Color/Texture Project

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mood: relaxed
temperature: fire!
season: fall
gender: teenage boy
profession: doctors office

day one, working with kitchen items

favorite 5 using kitchen items

favortie 5 from staining

 favorite 5 from squishing and smashing

 transparencey from the back^^^

transparency from the front^^^

i only posted this one because its sooo different from all my other sketches, not sure if i love it or hate it yet

burniingg things!

 

favorite 5 from overlay&underlay

 NO PAINT DAY!

Bills Lecture 10/15

DaDa!

Began in WWI

protest against war, society and old social ways

Contributions:

appropriation

assemblege, contruction

conceptual art

chance

Some Dada Artists:

Jean App

Hugo Ball

Kurt Schwitters

Marcal Duchamp

Timeline:

Carbaret Voltair 1916

Zurich, Switzerland

Group of tthem moved to Berlin, 1919

Group in Paris 1924----turned into surrealism

Modular Madness

Beads...what was i thinkingg.

well, this project has been very confusing to me, not because of the instructions, ^^^thats what i made at first and Bill loved it, so i thought to myself "hmm, ill try to make it better"....i was wrong.

it just kep getting worse, soo i made three of the things above and connected all of them, im not sure what to think of it myself, but its different.

 

The Critic!

everyone loved the color! that was the first thing that came out of everyones mouth.

they wanted it to be a little bigger than it actually was

im glad that i decided to hang it on the wayy because i dont think i would have got as much positive feedback as i wouldhave gotten if it was just sitting on a table.

someone suggested putting a light above it to make the cool shadows of the beads stand out more.

Kathys Lecture 10/8

form and elements hold art together
gestalt: proximity, closure, continuance, similarity
balance: symmetry, asymmetry: shape, texture, value, color, position-eye direction
scale, proportion, placement, isolation all go with gestalt and principles of organization
focal point- area of interest

we looked at phases of pablo picasso:
Woman Playing the Mandolin, 1909-repetition in shape, color. depth of shapes give form of other things
Guemica, 1937- even chaos throughout painting


Egon Schiele- one of the first expressionist (The Fighter 1913, Death and the Woman 1915)
George Grosz, The Lovesick Man, 1914- formal things holding it together: repetition of shapes, bald head, and tables
Otto Dix, Sylvia Von Harden, 1927- painted for the new woman, working woman, evenn though she wasnt pretty, beautys on the inside

looked at other artists also (probably missed a few):
Jean Dubuffet
George Baselitz (paints upside down!)
Andy Warhol
Roy Litchtenstien (kid made a random comment that changed the way he worked)
Chuck Close
Phillop Pearlstein
Judy Chicago
Lucian Freud
Leon Golub
Cindy Sherman
Jean-Michael Basquiat
Eric Fischle
Jenny Saville
Ron Mueck
Vanessa Beecroft

Uncomfortable Video

growing up, ive always been told how huge my eyes are and when i really start to stare at something i guess they get bigger, so for my uncomfortable video i decided i was going to stare at the camera for a minute. i did other things in it too though like cross my eyes , look side to side real fast, and then i would get really close and then back up. we didnt watch mine in class though so i really didnt get any kind of critic. im hoping my video wasnt an epic fail:)

Monolouge Process and Crit

well i didnt know what the heck i was gonna do for a while until i just thought about singing one of those songs like twinkle twinkle little star or im  a little tea pot, but then i had a rap song stuck in my head so i just kind of combined the two and rapped im a little tea pot.
and yes it was rediculous!
i talked to bill about it and he said that he liked they way the camera tilted when i moved and how i shot my angle from above, in one of the lyrics though i messed up a little, so i probably should have re done it.

Organizing Principles

three essential components of art: subject, form and content.
they work together, cant be fully 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 see images, our minds look to create order out of confusion.
principles of orgainization 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. patterns are established through rythem.
closure (btw, this is forever branded on my brain) is looking at something as a whole rather then the individual parts. gotta love that gestalt! closure helps you see a group relationship.
visual linkingg, shared edges, overlapping, transparencey and interpenetration.
variety is counterwight to harmony, too much harmony can lead to monotony
through introduction of contrast, an area, shape, or image is made to become emphasized or more dominant. depth in a composition can creater contrast and help a form communicate its purpose and meaning. contrast-opposite or dissimilarity...elaboration-increase variety, add to areas that lack visual interest
impossible to consider principles of organization without balance. balance types, gravitational equilibrium, force, symmetry (formal balance), approximate symmetry (formal balance slightly altered), radial (circle-ish), asymmetry (informal), proportion (think pieces of pie, golden mean/golden section is ideal standard)
dominance emphasizes important parts of compositions by isolation, placement, direction, scale, and character
movement (think direction, kinda like continuance with the dots)
economy means to compose with efficiency expressing an idea as simply and directly as possible with no arbituary or excessive us of the elements
(try saying this five times fast!) abstraction, simplification, rearrangments!
tectonic vs. atectonic- closed massive simple vs. open to a large degree

Live Performance Process and Critc

So the first idea i had for my live performance was dance! i loveeeeee to dance.
however once i tried thinking of ideas, i didn't know what i was gonna do.
i remembered Kathy making a reference to middle school a couple times so i thought "why not recreate that awkwardness that is Jr high dances"
i kinda put a twist on it though and it kinda ended up being like shy middle schoolers turn into rambunctious high school dance freaks :)

after everyone saw it, some people said they wish i would have taken some kind of control over the situation, like stuck out some way. i mean in the end i kinda did because i started doing the macorena but they wished there was more.
they also said they wished Elise would have stayed in the corner the entire time cause theres always that one nerd that just goes and doesn't do anything ya know?
i hope that people liked it though, it was kinda awkward but fun to play it out.

