Arts Expose

NAME:
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Title of Event: Anime Music Concert______________________

Date & Time of Event: March 29, 2008. 8:30 PM
Location of Event__Olscamp, Animarathon

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Recitals***
1.) Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended. This section should remain journalistic and should not be reflective of your opinion.
There were many different people and they played various song from anime shows. Not everyone played the same songs. There were so many instruments such as keyboards, flutes, horns, strings, percussion, guitars, and there were also singers.
2.) Use the section below to write a well-structured paragraph focusing on your personal critical insight / response to the event. How did you interpret or react to what was presented to you?
I really enjoyed this event. I wished I was up there playing my flute along with them. Some of the songs brought tears to my eyes even though I had never heard them before. Music does that to me, and this was no exception. Some songs were so beautiful!
3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?
The skill of the musicians impressed me the most because they sounded so amazing together.
4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)? (10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 )
I would rate it a 10.
5.) Justify your rating in the question above:
I loved the music and the fact that it brought out so much emotion in me is definitely important.
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Arts Expose

NAME:
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Title of Event_____Arts Village Mardi Gras Poetry competition
Date & Time of Event___February 2, 2008__

Location of Event________The Arts Village_______

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Poetry / Literary Readings

1.) Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended. This section should remain journalistic and should not be reflective of your opinion. Three different people read their poetry and the audience voted on who should win by way of cheering. There were several rounds of this. Jasmine read powerful poems about controversial issues, Karleen read sad poems, and Bryan read funny poems.

2.) Use the section below to write a well-structured paragraph focusing on your personal critical insight / response to the event. How did you interpret or react to what was presented to you?
I personally was really amazed by the event, because I wish I had the ability to write such good poetry. Jasmine read a poem I had heard her read before at an open mic night. It was so powerful. I thought it was cool that all of them had different styles of poetry. I enjoyed Jasmine's poems the most.
3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?
I was most impressed by Jasmine's poetry; the issues raised and the way in which she delivered her poetry to the audience.
4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)? (10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 )
I would ratie it an 8.
5.) Justify your rating in the question above:
It was created by my peers and it wasn't something I felt obligated to go to. And i enjoyed the poetry.

Arts Expose

NAME:
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Title of Event______Visit to the Toledo Museum of Art
Date & Time of Event_2/15/08 _____5:00 PM________________
Location of Event__Toledo Museum of Art_______

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Arts Related Field Trips


1.) Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended. This section should remain journalistic and should not be reflective of your opinion.
We were led around the museum by a woman who encouraged us to speak a lot. She asked us many questions, for example, when we got to a painting of the inside of a huge building she asked us to describe the largest space we had ever been in. Meanwhile, I took notes on almost all of the works we viewed.

2.) Use the section below to write a well-structured paragraph focusing on your personal critical insight / response to the event. How did you interpret or react to what was presented to you?
We moved from renaissance art all the way to modern art, and I must say that I enjoyed the renaissance art more than the modern art. In fact, my favorite work, Madonna and Child [one of many] by Lorenzo Monaco was from the 14th century. The modern art just did not come across as much as art to me as the renaissance paintings did. We looked at one work that was just two squares of different colors and while some may call that art, and I am fine with that, I am just not sure if it should be considered some masterpiece and displayed.
3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?
The Renaissance style art impressed me the most because we have had so many advancements since then, yet art still seems to have been better quality back then.
4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)? (10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 )
I would rate it a 6.
5.) Justify your rating in the question above:
I enjoyed seeing the works, but we saw so many that eventually I just got a bit restless.

Arts Expose

NAME: Jennifer Riha
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Title of Event :_Zack _Petroc_Artist Talk____________________

Date & Time of Event__April 4, 2008________

Location of Event_____Fine Arts Building, 2nd floor_________

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Visiting Artist Lectures


1.) Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended. This section should remain journalistic and should not be reflective of your opinion.
As we sat down, Zack talked for an hour or so about the actual industry of 3-d modeling and how he began with sculpture and moved into the digital medium. After that, he began to discuss the movie industry and showed how every 3-d model he created had some form of backstory. He showed his actual works and concept sketches he made before the works.

2.) Use the section below to write a well-structured paragraph focusing on your personal critical insight / response to the event. How did you interpret or react to what was presented to you?
I was amazed by some of his work, because I felt like it is something I could never do. It was really amazing to see his sketches and to see how they eventually became 3-D models; the transition from the sketch to the finished piece was skillfully accomplished from what I could tell. It made me realize I definitely want to stay in the field of 2-dimensional arts, however, because I think I would enjoy just using regular paintbrushes, pencils, and such to create my own work, as great as it was to see what is possible with other media.

