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.