BANKS PROPERTIES LOGO

1. Discuss what you thought about creating your logo.


Creating a logo deff was something to think about.  I don't really have any artistic thoughts so I decided to pick something that has to do with my life and family.  I may even use this in the next 2 years when I do create my family business that has been in the making for a couple of years.




2. Describe the process: creative thinking skills and ideas you used in the logo creation.


making a decision on what I was going to produce and for what
what stimulates my business and what I want people to know




3. What was the most important discovery you made in the creation of your logo?


it actually didn't look back on the finished logo




4. What is the most important information you learned from watching the videos, powerpoint, and reading material  for this project?


logo is a design or creating to represent a meaning of a service that people will want and remember with the representation that is given. 












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Albright Knox visit

Module 5


Never before have I ever been to an art gallery.  This was an amazing experience and has forever since changed the way I view art and going to galleries.  I am going on a trip during the summer with my family and I am going to take them all to an art gallery . 






A.) Which artworks make an impact or impression on me? Why?





Honore Daumier  French 1808-1879  this painting says a lot to me and makes the biggest impression for the struggle of life.  Motherhood struggle of life  carrying laundry and helping child up the stairs.  Struggles began long before we even realized. 













Frantisek - Czeck   Traits, plans, profounder (lines, Planes, Depth)


Even though looking at this piece it doesn't really represent any one thing to the naked eye to me it represents a butterfly trying to get away from some sort of snake or killer centipede.  It stated he began to draw figures that bordered on the non-representational.   Represent with energy. growth and movement.  Energy of the butterfly taken from a grown of the snake or killer centipede with in the movement of the painting.  This is a first initial thought when seeing the actual painting. 

































B.) Which artworks do I feel a connection with? Why?













Ernst Barlach  Der Racher  German 1870-1939  representation of myself.  man always in motion working trying to provider for my family. This also reminds me of learning the stages of art where motion can be shown in a stand still figure. 

















Ernst Ludwig Kirchner  German
Frauebildnis Portrait of a Woman 1911
This oil painting  brought me back to my grandmother when I was a boy.  She use to where the big hats with the full length skirts and it really was personable to me seeing as though this was a painting of color that represents the beauty of a woman





C.) Which artworks would I like to know more about? Why?











Mickalene Thomas  Interior  Monet's Blue Foyer 2012


The detail and time it must have taken for this artwork....all the individual rhinestones that were placed throughout this piece.  Where was this inspired from.  The different formats of flooring and texture of the actual piece differences in room that are placed.  This was amazing.  I would enjoy picking the mind of the Mickalene on this one.  I stared at this one the longest.  The picture does NOT do this artwork justice at all with showing detail and focus





















Erin Shirreff
 View of the Albright Art Gallery This picture piece came to life as walking through the actual art gallery. Stepping back almost 100 years in the making.  3D picture taken turning around in a view had to look twice to understand the material presented. 

Step 4: Questions and Topics for Your Blog Posting:
1. Discuss what you thought about creating the Value Scale and Color Wheel.  When creating the value scale this was definitely more difficult than the actual color wheel.  With the scale, getting the shades to fade I used my fingers, the charcoal and an eraser.  I found that using my finger helped even out the bumps and crackles in the squares.  Then the paper was very messy and erasing the excess charcoal seemed to be a headache.  As for the Color wheel, mixing the colors made me feel like a kid again and it was fun and interesting to see colors appear in front of my eyes.


2. Which media did you enjoy working with the best and why?  The paint by far.  It seemed to be easier and mixing and making colors was messy and this was ok.




3. What was the most important discovery in the creation of these studies?  The time and accuracy that it takes to use coal in order to make a value scale.  It takes patience and accuracy in order to get these shades just right. 


4. What is the most important information you learned from watching the videos for this project? What is your opinion of the videos?  Techniques are used in individual forms of art and they are important to apply to get the shade or color consistency that one is preparing to create.

