Critique on 3D square

The people who critiqued my work discussed how the squares look nice together as a whole but also separate. They also pointed out that some of the smaller dots could have looked better and maybe a different background. Overall the squares really popped out and looked similar to the one drawn.

Human dots and critique

The two human dots that were based of my dots

The pictures at the top could have worked better if some of are arms were covered. To me it kind of distracts form the movement of the circles. The sheets could have been straighter allowing for a more cleaner look and feel. Overall I thought the pictures came out well and look exactly like the pictures I made.
 

8 texture pieces

Part 4: Human dot ideas

Dots

• Sitting indian style wearing all black
• Wearing black hats
• Black construction paper on faces
• Laying behind someone to make shadows
• Using Travis's hair as a dot
• Head peepng our of water
• Sitting on a heel
• Face with facepaint
• Dots on face
• Lay in a bat of milk
• Hair dye

Material

• Hats
• T-Shirts
• Cars
• Sheets
• Mattress cover
• Sunglasses
• Socks
• Baby Powder
• Milk

Exquiste Corpse 2

The funny John Stamos used an elephant train.

  After spending some time looking for a picture for my sentence, I found a rather large couple in walmart moving a shopping cart. It made me visual the large couple as the elephants and the shopping cart as the train. It was sort of comical and funny while trying to get this picture without being noticed.

Friday,9/10/2010. Lecture Summary

What does a person do, who is being creative, distinguish them from someone who is mediocre?

To be creative you must:                 

• Analyze                               
• sensitive                                
• playful                                 
• productive                           
• original                                
• observant                             
• flexible 
• fluency

 Creative blocks:

• Cultural
• emotional
• expressive
• physical safe
• environmental
•  intellectual

During Class we had to write at least a 100 things we liked without stopping and a 100 things that annoyed us also.

Reading Summary/The Annotated Mona Lisa

Birth of Photography
- Early 19th century scientific discoveries in optics and chemistry help produces new art form called photography.
- French chemist Joseph Niepce (1765- 1833) made first surviving photo. (view of courtyard)
- Exposed a polished pewter for 8 hours to get photo.
- Louis Daguerre (1789-1851) invented more practical uses for photography in 1837.
- First picture "Still Life" was a detailed view of his corner studio. Exposed for 10 to 15 minutes.
- Took earliest photograph of human being. (Parisian boulevard)
- Englishmen , William Henry Fox Talbot (1800 - 1877) improved photography with his invention of calotypes, or the negative, in 1839.
- 1851 wetplate reduces exposure time to seconds.
- Tintype was invented, with an image on a thin metal plate instead of glass.
- Dryplate liberated the photographer from dashing in to the darkroom.
- 1858, instant photography replaced the daguerreotype and in the 1880's portable hand held cameras and roll film took over.
- Heavy equipment and fragile plates made traveling with photography different difficult.
- Matthew Brady took pictures of the civil war.

Impressionism:
- Impressionism born in France in the early 1860's and lasted to 1886.
- Emphasized color and light. Main goal to present impression or initial sensory perceptions.
- Choppy brush stokes and pure colors side by side look unintelligible.

Post - Impressionism
- French phenomenon that included French artist Seurat, Gouguin, Cezanne, Toulosue - Lautrec and Dutchman Van Gogh.
- 2oth century art, with its extremes of individual styles from cubism to surrealism grew out of those trends.

The Twentieth Century: Modern Art
- Art aggressively convulsive, with style quickly replacing each other.
- Art concerned its self less with exterior visual reality and more with interior vision.
- Modern artist defied convention.
- Art moved from rendering nature toward pure abstraction.

Fauvism: Exploding Color
- Lasted from 1904 to 1908 (First major avant-garde of the 20th century)
- Fauve artist like Matisse, Vlaminick, Derain, Dufy, Braque, and Rouault experimented eith different colors.
- The public called them wild beast.
- Derain pioneered strong solor as an expressive end in its self
- Vlaminick was a physically a bigman who was extremely sure of himself.

