Team group project

Week 10

Started to learn about the 3 ingredients of paint which are pigment, binder, and vehicle and also support. Also watched a bit of the documentary Before the Flood that discusses global warming. Watercolor, fresco,encaustic,tempura,oil,acrylic and sometimes airbrush is considered to be for painting. Also seen some people dressed up for halloween. We needed to choose a painting that had the 3 ingredients of paint incorporated with it. I choose "the butler sings".

Week 9

This week we did some censorship sharing(Josh,Ben,Jorden,Jake) and portfolio sharing (Jordan,Gabby,Jen). Went throught Chapter 6 which went through drawing, with various tools and techniques like dry and liquid media, along with reason why someone would draw an artwork. Also got into groups to start working on Classical West and early medival art.

Week 8

This week we continued learning about evaluating art and the craziness of the art markets that loosely correlates with historical importance or innovation of artwork and can show a certain group of collectors who wants to pay for a given work of art and a given time. Also learned the 3 methods to write about art which are 1.Get the facts 2.Analyze 3.Evaluate. Also skimmed a bit about Censorship in art and how artists freedom of expression is subdued to a point if they go against the grain sometimes they could get jailed for what they do in forms of art. Usually when its Censored is usually because its due to Religion, Politics or someones Morals.

 Saw this painting in one of the museums (can't recall which one, i want to say it was the smithsonian art museum, it's been 4 years since i went there) and really, really enjoyed this piece its the only one that has been permanently engraved in my mind. I think it is because of how peaceful, serene it is and the detail was amazing not to mention this painting was huge! it is called Among the Sierra Nevada by Albert Bierstadt.

Week 7

Started learning a bit about to evaluate artworks and started a little project, by finding a piece of artwork and evaluating it. Learned about the 3 basic Art Criticism theories which are Formal,Contextual, and Expressive Theories. Also did some project sharing also browsed through 

http://www.artquotes.net/art_quotes/critics/index.htm which showed different art critics expressing their opinion on certain artist and artworks.

this short video about an animation made entirely out of canvas portrayed like van goghs artwork and about his life.

Saw this growing out of a tree by Water Street and had to take a picture because A. never seen such colors on a fungus(?) and B. with the green leaves on the tree it makes it pop.

Week 6

Started going through the 7 principles of design which are:
Unity & Varity
Balance
Emphasis & Subordination
Direcitonal Forces
Contrast
Repetition & Rythm
Scale & Proportion
Also started to work on our Chapter 4 project for "what is american culture?".

What is American Culture Project:

Week 5

Started by reviewing chapter 3 and getting more information about our 'Who am I' projects. Also shared about the Falling Leaves art studio tour, which shows local artists at there place of work from eau claire to augusta. Started to discuss for about the 7 Visual Elements of art which are: Line,shape,mass,time & motion,space,light,color and texture.

 Finished 'Who am I' project:

2Cellos-They Don't care about us

Video game concept art:

                       

                            

Week 4

This week we started to share our 6 purposes and functions of art and posted on our discussion page on E360

Delight:I chose this piece because I love whales and the peacefull and serenity of how they swim along with how smart they are and like to interact with humans.

Commemoration: This is the sept 11th memorial in New York, it is an infinity pool and around it is all the names of the people who parished in the 9/11 attacks

Persuasion: This art depicts the human civilization and the thin line between saving and destroying Mother Nature. It just takes that pull of trigger and we have destroyed Her.

Commentary: this is from Goya's artwork from the disasters of war, i was curious to see his other artworks and this one really struck a cord with me. It shows a women firing a canon, something alot of people would have never thought of happening giving the time period. Shows that everyone had to stand up and take control of the situation when no one else is able to.

Worship:This is my altar, usually to worship more than one God (usually a God and Goddess), each items is meant for the 5 elements, fire,water,earth.air and spirit.

Self expression: I chose this because I really want to have this someday and i like the colors, to me it expresses a fire in ones soul and uncontrollable like that of a fire.


Also took a look at some comics that show how much people are more connected to their phones instead of whats actually around them and conversing to to other people verbally and not with technology in the way.

Week 3

Read someones story about when they were in an meeting at work. He was getting impatient, bored so he started to doodle, something he hasn't done it since elementary school. He was so in his own little world that he didn't hear his CEO ask him "what is that?" when he noticed the CEO was talking to him and replied "It's a sword". I guess everyone thought it was funny because everyone started laughing at him and the CEO had the gale to take his notebook and show to all his co-workers which started their laughing fits all over again, making jokes about the doodle like "whats the dps" and a whole bunch of other childish questions. Towards the end of the story he says "I'm 40, and i havent drawn since i was a little kid. No idea way i did this but when I did this but of course when i decided to it's the worst possible place and the worst possible outcome."

What really irks me about this story is that this guy was showing his creative side and what he got in return was laughter and being the joke of his workplace and was shut down. It seems like in society you can express who are, if you do you will get laugh at, made fun of ect. It shouldn't be like that at all we are going about this the wrong way.

This week in class we brought a piece of artwork or artifact to present to the class, also started to review chapter 2, Which was the 6 functions of art which are:
1.Delight
2.Commemoration
3.Worship/Ritual
4.Commentary
5.Persuasion
6.Self expression

Artist of the Week:

Stephanie Law