The Story that i am trying to tell in my book is about someone who avoids paying taxes and then moves to the U.S. To tell my story i could only use xeroxs it was very hard to do. in the book i had a page that was the main character thinking about moving to the U.S. i put the character in the middle of the page. him being in the middle emphasized and made you look at him.

The two colors i chose were blue and grey. i thought that i would show the side of being kind of boring and dull. and then blue represents being relaxed and not very hyper.

When i was designing my family portrait i thought more about symbolism than the actual looks. in reality i am taller than my mom and almost equal with my dad. but since parents always seem tall i drew them taller than me. i think that the strongest aspect of my family portrait is my drawing. i think that i did a good job drawing. i payed a lot of attention to detail.

i think that the most successful aspect of my sculpture was the glazing. it was partially on accident but i ended up using two different colors of glaze. in the end though the blend ended up looking really good i think. if i was to make another sculpture i would smooth out the clay more so that it would be easier to glaze.

Block Print

I think that the final Result of the block print was very good. i really enjoyed this project and worked very hard on it. it was very fun to do also. it seemed hard at first but i think that the final result was good.

Madame Georges Charpentier (née Marguérite-Louise Lemonnier, 1848–1904) and Her Children, Georgette-Berthe (1872–1945) and Paul-Émile-Charles (1875–1895), 1878Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1907 (07.122)

The Repast of the Lion, ca. 1907Henri Rousseau (le Douanier) (French, 1844–1910)Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951 (51.112.5)

Ia Orana Maria (Hail Mary), 1891Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903)Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951 (51.112.2)

Cypresses, 1889Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853–1890)Rogers Fund, 1949 (49.30)

Circus Sideshow, 1887–88Georges Seurat (French, 1859–1891)Bequest of Stephen C. Clark, 1960 (61.101.17)

I think that the artist has a very positive view on family. the painting looks like the family is very happy together. The Painting is very asymetrical the mother is in the middle with the children all off to one side. the color palette is very cool for this painting. no bright colors are used and very few hot colors are. The Value also plays a roll in this painting. The background is very dark colors but the children have very bright clothes on. this draws our eyes to them. also the mother next to the children her clothes contrast so much with the children's so that we focus on her aswell.

NightHawks

When i first looked at this painting i thought that it was very intense. i liked it a lot. it is a really nice painting of the life at night in a city. Edward Hopper uses Value very well in this painting to emphasize the bar. this piece is very asymetrical. all of the figures and the bar itself are on one side. it is a very nice painting though. the light really contributes. so does the style choices that edward hopper made. Also contributing the the intensity of the painting is the pose choices. the man with his back turned the waiter and the couple are posed in such a way that it really makes you question what is happening.

Kurt Cobain
Elizabeth Peyton (America 1965)

This Painting is about an incredible singer that died in his prime. She realized how much she related to him. She was also an artist in her prime trying to find the right subjects and methods to make her own unique career. The close up view and the warm and vibrant colors really help us understand her point here. The contrast gives this painting a lot of impact and drama. You can really imagine yourself at the concert watching such an incredible singer perform.

Urinal
Marcel Duchamp (French 1887-1969)


I thought that this was one of the strangest things that I have ever seen in my life. Instead of making art Marcel Duchamp bought a urinal signed it “R, Mutt 1917” and declared it art. I think that even though he only bought it and signed it, it is art. It is only art however because he was the first to have this idea and it is the idea that is unique and makes it art. If anyone else were to do this it would not be art because this idea cannot be altered and is unoriginal.

Wall
Andy Goldsworthy (English 1956)



Andy Goldsworthy is one of the most original artist I have ever heard of. His greatest work was his wall at the storm king arts center in New York. It was a stone wall that ran two thousand two hundred and seventy eight feet. The most amazing thing about the wall is the way that it looks different every season. The seasons make a profound difference when viewing the wall in the winter it is covered in snow and weaves around snow-covered trees. In the fall brightly colored leaves surround it. The light also always changes the shade of the wall. Two-dimensional objects however can only be lit from one direction. Two-dimensional objects can’t change with the light of our world the way three-dimensional objects can. The shadows really contribute to the beauty of the wall.

Class Reflection

I am now completely caught up in this class. Just recently today I handed in all of the rest of the homework I owed. If I could redo a project It would probably be the story collage. I was absent for most of the class time we were allowed to work on the collage so mine isn’t very good. I also enjoyed it so I would not mind doing it over again.
Of all of the artists that I researched I think that Henri Matisse was my favorite. I like his style of artwork. I especially liked the work he did later in his life when he just painted pieces of paper and glued them onto a bigger piece of paper. I also liked his painting red studio. I liked it because of the symbolic ways that he used the color.

week 7 blog

Name: Vincent Van Gogh
Nationality: Dutch


In this painting Van Gogh uses his brush strokes to emphasize his face. The rest of the painting is blurry but his face is very clear. i think that he does this to attract our attention to his face and not the rest of the painting