here is our final logo that for my group which consist of Cheryl, Ellen, Kiara, and Nick
Saturday, April 17, 2010
"Aerodynamics and Silicon"- Inflatopia
A dream conspired and conjured up to destroy what little bit of sanity I had left, and mind you I never had much to begin with.
here is our final logo that for my group which consist of Cheryl, Ellen, Kiara, and Nick
here is our final logo that for my group which consist of Cheryl, Ellen, Kiara, and Nick
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Imaginations Idealized, Fears Realized- The final Self Portrait
These are the final pictures of my Self Portrait. It is pretty different than the proposal, but as I was working on the wire sculptures I realized I loved them more and felt that they represented me well, and then incorporated the swirls from before. The manikin was an add on that I wasn't sure If it helped or hurt the piece, but it did happen to give it more meaning to me personally. Overall I could write and over explain everything but that defeats the purpose of art sometimes. I did feel however that I did not get my message across as well to the viewer as it was in my head, well not as well as the girl with the glass studded cupcake. It looked so delicious.
"Charlatans With Inflated Perceptions"- The first of the logos
The start of the Inflatopia project logos...
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Sunday, March 21, 2010
"Grim Confections"- Color and Texture examples
Here are some of the color/textures I have been working on.
This isn't obviously all them but, I put time and care into making each one. On average it takes about 5 minutes to do one, so that is more or less. I don't like working like a lab rat in a room with 48 other people crammed into a room. If I wanted that I should have been a business major, planning a future as a corporate drone. Well enough of this, I need more spray paint.
This isn't obviously all them but, I put time and care into making each one. On average it takes about 5 minutes to do one, so that is more or less. I don't like working like a lab rat in a room with 48 other people crammed into a room. If I wanted that I should have been a business major, planning a future as a corporate drone. Well enough of this, I need more spray paint.
Saturday, March 20, 2010
"Before Electric Light"- I should probabbly update something?
Spring Break is almost coming to an end and I have been putting off this crap for as long as I can... I guess I can show some pictures of my "self portrait" I have been working on.
It actually looks pretty different than my original idea. I realized I liked my wire sculptures more and that the more I worked on it the more it felt like me. I don't feel like talking about it much because I feel that I never get what across my point as well as I can verbally ever, people just don't seem to get it when I do. So decide for yourselves. I feel like Andy Warhol and Velvet Underground with the feeling of nihilism about my work, except its not a persona I am trying to play... I just really don't give a s#*t anymore.
It actually looks pretty different than my original idea. I realized I liked my wire sculptures more and that the more I worked on it the more it felt like me. I don't feel like talking about it much because I feel that I never get what across my point as well as I can verbally ever, people just don't seem to get it when I do. So decide for yourselves. I feel like Andy Warhol and Velvet Underground with the feeling of nihilism about my work, except its not a persona I am trying to play... I just really don't give a s#*t anymore.
Wednesday, March 10, 2010
"Spining Rave Lights"-Finally some Color
Saturation Hue ValueWell now I gotta find some junk to bring for later
"Alien Spaceships Floating in the Skies"- My Calder Mobile
So my Calder Mobile is Done
And it was an imitation of this one
And it was an imitation of this one
"Whats in the making of an Imaginary Soul"- A little bit about my "self portrait"
I am so behind on updating this pointless blog, mostly due to midterms, I have other classes and a GPA to maintain. So while my mind tries to remember what to even blog about given the many things that have happened in the past week or so I will start with the one thing I can remember that sorta kinda, not really, something like a, but so not 2d or 3d so it must be 4d or something, "self portrait" that looks nothing like you, but not abstract either. Yea the looks on the faces of the young hopefuls in the room were just as confused as that explanation of our next 3d project. Well I have some thoughts on what I might do for it, of course everything looks better in my head, because quite frankly my talents with 2d drawing are completely useless in this class.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
"End Game"- My Thoughts on Damien Hirst
The work of Damien Hirst can be described as an approach of skepticism to the way we see the world. By confronting common worldviews, ones that are hardly noticed, he allow viewers of his work to examine their own values and where they stand in the world with those values.Born in Bristol, England in 1965. He grew up in Leeds with his mother, Mary Brennan, and his stepfather. He took a foundation course at Leeds School of Art before applying for college. He was rejected by St. Martin's but moved to London in 1986 when he was accepted onto the BA Fine Art course at Goldsmiths College, graduating in 1989. While still a student in 1988, Damien conceived, organised and promoted "Freeze", an exhibition held in a Docklands warehouse. The show featured several of Damien's pieces, and work by 16 of his fellow Goldsmith's' students. This self promoted exhibit did amazing well, and is believed to be the start of the "Young British Artist" movement
The central, though not exclusive theme of Hirst's work has been an exploration of mortality, a traditional subject that Hirst has updated and extended with wit, verve, originality and force. Another consistent theme in Damien's work is the use of medical paraphernalia.The inspiration for his pharmacy pieces was the desire to make art that people really believe in, like they do medicine. Hirst states "Pharmacies provoke an idea of confidence, of trust in minimalism. I love medical logos, so minimal, so clean, there's something dumb about it". In "Pharmacy" is a room sized installation created to represent a real pharmacy with cabinets containing bottle and packages of prescription drugs. On the counter are four apothecary bottles which represent the four elements; earth, air, fire and water. Always having been fascinated with pharmaceuticals and their ability to gain peoples trust in a way not most things can. He easily address why we keep fighting to stay alive forever, while still facing the fact that we cannot, this however does not make us want the impossible any less. One of my favorite pieces is "End Game", A pristine steel case, made up of three distinct sections, measuring over six feet high and twelve feet wide. In the central section, a male and female skeleton hang back to back, facing away from each other. In Hirst's words, "they seem to hover between life and death." When I saw this piece myself in the MFAH, I believed that the skeletons who "hover" between life and death are more mesmerized in the medical devices believing that it will give them the ability to prevent death for as long as they can, only to not notice that they are already dead, and have ignored the world.
