tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-87412016294132134382024-02-21T02:39:50.608-08:00With Some Expression...With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-54366672818486228372021-10-19T09:51:00.005-07:002021-10-19T10:02:08.640-07:00Good Deeds Musicians Can Do to Make a Difference "Essay"<p> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #333333;">Lucy Inserra<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I have always been a music fan since
I was little youngster listening to my mom’s selection of music like ABBA,
Queen, and Billy Joel. My taste of music depends on the beat, lyrics, or even
the talent of the musician. Even more, if the musician is a giving or influencer
of certain topics like feeding the poor or helping a certain health cause. A
musician has the publicity and the means to reach the public by the use of
musical lyrics or even announcing the cause that needs attention on social
media platforms. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example, I remember
Band Aid in 1984, where Bob Geldof organized many super bands to come together
for a concert to raise money for hunger in Ethiopia. The release of the song”
Do They Know It’s Christmas? Sold over 8 million copies to have donations sent
to deprived areas in Africa that was close to starvation. Even though, Bob
Geldof was a musician himself in a band named, “Boomtown Rats” was known in
England and Europe as a Rock, punk Band. Bob Geldof wasn’t a really popular
musician at the time before Band Aid but, his name came to be well known. Later
on, he formed other “Aids” to fight hunger, such as Live Aid and Live 8. Live
Aid was held for only 16 hours where musicians were invited to perform to raise
money. It was great to watch all the bands play live and it was great knowing
it was for a great cause. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Helvetica",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #333333;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As musicians
are often influencers in fashion, entertainment, and lyrical geniuses that
encourage teens and elders in moving themselves physically and emotionally.
Musicians can influence people to give funds where’s it’s needed or stand up
for some causes that need attention to. Musicians are artists that express
themselves through their music and popularity and have the TV, Radio, and Video
access to make the acknowledgement of awareness for many causes. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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While I am still in my researching stage of my next series of paintings, I ran across this artist and I was blown away. I found his information in one of my news feeds and I was amazed!!! <br />
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His name is Joseba Eskubi. A Spanish artist who works and lives in Bilbao, Spain. Born 1967. The paintings are mixed media by using oil paint, acrylic paint, plasticine, and photography. I researched what "Plasticine Art" was because I have never heard of that art work/style before. Basically, plasticine is modeling clay used for sculpture. It's a non-drying clay, it hardens when fired. So, the clay can be used for models and can be easily manipulated into shape. <br />
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Look at his work!!! It's so moving! the objects are not clear-could be a house, a barn, a stock of some wheat or hay, or some long wavy weeds blowing in the wind. Eskubi 's paintings are both abstract and surrealist I think. It is noted that he is a surrealist painter because of the metamorphoses of his objects seems to develop into these familiar shapes that the viewer might relate to. I agree to that. I love it!!! It reminds me of the series of paintings I did on abandoned houses but my paintings gave way too much detail in the brush stroke. I like his use of the color palette, the brush strokes that are deep and strong, making the painting move in expression of color. Love it! Love it! It's obvious that his objects seem to be organic in appearance, like as old rotten foods, melting in the scenery that they are placed in. The objects are always placed in a open vast background. Eventhough, viewing other paintings of Eskubi I found he does figurative paintings also. The person is not visible, but you know it's a person by its figures although the rest of the body might be melting away. Looks like a murder scene. <br />
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Eskubi might be a surrealist painter but to me these paintings show so much expression by the use of brush and color. Each painting gives off this feeling just by the movement of the lines and the color he uses. For Example, the one shown first on this blog. It gives off a high feeling, good feeling of growing upwards, up-lifting or easiness. What do you think? I feel it! Now, look at the one painting just above this paragraph...it shows heaviness, death, sadness, etc. You see it? Do you feel it? <br />
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I have always been fascinated in paintings that give off the expression of feeling when viewing it. I guess that's why I consider myself an expressionist painter. My next series of paintings are just ideas at this point, but I am so interested in surrealists painters and abstract painters. My concept of the series is such a serious one and it's hard to paint that into expression on a canvas. I am not telling what my concept is yet for it might change by the time I start creating the paintings, we will see. <br />
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I have attached two of Joseba Eskubi paintings, so you can tell me what you feel or what you think about them? He is pretty cool, isn't he??? <br />
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setbacks in my personal life, I have finally started thinking and researching
on my next series. I will keep you in suspense until I become closer to
creating the series. I really enjoy the process that I go through when creating
new piece of work. I have been looking at art work from surrealists, expressionists,
and Gothic paintings recently. I want to combine all three into one painting or
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">The feeling or expression I want from the paintings
is a little dark, eerie place of uncertain, and of a warning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first painter that came to mind is
Francisco Goya (1746-1828). Goya was a bit of a mad man they say or he was
afraid of insanity. I am interested in his “Black Paintings” he created on the
walls of his studio. Goya is known for these series of paintings that he
created in the years of 1819-1823 known as the black paintings for they are
intense and haunting in style with eerie figures within the darkness of the
paintings. I found these paintings captivating because of the expression they
give off from viewing these paintings with the simple brush strokes of Goya.
Well, not simple brush strokes but the expression use of the brush-the contour
lines along with muted color palette. For Example, “Saturn Devouring His Son”
(1819-23) was the artist copy I painted to get the feel of the paint brush
style and I must say the feeling I received from the image was over powering- a
evil presence. I heard from one of my college classes or even read it somewhere
that this painting actually had the figure showing an erection but was blacked out
due to deterioration of the painting. That would have made it even more evil,
don’t you think? </span></div>
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and really, it’s a look into the mind of an artist that was full of fear, lose,
and depression. Francisco Goya was a Spanish Romantic Painter that was
influenced by Manet, Picasso (of course) and Francis Bacon. Goya did portraits
for Charles the III of Spain and Crown Prince Don Luis; later in 1789 he became
Court Painter for Charles IV of Spain. Although, Goya was a success with kings
and queens of Spain doing their portraits, his isolation fell upon him when he
contracted a serious illness that caused him to go deaf in 1793. Goya became
withdrawn and he would isolate himself due to the madness of becoming deaf.
Goya soon went through hard times, by 1808 France had invaded Spain and he felt
the world around him changing. Goya created the famous painting “Third of May
1808” of a depiction of Spain surrendering to France after a bloody battle.
Then in 1812, his wife died, Goya became even more emotionally and mentally
broken. During the times of 1812 to 1819, Goya continued with his portraits but
he still liked the idea of isolation. In 1819, he bought a country house
outside of Madrid that was previously owned by a deaf man. The house was known
to be the “House of the Deaf Man” not because of Goya becoming deaf. This is
where the Black paintings were created on the walls of this house. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, these paintings were NOT for public
viewing, they were his personal creations of a mind of a mad man. I heard that
he used a certain turpenoid that caused him to go mad because of the fumes in a
closed off room. Goya created 14 paintings within the house; on the walls of
the dining room and sittings rooms. The paintings reflect his fear of insanity
and the outlook of humanity-cruel and evil. After surviving two illnesses (in
which is not stated what they were), he was facing his own mortality as a human
being. I read somewhere, that those paintings were later removed on the
concrete that they were painted on and are displayed and preserved in museum in
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devouring his son</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">: A Greek myth of Titan Cronus aka:
Saturn who feared that he would be overthrown from one of his children, so he
would eat each one upon birth. Goya was giving off the expression of humans
that would turn into cannibalism due to war, famine, or even madness. My
personal input, the painting itself expresses the fear of death in a cruel way,
for one the infant has the body form as a adult human, and Saturn has the look
of a mad man. The cruel death of being eaten alive or dying within oneself,
death of madness. The tight grip Saturn has represents there’s no escape in
death’s grip. The darkness that surrounds the image of Saturn, lurking from one
side of the painting, creeping into the light of his madness while his eating
his son, starting with his head first. Madness I say madness. </span></span></div>
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c. 1819–1823. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_painting" title="Oil painting"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Oil</span></a> mural transferred to canvas, 143cm x 81cm. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_del_Prado" title="Museo del Prado"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Museo del
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Sabbath (1821-1823): </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">This painting is depicting witches
gathered for some kind of ritual where all the witches are squeezed together for
comfort. The witches’ faces are disfigured, ugly, and scared. There is a black
goat figure on the left, draped with a dark cloth representing the devil or
some kind of evil justice. To the right, there is a person draped in white
clothes, and a look of surprised or unbelief. To the very far right, sits a
woman draped in black although, she is sitting in a profile position, she gives
off the expression of doubt or undecided for her arms are folded across her
chest inserted in a hand warmer cloth. When viewing this painting, I immediately
felt some kind of trail was going on; the innocent being prosecuted by
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15<sup>th</sup> century where the witches were prosecuted for causing mass
starvation, failing crops, and freezing weather. Including, spells, magic, and
the rising of crimes. Curious, I started thinking why Goya would pick such imagery
with the use of dual palette of colors, the size of the painting, and
expression of brush stroke. The brush work is simple yet, strong with the thick
lines and not so detailed figures as you would see on the popular portraits of
significant history lessons. Goya must have been trying to express himself on
these painting on how he viewed the world; judgmental, quick to die, dark,
isolation, or maybe that he was looked at as different too, crazy, and a loner.
