Week 2

09/06/2016

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ART THAT MAKES YOU THINK

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The ability to create is special characteristic of humans

--art as common experience

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Work of art:

The visual expression of an idea or experience, formed with skill, through the use of a medium

Medium:

A particular material along with it's accompanying technigue (PI. MEDIA)

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WHAT IS CREATIVITY?

The ability to bring fouth somthing new that has value

--Relevance or new way of thining not a novlty

Potential to influence future thought or action

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What I learned in class:

Art is better with cats! Taking already existing artwork and changing the art to have a cat in the art work in some form. Either replacing the main object/person with the cat. The art work made everyone laugh. It is afun way to express the persons love for cats. It is intersting because you would normally not see these cats doing what they are doing in the art. The cat the art work also looked like my cat so I loved it!

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09/07/2016

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WHAT IS CREATIVITY?

Five traits that define creativity:

AQONE

Assocation

Questioning

Observing

Networking

Experimenting

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Visual creativity is the use of imagery to communicate beyong words. It can be high tech and or low tech.

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I also Learned about a store down town eau claire on barstow called Tangled up in you that supports local artist and their workd.

Also learned about the final project outline

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Week 3

09/12/2016

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Chapter One:

Iconography:

Subject, symbols and motifs used in an image to convey it's meaning

       -Mother and child as Mary and baby jesus

Not all works contain iconography

   Asian Traditions:

      Amida Buddna

      -Long earlobs representing life as wealthy prince who wore heavy earrings

      -Simple garmet

      -Hands folded in meditation

      -Lotus flower

      -sumbolized that enlightenment ca come in the midst of life

Pop Culture

Retablo-fold ark in Mexico

*Roman Bearden 1911-1988

Jaz Music

   Musical spacing and structure relationship between

*At the age 9-10 we loose creativity because of society depict world

   We are sumbolically until age 6

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We reviewed for the quiz this monday.

*As long as we put in much effort in class and show up for class every day/week Crystal will drop a bad quiz score.*

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09/13/2016

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Kate shared about the dance group called Two to Tango

at UWEC MePhee Gym, Every Sunday 630-830

$30 for the year or $15 for the term.

Learn different dances every week.

https://www.facebook.com/Two-to-Tango-151057078314701/

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-Kate also shared her art work

Which were awesome Cross Stitch work

I loved the Cat one

My classmates at my table had:

-Josh shared his art work 

Which was an optical Illusion peice.

-Gabby had made a stuff anmial of a squid, and tons of jewlery that she hand makes

-Gace made a very awesome corcal drawing of Tom Hardy, who is her favorite artor.

 

We got to she two peers shared there profolios so far and I learned about the Artist Vince Low 

who I have decided I really like.  He is dyslexia and uses scribbling as a art form  >>>>>>>>>>>

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Chapter 2:

The Purposes and Functions of Art

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Competencies

  Explain the purposes and functions of art

Intro:

Art forms as a result of meeting deep and subtle needs as a society 

    -public purposes, not personal goals of the artist

Art in its social and cultural context

SIX FUNCTIONS: (DCWCPS)

Delight

Commemoration

Worship/Ritual

Commentary

Persuasion

Self-expression

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09/14/2016

Chapter 2

Function of art #1 Art for Delight

Appreciation of beauty or decoration

Delight in an element of surprise

Aesthetics

   An awareness of beauty of a quality that evokes a sense of elevated awareness in the viewer

   Definitions of "beauty"

   varies across cultures

   pleasant or inspiring subject/thoughtful execution 

   harmonious balance of colors 

Classical 

Greek or Renaissance in the west

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Function of art #2 Art as Commentary

Answer to a need for information

A visual account of an event, person, or opinion

Communication between artist and viewer through subject matter

Impressionist artist-Captured what they had seen-

Painterly(loost, spontaneous) brushwork

Artist's commentaries of them include= Personal judgments like conditions, fact, and politics

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Function of art #3 Art Worship and Ritual

Enhances religious contemplation

In the time of Thomas Aquinas attractive representations raise viewers "To the knowledge of intelligible truths"

