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.

My White Objects Painting.

In my white objects painting, I seemed to struggle a lot with making the shades of the objects more detailed and real. I really did try to make certain objects and things stand out, but it just was not my best piece of work I have made. I think I did well on the background part and the pitcher and the bowl I think I did pretty well in. But I think I could have improved on making the paper roll and the mugs. I didn't feel that I knew how to approach these objects in the painting that thats why it didn't turn out as great as I would have wanted it to be. 

A sense of Place.

It never opened.

Where are you at?

I think that the most challenging thing for me in this course is the way you have to create shadowing and texture to the object/s that your painting.

I think when I am trying to make certain colors I know exactly what colors to mix and what amount of color that is needed to be put together to make it. Also when I look at the objects that I am painting I really know how to shape the objects to look real. 

Looking at paints show us how different people can be with there ideas of what they think art is. Some are abstract others are shapes and some are even landscapes. This is giving different variety in size color and what is on the picture.