lecture 10/11

During lecture we discussed Gestalt  and looking it at things for its whole and its parts. Its because of this people believe they cannot draw. So today we were given a drawing assignment, we were to draw sections of lines that were shown on the overhead and match them up. In the end those lines because an image that was upside down to prove that if thinks were taken part it is possible to draw that image.

lecture on 11/21.

During today's lecture we discussed realism, abstraction and pattern and how they play into our everyday lives.Realism is more about romanticism while abstraction is representation and pattern is about variation. the class had taken a vote on which of these do we prefer in music, classes, friends, partners and life its self. the scale was drawn from variation pattern or in the middle. Most of what I voted in those categories were in the middle because  i don't think i can handle some things being based solely on pattern or on variation. I think the middle is the right amount to where i wont lose interest and things wont seem out of order.

lecture on 11/21

During class we discussed the meaning of beauty. the meaning of beauty seems to differ with each person. Plato believed that beauty is the abstract world or the forms. He also believed that beauty is objective and goodness.Aristotle believed that beauty  is the world we actually live in, the world of real objects and the beauty  is about things having the appropriate order.In Shakespeare's play Hamlet, Hamlets view of beauty is deceiving. Today's view of beauty  has become distorted and a unreachable ideal that the media wants to tall people to look a certain way to be considered beautiful.

Chap 5 Artist Reviews: Jackson Pollock

Jackson Pollock created the painting Shimmering Substances. Pollock used a variety of colors and used swirling brush strokes the covers the whole canvas that draws your eyes all around. the painting is viewed as  unifying and variety taken to extremes that merge together.

Chap 5 artist reviews: Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse was the artist who created the painting Memory of Oceania. Matisse used several shapes and colors that are arranged in a random order. Matisse found inspiration to create this painting by traveling to Tahiti, hoping to gain some new ideas and see things in a different kind of light. the painting has bright colors with bold shapes all around the canvas

Chap 10 Artist review : Mat Pyke and Karen Schmidt

Pyke and Schmidt created a video about the Audi TT sedan car. the video still had  a pitch black background with wisps of color through the image of green, orange, yellow and blue. Then the an image of the car's silhouette  appears. This image was created  by using a computer programming language called processing.The artists used processing to create a virtual wind tunnel with streams of color to create the silhouette.

Chap 10 Artist Review: Henri De Toulouse- Lautrec

Henri De Toulouse- Laurtec created a famous lithograph poster of the 19th century for the Cabarets and dance halls of Paris. The Poster ' La Goulue at the Moulin Rouge has a performer dancing and another person along with the dancer. In the background are silhouettes of people hanging around. The poster showed Japanese influence and became increasing ly popular and are concisered collectables.