Wednesday, March 4, 2009
What is collage and cubism?
What is collage?
Collage is a collection of works that includes different shapes, colours, graphics, objects etc.. Collage started with Cubist painters such as Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso.
Research 2 of the above collage techniques on google. Which one appeals to you the most and why?
There are two collage techniques, which is the Cubomania and Inimage. Cubomania is one of the collage techniques. It is a collage that is put together by images or pictures that are cut into squares. Which it creates a random and automatically appearance. Inimage is the kind of the collage which parts of the image is been cut off and another image is being reveal through that space. I like the Inimage technique, because is more clean and organize, where different images are being overlap or on top of each other and create texture.
What is cubism? Give a general definition.
Cubism is a style of painting that developed in the early 20th century. It involves different forms of shapes, colours and objects being pull apart or put together with different graphics. There are two types of Cubism- Analytic Cubism and Synthetic Cubism.
How did it start?
Cubism was an invention by Picasso and Braque in the Italian High Renaissance.
What is analytical cubism? Name a piece of analytical cubist artwork.
Colours was almost non-existent in the Analytic Cubism where only colours like grey, blue and ochre are used. Instead of an emphasis on colours, Analytic cubists are base on shapes like cylinder, sphere and cone to represent the natural world.A piece of analytical cubist artwork would be “Portrait of Daniel- Henry Kahnweiler” by Pablo Picasso.
What is synthetic cubism? Name a piece of synthetic cubist artwork.
On the other hand, Synthetic Cubism is having several objects together than having objects separating from each other like the Analytic Cubism. Often, artists use more than one type of medium in the same piece, where there are less shading and more of flatter space. A piece of synthetic cubist artwork would be “Still Life with Fruit Dish and Mandolin” by Juan Gris.
Using the website: http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm compare the work of Braque, Picasso and Gris. How did Juan Gris' work differ from that of Braque's or Picasso's.
Picasso developed Analytic cubism with Georges Braque by using monochrome brownish and neutral colours. They took apart objects and rearrange them in terms of their shapes which works are often confusing or random. On the other hand, Juan Gris's works used more of bright harmonious colours and it looks less confusing.
Do you like cubism? Why or why not explain using the vocabulary of the elements and principles of design.
I like cubism, because is a very unique style that there is no focal point, it shows the use of dull and bright colours, and various ideas are presented in one piece of work.
You are to create a cubist self portrait in Photoshop using your photographs of yourself. Do you think you will use analytical or synthetic cubism? Why or why not?
I will use Synthetic cubism because it more organize and it uses bright colours while Analytical cubism uses more greyish colours.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Collage
Here are the artists I like:
Artist: Susan Adamé
Name: Come Together
Size: 21” x 28”
Type: Collage
Artist: Dick Allowatt
Type: Collage
Artist: Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Name: Woman Under Flowering Plum
Type: Collage
Size: 20" x 15 1/4"
Artist: Joy Logan
Name: My ideal art studio
Type: Collage
Artist: Clifford Alejandro
Type: Collage
Here are the artists that I dislike:
Artist: Hope Kroll
Name: Bandages
Type: Collage
Artist: Albe Parris
Name: Horse Wire
Type: Collage
Artist: Selina Phanara
Type: Collage
Artist: Susan Adamé
Name: Come Together
Size: 21” x 28”
Type: Collage
Artist: Dick Allowatt
Type: Collage
Artist: Nancy Goodman Lawrence
Name: Woman Under Flowering Plum
Type: Collage
Size: 20" x 15 1/4"
Artist: Joy Logan
Name: My ideal art studio
Type: Collage
Artist: Clifford Alejandro
Type: Collage
Here are the artists that I dislike:
Artist: Hope Kroll
Name: Bandages
Type: Collage
Artist: Albe Parris
Name: Horse Wire
Type: Collage
Artist: Selina Phanara
Type: Collage
Monday, November 3, 2008
Response to Pollock Movie
1. Describe the evolution of Pollack's artwork. What stages did he go through in making painting?
At the beginning of the movie, Pollock painted it abstractly just like one of his inspiration artists, Picasso. He used regular paint brush and sometimes straight from the paint ellipse containers on the canvas of strong lines, primary colours and abstracted figures. Later on, he fined a new technique of abstract art where he drip, splash and guide the paint to create lines without touching the surface of the canvas. Also, the artworks of his dripping method are often painted with no figure or any purpose.
2. DeKooning, Picasso, Kandinsky and Lee Krasner-Pollock's wife were artists that influenced Pollack's work. Look them up on the internet and post why you think that he was influenced by them.
DeKooning and Pollack both use fast paint strokes, various colours and often paint abstractly to make their artwork more outstanding. Picasso is one of Pollock’s inspiration artists where Pollock tried to paint cubism like Picasso but at the sometime he added his own style to his artwork to make it his own. The similarity between Lee Krasner and Pollock are that they both paint abstractly except Lee Krasner then to have a purpose of object on her painting but Pollock did not.