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140cm × 438 cm, (55 × 170 inches), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_del_Prado" title="Museo del Prado"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Museo del
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tell me what you think when viewing this painting? What is the significance with
the couple in the painting? Is there a story in it? What is the story about? What do
you think Goya was thinking? Try to step into the darkness with Goya during his
painting sessions in his deaf house in Madrid. Now, don’t go crazy but take a
look through the eyes of a mad man who just simply feared death. At one point
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Sorry, I haven't written a new blog in awhile; with Christmas, losing my pet cat Kit Kat, and now owning a little puppy. I must say it's been a challenging couple months. I have been thinking about a new series of paintings that are not quite so foo foo (Girlie like). I am thinking using expression with a little classical/realistic painting style. Right now, I am in the research and sketching part, nothing has reached the canvas. I am not going to say what the series is yet, for I don't know how it's going to be for the first attempt. This will be my 3rd attempt in a series of paintings. What I mean in "series" is the subject matter is the same throughout the paintings. First instance, my abandoned buildings series (12) and my senior show with the masks (10). I like doing series for it gives a bigger meaning on all paintings when they are grouped together. Personally, I like my ability to see my growth as the paintings develop one by one. I sometimes go back and add another painting to the series, with the abandoned houses I added two paintings. But, I will now always stop on my 10th painting for the value of the painting are better when there is a limit of them. Series run in 10 paintings or whatever count I decide. This coming up series is only going to be 7, no more and no less. I also like trying out different styles with my series of paintings. My abandoned houses were still expression in color and adding life back into those buildings that are left abandoned. My senior show was all about expression-visually and colorfully. I will continue to develop my own style of painting through these series and maybe someday it will hit me on how I should paint. However, I can tell you it's not about the outcome, it's all about the journey. I will soon write a blog for I am researching more right now. Thanks everyone! LucyWith Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-2352064524075081812013-11-14T21:58:00.001-08:002013-11-14T21:58:42.471-08:00Feeling Red with Mark Rothko…
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recently saw an exhibit on Mark Rothko at the Arkansas Art Center the other
day. One of the many privileges of volunteering at a local art center for which,
I really enjoy. I have been volunteering at the AAC since 2008 to keep in the
loop of local artists and for the great exhibits at the museum and also, hoping
to work in a Museum someday. </span></div>
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are a lot of paintings to talk about by Rothko, but I am only going to mention
the ones I saw on my visit to the Museum this past week at AAC. First, a little
history about the artist background, Mark Rothko was born in a city in Russia
named Latvia. He was a Latvia Jewish descent. His family immigrated to the
United States of America in 1913 through Ellis Island. His name changed when he
got older due to him being afraid that the USA would send him back to Russia to
be executed for being a Jew. His name changed to Mark Rothko at that point.
Rothko was a very well educated man that went to Yale, but didn’t receive his
diploma or acknowledgement from Yale until after he was a successful painter.
Rothko did attend the Art Students League of New York in 1923, and his mentors
were Arshile Gorky, Max Weber, and Milton Avery. Rothko was influenced by
German Expressionism (Awesome!-me too!) and this is when he would create a
mixture of Surrealism, Cubism, and Abstraction in his paintings. Rothko
throughout his life had dealt with depression and trying times when eventually
he killed himself in his studio in 1970 in New York City. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Painting:
“Sea Fantasy” 1946. (See Attachment) Rothko was into dreams, Greek mythology,
and at the time Sigmund Freud was the in thing- the unconscious mind. This
painting looks very similar to Arshile Gorky or Salvador Deli with the floating
weird shapes of what seems to be body parts against a dull in color, open back
drop. When viewing this piece I felt torn apart, yet the pieces are connected
by the straight lines that seem to float between the pieces. It reminds me of
war or starvation of some sort. But, as you view this painting you do see in
the background the placement of two, maybe three blocks or rectangles of raw
sienna or orca yellow on top. In the middle, it’s a lighter color, rectangle of
raw sienna, etc. and then the bottom half is a dull gray color. Do you see it?
I didn’t recognize it either until I heard someone talking about it in the
museum and sure enough; it’s in almost all of his earlier work in the 1940’s.
The back ground was layered in a transparent color in rectangles while the
images were laid on top of it. His images were of the unconscious mind, a
spiritual turmoil of Jesus crucifixion to Greek mythology. </span></div>
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“No.9” 1948. Color palette is astounding with reds, oranges, pinks, whites, and
then blues. This painting is a good example of his well known color field
painting techniques on canvas. Now, you see that the image is not even
recognizable; the images have become forms in space. Yes, abstract art at its
best. However, Rothko did not like being called an Abstract Expressionist as in
Jackson Pollock, or even concerned himself a Surrealist painter. Rothko wanted
to be recognized as an American Artist and that’s it! However, he continually
and tirelessly wanted his paintings to show emotions or feelings from the
painting itself. Rothko wanted the painting to speak for itself. Sounds like
Jackson Pollock, don’t you think? As I viewed this painting, I got the feeling
that I was in a crowd and that the colors of reds were warnings ahead, yet I
felt at ease because of the forms in front of me where there to protect me from
harm. I am sure everyone that views this painting will feel the same or
different depending what they feel and see. I must say I was attracted to the different
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“No. 8 and No. 18” 1949. These two paintings are rectangle in shapes and the
paint is very transparent or almost scrapped off. I enjoyed No. 8 more than No.
18 because of the colors in No. 8. I heard that you have to view his paintings
18 inches away from them and be engulfed in the feeling of the painting. In
which, it is easy to do because of the paintings are huge in size. Therefore, I
did just that on No. 8. While viewing the painting, I felt warmth, passion, and
with the yellow/white on top of painting I felt that it was escape from this
passion or a brighter side of this passion I was feeling. The white lines that
appear on the left, kind of confused me for it made me feel isolated yet, the
break in the lines made it feel the overflowing of passion with the bright
orange/red color that takes up most of the painting. No. 18 painting was a
little more different, not so vibrant of color. No.18 was more soothing on the
eyes with its dark green, dark purple and black/blue rectangle that takes up
most of the painting. Underneath these rectangles is a dull yellow color/s for the
back ground. The rectangle shapes are then topped off with a bright orange/red
color line. Well, this one was hard at first, but I felt earth colors, or like lying
on your belly on a patch of grass and looking up at the black void of a sky. It
was for sure, an earthly feeling. Can you imagine that the bright sun (the
yellow color) as the background and the rectangles are blocking your view to
see what’s behind the blocks or within them?</span></div>
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Rothko was right in saying, “Less is more”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He wanted his paintings to be a universal language that everyone could
relate to or be a part of. The forms within the paintings became large voids of
color, sometimes stacked on top of each other but, the color combinations immediately
gave off feelings. Even the way the oil paint was smeared or wiped off or even deluded
to make the painting feel ancient or worn down. </span></div>
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what do you think? What do you feel? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides
his paintings looking like something you can do yourself, do you see what he
was trying to do as a painter? Why yes, as a painter, I know the feeling of
having a painting to speak for itself. It seems the paintings make more sense
after knowing the artists back ground first. We should view paintings before
knowing the artist or even better just knowing the style of painting from that
particular artist. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Cambria","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><strong>Exercise:</strong>
Stare at one these paintings (mentioned above) for about 15 minutes and see if
you feel anything? Try first things that jump into to your mind while your eyes
focus and travel on certain parts of the painting and what does that shape or
color make you feel? or Does it just make you feel….RED?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I have always enjoyed the art history books as any artist
does and while in college there was no way around it. Now, out of college and
creating our own art work, we artists use those art books more for inspirations
or references. However, I remember toward the end of my senior year I was
starting to burn out and even caught myself burning out earlier this year. A
time, where nothing was working, no thoughts, no ideas, no strength, no
ambition, lots of anxiety, etc. I don’t know about you, but it’s my drug, it’s
my escape, keeps me leveled, and creative/thinking.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Well, I have found two books that are my life line to
keep going with my art. To be encouraged to not give up and to be ok on down
times. First book was advised from a college friend (Leslie) when discussing
being burned out our senior year. A must read I tell you! The name of book is “Art
and Fear” by David Bayles and Ted Orland. This is a book about two artists, who
are the authors, which share their insights of becoming an artist that is
fearless. Also, this book is really good on expressing yourself through your
art work and to have that unique style. One thing that is for sure is that I am
still a growing painter, learning every time I paint to make that one style
that says, “That’s a Lucy Inserra painting”. I speak through paintings or I try
to with certain brushstrokes and color. As like, any artist that would love to
be recognized for their talent and skills. For example, when looking at a Van
Gogh or a Picasso, you know the difference between their paintings without even
knowing them for their famous names in the art world. That’s exactly what I strive
for and of course, that dream that I will someday have a one-man show in New
York City. It’s a long shot but, it could happen. This book is all about
finding your own way in your work. This book is only 118 pages long, paper
book, and small in size. I say that because it was like a bible my last weeks
of college in 2011. It got me through it and even got me through it again the