Twentieth-Century Sculpture: A New Look
- Greatest modernist sculptor was Rumanian artist constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), shaved away detail almost to vanishing point.

Twin Titans Of The Twentieth Century: Matisse and Picasso
- Each inspired a different form of revolt against realism, one of shape, the other of color.
- Henri Matisse delt more with color.
- Belived painting should bring pleasure to viewer.
- Picasso produced an estimated 50,000 works and inventing cubism.
- Blue period 1901-1904; Rose period 1905-1906; Negro period in 1907.

Cubism
- Lasted from 1908 to 1914
- Got name form Matisse's dismissal of a cubist landscape by George Braque as nothing but cubes.
- Analytic Cubism analyzed the form of objects by shattering them into fragments spread out on canvas.
- Synthetic Cubism is a second form of cubism.

Modernism Outside Of France
- Three movements - futurism in Italy, Constructivism in Russia, and Precisionism in the U.S adopted the form of cubism to redefine the nature of art.

Expressionism The Fine Art Of Feeling
- From 1905-1930 Expresionism dominated German art.
- Die Brucke and Der Blane Reither, two groups in Germany, brought expressionism to maturity.
- The used of distorted, exaggerated forms and colors for emotional impact.

Mondrain: History Of Opposites
- Dutch group of artist tried, from 1917 to 1931, to eliminate emotion from art. Lead by Piet Mondrain.
- Called De Stij; which means "The Style"
- Advocated a Severe art of pure geometry.
- Vertical lines represented vitality and horizontal lines tranquility.

Final two critique



On the left is playful and on the right is periodic.

I chose the playful picture because it shows the movement and different sizes of squares going down the big square that is off the page while periodic one showed a pattern and designed that can be continued throughout the page.

My group during class discussed the my final two squares to see if I had to fix or can improve on any of my two squares. They were able to easily identify which on was playful and periodic without any confusion. Tension was shown with the playful picture on the left with the two squares at the top falling down like their going to hit each other. They also discussed how playful used good use of frame while the periodic squares centered towards the center. Over all they thought the squares were okay and they chose the playful picture to recreate in 3D for the next assignment.



The Exquiste Corpse

The funny

John Stamos used

an elephant

Train.

8 final sketches for playful and periodic

Here are the eight final squares for playful and periodic.

Reading summary/Living with art

The role of the artist

What do artist do?

Four basic functions of an artist.
1. Artist record
     - Record visual experiences that can be preserved for historical reference

2. Give tangible form to unknown
     - Attempt to record what cannot be seen

3. Tangible form to feelings
     - The artist own feeling expressed in their art.

4. Innovative way of seeing

Creative people tend to posses traits such as sensitivity, flexibility, originality, playfulness, productivity, fluency, analytical skill, and organizational skills.

The role of the observer

Beauty in art is an opinion and a person should be open to a wide range of experiences.

Not all artist draw realistically and some choose not to.

Representational art - Images that look very much like the real world.

Illusionistic - Means images so natural they trick us into thinking its real.

Trempe-l' oeil  means fool the eye in french.

Abstact work- Refrences to the natural world but does not duplicate exactly.

Stylized - Certain features of a natural form that are exaggerated in a special way.

Nonrepresentational art - Has no refrences to natural world of images.

Expression - Artist's unique view of art and the world.

Process critique of cardboard nature project

              My group members agreed and noticed that there was enough of my project done to be recognizable as a acorn top. The overall layout of the triangle patterns were alright and went around like a circle. A few parts of the acorn were needed to cover parts of the project especially the the bottom of the acorn. Overall most of the project was done and some minor details are now being fixed.

Friday,9/3/2010. Lecture summary

What is art?
- Artist thoughts and ideas
- Inspire thought and emotion
- Usefulness

Representation - one thing stands in for another.

Styles of Representation
Naturalistic- As in nature
Realistic- True to life
Stylized - Simplified to emphasize
Abstract - Highly stylized (May not be recognizable)

Final four dots with black letramax

The final four dots with the letramax.

