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

inflatable project- snorlax!!! for ppl

i'm hoping the father finds this on the wash blog

inflatable project- snorlax!!!

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.

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

critique self portrait

during my critique ppl commented on how they liked that the book could not be open even though it was only because of some weak twine wrapped around this. Adrian found this funny because to her it went with the title of the book its kind of a funny story. Bill enjoyed the subtlety of the piece and agreed with Adrian that my piece was kind of funny but not very funny. They decided that it look good the way it was placed.

lecture nov 12

box 13- opening of art exhibitions. got to see a variety of art images ranging from painting 2 animation, but all having todo with animation as an art. Today we got to hear from three different artists working at sam houston. We heard how they got started and how they developed their work and this gave me a better understanding of the different arts

5 from each theme

 Heat

 combination/ independent theme

 Build-up

 Squish and stretch

 Stain

 Kitchen

No Paint

identity essentials

metaphor for eye