chap 2 artist Review: Kitagawa Utamaro

Kitagawa Utamaro is a Japanese artist from the 18th century who created the painting Hairdressing,From Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft. Utamaro was the artist who created the first woodcut.In the print are two Japanese women, one sitting down, and the other behind her brushing the seated woman's hair. Utamaro uses dull colors and makes the picture seem flat and quiet.

chap 2 artist reviews:Claude Monet

 Claude Monet Painted  Fisherman's Cottage on The Cliffs at Vaudeville. Monet was an impressionist painter. For this Painting, he used bright clear colors and different textures to create the images. In the Picture Monet painted a small brown cottage on a cliff with bushes in front over looking the bright teal ocean and blue sky.

chap 2 artist reviews: Pablo Picasso

Pablo Picasso was the artist who created the painting  Seated Woman Holding a Fan. the technique that Picasso used to create the painting is cubism, which is the use of bold shapes that are edgy with simple colors. Picasso used other technique before this one, but found that cubism was the technique that launched his career.

Chap1 artist review: Erst Hass

Erst Hass was the artist who photographed Peeling Paint on Iron Bench, Kyoto. In this Photograph , is a zoomed in image of a bench with red and black paint peeling off and three small green leaves stuck on it. The photo focus on the detail of an ordinary bench that people would normally never pay attention to in their daily lives. then give people the idea to focus more on their surroundings and its details.

chap 1 artist review : Vincent Van Gogh

Vincent Van Gogh created the painting called The Starry Night. In the painting is a dark starry night looking over a small town. Van Gogh  used simple lines an swirls to create the objects such as the houses and the tall tree reaching up into the sky.The colorful swirls in the sky representing the stars and moon draw your eyes all around the painting, almost like looking at the ocean waves.

chap 1 artist review: Constantin Brancusi

Constanin Brancusi was the artist who photographed Bird in Space which  is of a long oval like stick on a cement stand with broken concrete peices laying around it. With the uses of light and shadow on the oval stick. The photograph was shot in black and  white and gave the photograph a strange feeling, wondering how the oval stick rises from the the other broken objects around it

Artist Presentation: Salvador Dali

Salvador Dali

 

Salvador Dali was born on May 11 1904, in Figueres Spain.

Hort Del Llane, Cadaques

Still Life( Fish With red Bowl)

Still Life( Sandia)

La Main (Les Remords De Conscience)

The Weaning Furniture

 

Old Age, Adolescence, Infancy( The Three Ages)

Mae West

Soft Self- Portrait

 

The Persistence of Memory

The disintegration of The Persistence of Memory

 Daddy Long-legs of The Evening-Hope!

Salvador Dali died due to heart failure at age 84 on January 1989.

The Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg, FL 

 

 

 

Chap 5 Artist Review : Gustav Klimt

Gustav Klimt is the artist who painted Death and Life. In the painting is a group of people sleeping together, they are painted with bright colors representing their lifeness.On the opposite side of the painting is a tall dark figure watching over the people sleeping. the tall dark figure represents death waiting  for his opportunity to take one of sleeping people. Klimt  uses asymmetrical balance to balance and bring the two images together.

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.

Chap 10 Artist review: Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol was one of the artist who acknowledged the power of graphic designs. Warhol took the Famous Campbell soup images and painted them. He painted everything that he considered beautiful that others seem to overlook. Warhol painted several campbell soup cans, lined them up one after the other, making us think about the details of the can that people haven't really thought of before.

Chap Nine Artist Reviews : Emmanuel Radnitzky

Emmanuel Radnitzky was the artist who created the technique rayograph/rayogram. Radnitzky began experimenting with light sensitive paper for photographs  and place objects on the paper and exposed it to light, which created  the images white shadow. He created Champs delicieuk, second rayogram. he used normal everyday objects like a comb, neddle, thread and other items placed on the photograph paper.

Chap Nine Artist Review: Raghubir Singh

Raghubir Singh documented life through out India with his photographer college. He wanted to capture the everyday life of India with color photographs. The photograph A Family, Kamathipura, Mumbai,Maharastra , which shows an Indian Family at home with the women working around the house and the father looking over his children. Siungh was focused on capturing moments of the people in India.

