Art Inquiry

The Andy Warhol Museum Jon Gould at the Beach. 1986 Gelatin silver prints sewn with thread    Flowers. 1964 Offset lithograph  These artworks made a lasting impression on me. I love both of their compositions, especially the gelatin silver prints. The idea to take a single image and sew multiple different exposures together is a great idea. It shows your process and gives the photo a greater presence rather than just one print. Screen Test: Edie Sedgwick Folding Screens. 1950's Tempera on cardboard and wooden screen I find Warhol's relationship with Edie Sedgwick interesting. He made her "The Girl of the Year" after she starred in his short films during the early 1960's until their relationship imploded a few years later. The rise and fall of Edie was quite tragic. I also love the window displays Warhol made for Tiffany's in 1950's. As a graphic designer, I always find this blurred line between art and advertis...

1.  I thought it was pretty cool to see the secondary colors develop just from mixing together the primary colors. 2. I prefer working with the acrylic paint rather than the graphite pencils. Acrylic paint is forgiving if you make a mistake. It's easily fixable by adding more of a certain color and mixing. The graphite value scale was harder to fix if I made a mistake.  3. It gave me a deeper understanding of subtle changes in value and how to achieve them. 4. I thought the information in the videos was well presented. It was fun to see my color wheel develop. As a graphic designer I'm aware of CMYK, the four basic colors for printing. However, it was still cool to see these subtractive colors get darker as you mixed them together. 

1.  Color is an element of art that is produced when light strikes an object and is reflected to the eye. It can be determined visually by measurements of hue, value, and intensity. Colors shape how we feel. Blue and yellow were the earliest colors that humans learned. As a result, we have hard wired emotional connections to these colors. Blue dives into our earliest evolutionary responses. It tends to provide a sense of calmness while yellow gives off energy. Our associations with red and green had to be learned. Red evokes conflicting emotions such as love and danger. Green is usually associated with balance, harmony, and peace. 2.  I'm interested in how color and light can regulate your circadian rhythm. The video explained that a cell in the eye, the photosensitive ganglion, plays a vital role in regulating your body clock. This is the cell that sends a signal to the brain telling it to wake up and it's sensitive to just one wavelength of light. Blue light tricks the ...

Space Color Forms Value Texture Shapes Line Emphasis  Pattern Movement Proportion Unity Balance Contrast Google Photos Animation My Creative & Technical Process All of these photos were shot in the same dimension to create unity through the various elements and principles of design. I immediately began to take photographs for this project. I would capture a composition of what I thought best represented each element and principle. I then reviewed the photo and let my eye wander through it. I wanted to see where I was drawn to and how I moved through each image. With that being said, I labeled them accordingly.

1. Art Philosophy Video:  This video explains how aesthetics have developed and evolved since its beginnings in classical Greece. Aesthetics is usually referred to as the philosophical study of art and beauty. The twentieth century was a turning point since there was an explosion of interest in aesthetics. Even with the constant developments, aesthetics has and is still concerned with artists, artwork, and audience.   CARTA Video: The two scientists went into depth about neurobiology and how we develop our perception of art and aesthetics. Jean-Pierre Chanqeux starts with how artistic composition was discovered and how we process a visual image according to bottom-up processing. Vilayanur Ramachandran introduced me to the Eight Laws of Art. I was familiar with some of them such as: grouping, contrast, symmetry, and vantage points. However, I did learn about the peak shift principal. CNN Article:  This builds on some of the more scientific information touched on in th...