Art Reflection

The artist I choose for my assignment is, Kenneth Nelson, the title of his artwork “Sunburst” is a sculpture piece. 2. There’s not much history about this art work that I selected, only on the artist himself. Kenneth worked in the steel industry for a couple of years, so it would be safe to say that metal sculptures stuke an interest in him . He may have wondered what he could do with all the different kinds of steel he would work with. At this time however artist weren’t really making any money, so he may have felt combelled to move on to others things which he did. His education was important to him

Walking into the gallery toward Untitled #9, the work looks to me just like a dirty canvas, particularly in contrast to the pristine white of the gallery wall. So my first instinct is to look at the work, dismiss it and look away. But since I have made a commitment to stay with this work, I try to ignore the surrounding paintings composed of vibrant color and movement that my eye gloms onto.. It's hard to pull my gaze back to the Martin work, but I do and then start to take notes on its components(the process of which has provided somewhat of a diversion from the daunting blankness of the canvas). It is a rather large, square work; I read that it is six feet by six feet. As I get closer I see that the square is divided into 9 squares high and 6 squares wide, each square divided into 8 narrow rectangles. It reminds me of the notebooks French students use , perfect grids to aid in Cartesian analysis - clarity as a means of finding truth. Like the notebooks, the grids on the canvas start to create a clarity and peacefulness in my mind.

I’ve have always felt like I didn’t know how to appreciate art and comprehend it importance, from individual pieces to art as a culture and field. I am not artistic myself, not in any traditional way, so I have had trouble stepping into the perspective of an artist. Still, I do understand the phenomenon of being moved, and greatly influenced, by art and I have discovered and explored some of the many ways in which it can be expressed. I hope to gain the skill of being able to really understand the depth and technique behind what I see and hear, so that I am able to complete my role as the audience and do the works justice.

The topic of the Roman Empire has been visited and revisited many times since its rise and fall over a thousand –year time period. While it was not the first or the longest-running empire to fade into history, people have been fascinated by its story for centuries. There have been movies made, such as “Pompeii” in 2014 (Kenny), and “Cleopatra” in 1963 (Rice), a play,”Julius Caesar” performed in 1600 and written by William Shakespeare (Alchin), and many more. In James W. Ermatinger’s book, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, he described the last 250 years of the Empire, in which he provided historical insight, possible reasons for the demise, and lessons to be learned for the future (Ermatinger).

A lot of people think that art can only go as far as a class in school, but in reality there is art around everyone. Art can be a way of life for some people, and for others it is simply just something they pass every single day. What they do not realize is that art can have benefits in different aspects in their life, in children's lives, and even the world around them.

Learning the appreciation of the fine arts; like paintings viewed through Americas Antebellum period in history or sculptures viewed

Art, I was planning on discussing this with you this week. With you out tending to far more important issues, I am going to include Janene in the discussion right away as this is an issue that will likely need to be discussed at her level or above and we should get the discussion started sooner rather than later.

The first art work I observed was called “Black Is the Color” by Paul Stephen Benjamin. The artwork is located in the Stent Family Wing of the High Museum, it was produced in 2014 and is from the modern time period. The structure is made of old televisions of all shapes and sizes are unevenly stacked on top of each other much unorganized. The televisions come about five feet off the ground, and there are wild cords wrapped around the floor and also some of the televisions. The space where the televisions are located is very dark, the only light in the area comes from the televisions themselves. On the screen of the television is an African-American women singing into a microphone, playing the piano as well. In some televisions the picture is cropped and you can only see her face and the piano can’t be seen to the viewer. In other televisions the color of the actual picture is different from others.

In this report, I am going to describe my own role in helping the team to achieve its goal in relation to the group report and the practical negotiation exercise’s. Also I will provide evidence of my contribution to the cohesiveness of the group and how I facilitated the completion of the group goals.

I graduated high school in 1986 and from the day I was born until I went into government service I was not one much interested in art. I spent most of my days as a typical Southern California kid spending a majority of my days outside with friends at the beach or enjoying the beauty of living in “America’s Finest City”. I wasn’t planning on going to college after high school so AP classes weren’t a priority during my high school years. After graduation the same applied for my years of travel until I left government service in 2017. Over the years I have enjoyed the occasional musical and have admired the beauty of a few paintings, on the occasion that I happened to be somewhere that had some, and have admired the beauty of both ancient and modern architecture over my many travels, but I have never really taken the time to study and examine the true beauty of all the art around me. Fast-forward to August 2017 and my first year of college. Thanks to 9/11 GI Bill, and Professor James Holbrook’s Humanities class, I was exposed to new information on the complexities of art that I was never aware of.

I have many interests in visual arts, it is one of my favorite classes. It is one of my favorite classes because it allows me to be creative and use my imagination. The whole process of creating something then seeing it when you are finished is a really good feeling when you have put a lot of hard work and effort in it. Art class enables me to make what I want and express myself, it is a calming and relieves stress. Achievement’s I have had in art is that I have had my art work presented in art shows at school and other places like, our local ice cream store (dairy treat). I have also taken the max number of art classes that you can take, 3D, 2D, Art 8 and Art studio. To take art studio you have to have already taken 3 classes of art either

Before taking this class, I had planned on continuing my education and starting my Master’s degree in the fall of 2016. I was going to pursue a degree in Healthcare Administration. However, after taking this class I am unsure if I want to pursue my Master’s. I am very grateful that next quarter is my last leg of my undergraduate career. It has taken me a very long time to get here. As for my future, I will be indulging in a little bit of self-evaluation and determining if my future is what I planned on it being when I started this journey years ago.

The story of Andre Trocme and the peoples of Le Chambon is a truly an inspiring given the fact that they helped harbor many Jews from being persecuted. They are truly inspiring because from a religious perspective they have lived a part of the Christian faith that many people never will and as result their story will probably be read to future generations of those who are seeking to live a more fulfilled Christian life. From this amazing yet dangerous story, I can regrettably say that I have never heard of these people or the actions they took to help harbor the dozens of lives of Jews. I think this is so because of several reasons including the very idea of religion not wanting to be taught by the

Writing has always been one of my strengths, enabling me to freely express my creative thoughts in a controlled manner onto a piece of paper. Although my writing process takes a long time, I have complete power over the sentences and structures that I am weaving together to form a cohesive whole. Throughout High School, I was trained to write a structured essay in an ample amount of time by writing, editing, and finalizing my draft. Most of our work involved writing individual essays and research papers in which I developed a strong foundation in. However, I realized that I lacked experience in group work as well as oral communication in delivering my ideas to the audience. At the end of the semester, I noticed my transition from an

During the short six weeks of Art Therapy class I was surprised on all the positive things I learned in such short period of time. We covered different modalities in Art therapy which encouraged participants to be creative and make use of their imagination. For this intermodal Art experience paper I created a visual art poster that expressed my current feelings and emotions. I began to look for images that expressed my personal emotional state; I was surprised with what emerged from my visual art poster. It illustrated visual images of stress on one side to images of success on the opposite side. There was so much nonverbal expression in one piece of visual art, as it spoke for itself without words. As I contemplated the poster and its messages, I moved to a second modality, in response to the visual art poster I wrote a poem in response to the Art piece. The poem came about naturally; my feelings flowed into words which made me feel good about the visual art poster that I had created. As an inexperienced poetry writer I felt that my poem was not as good as an experienced poetry writer. However I still tried it, as I began to write I began to think of what message the visual art poster conveyed to me, including what emotions it provoked. Several questions came to mind, what were the visual images on the poster saying about me? And why did I create such piece? Author Malchiodi (2007) notes that “First, art expression is thought to be a form of visual language through which