Final Texture Wall Piece and critiques

This, my friends, is so far the final piece. Third time is the charm eh? I'm still debating on certain items to add to make it pop more so this blog will most likely be updated

(sorry I have no picture of the second piece yet!)

This is what I had the first time around. I quite liked it with all the crumpled paper and the funky words. But I see what Bill and Kathy said about the piece relying too much on the words than the small dots which I unfortunately didn't make big enough. So, that being said i redid the piece with a different texture. It didn't make a home run :[ The texture in the background didn't work with the dots at all and conflicted. And! the dots were too small again. Dang. After all the tearing at my designs, I became motivated to make something that worked! Hopefully once I'm finished, my piece will attract attention and keep it.

Quotes

 All of these are some lyrics I love listening too. I couldn't put all of them on here, but this is a lot.

She lives in a fairy tale

Forgotten the taste and smell

The wolf’s gonna blow it down

I’m just one of those ghosts

Our broken hearts and twisted minds

And still they echo me

He broke his own heart

She would never let herself forget

I’d never sing of love

You are the only exception

I climb, I slip, I fall

Because I’m starving for you here

This road is all you’ll ever have

It’s obvious that you’re dying

If only time flew like a dove

There’s a shadow hanging over me

Look at all the lonely people

And I say it’s alright

Muahahahahaha!

GRRRRrrrrrr! :D

i debated for a while over what I wanted to do for the uncomfortable video. I didn't know whether or not staring into the camera was uncomfortable enough or not, but after a couple days of me not thinking of anything, I decided to go ahead with it.

To add the effect to this video, i put on the creepiest makeup and hair that i could think of on the spot. I didn't want it to be too planned out seeing how I'm supposed to be a crazed loon. The make-up is black and green tones, with dark eyeliner dripping down. The crazed hair added with the intensity and dirtiness of putting in hairspray made the effect. That and me licking my lips...weird.

But, I have to admit... Even though I have total stage freight and HATE being on camera, this project was fun. I do worry though if this video is almost too freaky and weird in places that it takes over the awkwardness, but the weirdness brings back how uncomfortable it can make you feel.

You might not see me the same way again lol!

Human Composition critique

Sometimes, glancing through the photos of our human squares, I wish the project wasn't so messy. I loved that part of it but in the end, it distracted from the squares in some places. The icing was too difficult to mess with but overall I'm glad we attempted and had ambition to accomplish our project with hard to work items. It makes it different.
The different ways that people worked this project was interesting. I love how every group was different. Some were simple which might be good in some cases ( less places to mess up) and some were more complex and had  more areas where things could go wrong. Yet in the end my favorite part was the difficulty and the messiness. And we ended up getting some great pictures of our human squares!

Human Compositions and Brainstormings!

Translated into human compositions via flour and cake icing! :D

BAM!

All who contributed: Danielle, Bryttani, PJ, Carlee, Rachel, Amber, Juston, and myself!


Before we decided we LOVED the idea of getting messy, my group came up with a few different ideas with a little push and a shove.

-use furniture cover for white space
-white wall
-lay in patch of white flowers
-paint gravestones
-sky
-powdersugar
-white background light
-paint traffic signs
-white and black cakes
-wear black boxes
-paint squares on fingers
-black paper bags
-dark flowers
-make holes in clouds
-paint side of building white
-use windows as black squares
-tattoos!
-cardboard squares over faces
-flour and cake icing

8 Text As Textures!

Post Modernism lecture 9/17/10

It's hard to come up with a summary of this lecture, mostly because it is just relaying facts about what went on in history.

I'm going to start from the sort of middle about Modernism before going into Post Modernism.

MODERNISM
Modernism was a huge shock of new styles in art and progressed rapidly, started in 1979
 -transgressive:opposition to mainstream society
It was a rejection of the past; decline of what was ordinary. Artists started painting everyday life and focusing on color.

Art became progressive as ideas changed and wasn't focused on expressing emotion.

Post Modernism and Post Impressionism
 "Art consists of inventing, not copying" -Ferdinand Leger

-pluralism of viewpoints

-shifted from dialogue taking place in person to a mediated dialogue through art forms

 

Basically the journey through Modernism and Post Modernism is all about change obviously and bringing in the new world through a new vision.