Digital Arts 24 Refference Images

I created 24 images, to help me brainstorm possible storyline, characters, and places for my characters to interact with to create an interesting comic, that is both stylistic and funny.

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http://anthonyfontana.com/AFImages/KyleColor_FlashBook.swf

The above is a link to my 2-D Foundations art project. Sorry I couldn't post the actual flash file but blogger doesn't seem to support the file format. Our guidelines on this project were to explore the mediums in which we use to escape reality with a heavy emphasis on color. So I tried to explain my point of view, how I see and understand color, through as many of these mediums that I possibly could. My original project idea was to make an installation piece, but difficulties arose. I truly feel that this version carries my meaning better, because I cover more mediums when this piece is on the internet and computer. We shot this in my room, because its green, it took use around 3 takes to get the take we used. This being the first time me and my friend used green screening we were not too sure what to expect. We learned a lot about adobe after effects, flash, sound booth. I really took time with this piece from the 2 week development idea, to the 33 or so hours put into production for this piece. And this piece only confirms that this is what I want to do for a living, as none of the work was to overly tedious. I had fun with this.

Artist Essay # 5

Today I’m going to talk Mark Dion as a artist and his ideas and meanings and how I see and understand them. Mark Dion is known in the world for his pieces that depict nature in a fleeting sort of way. By hanging rats on a tree he sees art. By hanging rats on a tree I can’t really see the meaning in it. And I can’t describe exactly what the piece makes me think of. It provokes questions of why are the rats covered in tar first before being hung on a tree. I know each piece of the art work has gone through sketches and books and all are there for a reason. But I’m having trouble formulating a single idea why anyone would want to look at that and take away some profound meaning. His other piece is a bit more pleasing to the eye and easier to unwrap. The tree in the machine controlled glass house is pretty neat. And I take away the idea that we are losing our selves to a world of machines and look at aging relics through glass windows such as a forest. Mark Dion is a unique individual, that’s for sure.

Artist Essay #4

Laurie Simmons is half an artist half an writer and actor in the development of plays inlayed with themes and ideas. The most well known of which is “The Music of Regret” a 3 part piece that tells numerous ideas and emotions. I find theater to be a bit ordinary when it comes to art, not that it’s a bad medium just that most of the ideas and meanings, themes, of most plays have been done. But Laurie Simmons only uses the medium to fully express her feelings and thoughts on time, and emotion by acting out various situations in humorous acts mostly played by hand puppets that she and a friend control. By having hand puppets in the act instead of people I take away the feeling that the situations she is depicting are childlike and not import the world around us. That most people should not be worried about trivial things in the world while wars and other global atrocities are happening. While theater and film is where Laurie Simmons is currently at, she started out in photography taking pictures of numerous things that depicted American life in a nut shell. I find her pieces to be reflective of American culture.

Artist Essay #3

Tim Hawkinson is something completely original. Hard to define and new his pieces represent numerous ideas an thoughts. My favorite piece of his is the uberorgan, besides having the coolest name I have ever heard it something that’s hard to fathom. A huge organ that takes up a massive space with tubes of silicon and plastic surrounding and intertwining all over the building, until all the tubes and plastic fix to a central point in the building. A huge conveyer belt running up and down with a system running on black dots as signs and musical note for when to blow what horn and at what force. This piece tells me that no matter how big or complex a piece is, or anything that people make or ideas that people come up with. All those ideas, thought, art pieces spawn from a central idea. The Emotor something that carries with it meanings and the same time being overly complex and hard to describe. A face completely independtly moving with the help of motors hence eMOTOR. But the face takes light sources from around the room and makes a face in accordance to the light of the room in that particular moment in time. what I get from that image is that, emotion is a central meaning in our surroundings.

Image Essay # 10

I’m not sure if this is a piece of art by an artist or if it is just an image from a shitty jewelry website, but none the less this object and the values it carries with it can all be derived from the shape of the object. Shapes can carrying colors, meanings, values and anything else a person wants it too. Shapes are in our everyday lives under our noses, underlying in every action we take or make. Just as I’m typing now on a rectangular keyboard on relatively square keys each one defined a value and a symbol so I can communicate on a square screen while looking at a gold ring. Shapes are almost too abstract to define, along the lines of the color I feel we can never fully understand shapes. For each person takes shape to a personal level. As a child one creates and takes particular shapes and colors and describes them as their favorites and most times those favorites last a life time. This ring carries with it different meanings from one culture to another from state to another, from one person to another. Each person my think of their wife or husband or a failed attempt at marriage. Once again each person takes and makes their own in art.

Image Essay # 9

BRILLO what could possibly be definined from this piece? The definition of any piece can vary from person to person its what makes art so special and unique and great medium of expressionism. In this piece by Andy Warhol we are presented with Brillo soap pads. Now I’ve used Brillo and find them to do exceptional cleaning of dishes and pots and pans, but I think Andy’s meaning in this piece is a bit more complex than a great house hold cleaner. Could he be stating something about contemporary American women in this piece. That women are currently locked in their world of dish washing as a means of escape they turn to brillo to get the jobs done faster. Could he be saying that the world is running low on the brillo soap pads. Could it be that women deserve more than a square box of brillo soap. Could he be saying appreciate the women in your lives because where every they come from most men of Andy’s time period used to deem them nothing more than common house maids that raised children and washed dishes while the man works. Could he be saying that the brillo pads are becoming more rare in the fact that times are changing and women are taking new jobs of importance, and brillo should be in a museum, remnants of a lost society?