My Logo

1. I thought this project was really fun and creative. Making my own logo was cool because it's like I have a business or patent or something! 

2. I feel that your name totally represents your whole being: your name is you and what identifies you. I always like incorporating my initials into things so for this assignment, I wanted to at least include the letter C somewhere. I alos liked the idea of logos incorporating pictures or graphics and words. I sketched out different patterns and shapes of C's at first. Then I started playing around with my favorite number,5, which had multiples meanings to me. I think had the idea of a lightbulb because of the fact I was thinking of all these different  ideas. A light bulb often signifies a thought. Then I thought of the monogram C2B1 which has a double meaning. There are two C's in my name (C2) and there is one B (B1). C2B1 also means that in order to be something, you have to see it or observe it. Therefore, see to be one (C2B1). 

3. I think the most important discovery of creating a logo was that logos literally could be anything. They don't have to follow a set pattern or rules. They are totally creative. They don't even have to make sense all the time because it's just representation of something. So whenever you see that logo, you know it goes along with something specific. 

4. The videos were long, but definitely helpful in creating a logo. The most important thing I learned was about color and layout. 

 

Albright Knox Art Gallery

1. There were two particular artworks the gallery that definitely  impressed me. I loved French artist, Jean Metzinger's, Danseuse au Cafe (Dancer in a cafe) painting. It was made in 1912 and was simply oil on a canvas. However, before I looked at the tag with the information about it, I trued to guess what the picture was showing. It took me a while to see that there was an actual woman in the picture. That was so cool to me. Then, I saw a person sitting down. They were made out of different shapes and elements and you really had to pay attention to the painting to understand what was going on it it. The second painting that impressed me was Sue Williams Blue Foot, Red Shoe painting made in 1997. It was oil on acrylic on canvas. The interesting thing that got my attention was the fat that I saw what looked like a hand first. As I kept looking at it, i noticed that the whole painting was of body parts. I got a little disturbed, but intrigued at the same time because the body parts looked distorted.

 

2. I have a love hate relationship with math. It is one of those subjects that I'm terribly good and natural at so I love it. However, I hate the subject of math. It requires so much work and thought that I put my whole brain on the table and that's what makes me hate it. So when I saw Jasper Johns, an American artist, Numbers in color painting, I immediately felt connected to it. I was literally staring at these numbers made out of encaustic and newspaper materials for a while. My math instinct was to try to find a pattern and I saw that each row went from 0-9, but in a different order, staring with the next consecutive number. It was neat and nice to look at. I also had a connection with Czech artist, Frantise K Kupka, painting. It was titled Traits, plans, profondeur (Lines, planes, depth) and made from 1920-1922. It was oil on canvas, but it had a raised effect to it and I wanted to touch it so bad. It attracted me because it had all these shades of blue in it. Blue is my absolute favorite color! It almost looked like it was made out of watercolors and was just beautiful.

 

3. I would really like to learn more about Jose Parla's Blooming City Marks painting. It was recently made this year and was so eye catching. Made out of acrylic, ink, plaster, and enamel, this painting was almost like it could be in a building in NYC. It was so cool looking and involved so many different colors. It showed that art can be made out of anything and be beautiful. I would love to learn more about him and his inspiration for this piece. I also want to learn more about Dialogue I, an oil on canvas painting created by Adolph Gottlieb in 1960. It literally looked like someone ad put graffiti on the wall. I mean that in the most interesting way, though. Because I didn't understand this painting and the one red dot and the one black one, I am interested in finding out more about this artist and the meaning behind this painting.

 

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Value Scale and Color Wheel

1. Creating the value scale was kind of cool and a lot easier than making the color wheel. The color wheel was difficult because I had to create cyan and magenta. Mixing the proper colors for that was fun, but it was tricky. It was a little tricky for the value scale too just because I really was trying to show the gradual change in color.
2. I enjoyed working with the old fashioned pencil more than the paint. I never was a big painter when I was little. I always used crayons, markers, and pencils!
3. I was shocked to learn that red and blue were not primary colors. That's what I learned and have always thought! It's crazy that I didn't even know that cyan was a color until about 2 years ago.
4. The mixing of colors and learning the truth about primary and secondary colors was the most important thing I learned. The videos were very simple and informative.

Elements and Principles Slideshow

I really enjoyed this project because I got to take pictures and capture moments! You learn what a line is and what space means when you are young, but in art, these two elements have way different meanings. I think finding Balance was the most challenging for me because I couldn't grasp exactly what it meant. When I hear balance, I think of something being equal or easy to look at. It doesn't involve sharpness or contrast, its a perfect blend. So finding that image was difficult, but hopefully I captured that.
Finding unity and texture was most fun. I was able to use images I captured earlier this year. In particular, I flew on a plane for the first time in March, and, although nervous, seeing the clouds up close and personal like that was breathtaking. You could see how soft and fluffy they looked as almost like were sleeping on them!
I was able to find a lot elements by just being outside and observing nature. That was the most fun part. You don't really realize things in nature because they are always there, but actually taking the time and looking, you see all these art principles and elements there.
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Video and Article Response

1. The first video opened with the thought that art starts with an idea. Ideas go beyond the senses; it is a reasoning. In other words, art begins with the mind. This video also talked a great deal about beauty and how it relates to aesthetics. I totally agree with that because we find what is beautiful in things that make us feel or arouse us. The second video I found quite interesting. Some of the key concepts discussed by the two men involved the brain and the history of art. It brought out the point that "art makes us aware of oneself as another". It also talked about how art is meant to create works that people admire. I never looked at art under a lens. I learned that "art" really began in the stone age and has always made people feel or give an aesthetic response. The article brought out a realization for me when it said that our brains trick us into developing meaning. When I think about it, the brain really does process everything you see, feel, taste, or hear. It then uses all of that to understand something and in this case, art. Our brain can take simple lines or emoticons and know exactly what it means.
2. Plato's philosophy of aesthetics, I feel, is the most important. Plato was born around 500 BC in the classical age of Athens. He believed that art is an imperfect copy of a perfect idea. He also believed that there is beauty in all things. So, what makes something beautiful doesn't mean it is perfect and art can be beauty and good.
3. I think Changuex and Ramachandran views of art were accurate and reasonable. It was hard to understand Changeux, but he was right. Art does have history and it makes us emotional and empathetic to people. Ramachandran was really funny and I was able to understand him better. When he was describing the scince of art, he commented on how two different concepts like those could be connected. However, he said that the brain is where science and art meet. It really is! Looking at a beautiful painting or other art form can have such a powerful effect on your mind. He described that by how breathless he was by Indian art. The ost interesting thing he said was how art doesn't create the realistic, but that it creates altered, deliberately distorted images.
4.All of the videos and articles relate to the readings because it talked a great deal about the idea of an aesthetic experience. Art is meant to create meaning, order, and it reflects our ideas. Platos and Aristotle both agree with that as the first video showed and chapter 1 brought out. Chapter 2 ties in with both vidoes and the article because it talks about beauty and how art and beauty both provide pleasure. Chapter 3 discussed some of the history and culture of art. It also talked about arts role in religion, politics, and its social role.Ramachandran acknowledged all the different art there is such as chinese art, indian art, and greek art.
5. These videos and article added very nicely to my overall readings. It gave me more to think about and presented a lot of interesting facts.