Last Extra Credit

I liked working on the mask project the most because it really gave me a creative idea of what i wanted to do. I liked the outcome even thought it looked a bit weird, but over all I liked it the best. I didn't like the last project of the self portrait. If i gave myself more time I might have liked it more, but i am a horrible drawer and I wanted to do a collage of pictures, but I threw out my magazines. Blackboard inst an issue for me, I have had a lot of experience with it in the past at my other school. The discussion groups were different from what I am used to and I think compared to most people in the class I put more work into mine. The responses were a bit hard because we were responding to questions we also answered, and if it was right or wrong we really gave our opinions. I didn't participate in any of the extra credit assignments besides this one because my grade were coming out well and I was swamped with other classes. If I had more time I would have because I could have done more research on things I wanted to know about.
If i had the opportunity to change this course I would keep the Blog postings because they helped me understand the information better. I would get rid of some one the videos and try and search for different ones because some of them were so hard to stay in touch with, but i liked the information in them so definitely not get rid of them all the way. I wouldn't add anything because I overall liked the structure and the assignments. Reading the chapters all at once was a bit hard because some of them were so long and had so much information in them that it was hard to figure out what you needed to know for the quiz and what you didn't. I would recommend this class to friends, and the grading was very fair from what I can tell. I actually probably deserved less that I put forward but my intentions and sincerity were there. Thanks so much for helping me get in touch with art that I left behind in middle and high school and showing me how much art is really around me. Art galleries are deffinitly stops on vacations.

Expectations

When I registered for this class I thought that it was going to be just like the other art history class I took at NCCC and boy was I wrong. This class gave me so much more information and a better insight on many different subjects of art. From the creation process to the critiques I really enjoyed myself. Now I would define art as something that is created by ones imagination know matter the piece. I considered art to be a painting or a sculptor, but when really so many things around us is art. I really liked learning about art in different cultures and the art gallery visits because it gave me the chance to explore things that I probably wouldn't have done on my own. My favorite artist this semester would have to be Vincent Van Gogh because I loved the different works and the history behind them. I also liked how his paintings looked and they really spoke to me. I didn't have a favorite artist in the first posting because i never really researched one artist for a reason and with this class I was able to do that. I have taken many online classes before, but not as intense as the ones at Buffalo State. I did register for one next semester and it is involved with my major so we will see how that goes. I very much liked this class and the projects that we had to do.

Self Portrait

This piece is from the Birchfield Penny art gallery and is a self portrait of Charles E. Burchfield 

This is a self portrait of Vincent Van Gogh located in the National Gallery of art in Washington DC

This is a self portrait of William Strang located in the National Gallery of art in Washington DC

I chose the first picture, because when I was at the gallery for the second visit, I seen the picture and thought that it would be good to use especially since the exhibit was all about him. The second two picture that i used i found on the link you provided us with and i pulled them out because they were different form each other and very distinct. 

I chose to use pencil for this because it was clearly easy to erase and seemed like it would be the easiest. My challenges were clearly that i can not draw at all for the life of me. I tires my best, but i definitely didn't concur that barrier. I wanted to add color, but the drawing was so bad that I didn't want to ruin it anymore. This doesn't really represent anything to me, but it is the only decent picture that i had to use for this project. I did a lot of lines because just drawing normally was not working well so I totally scratched the idea. I tries to add a bit of the background, but that was going terribly so i stopped and focused more on me. This wasn't my favorite project by any means, but if i could draw i probably would have liked it a lot more. I absolutely dis like everything about my art work. It sucks so bad that I was even ashamed to even post it. Just being honest. 

  

