like it.
3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?
I always enjoy taking the little facts from the videos and putting them in my understandings from the reading.
More Human Than Human Cataclysm: The Black Death Visits Tuscany
Cairo Museum
Video 1: I needed to pick another video that might interest me
Video 2: required
Video 3: Love renaissance culture
Video 4: Egyptian art is the most interesting to me
THE MEASURE OF ALL THINGS: GREEK ART AND THE HUMAN FIGURE
portrait art
realism-produces movement
-impact of humanrealistic vs. stylistic
perfect form-idealized perfect form
MORE HUMAN THAN HUMAN
unrealistic figures
trained to exaggerate certain female traits
Eqpytian art and the human body, art and consistency
Greek perfection
CATACLYSM: THE BLACK DEATH VISITS TUSCANY
Black Plague
dawn of the renaissance
Christian mosaicsfear in Europe
Giotto
Developments between 1200-1350-civic government
CAIRO MUSEUM
pharoahs
downtown Cairo
valley of the kings
the treasures of the Cairo museum
2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?
In my opinion, I always prefer to watch something to learn about it, so when we read and I get to watch a video to learn more, I like it.
3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the readings and art concepts?
I always enjoy taking the little facts from the videos and putting them in my understandings from the reading.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Installation
A. Installation art is art that defines or takes over a space, it is all around you and its 3D art using the space around you.
Sometimes the materials used in installation art are from the actual place the art work is going to be. You can remove part of a gallery and make it a part of your work ("She Came in through the Window").
You can make installation art for many reason, my favorite reason for making it is that it forces the viewer to interact and be a part of your art work. The fact it is composed of a whole environment and not just one piece is another good reason.
D.I found the Ark Art Center piece one of the more interesting ones because of the swing boat; I thought it was very cool to put engineering into art. I also loved the Spiral Jetty and I have studied this piece before and loved it then. It is actually the inspiration to my installation art.
A.I felt a connection with the "Spiral Jetty" piece.
B. The theme I want to explore in my installation is nature/environment.
C. The materials I used are leaves, water, a fan and acrylic paint.
D. This installation would be in a park of some sort, a big part where many people could come to sit and watch the display.
Sometimes the materials used in installation art are from the actual place the art work is going to be. You can remove part of a gallery and make it a part of your work ("She Came in through the Window").
You can make installation art for many reason, my favorite reason for making it is that it forces the viewer to interact and be a part of your art work. The fact it is composed of a whole environment and not just one piece is another good reason.
D.I found the Ark Art Center piece one of the more interesting ones because of the swing boat; I thought it was very cool to put engineering into art. I also loved the Spiral Jetty and I have studied this piece before and loved it then. It is actually the inspiration to my installation art.
A.I felt a connection with the "Spiral Jetty" piece.
B. The theme I want to explore in my installation is nature/environment.
C. The materials I used are leaves, water, a fan and acrylic paint.
D. This installation would be in a park of some sort, a big part where many people could come to sit and watch the display.
I tried creating a piece like the ones I was more drawn to in project three. It was not easy I'll say but with a little acrylic paint to make the water a pure blue like we wish all water was and colorful flowers and changing leaves, I think with my installation and the changing of the seasons, if this were a real piece it would be beautiful.
I enjoy using nature when doing assignments that I can create my own "thing" because I feel we take it for granted so much that when it is right in front of us we don't see it but if it were and installation where you were part of it or had to view it as a beautiful thing, we would notice it's amazing features and recognize them more in day to day life.
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