My 10 Quotes? Yes I think so....

Quotes... They are great... I love quotes... I am full of humor so all of the quotes I have picked have some sense of humor in them!

"Without Geography, You're Nowhere."

"I tried to think, but nothing happened!"

"Sometimes it's good not to fit in."


"Energizer bunny arrested, charged with battery."


"He who laughs last didn't get it."


"Avoid Hangovers, Stay Drunk!"


"Save water and shower together."


"Life is short - Talk fast."


"If at first you don't succeed, order pizza."


"We are all either fools or undiscovered geniuses"

Humans as Dots?!?!?!

So, I guess I didn't grab the original composition above. :-( I will get it up when I can.

Trying Multiple Ideas

We tried multiple ideas out and had lots of fun trying to figure out what to do. The whole experience was exhilarating. We decided to think on it and wait until Friday after the field trip to make our final decision and take our pictures. So those will come up on my blog soon :-)

Brainstorminggggggg

For part 4 of our dots project we have to create a human composition representing the dots and the white space. This starts the brainstorming. We had to create some lists of elements we would use for our compositions.

White Space	Black Dots
Concrete Pavement Clouds Sky Sheet Tarp Paint Snow Water Bottom of a Pool Asphalt Walls	Tires Matboard Hands Painted Carboard Balloons Umbrellas Painted Balls Oreos Cups, Plates Trash Cans Hats Black Clothing

Random Definitions from Class

Sensitivity - Heightened awareness of what one sees, hears, and touches, as well as responsiveness to other people and their feelings.

Flexibility - and ability to adapt to new situations.

The ghost buildings of Houston!

Some buildings are just tooooo cool...

So riding back from the field trip we had on Friday I took a few pictures and this one picture turned out really neat with the buildings almost seeming transparent!

Exquisite Corpse 2

The apprehensive lemur clapping a small dirt.

Exquisite Corpse

My Sentence

An apprensive lemur clapping a small dirt.

This lemur better be apprehensive about clapping that dirt because I found him in my dorm! I don't want to have to clean up after his mess! :-)

Progress?

This is the progress so far on my cardboard object :-) Its coming along nicely and there are only a few petals to go!

Living With Art!!!!

Artists do many things for the people of the world...  Without artists, people would not have any idea what earlier times looked like... there are many types of artists including industrial designers, , architects, etc.. They are the people who create what others can not create or can not think to create.. Some artists like Horace Pippin depict times that were not like today.. and had slavery and discrimination... Other artists depict what could or in some minds "could not" happen.. like beasts and evil... the possible and impossible... etc... Artists tend to depict what they feel and how they feel it and in which way they feel how they feel.. sounds deep but when u break it down it just... works... and thats how u get creativity and individuality.. Creativity includes deep thought and the ability to see things that people don't normally see... Giuseppe Arcimboldo went to a store and saw fruit and veggies and transformed them into art... Andre Derain took a landscape and turned it into something different using colors that aren't ordinary but actually tend to work like in another reality or something... Creativity is apparent in both of these as they make something apparent that was not apparent before.. Like the reading says there are many things about creativity and many works and writings on it and I'm not going into everything.. The reading also provides terms which I would not like to list as I can study them and not have to type so much lol :-P.. Creativity and artists have a place in every aspect of human nature... Some people think all art should be beautiful... but some artists may prefer ugly works of art because that is what they are trying to depict... Some artists use their mood to depend on what type of art they are going to do and what that type of art will look like... Others prefer types of art over other types and purposely do the types that they aren't fond of in a negative manner to show that they aren't fond of it... Some people tend to think that artists all have to draw well but that is not necessarily the case... some artists can not draw lifelike at all but can produce amazing works of art... some artists like picasso can draw really well but choose not to...Some works are simple and some works are very detailed... Representational art or naturalistic art is art that looks real... like it was a picture kinda... it is meant to depict real situations and real people... Abstract art is meant to take a reference but only a reference... it represents the reference but there is much abstraction... only the minimum detail has been given so we can identify what the artwork is representing... Nonrepresentational art has no reference or influence to anything.. it does not depict people or nature, etc... it is just simply nonrepresentational... Art though... IS expression... no matter what art can or can not be... it is always done in the way that the artist... Expresses.. it... what he/she is influenced by... or how they feel...

Todays Lecture

What is art? ... In todays class we discussed what art is and I found out that many different people have many different views on what art actually is. We also took a look at the impulse of art and to present or re-present.

Representation - One thing stands in for another.

Styles of Representation
Naturalistic - as in nature
Realistic - true to life
Stylized - simplified to emphasizing important details.
Abstract - highly stylized
Non-Representational is different from abstract.
 We then took a look at the scale of representation. At one end of the line is Hardcore Naturalism Realism and on the other side is Abstract. In the middle of those two is Stylization.