Cardboard object progress report

             This is the side of the acorn that has the cardboard wrapped around the frame.

This side shows the different triangular patterns around the acorn circle.

The top stem has yet to be completed and there is still more to fix.

Reading summary/Priciples,Form/Composition,and interview

Priciples
Design is the process of purposefull visual creation.

Elements of design
- Conceptual elements - Point, line, plane, volume
- Visual elements - shape, size, color, texture
- Relational elements - direction, position, space, gravity
- Practical elements - Representation, meaning, function

Interrelationships of Forms
- Detachment - Forms remain seperate from each other but close together
- Touching - Two forms that are close together that they touch
- Overlapping - One crosses over the other and appears to remain above covering the one beneath
- Interpenetration - Same as overlapping but transparent
- Union - Forms joined together to make bigger form
- Subtraction - Overlapping of a negative form on a positive form making the positve form to become invisible
- Intersection - Same as Subtraction but a new smaller form is created
- Coinciding - The forms become one

Form/Composition

Elements of Form - Dot, line, plane, volume

Characterisitcs of form - size, shape, texture, color

Composition refers to the arrangment of elements and characteristics whitin a defines area.

Simplicity usually refers to a form with a limited bumber of simple elements

The human eye examines complex objects by looking at what is important and essential to our understanding.

Interview

There are many way of conveying your ideas through art, nature, and abstact paintings

2 previous reading summuries on previous post.

Reading Summary/Formal Matters

Form refers to a set of visual elements. The object in front of us and the idea or stucture outside of the work. Form can also show abstract ideas such as symmetry, balance, proportion, weight.
Formal elements include
- Line
- Scale
- Shape
- Size
- Composition
- Color
Content is meaning that is expressed through form.
Formalism  shows art as self referential object instead of conveying a message. Formalist work tends to be focused on formal elements such as shape, color, and materiality.
Abstact and abstraction means art that does not resemble the real world. The words are often replaced with nonrepresentational and nonobjective.
Poetics of meaning describes a slippage of identity when looking at a form that does not represent any type likeness or subject.
Description of formal elements
Line is the most basic mark that can be ordered, chaotic, and occupies and divides space. Another formal element is Color which brings out emotion and the temperature. Composition is the arrangment of lines and shapes in a space and fields represents pictures across a painting. Scale refers to a works size in relation to the world around its parts and to realtion of its parts to one another within a whole. Large works seem more authoritive and powerful while small works show intamacy. Format refers to the shape and proportions of a picture surface. Surface represents the evidence of what the artist is doing such as a gentle stroke.
Painting as representation explains the narrative of a painting while painting as presentation represents the formal themes of a painting.

Reading summaries to be continued on another post.

Critique of best 16 dot project/ Final four dots

                  The best sixteen I chose and the final four spots for similarity, proximity, closure, cotinuence that my group discussed where the best.

     The critique and analysis that my group did on my dot designs was to show common themes that came up on my work and what to improve and could have done better on. My group noticed that I did not have a diversity of different sizes of shapes in my dot designs. My designs would either have very big dots of either medium dots but there were some small scattered throughout the designs. The dots would take up a lot of negative space because of the amount of large dots. Continuance was also another key theme that came up while my group discussed my dots. Continuance seemed to be a dominating prescence more so than the other elements. Some of my dots designs could be shown as two different types of elements finding it hard for some to distinguish between the two elements. The last comment they made about my designs were that some of them were mostly placed in the middle of my page. Usually I would start the majority of my dot designs in the middle of the page without noticing what I would be doing the type of pattern over again. These  are corrections I can make and work on in the future. The problems and corrections that my group gave me showed how a person can fall into the trap of sticking to a habit or not seeing the common themes in your own work. When doing your work you may need outside influences to help find some mistakes and help your art become better over time.

First assignment/Newspaper cinderblock project

       This was the  first assignment we created on the first day of class. We had to create a special part for NASA that could hold a cinderblock. If I could change it, I would have made it more unique since it turned out to look like a box. In the end it was still able to hold the weight of the entire cinderblock and accomplish its mission.