Image Essay # 8

Unity and Varity is an interesting and difficult design choice for an artist. With the use of Unity and Varity comes many factors of decisions including balance, in all forms. I feel this piece is a successful piece on Unity and Varity in the fact that each mask and arm is completely different in shape and design but held together by the fact than a human can don this mask and arms. But what exactly is this piece trying to convey to us? I see it as somewhat as a costume design for a team. They all seem to position and poised to run or at a starting track. Their hands each designed differently to show each member of the team individuality and how they start the race. The colors might reflect the likes and dislikes of the team. Each person taking something special away from the team as well as giving color and meaning to team. In a whole Unity and Varity of the team is maintained through balance that were all a part of the human race we all give and take something away from the team. And all that matters is how we perform on the field of life.

Image Essay # 7

Balance is a delicate process, in the balancing act one must remember to keep things from getting over powered from one another. Those things include the color, the shapes, the flow, the ideas, and numerous other mediums and tools to keep in mind. In this piece, reflects and shows the ideas that balance embodies. Firstly the image doesn’t let us stop looking there seems to be almost no area of focus, except maybe in the color comet in the bottom right hand corner of the piece. But the piece mostly define fluidity and motion in the strokes and also in the colors. The blending of colors with the implied motion of the piece keep us looking and exploring what seems to be a colorful plane in in a colorful world. The crossing and mixing of colors suggest what might be a sky full of clouds with a comet soaring over the world enticing you to make a wish. All the while maintaining the balance of this world. This image reminds of something musical, like music seems to have played a part in the design of this piece. Balance can cover many mediums from painting like this piece to music and everything in between.

Image Essay # 6

What better way than to talk about Positive/Negative Space than to critique my own work on the idea, and examine my own personal strength and weaknesses. In the piece I was mostly trying to convey my likes and dislikes. I wasn’t going for a protect the earth feel that many people associated with it, but if that’s what they took from it by all means build a more complex meaning than what it really is. I feel that my strength in the piece is the use of composition, I feel I arranged the piece in such a way that the flow of the piece is continuous and un interrupted without leading the viewer off the page or to a area of focus. But my weakness is in the heads of Gabe and Tycho I wasn’t thinking about Positive and Negative space in the pictures themselves a dumb mistake on my part, but it was the first few weeks in class. And this piece lead to what I feel is my strongest piece in which we looked at and reinforced Postivie/negative space again. That piece is the second piece that was due for class, I forget the assignment name unfortunelty. But I feel I learned and grew from this piece.

Blog Entry # 4

Visual Culture, Art history, and Fashion Design can all be viewed in excellent detail: in a Movie. The Fifth Element.

1. The Fifth Element demonstrates a fully realized fictional world. The Movie was an idea that Luc Besson had since he was a youngster, taken his time to develop the world before he actually developed the story. With the help of Jean Paul Gaultier as fashion designer, they helped bring Besson’s Dream into reality. And what it was is a fully colorful mix of races, places, ships, wars, conflicts, lore, society, politics and marked an achieve in the movie industry for special effects.

2. Firstly the entire movie is set in the future, with a completely different society and trends. All the buildings were actually made and modeled to reflect the n eeds of a society in space. And with the movie being a futuristic society Jean Paul Gaultier designed clothing that Reflected the needs of and wants of a futuristic society. As well as adding additional layers of information into the clothing of the main characters, Like Corbin Dallas (Bruce Willis), who is a rough and tough typical ex-soldier who runs into/falls in love with a redhead alien women looking to save the planet. Jean Paul Gaultier Took that too heart when designing Corbin’s outfit with a orange tank-top and cargo pants his a hard and tough guy yet if you look close to the white tank top you can see and intricate design that is both delicate and romantic too reflect Corbin’s Soft Side. Movies seldom are original in today’s society, The Fifth element is original and fully developed, and that extraordinarily rare.

3. Luc Besson before The Fifth Element, was mostly into crime dramas Most notable was his piece Leon – The Professional. So in a line of Crime Dramas, The Fifth element seems kinda of out of place, but like I’ve stated before this was a dream of his since he was a kid. Jean Paul Gaultier is a world re-nouned fashion designer and make new and unusual cloths that carried meanings really wasn’t anything new for him.

4. Dominance takes the form as the story in the fifth element. A story so complex with multiple characters all focused on a central problem either to help it or destroy it. Love takes the cake as solution to the problem, which is corney as hell, and the solution is what they all strive for and what the story apex is, so Love is the dominance in The Fifth Element.

5. Humanity is seen as just another race in the galaxy with no real special identifiers. With both alien and human celebrities we all just fall into the world and what you make out of your life is what you work for.

