module #15: me myself and i

Chloe Carr
12/13/18

        

1. I selected the inspired pieces because I've always been a fan of Frida Khalo and the way she viewed herself as a person. She did not value beauty in the way that most people did, she valued the beauty of reality, which I absolutely adore. I also like the second image because of the simplicity of it. I am not very artistic and I find simple pictures, paintings, and drawings to be very nice.

2. I selected the media I used to create my self-portrait because I wanted to keep my portrait simplee while adding a different effect. Using a pencil, I made my portrait look very simple.

3. One challenge that I faced while I was making my portrait was capturing the shadows. I had a very hard time with transferring the shadows from the image on the paper, but I overcame this challenge by using different techniques of shading in the self-portrait.

4. This piece represents me because I feel like although the face itself doesn't look like the picture exactly, I think I captured my eyes. I may not have made my eyes look like how they actually look, but I made them in a way that I feel best represents me.

5. While making my portrait, I used shade, space, and lines. I needed to use different shades of the same color in order to make it, and I used space around the face and inside the face. With lines, I managed to make the image I wanted to.

6. I enjoyed wirking on this project because I've never really tried making a self-portrait that wasn't abstract. I like testing my skills and working on them until I'm satisfied with the end result, and I think this project really made me think about how I was placing things.

7. Although my final piece of work doesn't necessarily match my face, I am really proud of it because I made it with the intention to be me, which is something entirely new to me. By working on this project, I've learned so much, which makes the end result something really nice.

module #13: no limiting in art exhibiting

Chloe Carr
Module #13

1. The video The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art was about pop art and its influence during the time it was popular. I learned that art came from different categories. There was sensual art that focused more on sexuality, there were creations for cars, and there was cartoon art, which I found very interesting. The video Tate Modern was about Tate Modern's art collection in the art museum. The main goal of the art museum was to change the way people look at art, so there would be more, individual ideas about art. The video An Acquiring Mind: Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan was about Philippe de Monetebello, an MET director who had many different kinds of European art. His museum was different in that it was extremely diverse so it had art of many different styles.

2. I believe that these videos do relate to my Art Exhibition project because my project had many different kinds of art and art styles. Like the videos, and especially the last one, my project had paintings and drawings and sketches from different times/years.

3. I enjoyed watching the films. I've learned about different art in stages but I've never really learned about art in a jumbled way. The videos made me notice the differences between the kinds of art and the reason they were created. I also enjoyed learning about the history behind some art and the influences it posed on the people during that time and in the present. The videos made me think more about my project in a way that I was thinking about it while I was making it.

module 12: modern clock turn

Chloe Carr
Module #12: Modern Clock Turn

1. I chose to watch Andy Warhol: Images of an Image and Uncertainty: Modernity and Art because I remember seeing different art works made by Andy Warhol and I wanted to know more about him as an artist and about his art style. I also wanted to know what uncertainty has to do with modernity and art.

2. According to the video Uncertainty: Modernity and Art, the modern world has manifested itself in a very extreme way than anything ever seen before. The modern world was based on speed, efficiency, and production. The video says that artists became very uncertain because life, during their time, was very fragmented. This was the time for artists to experiment on their artistic abilities.
The video Andy Warhol: Images of an Image was about Andy Warhol and his affect on the art world during his time. Warhol is most famously known for his pop art, which was very different during his time. He made his pop art by using different textures, which was also very new. Like many artists in modern time, Warhol experimented with his abilities. He used ink, silk, and cotton to create his art, which captured shadows of people.

3. These videos relate to what we learned in the book because the book because Chapter 22 talks about Andy Warhol. Warhol's Gold Marilyn Monroe is one of his most popular works that he created with silkscreen and ink. The chapter also discusses modern art. One of the most popular forms of modern art were new media, video art, craft, and feminist art.

4. I enjoyed watching the films. I've known about Andy Warhol for years now but I've never known anything about his influences in his life or most of what he's created besides the image of soup cans he created. I also enjoyed learning about art and the modern world and how they can both affect each at the same time. Artists in the modern world have experienced through the modern world.

module 11 pt. ii: art works work for art

Chloe Carr
Module #11: Art Works Work for Art

Questions about the exhibit:
1. Title of the exhibit: Burchfield's Arboretum- A Celebration of Trees
2. Theme of exhibit: Trees

"I watched an elm tree- a star slowly shown forth and suddenly disappeared. What wanders the passing sky holes revealed!"