3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?
I was most impressed by the concept sketches, mainly because drawing is something I enjoy more and know I could accomplish rather than some of his other art forms. Also one piece he showed [from one of the movies he worked on] really impressed me; it looks like a human with wings holding a sword and the angle from which it was presented to the audience was awesome.

4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)? I would rate it a 7.

5.) Justify your rating in the question above:
I enjoyed seeing his works and he made a connection to seem personal with the audience, but I also found so much talking a bit boring.

Blog Entry #4 continued...still

The above large image is a representation of color in the history of art. It contributed a new understanding of color into the world in that it showed that you can express certain emotions using more than just the typical color scheme associated with that emotion. This painting seems to show agitation or anger, and it does not just show reds and the typical fiery colors we associate with anger, but it also has blues and blacks as well.
It stands out in its own gnere mostly because of the mixing of the two color schemes. Many works of this time had bright colors, but most of them did not mix so many different color schemes to convey one kind of emotion or feeling.
This work differs from other works by the artist because the artist seems to work in mostly subdued colors. The artist, Edvard Munch, is said to have led a life of suffering and hatred, and he showed this in his works sometimes. For example, one of his other works, a painting of the sun, as shown above, has the sun painted in a pale color as opposed to bright or happy, which is how one would think of the sun. Despite this, the image still seems to capture the viewer. However, in the featured painting, The Scream, the background shows very vivid and vibrant colors and more than the artist's work normally would show.
The artist structured his work in a somewhat asymmetrically balanced way. It is true that the sides are not the same, but the colors on each side are similar, and when focusing on the subject of the painting, many of the same elements would be on both sides if split in half. The fiery colors are also very dominant in the painting but they do not overpower the screaming subject.
The artist addresses the human form in more of an abstract way than in a realistic way. The subject almost looks like some kind of monster.
I have been more emotionally influenced by this work. In the case of many works, one could just look at a work and move on, but because of the expression on the subject's face and the contrast of colors, I am really drawn to this work.

Blog Entry #4 continued...

The large picture of Marilyn Monroe above is a representation of visual culture. This work contributed a different undetstanding of color because not only was it represented in these colors, there were also many different versions as the smaller print of the work shows, above [I could not get these pictures to upload in a good, organized way. I'm so sorry it looks like this!].
The color principles that made it stand out is the fact that the colors used in many of the prints were colors that should not normally go together. The two shown are a couple of the more 'normal' color schemes...many of them had different colors that just looked downright bizarre together.
This work differs from other works because, while the other works are also visual representations of culture at the time the works were created, they are mostly done in their regular color schemes. The artist did create some other works using the same technique, however.

The artist did not use as much structure or dominance because much of his work is mainly one subject, as opposed to many different objects or characters. The main subject most often is shown in the middle of the work and would dominate any background that there would be.
In the featured work, the artist addresses the human form from the neck up and this shows visual culture more because of who it is, Marilyn Monroe, than how the form is shown or adressed.
After seeing this work, I was influenced to create a work of my own that featured the lead singer from my favorite band at the time, Sonny Moore of From First to Last. This work ended up being one of my favorite works of art that I have ever created, and definitely one that I am most proud of. The other pictures shown in the blog entry are other examples of visual culture. One is another print of Marilyn Monroe, one is another work by the same artist, Andy Warhol which is of a Campbell soup can. It is simple but something all Americans could relate to at the time and still can. The last one is an artist from Africa showing two of his works; these are examples of visual culture from Africa.

Blog Entry #4

This work [the large one] is from the category of fashion design. It has definitely contributed to a new understanding of color to the world, as well as a different one because while it has a definite color scheme that would be considered analogous, it has accents here and there of blues, greens and turquoises that contradict this color scheme. Not only this, but the color is used in ways it would not normally be used. The props and accessories used in this photo look pretty normal; lollipops are often orange and red. But what stands out is the legs of the model, as she has red syrup running down her legs and this is just one example of how the color use is unique and goes hand in hand with the unique use of candy as clothing.
I think this work stands out from other works in the same genre mostly because although it is a fashion photo shoot, the model is not wearing any clothing [with the exception of shoes]. She is, instead sporting different types of candy and in order for the photo to work, she must model this candy well as if it were clothing in a normal fashion photo. Not only this, but the colors are all unsually bright which might normally make for an obnoxious photo, but somehow in this photo, it works.

This work is different from others this artist has done because of the attire used in the shoot. Fashion photographers do often experience shooting all different kinds of clothing, including paint or even clothing made of nature like sticks and plants. However, this photo shoot was unlike any other because the girls were wearing candy and toppings and even ice cream-something not very common in fashion photo shoots.

