Unit 8 - Sculpture and Earthworks

Here are two art works the top being an earthwork and the bottom being a sculpture. Even though the sculpture is made of legos I still consider it to be art and interesting. The art work makes me think about the human body differently, like "what if?" Even though it is a very simple sculture there is still a rough texture that can been seen as well a a body chest hands finger head and face definitons all from a simple piece of lego. The Earthwork with the soda cans just looked cool and was something I could identify with. The earthworks really sparked my interest when searching for earth art because it just simply is phenomenal i find it so amazing and interesting. Some of the works blow my mind and make me wonder how it got to be that way which enables me to search for its history and learn about it more. Someone once told me "the more interested you become the more interesting you become."

Unit 7 - Narration

Through this piece of art you can see that a women is willing to give her heart to the moon. I don't know what the reason for this is besides the fact that she must love the night time due to some occurence or series of occurences at night that could possibly involve the moon as a light/guide or something that is always there for her at the same time every day. This art work tells a story and depicts night time with a dark sky, the moon, and stars.

This picture is great and I don't even need to explain it or shouldn't have to explain it because everyone in this country I suppose should be able to tell you that this is America's Glorious History at its best right here. You have a sketch paitning of every single president of the United States of America to ever live. It tells a great story of from past to present and tells a story of change.  

Q: Why do artists use stories along with the purely visual information in their art work?

A: Artists use stories with purely visual information in their art work because it adds more to their work. It adds another way for people to really connect with the piece and grasp what the artist is portraying. It keeps the viewer attentive and interested in the piece. Stories are also used to keep record and remember history in order to be able to verbally express the scenario.

Q: Talk about how visual artists who use paint and sculpture can add a specific element of time to their work.

A: Through the use of paintings an sculptures artists can portray the element of time in many different facets. One can portray a sun, moon, stars or colors that represent day light or night time. Time can also be seen in paintings that display a diagram of people in a hierarchal to show that the people on top have the most experience and have been there longer than those at the bottom.

Q: Describe what you might find in an art work that would fall under the term: visual dynamics.

A: In an art work that would be classified as a visual dynamic one would find a lot of detail color, shapes, sizes, contour, translucency all come together forming a multifaceted piece of art that represents some sort of motion/movement

Unit 6 - Light and Shade in Medieval and Renai

Okay so the first picture post I decided is called Hat by none other than Elizabeth Murray. When reading Unit 6 visual art terms I came across her work in a fascinating picture with a window, rain and lots of life and color. Her work is definitely art that I can appreciate because of its uniqueness with how see does not stay flat but rather curves and moves into space allowing for a depth dimension. I really enjoy trying to analyze and interpret her artwork as well as the colors she uses just like in the art piece above.
The second picture I had to choose was of course, The Last Supper by Leonardo Da Vinvi. Is there a greater painting than this out there? Maybe, because everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but either way this definitely ranks as one of the most illustrious painting known to man because of both the artist and the significance of the painting. You can ver yeasily see the use of light and shade in this picture with shadows and shade along side both ends of the painting and the light attribution in the middle of the painting with the open what I would call doorway and two windows on the back wall in the background. One of my favorites because I have seen it everywhere since I was a little boy.

Pablo Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," goes on show in Britain

Record-breaking Picasso goes on show in Britain
Link to this article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110307/lf_nm_life/us_picasso_tate

The most expensive painting to be sold at auction, Pablo Picasso's "Nude, Green Leaves and Bust," goes on public display in Britain for the first time on Monday at the Tate Modern gallery in London.
The 1932 work, which sold for $106.5 million at Christie's in New York last year, has been lent to the Tate galleries from a private collection and will be on display in a new Pablo Picasso room in the Poetry and Dream section.
"Nude, Green Leaves and Bust is one of the sequence of paintings of Picasso's muse, Marie-Therese Walter, made by the artist at Boisgeloup, Normandy, in the early months of 1932," said Nicholas Serota, the Tate's director.
"They are widely regarded as amongst his greatest achievements of the inter-war period."
Picasso first encountered Walter in 1927, but their relationship had to remain secret from his wife, Olga.
According to the Tate, it was only in 1931-2 that he began to make sculptures and paintings in which the manipulation of Walter's body was explicit and eroticised.
Although Picasso had long disguised his affair with Walter, Nude, Green Leaves and Bust was among the works which openly charted the lovers' obsession with each other.
Before it was sold in May, the work had been in the collection of L.A.-based collectors Sidney and Frances Brody for almost six decades.
They acquired the work in 1951 from Paul Rosenberg & Co., Paris and New York who in turn had acquired it from the artist in 1936. During that period it was exhibited publicly only once, in 1961, to commemorate Picasso's 80th birthday.

Just thought I would share this interesting story I found when reading the news. Hope you like it!