Module 13 and 14

For this module I watched 3 different videos and they were The Lowdown on Lowbrow:West Coast Pop Art, Tate Modern, and An Acquiring mind: Philippe De Montebello and The Metropolitan. These videos were very interesting to watch and had a lot of good information in them. Not so much did they have anything to do with my project I did because I chose something different from any of these videos. Yes in the last video it talked a lot about the conservation if images, which I am sure was done with the pictures that I chose, but nothing really stuck out to me more than that. I really liked the information behind the videos and it gave me a different outlook on a lot of the galleries that I could visit one day. Tate modern was especially interesting and different and I can see why many people would like to stop there as a tourist attraction.
In the first video: The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art, the interesting and important facts are:
-Highbrow wants nothing to do with gaudy things which they considered lowbrow.
-Lowbrow is more of a people things historical reference
- A lot of galleries and museums wouldn't show rock posters
- In 1967- Underground comics came about / crumb apart
- Tiki culture was brought back by the service men
- Lowbrow worked with Disney land
- Conceptual art brought intelligent through to the playing field
- Lowbrow is something that is learned
- Now low brow is any galleries or collections, but highbrow and pop are art
- Low brow took cartoon language and emphasized its statements and that is important in the art movement
- A lot of sexually driven pop culture art when it comes to artists, but became very common for woman because they thought they can make a woman better than a man
- In the 70's punk rock musicians had fine art backgrounds
- Became included in many shows and paintings became worth more now
- Now not so much work is considered Low Brow
In the second video: Tate Modern, the important and interesting facts are:
- Tate modern has 5 million visitors a year because of its size and reputation
- It makes you think theme park, mechanical and glowing sun
- did modern art change or did Tate modern change us? was one of the questions discussed in this video and I thought that was an interesting take on change.
-The scene at first was uncomfortable and intimidating
- Tate Modern was new art for a new society and was a sign of social change and elitism which caused it to be more popular.
-In May 2000, the Tate Modern Opened and the opening was a huge success.
- Feels casual and comfortable and gives people a good way to look at art
- Scale is a sign in this case with its size because it was so big and populated it is hard to see everything and get the full experience
- Tate Modern inspired a change to what society wants
- The sealed crack is a memory about memory and modern art was invented in France
In the third video: An Acquiring Mind: Philippe de Montebello and the Metropolitan, the important and interesting facts are,
-A museum is  never finished
- In 1870 the metropolitan opened with 174 European Paintings
-Under Philippe they now support and show art from around the globe.
-2 million objects are contained in the growing collection
- In 2005, the Gilman Paper Company collection was acquired and the picture The Woman Seen From the Back was seen as popular and inspiring. Some said mystery is better than reality.
-The board of Trusties decide what will be put into the exhibit or collection
- Curators pitch the art work to the board of trusties to be considered
- Storage is important / textiles brought for display/ and not all the art work is displayed at one time
-Not all works come to the museum in good condition or in one piece and the need to be conserved
-There are times when works are left untouched to the viewers can get the full effect
- Many art works were brought under Philippe and he played a big roll in getting the ball rolling with the Metropolitan.

Project 4 Reflection

Project 4 was very interesting for me. I did like doing this (not just because I have lost touch with power point), but because it was interesting to actually put art into our own exhibit in away with the theme of our choice. It did take me awhile to decide what I wanted to to and that is kind of why i posted it last minute. I can sit and contemplate for hours on what I wanted to do projects on. Once I finally decided I wen tot look at the art website we can locate on course resources and the link worked, but it wanted me to create an account even though Buffalo State had their own access it  wouldn't let me for some reason. With that being said I had to do a bit of my own research. I found it kind of difficult towards the end when it came to choosing what pictures i wanted to incorporate. I did chose a variety of different kinds of aspects of nature so I thought it would be a well rounded exhibit with an over view of a lot of the nature. When it came to Van Gogh, I liked a lot of his works for this but I didn't want to use too many so I think I went with 3 of his. I chose 2 paintings that are not famous and were on sale on the internet because I really liked how they looked, The Fall scene in Feast of Leaves was something that really opened my eyes. I loves this piece and it was not so clear like Van Gogh's work was but it definitely got the point across. I loved the color and the atmosphere that created and I can almost picture when in that season here the trees actually look just like that in peak season. I wish we had more time on this because I would have loved to make it more interesting and complex, but with everything else going on this is what I made of it.

