peer reviews

 

 

1. Hyperlink the Blogs you reviewed into your Blog

http://artfullyblog.blogspot.com/

http://cade62.blogspot.com/

 

2. When looking at Project #1: (Elements and Principles), did you agree with the element or principle the artist listed with the images? Did you see other elements and principles in the images?  When looking at project  1 i agree with the artists images. In some photos you can see different element and principles.

 

3. When looking at Project #2: Where there any images in the Peer Blogs the same as your own? If yes, what were they? Where the reasons the image was selected the same or different as your own?

In project 2 there was one work that was the same as mine.  The Seurat  painting left and impression on me on how an artist can capture a moment in a painting. My peer had a connection with the artist; she was familiar with the artist and enjoyed his works.

4. Where there any images that your Peers selected that pique your interest now? If yes, what are they and what is your connection with them? What would you want to know about them?  on image that my peers selected  that piqued my interest is "maninahoundstoothsuit” I just like the use of colors and patterns in it. I would want to know is it the same person  in the image.

                                                                                         

5. What do you think about the process of reading your peers reflection? Do you find this to be a valuable in your learning? I really liked the process of reading our peer reflection. It shows you what other people are thinking and how they feel about different things.  I do find it valuable in my learning because they can pick up on things that I missed in a work or vice versa. Or they might interpret something differently than I can.

 

6. Check your Blog and read comments posted by your Peers. Do you find their comments helpful?

There weren’t any comments on my blog

 

life of sculpting

1. For each video list/discuss the key concepts you learned.                                                                                                                                                     

For through the eyes of a sculptor to see a sculpture go from a slab of rock to a work of art and beauty was amazing. His work with the horses was mind blowing to sculpt those piece didn’t just take time but dedication and creativity.  Also sculpting is really big in Italy and people from all over the world come there to learn and sculpt their own masterpieces.

For Glass and Ceramics i couldn’t believe how glass was made. They actually were blowing air into the mix and would form the glass with wood or metal.  I like the stained glass work as well. To cut that piece and put them together looked pretty cool. I’ve never thought of glass and how it made, and I will never look at glass the same way again.  Glass is a work of art to me.

For Installation art was different it was site specific one piece that caught my attention was how they turned a whole building into an installation and how they had a moving piece moving back and forth I thought it was interesting. Tracy Emin’s work was different as well. To use a bedroom as a work of art was very different.

2. How do the videos relate to the readings in the text?  The movies and the readings relate because you can see the process, like for sculpting, in the movie you have an idea of how it’s done. You can see the time and dedication it takes for a work of art.  Also Glass it’s described in the reading how its done and you can see how it’s done in the movie.

 

3. What is your opinion of the films? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics: Sculpture

The movies I thought read great in helping me understand the process in sculpting and glass making. I like the fact that there are movies for these readings because you can also see what the readings are about in the movies. For sculpture it was amazing there was a quote in the movie that I liked, “the work of art is in the slab of rock you just have to carve away the pieces around the artwork”.

Gallery visit

A.)   Which artworks make an impact or impression on me? Why?

A painting that left an impression on me was Giacomo Balla: Dinamismo di un Cane al Guinzaglio (Dynamism of a dog on a leash) 1912. Oil on canvas.  At first I really didn’t know what it was but then I realized that it was a person walking a dog.  I find this painting very interesting.

 

Another painting was Georges Seurat: study for Le Chahut,1889. Oil on Canvas. It showed me how a artist can capture a moment in time.  Maybe he painted this image from memory, or he was actually there watching. Very nice piece of artwork.

 

 

B.) Which artworks do I feel a connection with? Why?

I felt a connection with James Ensor: Firworks.1887. Oil and encaustic on  Canvas. It reminded me of my childhood and going to a carnival with my family and staying there until the Fireworks were done. It’s the one time of the year we actually spend a whole day together and we all love the fireworks.

Another painting was Edouard vuilard: the painter Ker-xavier Roussel and his daughter. It just felt like home and a natural everyday setting.  It shows true emotion and it wasn’t acted.

 

 

C.) Which artworks would I like to know more about? Why?

An artwork that I would like to know more about is Yves Tanguy: Divisibilite indefinite (Indefinite Divisibility). Oil on canvas, 1942. It really caught my eye. I don’t know how to explain it. My mind was trying to figure out what it was but it couldn’t. I really want to know more about this painting.

Another painting I would like to know about is Chaiim Soutine: Carcass of beef 1925.  Oil on canvas. I just couldn’t wrap my head around how someone could do a painting of a carcass of beef.

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Logo crazy

1. Discuss what you thought about creating your logo. For starters I thought it would be a breeze to do it, but it wasn’t. I really had to think about something that would describe me. I must have sketched 20pages worth sketches before I realize what I wanted. but in the end it was perfect.

 

2. Describe the process: creative thinking skills and ideas you used in the logo creation. Well at first I wanted I wanted to do a single symbol but it just didn’t have that energy that would express what I thought. Then i thought of what things that I like to do so snowboarding came to me first. Then traveling came to me. So I started drawing a snowy mountain and an airplane.  I realize how hard it was to draw an airplane. But in the end it came out good.