beginning of this year. Let me write a part here: “ARTMAKING INVOLVES SKILLS
THAT CAN BE LEARNED. The conventional wisdom here is that while bestowed only
by the gods. Not so. In large measure becoming an artist consists of learning
to accept yourself, which makes your work personal, and in following your own
voice, which makes your work distinctive.” (Page 3). Can I say, AMEN!!! As a
teacher now for beginner painters, my paintings that I teach and create are
very diverse in style (in acrylics) and at the same time, I am constantly creating
my own paintings (in oil paints) to find my own style in my studio. I do like
that I can go back and forth in many paintings techniques, but I still thrive
for my own art work, my signature style. Oh! One day it will come. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As artists, we are emotional and intuitive creatures I must
say. For we, are aware of our own surroundings and our minds are constantly thinking
and creating in our heads. After awhile, we become burnt out in our minds and
causing depression when we are not creating. For some of us, it’s a life line
or even survival if getting paid for your art work. Even when, we have an idea
and we sketch it out and it’s all good for awhile and then your art work is not
becoming what you envisioned it and then depression sets in that you feel not
good enough to create what you thought would work. Artists are their own worst
critic and we take things so personally. Feeling like a failure is a common
place. This book is great to read when you have become depressed during your
art work and gives pointers to view at it a different way, a normal way. The
name of book is “The Van Gogh Blues” by Eric Maisel, PH.D. Quote: “In order for
you to live an authentic, meaningful life, which is the principal remedy for
the depression creative people experience, you must feel that 1)the plan of
your life is meaningful, 2) the work you do is meaningful, and 3) the way your
spend time is meaningful. These are three separate but related tasks, each with
its logic, demands, and obstacles.” (Page 51). Good Stuff!!! I read this book
after college and have read it several times during my depression times of
creating. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">As we are
coming into the 21<sup>st</sup> century, it will be interesting what art work
will change to. I am guessing it will be computerized and more visual than
anything we have ever seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, let’s
take a look at some weird modern art work that was created in the 20<sup>th</sup>
century.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Modern art that we are going to
discuss is from 1860’s to 1970’s and even in the 1990’s or in 2000’s. As a
Studio Art major, I am interested in all art not only painting. Painting is my
passion and my art medium of choice. However, I do get my influences from other
art works and inspirations from these weird and sometimes awesome pieces of art
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Modern art is
sometimes strange indeed. Have you ever looked at a piece of art and said, what
is that? What does it mean? What is the artist trying to say? Or saying, Gee, I
could do that myself?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course, we have
said those things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a viewer by just
asking those questions the artist has done their job as an artist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Modern art is more about the art work speaking
for its self than the artist. The artist is recognized for their artwork after
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">I will give
two examples of art work that I always looked at saying, what the hell is
that?! In college, there were many examples but I will only give a few because
I want to focus more on the great modern art out there that just blew me away,
or made me think. But, first with the weird modern art works or what I thought
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">First
example, a painting by Rene Magritte called, “This is not a pipe” 1928-9. That
saying is written on the painting itself, might be written in French.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was a Belgian surrealist artist. Weird,
right? Of course, it’s a pipe that we see or is it? Can you explain to someone
that this is a pipe? Is it a real pipe or just a painting of a pipe? These were
the mind twisting questions I had to answer in art history class.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answer is easy, it made us question that
painting and there it is! art!!! I still can’t wrap my mind around it. I just
don’t get it! This type at art work influenced pop art like the artist Andy
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Second
example, Dada art or readymade art work. I could never understand this type of
art work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A good example is the urinal
by Marcel Duchamp called “Fountain” 1917. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let me explain readymade artwork, the art work
is not art until an artist names it art. Readymade art are already made objects
used as art and that an artist can say this is artwork. Yes, you read that
right. This is a good example, this is a ordinary urinal that men use for the
rest room and Marcel Duchamp wrote on side R.Mutt<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>1917 and he entered this piece<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>into a art exhibit in New York that evidently
caused controversies on accepted art work or what is considered art work or not
by the Society of Independent Artists.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The piece was hidden from view although it was accepted as art
work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This upset Duchamp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This type of artwork is ridiculous!!! Now,
Marcel Duchamp was a great artist, a painter and a sculpture where he used
readymade objects to create these abstract 3-D Forms in open space. But, this
artwork, a urinal? This is a good example of an artist taking something
familiar to us and calling it art. Yes, I could see the meaning or the sense of
humor in it but to call it art…I just don’t know. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, if I take this red chair and called it
“Sit” and bam!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Its art work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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that have created other questionable art work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Recognize any of them? Artists:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jasper Johns, Yoko Uno, John Cage, Donald Judd, David Smith.etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">Whoo! Whee! Now
we are finished with the weird modern art work, let me give some wild ones that
really intrigued me or just inspired me. I know there is many, I will only give
a few examples and they are also interesting stories of the artists. First one,
Alexander Calder, a sculpture that showed so much fun, humor and movement in
his art work. Yes, movement in sculpture in a literal sense. Calder made miniature
circuses all made from rolls of wire and all the pieces were functional. Calder
would do head portraits of his quests at parties out of wire and gave them to
his guests as gifts. Calder was not always into wire or kinetic sculpture; he
also worked in steel as like the monumental weird spider looking sculptures you
would see in down town New York City. Calder also created these moving abstract
objects that hung from the ceiling or on the ground and the wind would control their
movement. Just Astounding!!! I don’t know why but I like him and his artwork.
Calder’s artworks have movement of course, but it has humor and creepy all at
the same time. My favorite story about Calder (Because I always have those weird
stories of artists due to those many nights of researching art while in college
and the wonderful professors I have had).Calder had a one man show in New York
City (My Dream or what my goal is to have). The curator of the show was waiting
patiently for his main attraction Alexander Calder to show. So, imagine how
shocked the curator was when Calder showed up with no art work to display for
the show that was going to be exhibited within weeks. When the curator asked him,
“Where is your art work?” Calder calmly reached into his pocket and pulled out a
roll of wire and some clippers and says, “Here it is”. Right there, Calder
became to create his exhibit by hand on location. Is that not amazing!!!??? I
thought so. It came so easy for him and at ease, just a little wire and an
imagination. Just plain talent!!!</span></div>
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is strange but I like that the viewer has the counteraction with the art piece
itself and also the personal touch of the artist as well. Janine Antoni, a sculpture
as well, she created 14 busts of herself in a classical style but, instead of
using marble, she used soap and chocolate. Yup!!! She choice soap because women
are clean and smell sweet and nice, and chocolate because that’s the favorite
choice of sweets among women. Therefore, she made 7 busts of soap and 7 out of chocolate.
Here’s the weird part…she would bath with the heads to smooth out the
appearances on the soap busts, disfiguring them. The 7 other chocolate busts
are licked on to disfigure them. Yes, it’s true! The exhibit was called, “Lick
and Lather”. She explains a lot on it in the link I have attached under
bibliography. Basically, it’s a self image issue and also it’s erotic because
chocolate is suppose to be a replacement of sex or gives that same feeling when
we are in love. Her exhibit shows humor also in it along with some feminism attributes.
Interesting read. Oh! Also, the exhibit itself was made for the viewers to add
water to the soap and caress it and the chocolate pieces were to be licked by
the visitors. Weird but Cool!!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";">One more,
this one is more serious in matter and when I first saw it in college on film,
I felt bad for her and also began to cry or feel emotional viewing it. Yoko Ono’s
performance piece of, “Cut Piece” 1965. Ono walked out onto a concert stage in
Japan, wearing a black suit and a pair of scissors next to her. The audience
was to walk onto the stage one by one and grab the scissors and cut any piece of
clothing off the suit and to keep or whatever. Performance art work is always
filmed or photographed to document the piece of art work because is not a 3-d
object, etc. It’s a performance, like the popular flash mobs that happen in our
today’s culture. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the performance can
easily be found on YouTube. (Check it out). Anyway, the people would slowly go
up to the stage and cut a piece off her suit. Ono would not make eye contact,
nor say a word. Some people would say something to her but you couldn’t hear
what is said. The more and more pieces are cut from her and start revealing her
body underneath the suit, she begins to kind of start crying or becoming
emotional. The viewer starts to feel the emotions also. This performance can
mean so many things and yet the message is strong, uncomfortable and
unnecessary all at the same time. I think it’s different to everyone that views
it or who had been involved in the cutting of the piece/suit. I know I felt violated
for her, felt like each piece was her soul being taken away from her. I also
felt discrimination, embarrassed or the feeling of why. Yes, it’s strange to
view something like this, but it has so much meaning behind the actual performance
and the art theology in it. The performance piece is still one of my favorites.
