Finally Finished!! :D

I finally finished my painting! Any last words before I mount it?!

Artist Statement

Artist Statement

My design work is a representation of the Fibonacci sequence, a microcosm, and a macrocosm all unified together in a harmonious abstracted composition. My overall theme for this design is mother hood and raising a child as it grows in the proportions of fibonacci numbers. I chose to paint an embryo in a woman’s stomach to render the process of nature growing in the pattern of the Fibonacci sequence. The golden mean is represented through the hidden spiral made from the round pregnant stomach to the abstracted shaded area in the baby. A microcosm is represented through the sections of a close up texture of a dog’s nose. A dog can be a motherly animal and its nose is a key sense used to help care for their children. I have displayed the environment of a playground which will eventually take part in the embryo’s life to  incorporate a macrocosm. Breaking up the values and abstracting the objects in this piece was very challenging for me. I got myself too caught up in creating the detail and reality in the work but then, I relaxed and thought more abstractly. This helped me render a conceptual design that resonates some sense of reality through the use of striations to depict depth, shading and a two-point perspective.

Two sections down, one more to go....

Progress

I finished the baby :)

Gaaahhhhh

I feel overwhelmed. Since i take FOREVER to paint, i have a fear of not being able to finish this project in time and have enough time to work and study for my other classes. The only thing getting me through this week is the thought that winter break is almost herrreeee! :DDD

Quote of the Week

"The mind which plunges into Surrealism, relives with burning excitement the best part of childhood."- Andre Breton 

 To think surrealistic you must think creatively like a child. If you think about it, we must have made up a million dream-like landscapes in our minds as we were kids without even knowing. To be a surrealistic artist you must channel in with your fun, playful and creative childhood.

Fondazione Bisazza_Experimental Growth, by Arik Levy

So cool! I want to live in this and make it my own cave. Its also very beautiful!

Scientific Landscape Process

Soooo... The polar bear fur wasn't workin for me so I decided to do a close up of a dog's nose instead. The thing is, I had to cut out the polar bear fur that I started to paint. I'm too scared to start painting again so I'm gonna see if I can get help fixing that area.

Surrealism Landscape

3 Concept Board

Chapter 4 Scale/Proportion

1. Love Song by Giorgio De Chirico integrates scale and proportion into this surrealistic piece of art. He creates a large scale of a head and clove and he shows that the proportions are large when put against the round ball. He also shows a small scale of a city to show distance. His use of scale and proportion creates an abnormal and dreamlike landscape with a foreground, middle ground, and background.

2. Proportion is linked to ratio in the notion of ideal geometry. If the ratios are correct then the proportions are correct. The ideal human body, for example, is seven and a half head heights. That would be considered the correct ratio of the body, therefore, that body would be considered proportional.

3. The golden rectangle is the perfectly proportioned rectangle. The Mona Lisa displays the use of the golden rectangle that creates a harmonious and proportional piece.

4.The golden ratio will be my inspiration for my final project. The golden ratio is the mathematical formula for the growth patterns in nature and humans. The idea of an embryo starting to grow into these proportional patterns influenced my project. 

Artist Reference for Surrealistic Landscape

Yves Tanguy is the artist I am using as inspiration for my surrealistic landscape. I will incorporate different objects whose shape is similar to these works. 

Surrealistic Speed Drawing: "Hand"

Two Finished Abstracted Paintings

I finished the second painting but for some reason I like the first one better. I thought turning them would make the robot less recognizable.

Quote of the Week

"The pieces chiefly focus on depicting the human form - each one pensive, still and surreal - an almost stoic quality contrasting the fragile associations connected with the artwork's ingredients."

seated glass figure', 2012
broken glass, resin by Daniel Arsham

This quote points out the irony in this piece of work. The work itself seems very hard and sturdy while the quality of the medium is fragile. It also does have a surreal mood to it. I admire the amount of work and time the artist put into this piece and how many cuts he must have gotten from the glass!

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/24760/shattered-glass-sculptures-by-daniel-arsham.html

First Abstracted Painting

I'm pretty happy the way it came out. The only thing I wish was that it was a little more abstracted because the head of the robot is still recognizable. Overall I got the colors pretty well :D

Textures

Finally finished my actual and implied textures. I really like how the actual textures came out.

Texture Without Colour by Maggie Ayres

I thought this was great to share for this week since we are working with textures in black and white. I now learned after watching this video that different lightings can create different textures.

Chapter 9 and 12 Vocab in an Artwork

Charles Burchfield, An April Mood, 1946–55. Watercolor and charcoal on joined paper, 40 × 54 in.

