Reflection Of Art And Art

As soon as I walked into the Norton Simon Museum of Art, I was lost. The last time I had been there was several years ago, and even then, I hadn't really paid enough attention to the art. I took a quick glance through the large double doors leading to the sculpture garden, then went to get my ticket. I sat down with a map for a short while, putting my thoughts together and figuring out which way I would have to go, in order to find the time periods and art styles that I was looking for. I walked in with a mindset that this trip would be quick, but I was proven wrong. I walked back and forth between the rooms exhibiting 17th and 18th century art, but I couldn't seem to choose the correct piece. Finally, I noticed a painting to my right that just flew off the page in my perspective. As soon as I saw the royal blue tints, I knew that I had to study this painting, since blue is my favorite color, and also because this painting was gorgeous.

The pencil liberates my stresses and sorrows. Bare and unimpeded, my mind is able to isolate itself from anything that was happening in my life. At my art table, which is merely an escape from reality, my curiosity is able to wander. Within this room, five blank canvas's look in on me as I become a mold of my imagination. A step inside my world develops into a sea of color and exploration. The vibrancy of the walls resonates throughout. Over the years, my room has served as my oasis. It’s my escape from monotonous and mundane routines. It’s my exploration of another side of me. I observe such works of art almost as much as I create. Taking notice of my classmates’ innovations and inspired by their creativity, my paintbrush begins to alleviate stress. I strive to produce pieces others will appreciate, but often find myself to be the true admirer. My pride, in this world, is driven simply by my own curiosity to express myself. I credit this side of me as the “passion” that supplements my insane drive for success. This passion has sparked critical thinking in me as well as how I see failure. Life is a blank canvas and you can truly draw whatever you want, and if you fail, you start over and don’t make that same mistake again! Hard work takes ideas quite far, but true success is derived from ingenuity and the generation of

I did not find fulfillment with my education until I found architecture. Before then, I had always enjoyed studying art and design, but was encouraged to pursue a major that fit my parents more serious idea of education. This is why I spent my first year at North Carolina State University as an Exploratory Studies student, taking courses to try and enter the Biomedical Engineering major. Chasing a major that was not a good fit for my interests proved detrimental for me, as I lost focus over my school work and the courses proved difficult to keep up with. It was not until I had the opportunity to interview an architect working in downtown Raleigh that I came to the realization architecture was perfectly suited for me. The world of formative design and studio culture seemed like an education that was too good to be true. I was in disbelief over how the right career field had evaded me all these years. I took the opportunity to sit in on architecture classes and was sold.

For project two I decided to attend the Norton Simon Museum. Some time ago I had seen a friend share several pictures through social media, it consisted of a beautiful garden and distinct art work. After going back and forth in conversation she informed me it was a museum located in Pasadena. At the time I never took the initiative to go despite how intrigued I was through simple pictures however, I moved from Pomona to Pasadena and decided since we had the project coming up it was the perfect occasion to attend. My decision to attended was driven by curiosity of what my city has to offer. In a school field trip, I had the opportunity to attend the Getty Center although it was so long ago that I cannot remember much. I do not have any expectations since I really do not have anything to compare it with, however I do expect to hopefully be able to identify genres of art and maybe even classify around what periods the art belongs to.

On November 4, 2017, I went to the Fort Worth’s modern arts museum to do a research for my arts class. I haven’t gone to an arts museum since I was in 7th grade. I actually thought it was really boring but now that I went again it was actually really interesting. I went with my boyfriend and all of the art work actually got our eyes attention and makes us look deeper into the picture it made us think. My professor sent me to go look at three specific arts which are representational, representational abstract, and non-representational abstraction.

Many new materials were thought so far throughout the course. We learned about many types of arts and their purpose. We watched many videos in class that talked about the different types of arts.  Art stimulates our mind. And gives us the opportunity to explore our creative side. Art of any type pleases, notifies, teaches and informs us in every way possible. Some of the different works of art that really interest me are The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinci, Aphrodite of Milos, and the David Statue by Michelangelo.

When I had first passed my TSI test that I needed in order to get college classes, I was pretty excited to find out that I was taking art appreciation. At first it was nothing like I had expected, I thought it was just another class. We learn about famous paintings that are very popular in the modern times, stuff dating back a really long time.

Visual expression through art has existed presumably since the beginning of time, in one form or another. As soon as a child is old enough to grasp a crayon, the two are inseparable until every blank canvas, paper to walls, has been filled. It’s almost as if it’s human instinct to participate in such visual representation of their ideas and emotions. Regardless, creating art has long been regarded as an activity that, while visually pleasing, offers no real benefits in an individual’s life. Contrary to this belief, pursuing art may help improve the overall quality of life because of its therapeutic effects, the clear effort-and-reward system entailed, and art’s ability to enhance creative thinking.

