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.