You have two choices.. this is due by beginning of class Friday Aug. 22.
OPTION #1: Write a Manifesto about your own work, based on artist's manifestos in the 20th Century. I recommend that you research that first. You may include images of your own work.. Great self-promotion and conceptual development!!!
OPTION # 2: Choose two works from either your text book or from topics covered in class to write an essay. Research well... you must use a minimum of two sources outside of the text. Compare and Contrast the two works discussing similarities and differences. Be sure to include a detailed description of each work, background information like when and where it was made. What was the political and religious context? How did the climate and geography influence the work?
Post to the blog by beginning of class Aug. 22.
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I am fond of the paintings "Saturn Devouring His Son" by Francisco Goya and "One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate" by Salvador Dali. I enjoy both paintings for the unreal dream-like feeling they share and the boldness of the imagery. Both paintings were executed using oil, though Goya's is on plaster and Dali's is on canvas. The paintings share a surreal feeling and are both emotionally driven. They were made in different time periods and differ in style. Goya's painting made between 1820-1823 is of the romantic style which shows with his sketchy brush strokes. It also consists of dark colors and shadows. The painting could be scary to some, as it shows the god Saturn with the arm of his decapitated son in his mouth after already consuming his head. According to Erik Weems of eeweems.com/goya/saturn, the painting may have been influenced by events in Goya's Personal life as it does not depict Saturn in a usual manner compared to other paintings involving Saturn. Despite similarities, unlike Goya, Dali's Painting belongs to the surrealist style of painting. Compared to Goya's, Dali's painting is very clean and crisp with clean edges and a realistic feel to it despite the surreal imagery. It is also light and bright in color. As stated by www.fulcrumgallery.com/Salvador-Dali/Dream-Caused-by-the-Flight-of-a-Bee-Around-a-Pomegranate-A-Second-Before-Awakening_24430.htm, the painting was made in 1944 and the idea for "One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate" was given to Salvador by his wife Gala Dali who is the woman in the painting. Dali announced that this painting was the first illustration of Sigmund Freud's discovery, that external stimuli could be the cause of a dream.
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Manifesto.
I believe that our life experiences, memories, and the emotions felt during these events are the substance that we are created from. Thru out life we will experience events and people so monumental to our character and we may not even realize the impact that they have on our lives. These experiences are the definition of us as a person, they are a part of us whether we choose to recognize them or not. They will cause us to react and respond to each and every situation differently. They will cause us to feel different surges of emotions that we may not completely understand or agree with.
The negative emotions come from experiences that may have been detrimental to us. These experiences we tend to expel from our memories because remembering is reliving and our ultimate goal as humans is happiness. As much as I would like to dismiss these memories I have come to the conclusion that while on my journey to fulfilling the goals that I have set for myself I must remember these emotions. If I forget then I have learned nothing.
Aside from the unfavorable events in our life we also have events and people that bring a great deal of satisfaction and positive energy to the evolution of us. These experiences and people are sometimes taken for granted and washed away from our memories as soon as the next gratifying experience or person enters our lives. I feel that these experiences and people need to be commemorated on a daily basis. These are the building blocks to our good being. We will forever be indebted to those experiences because with out them we are nothing.
Art is my expressive preservation of my emotions, and experiences. I take all that I feel in that moment, every surge of electricity that is caused from positive or negative experiences or people and let it flow through my tools and onto my canvas. My art is all that I am.
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-Shannon Jones
Graphic Design
Georges Braque “Houses at L'Estaque”
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Paul Cezanne “La Maison Lezardée
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The two pieces of art I chose to research are from Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque. Both artists were the inspiration to Picasso’s style of cubism. I chose Paul Cezanne’s “La Maison Lezardée” and Georges Braque’s “Houses at L'Estaque”. I chose both of these painting because I really enjoyed the simple immensity of the environment. Braque’s painted his piece in 1908 in France. The painting is oil on canvas and the same with Cezanne’s painting. Cezanne’s painting was done in 1892. Both paintings have many similarities as well as differences between them. Cezanne’s painting is viewing a building from a worm’s eye perspective as to where Braque’s painting is in the same perspective but looking up to a set of multiple houses. One very big difference between the two is the way the perspective is painted. Cezanne’s painting has very real perspective and Braque’s painting has a very untruthful perspective. Braque’s painting is a worm’s eye but the way he’s viewing the buildings is a bird’s eye perspective. Braque’s painting is a truly a cubism style as where Cezanne’s isn’t. Cezanne took his painting to a more real stage. His foliage is drawn to scale and has a more true appearance than what Braque did with his. I find Cezanne’s painting to have a more vivid use of color rather that how Braque decided to implement color. Braque’s colors appear too subtle, but overall this painting is how it is meant to be. Both of these artists have much in common as well as much in differences between them.
