Friday, October 22, 2010

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)

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

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.







Monday, October 18, 2010

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

Monday, October 11, 2010

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.