6. I understand that huge tasks can be accomplished. Like carrying an idea for decades and developing and saving it for when I feel the world is ready.

Blog Entry # 3

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PLACES

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Both. Places can define us or we can alter a place how we see fit. The only question is how you see it. Will this place define you with the surrounding area that you adapt to the area? Or do you alter that area and make it as you see fit?

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Barry McGee art is shown on his surrounding areas. He likes to do most of his art in the form of graffiti, his artwork becomes his surrounding area. Barry McGee adapts to his place. Matthew Ritchie seems to make his own world. Complete with meanings and ideals surround and encompassing in and throughout. Building to complex levels of understanding and meaning each line representative of an idea, and some end some continue but in the end he determines where those lines go,end,start,length,width,color,hue,angle,shape,crossover,crossunder… he makes his place.

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Tree hideout – Bright, Attic – boundless, Place under the stairs – Quiet, Tiny White Door – Mysterious, Randy’s Room - Smokey

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The place that most interested me was the same place that terrified me. On the Westside of our house there is a tiny white latched door in the foundation cement of our house. It could be that it’s a wooden door inlaid in cement, it could be that the lock on the door was open rusted and forgotten. The door pealing in white chipped paint and creaks and cracks revealed darkness behind the door. The door seemed to be made for a child coming barely up to the bottom of my knee know. When I opened the door the darkness so thick the floor above so close to the uneven crumbed dirt. I couldn’t see more than 2-3 feet inside I still have never gone inside.… I still wonder what I would find under the house that was made in the 1830s…

STORIES

1. I grew up with an unhealthy addiction to E.T. But that was more a sensational thing much like sponge bob is in today’s society. The one story that I’m sure everyone knows is that of Humpty Dumpty. It would stay in its story book form, much like it has been for centuries.

2. I have no idea. When we look at Humpty Dumpty it’s a twisted fucking story. Humpty a man made of what most believe to be an egg made of porcelain falls and dies, with no hope of reconstruction he dies, and the world keeps moving.

3. Sketchbook is the start of any idea, to be thrown away or developed. A sketch book is an idea sifter. Anything that expresses an idea or an feeling is an art piece, a sketchbook holds fragments of one days thoughts or years of development. A sketchbook is an work of art if the artist uses it for art proposes, to either: learn, express, practice, enhance, think, develop anything that helps one to explore and develop ideas about them and their world around them.

4. Young Self: Gonna play mega-man X, and Super Metriod and go see my friend Steve Whitenmier.

Self Now in Young Age: Gonna play mega-man X and Super Metriod, and save Steve from moving away where he gets a girl pregnant and moves out and files for bankruptcy at 18.

Artist Essay #2 Barry McGee

Barry McGee, aka Twist, is a well known graffiti artist. His is most notable known for his saggy, sleepy, eyed homeless man shown in the series of pictures above. Through his art he shows life on the streets, in this quote from PBS off of the Art 21 series, “He views graffiti as a vital method of communication, one that keeps him in touch with a larger, more diverse audience than can be reached through the traditional spaces of a gallery or museum.” Anyone can respect that. His art pieces are shown throughout the U.S on museum walls, homes, brick walls, and trains. His art captures a time and place most of us can not see or understand, through his art we see hard ships, story telling, and making fun of the government. His work seems to transcend the ghetto to the museums of Minneapolis and California in one flew swop of artistic skill, as well as traveling the train cars of all the major locomotive businesses. Contemporary Urban art is what PBS Art 21 labels him as, even though he’ll gladly take a paint can and sharpie over a paint brush and pencil or other professional artistic implement tool.

Artist Essay #1 Matthew Richie

Matthew Richie is almost indescribable, his work, from what I got off the PBS’s Art 21 website http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/ritchie/index.html, tries to embody the universe, from all forms of art including, painting, drawing, digital, sculpture, and metal works. I’m not too sure what to say about Richie’s art, it could be that I don’t comprehend it, which is most likely the case, but even in my ignorant state there is something on a semi-barbaric level that is utterly, intoxicating about his art work. The free form of simple lines draws me and embraces me with a wanting for discovery, and shows me a completely elaborate world with its own direction, all while following a simple black line on a white wall. I don’t understand what he is trying to convey through his art, all I see from his art is off the explicit surface of his pieces. The lines, colors, the simplicity, the two dimensions, the third dimensions, the wanting to understand his pieces, too know why that particular line cross over the other, does it tell a story, a narrative, is it of fiction or of history. I may not comprehend what Richie is telling me, but I know one thing… I like it.