Sean McCreary
Media Arts and Animation
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Personal Manifesto.
Me.
I do not believe in a GOD.
Nor do I believe in a devil or angels or ghosts.
I believe in the human conscious.
I believe we all have it in us to be 'good'. We also have it in us to be 'bad'.
I cannot tell you what is and isn't good or bad.
I learned how to cook when my mother had to work all the time.
I do not let things like POVERTY or depression hold me back.
I know what it is like to go a week without food.
I know I am a lesbian because I did not choose these feelings.
I do not find all women attractive.
I do not think of MEN at all.
I would sleep with myself if I could clone myself.
I believe in SCIENCE.
I would be sad to learn if there is a 'Gay Gene', but I would also feel relieved.
I strongly agree with the Theory of Evolution, Man-made climate change, and dinosaurs becoming extinct 65 million years ago.
I do not remember my PARENTS being together.
I did not make my father a dead beat.
I did not make my parents meet.
I want to be ORIGINAL.
I know I never will think original thoughts or do original things.
I am 400,000 years late.
I constantly experience 'mouse hand'.
The experience of having one's dominant hand be cold to the touch through long hours at the computer.
I love the INTERNET.
My ex may have been a pedophile.
I sometimes think about my first LOVE as being the girl I met in a chat room.
I prefer the girl that met me at the airport.
I have thoughts about the girl I met outside the Rainforest Cafe.
The only thing all these women have in common is being brunette.
I have trouble understanding those younger than me.
I have trouble giving those younger than me a chance.
I have trouble being YOUNGER to someone else.
For a moment, after my dog died, I wanted to believe in God.
I got sick of EVERYONE telling me my dog would be there when I died.
I watch porn to make fun of it.
I do not feel bad for the girls starring in it.
They make more MONEY than I do.
I judge constantly.
I just keep it to myself.
I'm afraid of ever getting drunk because of the thoughts I have about people.
I told by the shelter's therapist I was surprisingly very ARTICULATE.
As a child, I wanted to be the knight in shining armor.
CHIVALRY is dead.
Don't hold open the door for me just because I am a woman.
I will beat the crap out of you.
Creating artwork should be for fun.
I made it into work.
Now I'm looking for a new HOBBY.
I voted for Hillary in the Primaries.
Even though my vote did not get counted.
I volunteered for Barack.
I cried tears of joy when they announced OBAMA the winner.
My best friend and I did not like each other when we first met.
My FRIENDS say I can be blunt.
My friends know when I am truely mad at them when I stop talking to them.
I love trip-hop music.
I like a lot of unknown MUSIC.
I lack rythym so I don't dance in public.
I am one of those people who questioned the War.
I am one of those people who supports Pro-choice.
I am one of those people who wants to decriminalize 'weed'.
I am one of those people WHO Ann Coulter hates.
I have hope.
I want to find happiness.
I try to be REALISTIC.
-Alecia Zurita
Media Arts and Animation
Example art.
End Feeling.
The pencil touches the paper, and it begins. For as far back as my memory allows, I have felt an inescapable passion for art. Art is the deliverance of the soul. Art has a definition, yet is undefinable. Art is excepting to all, and can express feelings of any nature. I feel as thought art allows me to be free, in my own way. There are no boundaries and no end.
Of course, to some people art is just a three letter word, meaning nothing more than just that. But that is the swirl of life's interests. To me, math is just an annoying four letter word meaning just that, annoying. Yet, to a math teacher, it is their passion, what they take pride in. I take my true pride in my art work.
