lilymac334's Module 5 Albright Knox Visit slideshow on Photobucket

lilymac334's Module 5 Albright Knox Visit slideshow on Photobucket

A.)  Which artworks make an impact or impression on me?
Why?

1. One piece of art I found fascinating
was the Surrealism on TV, 1986 by
Robert Heinecken. The flashing on the three slide show projections of 200
different images of all sorts not just one category or theme of pictures of
that time was to me a brilliant idea. It captured the essence of times. It
captured moments even if they were facial expression from appeared to be new
cast woman, it felt like I was watching history unfold or as if I was living at
during those exact moments in time.

2. Another art piece called Mirrored Room, 1966 by artists Lucas
Samaras made of mirror on wood I found to be super interesting. I always wanted
to go into an all glass room like they would show on television that are
usually at carnivals and such. It gives almost an uneasy feeling like your
being watched but its only you seeing you from hundreds of angles. Also, seeing
a glass chair and table (me being a criminal justice major of course I thought
of an enclosed interrogation room) but I also felt like  doll in a glass house, like I felt out of
place.

B.)  Which artworks do I feel a connection with? Why?

1. Arturo Herrera, I have studied this artist back
in high school (watched the whole series of “play”) and I personally love all
of his ideas and artwork. His collages are beautiful. The episode from the
series of play placed on the wall of the museum just shows such how amazing his
techniques of mixing shapes and designs and overlapping them and the addition
of cartoons. I feel connected to his works of art, the cartoons bring me back
to my childhood and the squiggly designs he cuts out with lots of colors on
them brings out the fun and kid in myself.

2. Im a person who often uses color because im a very positive person. There
was something about this oil on canvas painting Body and Soul, 2007
created by Warren Isensee that drew me in. I felt a connection with the symmetrical
design and the colors made me feel some type of warmth and comfort.

C.)   Which artworks would I like to know more about?
Why?

1.     I would like to know more about the artist David
Adamo. His art pieces didn’t have labels on them so I am not sure what they are
called but this one piece of art caught my attention id like to look into. It
looks like a headless grooms man made of steel or tin and hes dangling by strings
like a puppet however his control system lays on the floor the strings all
tangled and some unattached anymore. It has a melancholy feel and there are
broken cookies on the floor like a wedding that was sweet now broke up.

2. I really enjoyed this artists oil on canvas
painting, Dancer
in a Café, 1912 by Jean Metzinger. I love
the texture and colors she uses to make some areas pop. The different shapes
and light shading. There is a beauty in this art that I want to learn more
about and see other works of art of hers.

lilymac334's My Logo Represetation slideshow on Photobucket

lilymac334's My Logo Represetation slideshow on Photobucket

1. For my logo, I knew I wanted
to do something with a tiger. I really love wildlife and im hoping to get into
a career where I can help rescue them so I though id create a logo representing
myself and what I love. I created a tiger with my name (represent Tiger Lily).
I created the tiger because its my favorite animals. It represents beauty and a
beast. It represents strength and something pure and rare. Something that
should not be domesticated but wild and free.

2. First I tried
to figure out which position I wanted the face of the tiger to be in. Do I want
it roaring, do I want its profile or its face on an angle or just facing
sideways. Once I picked the way I wanted the face to go, I wanted the Tiger to
still be looking forward even though its face is sideways so the on viewer
makes eye contact. I wanted to use oil pastels because I have a lot of fun
blending with them and its easy for me to make the fur have texture. Then once
done with the tigers face, I wanted the Tiger to stand out so I added
watercolor pencil to the background just to liven it up a bit. Then I add my
name Lily with what you can consider either jungle leave mark cuts in the name
or claw scratches its up to you. I wanted the name to be bold so that what
represented me the most (my name) stood out. I used red because it contrasts
well with the Tiger being orangeish.

3. The most
important discovery that I made about my logo is that the image I drew
represents me successfully. I could have done the background a little different
instead of doing multiple colors (looks a little cheesy) but I the focal point
is the tiger and my name and I made both pop out. Its supposed to draw you in
and I think it does. Im happy with it overall!

