Art Observation

Art is how you express yourself, and everyone does it in their own way, in their own style. I chose to write about the two following art works because I believe they have so many similarities but are done in completely different ways. For this comparison and contrast assignment the two works of art I chose to write about are called; End “Mixed Media” by: Terry Peterson,shown in the art building at Shasta College, and Forlakeph “Mixed Media in a Glass Jar” by: Gioia Fonda, also shown in the art building at Shasta College.

Different fashions will come in and out of style but people want to be able to stand out in their own manner showing the world how they express themselves. A common form of self-expression is by getting a piercing or tattoo, something that can set a person apart from the majority. Body piercings and tattoos on women at one time were unacceptable and distasteful in the United States. However over time women having assorted types of body art has become more acceptable in society. Today young women at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, use piercings and tattoos as a form of self-expression that is vastly encouraged by peers and social media. Each woman has a different reason for why they personally want a piercing or a tattoo but are there some factors that have influenced the college community of women as a whole?

Art can be used in several ways so therefore there are many ways to memorialize a historical event. Sculptures are one of the more common ways that historical events are preserved for example many Greek sculptures usually constructed from marble or bronze, like the statue of David which is very well known. Photography is another method of preserving the past, although taking less skill it still retains much of the impact as it literally brings past events to the present a good example being the photo of the falling man during the 9/11 attacks. The photo was very controversial as it captured a man falling from the twin towers to his death many consider this picture an intimate moment that should

The purpose of this essay is to fully employ all of the new observational skills that I have learned from the start of the semester to now. With that in mind, I was feeling very excited to use these new “abilities” as I was observing art. The San Diego Museum of Art was very interesting indeed, and I have never experienced art in such a way that is sort of hard to describe. The museum had paintings and galleries ranging from the Renaissance era all the way to the eighteenth century and even Impressionism and Post-Impressionism as well. However, my eyes instantly caught Henri Matisse’s painting, Bouquet, this painting had so many details, elements, and meanings as well as similar characteristics from past chapters that I have read this semester.

The two works of art that I have chosen to analyze are 1) Jordan Casteel. Miles and JoJo. 2014. Oil on canvas, 54” x 72” and 2) Aaron Fowler. He Was. 2015. Mixed media, 134” x 165” x 108”. The themes that these works of art represent in regards to the exhibit are love, family, and pain. However, they also fall into other thematic categories. The main theme that seems to apply to both “Miles and JoJo” and “He Was” is Human Experience. Additionally, these arts differ in some ways.

The Gathering is an acrylic painting of a woodpile in Peterborough, NH. The image represents the gathering of ideas and people that led the painting’s success. The first visual element that comes to mind when I look at this painting is the direction. The painting’s direction is vertical because it gives the illusion that the viewer is looking towards the top of a hill to a woodpile. The woodpile is considered the “figure” in which is detached and focused on while the surround hill is the “ground”.

The first two art pieces shown for this course were very interesting, The Royal Acquaintances Memi and Sabu and the Statue of Gudea. They are very interesting to observe at the very least, because they have such a rich history from a time period that not many artifacts survived from. Looking at the dates of the objects they are actually about 500 years in difference, but the common person probably wouldn't have guessed that just by looking at them.

In this painting a group of men appear to be lost at sea. The sky and waves indicate that they are in the middle of a storm; in addition, the wooden raft looks as though it has endured a lot of hardship during the course of their journey.The men are piled up on top of each other in a shape of a pyramid. Some of the men are clothed while others are either halfway clothed or not clothed at all. There are approximately five men dead on this raft and others trying to look for help. At the top of the pyramid two men are holding up shirts trying the gain the attention of something in the background. In doing this all their backs are facing the viewer of the painting except for an older man slouching over a dead crew member.