Module 12

The two videos that I chose for this section was Andy Warhol: images of an image and Uncertainty: Modernity and Art. I chose these videos because I thought that it would be interesting to know more about the image of an image idea and the modernity of art because I never thought of it to be interesting.
For the first video the interesting facts that I chose was:
- Andy enjoyed a successful career as a commercial artist.
-collected photographs of celebrities and printed a series of Marilyn Monroe and this made him famous
- Elizabeth Taylor: made a silkscreen image of a childhood picture of herself
- To transpher her photo to silkscreen, it needs to be enlarged several times
- was silk but today it is a synthetic material used
- the screen could be used many times
- he wanted to work hard, but he realized anyone could do it for him, industrial assembly line of photos
- Shoes the viewer and image of an image with Elizabeth Taylor 10 images and he took an interest of the Mona Lisa and Kennedy.
- He moved into the factory and used it as his studio
- published his own magazines and became an international superstar
- began to add paint to his portraits and became a society painter
- cinema replaced painting
- In his portraits, only the basic traits survive
- Made himself his main model/ produced dozens of self portraits and was also a art journalist.
-Death was one of the artists main themes
For the Second video:
- We wonder what future civilizations will think about us by looking threw our art
- You don't have to make a cut into material for it to be a sculptor (the bricks)
- Modern art never stops changing
- In the early 1930's Nazism came about and it was total power, Hitler started degenerate art
- You had to be told what your looking at
- cubism fights anything recognizable- different way to approach truth
- abstract art is an experiment of what its telling you
- some people find it hard to like abstract art because involves a lot of thinking
- abstract expressionists- look into the void
- we don't have war men in our art galleries
- pop art after the 1950's early beginning moments
- finds civilization relaxing/ everything to be what it seems
- pictures re change for civilization today
I liked the first video because it gave us a good outlook on what Andy's ideas were and what he did that was important. The second video I did not like as much because of the way it was structured and how fast the guy talked. The ideas were nice though.

Art Gallery Visit 2

I went to the Burchfield Penny art gallery for something different than the one across the street that I went to last time.

The first picture i took was of the Untitled made by John. E (Jack) Drummer in 2004. The title of the exhibit was The effects of time and i am not sure what you would consider the theme, but all the pictures were bigger than usual and abstract. All the lighting through the exhibit was the same and had full lighting, but lights directed towards the art. White color was used on the walls with black trim.There was maze like walls to walk though the exhibit and allowed you to walk thought the rooms and get the full effect of the pictures. All the works are organizes on the walls and some kind of stacked on top of each other in away. This picture though was by itself on a wall and it really stuck out to me on the white wall. In this exhibit some of the pictures were the same regarding the size and the dark colors that were used, but the differences stuck out more with the difference among them. they all clearly looked different, but it was very unified all together. This art had no frame, but was stretched rubber and tar over 4 panels. The art was labeled to the right of it on a card that described who made it, when they made it, when they lived and dies, and what it was made of. Each of the pictures were around 20 feet apart from each other and at some points around a few inches apart. The use of texture here with the stretched rubber over the tar. The color and adding the white into the picture and the gray like tree that is coming from the sides made the picture pop. It shows a little movement with the tree like it was going somewhere and the lines of the rubber made it really stick out.

This picture is called Intersections made by Philip Clarkson Elliott between 1971 and 1973. The title of the Exhibit was R. Williams Doolittle from what I saw, but other than that there was no title anywhere. The theme was hard to detect, but there was a lot of bold colors and an abstract look to them which is what caught my eye. The lighting here was dim and focused solely on the pictures in the exhibit. There was nothing special about the architecture around the exhibit except the wall the painting was on did not fully touch the ceiling. Navy blue was painted on the walls and the flow of the room was a bit different because there were case in the middle of the room which would cause people to view off from the walls to the cases. The art work was mostly on the walls and adequately spaced out as well as some of it in the wooden cases. The art was a lot similar in the kind of similar used and the different abstract types and the difference was the total knowledge that it was something new that was painted rather than something that went along with the other picture. The art work was framed in a wooden frame and it was about 5 feet away from the other pictures on the walls and abut 10 feet from the cases on the floor. This picture shows a lot of color and that is what catches peoples eye. There seems to be a bit of texture the way that the picture is laid out and it looks like movement in away like the shapes are coming from the sides and moving up. There is unity surprisingly with all that is going on. 

This picture is called the Chinese Garden made by Charles Burchfield.The title of the Exhibit is The John R Oishei Foundation and the theme was all about Charles Burchfield and his life and art. There was very dim lighting and the light was only pointed at the art. On the walls there was some white on the walls and some medium gray. There was nothing special that was used in the space besides some of the walls did not fully go to the ceiling. The movement of the room was nice because you had a nice island case to walk around and the other pictures were on the wall besides those ones. This art work is organized very nicely and it two pictures that are meant to be one. This picture stuck out to me because of the springy feel and is the same of maybe three other pictures in the exhibit, but there was a lot about Charles and that was more pictures of him and his life than actual different pictures that he made. The picture was framed in a wooden frame with glass covering the picture The art work is labeled to the right identifying who made it, when they lived and died and how it got there. From this picture there was around 3 feet from each other, but other about 2 feet. This picture shows a lot of color with the birds and the trees and it shows unity with the two pictures into one. There is good proportion with all the things going on and the trees as we;; as emphasis on the birds and the tree on the left.