Objects used in divine rituals-made to look precious-

Zen school of Buddhism (meditation)

Eskimos of  SouthWest Alaska (Shamans/Sprit/Masks)

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Week 4

09/19/2016

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Chapter 2

Function of art #4 Art for Commemoration

An aid to memory

Often a public celebration

   -Of a person or event/honoring patriotic actions

Connection with chain o humanity

   -human life significant and valuable

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Function of art #5 Art of Persuasion

Inviting and Urging to viewer to do OR to think thing that would not otherwise be done

Louis XIV: Realized the power of visual imagery on public opinion versailles, place and garden (Symbol of Monarchy)

Classical Greek sculpture:

   Idealism of humans presented in the prime of life with serious pursuits

   Encouraged sober self-Restraint

Mende masks-symbolic visual language to instill proper behavior

Recent Times

   advertisement media persuade us to buy or to believe something

   Artists criticized or influence values and public opinion

 

Function of art #6 Art of Self-Expression

Not the primary reason for creating art for most of human history

Art for most of human history

   other social and cultural needs engaging artists talents until recently

Artist conveys information about: Personality, feelings, and worldview

Separate from social cause/demand

Self-Portraiture

   assemblage-collection of objects gathered into work

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My 6 functions for our Discussion (SEE PICTURES UNDER PROJECTS)

DELIGHT= I choose this Painting because to be it is beautiful and inspiring. Bright red is the main focus color.  This Painting is by Maria Magdalena Oosthuizen

COMMENTARY=I Choose this Painting It is a visual of and event back in the 19th-20th century in Rome. This is Roman architecture/Realistic Style By Edoardo Ehore Forti, shows his communication of the artist and the viewer.

WORSHIP= This is a Buddhist Artifact. I choose this because I have been very interested in Buddhism and I have always loved their artwork/artifacts. Meditation and very precious.

COMMEMORATION= I choose an 9/11 Fire Fighter Tribute Chopper tank it is done as airbrush, made by Bartosz Lewicki. This is an aid to memory for the sad 9/11 event. Very valuable

PERSUASION=This is a Digital artwork by Dad Arulz “an Ocean of Persuasion”

When I look at this piece I see a women trying to mediate/keep calm with the crazy messed up society trying to influence her.

SELF-EXPRESSION=This Painting by Karina Liero Is the perfect way I would express myself. The artist says this piece is the fore that keeps deep thoughts moving. It shows the human figure through one of its more pure and spontaneous motions.  “What moves us to achieve goals and pursuit dreams.”

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09/20/2016

The class shared their discussions pictures to the class along with our progress with our blogs

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09/21/2016

We finished sharing our 6 function pictures to the class

Crystal showed us Cartoon Classics

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Chapter 3

Element of Design

Nine elements=Art support/Visual Art

1) Shape

2)Line

3)Mass

4)Texture

5)Light

6)Color

7)Space

8&9) Time and Motion

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Week 5

09/26/2016

Chapter 3

The Visual Elements

INTRODUCTION

Two-dimensional (2-D) Surface

     A plane that can be converted with visual elements, such as a drawing or painting

Three-dimensional (3-D) Space

  Same Visual elements, but not confined to a plane, as in sculpture and architecture 

Horizontal lines= at rest ( eye level)

Vertical line=strong and rigid, suggest stablility.

COLORS because of the world values colors have meanings and can create emotions

applied texture= Don't have to to touch it but can see what it would feel like w/o touching

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ARTIST WE TALKED ABOUT IN CLASS

Roy Lichtenstein-house illusion-

Daniel Richter-Ooa2

Nick Cave-- http://www.jackshainman.com/artists/nick-cave/

Doug Wheeler-- https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/4240

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Line

Our primary visual means for recording and symbolizing ideas, observations, and our feelings. Extension of a point where in length dominates over width.

Paths of action

Intersection and contrasting paths

in Friedlander’s Bismarck, North Dakota>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

Characteristics of line

Active or static, aggressive or passive, sensual or mechanical, can define boundaries or imply volumes/masses, can be grouped to depict light, shadow, patterns, and textures.

