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. 

Module 11

 
I chose Expressionism as a video because it is something that I didn't really know a lot about with art before this class and I thought that a video on it would be insightful. The other video I chose was The Mystical North: Spanish Art from the 19th Century. I chose this video because I never really thought of art as Spanish and I know that is like who made it and where it was made, but I wanted to figure more about the topic.
For Expressionism the key facts and important information that I pulled out was:
-Colors and Expressions tell stories about the art
- colors used symbolically for sorrow, innocence and passion -after the fall picture
- The self portrait from Mook showed dis-pair from childhood.
- Time and space are no longer necessary and forms became simplified to emphasize loneliness.
-works represented a constant and very pessimistic view of life.
- Frank Mark painted the Tiger in 1912 when he was 32 and thought that animals were cleaner and more beautiful
- All spares are simplified and made bold colors
- Forms are described in an abstract way
- Blue Reiter group Mark was apart of with other parties
- Cubism is a means of heightening realism and sentiment
- Marks paintings portrayed his fear of war
- Ernst Ludwing "Five women in the street" was made in 1913 and the way its painted it looked like they were here in a hurry
- The fashionable get up gives the 5 figures a ghost heir
- Visual language becomes more linear
- contains permissions on upcoming disasters
- Max Beckmann The Actors. In 1915 the self portrait you could feel the anxiety and terror of his experiences.
- not much mood in the picture with the king trying to commit suicide
- Every part of the picture has some sort of action and the meaning of the picture was partly personal.
- George Baselitz The Great Friends painted in 1965
- Baselitz is often associated with invert or undermine tradition
- Sometimes comic and tragic in the painting
- The body itself emphasizes is hope is all they have left
- Some patches of color show objects/ images from another reality
- Anselm Kiefer Interior- associated with Nazi Ragime
- technique is ruff with the flow of paint/ texture
- He has an obsession with dark colors and  geometrical perspective
- windows and doors are sealed to emphasize doom

The Mystical North: Spanish art from 19th century to the present

- Goya spent his youth painting for the Spanish court and the royal masters but his work changed to be dark and mysterious

- when  he became deaf he changed his work to a darker style

- he took the medium and gave you the last thing that you wanted to look at like the worst options

- he painted black paintings in his house

- Spain is one of the power houses

- Antoni Gaudi id the 1st great artist in Spain to emerge after Goya

- inspired by the gods and the natural world- famous building cathedral and was incomplete at his death and he saw himself as gods architect

- had abstract balconies and movement

- Picasso's works have coded messages

- draw inspiration from African masks and took on the Spanish past

- Picasso turned himself into the god he spent his whole life looking for

- Dail's portirait symbolizes death and how we are all doomed

- Dail's youthful visions were so morbid that he spent his life to get away from them

I really liked the idea of the videos in this section, but the Expressionism video was really dull and dragged on. The voice of the video makes it so inattentive and hard to want to pay attention to. The information in the video was good though. The second video was better and I really liked it. I liked learning about it because it is something that I never really looked into. All the videos in these sections help me with the text because I like to visually see what they re talking about besides pictures and having someone talk to me helps also. 

Mask Exploration Project

I chose this mask because it reminded me of something that was very symbolic in the past. This mask is the Mask of Agamemnon, a 16th century mask discovered by Henrich Schliemann in 1876 at Mycenae. This mask was made of gold and was created around 1550-1500 BC. The mask shows persistence of balance with the layout of having everything in its place. The lines on the mask bring out the eyebrows and the chin up to the ears. The gold color makes the Mask seem important (not saying that it is not), but i think that gold gives a scene of class in this case. This has a bit of unity, but there are some parts that seem to have a bit of tension. The shapes of the eyes, eyebrows and the ears come together well in this mask.

This mask seemed interesting to me because it looks so realistic. This is called the Noh mask. The mask in the picture is showing that when you move the mask the expression on the woman changes. For this specific mask, i can not find the exact information on it because the website is giving an over all aspect on the type of mask the time it was made. These were created around the 14th century and is a major form of classical Japanese drama. This mask shows proportion complete with things being in the exact spot needed. The color of the mask being an actual skin tone and the look of the lips and the hair make the mask come together and because of the mask being moved to show different emotions it can be categorized as in motion in away. This shows balance as well and kind of goes hand in hand with proportion. The space between the eyes and eyebrows is equal on both sides. The Value of the face with the hair and they eyes popping out with darker colors and the forehead and the nose being a bit lighter (this might be the light that the picture was taken in) was interesting. 

This mask is something that I do not like personally, but it is definitely very interesting. This also did not have information on just this mask, but it was done in the 19th century made of wood. It is called the Fang mask and it is used for the ngil ceremony. This mask shows line with the way the forehead and where the eyebrows would be are aligned. The shapes around the eyes all the way to the bottom of the face by the chin emphasizes shape for this mask. The way I see the mask I can see a bit of texture when it comes to the wood used. 

The mask that I wanted to make was something that stuck out to me for many years in different art classes. I love the pop of the sparkles and the rhinestones on almost anything, but I thought that it would be interesting to make a mask with them incorporated on it. My sketch is not very realistic to what I actually made, but I do have to say I did have a lot of fun making this. I used a hot glue gun to glue the pieces on, the glitter glue for the eyeliner and the eyebrows and the feathers to symbolize hair in two ways. I used more rhinestones than I originally thought I was going to do, but I think that it looks different and mysterious. I used color with the different color rhinestones to make certain areas pop out.  rhinestones can also be used as texture because it gives a sense  of that. The feathers help with balance as well as the whole mask and how it comes together. Form is big here because the three-dimensional mask  with all the shapes portrays this. The size of the mask and the feathers show proportion with the adequate size of everything to the mask. The colors and different textures that I used helped realizes the emphasis on the piece. 

