New Pictures

Twyla Tharp

If you're up for it...do a little writing about Tharp's concept of scratching. How can you imagine using her ideas in your own working process?

Tharp's concept might relate to some of the ideas that I have. I think that for my senior project I will have to take my bigger ideas and break them down so that I have an easier time working with different pictures I have taken. I think that scratching is nice to have when searching ideas to come up with. When looking at the things around you, you will have a better idea of how to start. My photographs are mostly taken of things that I find to be interesting in the world. The objects around me are most inspiring and scratching is kind of what I do when thinking of different ideas. I imagine using her ideas with my own work process because it will be helpful, as she says the "thinking chair" I think that I will use this a lot and I am excited to get going on my project.

Studios

1. Why do you think these things show up more than once?

• I see a lot of ideas all kind of put down on paper or a lot of paint all over the place.
• Most of there artwork is hanging up or is up on display somewhere in the room
• They all have their own unique way of making art weather it be standing up laying on the floor or working at a table
• Carrie seemed to get a lot of her ideas from the outside world like magazines or books
• Where as Jaime and Hamlett seem to make all their pieces and then hang/place all there work in a certain area will making another new piece.
  

2. How do artists develop spaces and methods for making their most authentic work as part of a daily artistic practice?

• I think that artists develop space and methods by how and where they work everyday. Some people feel that working in a little space will help them to feel more focused and ready to work, where as others might need a larger space to create new ideas from what is around them within the room. Everyone has there own ideas on how they feel the right way to work is. And once you find that certain place and method of working you can have a greater sense of what you want to create.

3. What do you see in the following artists’ studios?

• I saw a lot of papers with ideas on them, and some were final pieces that seemed to be done. But I also saw a lot of pieces that were totally not finished and seemed to be forgotten about.
• I also saw that there are a lot of books, maybe inspiration from other artists that have inspired them over the years. To maybe simple books with ideas writing inside.
• Most of the rooms have some type of radio or ipod station, most find this usual when working on their artwork. Helping to relax and get there ideas flowing

4. How does what you see in their studio relate to the way their work looks?

• Well for Jaimson he seems to have a lot going on in his studio. And from looking at his work he has a lot of colors and shapes going on in his paintings. Which pretty much shows that from his studio and how it looks his paintings kind of relate to it. With all the colors and shapes and everything is close together.

5. What do you see that YOU relate to?

• I think that I seem to get a lot of my recourses from everything that’s going on in the world. I look at events that have happened or even just something like pollution and I will decided to go out and take pictures of what I feel is going on in the world. The for the most part helps me with my inspiration. Even just taking photos of every day things helps me to get some ideas of what I want to write about.

Sculpture. First Project with Books

1. What content were you trying to address through your sculpture?

In this project I was trying to create a abstract tree like sculpture. It came out to be a very tall mountain shaped sculpture in the end. I think that since it was a history book of the different places in the world this books shows all the different places in the whole with the rolls of paper I made. It was hard at first to think of what I was trying to make out of this book. But I think that I was trying to address that there are so many places in the world that people can go to and there all over the place.

2. How effective were you in addressing this content? How, specifically, did you achieve this?

I think that I achieved this by showing that every little roll I made had a name of a body of water or a country on it. This way when you look at my sculpture you can see that every place is different and each and every little part that is made up of paper is not the same. 

3. What is most successful about your sculpture?

I think I was most successful with the way the parts of the sculpture climbs up the book it somewhat looks like it is dripping down the book with pieces of paper. I think that this look makes it very interesting and when people look at it i think that they will see that as well. 

4. What about your sculpture could be improved upon?

I think i could have made it more open with each piece I put on the sculpture. On my project I seemed to have every little rolled up paper on top of each other not leaving any space between the other ones. Making it more interesting then I did in the end. 

Observations on the History of Oil Painting

The people that have been major players throughout the history of oil painting were all white European men that all had a liking for painting. This is because in European people are better educated on the art of painting. With there money and materials to work with on there paintings they can prefect and make people see how amazing there artwork can come to be. 

I think that the things that are missing from the history of oil painting is that other people besides the Europeans did do paintings just the same. But without the education and better understanding of oil painting, other people aren’t shown as the best, and the most well known. This is because of there lack of education and everything that they were grown up with.

It has been said that oil painting did not start up in European it actually took place in other places near Afghanistan and around there. So the Europeans took up the idea after hearing from other places. 

All these oil painting either went into art galleries or museums showing there art work. These paintings “live” in these different places to show the history and the art of times when many important things happened. 

Critique Feedback

Use of Color: positive feedback, good color- nuetral, nice color on the "reeds"

                         critical feedback, blended (could have used dry brush) the color on the bowl, looks like a black and white globe

Illusion of volume & depth: positive feedback, looks like individual strands in the "reeds", nice texture wrinkly looking on the bag

critical feedback, mugs look a little wide, spout is going straight up, more shadow on the paper is sticking up

Composition choices: positive feedback, nothing looks bare, good use of the foreground and background

--> paper roll jar... etc. front then back very full

critical feedback, paper looks like it is sticking out

PROGRESS: "sooooooooo much better"- Brooke

-Better coloring in the last painting.

 What the Water Gave Me by Frida Kahlo addressed the concept of a portrait because in this painting all these different objects in this picture are very different and odd describing the persons qualities. It might be that he took different parts of ideas and forms of the person and changed them all into one. He is looking at the person and interpreting what he sees and creating from that ideas and parts of the person that arent really seen when looking at them.

 Librarian by Guiseppe Archimboldo is a portrait of a man, showing his face and body as books. Which can prove that he could be a writer or even a poet. Considering that I know nothing about this artist you can just see from how he paints what he is talking about, or painting about when painting a picture of this man.

Madame X by John Singer Sargent is a picture of a women in a beautiful dress, she looks like a high class women that wants to show her "good side." This portrait is showing just a women that wants to show that she is living in a high class world and she is the best.