4. The most
important information I learned was that logos are trial and error. It takes a
number of sketches and attempts at making a logo that really makes an object
pop and catch the consumer’s attention. You want something strong, simple that overall
capture the essence of the business. You throw out there a pitch which an
introduction piece (usually always needs tweaking, gets criticized and
completely redesigned) but its an idea. Sometimes a logos image just needs to
be edited and tweaked in little areas that will makes a huge difference of
selling the product successfully.

lilymac334's Module 4 slideshow on Photobucket

lilymac334's Module 4 slideshow on Photobucket

1.   
Creating the value scale I had a little difficulty going from
black to lighter shades using the charcoal because the shades almost looked the
same so I would rub some off and put some on and rub some off but I had fun
doing it. Creating the color wheel was a little frustrating because Im used to not using cyan, yellow and magenta as my primary colors so it through me off a bit. I was not
able to figure out at first how my primary colors made the secondary colors or
red and blue but I was able to get the green easily by mixing the cyan and
yellow together. I figured it out after delicate detail. 

2. I enjoyed working with the acrylic paints the most because that’s just a
media I enjoy using overall. I like painting so I love mixing colors to create new
colors.

3. The most important discovery I found was the collaboration of colors can create something new if you play around with them and also with the charcoal, the shading from black to white shows how unlimited the usage of shading can go. The value scale can be used to create a whole work of art without the use of color to make it stand out. 

4. What is the most important information you learned from
watching the videos for this project? What is your opinion of the videos?

I think what I learned that is most important from the videos is that there is one false way to perceive the color wheel as to the primary colors just being red, yellow and blue as opposed to what the real primary colors are such as cyan, yellow and magenta.  These three colors can almost make up any color if put together it seems like(minus white, grey) 

lilymac334's Elements and Principles of Art slideshow on Photobucket

lilymac334's Elements and Principles of Art slideshow on Photobucket

Module 3 blog

1. Certain colors can trigger certain emotions and feelings depending on the situation or individual perception. It is assumed that the color blue can quench a person’s appetite and that’s why you don’t see a lot of blue foods or blue surroundings in restaurants. Specific colors can have cultural or individual associations. Such as the color blue we dominantly use when we buy gifts for a newborn baby boy and pinks/yellows/purples to celebrate the birth of a baby girl. Color is how humans perceive objects when they absorb light.

2. What aspect I find most fascinating about color is the way certain colors can be interpreted in different meanings. The first thing I think about when I see the color red is love. However what I think about next is danger or blood. Orange/yellow I think about the sun and flowers then I can think about flames. I find it interesting that we are accustomed to thinking positively and negatively about just one color. I also find it interesting how we perceive colors to be gender stereotypes. Blues, greens, oranges, reds are all seen masculine and pinks, yellows, purples are seen as feminine. Who came up with such a gender separation? How would it feel different if this idea wasn’t planted into our heads at all?

3. In the Emotions video, I love the way artists use colors to express their current emotions or feelings. I know I am personally moved when I see dark shades of colors I feel melancholy, or depressed and then bold bright colors bring out a feeling of some spontaneous exciting nature. I loved the way the artists June had this relationship of love/hate with her painting. I know when I paint and people comment how perfect it is I always seem to be fixing even the slightest parts of it because something always feels slightly off. I have a personal connection with her there. I love how the colors worked together and it made her feel as if she were back in the country. The short clip where they showing artist Mark R’s work really captured my attention. Just looking at his paintings (which he wanted to capture a response of the viewers using colors alone) using dark shades of red and maroons you can feel anger/unease/hatred/evil all negative feelings and emotions, which represents exactly what he wanted to portray. He hated the 4 seasons where his paintings were to be located in a restaurant in NY he told us he hoped these paintings would quench the appetite of the customers, make them feel trapped within the room basically with no way out so “they can do nothing but bang their heads against the wall”. Exactly what he described is how I would feel seeing those paintings surrounding me. He really captured with just colors how he felt.

4. -“the people who came to the chapel in northern Italy to pray didn’t care about the artistic techniques but the stories of the bibles but such techniques intensified the stories so people could emotionally identify with them they saw feeling in all its light and shade”

In the Feelings video, I think what I have noticed the most about these art works made during the humanist art in the Italian Renaissance from this video, most of the paintings seem to be colors of similar taste. Lots of gold, cream, browns, auburn colors and then in little areas spurts of bold bright colors bringing the paintings identity or emotions out. The colors give these painting an older feel and it seems to be used in paintings that have people of wealth or bravery being shown. The artists Goya paints “despair of humanity” using dark shades of color and black to give a feel or sense of hopelessness, remorse and of melancholy. He tends to do oil paintings or sketches in back and white when there is some type of sadness such as the sketch of the death of the Queen. I love that the serious messages Goya wants to portray in his paintings are being done so using serious colors.