- Charles E. Burchfield, January 15, 1917

Questions about the physical space:

1. The lighting for the paintings are the same. They are kept in lighting that is bright but not very intense. The lighting of the paintings themselves change; some paintings of the different kinds of trees are dark, bright, and even hold different moods to them.

2. The colors of the walls are cream colored, or almost a pale peach color.

3. There weren't any exact materials for the space around the paintings besides the quote pasted on the wall with a quote from Charles Burchfield. Beside the quote is a painting of a tree painted by Burchfield himself. There was also a banner of trees on either side of one painting.

4. I found it easy, as a viewer to the exhibit, to maneuver through the exhibit. I first walked in to where I saw the title of the exhibit and the quote and what I guess was the 'opening painting' to the exhibit. In front of the title was a string of paintings of some trees, all different and from the same artist: Charles Burchfield.

Questions about the artwork:

1. I don't think the artworks were organized in any specific way, and if they were I haven't yet figured out how. They seem to be mixed; the artworks jumped from being abstracted paintings of trees to realistic paintings of trees. There was one painting that had a boy sitting in the center of a wood with a tree behind him, which seemed to be mixed in with the rest of the paintings of trees all around it.

2. The artworks are similar in that they all have an emphasis on lines and form. There are paintings that have no color, and not all paintings have all of the same principles or elements of art but all of the paintings have evident lines.

3. The artworks are different in that they have different moods to them. Some of the paintings of the trees are made from dark colors and hard lines and others are made of soft, gloomy colors and soft lines. Other paintings are made with bright colors or realistic colors. Some don't have any color at all and are simply made from shades.

4. The artworks are framed differently for each painting. Some paintings have dark framed and others have bright wood.

5. The artworks are labeled and identified by a little plaque next to the paintings that have the artist's name, year made, medium.

6. The paintings are not more than 10 minutes away from each other.

Artist: Charles Burchfield
Title: Unitled
Media: Crayon on paper
Date: 1963-1967
Size: N/A
This art work is of a tree, but it is made up of just lines. There are no other colors and the form of the trees are made up of the lines only. Lines, form, emphasis, and space are the only elements/principles that I noticed, which is why the tree stands out against all of the space around it. I think this artwork is stressing the importance of a simple form of life, since trees can sometimes represnt life

Artist: Charles Burchfield
Title: July Sunlight Pouring Down, a.k.a. Sunlight Pouring Down
Media:Watercolor on paper
Date: 1952
Size: N/A

This artwork is of a tree with sunlight that looks like it is literally pouring down on it. The tree seems to be the only one and the leaves on it are rounded and full. There are plants and flowers surrounding it. Some elements/principles of art that I noticed are color because the color scheme is almost the same throughout the work, form and emphasis because the tree stands out against everything else around it and behind it.

Artist: Charles Burchfield
Title: Untitled (Willow Tree and Rooftop)
Media: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Date: April 1916
Sixe: N/A

This artwork is of a single tree sitting on a dark rooftop. The branches of this tree are thin and look very fragile yet the drooping leaves don't seem to bring down the branches. Some elements/principles in this artwork are color because of the intense green and black, and space because there is nothing else around or in front of the tree and rooftop.

1. I enjoyed visiting the Gallery adn looking at the exhibition from a different prespective. Although this wasn't my first time vising the gallery and looking at paintings, this was my first time really giving more attention to the layout of exhibitions. I payed attention things that I wouldn't normally have payed attention to. I focused on the lighting and realized that even just that gave a certain mood to the exhibit. I payed attention to simple things like the kinds of different styles of the same thing: trees. I payed attention to the colors used in each painting and even tried to decipher the meaning of the titles of the paintings to better understand why they were painted the way that they were. I also focused on the different elements and principles emphasized in each work of art

module 11: cubed expression

Chloe Carr
11/18

Module #11: Cubed Expression


1. I decided to watch The Impact of Cubism and Expressionism because I find both painting styles to be very interesting. I've always been fascinated with these styles and I wanted to know more about their history and the most influential Cubist painters and Expressionists.