I definitely thought the mask could look better if I thought it out more, but it did take a lot of time and cost more money than i thought it was going to. Like i said, I did have a great time doing this project and I think it is a good assignment to do to help people better understand the mask aspect of art. 

Mod 10

I chose the two videos, Buddhism and Hinduism because they are two aspects of art that i never thought about. I wanted to look at something from a new perspective and learn about something I did not think I would be interested in.
For Buddhism the important facts and interesting facts that I thought of:
-Began in India
- The gateway to the temple was made of granite and hung was the teachings of the Buddha
-The key to Buddhist teaching is Thanh
-The mission was to share his enlightenment
-The last lesson before the Buddha died was all compounds wear out, walk out your own way with dignity.
-About one hundred years after he died, Buddhism split into two groups 1.monks 2. manana
-3rd to 7th century AD Sanchi became the center of Buddhist art and architecture
-Great Stoupa-
-Stones that were on the building each had a message
-Buddha disappears into symbolism
-The art is supported by the skill of the architect
-The walk way around the Great Stoupa had amazing woodwork.
-The largest Buddhist shrine in the world was Borobudur in Indonesia.
- In the 8th century, the king built a mountain temple made of 60 thousand square meters of lava rock
-The whole structure is in the form of a lotus
-14,000 carvings to walk through with the teachings of Buddha
-Borobudur took almost 100 years to build and lasted just 30 years as a pilgrimage
-Volcanoes erupt and covered it, but it was restored int he early 1900's
-This is now the standing proof pf the spread of Buddhism through India
-Chuang Yen Monastery is in upstate New York and is s bunch of buildings dedicated to Buddhism,
-Was completed in 1985
-There is an architecture of simplicity in all the buildings
- You must leave shoes at the door to respect the sacred place.
-They used a glue lamb structure that reflects the spirit of Chuang Yen Monastery
-The focal point is the statue of Buddha that took 8 years to make-the building had to be built around it
-Buddhism is in every Asian country besides India where it was created.
In the second video Hinduism:
-To the western eye Hinduism seems exotic and mysterious
-Varanasi is the oldest inhabited city- holiest city of Hinduism
-The great Ganges is a great symbol of Hinduism
- Hindus can worship anywhere and had a great number of gods and goddesses
-Hindu worship invests their tome into elaborate decorations
-At the end, Hindus believed that we all arrive at the same point and they all hope to die in Varanasi
-Mamallapuram where the Ganges turn to stone
-they start turning the underground into cave art
-In the 7th century they turned the wood architecture into stone
-Ancient shore temples is a tiny treasure house that contains a stone Phallus
-Recovered from Bay of Bengal in Khajuraho, 9th century Kandriya Mahadeva temple
-was the golden age of Hinduism art and architecture
-They wanted to get the impression of a mountain and was most famous for its erotic panels
The videos help me always better understand the text because it gives you a bigger visual outlook onto what is going on rather than just the pictures even thought that is kind of what we see in the video. Watching someone tell you what is going on is easier to understand at times than  reading it and having to think about what something might actually look like. I actually really liked these films and was very interested in them, If it wasn't for this class i probably would have never looked into the Buddhism and Hinduism of art or even the religion itself. The videos gave us a bit of insight on both and the art was amazing to see.

Line Assignment

Drawing this took many many trys. I thought that it would be easy, but it took me awhile to actually look like this. Even though it was lines i felt that it was difficult not using my dominate hand. I chose pencil because that is what I am used to using and it is what I had at home. Using my hand as the subject matter was interesting because i have never just drawn my own hand with looking at it and trust me what i drew dies not look like my hand. The one hand was difficult, but my final try i think i did a decent job with trying to make them look good. I didn't want to post the others because i was a bit appalled by the way that they looked. Just because of how annoying it was to actually get the picture to look like that, no i will not be using my non dominate hand to draw things ever unless it is absolutely needed.

Mod 9

The first video that i chose to watch was Albrecht Durer: Image of a Master. Some important facts and information that I pulled from it was:
-Gothic art ideas were opened up to new ideas from Italy (Renaissance)
-At 15 Durer made a self portrait with silver point
-Durer enjoyed painting
-In his pictures he emphasized aging
-he became an apprentices of Michael Wolgemut at age 15
-his work began to have a bit of narcissism
-his journey over the Alps gave him an inspiration of landscape
-he was the first true landscape artist in Europe (Rose garden)
-painted a chapel in Italy and made a decent commission, he used 4 to 6 coats of paint to give it a enamil like finish
- He researched art of prospective (wood cuts)
-He believed at home he was nobody, but actually it was the opposite and he was treated as an Nobel man.
-He could produce several hundred of his prints which reached out to more people.
-led to engrave copper (night,death and the devil)
-Emperor Maxamillion- Durer made portraits of him and decorated his prayer book

The second video I chose was Velazquez.
-Velazquez was born in 1599, in 1623 named court painter to Philip the 4th and he died in  1660.
-The king rewarded Velazquez with order of Santiago and we know nothing of his daily routines.
-He captured timelessness and only had one friend (kind) and one lover (his wife)
-he was interested in painting and was a man of good character
-he painted what the king wanted him to paint
-the theme in the myths is what interested him in painting them
-He painted slowly and painting things one at a time
-Velazquez  and his wife died a week apart and left a lot of works behind
-his works had a sense of spaciousness and abstractness
-more of an idealist closer to reality
-Velazquez paints what he sees without clarifying it.
I chose these two videos because they are about people that before this class i never herd of. I thought it would be good to find something different and be able to know more about it instead of watching a video on something I know a little bit about. I liked the videos, but the second one was a bit dry. They still did help me grasp the concept of what was going on with the text and all of that, but I would have chosen different movies if i knew it was going to be like that.