Lecture 10/1 Assignment, Looking for Repitetion

Abstract Impressionism

Jackson Pollock

Number 31, 1950

Repitetion is shown here by the lines Pollock threw on the page, he also works with  a limited amount of colors that i think goes along with repitetion

I think that this is chaos, but in a good way. to me its very balanced and that makes the chaos okay

i like how he used repetition with to colors and the lines, it looks very messy but in a good way, and the colors all go together well i think, it seems like a very serious peice to me

 Blue Poles, 1952

i think the repetition in this peice has everything to do with the lines that are going up and down the page

on the scale of harmony and chaos, i think its right in the middle because the dark lines create the harmony but the colorful mess in the back creates the chaos

Kenneth Noland

Open End, 1967

i think the repetition here is pretty obvious, the red and white lines with the green ones at the end.

id say that this peice is pretty harmonious, i dont think theres anything chaotic about a bunch of parralle lines

i think the repetion looks good here, this kind of reminds me of the american flag, but if you stare at this for too long it starts to give me a headache

Beginning, 1958

the repetition here is in the circles and the colors, theres something different about each one like the boarder or thickness, but essentially the same

again, id have to say that this is harmonious, i think the only thing that is chaotic about ths is the outter edge of the black circle, but i dont think its hardly enough to call this peice chaotic

i think the repetition here works good, this reminds me of a dart board. i also like how clean all the lines are untill you get to the outter edge and then its just messy, like they decided to change it up a bit.

Minimalism

Ellsworth Kelly

Tiger, 1955

here, the squares are the object of repetition, big or small, theyre all squares.

i feel like i might end up calling alot of these more harmonious than chaotic, but agian this just seems like a peaceful peice, i like the colors and the placement of the squares, i dont see anything chaotic about this.

Red, Yellow, Blue (Harvard Square Print), 2000

 again the repitetion is in the squares,

and again, i think this lies more on the harmony side of the scale, due to the fact that theres three squares and three colors.

for myself, the repetition looks continuous!

Ad Reinhardt

Yellow Painting (Abstraction), 1946

in this painting, i think there are many different things that represent repitition, like the circles and squares and the different colors of yellow.
i think on the scale of harmony and chaos, this could lie closer to the chaos side, because to me, this really just makes no sense to me what so ever. i can hardly make out what anything is besides some of the shapes and the colors.

Untitled, 1947

in this peice, i think the entire painting itself represents repitition,

i thinnk that this is definitley on the chaotic side because its kinda blurry and i cant make anything out

for me the reptition here reminds me of like cavemen who carved pictures and things into the walls of their caves, if i look at it in that way, i kind of like this peice, but otherwise, not a fan of this painting at all.



Post Minimalism

Sol Lewitt

Wall Drawing #260

i think the repitition here is obvious, theres like a certain number of different lines and shapes and their just repeated over and over to fill the canvas

i think this lies closer to the harmony side of the scale, because when i look at this, i think of an ocean  with fish and other sea life in it and an ocean usually seems very peaceful, it just feels like theres some sort of peaceful flow to this peice

Splotch #15, 2005

so this sculpture is probably one of my favorite things in the entire world.

i think the only thing that represents repitition here are the colors,

i think that the colors of this make the peice lie closer to the harmony side of the scale, but the shape and all the sharp objects bring it closer to the chaotic side. i guess you could say that this is in the middle of the scale for me.

i love how LeWitt compromised the beautiful colors with such harsh shapes

Eva Hesse

Ohne Titel, 1961

i dont think theres much repitition here besides the flower like objects.
again for me this painting lies more towards the middle of the scale because of the colors and the odd shapes.
im really not a fan of this painting, i dont like the use of the color or the odd shapes, and the little repitition in this dosent do anything to help it out.

Untitled, 1963

well i think the object being repeated here is definitley apparent, squares!

i think this is on the harmony side of the scale, because of the brighter colors and the just of all shapes and sizes of squares, its like they all have their own little place and they all fit together, almost like a map of squares if you will

Todays Art

Chuck Close

Emma, 2002

so i think this peice is completly awesome, the technique close used is called japenese style woodblock. i really like the repitition here isnt in what is being painted but the way he chose to paint it.

i think just because this peice is of a child, this lies on the harmony side of the scale, even though the technique is a little retro kind of, i mean theres nothing chaotic about a baby girl smiling.

LUCAS - PULP, 2006

again i chose this peice because the repitition was represented in the technique of the drawing, not what was actually being drawn.

i think this could like closer to the chaotic side of the scale but in a cool way, i mean this actually looks like a real many and you can still see all the detail in the little lines that chuck close drew.

Chris Millar

Skate the Hate, 2008

in this peice, if you look closley at the center, you can see alot of the lines and shapes in the the maze around it, repeated in the little details.

i think this is pushing more towards the chaos side, because of all the lines and then in the middle its like a sea of crazyness.

im not exactly sure what it does for me, i like the maze around it, and the repeated shapes and lines in the center are nice but i dont understand the peice as a whole.

Dang De Nang, 2006

here, the color red is obviously repeated a lot, and some of the faces are also repeated a couple times.

this is definitly on the chaotic side for me, it just looks like crazyness, theres so many different things going on in a giant puddle of red paint, you dont know what to look at first.