End Game
2004
Glass, Stainless steel, human skeleton, and medical equipment
Pharmacy
The Young British Artist (YBA's) is the name given to a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists that mostly attended Goldsmiths College in London, Damien Hirst was one of these college students who were discovered by Charles Saatchi after a student lead exhibit. They are noted for "shock tactics", use of throwaway materials and wild-living. They achieved considerable media coverage and dominated British art during the 1990s. Some other artist YBA's are Sarah Lucas,The Chapman Brothers - Dinos & Jake,Tracey Emin, Marcus Harvey, Steve McQueen, Georgina Starr
Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whiteread.
I personally have seen Damien Hirst work first hand at an End Game exhibit in the Houston Museum of fine art back in the summer of 2008. And I was my first exposure to contemporary art in that setting. Seeing his End Game piece which is still there today still resonates with me. As a person who constantly is questioning the origins of socially acceptable moral behavior, Seeing his work was the first time I saw art that went beyond beauty to appeal to me, and as an artist I made me believe for the first time of none verbal communication, to say I love his work would be an understatement. Maybe because that simple juxtaposition of life and death and how their values only can come from one another, a relationship that I always believed in and kept me "sane"
"I like the way art works, the way it brightens people's lives up... but I was having difficulty convincing the people around me that it was worth believing in and then I noticed that they were believing in medicine in exactly the same way that I wanted them to believe in art"
-Damien Hirst
source
http://www.leninimports.com/damien_hirst.html
End Game- British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Family Collection- MFAH
The central, though not exclusive theme of Hirst's work has been an exploration of mortality, a traditional subject that Hirst has updated and extended with wit, verve, originality and force. Another consistent theme in Damien's work is the use of medical paraphernalia.The inspiration for his pharmacy pieces was the desire to make art that people really believe in, like they do medicine. Hirst states "Pharmacies provoke an idea of confidence, of trust in minimalism. I love medical logos, so minimal, so clean, there's something dumb about it". In "Pharmacy" is a room sized installation created to represent a real pharmacy with cabinets containing bottle and packages of prescription drugs. On the counter are four apothecary bottles which represent the four elements; earth, air, fire and water. Always having been fascinated with pharmaceuticals and their ability to gain peoples trust in a way not most things can. He easily address why we keep fighting to stay alive forever, while still facing the fact that we cannot, this however does not make us want the impossible any less. One of my favorite pieces is "End Game", A pristine steel case, made up of three distinct sections, measuring over six feet high and twelve feet wide. In the central section, a male and female skeleton hang back to back, facing away from each other. In Hirst's words, "they seem to hover between life and death." When I saw this piece myself in the MFAH, I believed that the skeletons who "hover" between life and death are more mesmerized in the medical devices believing that it will give them the ability to prevent death for as long as they can, only to not notice that they are already dead, and have ignored the world.
End Game
2004
Glass, Stainless steel, human skeleton, and medical equipment
Pharmacy
The Young British Artist (YBA's) is the name given to a group of conceptual artists, painters, sculptors and installation artists that mostly attended Goldsmiths College in London, Damien Hirst was one of these college students who were discovered by Charles Saatchi after a student lead exhibit. They are noted for "shock tactics", use of throwaway materials and wild-living. They achieved considerable media coverage and dominated British art during the 1990s. Some other artist YBA's are Sarah Lucas,The Chapman Brothers - Dinos & Jake,Tracey Emin, Marcus Harvey, Steve McQueen, Georgina Starr
Sam Taylor-Wood, Rachel Whiteread.