Chapter Nine Artist Review: Dorothea Lange

Dorothea Lange was a photographer who traveled to different parts of the country for the FSA . Lange primarily focused on immigrants who had been  uprooted from their homes due to the great depression and drought. Lange then photographed a migrant woman with her children and the piece was called named  Migrant Mother. The photograph was shot in black and white with the mother as the main subject and her children , one on each side hiding their faces. The mother has a contemplative expression probably with different thoughts going through her mind.

Chap 8 Artist Review :Rembrant

Rembrant was the artist who created the print called Christ using a technique called etching. Rembrant used only lines and created his etchings by using light and show to show Christ preaching to a small crowed of people, showing us a story of Christ and those who followed him. The etchings were created by acids and metals with lines and depressions that created the mold for the prints.

Chap 8 Artist Review: Rockwell Kent

Rockwell Kent created the artwork Workers of the world. Kent used a technique called wood engraving, which is almost the same as a wood cut print.  Wood engraving uses s block of wood as a matrix and is created on a surface cut across the grain, sanded and is worked with with finely pointed tools. The engraves consists of fine white lines that create the whole image and its detail when the wood block is inked.

Chap 8 Artist Review :Katsushika Housai

Katsushika Housai was the artist who created Skeleton Ghosts painting. to create the painting,the style used was called wood cut prints. Wood cut prints are popular in Japan  and are famous around the world. it would start out from a simple design that is carved into a wood block and then special blocks are made for certain colors to go into the painting, then the print is transferred to paper creating the finished print.

chap 7 artist review : Zhang Daqian

Zhang Daqian is the artist who created the painting  Mountains Clearing After Rain. Daqian used ink and colors on s hanging scroll to  create his painting. In the Painting are large mountains that are blurry with a mix of colors that look like their smearing downward as if it got wet and dries up. Around the edges of the painting are crisp and clear with boats and house and detailed plants.

chap 7 artist review : John Singer Srgent

John Singer Sargent is a water color artist who created  Mountain Stream. the painting is of a stream in the woods with a man sitting on rocks with his legs in the water. Sargent uses techniques that makes some parts of his painting look sharp and detailed and other parts look blurry and mixed together. With the Picture in and out of focus. It pulls the picture together with its natural colors of green , brown, gray and white.

Chapter 7 Artist Reviews: Diego Rivera

Diego Rivera is a Mexican artist from the 20th century who was commissioned to create mural in Mexico after its recent civil war. One of Rivera's Frescoes Mixtec Culture created in 1942, shows people of ancient Mexico working together peacefully . Diego uses bright colors and details that brings the mural to life. the mural also shows Mexico history in hopes that the people will take something from the painting to create a better future for Mexico.

chap 6 Artist reviews : Gary Simmons

Gary Simmons created his work on large walls like Sol Le Witt and Paul Noble. But Simmons's drawing were not based on scales or instructions. Simmons inspirations are of childhood and adolescence and used a large blackboard and chalk for his drawings. The drawing Boom is of an exploding cloud with lines and shading curves that draws your eyes around the whole board. Simmons's Drawing is more fee and dream like than the more structural drawings of Le Witt and Noble.

Chap 6 artist review : Sol Le Witt

Sol Le Witt is a conceptual artist who was the first to create wall drawings. The way Le Witt  would create his drawings, is by creating instructions for the drawing itself. His drawing  Wall Drawing # 766, he used isometric cubes of different sizes , and colored them with different  ink washes superimposed. On the side of the painting is where he instructions of how the painting was made would be posted. The idea of these instructions could produce many other drawings that would look different and still be connected.

Chap 6 Artist Review : Paul Noble

Paul Noble  Created the drawing Nobspital. Noble uses a large paper , usually wall sized about eight feet high and five feet in width. Nobspital was drawn from a birds eye view from pencil. Noble's style of drawing is  artistic and also done though scale. his drawing leans more architectural but looking at the building and its details isn't the norm of how an actual hospital would like, but something out of Noble's world.

Chap 6 artist review : Henri Matisse

Henri Matisse is the artist who created the painting Dahlias, Pomegranates  and palm. Matisse used brushes for water color and used ink instead. Matisse mostly drew lines to create his work unlike other paintings. His style lends from both western traditional of drawing and traditional works made with ink and brush from China or Japan. Matisse's painting uses thick dark lines and some shading.