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other interesting modern artist with some unique art work and I might mention
them again in the future; Richard Long, Christo and Jeanne-Claude*-very good
one, Andy Goldsworthy, Jeff Koons*-oh! He is great too!!! Just to name a few. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";"><a href="http://www.art21.org/texts/janine-antoni/interview-janine-antoni-lick-and-lather"><span style="color: blue;">http://www.art21.org/texts/janine-antoni/interview-janine-antoni-lick-and-lather</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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influenced by past artists. For instance, Frida Kahlo, who once quoted, “I was
born a bitch. I was born a painter”. I have spoken about surrealist painters
before like Salvador Dali who painted dreams and such, but Kahlo’s paintings
are far from dreams, there are more about her life and pain. It’s interesting
that the things in life are hard to explain to someone like pain, love, dreams,
etc. As a painter, we don’t use words to explain. We use paint and images that
express these feelings. I am not a surrealist painter, but I like using their
concepts when it comes to expression painting. Another thing is that she is a
woman painter. Art history always focused on the men artists and not so much the
women. There some awesome women painters out there, O’Keefe, Neel, Morisot,
etc..etc… little is mentioned about them or talked about for they are viewed as
feminists or against the principles in the art world. This is upsetting to me,
for I am a woman myself and a painter. I will probably never been well known
until I am long gone but, while I am here I can influence other women to follow
their own passions as I have done. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">On with Kahlo, interesting woman I must say. Behind
her strange paintings, you need to know where she is coming from. Kahlo was
born into pain, at age 6 she had polio, born with Spina Bifida, and then in
1925, while riding on a bus that collided with a trolley, Kahlo suffered many
injuries from the accident. Injuries that involved broken column, broken
collarbone, broken ribs, broken pelvis, and fractures in the right leg. She
suffered intense pain for months while recovering from these injuries. Kahlo
had 35 operations and became pregnant 3 times during ordeal with no avail, but
to only terminate the pregnancies due to her condition. She was bed bound and
isolated for most of life. It was during this time she decided to become a
painter. Her mother encouraged her and had a special easel made for her to
paint with while in bed. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Kahlo married famous painter Diego Rivera of Mexico,
who was famous for his murals. Kahlo admired him as a painter and in 1927,
while he was working in the Public Ministry of Education on a mural, she
brought him 4 of her paintings to view and wanted advice from Rivera if she had
talent in painting or not. Rivera was impressed by her paintings for they were
different and very vibrant in color and captivating imagery. Rivera stated to
her, “You got talent” and he left her to explore herself as a painter. Later,
they married. Their marriage was a very open marriage for they both cheated on
each other and for one thing, Kahlo was Bisexual and had many affairs. Rivera
was known to sleep with his female models. However, their love for each other
was unbroken and at times also painful. Kahlo and Rivera were married twice in
their lifetimes to each other. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Kahlo’s paintings were influenced by Mexican
culture, bright colors, dramatic symbolism as used in Christian and Jewish art
work, and primitive style. Still, she was concerned a surrealist painter, the
first female Mexican artist. In 1939, the Louvre in Paris purchased one of her
paintings, “The Frame” the first 20<sup>th</sup> century painter, a female
Mexican painter to be purchased by a well known museum as the Louvre. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Kahlo painting, “Viva La Vida”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(1954) was painted 8 days before her death.
Her explanation on the painting is that there are wonderful things in life,
family and the talent she had in painting. The watermelons are used for the
symbolism of life as so sweet and fulfilling, and the vivid color of red for
passion of her talent in painting or her love for painting. Long live Life!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The painting, “The Broken Column” (1944) a self
portrait painting of Kahlo, as many paintings of hers was. Out of 143
paintings, 55 were self portraits. She was quoted, “I never painted dreams. I
painted my own reality”. This painting shows her reality of having her spine
column destroyed and the pain she endured. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kahlo is standing alone in a empty background of
a open field, no sign of animals or plants, no sign of life. Her chest is cut
open exposing the broken spine column and she is crying in pain, all alone. For
this, is a symbolism of we all endure pain alone as she did. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Kahlo’s painting and well recognized, “The Two
Fridas” (1939). This painting is about the love for her husband after their
divorce, the deep hurt she felt. The Frida on the left, is being rejected by
the love of her husband and it shows with a exposed heart, bleeding and broken,
The blood line to the heart is stopped by a medical tool to show that love will
not stop or be drained from her heart for him. The Frida on the right, is the
Frida that will still love, her heart is still whole while she is holding a small
portrait of Rivera in her hand. Actually, the small portrait of Rivera was
found among her personal things after her death and is now held in the museum
of the “Blue House”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Kahlo was a interesting female painter,
strong-welled and loved much! I always find interesting stories of artists and
my favorite story of Kahlo is the she showed up in her bed at her first solo
exhibit in Mexico. In 1953, her first time solo exhibit, and her Doctor told
her not leave her bed. She insisted on going to her first solo show no matter
what. Frida Kahlo arrived by ambulance and had a truck with a bed to follow her
to the exhibit. She was carried in by 4 men in her bed. What a story!!!
Endurance! Passion! Head Strong woman!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">A local critic wrote about Kahlo’s paintings, “It is
impossible to separate the life and work of this extraordinary person. Her
paintings are her biography”.</span></div>
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house in Mexico, the house is made into a museum of her art work. A house
called “La Casa Azul” The blue house. Someday, I would like to see her exhibit
in real life. Long Live Frida!!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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many techniques in painting from copying great artists to creating my own
paintings from my own photos. But, I have yet to experience plein-air painting or
abstract painting. Plein-air painting is a French expression of painting done in
the open air and abstract painting is a visual expression of painting that can
be seen through color, form, and lines. However, I know someday I will
experience plein-air painting but for right now, I am experiencing with abstract
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“<span class="st">Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (The Young </span><i>Ladies</i><span class="st"> of Avignon)” 1907. It’s a very small painting 12”x16” as I do most of
my artist’s copies on. This has been challenging because I usually work on a
bigger canvas and use broader brush strokes but, working on a smaller canvas, I
have to use smaller brush strokes and more detail than usual. The reason I am
working on this particular Picasso because I like the lines and composition of
this painting and the shapes within the painting of triangles and sharp edges.Even though, it's a cubism style painting, I do like it.
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some old paint to practice some new techniques. I have never used molding
before but, I am interested in the 3-D effect on a canvas. I am not sure if I
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and say it’s abstract without visually thinking it through first. As I watched
some demonstration videos on YouTube on abstract painting, it’s very important
to keep all the seven elements of art in mind and visually see the image or
images in an abstract form. I find that if you squint your eyes you can visually see the image you have in mind in abstract form. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also found some helpful reading on “Can a 5<sup>th</sup>
grader paint a Jackson Pollock?” Very interesting to read and the answer is no.
The two videos I have attached are very different abstract paintings, one is
more of an expression abstract that you can see the image, but the brush
strokes are applied with ease, and control. The other video is more abstract
with no image, but shows the layering of paint color upon paint color to form a beautiful painting.
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I have been a painter for almost 10 years or more. I have always been an artist since I can remember but, I fell in love with painting years ago. I started off with acrylic painting at first and then, switched to oil painting 4 years ago while I was in college. I still go back and forth from acrylic and oil depending on my vision of the painting. As I am now a painting teacher, I was asked in one of my classes on what items can be used around the house for painting. I have collected tools around the house that I occasionally use during my painting sessions and I shared this information with the patron. I thought I would also share this information on my blog. Some of these are old painting tricks and some might be new to you. As always, experiment with colors and tools in painting can always give a different appearance, and have fun with it!!<br />
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<b>Empty Paper Towel Roll</b>- I use this on small detailed sections of the painting, especially in oil when you do not want to put your arm on canvas because the paint in NOT dry-can smear paint. I place it on edge of canvas with arm on top of it with brush in hand. I can move arm on the roll and not on canvas to make lines more straight and more detailed textures. An old technique I have used for years.<br />
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<b>Empty Toilet Rolls and Plastic Lids</b>-If you like perfect circles or want perfect circles in your painting, use toilet rolls and various plastic lids. I have used acrylic paint with this technique but, you can also use molding paste--to give a uplift texture or you can use oil paint. Make sure you wipe off access paint between color changes. <br />
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<b>Empty Spray Bottles</b>-These are great with acrylic paint to give the effects of dripping, spray, and fading of color on the canvas.<br />
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<b>Card Board</b>-If you split open the card board, you will find ridges underneath the flat surface. The ridges are very good to use to make texture, smearing of multiple lines, and cross-hatching appearance.<br />
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<b>Bath/Sea Sponges</b>-I like using these for several reasons. Gives a lot of texture and design depending on the pressure you use or the smearing that is applied. Also, it's very easy to clean and re-use.<br />
