Last Day of Class!

Thank god the year is almost over because my head is filled with so much to do! And soon I will be on a plane to Italy!!

soo....

looking over the projects in class i got really upset. I have the hardest time coming up with projects and everyone comes up with these great ideas. I think its because this is my first art class and its really asking you to think outside the box. I've learned a lot, but I still do not feel good about it. My project is not good, I feel like i really rushed it, or was so scared. I get really nervous before a new project because I want it to be amazing but I'm too scared to take risks. I think that is my problem. I hate how it seems everyone else comes up with sweet projects and mine suck. Mine was extremely literal, but i had to have something turned in on time, so it was the only thing i could think of. This project really got to me, I thought about what to do all the time and I even asked friends for advice. Hopefully with more education, I will be able to do better.

Absence April 23, 2008

Juxtapoz Art and Culture Magazine. March 08, 2008. n 86. Page 38. His graffiti is amazing! I love the colors he uses and how it looks 3D. His letters are extremely crisp and unique. I find it interesting how he calls himself an "active subway writer". Also how he traveled around the world to places like England, Japan, New Zealand, Italy, Sweden and Panama to draw graffiti. I find it extremely rebellious. He knows what he is doing is illegal; however, he is famous for it and continues to do it. I strongly believe graffiti should be legal because it expresses peoples point of views and emotions. 

April 21, 2007

What weird artists there are out there! Melena showed the class some crazy contemporary  artwork! The piece I found most interesting and disturbing is the piece by Patricia Piccinini, The Young People. The half human half dog thing is disgusting; however sadly, it reminds me of my basset hound Lily, who I think is adorable and cute. I find it so odd that I can look at this piece and find it cute, even though it is so disturbing!!!

Lastly, VENUS. Every painting in art history is compared to Venus, usually Venus of Urbino by Titian (is the artwork that everything in the class is compared to). It is so crazy how people, even in contemporary art, look at old pieces of artwork, like the birth of venus by bonticelli to get inspiration from! 

I feel stupid

For some odd reason March 17th and 19th class commentaries are written in the text commentary section! I am really sorry.

April 16, 2008

I FELL IN LOVE WITH BARBARA SCHREIBER'S (SPELLING?) ARTWORK! it was so simple, yet her colors worked so well. I loved the simplicity of her artwork. As much as this sounds like an insult, her drawings do not look like you need to be that talented to draw, but i think they're better than any Piccasso work. I found it stupid that a past teacher told her "nobody is going to take you seriously if you are funny". I love funny people. She shows that art doesn't have to be depressing or about a serious matter. Art can be comical and that is what I want to do with my art. I found "pregnant again" funny and i really liked her colors choices/how she drew. She draws as if she is drawing for a children's book. It would be hilarious if she made a mock children's book with her drawings. Especially the pregnant 5 year old. I'm very fond of the environment/an activist and when she talked about her piece with the two girls running after squirrels and then the squirrels running after them, she said "people control nature and then nature fights back". Right now in the world (global warming a big example) is going on-nature is fighting back! Overall, I love her humor and I love her art! But right now I am out of creative ideas and having the hardest time with project #3. It sucks.

April 14, 20

Everything Malena lectured about today was very similar to what my english teacher lectured about a few classes ago. First off, she stated that in art you are writing and in english you are continuously writing. Also, both processes need sources. Both artists and writers need information, inspiration and facts from different sources, such as films, the internet, other writers/artists. Both are/can be creative and both have an audience and need to think about who their audiences are. Most of all, each one is trying to get a voice out. Both english/writing and art are very similar.

I am very interested into the wilderness, so I checked out the site www.greenmuseum.org. I found the task, Meadowsweet Dairy (a collaborative group of sculptors) very interesting. I found the quote in their biography true: "We share a deep commitment to the notion that art has a job to do." For people who think art is for just doing to do it is wrong, in my opinion. Art forms opinions, beliefs, events- art has numerous jobs. I'm really into the environment and it makes me excited that they not only make art but they clean up trash from neglected areas and make their "beauty accessible". 

April 9, 2008

Will Puckett. Do I like his work or not? A question which still lingers in my head. You could call me a realist-I am not a fan of his piece which he painted the human's hands and face green (located in the garage). It looked like it was about to throw up. His work was okay, nothing astonishing. What was so cool was his piece in the mudroom (entry area) it was paint dripped on a canvas. It looks graffiti like, which I really enjoy. The most interesting part of our visit was the fact that he was basically happy. Making art he was not making enough money but he was happy and wanted t continue doing it. A lot of people do not have the courage to do such a thing, I know that I don't. He showed me that life is okay when your not making a large amount of money. His moral did not look complicated, it just looked like it took FOREVER. I do not think I could ever have the patience to do such a thing. 

April 7, 2008

Everything can be better. Everything can be improved. Art (nickname) really showed the process of an artist drawing. I really did not think he needed the background music. The sound his pencil and the movement of his hand was really neat. Also I do not remember if this occurs in the video, but it would be cool if he erased a part and redrew it to play off with the sound of the eraser and then hand brushing the erasing marks off. I felt as if I was the artist creating it and it was my hand-too bad I can't draw as well as him!

Sarah's was really comical. The music and the shredded paper coming towards her was funny. I do not know if she intended on this but it was. I agreed with Sheldon's comment on how she should have either cropped it or started it over the hill (although, unfortunately, there was wind). It looked odd coming from that random spot. 

Sheldon's made me want to cry. It made me really upset. Not that it wasn't good, it was amazing! But the whole swinging on the swing and childhood memories, along with the jack johnson music made me a little emotional, even though it was suppose to be playful. 

Mine. I wish I placed in a place filled with pictures, so that it was another picture hanging from the wall. Also Sheldon's comment on how I should make another one where maybe other orange flowers fill the vase so it seems like I feel more involved/wanted. I agree with Malena's comment on how it is something we can walk by and look at it cause of its size. I think making them stamp size and framing them on the wall would be more efficient. 

April 2, 2008

Rachael showed disconnection in a completely different way. It was cool and not literal at all! I found it interesting how we took basically the same concept and made too completely different projects for our time pieces. I found her sources neat too. I have never seen the Beatles movie "Around the Universe" I believe it is called; however, I am not interested in seeing it. I could connect in way that I too used to go strawberry picking with my family back home in Maine. I found it funny that the black berries were her bad memories because I completely HATE blackberries and who place them as a negative trait/memory.
Also after much contemplation I think Drake should make his track onto a record and play it with a record player, on a white pedastol (spelling again? sorry!) in a white room with nothing else but the record player. People would be startled and confused. Older people might be terrified or shocked, but younger people I bet would really enjoy it.
Lastly, David's piece. He should have just had it with the girl and himself. I know I walked in late from the bathroom, therefore I really didn't see the reason for the Chris Rock part; however, the silence KILLED ME!!!! I was waiting for him to scream or something to occur, I got so pissed off/irritated! And I LOVED the background haha. Anyways, silence kills and I think that would have been a really cool project! I kind of wish I had done it!
While sitting in class I thought of how I could change my own project! NEAT-I know! My project is time based because I have continuously changed it the last two and a half weeks. I think my final outcome is strong. Art has a lot to do with English, you write a draft, come back to it a later and edit it/rewrite it, maybe have someone else look at it, then you eventually have a final draft. My art piece was like that it took me three different times till I finally got something I felt was final/happy with! I hope the class enjoys it also!




p.s. class was canceled 3/24 and 3/26 therefore no class commentary was written!