I think the structure of this work is very effective because there are two objects fighting for dominance which creates tension, but in this case the tension works. These two objects are the model herself and the glass with ice cream and straws which seems to be besides her but is actually behind her. I think it does work because this object is behind her and because it blends more in the background than the model, the fight for dominance could easily be won by the model. There are many accentual shapes in the form of cherries and ice painted on the backdrop. The middle-sized objects, the lollipops are actually in the foreground of the photo but still do not take the focus away from the intended focal point of the photo, the model.

They adress the human form with an actual human that is 'dressed' and made up in candy and such to go with the background but stand out at the same time, and I think this really works well. The human also features the same bright colors as the rest of the picture, but it is more concentrated and less 'everywhere', so, for example, the pink color that takes over the whole floor is not overused.
After seeing this work, I can appreciate the use of extremely bright and childish-looking colors and thinking outside of the box because this is definitely a fashion photo shoot that is out of the ordinary. Also, it makes me want to be on America's Next Top Model even more because this photo shoot is from that show.

The other pictures shown with the photo this blog entry is about are others where the models wear something out of the ordinary and color is incorporated into it. Two of these are from the same candy shoot and feature the same bright colors. The other uses a noticably different color scheme of earth tones and the model in this photo is also wearing something besides clothing-she is wearing mud, as the wardrobe of this photo shoot was anything found in nature.

Blog Assignment #3: Place

I think that the concept of place could be seen from both points of view: we define a place and that place can also define us. We define a place because we bring to this place how we feel, what our point of view of it is, and our perspective on it. We form views on a place based on how it makes us personally feel. At the same time, a place can define us, BECAUSE of its ability to make us feel, act, and create our artwork a certain way. The ability of a place to affect us in such a way qualifies as its ability to define us in some way.
Richard Serra is influenced by public spaces, where he creates much of his work. His metal sculptures are often the focal points of regular public places. Serra opens the eyes of people who do not see sculptures much and do not know a lot about sculpture and enables them to experience it in everyday places.
Sally Mann lives and works in a place that has a very outdoor and natural setting. This influences her work because she often uses it as the background for her subjects and sometimes things found in nature become her subject. Not only this, but she uses resources such as river water to aid her in creating a certain look she wants for her work.
The place where Margaret Kilgallen and Barry Mcgee found themselves the most was searching for somewhere outdoors in their urban setting to use their skills-on trains and such. This influences their work because it takes on more of a grafitti-like feel,sometimes even when they work in the studio.
I would say that although I enjoy the work of Sally Mann the most, I feel the most connected to Margaret Kilgallen and Barry Mcgee because agree with them that even signs and such, things seemingly not artistic, can be pleasing and attractive, as Margaret showed us at the begining of the video...many things can be considered beautiful, and things that are handmade are especially beautiful because of all the work put into them. Even more so, I can relate to them because I often find myself drawing and painting all over everything...even things that might not be considered right for doing one's artwork on, as they paint on trains. I could see myself creating my work most like them and their processes.
The place that interested me the most when I was young, for some reason, was the railroad tracks down the street. I was fascinated by them and even more by the fact that the woods behind my elementary school ended up at those railroad tracks in some obscure way. A place that scared me was the back room in my basement. You could not pay me to go there alone, because it was always dark and there were centipedes and I was afraid they would come crawling out of every crack in the wall as soon as I entered the room.
Five places from my childhood would be the field across the street, the woods behind my school, the railroad tracks down the street, my basement, and Herriff Road. These were all places my friends and I loved to explore or hang out in when we were little kids. I loved exploring new
places. One word to describe the field across the street would be butterflies, because this was where we chased and caught butterflies. The field does not exist anymore; it is a shame because in its place is one of those fabricated house developments. One word to describe the woods behind the school would be jungle, because we imagined we were trekking through a huge jungle, which it seemed like. One word to describe the railroad tracks would be nightime, because whenever we heard the trains going by at night, we would wake up and my dad would driveus down to watch the train. One word to describe my basement would be scary. I would never go down there alone because I was so scared of it, but during the hot summer days, if we weren't in the pool outside we'd be playing in the basement. Finally, one word to describe Herriff Road would be rural. Herriff Road was a place where we'd walk while the sun was going down. It was a country road and it was just beautiful.
The place I picked to describe was the field across the street that no longer exists. The objects that occupied this place were tall plants, like milkweed and Queen Anne's Lace, weeds and grasses, many many butterflies and caterpillars, and a big old barn that sat on the edge of the road. All of this was odd to have in my neighborhood because my neighborhood was a 1970's development, and this rural field and barn seemed completely out of place. The texture of the Queen Anne's Lace was very delicate but also a bit prickly at the bottom-a bit contradictory. The milkweed was sticky but we often used it to find caterpillars to catch and eventually breed into butterflies. We actually bred hundreds of butterflies in our backyard one summer. The butterflies were delicate as well and obviously we tried not to touch these.These were small objects. The barn was obviously large in comparison. The lighting here was always different, as it was outside but we enjoyed going here mostly during the hot summer days and we'd stay until the sun was going down. I can only remember it as a bright and happy place because that was what it looked like the only times I was there. I went there so much and I miss it. It is a shame that it isn't there anymore and noone else can experience how we felt while we were there.