The various uses of fonts, sizes, and educational literature is not only visually appealing to viewers, but also is a change of scenery many may be used to when visiting an exhibit. If the mixture of descriptive texts and labels of the items were the same font and size, the aesthetics of the exhibition would have been decreased a significant amount. The Amazonia display has an abundance of resources for guests to engage with. The use of audio, visual and interactive materials, engages those who visit to become more involved. The brochure is a critical element in understanding the political drive of the exhibition, almost to a point where the artifacts are merely seen as historical “accessories” to a more extensive message. “There is [this] urgent need to change course, and to realize a radically different world, one released from centuries of the domination of nature, a nature historically relegated to the status of “natural resources”, and Rights of Nature does exactly this (Demos, 4). It is not only the brochure provided that contains an abundance of information, but the texts within the exhibit are also seen along the entirety of the rounded walls filled with statistics of inhabitants and components associated with the Amazon. As a regular visitor of the Museum of Anthropology, I find that the curator's tactics and methods to create a sense of intertextuality within exhibitions, this by far is one of the highest I have been able to visit. The importance of aboriginal and

I walked into this class having the mindset that this class was going to focus on how to incorporate drawing and painting into the classroom. I was apprehensive about having to take a class on how to integrate art across content areas. Reflecting on the course, art has become to mean much more to than visual arts. Art can mean writing poems like the where I am from poems, incorporating movement for the kinesthetic learners and incorporating singing. This course opened up my eyes on how movement can be used in the classroom to enhance learning, how sounds can add into the learning process to make the learning fun, and how teaching with visuals can make the learning more meaningful.

When I lived in Chile I got to observe poverty, injustice, and corruption, but I didn’t recognize it as such while living there, I simply saw it as the way things were and accepted the bitter reality that my home country put me through. Thankfully, when I moved to Canada, I got to experience living in a comfortable first world country and truly realized the flaws that Chile has. This is why elements such as rebellion, social issues and the forceful infliction of Christianity reflect on many of my artworks. When I first started taking art classes in Canada, my teachers required me to put meaning into my artwork, something I had never done before. Due to this requirement, I slowly began to think about what the meaning of my art was before I started. This allowed me to meticulously plan my piece, which resulted in an improvement in my overall composition process. I began to express my point of view of the world, and brought in my experience of living both a third and first world countries into my art; in my opinion, making it unique, and personal. I usually tend to express my perspective of the world, with a variety of materials. These include pastels, charcoal, pen, paint, and multimedia. Stylistic trends that tend to appear in this type of my artwork is the use of dark colors, rhythm and the use of materials in a chaotic matter; by this, I refer to the use of multiple materials in one piece. While some conceptual trends include my expressing of social issues that I can

For my art reflection, I visited the Detroit Institute of Arts on November 9, 2017. I wanted to learn more about the pieces that were related to religion. I knew I would be intrigued because when we think of the bible or hear storied about God, we often create pictures in our head. Attending the DIA would expand my views of how I perceive the things that I hear. I decided to do my paper on the Temptation of St. Anthony (17th century) and The Miraculous Draught of Fishes. While these works were beautiful, their story was even more amazing.

Upon arriving 30 minutes prior to the museum opening, the impatience overcame me. Auguste Rodin’s sculptures at the exterior did not suffice. At noon, I finally gained admittance into the museum, and I carefully observed at every artwork displayed. After, I went back to the artwork I liked the most and scrutinized, analyzed, and interpreted. Overall, the museum had a collection of excellent Impressionist art. Among the greatest Impressionist artist, I chose Berthe Morisot’s In a Villa at the Seaside. The glittering oil paints on canvas demonstrated and revealed its temperature that I could sense the warmth in the painting. The more I gazed, the more I was captivated by the artwork. In addition, the surrounding artworks heightened the impression. The walls were covered with seascape paintings that I could almost smell the sea air. Therefore, it allowed me to engage deeply in the setting along with the figures in the canvas spending their leisure time at the seashore. As soon as I recognized their apparel, I could associate this artwork with the woman in Jean Honore Fragonard’s canvas oil painting, The Swing, from the textbook. Both of the artworks enhanced my understanding of how the classes would differ. In specific, I could sense the barrier between the class statuses: the upper middle class and the upper class. Although they share the same theme of “class”, different artists have approached the theme in different styles.

Art is breathing life into something you create. It’s like your child that you cradle in your arms and to nurse it to life.” To create a body, to give it flesh and bone and breathe life into its shadowed eyes and form a personality through expression, this cannot be done from nothing. It’s created from the very paint of your soul, the material expression of your feelings. It’s derived from the very being of you. You are the God of your own work; you gave it a beating heart. It helps you purge the soul of your feeling all the bad and good. It can create a lovely piece of art or something dark and terrible depicting.

I was sitting in my classroom during art class,about 5 to 6 years ago.I was in third grade and I wasn't the best at doing much.It was freezing outside that day and going outside wasn’t an option so we had to stay inside during recess.I was about 7 or 8 and because of a storm outside, we had to stay in our classes after lunch.Our teacher had felt bad we couldn't go outside,and said we can do one of the following: Play with clay,Color in one of the what had to have been hundreds of coloring books,or drawing on lined paper.I have always chose to color in the coloring books and had completed about 2 to 3 of them with to me was perfect coloring.I had picked up a piece of paper which was located at the front of the room. After i had gotten my paper, i sat back down,grabbing my pencil and bringing the sharp edge to the paper.