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<b>Shoe Laces</b>-I have never used this technique but, I have seen it used. Dipping the lace in paint and slinging it onto the canvas gives the appearance of a unattended mark or letting gravity take over. This technique can also appear to look like a Jackson Pollock's dripping technique if used correctly. I have never tried it in fear that it is very messy. Someday I will try it. <br />
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<b>Little Things</b>- tooth picks, bottle caps, cotton balls, Q-tips, Syringes, and salt or sand.<br />
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<b>Hair Spray</b>-Aqua net-my professors would kill me for saying this. But, Hair spray-only the spray kind can be used for a fixed furnish on only acrylic painting (DO NOT USE ON OIL). It gives a Shinny appearance and it enhances the color of the painting. Make sure you apply in even coat about one foot away from the canvas to avoid dripping of the hair spray. It also seals in the paint color. Aquanet is the best to use.<br />
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<b>The Paint Brush</b>- I use my paint brush for a lot of things. I tell my classes that a paint brush is NOT only a paint brush it's a tool. I use it for measuring distances of the canvas, straight lines, point of view, and also the end of the paint brush to make little perfect circles.<br />
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These are some of the materials I use. If you have other materials that you use or have questions about using certain kinds of material. Please share or leave a comment. <br />
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<br />With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-42358963007026915622013-05-02T11:58:00.001-07:002013-05-02T14:11:54.490-07:00Botticelli..Classical painter.<br />
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One of my influential classical painters is Sandro Botticelli. Even though I consider myself an expressionist painter, there are so many paintings out there that just catch my attention, either for the style of the painting or the meaning of the painting. I wrote a Art History paper while in college about Sandro Botticelli "The Calumny of Apelles" painting. Everything about this painting was interesting to me, the style, the meaning, and formation of this painting. Art History Paper below is copyrighted. Enjoy the reading. It's very interesting!<br />
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Sandro Botticelli is an Italian
Renaissance painter who mastered the unique style of Naturalism and Classical by using dimensions of lines that curved, lined to show motion within a
painting. Botticelli essential style in bringing a balance of images between
realism and idealism was influenced in Rome,
Italy where he
became influenced by the Classical and Naturalism of paintings of other
masters, Dante’s Poetry, and worked for the rich and famous family of
Medici.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Botticelli’s “The Calumny of
Apelles” 1495, was a painting copied by a Greek Artist Apelles, who lived in
the 4<sup>th</sup> century B.C., described by a writer named Lucian. The
original painting of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Calumny of Apelles” is now a lost painting that
can be only described by those who had seen it. The painting came from an
important Florentine family named Segni. The painting was eventually
transferred to Florence from the Pitti Palace
in 1773. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>An ancient painting that
Botticelli painted with such detail, and contrast by the simple description of
the words by Lucian, is now held at Florence,
Galleria degli Uffizi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></div>
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The Painting,
“Calumny of Appelles” is 62 X 91 cm painting done in tempera on panel. This allegory
of the painting tells a story with the composition of the figures with a lavish
architectural backdrop. The painting is read from right to left, starting with King
Midas with two women beside him, ignorance and suspicion. In front of Midas is
malice, who is pointing or reaching for Midas’s crown, and at the same time has
a hold of Calumny’s arm with the torch. Calumny is shown to be dragging her half
nude male victim by the hair, while her assistants envy and fraud fix her
hair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Followed behind Calumny, to the
left of the painting is penitence and further to the left is truth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The story beginning with King Midas, with
ignorance and suspicion, the middle of the painting with malice, Calumny, envy
and fraud, and then followed by penitence and truth. In detail of the gestures
and the composition of the painting brings a story to life. </div>
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In more depth, the
meaning could be interpreted in many ways from King Midas and his ignorance of
the thrown, and his ruthlessness of his daughter, Calumny, or Apelles influence
to the government, or the King during his time that shows malice, envy, and
fraud in the kingdom and would only be ended with penitence and truth. The
allegory of the painting could be political or part of a morality setting. If
morality, the descriptions of the painting’s characters seem to be close to the
seven deadly sins of pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed, and sloth. Botticelli’s
detail on the painting brings interest and intrigue of the story behind the
painting of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Calumny of Apelles”. </div>
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The facts of the
painting, was from a Greek myth of King Midas, who was a greedy and foolish
man, who wanted to be rich so, that everything he touched turned into gold.
King Midas wish came true, so that everything he touched turned to gold, even
food and drink. Midas’s daughter Calumny was full of hatred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calumny had two female servants named envy
and fraud to help Calumny with her ornaments, robes, and hair style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Calumny herself was led by malice, envy and
fraud like her father King Midas. Calumny seems to bring forth a man that has
done her wrong, to King Midas. While the half naked man is praying for rescue,
Calumny shows little remorse or guilt of punishment for the young man that will
have to face his king.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While an older
woman, with dark color robe and hood is looking away from the scene of Calumny
shows penitence will soon come, by looking back at a beautiful, nude woman that
resembles truth will some day reveal all things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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The Classical
aspect of the painting shows signs of bare feet on all characters meaning that
they are standing on holy ground. The columns in the back ground are engraved
with such detail of soldiers or priests that seem to be witnessing this scene
of Calumny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The three oval openings of
the columns, view a vast empty field with a horizon that seems to never end.
The </div>
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contrast of the windows being open
to field is a meaning of choice within the characters of the painting. A choice
to the truth rather to fall under greed and malice of life is the Naturalism of
the painting. </div>
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Botticelli’s
influence in Classical and Naturalism he studied in Rome brings more of a realism and idealism to
his painting. To name a few famous paintings such as, “Birth of Venus”,
“Portrait of Youth”, and “Mars and Venus” reveal more of idealism verses
realism aspects than the traditional Classical paintings. By using some
Classical and Naturalism, Botticelli uses draped clothing, marble floor, and
the arched columns that are recognized in most Classical art. </div>
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The colors used in
“Calumny of Apelles” are of deep red, in which line the floor of the palace,
and also matches King Midas’s robe. In the center of the painting is envy, she
is draped with a lighter red color. The color red used in this painting might
resemble the blood shed under the feet of the characters, and the lighter color
of red on envy resembles passion, lust, or love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The dark colors are black, presented only on
malice and penitence that seem to be equally balanced in the painting. Malice
being closer to the King and penitence closer to the truth could only resemble
that the color black represents death, evil, and the unjust. The surroundings
is a mixer of gold and brown, in which gold resembles the lust for gold to King
Midas, and the browns are of the natural world.</div>
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This allegory of Botticelli’s
painting of “Calumny of Apelles” is brilliantly done with a simple description
from a writer, Lucian who a viewed the original painting by Apelles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Botticelli brings forth such detail in a
story-telling landscape of characters, that is a shame not to <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>view the lost painting of Apelles to compare its
originality. Although, Botticelli version is magnificent in presenting the work
of a 4<sup>th</sup> century Greek artist Apelles, that the painting itself is
worth talking about. </div>
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about two years, but it is always good to keep your skills up. It’s so simple
to study the human form if you study how it works and then applying your
drawing skills to the sketches made during your drawing sessions. I recommend
that everyone should take a figure drawing class of a naked human form because
it’s challenging and you can learn a lot from drawing from 3-D prospective to a
2-D design. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s better to draw a nude
model because you see the muscles and forms of the human body and how it works.
If that’s not possible, get someone to pose for you with their clothes on once
you have been in practice for a while with a nude model. The results will still
be the same because you have already studied and drawn what’s underneath the
clothing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The human form in drawing is
made up of lines and circles. The lines are like a shape of a capital I, from
shoulders-straight across, waist-straight down the middle (same length as the
shoulders and hips), and the hips-straight line matching the shoulders. The top
line-shoulders and bottom line-hips will move opposite of each other when the
human form is movement, position, or posed in a certain way. Look at the
Michelangelo’s David and how he stands is a good example of this. Look at the
shoulders and hips. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The circles are made of
measurements of head, arms, waist, legs, feet, and back side in equal circles
on each ligament. The head was the hardest for me. You have to keep reminding
yourself that the head is divided into two equal halves of a circle that also
includes lines within the circle. The eyes match the top of ears and the length
of nose matches the bottom of the ears. The spaces in between the eyes are the
same shape of one eye in between both eyes. The space between nose and chin is
the same distance from the mouth. (Look at image). </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I found out recently that
it’s much easier to sketch out a nude female model rather a nude male model,
because the females have more shape and curves. For the nude male, it’s no
shape but there are muscles and a lot more straight lines than the nude female.