Image Essay #10

The color scheme of the decor of this sitting room or living room is what could be considered an analogous color scheme. An analogous color scheme takes colors from one section of the color wheel that are all next to each other. In this case, the colors are on the side in which the cool colors are, where the blues fade into purple and mauve shades. In this image, there are several shades of blue including a gray-blue, a royal blue, and a light blue, and these colors are used as accents in the room. The furniture is a deep purple color and then in the picture on the wall, a mauve color is used, which is eventual of the purple on the color wheel. This analogous color scheme is used in decorating the room to create a sense of calm and peacefulness. In the same way, the designer of the room could have used an analogous scheme of deep reds, bright reds, and oranges to create a bright and chaotic feel in the room.

Image Essay #9

This image is a perfect example of value because it has so many different shades of black, white and gray. The source of light in the image creates shadows which are darker in value than the surface on which they are seen, which has different values of its own [the darker gray waves of sand in the light gray sand]. The subjects of the image, the ducks, demonstrate a lot of value as their colors range from pure white to pure black in some spots. Many values in between pure black and pure white are shown as well on the subjects, so even in the subjects alone, a wide range of value is shown. The sky also shows a wide range of values as it varies from light gray at the bottom to almost pure black at the top, with lighter shades of gray in between on the clouds. Overall, this work has a very wide variety of values.

Image Essay #8

This image is an example of the many different textures which can be incorporated into artwork. Here the use of texture is very abundant, especially when the image is viewed very closely. The sticks and twigs which the animal is standing in are very highly texturized, so much that they seem to stick off of the image. The twigs and sticks do not actually do this, of course, it is the use of texture that makes it look like this. Texture is also used in the animal itself, as its fur is highly texturized. One can see all the tiny marks and patterns that can be created by the fur of the animal. Lastly, there is a sort of technique to finish of the work which creates a whole new world of texture over the entire work. In some places, it looks like scratches, and in other it looks like streaks of water or something liquid-like and overall, it adds much more texture to the work.

Image Essay #7

This image is of a work created by M.C. Escher and it is an example of spatial illusion. Spatial illusion is similar to kinetic illusion in that it alters our perception of what we are seeing and what we should be seeing. However, kinetic illusion focuses on those illusions which also include movement. In this image, there is a walkway at the top, which, in one way, seems to lead down to a lower part of the building [or up, to a higher part of the building, depending on where one starts to view it]. At the same time, this walkway also seems to stay at the exact same level. It is attached to a higher part where water is falling far down to a lower part of the building. This shows that the walkway is high up. However, the walkway also connects to stairs which are on a lower part of the building. These mess with our perception of the picture overall and can puzzle our brains, which is why the image is considered an illusion and a spatial illusion because it is an illusion dealing with space as opposed to movement.

Image Essay #6

Francisco Goya's painting entitled The Third of May, 1808 represents the concept of an area of focus, or the focal point. It is obvious from the use of color by the artist that the intended area of focus is the man in the white and yellow who all the soldiers are pointing their weapons at. The light source in the work shines very brightly on this focal point, causing his clothing to seem to have a glow about it. He stands out very much, especially from the soldiers who are painted mainly in earth tones. Even though the villagers surrounding the man are painted in slightly brighter and lighter colors than the soldiers, they too do not stand out as much as the man in the yellow and white. It is obvious that this man is meant by Goya to be the emphasis of the painting, and the most important part of not only the painting but the event that influenced it.

Image Essay #5

The above image is a perfect example of the differerentiation between positive and negative space. The image shows the positive and negative space in two different colors. On the left, the positive space, which entails the main subject of the image is shown as darker than the negative space, which, in this case, is the background. The colors are reversed on the right side. Many people do not realize that the negative space can take the form of a shape as well as the positive space and this is demonstrated in the image by seperating the sides into different and reversed colors. This is not to say they are the same, however, as the shape that is created by the positive space must determine the shape of the negative space. This is because negative space is still just background space taking a shape. Most often, this negative space blends in more and does not stand out as much but with the use of different colors this same effect can be apparent in positive space.

