Kathy lecture 10/29

Thats pretty good for a girl!
[first wave of feminist art--->plus the ripples before and after]

1} Essentials [identity]
the personal
body
sexuality
vaginal iconography
afferfemale attributes

2} Materials/techniques
unique to women

3}activism
performance art
sisterhood

4}distinguish art of men and women

color swatches

My 5 categories are:
Mood: Happy (happy green)
Temperature: Cold (warm polar bear)
Profession: Lumberjack (Lumberjacks axe)
Gender: Neutral (wheres the baby)
Season: Spring (spring into color)



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module madness crit

I was one of few who recieved little to no bad crit on my module madness.

good points
burst effect
contrast from dark to white
steel can compared to light feathers
soft
feathers on can
looks like feathers are actually coming from the can ("i feel like if i sprayed that can then fathers would actually come out")
longer on bottom
black feathers look like a jet stream
clean
flippy feathers

there werent any bad points unless you get extremely nit picky like "oh these feathers could be brushed out to make them smoother"

color lecture

Color

Hue- location in the color wheel

value-lightness to darkness

saturation- distance from neutral grey, purity of color experience

Roy G. Biv - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet

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Bills lecture 10/22

Surrealism

~ features~

~Less Political??!!

~New psycological theories of sigmund freud

~1899 "The interpretation of dreams" Freud

~Access to the subcontious mind

Very Surreal Artists

Max Earnest

Rene Magritte

Salvador Dali

Giorgio De Chirico

Man Ray

Freaky Frida

Jean Arp

Techniques

Automatism

(mostly created through use of drugs)

SURrealism- above realism

Cogs in the machine- rebelling against social order (We are all cogs in the machine)

modular madness

We created a non-representational 3D object made from found objects. I created my object from goose and duck feathers and a spray can. I formed the feathers into a cone-like structure and glued it to the spray can that had been stripped of its label.  Then to display it I propped it onto a box and placed it where the feathers rested against the wall so it looks as if the "can of feathers" is spraying against the wall.

Bills Lecture 10/15

DADA surrealism and after

DADA
-Began in WWI
-Protest aggainst war, society, and old social order

Contributions

-Apprpriation
-assemblage/ construction
-conceptual art
-chance

~Cabaret Voltaire 1916
   Zurich, Switzerland

~Berlin 1919

~Paris 1924- morphs surrealism

Some DADA artists
-Jean Arp
-Hugo Ball
-Kurt Schwitters
-Marcel Duchamp

Mini posters

Final choice

We created 10 mini posters from our 50 copies

crit on mini posters

emotional connotations- butterflies, flowers, made with flowers, wing thing, bird, overwelming and light
                              -one overall emotion-
Feminine and masculine
sond- coloring with crayon, flowers brushing, splat, pow, kabang, waterballoon full of paint
voice- yelling, crowd, screaming fans
          -many voices-
bring to mind- flowers, splat

1- easy to read
2-semi easy
2-not so easy

most of the quotes have large visual breaths

expressive pacings of the breaths

to complex

quotes are disjointed

there are some quotes are whispered while on others only certain words are yelled

none were really seen to blend with the marks

the quote matches the marks

the balance makes sense

the quote is read differently with how they are placed

The marks influence the meaning of the qoute, it goes with it due to the flower design

Butterflies are self propelled flowers

The quote I chose is Butterflies are self propelled flowers. I tried a bunch of different sizes and boldnesses of text to create the right feeling.

Mark making device

I created my device out of a sculpting tool feathers and wire. The wire and metal of the tool are a good contrast to the light fluffy feathers.