Week 16

 Beginning this course I did not expect a lot. I hoped to learn more than I previously knew about art but I was nervous because I am not very good at art. After taking this course I have not only had many challenges, but I have realized that with enough effort I am capable of creating some pretty good art pieces. In my first post my favorite visual art was photography. Now I believe my favorite visual art is sculpture and paintings those both interested me the most and I feel through the course I have learned the most about them. This is my first online course ever and I enjoyed it. I got more out of it than I expected and I learned way more than I thought was possible in an online class. Yes, things were challenging at times but I enjoyed this online class and I would recommend it to anyone.

Art Gallery Visit #3 Self Portrait

 

1. I selected these artworks because not only were they created by some of my favorite artists but they were similar to how I wanted to create my own self portrait.

2. The media that I used to create my self portrait was pencil and colored pencil.

3. Some of the challenges I came across while creating my self portrait were the details in my self portrait that were hard for me to draw. For example, my mouth, nose and eye brows were hard for me to create while creating my self portrait. I over came these obstacles by concentrating and slowly drawing with pencil until I finally got each detail right.

4. This piece represents me because of the what I am wearing and how I am smiling. The piece represents me because my clothing is a part of me, it represents me. I need my glasses to see, I always wear that Oakley hat and Oakley is my favorite store. The sweatshirt I am wearing is my favorite sweatshirt. This all represents me very well.

5. I applied color to this piece and created a colored background which attracts the attention to me. I also used color in myself causing the eye to be attracted towards myself. I also used light, I believe the light from the camera helps with drawing attention to the center of the artwork.

6. I did enjoy working on this project. I personally am proud of my artwork and it made me realize with practice and hard work that I can accomplish and overcome obstacles that I never thought were possible to over come. At the beginning of this class I did not think I was a good drawer and now I believe I am an alright artist.

7. I am proud of my final artwork and I truly believe that my self portrait looks like me. I was skeptical in the beginning because like I said, I do not think I am a good drawer. However, I impressed myself and I am proud of my final outcome.   

Project #4 Journal

I personally enjoyed this project. At times I found it difficult to find the perfect artwork to put into my exhibit but with hard work I found everything I needed. The theme of my exhibition was Love and Violence and just relationships in general and the title was Love and Violence: Love to Feel Wanted and Want to Feel Loved. I based my exhibition off of my previous art gallery visit. While there I enjoyed an exhibition similar to the one I made and it was definitely the most interesting to me. The videos that we were assigned to watch really did help not only my understanding of collections and creating exhibitions but helped give me ideas of what I could do when creating my own. I personally believe that this art project was not only beneficial to me but I enjoyed it as well.

module 13 and 14

First, for the video, "The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art", a major key concept is what lowbrow originally meant compared to what it currently means. Originally "Lowbrow" meant a style of pop art that contained pornography in it. Currently "Lowbrow" just means no style or taste within a piece of art. As for "Tate Modern", it discusses creating exhibitions and how to do so, going over things like space, and light and the type of frame to use. As well as creating a theme of the exhibition, whether it be a specific artist or a specific theme. I personally believe this video helped me the most in creating my exhibition. Finally, "An acquiring mind: Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan Museum of Art", this also discussed museums of art and exhibitions and creating collections of art. It discussed the process of how he decides what to put in the museums and/ or collections. This video too, helped me with creating my own exhibition. I do believe these videos helped in creating my exhibition, it helped me in the process of choosing what types of art to put in my exhibition as well as what frame to use and what theme. My opinion on these films is they do add depth to my understanding, specifically my understanding of how to create exhibitions and or "Collections" and I like this way of learning.

Module 12

1. As you can see from my previous blogs I state that I normally chose one of the videos because I already know a little bit about it and I want to learn more and the other video I do not know anything about. This is the same case with this, I chose the video "Andy Warhol: Images on Images" because I knew who Andy Warhol was, however I did not know anything specific about him and his techniques as an artist. The other video I chose was "Uncertainty: Modernity and Art", because I did not know much about this topic and I was interested in learning how arts influence on the modern world and visa versa.
2. I found that in the Andy Warhol video I learned his different techniques he uses in his art and I learned that he does a process called silk screening. I learned he generally does his art on both things that he is interested in and things that are popular in the world during that time. For example, his silk screenings of Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, each of them were popular in the world at one time or another and during that time Andy Warhol did art work on them.
As for the other video, I learned that each piece of art in modern day has a bigger meaning. I learned that generally, if a picture is showing some sort of distortion that the thing being portrayed is not necessarily considered to be normal. An example of this is in the video during it showed artwork during the 1930's and Nazism, it showed artwork of Jewish people and their bodies and facial structures were all distorted because during that time period Jewish people were not considered to be normal.
3. I find again that although the videos relate to the text because of all of the information in each, I still think that the videos are more informational. Although, the text book may be a little more specific on certain topics I still find it easier to understand with the videos.
4. My opinion on the films is that I enjoy this new way of learning. I find it beneficial to me because I find myself getting bored while reading the text book readings, however when learning similar information through these videos I find myself very interested and ready to learn.

Art Gallery Visit #2

Step 1:
1. Rosalyn Drexler "Who Does She think She is?"
2. Love and Violence
Step 2:
1. Bright on the painting but dim in the room
2. The colors of the wall are white
3. Plain white drywall with white marble door frames and dark floor tiles
4. There is an open floor layout so your eyes flow from one piece of artwork to the next. You are also able to see other exhibitions from the current exhibition you are in.
Step 3:
1. Each artwork is spaced out equal distance apart from each other. Also, it is spaced out by warm and cool colors, every other.
2. They feature at least two people showing either love or violence towards each other. For example, either kissing or slapping.
3. Each artwork shows a different form of love and violence. For example, one artwork shows kissing, others show hugging. For violence, one shows slapping, another may show rape.
4. In black and white frames that only cover the outer edge of the canvas.
5. Each artwork is labeled by the action represented in the paintings and by the artist.
6. Approximately 4 feet apart.
Step 4:
1. For the pictures that portray love, most of which are either kissing or hugging. Generally the mood for each is love and affection. They are generally warmer, more affectionate colors with a black frame around the canvas. The violence paintings on the other hand, are generally more cool colors like blue, and they have a white frame around each canvas. The mood in these paintings is generally hatred of towards each other. Another running similarity in most of the paintings were the women were mostly white, whereas, in both the love and violence paintings the male in the picture was black.

Module 11

The videos I chose were called "Dada and Surrealism" and "The Mystical North: Spanish Art from the 19th century to Present". I decided to chose to watch "Dada and Surrealism" because I honestly did not know about either of them so I wanted to learn more. I also picked "The Mystical North: Spanish Art from the 19th century to Present", because I vaguely knew some facts about Spanish art and I was interested in learning more and hoping to find out more about their culture and what they like to focus their art pieces on. As for the Dada and Surrealism video I learned that both Dada and Surrealism were movements of art after world war one. I learned that was basically forms of art that express dreams and visions whereas Dada was art that generally went against the traditional artistic values. Dada was created because of the war. As for "The Mystical North: Spanish Art from the 19th century to Present", I learned the differences of art from past to present. I learned that in the past their art was focused on war and goriness because that is what all artists thought would be the new "norm" in the past. Currently, I was excited to be able to learn about the new types of art such as architecture that is being created in Spain like Barcelona. I personally enjoy watching these videos more than reading the text book I find that I not only am more interested in the videos but I am able to grasp information better through these videos than I am with the text book information.