CONCEPTUAL ART'S SOOO COOL.

My conceptual piece is very simple. Take a picture of myself when I wake up, and before I go to bed every day for...a month. Or a year or something. Make the fact that it's morning or night very obvious, show some natural lighting of either.

let's do some activities, yes?

In our activity pieces, I was a little confused as to the number of people who we were supposed to involve. A stretch from the usual pair of people, I required more than 5. The activity is called silent football, and usually there's two or more people who already know how to play, so the only directions given to new players are:

You can Zoom a Zoom, but you can't Zoom a Zoomed Zoom.
You can Fwap a Fwap, but you can't Fwap a Fwapped Fwap.
You can Shrug a Shrug, but you can't Shrug a Shrugged Shrug.
You can Shrodem and Shrodem, but you can't Shrodem a Shrodemmed Shrodem.
And you may never ever ever ever ever ever ever ever
Shrug a Shrodem nor Shrodem a Shrug!

Dealing with all new players, all the rules must be explained.

This was super complicated, and everyone was totally confused, but it still worked out anyway and we all had SO MUCH FUN.

OH MY GOD CHECKOUT THESE PATTERNS.

Wikipedia defines patter as "a form, template, or model which can be used ti make or to generate things or parts of a thing, especially if the things that are created have enough in common for the underlying pattern to be inferred, in which case the things are said to exhibit the pattern." The patterns designed for this class are classified as "tiling" because its one repeating shape in a grid.

I like my composition because I think it shows positive and negative space well, while also being aesthetically pleasing. One unfortunate pattern I noticed was there the image, rotated and put in sets of four, as in a box, looked mildly reminiscent of a swastika. Although, the swastika was originally a Buddhist symbol of peace and tranquility, so as long as one has that mindset, it works.

THE BRIDE!

Marcel Duchamp's "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors" glass installation represents the relationship between the bachelors, and, obviously, the bride. Oil paint, varnish, lead foil, lead wire, and dust on two glass plates, each mounted between two glass panels in a steel and wood frame. Notes describe the encounter between a bride, and her nine bachelors, while simply looking at the piece with no guidance, you'd be lost. Even with the notes, its difficult to draw a conclusion about your opinion on the piece. It apparently goes through processes of courting the bride, etc.

Value STUFFFFF

I actually had a pretty simple job in creating my value scale, with no adjustments necessary. The other assignment was a little more complicated, I had to check back with my scale to make sure not all the values were to similar.

Exqusite Corpse & String Projects

Exquisite Corpse:

In drawing a continuous line that "morphs" from straight to curved to geometric shapes to organic shapes over the span of four pages was not the most engaging exercise. Although it causes us to judge each page as its own creation and not just the continuation of the single line, differed because its occupying a different space. A similar exercise was done in boredom during math class. The subject was a human figure, where one person would draw the head, then fold the page for the next person to draw the torso, they would in turn fold it for the next person to do the legs etc.

String Project:

This exercise taught us that there's much more freedom for the creative juices to flow if we don't have the mindset that we'll have to clean it up after. You can imagine how less complicated and less interesting the string composition would have been if we had not all been thinking we could cut the string after.

Line vs Shape: The Final Showdown

Which of the images are lines? Images a, b, and c.
Which of the images are shapes? Image d.
What makes a line? One motion from point to point.
What makes a shape? Unguided unbridled assembly of lines.

First Critique

In this renaissance piece, we see a young arian woman in red, blue and cream, with two adolescent males at her feet. The child to the left of the woman is completely nude, leaning into her lap as she gazes at him. The child to the right is fully clothed in a brown cloth, and carries what looks like a long, slender cross. The scene of the three figures is outdoors, backgrounded by countryside. To the left of the woman, we see a field, the beginnings of a village, followed by mountains. To her right we see a building with a large tower or steeple, which may be a church or some other place of worship.

Based on how the woman is dressed, and the tiny halo crowning the nude child's head, I think its safe to assume that this is the Madonna and the Baby Jesus. This makes it all the more likely that the building to the right is, in fact, a church. This is very similar to other dogmatic based paintings from the time period, and displays a classic theme with images of Mary from the time, the blue of her dress which portrays purity and virginity. The red suggests wealth and power, a contrast to the outdoor, less regal setting. This could also be because the outdoors is the environment created by god, whereas the regality of man's creations (buildings, houses, etc) portrays a different meaning. The tone is therefor very solemn, portraying the love between mother and child, with both hands touching what I assume to be the bible. The figure to the right seems to act as a submissive protector of the two, most likely a representation of a figure from the bible.

Raphael's work is similar to that of Leonardo DaVinci and therefor has a soft and beautiful Italian style. Although I don't believe in dogmatic religion, this piece still touches me in that the love between mother and child is so apparent. The values of color and light vs. dark are well portrayed, and the piece seems to have perfect proportions. The intent was clearly portrayed: to show the mother, child and protector.