Module 2 response

1. For each video and article list/discuss the key concepts you learned.

Article- The human brain is wired in such a way that we can make sense of lines, colors and patterns on a flat canvas. Artists throughout human history have figured out ways to create illusions such as depth and brightness that aren't actually there but make works of art seem somehow more real.

- The human visual system is organized such that the center of gaze is specialized for small, detailed things, and the peripheral vision has a lower resolution -- it's better at big, blurry things.

Video 1- I learned how each era has come up with theories one may contradict the other or one may bounce of another philosphers ideas to shape the theories we use today to create works of art.

Video 2-symmetry vs “aesthetics”

- Every act of judgment by the observer involves making a choice making a decision using ambiguace input and therefore we have evolved dozens of areas in the human brain exclusively primarily involved with visual processing

2. Which philosopher's theroy on aesthetics do you feel is most important? Be sure to mention the philosphers name, era (time in history), and contribution to the aesthetic theory in your response.

-At the height of the Enlightenment Immanuel Kant a Prussian philosopher argued that fundamental concepts structure human experience, and that reason is the source of morality. Kant argued that our experiences are structured by necessary features of our minds. In his view, the mind shapes and structures experience so that, on an abstract level, all human experience shares certain essential structural features. From 14-20mins it talks about how he created a systematic theory of art and taste. Studied human action and concluded that as long as the realms of nature and freedom are separated, the individual is torn apart, a citizen of two kingdoms. Aesthetics is constrained. Sensibility and reason are brought together by means of imagination.  Introduced that the judgment of the beautiful is not ruled bound rather it is based on a feeling. The feeling can be shared among other people but there is no exact science of the beautiful. He said that what causes satisfaction in the judgment of the beautiful is pure form experienced in selfless contemplation. I find that Kont understands the true balance of art through these descriptions

3. What do you think about Changeux and Ramachandran scientific view of aesthetics and art? What was the most interesting fact you discovered from each speakers lecture? 

-I find it interesting how they began by speaking about the development of the brain that it takes 15 years to come to around full growth and then how the brain can then processes images

-Changeux: (could not understand half of what he was saying) But I thought him speaking about the conscious and non conscious reading was interesting as well as him talking about the rules = acquired patterns of connections (scaffoldings) stored in long term memory. Rules are  1) Novelty= constant search for the unanticipated 2) Consensus Partium = the universal search for harmony 3) the exemplum= the artist attempt to share his <<conception of the world>> 5) schematization= bottom up realism vs top down abstraction? 6) evolutionary origins of art and aesthetics = sexual selection, group selection, intersubjective communication and social bonding, by-product of brain evolution

-Ramachandran: point of art is not create a realistic picture of a woman. The reason art works is so many areas doing different specialized processing different aspects of an image that are talking to each other that what the artist is doing is creating images and distorting images its creating hyperstimuli. He has 8 laws to aesthetics 1) grouping “binding” 2) peak shift principal 3)contrast 4)isolating a single cue to optimally excite cortical visual areas (“attention”) 5) perceptual “problem solving” 6) symmetry 7)abhorrence of unique vantage points and suspicious coincidences 8) art as a metaphor 

4. How do the videos and article relate to the readings in the text?

Article- relates to the texts by having similar interesting in study. Why does one create art? What is it about art that’s intriguing to some?

Videos- Such as in the text, it provides examples of different artists works at different periods of time and different cultures with reasoning behind each pieces of art. These artists and philosophers opinions and are too historical marks on the artwork and understanding of art that we have today. The second video connected with the article in the scientific study of art and the how it works in the brain.

5. What is your opinion of the films and article? How do they add depth to understanding of the topics in your reading in the text?

Article- I like the article and the book much more then the videos. I like how in depth the article went for example spoke particularly about lines “It turns out that these outlines tap into the same neural processes as the edges of objects that we observe in the real world.” It provides information that wasn’t in the book that is very interesting that I would have not known about. Talking about relevant emoticons. It gives more information that I can understand about how he brain works in certain situations.

For example “Livingstone calls the "what" and "where" streams. The "what" allows us to see in color and recognize faces and objects. The "where" is a faster and less detail-oriented but helps us navigate our environment but is insensitive to color. When our brains recognize a color contrast but no light contrast, that's called "equal luminance," and it creates a sort of shimmering quality, Livingstone said. And that's what's going on in a Monet painting.”

Videos-I did not know as much about all the philosophies that went into the understanding of art and the debates and contrasting ideas that helped shaped the way we look at art today. Also, it provided information on the way the brain works and how images are processed and how does one develop art through these processes