Monday, December 13, 2010

painting 1950-1980's

-Abstract expressionsim
 - Jackson Pollock "Jack the Dripper"
 - weirder, more expensive, was a symbol of american art
- painted on massive canvas instead of the traditional walls
-personality incorporated into his artwork
-known as action painter

marks just happen nothing planned

John mitchell
second generation abstract expressionist

very dogmatic

bryce martin
- started as minimalist
everyone doing ny sized painting
the painted word- tom wolfe
-hard edge of pop

self portrait categories


whole object

line
shape


color

texture

depth/space

repitition

balance

dramatic lights


closure

negative space

positive space

exaggerate scale
motion

hybrid photos





Locky the Locksmith- clay module

Stencils



Sunday, November 28, 2010

writing assignment

a. he wanted me to take it.

b. brothers, for his photo business.

c. professional.















a. brother wanted 2 try something out.

b. siblings, doing a favor for brother even though i don't want to.

c. casual/ practice shot. to be seen by whoever wants to

Friday, November 19, 2010

contemporary photo lecture 11/19/10

contemporary  photo -based art.



Henri cartier-Bresson: captured moments in life and helped establish classic photography

Weegie-news photographer: only photographer with police scanner always got there before everyone else took pictures of murders/accidents dark room in the back of his car.
camera was an eye and saw everything whether good or bad

Dorothy documentary photographer

photography used to show emotion and for advertising

Richard Prince took pics of marlboro ad and gave appropriation a foothold and made it economically viable

first cross dressing then cross cultural

constructed scenes- elaborate  scenes created just 2 take pictures of.
very elaborate pictures

David Leventhal
recreated historical scenes using toy figures

WWI trench scenes
war in Iraq
Western cowboys

stranger than fiction-
theatre
museum displays

Justin kirkland
gebralter

shows things that don't usually get shown

Wolfgang Tillmans
 - photographs of life
- feels more like real life
- some pictures kept while they should be thrown away

surrealism lecture 10/22

surrealism followed dadaism

Features:
less political

1899 " The Interpretation of Dreams"

Access to the subconscious mind

 new psychological theories of sigmund freud

early surreal artists some were dadaists
Max Ernst
Man Ray
 Jean Arp
Giorgio De Chirico
Salvadore Dali
Rene Magritte

similarities to dadaism

rebelling against middle class that they were part of
trying to tap into the subconscious thoughts and was a core idea part of surrealism
cubism way to "junk up"
more about personal fantasy than shared mythology.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

2 photos of each category

 whole object









lines










SHAPES










COLOR










SURFACE TEXTURE












Depth/Space











Rhythms or Repetition











Balance











Dramatic Lights/Darks











Symbol/Metaphor/closure











Negative space











Positive space











Exaggerate Scale











Abstraction











Motion