I personally have seen Damien Hirst work first hand at an End Game exhibit in the Houston Museum of fine art back in the summer of 2008. And I was my first exposure to contemporary art in that setting. Seeing his End Game piece which is still there today still resonates with me. As a person who constantly is questioning the origins of socially acceptable moral behavior, Seeing his work was the first time I saw art that went beyond beauty to appeal to me, and as an artist I made me believe for the first time of none verbal communication, to say I love his work would be an understatement. Maybe because that simple juxtaposition of life and death and how their values only can come from one another, a relationship that I always believed in and kept me "sane"
"I like the way art works, the way it brightens people's lives up... but I was having difficulty convincing the people around me that it was worth believing in and then I noticed that they were believing in medicine in exactly the same way that I wanted them to believe in art"
-Damien Hirst
source
http://www.leninimports.com/damien_hirst.html
End Game- British Contemporary Art from the Chaney Family Collection- MFAH
Saturday, February 20, 2010
"Trite Quicksilver"- My Top Three
I am guessing I just didn't quite understand the assignment as well as I would have like. That is to be expected when 3-5 projects are assigned in a matter of 7 hours. Well I will make this quick because it should have been already
done. These are my top three mark making pieces that I picked. I must say though I didn't think we where supposed to pick ones we would consider using as our final with the words, I did not even have enough to make that decision yet any way
"This is all just so Blah Blah Blah"- More Mark Making Critques
So this time its in a group, oh goodie getting to hear others try to prattle on about my work. Out of the six they choose these three.
Some of the comments for this one, was that it was aggressive, that its design was appealing because the branch like lines leads your eyes to the negative space, while itself taking up just the right amount of space. The quote that was thought to be best to go with it by the group was "princess pout rips her teeth out" because the piece resembled something painful.
Some of the words used to describe this where "whimsical" and "a b bouquet of bubbles" and "first of its kind."
This last one was constantly being compared to a fire, so much for closure. but most of the comments where "the lines are bold and wispy" and "delicate with an underlining aggression" and the quote for this one was "My stocking prove my virtue"
Some of the comments for this one, was that it was aggressive, that its design was appealing because the branch like lines leads your eyes to the negative space, while itself taking up just the right amount of space. The quote that was thought to be best to go with it by the group was "princess pout rips her teeth out" because the piece resembled something painful.
Some of the words used to describe this where "whimsical" and "a b bouquet of bubbles" and "first of its kind."
This last one was constantly being compared to a fire, so much for closure. but most of the comments where "the lines are bold and wispy" and "delicate with an underlining aggression" and the quote for this one was "My stocking prove my virtue"
Thursday, February 18, 2010
"Blank Impressions"- Mark Making Critiques
So another day of mark making comes to a close, I swear this is all just like design one all over again except its more dramatic and drawn out until our dying breath is one of animosity towards these marks we make. Well anyway enough prose and on with the show.
The first one here ladies and gents, is one I did with a tooth brush. It was the first one picked, and was considered the best, which is absoulutely hilarious because it was one that was done without restrictions on it. As a matter of fact I snuck this one in while I guess I was supposed to be doing some over done idea that suggested to us. I like it well enough. The comments made on it was "I like that there are some conflicting elements in this piece, such as the gentleness of the curves against the harshness of the splatters and the curves verses the straight parts that litter the page"
In this piece I was inspired by one that Theresa did. The more dramatic the creases are the more the ink sits into it, and I like this look. In the comments "I also like that some lines follow the folds. I especially like the fact that those lines fade out and don't follow the folds all the way from one edge to the other." One Critique is that they "didn't like that the whole 'bottom' is basically blocked out, but it does work fro the piece..."
The final one picked which was my first one I used a straw to get the branch like attachment to the blobs. It is my favorite, as In i find it aesthetically pleasing, and was fun to do. I also like how because we had to have negative space in it, it works with the overwhelming sensation of the branches. In the comments the it was stated that "I like that it is contained in the corner because it seems like it would be overwhelming if it covered more of the page."
The first one here ladies and gents, is one I did with a tooth brush. It was the first one picked, and was considered the best, which is absoulutely hilarious because it was one that was done without restrictions on it. As a matter of fact I snuck this one in while I guess I was supposed to be doing some over done idea that suggested to us. I like it well enough. The comments made on it was "I like that there are some conflicting elements in this piece, such as the gentleness of the curves against the harshness of the splatters and the curves verses the straight parts that litter the page"
In this piece I was inspired by one that Theresa did. The more dramatic the creases are the more the ink sits into it, and I like this look. In the comments "I also like that some lines follow the folds. I especially like the fact that those lines fade out and don't follow the folds all the way from one edge to the other." One Critique is that they "didn't like that the whole 'bottom' is basically blocked out, but it does work fro the piece..."
The final one picked which was my first one I used a straw to get the branch like attachment to the blobs. It is my favorite, as In i find it aesthetically pleasing, and was fun to do. I also like how because we had to have negative space in it, it works with the overwhelming sensation of the branches. In the comments the it was stated that "I like that it is contained in the corner because it seems like it would be overwhelming if it covered more of the page."
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