Friday, April 22, 2011 - Implied Motion

This image has a ,lot of implied motions like in Ch. 11, the different Karate movements in this Japanese art work shows different moves that would be considered implied movement. Very interesting.

Friday, April 15, 2011 - Emphasis and Focal point

This image represents the idea of a focal point which is in the center of the circle/flower, the buds represent the outer layers.




















The image next to me, is an emphasis idea being portrayed through the red X's.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011 - Group

Even though we did not do this project I really wanted to do the squirell in the tree idea. We could of made the squirrel out of a wire and filled him with leaves and sticks and bamboo to recreate him/her in their natural habitat.

Friday, April 8, 2011 - Emotive Lines

This picture/poster is something I made with my fraternity for our Bid day, where we try and get new members through rush events. This picture has many different emotive lines, the water and sky division is an implied line, no actual line is drawn, but it shows a vastness and serene sense of the huge ocean. While the fishing line is soft and steady in the ocean's vastness.

Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - Lines

In this image a Psychic Line is being portrayed, I am looking at my sister causing a line to be formed from my eyes to the side of her head, but her distressed line is going straight into the camera or viewer, so two lines, not crossing are being developed here.













This line type is that of both implied and actual lines, the Fortune cookie paper has a curved line and the shadow forms an implied line is formed by the shadow of the actual line.

Friday, April 1, 2011- Different Color/Same Color

Will upload an image when I can get the file!

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 - Faith Ringold

Title: The Flag Is Bleeding #2
Artist: Faith Ringgold
Year: 1997

This painting depicts a bleeding flag and a mother bleeding from the breasts as her children cling to her. I think this image is disturbing and beatiful at the same time. The opression that people of different races and cultures, especially the women, is still present even in African Americans, who have been free'd from slavery since 1860's and Civil Rights has been over since the 1970's, but this artist and many other people still see that unity between the races and cultures can come a lot further, this piece shows the trials and tribulations of a black mother, we do not know her story, but we feel for her as she stands behind our countries esteemed flag, which is fetchingly bleeding with her.

Friday, March 25, 2011 - Value

This image is a gradient with three similar circular objects, one in the lightest part of the gradient (center) one in the darkets (top right) and one in the medium color (bottom left). Now all of these are the same exact circles and though they look different against the background it is easier to see they are similar if you do not understand the concept of a gradient and how it has hundreds of different shades that lightly change over the picture to give a sense of glare or lightening as if a room.

Wednesday, March 23, 2011 - Music Video

Muse: Feeling Good

This music video which features, Muse, a British Rock band, is not my favorite of them, I previously did MK Ultra for my sound project and that would be one of their better songs. But this song has the visuals that not many other videos they have done can be related to. This uses roses and instruments and even the singers hair to convey a red color and tone, which goes well with the song, being that red is the color of joy, and lust. And Feeling Good is all about "Feeling Good" whether it be through the company of women (lust) or joyous occasions that you can let go of reality from. Visually this video is one of their best and has a blues feel to the rhythm.

Friday, March 18, 2011 - Money as Art

I love these images! They take a lighter side to the dictators and leaders that each money portrays. The top left is my favorite, it makes the Arabic leader look like Dumbledore off of Harry Potter and shows a fun way to make agronomic art with the faces on money. We used to make bow ties out of five, tens, and twenties, the ones did not work so well, the face is suppose to show up in the middle and this section of that article reminds me of this. Very interesting.

Wednesday, March 16, 2011 - A - R - T

Had to convert this to a jpeg because my computer at home does not have illustrator. The letters slightly overlap but the red and black show up as a continuous image.

Friday, March 4, 2011 - Synethesia

I completed my sound project for the in-class assignment using Scott Pilgrim (the movie, 2010) and the band Muse (song: Mk Ultra) as inspiration, so whenever I think of sound in art or imagery I think of this movie or movies/images like it. This one is particularly cool becuase it is not from musically inspired sound images, but instead a split second punching sound "Kroww" and the sound wave that it creates as it causes the antagonist to go flying.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011 - Money Design

This currency from North Korea. It is much more simple and epic that that of American, Euro, or even other Asian currency, I think this is because of the strict control over the currency that the residing government has over the distribution of money, Counterfeiting money in America is a jail sentence, counterfitting in North Korea could be much worse of a punishment, Also the three soldiers at the bottom look like Air Force, Navy, and Army, like as if they are saying Air, Sea, and Ground (respectively) military are so important that they put them on their money. This is a very interesting currency that has so much culture and history behind it.

Friday, February 25, 2011 - The Grid

This is an example of a Tight Grid painting that is said to resemble a Chuck Close painting with its intricate pieces and different shades.
At first I thought it was a tile floor that was just a photograph of it, little did I know that it was an actual painting made to look like tile, very intricate.

By: Mark Lawrence
Title: Tile Art #11
Date: 2007
















This is an example of a loose grid, it is not uniformed or "tight" and looks like confetti, but the house in the center is depicted and easily seen.

By: Jennifer Bartlett
Title: House Dot and Hatches
Date: 1999

Wednesday, February 23, 2011 - Chuck Close

This painting is by Chuck Close, I enjoy the honesty of the paining, the image is not something that was meant for an ad or to be seen as attractive, but it is real. This man, 'Mark', is considered to be a painting of the photorealism genre, which by definition is repainting a photograph with paint or airbrush and usually blown up, it was done before 1972, as apparent by the wardrobe. I love the realistic and honest nature of the painting, it isnt glamorized by the media and has a sense of authenticity to it that is hard to replicate.

Friday, February 18, 2011 - repetition of form

This image is a brand called Nesta, which is a clothing company for skater clothes, I used to wear this a lot as a young teen. I like the repetition of the lions mane and Gestalt principles of continuity used here. The brand logo at the Bottom, an I encased by a circle is subtle as it is in the same form as the lion's face and mane, but stands out at the bottom as breaking the mold.

Wednesday, February 16, 2011 - Gestalt 2

This blog post is an image that I took with my camera that shows the Gestalt principle of an Anomaly. The Black Lab, Daisy, in the corner is a contrast to the large lake and freshly cut grass of the bank. The complex figure of the dog is a sharp contrast to the flowing water and greenery of the bank that makes the eye gravitate towards the dog even though it is not in focus or the center focal point.

Friday, February 11, 2011 - Andy Goldsworthy

Andy Goldsworthy makes art out of nature, and I am not the artist in my family, my sister is, so I asked her for help on this one. She said just look at her facebook and computer photos, she was right, I really like this one that she took, it is the peace sign made out of flowers on a stone marble floor that says 'imagine' which i am sure is meant to signify John Lennon's death and life. I am not sure if she made this herself or found it in New York at a John Lennon memmorial, She likes to travel a lot. But I take a lot of inspiration from her and love looking at and helping her create art in many different mediums.