 

Implied Line

Suggests visual connections. The expanse within the outline of a two-dimensional area, or within the outer boundaries of a three-dimensional object

 

Geometric shapes are precise and regular, common in human-made world

 

Organic shapes are irregular, often curving or rounded

 

Biomorphic suggests shapes based on natural forms.

When appearing on a picture plane it creates a second shape out of background area.

Figures or positive shapes are dominant

Ground or negative shapes are in the background

 

Mass is the physical bulk of a solid body of material

Volume is when the mass encloses space

Closed form is what does not interact openly with surrounding space

Open form is what that interacts with surrounding space

Space is the indefinable, general receptacle of all things

Implied depth

Vertical placement: Objects placed low on the picture appear to be closer to the viewer than objects placed high on the picture

 Time and Motion: The invisible fourth dimension in which events occur in succession

Light: The natural light contains all the colors that make up the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum

Value: (tone) Relative lightness and darkness of surfaces

Color: A component of light that affects our thoughts, moods, actions, and even health

Local color: The color that appears to our eyes as that of an object

Achromatic often known as neutrals

Texture: Tactile quality of a surface or visual representations of that quality. Through touching or visual

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Week 6

10/03/2016

Chapter 4

The Principles of Design

 

Composition: Organization of visual elements, as in painting and photography

Design: Applicable to the entire range of visual arts, Indicates both the process of organizing visual elements and the product of that process

Unity: The appearance or condition of oneness

     A feeling that all the elements in a work belong together

Variety: Provides diversity, entering unity

Pattern: A repetitive ordering of design elements

Symmetrical balance: Near or exact matching of left and right sides of a three-dimensional form or two-dimensional composition 

Asymmetrical balance: Left and right sides are not the same

    Elements balanced according to size and meaning around the center of gravity

Principles of visual balance: A large form is heavier and more attention-getting than a small form. -- two or more small forms can balance one large form.

    Warm colors tend to advance toward the viewer, while cool colors tend to recede.

    The warmer of two temperatures will be visually heavier because it seems closer to the viewer.

Emphasis: Draws attention to an area, If a specific spot or figure, it is called a focal point.

Subordination: Use of neutral areas of lesser interest that keep viewer from being distracted

Rhythm: Any kind of movement or structure of dominant/subordinate sequence

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Talked about new art club at CVTC

We shared our 6 functions of art

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Week 7

10/10/2016

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Art Club is free to join Mondays 5-7

Art fair-- by art club 10-12-2016

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We had a chapter 4 test. Reviewed art projects of American culture

I saw some cool stuff from my class mates

Few drawings of a certain view they have on a culture like

1) Obese compare to 3rd world countries

2) Mult prepedicies--class systems  & Importances, military, and non basic. 

3) Bald eagle watching white man flicking off baby- baby flicking off man and both on cellphones

4) What other countries see us as

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Learned about competency/Evaluate artworks-- www.artqoutes.net/art_quotes/cristics/index.htm

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Chapter 5

Evaluating Art

3 basic Art Criticism Theories

Formal: Looking at how a work is made parts of a composition coming together organization most important factor, values innovation in style above all comparison to a words contemporaries

Contextual: First examines environmental influences on a work of art Economic system, cultural values, politics "what else was going on at the time?"precise: "Who made it" and "Who is he/she?" Looking for personal meanings, deep psychological insight or human concern psychoanalysis and gender studies. Pieta.

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Censorship

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Week 8

10/17/2016

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Chapter 5 

What we find in a work depends on what we are looking for

personal values judgments

involucres viewers personality

beging with an open mind to be beyond snap judgments

practice seeing rather than looking

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ART MARKET and art auctions can only show what a certain group of collectors wants to pay for given work at a given time--Record holding $119.9 million for Edward Munch's the Scream\

Dark values only loosely correlate with historical importance or innovation of a work.

