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.