On the male nude, the sketches are more focused on shading, lighting, and
muscle contour. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">When sketching a body form
keep in mind the position, the tension in the body, and the lighting. I sometimes
would do the same exact position the model is doing to get that feeling of tension
in my body. Where the pressure points are, where is the location of my
shoulders vs. hips and waist. If you don’t have availability of a nude model, I
would use Michelangelo’s David as a good study guide. Good luck! Keep
sketching! </span></div>
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With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-51895139055092377682013-04-02T09:55:00.002-07:002013-04-02T09:55:41.801-07:00Basquiat..graffiti artist<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Basquiat was a graffiti artist in New York City in the late 1970’s and become known as a Neo-expressionist and Primitivist painter by the 1980’s. His paintings were a combination of drawings and paintings of abstraction and figuration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Basquiat art vision was always the opposite of issues such as: poverty vs. wealth, integration vs. segregation, and inner self vs. outer self-experiences. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Along with, his paintings showing attack of power structures or systems of racism. Basquiat’s expressions of his paintings are views of society imbalances with drawing of lines, use of color, and imagery that is disfigured or abstract figuration. Basquiat paintings are a great example of expression through lines and color, leaving the viewer wondering of the message within the painting. Is there a mystery within these familiar images? What’s he really telling us through these paintings? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These simple lines create images of almost stick figures appearance; almost hollow appearance with wordings combined with disturbing figures or images of familiar things we see around the world. My answer to his paintings being a mystery is yes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">When viewing his art work, the viewer is constantly traveling its eye all around the painting to find clues in what is he saying to us. Noticing that all his figures are colored solid black with white outline or his figures are outlined with black lines, this is expression of Black male importance. Just like calligraphy, Basquiat used words throughout his paintings, along with his signature image of a crown to symbolize the hero within the paintings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His paintings are also layered as a collage with other drawings, writings of his, and imagery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He works very fast when creating a painting, almost like he has already placed these images in his mind and then puts them out on a canvas or surface. No doubt that his fastness came from being a graffiti artist in lower Manhattan, where spray painting buildings, etc. had to be done quickly to avoid being caught in the act. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Basquiat young life was full of disappointments, accidents, and sadness, from the death of his younger brother to him living on the streets at age 15. Basquiat was a creative child and wanted to learn all he could, from reading books, knowing and speaking different languages along with his artistic ability to create art work due to his mother Matilde who introduced him to art and became an art influence on him by taking him to museums and enrolling him as a junior member of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Basquiat was an artist whose light shined so bright at a very young age and then burnt out that left <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a trail of his magnificent mind on paper or canvas. There is a lot of Basquiat on YouTube documentaries and about his art work and I must say, it’s very interesting to view and listen to them. Basquiat always wanted to be famous hence the graffiti art work that he created, taking this space and being noticed. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Basquiat was a friend of Andy Warhol and worked on several painting with Andy in the 1980’s, working together and becoming friends. What I found interesting is that Basquiat was known to dress in an Armani suit while he painted. Just like Basquiat to paint with a thousand dollar suit while he painted. What would people think?? I found it hilarious and a statement within society as viewing this artist as a poor artist, always a counter diction with Basquiat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">After the death of his friend Andy Warhol of February 22, 1987, Basquiat became very isolated and his heroin addiction and depression became more severe. Jean Michael Basquiat died on August 12, 1988 of a heroin overdose in his art studio in New York’s NoHo district; he was only 27 years old, a very sad ending to a artist that was a genius of graffiti and Neo-expressionist painter of our generation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></div>
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With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-45057594416819167042013-03-18T09:51:00.000-07:002013-03-18T09:51:01.312-07:00Hitler and the Louvre…My Favorite Art History Story. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I have always enjoyed my art history classes in college because you always learn something new that you never knew before. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have also enjoyed world history classes too because world history and art history work together on the same timeline throughout history. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">During my world history classes, I spent a lot of time researching World War II and Hitler due to the assignments given during class or personal research I conducted on my own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adolf Hitler as you know was a dictator of Germany during World War II (1939-1945) and was responsible for the deaths of millions of Jews and other nationalities that came to be known as the holocaust. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This tyrant dictator was a cruel and evil man, and was not only a dictator; he was also a painter/artist. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Hitler, as a painter was not appreciated for his paintings. His skills were not impressive to the art world. Hitler wanted to become a famous painter and tried to get his paintings sold or put into museums but, he was never taken seriously for his art work. In 1937, Hitler enforced the Nazi Reich to collect paintings during the invasions of Europe to be displayed in Germany to the public for the German people to view the “Perverse Jewish spirit” before invading other cities throughout Germany and Austria. These collections of paintings, sculpture, print, etc... Were called “Degenerate” Exhibits. One of my favorite Artists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was one of them; expressionist painter, along with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ensor" title="James Ensor"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">James Ensor</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse" title="Henri Matisse"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Henri Matisse</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Picasso" title="Pablo Picasso"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Pablo Picasso</span></a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh" title="Vincent van Gogh"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Vincent van Gogh</span></a> to name a few. Even though, some of the art work was collected for Hitler’s personal viewing, he continued to have these exhibits viewed as degenerate pieces of art to the people of Germany. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Now, to get on with my favorite art history story, Hitler wanted to invade France for many reasons but, one of them was to raid the Louvre in Paris, France for the art work that was displayed there. Before the invasion of France, the curator of the Louvre heard that Hitler had an infatuation with seizing art work to be destroyed or displayed of degenerate art work. Therefore, the curator asked the people of Paris to come to the Louvre and remove all art works from the museum and to hide them in places that would be kept in secret so, that Hitler would <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>not take France’s art history from them or removing the prized possessions of the Louvre. Many famous paintings were displayed at the Louvre; Mona Lisa by da Vinci, and the Raft of the Medusa by Gericault, just to name a few.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many famous artists had paintings or art work at the Louvre including; Raphael, Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Michael Angelo and Renoir. So, you can imagine Hitler’s desperate wanting or destroying these wonderful pieces of art work for his own amusement or to satisfy his power hungriness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people of France came to the Louvre and removed all the art from the Louvre on the eve of Hitler’s invasion of Paris. The people were told by the curator to not tell him where they would hide these artifacts because he would die first before telling the Nazi Regime where the art work was hidden. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">As the story goes, or as I was told in one of my college courses, once Hitler entered Paris, the Louvre was one of the first places he wanted to invade. Hitler liked everything to be documented or filmed during WWII including the killings of millions of Jews, the bombings, and the medical experiments that were performed on the prisoners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, when they arrived at the Louvre, it was filmed and documented.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have never seen the film of it but, the story is documented. Upon arrival, Hitler opened the doors of the Louvre, to only be disappointed because it was EMPTY!! All of its art work was GONE!! I researched and found that he was very upset when he saw this and that he even killed one or two of his men for not knowing this would happen and even stopped the filming of his findings of the Louvre that he found was empty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here’s the good part!!! Years after the war, the curator asked the people that came and hide the art work to bring them back to its home at the Louvre. Astonishing, to the curator and the people of Paris, every piece of art work that was taken out of the Louvre was RETURNED-undamaged!!! Not one was sold, damaged, or kept hidden; all of it was returned. Amazing! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A great triumph of patriotism in the country of France and to show the world that art is important to keep for the generations to come and visit these wonderful pieces of art that is part of our history. We thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-75899476775974573022013-03-12T08:48:00.003-07:002013-03-12T08:57:55.599-07:00Painting… What’s it all about?<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Painting by definition in Wikipedia is paint/pigment and color applied on canvas, glass, paper, wood, etc. with a paint brush, sponges, paint knives, or airbrushes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Painting is an art medium that is used by an artist to express themselves through paint and color. Also, composition, line and abstraction along with the seven elements of art are used in paintings. Paintings can be naturalistic, landscape, representational, imaginary, or abstract. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Paintings and drawings are the oldest known art form used visually. Ceramics and sculpture, I think would be considered oldest art forms used in physical form or 3- Dimensions due to ancient bowls, cups, weapons, idols, etc. made in ancient times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, on 2-Dimension plane, paintings/drawings would be the oldest art work made on any given surface, such as stone or tapestry in ancient times. What years are we talking about? Some 32,000 years ago a painting was found in a cave in France called, “</span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Cave painting of aurochs” </span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">known to be the oldest painting. It shows red ochre and black pigment engraved on a rock wall in the forms of rhinos, horses, and buffalos. However, later discoveries found rock fragments in caves or rock-shelters in Western Australia of paintings to be 40,000 years old. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Why I mention painting being the oldest medium used in art is because we need to know the history of art to know where we are going with it. Throughout history, art is used to represent what the artists viewed at that time in history. Just like the cave painting, it showed us what life was like for those people back then. I wonder what people would view us as 20 years from now. Art/paintings have changed so much since then and paintings have become more intriguing and advanced just as our generation has. I heard that more paintings are done on computer with graphic design or vector photo shop, etc… It’s because our generation is all about technology, yet I still feel we need to not let go of our old tradition ways of painting/drawings techniques. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Pablo Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) is most recognized artist in the 20<sup>th</sup> century. Picasso was a painter, sculptor, ceramicist, and stage designer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In almost all my college classes in art school, Picasso was mentioned in every medium.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I almost got sick of hearing his name over and over. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Picasso did this and did that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His was a Guru on everything he touched!! Picasso was involved in many art movements such as, Rose Period, Blue Period, African-influenced Period, Surrealism and Cubism to mention a few. I respect him as an artist because I am an artist myself. However, there are plenty of other famous and non-famous artists that are out there that influenced a lot of art movements. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why the big thing with Picasso? Was it that everything he touched turned into an art movement? Was it just because of his popularity? I think it’s all of the above. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I personally don’t like his vain nature about his art. I remember watching a video on him and how he was so sure of himself as an artist. In knowing this, he knew that everything he created would be noticed and valued. I read that Picasso is most expensive art work that anyone can own, being from his drawings to his sculpture work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have to say, I do like his work but not the artist himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My favorite movements of his are the African-Influenced<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with the painting of “<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Demoiselles_d%27Avignon" title="Les Demoiselles d'Avignon"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Les Demoiselles d'Avignon</span></a></i> (1907), </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Museum of Modern Art</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">, New York “ Surrealism “<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guernica_%28painting%29" title="Guernica (painting)"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Guernica</span></a></i>, 1937, </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo_Reina_Sofia" title="Museo Reina Sofia"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Museo Reina Sofia</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">” and Cubism (Synthetic Cubism) “<i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Musicians" title="Three Musicians"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Three Musicians</span></a></i> (1921), </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Museum of Modern Art</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All three of these paintings are very similar in their style and someone would say that it is cubism. I have always liked Surrealism and cubism, especially when they are used together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The difference between surrealism and Cubism: Surrealism is usually associated with dreams or unconscious images put into a real life scenery as for Cubism is more of a 3-Dimensional perspective put onto a 2-dimensional surface. For instance, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Marcel Duchamp “<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 “ (1912) shows a nude descending a staircase from all sides of the nude on a two-dimensional view and the painting shows so much movement <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>that it is captivating. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So, why cubism? Well, I have to say that once you have created art in a 3-dimensional way as in sculpture or ceramics it does influence in how you create art on a 2-dimensional surface as in drawings or paintings. It gives the artist as view from all sides and expands your vision or creativity in a good way. I noticed the more I work on 3-dimensions that my paintings and drawings are more improved. I also noticed, that the more I paint, my drawings are much better. This astonishes me because I don’t why that is, both are 2-dimensions. Although, I can see why Picasso was so famous for his paintings because he saw things in a 3-dimension way and used his vision on his art to represent that. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I just recently got permission to display my paintings publicly for the next three months at a local business. This is my second public showing since my senior show in May 2011, which was a requirement for me to graduate so, really it didn’t count. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">I learned a lot in college about presentation of your art work. A lot goes with your presentation and how they public views you as an artist along with your talent. As a professional painter, I take pride in presenting my paintings in a public area. I wish I could make a living as a painter, but that is unrealistic and I would have to be dead to make millions. As a woman, it’s even harder to make it this art world and there’s so much talent and competition out there, you have to unique, talented, and presentable. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Here are some helpful guidelines that I have learned in college and still use today to present my art work. (I am using painting as example) but, these guidelines can be used in all art work. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Make titles</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> for all your art work when presenting. This includes: Your name, title of art work, size, medium used, year, and price of art work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I use Presentation white card board material and glue typed paper onto card board and cut it out. Size of titles depends but stay in range of 2” x 3” or 3”x 5” no bigger than that. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Place right of the art work on wall <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Framing of paintings</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">—some galleries require it. It can be very expensive, save some money ahead of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Display of other work—show boxes, framing of drawings, display pedestals, etc. can be very expensive also. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Business cards or post cards.</span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> When presenting your own show or display, always have business cards available. Post cards are the best! You can put a an image of your work in front of post card with all your information on the back and the people can take one with them. People like that. I keep my refrigerator full of them of fellow artists or art shows that I went to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Presentation: written and verbal. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></b><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">This is most terrifying thing that an artist has to do, but sometimes it’s requirement for you to do it at certain shows that you are presenting your art work. Usually in colleges, Galleries, and art museums’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had to do one in front of my professors and fellow college friends.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily, it was only 10-15 minutes of torture but, afterwards I was not afraid as much and plus, if gives you a chance to talk publicly about yourself and your art work and what artist doesn’t like to talk about their own art work? None..we all like to discuss out art work! <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">The hardest thing for me was the questions and answers afterwards. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s always good to be prepared in what you will say about your work. When I did mine, I made up possible questions that would be asked and honestly answered them. Presentations are usually done on a power point slides, and you should have notes on what each slide that you are showing to the audience. The presentation should have an opening statement and closing statement about your art work. Most in important! Don’t forget to breathe! Take deep breathes and quick pauses. Slow your speech; speak clearly and loud enough for people in the back row to hear. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-1422270466331077112012-12-18T11:34:00.004-08:002012-12-21T06:19:08.907-08:00Jackson Pollock...Pour it out! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Paul Jackson Pollock </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">(January 28, 1912 – August 11, 1956)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">An American Abstract Expressionist painter that still captivates me with his techniques of painting, from his (People/figures) imagery purposely in-lined within his abstract action paintings to the free flow of paint from a stick with one single hand motion and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the pouring of paint straight from a paint can. His paintings show so much movement, balance, value, texture, color, etc. that it’s amazing to me! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not only his technique captivates me, but the scale of his paintings is astounding!! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was lucky enough to see one of his paintings in Dallas (DMA) “A Dream and Portrait” 1953. The painting was huge!! Took up the whole wall!! Like most of his paintings that are in the size of 8 feet or larger, it takes your breath away. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Just recently, I watched the movie, “Pollock” (2000) played by Ed Harris for the hundredth time. His influence inspires me in creating my own abstract paintings. During my studies on Pollock in college and beyond, he was the first painter that took non-traditional way of painting to a new level. He removed the duck/cotton canvas from a frame and placed on the floor of his studio/barn. Pollock felt more at ease and being part of the painting when it was on the floor in such a large scale. He also didn’t like using the familiar square size of a painting, so he would lay out this large stretch of canvas that extended beyond 4 feet. Pollock used industrial paint,</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"> </span></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">alkyd enamels, or house paints because of the flow of the paint was easier to manage. He also did not use paint brushes during this technique called “Dripping or action painting” instead he would use a painter‘s stick or pour the paint straight from the paint can and even using basting syringes. Pollock would not come in contact with his paintings with a brush, he would sometimes step onto the painting or when he signed them with his hand prints. I also heard that if you look very closely in his paintings, you could find cigarette butts, ashes from the his cigarettes, and even his foot prints in his paintings. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">When Pollock was asked about if his paint was controlled or about mistakes made while he was creating this painting technique, in Life Magazine article, he stated that the paint was controlled in some state. For Pollock would dance, walk onto the canvas, view the paintings from all sides and apply the paint where ever the painting wanted him to. The painting itself would speak to him and it would come to life! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My favorite answer to his question about, “What happens if you make a mistake”? Pollock answered, “I don’t recognize the mistake, I accept it”. Wonderful! For it was a mistake that he discovered his technique in dripping in his studio by spilling paint on the floor of his studio and went from there. A beautiful mistake!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">My personal input on Pollock…he was an artist that was breaking new ways in the modern art world and trying new techniques that each artist strives for to make it in this world. To be unique, yet stay traditional. I don’t like to abandon my old traditional ways of painting, but finding new ways of using paint and imagery is important to change with the times. For art speaks of our lives, our time in this century for people to see in the future what it was like during this brief stay in this world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-67153529686490822192012-11-28T12:23:00.001-08:002012-11-28T12:26:19.348-08:00Oh! That James!! A Smart-ass Artist!! Love it!! <br />
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">James Ensor <span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">(13 April 1860 – 19 November 1949) Painter and Printmaker, who was known to be an expressionist and surrealist painter who caused a lot of uneasiness in his paintings. His paintings were sarcastic in terms of inhumanity in this world and religion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of his paintings were themed with masks or carnival appearances that were grotesque.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I liked that he used fake Skeletons in his studio and would dress them up for his still-life paintings. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also liked that he would use bright colors to receive psychological impact from his viewers while keeping his paintings skills with complete freedom. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The reason I mention him is that I was impressed in seeing his painting in Dallas, Texas at the Kimbell Art Museum in 2011 named</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, “</span><i><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Skeletons Warming Themselves” (</span></i><span style="color: #333333; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">1889) Oil on canvas, 29-1/2 x 23-5/8 in. (74.8 x 60.0 cm). It was a small painting but, the impact/impression was very powerful in both, sarcastic and in the wonderful painting skills he has with color. I personally did an artist copy of this painting. My painting is very colorful against his, but I am sure it was colorful at one point but, because of the passing of time, the original painting faded in color. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was also interested in his themes of masks, color, and theatrical themes for it was exactly what I was thinking about my senior show in 2011, with the use of masks that was associated with my fear of clowns, while using theatre themes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was blown away when I saw this painting and found some association with it. I have attached my artist copy and his original painting. Enjoy! </span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-7168850680335922032012-11-08T13:01:00.003-08:002012-11-08T13:03:15.785-08:00Painter’s block… Losing my mojo.<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">All artists go through it, a time where everything is inspirational and nothing is coming out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I graduated from college in May 2011, my mojo was at the highest and it lasted for almost a year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I automatically started on a new series of paintings, 10 paintings total. The moment I stopped and started on other projects to get ideas, looking at photographs, and doing some sketches, I have all the ideas together but, nothing is coming out. Even though, my second part-time job is a painting teacher, I am still painting. My next step, is to work on something out of the norm for me, abstract paintings. But, I find that hard to do for abstract is just using the elements of art and trying to express something through paint and brushstrokes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I still continue to do paintings from my senior show-masks, still-lifes, and music series and also the series I just finished with the abandoned houses…I still continue developing the vision I see in those series. Now, I am just stuck…gathering information and no mojo to do it or afraid to start something and won’t<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>like it. A painters block..it sucks! When real life gets involved, where I am paying bills, cleaning house, and dealing with minor details in life in general, that artistic mind gets lost and forgotten after a time. For me, it’s my sanity and brings me peace when I am painting or creating, it makes life more exciting for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a painter, this is my survival food and keeps me alive, without it I would vanish into the world of chaos, no meaning. I realize that every artist goes through this and it’s just another stage of developing the next art piece.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I have given myself permission to use this time collecting ideas, sketching and photographing images that speak to me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Painting is my passion, it’s my mojo! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I made a list of encouragements for painter’s block or an artist’s block and I hope it encourages you too if you are having artist’s block. (Block is usually associated with writers and mojo is associated with sexual appeal; self-esteem or self-confidence).