I feel as though, the way i express myself through my art is a way for others to see things in a different perspective. Growing up, I also really enjoyed writing. I started writing in about 3rd grade, winning little awards for publishing books in elementary school. In my five page bound paper books, i'd illustrate every page. Time passed and my life started to change. I started writing about experiences I went through, was going through, or experiences I longed for. I then decided to put the two arts together, and express myself even more. I would write things, and design the page to express my writing. It satisfied my desire for two arts in one.
I design my artwork to my interest, and to what i feel satisfies the eye. I am precise in every detail, taking the time to express definition in every inch. There are moments where my life can twist inside out, as well as everyone. My art work feels like a medicine, the only true medicine there is at times. Soothing my nerves, while expressing my feelings. All concentration is kept at that moment, while ideas flow through my head, while I am the judge of the start and the end. Art is allowing your soul to take control, while my inspiration of my past, present, and every life changing experience lead the way.
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Communication comes in many forms. Conveying an idea through art is my passion, and it is my escape route. I can take a journey without ever leaving the room. Ideas are flowing into colors and shapes, and are expressed onto a canvas. Imagination is priceless because it means more than just the obvious. The reactions I recieve to my art are what has always driven me. Who knew that throwing up a little nickname on the bench in the park would have such an impact.
When i saw someone crossed it out and drew over it the next day, it made me want to draw an even longer lasting impression.
There will always be negative forces in the world, but these forces are what inspires the artist to do greater things.
NADINE’ S DESIGN MANIFESTO
I BELIEVE THAT MY DESIGNS ALL START WITH MY BELIEF SYSTEM.
I BELIEVE THE ABILITY TO DESIGN IS A GIFT AND SHOULD BE SHARED WITH ALL.
I BELIEVE IN DESIGNING FOR ALL PEOPLE. FOR ALL CLASSES, STYLES, RELIGIONS, RACES AND SO ON.
I BELIEVE IN DESIGN TO CHANGE LIFE'S.
I BELIEVE A WELL DESIGNED SURROUNDING CAN MAKE OR BREAK A PERSONS MOOD.
I BELIEVE A ROOM WITH GREAT COLOR, PROPORTION, FORM AND FUNCTION HOLDS THE POWER TO FILL PEOPLE WITH DIFFERENT KINDS OF EMOTIONS. A GOOD DESIGN CAN MAKE ONE FEEL YOUNGER, SEXIER, SMARTER, MORE PROFESSIONAL, RELAXED, COMFORTABLE, SAFE AND SO ON.
I BELIEVE IN SURROUNDING YOURSELF WITH WHAT YOU LOVE IS THE ROOT, HOWEVER I DON’T THINK YOU SHOULD HAVE TO SACRIFICE FUNCTIONALITY TO DO SO.
I BELIEVE IN “DOES IT WORK AND IS IT USEFUL?” INSTEAD OF “ IS IT PRETTY AND DOES IT LOOK NICE?”DON’T GET ME WRONG I THINK A ROOM SHOULD BE VISUALLY PLEASING TOO. HOWEVER I AM NOT AN INTERIOR DECORATOR, SO THE DESIGN ASPECT MUST COME FIRST.
I BELIEVE THAT INTERIOR DESIGN SHOULD BE SHOWN RESPECT JUST AS AN OTHER ARTIST.
I BELIEVE DESIGN IS VERY MUCH AN ART FORM AND IT SHOULD BE LIMITLESS.
I BELIEVE PEOPLE SHOULDN’T BE AFRAID TO EXPRESSING THEMSELVES BY PUSHING THE ENVELOPE AND SHOWING THEIR CREATIVE SIDE.
I BELIEVE ROOM/SPACES SHOULD NOT BE RE FRAMED TO STRAIGHT LINES ONLY. BRING ON THE CRAZY CURVES AND WEIRD ANGLES.
I BELIEVE THAT INTERIOR DESIGN IS NOT LIMITED TO INTERIOR SPACES ONLY.