This work of art demonstrates the uses of aerial perspective, implied texture, value, chiaroscuro, value contrast, and a balance of value. By creating an aerial perspective and using the device chiaroscuro, there is a sense of depth in this piece. He has made the objects and textures that go further back in the painting less distinctive to show atmospheric perspective. He also used the method of making the values in the back light and the values that come up close to the painting dark which would be chiaroscuro.

The mark making in the fields, sky, tress, and rocks create a sense of texture that is not really there. This  device the artist has used would be considered implied texture. It is also very clear that the artist has used a range of values in this work. The artist did a great job of creating a balance of value in the piece. He equally distributes value weight throughout the whole composition, making it unified. The artist also accomplishes value contrast by having the dark shaded trees against the lighter part of the sky.

http://whitney.org/Exhibitions/CharlesBurchfield

Chapter 12 Vocab

Chapter 12:

1. Define Value and a value scale

Value is the shading of lights and darks. A value scale shows a transitions of shades from lights to darks or darks to lights.

2. What is achromatic gray?

Achromatic gray is a mixture of white and black only. 

3. What is a Value contrast?

It is the relationship between areas of dark and light. 

4. How do you create balance in a composition with value?

Balance can be created by equally distributing the amount of weight on each side.

5. How do you create emphasis with value, give an example?

Emphasis can be created by creating value contrast ( high dark-and- light contrast)

6. What is chiaroscuro? What period in art history was the word originally used?

Chiaroscuro is a device originated from the Renaissance that uses value to imply depth and volume in a painting or drawing. 

7. What is aerial, or atmospheric perspective? Give an example.
Aerial perspective is when far-off objects visually become less distinct and in a way vanish into the atmosphere as it goes off further in the distance. The Virgin of the Rocks, 1491-1508 by Leonardo da Vinci exemplifies aerial perspective. 

Chapter 9 Vocab

Chapter 9:

1. Describe three ways to define a pattern in art or theory?

It can be a repetition of a motif that creates a design, a repetition of thoughts or actions, or a decoration that takes up a surface.

2. How can a grid help to define a pattern?

It helps repeat an idea or motif in an orderly fashion.

3. Describe the similarities and differences in pattern and texture?

They both share the same characteristic of repetition, however, they function differently. A texture evokes a sense of touch while a pattern provides a design appealing to the eye.

4. How can texture be used to create visual interest?
It can create a contrast in surfaces to create visual interest. 

5. What is the difference between actual and implied texture?

Actual texture is when you can actually feel the textured surface and implied texture are marks that make you seem like there is texture but actually you cannot feel the texture. 

6. How do you define collage? Give an example

A collage is creating a design by pasting down pieces of colored and textured materials. An example would be The Sermon on Mount, 1999 by Michael Albert. 

7. What is tromp L’oile? (French term: fool to the eye)

When an artist copies the exact visual color and value pattern of each surface.

Magazine Collages

These are my four completed collages. I'm pretty happy with the way they turned out. I will still add one more strip of magazine to the asymmetrical grid to help unify it more.

Ebru Art @ American Islamic College

Visual Research For My Concept Board on Julie Mehretu

The second of Julie Mehretu's three "Stadia" paintings on display at Williams College Museum of Art

city buildings inspire most of Mehretu's works

this picture depicts depth which a lot of Mehretu's works do.

The lines, colors, and layering in maps are similar to Mehretu's art.

Quote of the Week 10/23

"the installations represent breuning's photographic technique of leaving the chaos of production within a frame - offering the audience a 'behind-the-scenes' perspective of the production."

'smoke bomb 2', 2011 by olaf breuning

  I thought this installation was very interesting along with the artist's technique explained in the quote. After reading the artist's intent, you can see that it is successfully portrayed in this piece. It does make me feel curious of what is behind all the smoke but I love that the smoke is so colorful and bright.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/24371/colorful-smoke-bombs-by-olaf-breuning.html

Oops....

This was my attempt at a symmetrical grid. I first drew the grid and tried to make a focal point by making an area of small patterns go out to larger patterns, but then I realized that by doing so you lose the effect of the grid. I'll try to make it work for asymmetrical grid.

Quote of the Week

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced."

 - Vincent Van Gogh

I think this is a very encouraging quote. All artists have doubted themselves at one point, but Van Gogh tells us in this statement to use that doubt to push yourself harder to prove those doubts wrong. I thought this would be a good quote to share for the upcoming paintings assignments we are about to do in class. I especially need to remember this because I do struggle with paints. 

Resource Furniture: Italian-Designed Space Saving Furniture

             

For all those interior design majors, you may enjoy this video if you haven't seen it already! I thought this video was really cool because I would really want this for my apartment I'm getting next year. The furniture is super cute and saves you so much room! Thought this was a really successful and unique design.

