Art Gallery #1

A. The piece by Lee Bontecou which wasn't titled in 1960 made of welded steel, canvas, and wire had a big impression on me. First by its 3-D texture and medieval and beaten look it caught my eye just because it was unique and an out there kind of design that if one tried, they could replicate with his/ her own version.
     A second work of art that impacted me was the various stacked plates that were a common theme in several pieces here. One particular piece was a collection by Glenn and Amanda Fuhrman which wasn't titled from 2006 made out of plastic. I found it unique because it was the point when i had noticed many other pieces of art also having staked plates as there art work was i thought was weird for several artist to design around the same concept.

B. The first artwork i had a connection with was the Dijonesque by Joseph Cornell in 1954 made of just a box construction it said. When i saw this piece it reminded me of how much i like older painted things with the weathered and chipped paint look to them as this piece had.

    A second work I was connected to was the untitled folding table and chairs collection by by the Sarah Norton Goodyear Fund in 2007 made of paint, metal, and plastic. This piece really made me feel like a kid again to when i use to hide under tables during parties while playing hide and seek while the adults played card games above.

C. I would definitely like to know more about The Recycle Group by Andrey Blokhin and Georgiy Kuznetsov made of plastic mesh in 2013. I'm really interested in how they formed the mesh to create those images. Was it over hard molds that they laid the plastic on to cool in that shape or all by hand and eye?

    The next artwork I'd love to know more about is Blue Velvet by Ed Moses in 2008 made of acrylic on canvas. This work is the style I would love to hang in my house so I wonder what drives him to create things like this and how he does it.

My logo

1.) I thought it was enjoyable since I have always had this sort of design/ logo in my head for a tattoo for a long time now. This project maybe me think more about it and finalize a design which represented me and my memories best.
2.) I had the nickname B Squared since my high school days in track because I ran with my best friend who also shared the same first name as me and his heritage as being Irish influenced me in reliving his memory through this.
3.) The most important discovery I made while producing this logo was my bond to my best friend and the memories we had together.
4.) The most important thing I found in these extra resources was how important the logo is to a company and the product that will possibly represent that logo.

Exploring art

1. I thought creating the Value Scale and Color Wheel were a fun an interesting way of understanding the different colors we see around us. It's kind of hard to look back now and see how we created different colors in the wheel by adding colors together, while the value scale was one color just different amount of the color put down.

2. I like the value scale best with a pencil because i grew up drawing and doodling in class with just a pencil. And with this project seen the different affects i was able to produce with that same type of pencil.

3. I felt the most important discovery with this art was the color wheel and how 3 (primary) colors can create many more colors when you combined them in certain orders.

4. To be honest there wasn't anything to new to me that i learned in these videos, I already came in with a basic understanding of the colors and primary colors with the things you can do with them and also how charcoal or a pencil can create different values.

Reflection

During my time as a photographer, i wasn't to impressed with my skills as at photo taking and possibly the quality of my camera. It wasn't until I took the photos off my camera and onto the computer was when I really say the details and clarity of the photos. It was at this point when I really became impressed with my work and saw the potential my camera really had.
I really had fun with this experience, me and my girlfriend both did as a matter of fact. Both exploring nature and the resources around us which lead us to explore with our cameras. The craziest, spooky, and chilling part of this experience by far was once we took all the photos and went through them to create the slide show. Here as we looked at several photos of the railroad tracks was when my girlfriend discovered in one photo a man about quarter mile away from us in the photo. When she saw that we both got the chills knowing he never said anything or the fact we never heard or saw anybody else around since we weren't near any homes an half mile from the road. So seeing that later that day in a photo knowing how close someone was to us an we didn't even notice was a scary thought that i gained from this artistic journey.


http://s876.photobucket.com/user/BrettColling/slideshow/

color theory and emotional effects

1.) Color has its affects on emotions based on what colors and styles are used by the painter. They can convey harmonious feelings, soft, erotic, anger, and much more. All this is based on how the artist lays out his/her work  using different colors.

2.) The theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues me is how painters worked to earn their way into heaven. Which most paintings were done for the church or religious purpose conveying some sort of message. This i found interesting because what about all the people whom wanted to paint but just lacked the creativity, passion, and skill that popular artists had.

3.) The biggest impact on me was how the paints were made from different odd world items and crushed down with three other ingredients. Also how painted by trial and error and even when they hated or disliked their work they kept painting over the old until they liked it rather than start over from scratch.

4.) The impact which the second video had on me was how many paintings which are famous were based on religion alone and that they emitted the most emotions. Goya also had an affect on me with how intense his works were even when painting such high ranking officials he still made them look fearful.

module #2

1. The article talks about the different styles of art an d how the brain perceives them based upon the artists styles used in the art. While both videos talk about the brain and how visual stimulation can change how the brain thinks and works. They also scanned the brain to see how different codes of art activate the brains different areas.

2. I feel Francis Hutchese of the 18h century was a great philosopher dealing with aesthetics. He believed that beauty was controlled through an external sense which was controlled by the inside that registered was pleasing to a viewers eye.

3. Changeux and Ramachandran had very great views of aesthetics and art by the amount of work they put in to understanding the brain and how it is affected by art. the most interesting thing was when they talked about the codes in art which gave the brain different feelings based upon the type of art was being viewed.

4. These readings and videos all relate to the text because of there talks on how art holds the power to please the eye, aesthetically. The eyes are where art is first interpreted and then the brain creates the feelings that the eyes see throughout the rest of the body.

5. Having the reading and videos along with the text really helps to create a deeper understanding of the text by having different views on the subject so that one can formulate their own conclusion of aesthetics and art. If we only had a text to learn from we would have to understand everything we were reading instead of getting different forms of ideas from credited scholars.