 

3. What was the most important discovery you made in the creation of your logo?  The most important discovery that I made in this creation was that it’s hard to come up with a logo to represent you. Many things represent us. So I decided to do a logo that represents what I love to do.

 

4. What is the most important information you learned from watching the videos, PowerPoint, and reading material for this project? What is your opinion of the videos?

 The most important information that I learned is that there is a lot of trial and error when it comes to designing a logo and sometimes the simplest solution is best solution and you don’t have to go all out and create something crazy or wacky.  Also that it takes time a lot of it if you want it to be perfect. The videos were helpful as well.  Like in the Marmite video that process seemed it took forever but trial and error they figured out what they had to do and how to do it. On a side not I think I’m going to order some marmite just to see what the craze was about.

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the Colors

1.       Discuss what you thought about creating the Value Scale and Color Wheel.

The color wheel was kind of fun I liked it. Seeing the different colors and mixing the colors was pretty cool. The value scale was kind of hard. It’s harder than it looks , but it’s interesting to see the different scales.

 

2.       Which media did you enjoy working with the best and why? I like the acrylic paint.

It was fun and the colors were nice to look at. It was also easier to work with.

 

3. What was the most important discovery in the creation of these studies?
The most important discovery in the creation of these studies is how so many colors can come from the primary colors.

 

4. What is the most important information you learned from watching the videos for this project? What is your opinion of the videos? 

 The videos were very informative and easy to follow. I really liked the painting one. Seeing something from beginning to end is pretty amazing. The  true primary colors are cyan, magenta , and yellow.

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Pics

This was an interesting project. Before I read through as to what I was suppose to do I was worried that I wouldn't be able to do it. But after doing the readings and watching the videos everything made sense. I see the world differently now, its like I see the elements everywhere I go, which is weird because they have always been there but I  never noticed them. I've been also noticing more colors in everything. Also I noticed different shapes and sizes of different things. Art is all around us and we just have to open our eyes more to see them and appreciate them.  This project was an eye opener and really learned a lot.











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the colors

1. Describe Color and its effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.

 Color is a function of light. If there isn’t light there can be no color.  Color affects us in simple ways. Color can change our mood, attitude and how we feel about something. People know this about colors, for example in restaurants they would decorate with red because red is believed to increase appetite and increase the food consumption of the patrons of the restaurant.   

2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why?

 There are so many colors in the world. There’s different shade and different intensities of colors and all those colors all come from Red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet is amazing. It all started with those colors and the combinations are endless.  Also it’s amazing how different colors make us feel different ways.

 

3. In the Color video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and its effects on emotions? 

  The biggest impact on me was how passionate the painter was about color that she would go to another country and see them and use them in an inspirational painting. In Titian’s Assumption of the Virgin, red was used a lot and to see the different types of ways a painter can us shades of red and make the painting come alive was amazing.

 

4. In the Feelings video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?

This movie showed how painting can show strong emotions and feelings like patriotism, happiness, and sadness and divine artwork of angels, and hell. The painting that I found fascinating was Rogier van der Weyden. The last judgment. The colors showed strong emotions. It also shows the good and bad being judged. It shows heaven and hell.

understanding art

 

Aesthetics movie: The key concepts that I learned in this video is that many different philosophers have many different views on aesthetics.   The study of art started 5^th century Athens.  Some philosophers believed in aesthetics but didn’t like art or didn’t think that there were aesthetics in art.  Foundation for aesthetic that we use today began during the 18^th century in England.  Joseph Edison considers marking the beginning of modern aesthetics theory.  Kant main interest was in the beauty in the art work and how a person felt when they saw a work of art and many philosophers felt the same way like Hutcheson and Hume.   Art has changed gradually and different forms of art have come and gone. It’s hard to define art and hard to know what art is. The meaning of art has also changed.  The movie also shows how art has changed due to the technological advances and how they are reproduced.

 

Carta: the first part of the video talked about the scientific part of aesthetics of art. Works of art are nonverbal communication.  Aesthetic has a staggering effect on emotion. Art is in a constant evolution.  The second part of the video was about the science of art and visual aesthetics.  It talked about how people didn’t like realism art but like grotesque art.   Ramachandran has eight universal laws of art which are, Grouping or “binding”, peak shift principal, contrast, isolating a single cue to optimally excite cortical visual areas (“attention”), perceptual “ problem solving” , symmetry, abhorrence of unique vantage points and suspicious coincidences, and art as a metaphor. It shows how the brain recognizes art and how the brain makes you see it.

Article:  key concepts in the article are artist figuring out how to create depth illusions for people looking at art.  It also talked about emoticons and how a person know that emotion smiley face symbolizes a smiley face even though the emoticon is only dots and a symbols. It also talked about our brain and how it recognizes a color contrast but no light contrast, that's called "equal luminance," and it creates a sort of shimmering quality. I think the most interesting part of the article was the part about the famous and well recognized piece of artwork the Mona Lisa and Da Vinci gave her facial expression a dynamic quality by playing with a discrepancy that exists in our peripheral and central vision systems.  as your eyes move around the Mona Lisa's face, her expression appears to change, she  was painted in a way  that, looking directly at the mouth, she appears to smile less than when you're staring into her eyes. When looking away from the mouth your peripheral visual system picks up shadows from her cheeks that appear to extend the smile.