I BELIEVE AT AN OUTSIDE SPACE CAN BE DESIGNED TO LOOK JUST AS COMFORTABLE AWESOME AS AN INTERIOR SPACE.
I BELIEVE INTERIOR DESIGN DOESN’T HAVE TO STOP AND SPACE PLANNING BUT AND CONTINUE THAT FURNITURE, LIGHTING AND ACCESSORIES GO HAND TO HAND.
I BELIEVE IN NOT BEING TO QUICK TO JUDGE BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE ALL DIFFERENT AND WHAT ONE MY FIND BLISS IN IS SOMETHING OTHERS MY NOT.
I BELIEVE INTERIOR DESIGN ISN’T STUFFY AND DESIGNERS DON’T HAVE TO BE EITHER.
I BELIEVE IN HAVING INTEGRITY.
I BELIEVE IN DOING THE RIGHT THING, EVEN WHEN IT MEANS LESS MONEY.
I BELIEVE THAT CHEATERS NEVER WIN AND SO YOU SHOULDN’T CHEAT YOUR CLIENTS OUT OF WHAT THEY REALLY DESERVE.
I BELIEVE MY CLIENTS SHOULD BE TREATED AS FRIEND WITH RESPECT AND CONSIDERATION.
I BELIEVE CLASSY DOESN’T HAVE TO BE EXPENSIVE.
I BELIEVE IN DESIGN WITH IN A BUDGET, NOT DESIGN ON A DIME.
I BELIEVE IN DESIGN TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
I BELIEVE THAT WE AND THE EARTH ARE ONE AND NEED TO WORK ON PROTECTING IT AND BETTERING IT BECAUSE WHEN WE CAUSE DAMAGE TO THE ENVIRONMENT WE ARE ONLY HURTING OURSELVES.
I BELIEVE IN GREEN LIVING IS THE WAY TO THE FUTURE.
I BELIEVE IN MOVING TOWARD GREEN DESIGN AND HELPING OTHER UNDERSTAND ITS IMPORTANCE.
I BELIEVE THAT DESIGN SHOULD BE USED TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
I BELIEVE IN RECYCLING MATERIALS.
I BELIEVE IN USING WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE, REPAINTING, REUPHOLSTERING, REFINISHING, AND REPOSITIONING.
I BELIEVE THAT GOING GREEN DOESN’T MEAN DESIGN HAS TO BE DULL OR OVER PRICED.
I BELIEVE IN “ THE LITTLE THINGS THAT COUNT THE MOST”
I BELIEVE IN ME.
At this time in my life, I am broken. I have faced all emotions possible for the past month or so, but I am persuaded to move forward not as I am but as who I am to be. My life may not matter to you as much as it does to me and so I found a release, a way to set myself free.
I am much better than you can see and that is what you were to me, someone strong, someone good, someone who does bad when he is to do good.
My words are flowing, but tears much much more so I am done and ready to soar.
My art sets me free!!
I believe that there is never enough time!!!
so many things so little time.
once you are doing something you realize that maby you could have done much more, or sometimes something you are doing you dont realize you'v done enough. but as soon as something is over there is so much more to start.
CARPE DIEM...words my which i live my life!
never any regrets!
actions lead to reactions (wether good or bad) that have broght me to who i am right now and my way of life and designing.
i believe that to really feel love you have to experience pain,to feel trouly happy you have to have shed tears of bitter sadness.
i believe that a little bit of ignorance keeps a life simple.
not everything arround you has to affect you.
you choose the ways to live your life.
so many feelings to feel.
so many places to see.
so many days to embrace.
so many people to meet.
so many hearts to touch.
so many moments to embrace.
so much art to create.
so much more to live.
SO LITTLE TIME!
CARPE DIEM.
I just got married 2 months ago.
I lived with my parents and followed their rules until the morning of my wedding day. I thank God because He blessed me with great parents.
I'm the third of six children. 5 girls and 1 boy (the youngest)
When I was a girl, I thought I was a boy. I was the only sister that played sports and would basically hang out with my dad everywhere he went. Until my little brother was born when I was 10...he brought our family so much joy, but also made me realize that I was just another "girl".