Today's the day! I worked all night and morning on my fire and water panel. I wish I had more time to work on it so I wouldn't have to rush through it. I thought it was a fun project, however, because of the short time period, it was less enjoyable for me.

Quote of the Week 10/9

"The work is an exploration of the human condition - as most of his work - through the medium of ceramic, communicating the captivation of money, riches, luxury and wealth with each piece having been polished to a mirror-like finish so that the viewer inevitably becomes part of the artwork, and sees themselves."

I thought this quote successfully expressed the importance of choosing the right material to convey the message of the work.  This artist used ceramic to capture the sense of money, and luxury. It also acts as a mirror to make the viewer part of the art and become a victim of this desire for luxury and money. This shows that the artist put a lot of thought and planning into her work which makes the piece a success.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/24126/barnaby-barford-avarice-money-petal-porcelain-installation.html

Avarice by Barnaby Barford

Quote of the Week- 9/24

"The micrograph artwork is directed solely by nature’s mystery and peculiarity - 

its richness and complexity- and most palpably, its sheer beauty. "

Micrograph of a Strawberry by Rob Kesseler

The artwork that this quote describes really caught my attention as does this statement. I thought it perfectly described the work. I think that most artworks should have these qualities of mystery, peculiarity, richness, complexity, and beauty. These are the aspects that makes a piece of art inspirational and successful. 

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/23878/microscopic-photos-of-nature-by-rob-kesseler.html

NYC Trip writing assignment

 Young Woman Drawing Marie-Denise Villers 1801

Blue Mountain Horses 1984 Rudy Autio 

The two pieces of art that I chose to compare and contrast from the Metropolitan Museum are the Blue Mountain Horses and the Young Woman Drawing. It is clear that they are very different in styles. The Young Woman Drawing is a very realistic portrait while the other has an aspect of abstraction. In the Blue Mountain Horses, the images are very simplified while the Young Woman Drawing includes so much detail. Another great difference between the two is the use of space and depth. The Young Woman Drawing creates a sense of space in the painting while the Blue Mountain Horses has a crowded, smushed feeling.The colors, however, in both works are very similar. They both use a similar palette containing tones of white, yellow, blue and red. By observing the colors, it is also seen that the colors are dulled down by a mixture of their complementary colors. 

Incredible pop-out painter

Reproduciton of Artwork with Vocabulary Words

'Silence still governs our Concsiousness', 2011 by Jacob Hashimoto

 

 

 

 

 

This work of art utilizes the elements of shape, non-objective, curvilinear, rectilinear, isometric projection and an illusion of depth. The colorful patterns within the circles use shapes to form those patterns. Some of those patterns have a characteristic of rectilinear. Those patterns are the ones that have geometric forms that have sharp edges. The other patterns and the white ovals that surround the strips of patterns have a curvilinear feature. Their edges are curved and more organic. The patterns and the piece as a whole can be considered a non-objective composition, meaning there is no specific subject matter. The ovals on the top left of the piece creates an isometric projection. They recede on a diagonal, remaining parallel without converging towards a vanishing point. Since the ovals overlap each other and reduce in size as it moves farther away from the front, there seems to be an illusion of depth.
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/32/view/21971/jacob-hashimoto-interview.html

Homework # 3 Vocabulary

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   Chapter 5/8: Balance/ shape and Volume:

1.          Describe the difference between balance and imbalanced work?

    A balanced work has an equal distribution of visual weight horizontally and vertically. An imbalanced work is when the artists intentionally makes the work come off as uneasy or unstable usually by having the main distribution of weight farther up in the picture

2.         What is horizontal and vertical placement?

    Horizontal placement is where the visual weight is distributed between the left and right and the vertical placement is where the visual weight is distributed between the top and bottom. 

3.          What is symmetrical balance, and give an art historical example? 
       Asymmetrical balance is when the shapes on one side of the vertical axis is mirrored on the other side. The St. Lucy Altarpiece.

4.         How can asymmetrical balance be achieved with value/color/ shape and texture?
         Value- a small amount of a darker value can be balanced with a more amount of a lighter value on the other side.
         Color- a small area of bright color can balance a larger area of a duller color.
S       Shape- a large simple form balances a smaller and more detailed shape
         Texture- a smaller, rough- textured area balances a larger area with little texture.

5.         What is radial balance?
         When visual elements are balanced around from a central point.

6.         Give a good example of a piece of artwork?
        Whirling Log is an example where similar elements are mirrored from the central point of the piece. 

7.          What is a shape and how does it differ from volume and mass?
         A shape is an area enclosed by either a line, color or value change that defines the outer edge. a shape is a two- dimensional element rather than volume and mass that are three- dimensional.

8.         What is the difference between naturalism and distortion in art and design?
        Naturalism- a realistic picture of an image
d      Distortion- an abstract picture that exaggerates the forms of nature.