Step 5
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Elemets and Principles of Art Pics of 14

For two days now I have been trying to use photo bucket and it is either being uncooperative with me or my computer is pooping the bed.  Listed in this document you will find my photos with the principles of art.  I figured since I cant get the photo bucket to work for me, I will make my own photo bucket.  Below you find a set of pictures I took grasping the meaning elements and principles of art.  When I look at things I do think of them differently in some ways.  By all means I am not an expert but learning some different aspects of art do help me look at things differently.

 UNITY SPAGE



TEXTURE





PATTERN



BALANCE





MOVEMENT





FORM





VALUE





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CONTRAST







EMPHASIS











LINES

 

As the weeks go on I am defiantly getting better at finding and posting to my Blog.  This next blog has to do with 2 different videos.  Watching and stepping into the mind of an artist and what the thought and making process is of a painting is fascinating and intriguing.  Broadening your mind enhances the thoughts and recognition of a person who sees art and produces art.  Art just is not a form of beauty but yet an escape of their own emotions. How they interpret what they have seen or what they want you to see through colors and images defined on a canvas......




Video:   Color    http://fod.infobase.com/p_ViewPlaylist.aspx?AssignmentID=RJ8PAN 


Video:  Feeling, Emotions and Art    http://fod.infobase.com/p_ViewPlaylist.aspx?AssignmentID=8HLQ96














 

 

 1. Describe Color and it's effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.

The first colors of a painting give a quick impression of the colors of the place of what a painter may need to take with them in order to finish a structure.  Foundations have differences that make determination of the colors that can  be constantly changing due to sunlight through the ripples of water.  This is an effect that can change for an artist and the colors can become mobile.  Subtle shifts of color in order to show light in a picture.     Glazes are thin layers of color.  This can be used to alter colors.  Colors affect each other and can reflect off of a color that is on different parts of the paining. 

2. What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why? 

That color in a scheme can affect our emotions.  How a painting can make a person feel emotion such as violence, depression happiness.  How a yellow or a blue being in the wrong placement of the picture.  It can drive an artist mad to get these feelings and emotions into a painting of they don’t get what they are looking for out of the colors.  Having to compare painting with the physiological form a person to transform with symbols to produce a true piece of art.   

 

3. In the Color video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects  on emotions?

  How beginning a painting, color schemes start on the canvas in squares before the actual picture is painted or even constructed.  Painting isn’t just copying a picture or an image its formation you have to create before even beginning with blocks and circles.  How painting something ugly can give the sense of depression mood in the café that Van Go painted.   How describing a person going crazy or mad and ruin himself by bold colors of green and red.  Instead of showing what is in front of a person in the paining the colors express the distaste of a place.   

 

First Timer

This is my first blog ever!  It wasn't too bad setting it, seeing as though I knew how to set up the Gmail account and the professor gave strict instructions to follow to set up the blog.  Wasn't to bad took me about 5 minutes.  So lets see how this works out!   Welcome all who read!  Appreciate it from the first timer!! As far as online class, this is my first full online course and I have already made some mistakes!  I expect to learn something of myself and also of art.  We all have our own inner artist within.  To expose it is another story.  Taking this course online is going to deff be a challenge.  Already behind, will be catching up today though now that I have learned on blackboard what differences are within the modules! 

Atribution to Art is it from the inner self or the brain---beauty---

Video  Ascetics: PHYLOSOPHY OF THE ARTS

http://fod.infobase.com/p_ViewPlaylist.aspx?AssignmentID=M27YLB

 

 

What makes a work of art?   Art is all around us.  The shape of our couch, the building we work in, or the painting on the wall we pass every day and take for granted.  They say art  is an idea or an idea of beauty but –every persons definition of beauty is different---- It’s all in the feeling that a person gets when looking at a so called work of art.    In the Video Ascetic: Philosophy of Art the Eras of definition changed over many centuries.  The Key principals seem to be personal opinion of how a person views art.  As man evolved over centuries so did art.   In the first centuries we viewed Cathedrals and Statues and by the 20th century art evolved into paintings, books, films, Jazz, musicals, and photography.  Art use to be in the form of non-reality, a woman with many curves, and voluptuous breast and with art now an upside down urinal is considered art because it is not the norm-right side up! 

