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.

kk reading assignment oct 8

Components of Art
Shape
Form
Content

all three look together and none can be understood without the others.

form refers to the total arrangment of the composition and to the very act of organizing and composing it.

When we look at images our minds take confusion and turn it into order.

Principles of Organization-guide the artist
harmony
variety
balance
proportion
dominance
movement
economy

harmony:the relationship between the sections of a composition are pleasing, like color, texture, ect. (common characteristics)

rythem is a continuance flow of repeated beats, the type depends on how ofter the beats are repeated. negative space creates a difference in the rythm but adds the the rythm.   rythm creates pattern.

closure: is looking at something as a whole rather then the individual parts.GESTALT

variety is counterwight to harmony, too much harmony can lead to monotony

depth in a composition can creater contrast and help a form communicate its purpose and meaning.

It is impossible to consider principles of organization without balance.
balance types
gravitational equilibrium
force
symmetry
approximate symmetry
radial
asymmetry
proportion

dominance emphasizes important parts of compositions by isolation, placement, direction, scale, and character
movement is almost a trick of the eye. It makes you think of a particular movement when you look at the image

economy means to compose with efficiency expressing an idea as simply and directly as possible with no arbituary or excessive us of the elements

tectonic vs. atectonic- closed massive simple vs. open to a large degree

choose 2 artists

Abstract Expressionism

Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night Over the Rhone

1888

line

Hormony/Monotony

This use of repitition makes me feel peaceful, also van gogh's use of colors gives it the peaceful appearance.

Vincent Van Gogh

Starry Night

1889

line

Hormony/Monotony

This particular painting makes me feel homesick. I used to always look up at the stars. The emphasis of repitition on the stars makes me remember home.

Wassily Kandinsky

Red Spot 1

1921

line

Contrast/Chaos

This chaotic painting makes me happy. It evokes playfulness and childlike feelings.

Wassily Kandinsky

Circles Inside a Circle

1923

dot

Contrast/Chaos

This painting shows "contained chaos" it resembles my mind, all my thoughts scrambled around with no way to get out.

Minimalist

Dan Flavin

Greens Crossing Greens

1966

color

Harmony/Monotony

I chose this one simply because green is my favorite color so it is very pleasing to me.

Dan Flavin

Alternate diagonals of March 2. 1964 (to Don Judd) 

1964

line

Harmony/Monotony

This was not one of my favorites of his but unfortuntely the only one i could get an url of.

 

Ellsworth Kelly

Spectrum Colors arranged by chance VII

2000

Shape

Contrast/ Chaos

The design and rainbow colors take me back to kindergarten, except i could never make squares that straight back then.

Ellsworth Kelly

Brushstrokes cut in twenty squares 

1955

line

Harmony/Monotony

It makes me think of how peope see the world in black and white

Post Minimalist

Sol Lewitt

Splotch #15

2005

color

Contrast/Chaos

I really like this peice because it reminds me of when paint drops and splashes but its like the entire spectrum.

Sol Lewitt

wavy lines with black border

2004

line

Contrast/Chaos

It reminds me of aimless scribblings

Eva Hesse

repetition nineteen III

1968

shape

Harmony/Monotony

They look like candles, but the brownish tones make the peice very monotonous.

Eva Hesse

schema

1967-68

shape

Harmony/Monotony

The semi-orbs are arranged evenly and give the illusion of a gameboard..

Today (last 10 years)

Chuck Close

Sean Connery

2002

Shape

Harmony/Monotony

I like how the slightly less exagerated cubes become harmonious by creating the image of a man.

Chuck Close

self portrait

2002

shape

Harmony/Monotony

I remeber learning about him and i like how he uses squares with strange shapes inside to create a harmonious picture. Up close it just looks like a lot of scrambled shapes but you step back and see the masterpeice.

Chris Millar

Back in the groove

2009

line

Contrast/Chaos

I like how the different designs represent different things throughout the past and present 

Chris Millar

untitled

2000

color

Contrast/Chaos

I like these kind of pictures that you can stare at for hours and always find something new.