Image Essay #4

The above photograph of stones from the beach demonstrates the gestalt principles called proximity and continuity. There are three small stones that are placed very close to eachother and then one larger stone which is far away from the other three. The three stones show proximity because there is not much distance between them. Their nearness to one another shows a visual unity. This is further amplified when compared to the larger stone, which not only is there only one, but it is placed much further away from the other three. The three stones also show continuity because there is a certain flow from one to the other and this also stands out more when compared to the lone stone to the left of the other three. If the line with three stones was to continue in either direction, I could imagine where the next stone would go because I can see an arc being formed. This is very much because of the continuity of the arrangement of the three stones.

Image Essay #3

This work is a perfect example of triangular hierarchy. The arrangement of the elements of this work is not at random or by accident. The above characters painted by Da Vinci are purposely arranged in a way that ranks them, and this ranking system is in the shape of a triangle. The most important person in the painting is the Virgin Mary, and she sits the highest up of the four characters. Next comes her child, who is very important as well. Next in the ranking is an angel who watches over what is happening in the painting, which is the blessing of the lowest ranked character in the painting, who is a saint. This arrangment is used in many paintings and it was developed before the renaissance movement. It was especially highly popular in images such as this, which depicted religious scenes such as Madonna and her Child, or the Crucifixion.

Image Essay #2

The above image is an example of balance. There are several different kinds of balance, including use of dominance and symmetry. In this case, it is a sort of balance that is asymmetrical. As one can tell right away, if an imaginary line was drawn vertically through the middle of the work, both sides would not be exactly the same, as with symmetrical balance. This would not happen either if the line was horizontal or diagonal. However, there is still a sense of balance that can be seen in this work because if there was an imaginary line drawn vertically down the middle, the sides would be somewhat equal. They are not exactly the same but each side will have elements that are very similar. The water, the grass, the trees, the sky, and even the clouds look very similar when the sides are compared and this does create a sense of balance in the painting. The visual weight on each side is the same but the elements are not exactly the same.

Combined class March 27, 2008

Today our class was combined with a 3-d class and we all had a different instructor, a visiting artist. The whole point of the workshop was to show that while one's first ideas are okay, they are not the best and sometimes one can get great things from their original ideas. An example of this is using definitions of words to make something small and shallow become a huge and deep concept or word which makes a great subject for a work of art. We also learned that the words of other people can be tools to help us do better as well.
An exercise we did was writing a fairy tale on one side of a piece of paper and the description of two pieces of paper on the other side. This paper was folded so that when we unfolded it, there were many mixed- up sentences. The only one I had that made ANY sense whatsoever was "However, she had used to be a crayon before midnight." I absolutely loved that. In groups we had to put our sentences together to create a story and here is my group's story:
"She walked through the sand-blasted forest to see her cinnamon-smelling grandm in the realm of the big left toenail. He traveled to a castle with pink panties from Victoria's secret to a house made out of pea soup that is of wooden sticks, warm and mushy. Visiting her grandma feels like a band-aid that tastes like candy and reminds me of sickly bodily fluids. However, she had used to be a crayon before midnight but her dog trapped them into toaster burners and then the prince fell in love with her. Eating asparagus, they lived happily ever after."
After this we each made a character out of our sentence. It had to be more symbolic than just drawing exactly what our sentence said. My character was a girl who was a geek/bookworm by day and when the clock struck midnight, she became a partying stripper. This was what she truly loved and wanted but she remained what she was by day to please everyone else. This paralells the idea of a girl being a crayon before midnight. Nothing ever says what she is after midnight but I'm assuming it's being something she'd rather be than a crayon so this follows the same sort of story.
Afterward everyone combined their characters to make a large picture/story. I really enjoyed class today, we learned but had so much fun while doing so!

Image Essay #1

The image above is known as a mandala, and in the buddhist world it symbolizes wholeness and peace and it is a representation of life involving infinity. In the art world, the shape can be considered a representation of symmetry. Symmetrical designs are very still and static, meaning they allow little or no movement around the shape. The eye is stuck in one place on the shape and has nowhere to travel. In this design and all other still and symmetrical designs, much use of balance is evident. The same shapes are distributed throughout the design in the same ways to create much balance throughout it. The stillness, use of symmetry, and avid use of balance in this piece are crucial in its meaning and use. If the eye was able to move everywhere and off the design, that would defeat the purpose of the use of the design to portray and represent infinity.