In this Video the Philosopher Plato, the artist of the 4th Century BC was the realest to me.  He stated "Beauty by which all things are Beautiful".  Even though he held low opinions of other artist he made some points when stating he felt a sense of treason for copy or talking something that isn't original.  He also had a student who became to be known to write one of the most influential books called Poetics.  My favorite was how a good person is rather boring because they never change anything.  This is generally how I feel in life, being bad as a kid has it perks and was generally, but no perks as an adult.  With all of these eras explained in the video makes more logical sense with the book reading in showing how different eras were effected with different forms of art.  In early centuries it started with writings and drawings on the walls of ancient tombs.  Their lives consisted of animals and woman caring for babies.  This was their life so this is what they drew.  This is what was desirable to them.  Then the next era was of Gods and Goddesses were made to show beauty or power.  One era that was very interested when times started to change is with the wars.  Pictures where made not just of one person or one animal but with many, in chaotic scenes to show what people went through or even possibly saw.  An artist must capture a specific audience in order to be deemed an artist.  A picture should be able to be dissected by an individual for their own meaning and reality.  Some live through art and express through art.  Others just look at it and move on.  This use to be me, but now as I look around even in the room I am sitting and see different designs that were brought into reality by a maker. 

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0TKYxAYGGA

In the Video : Carta Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetic will make anyone think differently about art. This video Changeux and Ramachandran bring a scientific view of aesthetics to light.    Visual perception created reactions in the human mind.  They say not to make realistic art, is not for someone to deliberately alter or distort the image to produce pleasing effects to the human brain.  Ramachandran says Picasso was deemed a genius for distorting art he drew!  I have never in my life thought of art in either of these two ways.  The changes just seemed of the norm to me, but now reading and learning of centuries of art and the changes throughout these eras has opened my eyes.  Hey, is that a metaphor?  These readings and videos are opening my eyes to differences and send pleasing and distorted feelings to myself in regards to all the changes over the years to what art really is.  The first speaker  Changeux didn't really catch my attention due to it was hart to understand the accent,  although his fourth definition of how art is a constant evolution made the most sense to me.  It’s like ape to man. Progress is the norm and we take for granted what we do in everyday life to life.  Now with art it’s not based on the individuality of the piece but yet on the sometimes comparison of what can be seen with in the artists piece. Ramachandran scientific view of aesthetics and art was stimulating and interesting at the same time. He talked about how perception and judgment in making a decision in how the art affects our brain with the transmission and processing of the image in our thoughts. 

 

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/15/health/art-brain-mind/index.html?hpt=hp_c3

In the Article What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience

 

Picasso once said, "We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth, at least the truth that is given us to understand. The artist must know the manner whereby to convince others of the truthfulness of his lies." 

This is yet another definition of art and its meaning.  Every person is different and so are their views of art.  One thing that all three of these have in common are that the mind controls the outcome of art.  The human brain is routed back to what we see art as.  We are wired to decipher our own pleasures and grotesque feelings of what we see.  We make determinations of seeing an object and what it may resemble or look like.  This meaning was talked about not only in the article but through Ramachandran scientific view. 

 

All three of these materials put oomph in the reading with the text.  It makes the mind think beyond a picture that was drawn or a statue that was created.  Beauty is linked to our thinking of art.  We all think of art as supposing to be beautiful but what one person finds appealing and stimulating another may dislike.  Art is life.  Art is History.  How we remember or interpret past is through someone else’s eyes.  History is Art in itself in a way.   It is replicated and reenacted to people all over the world in statues, monuments, and films.  All of this material we have studied opens my eyes to seeing the making of art and helps me Appreciate what artist have created over the centuries.   For someone who has never even had any real understanding of art, these texts has broadened my thoughts and began my wheels turning in grasping the reason for art and how it has captured our attention and how it evades our everyday life activities.  War, hatred, love, beauty, chaos, death, life, production, sex, happiness and sadness are just a brief number of experiences that have been emphasized through art.  It really has so much meaning and education throughout the centuries that carries on our lively hood of procreation.