I felt rejected by everyone in my family, I wanted to escape from that horrible place because I didn't feel loved anymore. I wanted to die. I even tried to throw myself out of a window.
I started wearing very little clothes and tried to get boys to look at me, and they did. All I was trying to do was get my Dad's attention again.
at 11, my mom started going to a Christian church... I made fun of the crazy people that would sing and dance all the time.
I love dancing. I started going to ballet lessons.
My parents made us go to church every Sunday morning...and when I was about 12 I understood something: Jesus Christ was not only a prophet, He is the one and only Son of God. He died for my sins and for your sins on the cross. The important thing to know though is that the difference between a prophet and Jesus, is that He RESURRECTED from the DEAD....no ONE man had, has, or will ever do that.
This meant so much, that His death breaks world's History into two : Before Christ and After Death (of Christ) ...this is true for every culture on Earth....however the names were recently changed to Before the Common Era and After Common Era...no matter what names you wish to use, History will always be broken into two parts all because of Jesus Christ.
With all of this I just want to say how Jesus saved my life.
At 12 I was sad, depressed, bitter, I was an ogre to my younger siblings, was very insecure, but I knew that I wanted to be happy...I just didn't know how to.
I heard at church "That if you confess with your mouth, 'Jesus is Lord,' and believe in your Heart that God raised him from the Dead, you will be saved." Romans 10:9. I went home and went in the bathroom, locked the door and told God these same words. I talked to Him, I opened my heart to Him and told Him all the things that bothered me.
That day, I started believing that Jesus saved me, and HE DID!
I'm not religious, I'm free to do whatever I want. God is my Father...and because I love Him, I want to live my life just how Jesus says I should.
My religion is Christ, and in Christ is my strength.
He took away my fears, and insecurity, He cleaned me of my sins, and gave e a new life, A life that I actually enjoy.
It's not perfect. Don't get me wrong. Life is tough, but living it with Christ is so much easier. What is there to lose?
I want to read the bible more...I want to know what He is all about.
My highest expression of art is DANCE, I dance for God.
this IS MY LIFE.
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Diana Gazabon
For my mid-term I chose to talk about two paintings: Cut with the kitchen knife, Electronic superhighway.
Cut with the kitchen knife was made by Hanna Hoch in 1919, & Electronic Superhighway was made by Nam June Paik in 1995. Both works of art are more similar than they seem, because both are collages one made with pictures, the other one made with T.V’s, each made with a goal in mind, but then again what type of art doesn’t have a message. On both I liked the fact that they had something to do with people and how life affects us
Cut with a Kitchen Knife is DADA specific as an example of 'photomontage'. This is in a way a form of thinking via image, deconstructing the original image to create a new narrative/frame from which to view the art (often seemingly abstract). However, the content in the work is easily decipherable and is imbedded with inherent image meaning. For example, a lot of the types of images deconstructed in these works are of or deal with the body, the machine, and language (via text). This type of content was topical at the time due to the politics of the rise of the machine and industrialism.
In Electronic superhighway paik augmented the flashing images "seen as though from a passing car" with audio clips from The Wizard of Oz, Oklahoma, and other screen gems, suggesting that our picture of America has been influenced by film and television. Today, the Internet and twenty-four-hour broadcasting tend to homogenize the customs and accents of what was once a more diverse nation. Paik was the first to use the phrase "electronic superhighway," and this installation proposes that electronic media provide us with the images and adventure that we used to leave home to discover. But Electronic Superhighway is real. It is an enormous physical object that occupies a middle ground between the virtual reality of the media and the sprawling country beyond our doors.
To design this monumental map of the United States, the artist Nam June Paik arranged 336 televisions on a scaffold and overlaid it with almost 600 feet of neon. Fifty DVD players send multimedia simultaneously to screens populating each state.
References
Newall, A. (2006). Prism Cut with the Kitchen Knife. Retrieved online February 27, 2009 at http://prism.palatine.ac.uk/resources/view/137.
Sam. (2009). Superhighway Scholars. Retrieved online February 27, 2009 at http://americanart.si.edu/education/rs/artwork/index.cfm.
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