My Object for 3D recreation in Cardboard :-)

 

The object on the left is the object that I have to recreate in carboard... I thought right away about how I was going to create this object and I decided to take a bottom piece off and discovered it was made up of many "pedal-like" pieces... This object looks a lot like a rose but its hard like a pinecone... I think this may be the top or bottom part of a pinecone that had broken off outside...

The object on the right is what I have been working on.. it the my replication of the object above so far... I have a ways to go with it but I think it is working out well so far.. I am going to fill the inside with kraft paper eventually and / or maybe even take out the middle block that i used depending on how i feel once all of the side petal like things are in place...

Principles of form and design..

In my opinion the summary of this would be me presenting different terms with their descriptions.. The introduction describes design as a visual expression of the object or idea or vision to do many things including displaying a predetermined message. Then the visual language and how important it is to a designer is discussed and then it goes on to show how the writer and designers tend to interpret the visual language. After this it starts discussing the different visual elements which is where the terms start going into definition mode.

The Critique Handbook Reading Summarized

I found the reading very interesting and informational. The reading starts talking about form and content and how they are related and unrelated. Some see form and content as one and are able to put together the complete composition while others see the focus on either form or content. The form is the shape, size, color, etc. while the content is more of the narrative style, what you read and feel when you look at the composition. The reading goes on to talk about abstract and abstraction. You can think of abstract as a verb as in to "pull away" from reality. You can also think of abstract being on one end of a line and representation as being on the other. The composition can be located on any point of that line depending on what it actually is. Using a quote from the reading we can continue on with the summary: "The very idea of a sculpture (or painting) that resists "reminding one of something else" is the essence of the self-referential work, a work that can only be assessed formally, and where the content is its shape, color, material, weight, and arrangements of its part in composition". Its very hard these days to actually create an abstract composition due to people associating your work with something. The reading goes on to discuss realism vs. abstraction and then defines realism. Realism has recently had questions that influence todays realists that differ from previous realists. Then the reading goes on to describe paintings and how they are made and what actually makes a painting. The internal parts of a painting (and all compositions in general) involve lines, colors, fields, etc. as with all compositions in general. The reading describes lines, colors, compositions, and fields in depth and provides us with things to think about that in general I haven't thought about. For example the way a line can be interpreted by the way it is displayed. The reading then describes the edges, scale, and format of paintings and the logic involved in them. Then the reading goes on to describe other things about paintings involving a professor that was able to see a hesitation in the students works due to the values used and the way they were applied in that area. Painting as representation describes the techniques and gestures used to create the effects of representation and then what the representation was made from... photos, mirrors, etc... Then the reading talks about painting as presentation and painting as Flat Surface. Painting as presentation means that paintings can be presented in just about any way they need to be to show what they mean.

My top 4 squares..

After the group critiqued my they needed to pick what they agreed were my top squares from each principle. So after quite deliberation and aruguing they finally came to a decision and this is what they picked.

I completely agreed on their decisions because those are actually some of my favorites. So now I have to rework those and put them on bristol paper to post on some black letramax board.

Group critiquing of your top 16 squares...

So today we came into class and had to lay our top 16 squares (top 4 from each of the 4 principles) out on our workspace and the rest of our group got to come over to each of us and give you criticism on your work... Some of the criticism I got was that I had one dominant size throughout all of my squares. I think i preferred working with the medium sized dots more than the others because they were just more pleasing to my eye and fit better on the square. Something else my group said was that I shaded really nice and neat and it looked like I had spent a really good amount of time focusing on the shading of the circles. They had also told me that my circles were very well spaced throughout the squares for the most part and that I didn't focus on one main position.

After they were finished critiquing they had to group my 16 squares into the principles they thought they fit into. They didn't pick all of the same principles that I had and I actually agreed with their arguments and decided they fit better in those principles than the ones that I had picked.

Working on my 6" squares...

I started working on my 6" squares by measuring each one out but quickly realized it would be better to measure  one square and cut a bunch of them out at the same time. I don't really like using a compass for this type of circle making but that is all I have for the moment. I'm still doing well working on them though.

The 40 thumbnails complete!

I completed the first fourty thumbnails in class! The next step is to start on my 6" square versions of those thumbnails.. Here is a pic of the completed thumbnail stacks..

We started a project called dot dot dot....

In this project we use the four gestalt principles to create compositions of circles. This project is meant to help us learn the principles and be able to identify and use them in our future work. The four principles are Closure, Continuance, Proximity, and Similarity.

Our first step was to complete 10 sketches (thumbnails) for each of the four principles. Pictured below is my progess of the sketches.

These first few posts will be a little out of order because I just got the internet going in my apartment. I had these written and stuff as I went though.