Homework: Matthew Collings

In this video matthew collings interviews several artist and talks about how beauty may also be weird, ugly, distorted. For example, beauty for artist chris ofili means stimulating the eye of the viewer by making weird, obscene, unique paintings. When looking at the paintings you really have to look into it to captured all the small details.

How can fads affect an artist?

What's the name of the artist that painted famous poeple?

What's the name of the artist that became famous for his graffiti art?

Name the artist that paints while listening to rock n roll music.

What type of paintings did Alex Katz do?

Modern Art/ 5 questions

Mathew Collins describes the word beauty from the artist’s point of view in a very interesting way. Beauty from what I was able to understand in the video Modern Art is something that is not used as the main theme of their art pieces and rather the Artist going to a great extends of destroying natural beauty. Rather than painting the natural beauty of landscapes, they are distorted in a very abstract way by taking away the natural beauty of nature and changing it to a very personal and intimate type of beauty that the artists is trying to portray. For example Jean Michel Basquiat completely takes the beauty away from super heroes, symbols and politics than portrays his own interpretation of beauty. Basquiat;s art is beautiful in the sense that he is portraying real and current events that are happening in the world and thus capturing our attention and finding the true beauty that Basquiat is trying to show us. Basquiat is one example of how quote in quote Matthew Collins states “Beauty was found in Art and we stopped looking at it on Nature”.

1). which artist from the Modern Art video sticks closer to natural beauty such as landscapes and people?

2). Can an artist still get famous by painting a natural landscape now days?

3). Are artists known for having drastic deaths? The reason I ask is because I have noticed a pattern such as Basquiats drug overdose and some of them committing suicide such as Van Gogh

4). What is the time period of when Modern Art started?

5). What artist has been the most influential of Modern Art?

Extra Credit

La Antorcha de la Amistad, better known as "The Torch of Friendship" is located in San Antonio Texas near 'The Alamo" and the "River Walk. Its a piece of art designed by the Mexican artist Sebastian in 2002. The sculpture was constructed in Mexico and shipped to San Antonio in six pieces. It's a gift from the Association of Mexico Entrepreneurs symbolizing the relationship between Mexico and the United States. It stands about 65 feet and weights about 50 tons. The sculpture is said to stand on the spot where captured prisoners were executed during and after the Battle of the Alamo. This is a piece of art I observe on my visit to San Antonio a month ago.

Mathew Colllins Review

In the videos with Mathew Collins, he interviews some of the modern artist who express their meaning of beauty. Some of the artist think that beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, a meaningless word, and may be visual pleasure that some are afraid of.

Who is the leader of the "beauty" cult that died in 1954?

Who was labeled as the best painter alive and what type of painting style does he have?

What artist use of colors are strong and well orchestrated, was successful for six years, and died at the age of twenty-seven?

What artist states that the subject of ones art work is the last thing needed to be dwelled upon?

What artist wanted his art to be like a comfortable arm chair that tied businessmen could rest in and why?

Review of Mathew Collins and 5 questions

This Mathew Collins video demonstrates that these artist all have a different way they view their art, to some people their art may seem like nothing but to them its art. They find ways to reinvent things and make it look beautiful. An example of this would be the artist Matisse finds ways to reinvent things around them and make them look beautiful and finds the beauty within. Jean Michel Basquiat makes his art things as he says work together in a beautiful way and does his own creation. On of the artists that Collins talk bout and which a liked was Alex Katz his work seems so real peaceful and calm. He paints mostly people in different scenes but in a calm place, giving the audience that same feeling. The artists mentioned in this video give their art beauty   in a  decorative way, and do reinventions to their art and find their own way to see the world with the art.

Which artist was incresingly distracted by drugs?

Whose art did Picasso dislike and said to be a nonbeliever?

Whose art was said to be calm peaceful and ideal reality?

Jules Olitski main concentration in his art was___?

Which painter only paints at night?

Review of Mathew Collins/ My 5 Questions

Viewing the video made me learn that beauty is a meaningless word. Each of the different artist mentioned in this video have their on definition of beauty and they each show it thru their art work.For example Elizabeth Peyton fines beauty in famous celebrities and that is what most of  her paintings are about.  I found Henry Matisse's art work really interesting, specially the Blue Nude painting. Its an example of an abstract art too me because its a painting of a women, but with a weird looking figure and she is colored in blue. Also it is an example of positive and negative space. The women in blue is the positive space which is what your eyes see first when viewing the painting and the white background the negative space. Henry Matisse also made voodoo look become the modern look and lived in his symbolic little world of beauty and was also obsessed with the natural world.

Questions:

1. Does listening to Rock and Roll motivate Jules Olitski to paint?

2. Can you relate Jean-Michel Basquiat's art work to Pablo Picasso's? Why?

3. Do famous celebrities buy Elizabeth Peyton's paintings of themselves?  

4. Why do most artist like to live in isolated areas away from the city?

5. Does Alex Katz pay the people that he chooses to draw in his paintings.? Are they random people?

IMPORTANT 10/21 CLASS

Don't forget!!!!! We are meeting at the menil collection on Friday 10/21 at 11 am
menil.org (bring something to write with) If you can't make it at this time email me so that I can send you a worksheet to complete during your visit for your quiz grade.