Marks

My initial 50 designs

my top 16 4 in each category

pencil sketches

top 4 pencil sketches

We are creating marks across paper with different tecniques. Then we are going to add quotes to these designs. We started off using ink and paint. Then we went to using multiple pencils.

QUOTES

• Everything has beauty, not everyone sees it.

• Love sees roses without thorns.
  
• Where there is love there is no darkness.
• Butterflies are self propelled flowers
• you are to me a delicious torment
• Absence makes the heart grow fonder
  
• Anger is short-lived madness
  
• smile, it erases anger
  
• a laugh is a smile in motion
  
• Life is tough, get a helmet.

the 2 quotes highlighted are my top 2. the one in red is my chosen quote.

A day at the Menil

We took a trip to Houston to visit the menil museum. We were given a list of different types of art me had to find, sketch, and write a short description of each. The one thing on the list that I did not include in the thumbnails is the words copied from a Cy Twombly painting. I discovered a quote that spoke to me in the ponds collection; "and in the ponds broken off from the sky any feeling sinks as if standing on fishes"

Writing Assignment

a. The most enjoyable thing I saw would be the Ponds exhibit in the Cy Twombly building. The greenery made me feel like i was back home when I was little exploring the woods and marshes near my house. It made me happy and peaceful.

b. I didnt find anything that truely disturbed me. I have a very open mind when it comes to art. I try to go to the same mind place that the artist is portraying and try to see things their way. Where most people see a horrific painting, I put my place in the artists shoes and try to feel their pain.

c. A peice that I would like to try to create would be "6:30" by David Novras. The design shows merely a white group of canvases until you stand at 6:30 (like if there was a clock surrounding the peice) then all the colors that were intended for that peice come to life.

d. The peice that I would like to learn more about is the "Stereoscope" from the Wunderkammer collection. I collect many antique cameras and I almost came in possesion of one of these objects. They were the origional invention to view pictures and have always intrigued me.

e. I think the Cy Twombly building fit the artist best. It showed his peices from the 50s that were basically created from all his aimless thoughts thrown onto paper. Then as time progresses so does his artwork. It becomes sightly less stylized yet still includes his thoughts in the form of quotes throughout the paintings.

video projects 1, 2, and 3

We each made videos, the first a monolouge, the second an uncomfortable video, and the third was a live performance.

For my monolouge I sat in a little patch of clovers and did an "I love" video. to start off with I was just going to list a bunch of stuff I love but then Hunter told me to put him in my video so I decided to make my whole video about how much I love hunter (phht). I had little flash cards with pictures on that I would compare to how much I love hunter. I also had a Heart cutout that said I Love (and then stuck on last minute with a picture of a stick guy) Hunter. As I was making my video there was a man mowing the baseball field and the mower was red that just happened to match my shirt.

For my uncomfortable video I had a little bit of trouble thinking of something. While most people tried to make the crowd mentally and emotionally uncomfortable, I decided to go for the physically uncomfortable. I remebered learning that if you were to touch your face the entire time you talked to someone that they would too eventually start touching their face. So I moved the frame in very close to my face and touched my face and scratched my face for 60 seconds. My hypothosis proved true when we watched the videos because 6 people in the crowd touched their face region.

For my live performance I decided to go for more of a deep performance. I found a song from the right kind of genre for my contemporary peice and created a story with my dancing of a girl who starts out alone then meets a guy and falls in love then one day she gets mad and strikes him and he strikes her down and she lays crumpled on the ground. The word I used to insipre this peice was BROKEN.

Bills lecture 9/17

POST MODERNISM

- pluralism of viewoints                                                                                                                
-Shift from a dialog taking place in person ( in NY or to a mediated dialog through art fairs, Paris)
   media, etc...                                                                                                                             

MODERNISM

-The shock of the new rapid progression of styles.
-transgressive- opposition to mainstream society    
-avant garde                                                        
-rejection of  the past                                           
-Colonial view of non-european cultures              

IMPRESSIONISM

-MONET

POST IMPRESSIONISM

"Art consists of inventing, not copying" ~ Fernard Legar