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.