2. There were many key concepts for the video The Impact on Cubism. I especially found it interesting that the topic of Cubist paintings are not seen at first sight most times because they are shown in different angles. For example, if the subject of a cubist painting is a person the artist might paint the person by taking angles of the person's face. They might paint the profile of the person and then paint the person's body right next to the face instead of below it. The person would not look anatomically correct, the painter would paint the parts they think is most important to them.
In the video Expressionism I learned that the reason for expressionist paintings is to draw emotion. Painters during this time seeked to express themselves by painting what they feel regardless of whether or not they painting is realistic. More so than not the paintings during this time were not realistic at all, and the colors used are not realistic ones; they can be intensely dark/gloomy or intensely bright.

3. The chapters in the text relate to the videos because the text describes the time of Expressionism as a time of, "intense, arbitrary colors." The text stressed the fact that wavering contours were also very famous for Expressionism. Expressionists valued colors, lines, form, and themes to express themselves. The video The Impact on Cubism relates to the text because Chapter 21 also talked about how abstract Cubism is. The bood defined Cubism as abstract art that shows the world, but fragmented and from multiple points of view. It's not supposed to be realistic, like how the video said, but it is supposed to represent a specific subject.

4. I really enjoyed watching the videos for this Module. I learned a lot more about Cubism and Expressionism than I learned in the past. I learned more about Picasso and, Kadinsky, and more artists. I like the chapter but I think the videos put more things in perspective and showed more about both art movements/styles.

module 10 pt. ii: masked mask maksing masks

Chloe Carr
10.4.18

I really enjoyed making my mask for this module. I don't think it came out the way I wanted, but I wanted to keep it simple like the mask above looked like. My mask was inspired by Indian cloth masks from Ecuador. Indian cloth masks were made for dancers so that they could dance without fearing the devil behind them. I used the color green to dye the fabric  because I wanted to use a bright color to signify happiness, as I am a very happy person. I used yellow around the eyes of the mask because yellow is also a color that I associate with being happy. I wasn't sure if I wanted to cut out a smile in the fabric or draw one on, but I didn't think I could succesfully cut out a smile into the mask. I also added ears to the mask like there are in the first picture and the second picture. In my mask I used elements of art like color and lines. I used very bright colors for the mask and I used lines for the outlining of the eyes and the smile.

module 10: african art's line of hearts

Chloe Carr
10.4.18

1. I decicded to watch African Art and African Art: Legacy of Oppression because I wanted to know more about the history of art from Africa. I especially would like to know what influence being oppressed for decades has on African art, and how much of that influence may still be present in modern, African art.

2. From the video African Art I learned that people in Africa use art every day in their life. They use art for things like their buildings, clothes, utensils, and accessories. It's used for expression and can especially be found in African statues, masks, and other objects. Most of these objects were used in  ceremonies for art and music and dance. These specific objects are ritualistic artifacts that are held in museums and hold significance in African history. African artists base their art on their own, "mental images and perceptions of invisible forces rather than from visible objects." Mnay people look at Africa and believe they have just one style of art, but African art is very diverse as there are many different kinds of art that can be found in Africa itself.
   From the video African Art: Legacy of Oppression I learned about the African art being stored in the Belgium's Tervuren Museum. The specific art is made up of over 200 different African cultures. The art in this museum is different than that in other museums because of its influence. Unlike the art people may associate with African art, the art there has a different sense of energy to it. For example, the video showed a scuplture of a man whose face was facing front but whose body was twisted and scary thin. There were also masks that were bone white that the video described as being associated with death. The reason these forms of art are so "morbid" are because they are symbolic to oppression. The art that was being shown in this video is art that is being used to show what being oppressed had done to the. Something I found interesting was that they made masks that were supposed to intimidate westerners in battle, yet they realized it had no effect on the outcome during that time.

3. The videos relate to the readings in the text because Chapter 18 teaches about the different art forsm in Africa. One very interesting thing that I learned from this chapter is about the masquerades. The one that the book expands on is the performance of the oneyocha, which translates to "white man." This performance depicts a white man writing in a notebook while other maskers dance. The reason for this is to show what they believe Europeans are like, writing in their notebooks when they visit but never really understanding anything because they don't focus on important things. Something from the text that relates to the videos is when they start talking about regal robes that Africans wear. We saw the same traditional pattern in the video African Art, and I learned that that specific kind of pattern is for those who are sacred.

4. I really enjoyed watching the films for a number of reasons. Having already known the history behind African heritage and knowing what the hardships we've had to overcome, I really think learning more about their art is something I really enjoyed. I liked learning about African art before, after, and during the years of oppression they had to withstand. I feel like I better understand African art when it comes to their cultural art, and I better understand the meaning behind the differetn kinds of art.