Also, make sure to ch. 9&10 for the following week.

P. S. If you would like the extra credit opportunity, The following link - http://www.txcontemporary.com/tix/student-lsc can be used to redeem comp 1-day tickets good for Friday, Saturday or Sunday at the art fair at the george r brown convention center this weekend. (bring back pics and a paragraph about what you saw)

For your blog assignment watch episode 3 of "This is modern art" on you tube and post a response as well as 5 questions you have about the arists in the movie.

My Creative Art

1. Picture with my son on a horse: This picture shows a strong line example by looking at the background and the horizion. The hills in the background show a line that makes the viewer's eye follow from right to left. This picture is also very site specific because it was taken at a specific time and place.

2. Picture with my two daughters in black in white: This picture is an example of hatching because they are all parallel lines that are darker when drawn closer together and lighter when drawn further apart.

3. Picture with my daughter carrying Texas flag: This picture is an example of negative and positive space. The negative space is the blurred background and the positive space is my daughter, her horse and the Texas flag.

Art Appreciation

First off let me say when I heard art I ran the opposite way I could not stand it. I hated Art with a passion. I could have an Art bashing right now but after the few classes I have attedned they would be lies now. See before this clas the only art that really mattered to me was Theater! I t just seemed logical to me, no one ever told me that even if you can't draw a circle that you could appreciate art now I look forward to seeing the differt types of images that 9 times out of 10 we see each and everyday.So by me learning things like abstract art and lines and shading and the colors omg! it just fill in a hole that I guess was meant for some of the "finer" things in life

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo was born July 6, 1907 in Mexico City. She grew up in a home that was called the bule house or casa azul with her two brothers and two sisters, mother and her German immigrated father who himself was a photographer. As she was growing she became more politically active but while traveling a tragic twist came into occurance for her to be considered one of the greatest painters. Frida begin painting as a way to get over her pain after her injury in a bus accident. while getting back to the political life Frida ran into Diego Rivera who soon married and traveled all over... and many separations came about after his affair with her sister. Frida stated that she never paint dreams or nighmares but reality. and that's exactly what she did

This is my Creative Art

A) 1st picture.  This picture was taken on a fishing trip in Kemah this past weekend. The water was calm, and the smooth waves plunged against the sharp jagged rocks. The crow look so optimistic for a scavenger. I found that this picture spoke loud and clear of our world today. Water calm, Smooth waves, Jagged rocks, Scavenger hunt...

B) 2nd picture. This picture was also taken on our fishing trip. I call this picture the unseened American this homeless man park his home right where we were fishing. When 30% to 40% of people that is homeless is done by choices. In every choice their are prose and cons when even the smallest choice makes the biggest effect. Some of us have a mortgage and rent when this man has the opposite  side of the coin. He has the opportunity see natural art.

C) 3rd picture. This picture was taken at work in my office. sometimes we look so hard at what we dont see; and what we really need to see is right in front of our eyes. I challenge any student and our Professor Ms. De Vries to intrepret what do you see? what does it say? why wood ?

The bottom photo was taken from the Chase building in downtown Houston. I was visiting a mentor and tookm the photo from her office. From above, I gained interest in the way the world appeared from above versus the way it appeared as I roam the streets from a "face to face". Also, in this photo we can focus on the way the skyline touches land. I saw a lot in this photo that relate's to what we've learned so far. The world is so much more than what we see up close. To me, this photo says that people should be open minded and remember that there's alot more to the world than what appears direct.

The second-bottom photo was captured from my home. After leaving the shower, I noticed the way the shadow of the light from the bathroom graced the walls of the bedroom. This picture defines the way a shadow represents the reflection of light and how light changes color. Notice the wall is originally, an off white color, however, the reflection of the light gives the wall multi shades of charcoal, grey and almost off white in different places depending on the distance and area of the light.

The first and second photos are of my boyfriends "slab line", Greyline. Lol. I always take pictures of their rides before they head out for the clubs and do shows. In these photos, I wanted to define the way objects appear smaller as they move further away from the focus point. Although the photos I capture of the Greyline rides are normally for entertainment and self-documentaries of our street life, I am now beginning to appreciate photos and see them as a work of art in ways outside of recreation.

Creative Art

1.Picture taken driving down the road: This is a picture I took driving back home from Waco. This picture represents implied line because when seeing this picture, your eye follows the yellow line drawn on the road from the left side to the right side of the pic. Then your eye goes up to the other side of the road and follows the right side back to the left side where the car is.

2. Picture of two girls standing in mirror: This picture is a photo of me and my sister in Academy. We were standing in front of a mirror that changes your shape, making us look a little abstract. Looking at the photo, you can see it is two girls but there are enough characteristics about us that makes us look different than we would in real life or in front of a real mirror.