2. I feel that Francis Hutcheson theory of aesthetics is most important because he changed how people thought about aesthetics from characteristics of the world to the experience of the viewer. This all changed during the 18th century.  Hutcheson said that we experience pleasure when we look or listen to specific things.

 

3. Changeux ‘s view on aesthetics on art was very scientific.  He talked a lot about the brain and evolution of the humans and the brain.  Ramachandran view was great he talked about how there are eight universal laws of art and how sometime art contradicts with science. 

An interesting fact of Changeux was that the discovery of symmetry by homo erectors 1.5 million years ago.  An interesting fact of ramachandran is that he came up with eight universal laws of art.

4. How do the videos and article relate to the readings in the text? The videos and the article relate to the readings in the text that they help put things in perspective and make sense of everything.  The videos and the article use scientific ways that we view art like how we see symmetry as art because the brain thinks it’s a live like a butterfly. The article also talked about emoticon and how something like a dot and a symbol can be a smiley face.

5. What is your opinion of the films and article? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics in your reading in the text? My opinion on the movie and the article is that the movies were good the added a lot of information. Changeux was hard to understand so I had to watch his part a few times. Ramachandran was an amazing lecture he kept me interested. I liked how he used personal experience with his lectures and made a few jokes in between. They added depth to the understanding to the text by showing the scientific understanding on why we like art and how it affects the brain.

 

understanding art

 

Aesthetics movie: The key concepts that I learned in this video is that many different philosophers have many different views on aesthetics.   The study of art started 5^th century Athens.  Some philosophers believed in aesthetics but didn’t like art or didn’t think that there were aesthetics in art.  Foundation for aesthetic that we use today began during the 18^th century in England.  Joseph Edison considers marking the beginning of modern aesthetics theory.  Kant main interest was in the beauty in the art work and how a person felt when they saw a work of art and many philosophers felt the same way like Hutcheson and Hume.   Art has changed gradually and different forms of art have come and gone. It’s hard to define art and hard to know what art is. The meaning of art has also changed.  The movie also shows how art has changed due to the technological advances and how they are reproduced.

 

Carta: the first part of the video talked about the scientific part of aesthetics of art. Works of art are nonverbal communication.  Aesthetic has a staggering effect on emotion. Art is in a constant evolution.   The second part of the video was about the science of art and visual aesthetics.  It talked about how people didn’t like realism art but like grotesque art.   Ramachandran has eight universal laws of art which are, Grouping or “binding”, peak shift principal, contrast, isolating a single cue to optimally excite cortical visual areas (“attention”), perceptual “ problem solving” , symmetry, abhorrence of unique vantage points and suspicious coincidences, and art as a metaphor. It shows how the brain recognizes art and how the brain makes you see it.

Article:  key concepts in the article are artist figuring out how to create depth illusions for people looking at art.  It also talked about emoticons and how a person know that emotion smiley face symbolizes a smiley face even though the emoticon is only dots and a symbols. It also talked about our brain and how it recognizes a color contrast but no light contrast, that's called "equal luminance," and it creates a sort of shimmering quality. I think the most interesting part of the article was the part about the famous and well recognized piece of artwork the Mona Lisa and Da Vinci gave her facial expression a dynamic quality by playing with a discrepancy that exists in our peripheral and central vision systems.  as your eyes move around the Mona Lisa's face, her expression appears to change, she  was painted in a way  that, looking directly at the mouth, she appears to smile less than when you're staring into her eyes. When looking away from the mouth your peripheral visual system picks up shadows from her cheeks that appear to extend the smile.

2. I feel that Francis Hutcheson theory of aesthetics is most important because he changed how people thought about aesthetics from characteristics of the world to the experience of the viewer. This all changed during the 18th century.  Hutcheson said that we experience pleasure when we look or listen to specific things.

 

3. Changeux ‘s view on aesthetics on art was very scientific.  He talked a lot about the brain and evolution of the humans and the brain.  Ramachandran view was great he talked about how there are eight universal laws of art and how sometime art contradicts with science. 

An interesting fact of Changeux was that the discovery of symmetry by homo erectors 1.5 million years ago.  An interesting fact of ramachandran is that he came up with eight universal laws of art.

4. How do the videos and article relate to the readings in the text? The videos and the article relate to the readings in the text that they help put things in perspective and make sense of everything.  The videos and the article use scientific ways that we view art like how we see symmetry as art because the brain thinks it’s a live like a butterfly. The article also talked about emoticon and how something like a dot and a symbol can be a smiley face.

5. What is your opinion of the films and article? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics in your reading in the text? My opinion on the movie and the article is that the movies were good the added a lot of information. Changeux was hard to understand so I had to watch his part a few times. Ramachandran was an amazing lecture he kept me interested. I liked how he used personal experience with his lectures and made a few jokes in between. They added depth to the understanding to the text by showing the scientific understanding on why we like art and how it affects the brain.