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Read articles, watch movies or you tube movies<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on your favorite artists.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Have conversations with friends that are artists on what projects they are working on or discussing ideas with them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Collect photographs, magazines clippings, go back to old sketches or ideas that you have made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Find an environment to inspire you: a park, a walk, listening to music or going to the theatre, visiting a museum etc.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Don’t feel guilty in this time away from your creativity; use this time to collect your ideas or information.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">As a painting teacher, encourage someone else to become creative-it inspires you to do the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-44463730495720919452012-10-16T13:57:00.000-07:002012-10-16T14:00:52.399-07:00Painting and Music..together. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">I am a big fan of music, all kinds of music except country music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While I am painting, music plays a big part of my process for I cannot paint without music in my ears. Music does influence the painter believe it or not. I came to this conclusion when I took a class at my local art center where music and paint was taught together and how it would change the painting technique on the canvas. The class listened to classical music, and we noticed that our painting gestures were slower and more controlled, whereas when the music changed to more heavy metal, or pop music our painting gestures were faster and more loosely applied to the canvas. Interesting I must say!!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I noticed in my own painting sessions that the music I am listening to influences my gestures when applying paint to my canvas. So, I listen to specific music in whatever painting I am creating or what I see the vision to be. I also noticed that the music controls my color applications to my painting. For instance, if I was listening to classic rock music like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, or Styx, I notice my colors are blues, greens, and yellows. My gestures are slower and more controlled for I am relaxed and have an easy feeling so, it comes through my paint brush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I was listening to more alternative music, or rock music like Nickelback, Seether, or GodSmack, my colors are brighter in color; my reds, blues, yellows , and even greens are NOT diluted (color is vibrant) and my texture is more applied. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also noticed my hand gestures with my paint brush are more loose and expressive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I like that!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">On my research on music, I found that music and art really work together or are very similar. Look at the 7 elements of music: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rhythm-idea of time relates to music<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Melody-sequence of pitches<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Harmony-melody into chords<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Dynamics-relative loudness and quietness <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Timbre-specific sound from instrument<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;">Texture-musical lines in a song works with each other within the music<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; font-size: 11pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Did you notice??? They are very similar to the 7 elements of Art; texture, form, space, shape, color, value, and line.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Music has a way expressing someone’s emotion, anger, sadness, excitement, etc…so does painting! But, we do it silently. Painters express themselves through paint and brush strokes; music influences more of this expression. I know it does for me when painting and listening to music. I cannot do it one without the other. Tell me one of things that influence you while you are creating your art piece? </span>With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-74008859477544446642012-08-09T08:28:00.001-07:002012-08-09T13:32:50.957-07:00Materials used while I am painting in oil and acrylic. Very Helpful, Use them!<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I use safflower oil for solvent: mix with oil paint to thin oil paint; can buy at any grocery store; OR use Linseed oil from any art store. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Use Winsor and Newton Oil paints: very good quality oil paints-easy flow and good for mixing. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman';"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Use Cover-lid palette: easy to keep your oil paints wet for next painting session-make sure you put some solvent (Oil) on oil paints.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, use paper palette to line inside your covered palette. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</div>With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-21712232498918288452012-07-24T11:55:00.001-07:002012-07-24T21:08:20.714-07:00Kirchner..one of my inspirations.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ernst Ludwig Kirchner</span></b><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> (6 May 1880 – 15 June 1938) was a German Expressionist painter in the 20<sup>th</sup> century. He was one of my biggest inspirations during my college years and he is not recognized as much in the art world as he should be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kirchner is well known for his paintings of People in the Berlin Streets. His paintings are amazing because of his use of imaginary color and his use of lines. What captivated me the most was perspective of his imagery with his brilliance of color (See attachments). Kirchner’s brushstrokes are loose and carefree while keeping the lines flowing throughout his paintings. Kirchner’s forms of lines are imaginary without losing the total form of the people or buildings. His paintings show expression of feelings and emotions among the Berlin Streets of Germany. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Personally, I continue to study his work by doing artist’s copies and I still really enjoy painting them. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A little history of this painter, Ernst studied art history along with freehand drawing in college, later he co-founded the group of “</span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Br%C3%BCcke" title="Die Brücke"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Die Brücke</span></span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;">” (The Bridge) in 1905, and became committed to his art work and trying to develop the technique of expression that bridges between past and the present. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Kirchner’s technique created an art movement of a new style of expressionism in the art world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In 1914, Kirchner volunteered in World War I and by 1915 had a nervous breakdown that took him years to recover. Kirchner was still developing his painting style and working with print making styles as like monograph and some graphic design works. By 1933, Kirchner was labeled by Hitler as a “Degenerate Artist” by the Nazis regime, where over 600 of his paintings were confiscated from public museums were destroyed or sold. Kirchner was discouraged and went into another depression trauma over these events that destroyed most of his work. Along, with the upcoming of World War II dictated by Hitler that eventually overcame Austria, in which was close to his house. These events led him to his own suicide. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">A very sad tale about an artist that was a big influence in the Expressionist art movement.</span></span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Expressionism was born out of Germany and Kirchner was a big part of that art movement with very little recognition of his style.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of his paintings are displayed in National Gallery of Art in Washington and Museum of Modern Art in New York City.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have to mention, his work was personally displayed in the Armory Show in 1913—the Armory Show was one of the biggest, well-known art work displays of modern art in America.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Research all the artists that displayed their work at the Armory Show, it’s amazing! </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I see you, no.1" Acrylic on canvas, 7"x 9", 2010<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"><span style="font-size: small;">I consider myself an expressionist painter because my paintings are an expression of what I feel, see, and imagine. Expressionism is difficult to define because it’s a mixture of so many isms’s for instance, impressionism, abstract expressionism, and even Dadaism. All of these isms’s are an expression that a painter/artist feels or wants the viewer to feel through the use of color and brush strokes. My personal experience in painting and becoming an expressionist painter was in 2010, I wanted to express myself through paint and imagery that would reflect my feelings or give a feeling to someone viewing my paintings. I had to dig into my soul and concentrate on what I wanted to express. Therefore, I wanted to share my experiences of my nightmares that I had for years in the early 2000’s. The nightmares would recur year after year and it caused me to question myself. These nightmares were of my family members and friends turning into these evil clowns. I would end of sleeping with the lights on and terrified of clowns. It wasn’t until in college in the year 2010-2011 that I wanted to paint these images on a canvas to fight my fears. I didn’t want to paint clowns, so I started with photographs of my family members and friends that would dress in boas and masks. The masks were a representation of clowns and also my love of theatre and music. Masks were used in ancient times for ceremonial purposes and used in theatre to represent imagery that would frighten or encourage its viewers. My first painting of my nightmares was “I see you, no. 1” (see attachment) Acrylic on canvas, 7”x9”, 2010. Even though, this painting is very small, it shows so much energy and uneasiness that I knew this was the direction I wanted my paintings to reflect. By 2011, my senior show was based on masked persons and still life’s of masks with wine bottles. The wine bottles were another representation of being brave while under the influence of alcohol. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(See attachments of paintings: 2 out of 10). I even went as far as wearing a mask during my paintings sessions to get more of a feeling while painting these images on canvas. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, in current time I am continuing to develop my expressionist style through painting using different imagery-abandoned buildings/houses. I know that some people will not see the reason why for the paintings, but as long it gives an emotion or feeling in viewing the paintings then I have done my job as an expressionist painter. After, my series of abandoned buildings/houses, I am planning on working with Abstract Expression to get more of a feeling in the use of lines and paint on a canvas, showing more feeling/emotion to express myself through a painting. Wish me luck! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">My expressionist influences are Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN;">Edvard Munch, and Willem de Kooning. </span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";"></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Laugh" Oil on canvas, 18"x 24", 2011<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Untitled", Oil on canvas, 18"x 24", 2011<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Untitled" Oil on Canvas, 18"x 24", 2012<br />
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</div>With Some Expression...http://www.blogger.com/profile/15901156366743165542noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8741201629413213438.post-75290635694462406422012-06-07T09:25:00.001-07:002012-12-02T11:11:50.154-08:00Can’t use the color black…WHAT??? <br />
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<span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I graduated in May 2011 with a B.A. in Studio Art with an emphasis in painting. The last three years in college I was not allowed to use the color black in my paintings. Even though, I tried to be sneaky and put it on my palette but, my Professor Eric Mantle-my mentor always caught me at it because you could see the color black being used on the canvas. The reason to not use the color black was to learn colors and mixing colors without losing the color completely. It was a very hard lesson to learn not use the color black. It taught me a lot about color and the color wheel. For instance, how would you darken colors without using black?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, Colors are defined as hues or pigments, hues are warm/cold colors (usually mixed colors) and pigments are the pure color. Primary colors are Red, yellow, and Blue. Now, back to not using black…I consider black not to be a color because black can easily cancel out any color. So, let’s say you want to darken a red color without using black, what color would you use? You can use green or blue because according to the color wheel red and green are </span><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ansi-language: EN;">complementary to each other (straight line across the chart) and the color blue is a triad color (triangle on chart). I know it can be very confusing at times studying the color wheel, but if you paint with color like I do and love mixing and learning color, it’s amazing what wonderful colors you can create and NOT use the color black at all. So, how would darken a lighter color, for instance yellow? You could use red, then it will turn orange then add blue…now brown is a color so, you could add brown to yellow to give it a darken hue. To really learn about color is to study the color wheel and play with the colors on your palette. Be careful when using oil paints because too much mixing can easily turn your colors to a nasty color brown. I have to say that I continue to NOT use the color black in my paintings, or I try not to. I do like using the color black on some paintings, it depends on my vision. For a helpful tool, make templates or squares of colors and write on the back (like flash cards) the colors you used to make that color. It does help create those colors over and over again and to learn the color wheel. I can say that I am a color guru now, because I can look at a color and know exactly what colors were used to make that color. Play with color! Good Luck! Have fun with it! </span></div>
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