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.

An Academic Resource

 "Products not only perform physical functions—can openers open cans, shoes protect feet—they perform ideas and identities."

- Victoria Gannon

This relates to what we've learned in class about designs. They must be functional, but have an idea or identity that makes them different from other designs. The purpose of making the 10 compositions with ink lines was to achieve that goal. Our compositions had to depict the concepts we were assigned but at the same time, make them unique.

http://blog.art21.org/2012/09/06/bedfellows-catalog-crimes/

Chapter 1 homework

Interchangable Wooden Block Portraits by Miller Goodman

This artwork utilizes harmony, repetition, grid, proximity, and continuity. This design is visually unified because all the elements in this work all agree together. There is a great amount of similarity and not much chaos or variety. Since there is a union among the elements (colors, shapes and amount of negative space) we can conclude that this piece utilizes harmony. This piece also utilizes repetition as the colors and shapes in this piece are repeated. The colors red, black and white are the only colors in this piece and are repeated throughout the composition. The shapes in his shirt, mustache, eyes, and hair are repeated as well. 

There is a grid present in this piece that divides up the composition into squares and creates a pattern. There is also a grouping of shapes and colors in this piece. The red blocks are grouped together at the bottom while the black blocks are grouped together in his hair. This grouping is a prime example of proximity. Proximity also promotes continuity in this piece. The shapes and colors are continued from one block to another, lining up with their edges. 

three online visual images

By Espace Loggia
I found this picture interesting because it uses line compositions just like the ones we are doing now for homework and   using them in furniture.

By MC Escher
I liked how he used the lines to create transparency in this piece.

By Johanna Basford
I like the amount of detail in this piece and the line weight variation. 

These are my ink designs glued in my sketchbook. I liked how they all turned out and hopefully I'll be able to use the ones I didn't use in my compositions for future projects :)

plant line drawing on iPad