Define abstraction: How is your fire and water panel abstract? What concepts are informing your work on this project?
Abstraction is a simplified version of natural shapes.  Our fire and water panels demonstrate simplified shapes and lines to symbolize fire and water. The concept of removing naturalism form the subject matter in our projects and the terms reductive and biomorphic inform my work on the fire and water panel.

Chapter 8: Shape and volume:

1.          Define these terms in art:

2.         Non-objective: shapes with no object reference an no subject matter

3.          Curvilinear: rounded and curved forms that conveys a flowing composition

4.         Rectilinear- geometrical shapes with straight edges and sharp angles

5.         Positive and negative shapes- a shape or object distinguished from the background is positive and the empty space surrounding the objects or shapes in the composition is negative space.

Chapter 10:

1.          List three ways to depict illusion of depth
         - size: size gets smaller further away
   - overlapping: each shape hides part of another to make it seem like it is on top or in front of another. 
         - vertical location: elevation on the page indicates a recession in depth. The higher objects are, the farther back it is assumed to be.

2.         What is one point perspective? where lines in a shape go back towards only one vanishing point.

3.          Two point perspective? where and object is being viewed from an angle making two vanishing points. 

4.         What is an isometric projection/? when lines receding on the diagonal are parallel instead of converging towards a vanishing point.

5.         What is equivocal space? Find an example when it is difficult to distinguish the difference between the foreground and the background. Andy Warhol's colored Mona Lisa

Quote of the Week

"I started making art works that reflected my feelings and continue
it as if I were writing a diary."

I thought this quote was interesting and relatable to other artists. She says that her work is derived from the death of her sister from brain cancer. Like the fire and water project, we have to convey emotions which in a way relates to this quote.

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/23697/floating-garden-a-salt-sculpture-by-motoi-yamamoto.html

Thumbnails

These are my 3 thumbnails for the fire and water project. I think I'm choosing the middle thumbnail to use for my project. The emotions transform from stiff and hard to free and loose to round and controlled.

Optical Patterns

http://i.gifboom.com/medias/c12646665c30470589ea7c333a5db811@2x.gif


A little video using the gifboom app of the optical patterns i have mounted so far.

Quote of the Week

"An important design element that directs our attention into the heart of a picture is called a leading line."

http://www.mac-on-campus.com/LearningCenter/Library/21112.aspx 

I thought this was a great statement in the article to quote because it talks about line being an important element in design which was the topic of this week's homework assignment. They define leading line as a line that usually begins at the bottom of the composition and drags our eye towards the focal point. If you look on the website you can see a variety of examples and successful compositions that demonstrates great line work.

Wire chair

Drawing with wire by David Moreno

These 3D chairs made out of wire depict line, gesture, lost and found line, a focal point, and line direction. The composition is made up of the repetition of line that defines the length and width of these chairs. The lines move freely in this composition without staying on the edge of the chairs creating gesture. Since the lines do not stay on the outline of the chair, some edges of the chair get lost within the other lines. However, some lines in the seat or the back of the chair are clearly visible. The visible and invisible lines would be considered lost and found lines.

Lines go in multiple directions in this piece. The line direction in this piece creates a motion and action. The direction of the line also helps indicate the focal point. They point towards the chair which is the focal point in this piece. 

http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/23414/drawing-with-wire-by-david-moreno.html

Homework: Reading/Writing Assignment #2

Chapter 3, 6, and 7 Vocab

1.     focal point- a point of emphasis where the eye is first attracted to.

a.     Ways to achieve

                                               i.     Contrast- making it differ form the other components in the composition

                                              ii.      Isolation- setting the element off by itself

                                            iii.     Placement- elements are placed to point towards the focal point

2.     3 types of Rhythm

a.     progressive rhythm- repeats the shape in a composition that changes in a regular pattern

b.     alternating rhythm-  a successive pattern where the same elements reappear in a regular order.
c. repetition- repeats elements in a composition

3.     line- a visual element of length that can be created by setting a point in motion.

4.     Implied line- a series of points that the eye connects together to form a line.

5.     Contour- when lines follow the edge of a form to create the outline of the form

6.     Gesture- when lines do not stay on the edge but freely move within the form to imply motion.

7.     Lost and found line- where the lines of some edges are distinctively revealed while other edges are lost or vanished into the background.

8.     Line direction- lines that go in a direction such as horizontal, vertical, or diagonal to create a type of motion.

9.     Psychic line- an imaginary line that the eye connects from one object that points to another.

10. Explicit line- a sharply defined line that is obvious in an image.

11. Line as texture and pattern- lines that creates a feel of the surface of an object and creates a pattern.  
  12. Kinesthetic – makes the viewer recreate or feel an action or motion that only they can observe.