3. The picture of the shadow on the floor: This picture was taken in the morning when I was at work. The sunlight was coming through the blinds casting a shadow on the floor and this photo reminds me of positive and negative space. The bright sunlight is the positive and the shadow part is the negative.

Beverly's Creative Art!

A. (1) This picture was taken this past weekend on a fishing trip to Kemah. If you notice this picture has a crow looking for a scavenge! any animal that devours.. at the same time there is the sound of calm waters plunging the jagged rocks while he awaits. I found it very amazing to see white rocks in the wings as the water continues to flow. WOW!!


B.( 2) In this picture homeless is art. While we were fishing this homeless man planted his home right where we were sitting, as I begin to fish I really took a look at how he propped his home against a tall white beam which held him and all his things very steady. I could smell his body odor of rain, dirt, and dew. Then I saw beauty! when his things were neatly stack as though he had his own agenda for weeks to come.

C. (3) In this picture its call WHAT DO YOU SEE? , WHAT DOES IT SAY? I challenge the entire class to answer this question. This is one the most creative pieces of art Ive ever seen.

Nature/Man Made Art

OK, the first image is a steel tree behind a real tree trying to make them look like one tree. The second is a humming bird feeder made to look like a lamp. The "lamp shade" is actually a dog collar. The third and my favorite is inspired by Halloween. It's a zombie head peaking through a grass plant.

My Pictures...

I took the 1st picture to represent analogous color. Numbers 1 and 3 are next to each other on the conventional color wheel. Yellow (1) and Yellow-Green (3). Gabriel Orozco's supermarket experience inspired me to take this picture.

After watching Jessica Stockholder's PBS documentary I was inspired to experiment with hangers. This is a picture of two hangers I untwisted then twisted back to form a woman looking down at a baby in her arms.

After playing with my two year old son, I was putting his toys away and realized how pretty all the shapes and colors were when they were all together. The blue car in the middle stands out to me as the main bold color and the rest of the toy's colors are multi color highlights to the bold blue. I placed them close to each other to form a playful collage.

I took the 4th picture because it was interesting to look at while waiting at a red light. ( I was a passenger) The tree tops look as if they are touching the sky. The color of the sky is so bright against the dark trees.

I took the 5th picture because it reminded me of security. Security as in "feeling secure and safe". The leaves are wrapped around the steel pole holding on to it. If the leaves were to be on the ground they would turn brown and die like the grass you see in the background. Being securely wrapped around the pole, the leaves are alive and blossoming.

1. the picture at the top left remains me of art work done by Andy Goldsworthy, where he uses tree branches and twiggs and connects then in a form of a circle.

2. the sand or pebbles are used here to show how earths surface is as for as sand is concerned. To get the right amount of the substance to looka s it does takes skill and precision.

3. Now this also remain me of Goldsworthy work. This is a nest in a tree. Now the artist in this one comes from nature; a bird. It takes time to collect the twiggs and however, by nature, the bird can precisely construct a semi-round formof shelter.

Pictures

Picture 1). In this picture, what I am trying to represent is that the white plain background gives the object and the green apple a different perspective. The white background with the white transparent glass shows more shadow. I used the white background as the negative space and the object and green apple as the positive space.

Picture 2). Similar to picture 1 but placed in a different background, changing the color of the background (negative space) shows how the main object ( the positive space) can dramatically change in detail. In this picture we now have a darker background that shows less shadow on the glass and is more direct on what its trying to show the viewer.

Picture 3). Shows a red apple and a green apple with hearts cut out. The cut off hearts were then placed on the opposite color apples, making the shapes stand out more. The meaning that the picture is showing is that when the negative space is a different color or shape the view and understanding of the art changes.

My art

I always liked this form of art a lot more. Wherever I go I'm always taking pictures of patterns and things that look interesting. In my first picture you can see the mixer at my church. I really liked the patterns and specially the angle from where I took this photo

In the second picture I have my jeans in the washer room. Once again, turning something as ordinary as doing laundry into a form of art. At last I have some pineapples. This image caught my attention because not all pineapples were put in the same order and it made the image way more interesting.

HW and my Views

I had noticed a crack on my windshield and was mesmerized as how such a tragic event had left behind such a mark. Where there was peace, now there is chaos, but at the same time a feeling of amazement at the star shape left behind from the impact. The lines are so well defined that they and give the image dept.
I was sitting on a moving vehicle when i suddenly glimpsed out the window to see this beautiful transition into the darkness that was soon to follow. There is a high amount of contras between the light and dark parts of this image. It transitions from a light sky to a more clouded one but even in the immense clouds some light broke through and displaced the surrounding darkness, but as we move further on to the left the light fades and darkness reigns victorious once again.
There is a disturbance and distortion of reality here.Rarely does someone keep a spoon handy, especially next to a toothbrush. There is also conflict between the two objects, even tho they may both enter our mouths, one takes while the other gives. With this said the spoon provides us with away to intake many foods, while the toothbrush provides a way to remove any unwanted remains left behind.