In this class art has taught me many things that I didn’t know before or that they were associated with art particularly. This has gave me the opportunity to appreciate art and what it gives us the chances to do with it. Art also has changed my views on many things. To be specific, according to what I have learned in this class, it has changed my view on the role art has in reflecting social, economic, and humanistic issues. Also, I have learned many new artists that had works that were particularly meaningful in expanding my view of the world. All in all, art has many things to it to learn and appreciate from and to give you the chance to learn something that is creative and beautiful that you didn’t know about before.

In my previous post about what I thought art was, included multiple different ideas of creative expression. My original post was very limited on basic knowledge of art, and I was not including in depth explanations of art. I mentioned that art could be found in paintings, drawings, sculptures, literature, music, etc. I never thought to state how many different types of paintings there are, or even the multitude of different types of literature and music. This class taught me the art is not just something that pleases the eye, imagination, or ear. Art has meaning. I learned a lot my first couple of weeks of this class, and a lot of that came from the lecture, as well as the artists of the week videos. My favorite artist of the

One of the main areas of misunderstandings between Keith Schmidt and Peter Smith concerns the rate of expansion of the organization, an idea that originated from Schmidt (Caseforest.com 2010). Schmidt wanted the changes to be more abrupt in order to get the desired form of the organization. On the other hand, Smith was very conservative and wanted the changes to be slower contrary to Schmidt’s wishes. These repulsive views brought a lot of tension in the entire organization. The decision making process became slower obstructing various activities of the organization.

When I first arrived at Boston College, I learned and heard through my peers that taking an art class was something everyone did Junior or Senior year in order to fulfill the core. I had inferred that an art class was something “easier” than other classes that provided more traditional classroom academics. However, I found this to be strange as I never believed that an art class was easy; in fact I believe that an art class can be much more difficult than a class like English, Math, or History. With classes such as those, there are guidelines, structures, and rules you must follow in a strict way in order to do well. In Art however, these guidelines, rules, and structures are much more transparent and open to interpretation. In highschool,

In this image, I see three points in the houses, the pillar, the people, the bird, the lantern, and the books. I can see within the points that it makes a triangle. The tool that the artist used was gestalt and continuity. This image is built from points and connected to make images. The lines in this image goes from horizontal to vertical to curved. The horizontal lines are in the different buildings, the horse, the card, the cage, the bird, and the gate. You can see some horizontal lines in the people within their clothes and the faces. Some of the lines are also vertical in this picture which includes the card, the different builds as well, the mouse, the people, and the dad which he looks proper and straight. Not only does this image

The audience is inclined to take in Green͛s practice at large rather than gaining a deeper insight into each piece͛s individual context (George, 2015, p. 39). Both curators convey their intentions through the connections linking artist, content and context. This revised insight into the artists͛ practice is transformed due to the associations drawn by the curator and presented to the viewer through the exhibition rationale. The correlation between both showcases͛ intended premise combined with the curators͛selected pieces, assist the viewer in engaging with the artworks in a reinterpreted manner from their original context. Due to the extensive assortment of practices incorporated in Less Than: Art and Reductionism, the artists͛ intended meaning is adapted to fulfil the premise of the exhibition. This is evident in Daniel McKewen͛s Kafka On the Shore (2014) which explores capitalism through the use of a financial algorithm depicted in the form of three over-sized gypsum and acrylic polymer letter-forms mounted to the wall (QUT 2016). The conceptual premise of the work is hidden from the viewer once placed within the context of the rationale, reductionism. At first the viewer can visually relate this work to the premise of the exhibition due to its

What influenced these paintings? Would these same messages translate through time if the paintings swapped places in history? Fine art is more than just paint on canvas. Historical events, social, educational and physical experiences of the artist season their work and influence the way the artist transcribes messages to the viewer, influencing their ability to receive those messages. Two oil paintings containing the same subject matter can be incredibly similar and yet different in the influence they have on the viewer. C.F. Goldie’s ‘Ena Te Papatahi’ (1902) and S. Minson’s ‘Effulgent Self’ (2009) are two such paintings. Both contain realistic portraits of a Maori woman, but painted over 100 years apart are interpreted very differently by audiences in their time.