Formalism= Innovate/move your feelings--express

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had a midterm

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Week 9

10/24/2016

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Competency: Evaluate art form and content related to issues of censorship.

--Explore rational used to censor art

--Explain why some art worker controversial

--Explore censorship as a type of values system

What makes art great?

At least one element of art criticism must strongly present for it to be regarded as a "masterpiece"

Self-examination can uncover why a viewer values a work as "great" why we relate.

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Three people shared censorship diss post and 5 people shared portfolio

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Chapter 6

Drawing

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Here is my video of the drawing video i picked 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62YPNlq7nDo

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Drawing: An immediate and accessible way to communicate through imagery--conveys an artist's imaginings

The drawing process

Sketchbooks/receptive drawing/projective drawing

good drawing can appear deceptively simple

cartoon: Full-sized drawing made as a guide for a large work in another medium

often used for fresco painting, mosaic or tapestry.

Also learned about tools and technigues  from dry media, lines, paper, and liquid media.

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Week 10

10/31/2016

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

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The power of concentration and balance rock balance=art

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Crystal shared an awesome picture that I found online >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Chapter 7 

Painting

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Three ingredients of all paint

Pigment

Binder

Vehicle

Pigments provide color. -- Usually in the form of fine power 

Must be stable while drying

Binders hold pigment particles together--oil pant contains linseed oil.

Tempera: paint contains egg yolk

Support--structure underneath the painting

must be sealed--sizing--followed by a primer for uniform surface

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A staining technique 

A paint applied in thin, translucent washes

highlights obtained by leaving areas of white paper unpainted

Opaque (non translucent) detailing

Gouache--Opaque watercolor with a vehicle that includes fine chalk powder

True fresco (buon fresco): Pigments suspended in water applied to damp lime-plaster surface--most modern frescoes utilized cartoons

plasters dries quickly

Matte (not shiny) surface when dry

Gesso: Preferred group for egg tempera, chalky, water-based liquid-- disadvantages- colors change during drying, difficult to rework and not flexible, requires place underpainting

advantages-- provides both increased opacity and when thinned, greater transparency, slow drying time, pigments change little when drying, flexible

Oil: Direct painting, completed at one sitting, wet onto dry, Application techniques--Impasto, thinned, wet onto wet.

Smoothed brushstrokes in the middle heighten troupe l'ceil.

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Here is the photo of the painting i chose for the discussion post 

By "Palette Knife" By Leonid Afremov  >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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Week 11

11/07/2016

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Chapter 8

Printmaking

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Prints--made from a matrix

Edition--group of images from the same matrix

Often numbered--indicates the sequence of pulled prints

Progressive proofs--Artists proof (AP)-- a satisfactory stage

 Purposes of printmaking

Reasons to make prints of artists

Less expensive--than painting or sculpture so they can be purchased by wider group of viewers

Easy way to influence social change via wide distribution, in comparison to unique works of art

Fascination with the process and craft

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Relief prints--Example in fingerprints, rubber stamps, and wet tires

Woodcut or woodblocks-- Lends itself to bold black-and-white contrast

Does not easily lent itself to color

Influenced Impressionist and Post-Impressionist painters

Color woodcuts--multiple woodblocks registered, or aligned, carefully

Wood engraving

Traditionally used for book illustration, very dense wood set on end, use of metal tools.

Linoleum cut or linocut--Gouging of synthetic linoleum surface in areas not intended to take ink

Process--Ink daubed on surface wiped clean except in grooves, damp paper passes beneath press roller-- characteristic plate marks of roller

Engraving--Artist uses a burin, or engraving tool, on metal plate

Drypoint--similar to line engraving--displaced metal leaves burr, a rough edge--mostly used to fill in details of etchings

Lithography

Surface of planographic printing process based on mutual antipathy of oil and water

faster and more flexible method

process--Artist draws image on Bavarian limestone or plate without cutting--using litho crayons/pencils or tusche liquid​

Offset technique--used in printed books that have pictures, burned onto metal lithographic plate, then inked

Stencil: A sheet with a design cut out of it

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