Chap 4 Artist Review : Albert Bierstadt

Albert Beirstadt was a German Born American painter who drew sketches while on a expedition with the U.S. Army Engineers to Map an overland route during the 1850"s. With those sketches, he used them as a template to created his paintings. The technique that Beirstadt used to create his landscape paintings is the atmospheric perceptive. Beirstadt"s painting The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Rock, shows the leveled ground with bright crisp colors of the trees, waterfall and the Native American camp ground. Then looking upwards the mountains get a little higher and further away with paler colors that seem a little out of focus. then at the top where the mountains are sky high is more out of focus an paler. the painting as a whole is realistic which was the goal of many western art paintings.

Chap 4 Artist Review : Georges Seurat

Georges Seurat was an artist who used techniques called optical color mixture and pointillism to create his artworks. His most famous painting called A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, was created by pointillism where the colors are not blended, but uses small dot of color. The placement of the certain color dots would create a picture looking at it from a far. Then looking at the painting from the distance the colors would blend together creating texture and different shades of the colors, this would be the optical color mixture that Seurat was going for.

Chap 4 Artist Review : Camille Pissaro

Camille Pissaro was an impressionist painter who was started using spectral palette during the 19th century. What Pissaro would to is select a few colors and mix them together to create his painting. With the colors that he picked out and put on his palette is where he would paint. Those colors would be on the edge, then mixed to his desired colors and paint his picture in the center of the palette. His Painting palette with a landscape, shows how Pissaro  created it using his spectral palette technique with a few colors around the edge and the landscape in the center.

Chap 3 Artist Review :Wang Jian

Wang Jian is a Chinese artist who also painted landscapes but nothing like Thomas Cole. Jian painted landscapes in a traditional Chinese style, he used light simple colors like white, Grey, and black with some shading. Jian 's way of painting these landscapes were not of normal ways of viewing places that makes them different from the way Cole painted. Jian's painting almost looks dream like than realistic line "The Oxbow" painting.

Chap 3 Artist Review : Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole was painter who used landscapes as his painting subject during the 19th century. His most famous painting is "The Oxbow." In the painting is a river curving down small mountains, Cole drew what he saw down to small details of the farmland, trees and dark stormy clouds. Looking at the painting makes you feel like you can walk right into that landscape, like you were on one of the mountain tops looking down.

Chap 3 Artist Review : Johanns Vermeer

Johanns Vermeer is a dutch painter who created " Woman Holding a Balance." The painting is of a woman holding a balance at a table in a dimly lit room. The painting has a quiet ,calm vibe that make you wonder what the woman is thinking about while holding the scale. The woman also appears pregnant , but it cannot be certain. The painting that Vermeer created sends the message that any decision that people make will have some kind of effect in thier lives , positive and negative.

Chap 3 Artist Review : Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo is a Mexican artist who is famous for painting numerous self -portraits throughout her life. These self - portraits reflected her life, emotions and experiences. Kahlo started to paint during a her recovery from a street car accident and went through many surgeries because of it. It was because of her paintings she was able to express herself through her portraits such as "Self -Portrait with Monkeys." In this portrait she is reserved and calm, she also expresses her position as a Mexican woman with the monkeys close to her.

Video potluck!! last week on 9/13

Last weeks lecture was pretty cool, a video blog potluck was a first for me. The food was great , there should more potlucks this semester. Having the class do video blogs was a neat idea but I'm not used to talking to a camera so I'm gonna stick to typing my own blogs. One of the topics that was brought up is "what is art." my thought about that question is that anything and everything is art. Art can be created on purpose and on accident, it can express emotion, ideas and messages. Art comes in different shapes and forms and its all depends how people interpret it.

Last Tuesdays Lecture on 9/6

During the last lecture we discussed about the Lascaux cave in France. The cave was discovered in 1940 by a young teen named Marcel Ravidat. The cave  dates back to 16,000 ya. around the upper Paleolithic era. there depictions of different animals and only a few of people that were supposed to be "vision questers" who have become enlightened. Then discussed the movies the Matrix and Inception and how the main characters are in their own way vision questers and become enlightened and see the world for what it really is. Then got in to the discussion of "what is reality?". I guess there's so many different ways to explain what it is and if what people perceive is actually reality.

first blog

My first of many blogs for this school semester!