3. Pollack often has a non-objective subject matter to his work-that is there is no issue or idea behind a painting other than the tenants of the elements of design. How might you use his painting style to describe a social issue? Comment.
His painting could be use to describe pollution or environmental concerns, since his strong and sometimes various size brush strokes created a messy and destructed environment feeling. Also, when he used only black and white paints could create the pollution issue where there is only greyness left to the world if humans do not do anything about the problem.
4. By watching the movie did you gain an appreciation for abstract or non-objective painting. Would you like to do it yourself-why or why not?
I did gain an appreciation for abstract art. I always think abstract painting is meaningless and boring, but after the movie I learned that in abstract painting there are different styles and methods which are really interesting. Also, even though abstract painting does not have a purpose, it actually makes the viewers think about what the painting is creating and with imagination it could have a deep purpose and message to the artwork.
At the beginning of the movie, Pollock painted it abstractly just like one of his inspiration artists, Picasso. He used regular paint brush and sometimes straight from the paint ellipse containers on the canvas of strong lines, primary colours and abstracted figures. Later on, he fined a new technique of abstract art where he drip, splash and guide the paint to create lines without touching the surface of the canvas. Also, the artworks of his dripping method are often painted with no figure or any purpose.
2. DeKooning, Picasso, Kandinsky and Lee Krasner-Pollock's wife were artists that influenced Pollack's work. Look them up on the internet and post why you think that he was influenced by them.
DeKooning and Pollack both use fast paint strokes, various colours and often paint abstractly to make their artwork more outstanding. Picasso is one of Pollock’s inspiration artists where Pollock tried to paint cubism like Picasso but at the sometime he added his own style to his artwork to make it his own. The similarity between Lee Krasner and Pollock are that they both paint abstractly except Lee Krasner then to have a purpose of object on her painting but Pollock did not.
3. Pollack often has a non-objective subject matter to his work-that is there is no issue or idea behind a painting other than the tenants of the elements of design. How might you use his painting style to describe a social issue? Comment.
His painting could be use to describe pollution or environmental concerns, since his strong and sometimes various size brush strokes created a messy and destructed environment feeling. Also, when he used only black and white paints could create the pollution issue where there is only greyness left to the world if humans do not do anything about the problem.
4. By watching the movie did you gain an appreciation for abstract or non-objective painting. Would you like to do it yourself-why or why not?
I did gain an appreciation for abstract art. I always think abstract painting is meaningless and boring, but after the movie I learned that in abstract painting there are different styles and methods which are really interesting. Also, even though abstract painting does not have a purpose, it actually makes the viewers think about what the painting is creating and with imagination it could have a deep purpose and message to the artwork.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Ken Danby
Background Information
•Name: Ken Danby (Kenneth Edison Danby)
•Date of Birth: March 6, 1940
•Place of Birth: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
•Death: September 23, 2007
•Nationality: Canadian
•Family members:
•Father- Edison Danby
•Mother- Gertrude Buckley
•Brother- Marvih Danby
•Son- Noah Danby (been in various commercials, movies and television shows)
Education
• Student at the local Technical and Commercial High School
• (September, 1958) Ken received his parents' permission to go to the Ontario College of Art.
• His first year at the Ontario College of Art was an important growth experience.
• However, Danby's second year was less successful because most classes are learning abstract paintings.
•(April, 1960) Danby left Ontario College of Art when he had completed the second year of college.
Job History
•During the next few years after he left his college, Danby worked briefly as a set designer for a Sault Ste. Marie television station and at CFTO studios in Toronto.
•Then he had window displays for a women's wear chain and designed labels for a packaging company.
Philosophy/Quotes
• "My paintings explore my first-hand experiences. Yet, what you see is not simply what I saw… but how I want you to see it."
• "Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience."
• "Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others."
• "My paintings don't simply represent what I see, they present viewers with what I want them to see."
• "Everything I paint is the result of my personal visions and experience."
Three pieces of art work:
1. “Stampede”
2006, acrylic polymer on canvas
36 x 96 in. (91 x 244 cm)
2. “Breakers”
1988, oil on canvas
66 x 88 in (152.4 x 223.5 cm)
3. "Face Off”
1997, egg tempera
28 x 42 in (71.1 x 106.7 cm)
Critic's review of Ken Danby
1. "Danby's not only a part of Canadian art history, he helped mold it. His paintings are some of the clearest links to this country's tradition of landscape painting and the popularity of his work confirms that the love affair is still going strong." -Flavio Belli,Director & Curator, Carrier Gallery
2. "He is one of our nation's foremost realist painters. His images, which often depict familiar and cherished Canadian themes, have earned him an international following. - Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson,Governor General of Canada
How does this artist inspires me?
•Realistic
•He always captures the perfect moment to paint (make you feel like you are with him when he paint it.)
•Choices of colour
•Sketches/Studies
How will it help my own work?
• More realistic
• Capture a movement
• Sketches more and studies more
Bibliography
Danby, Ken. “Ken Danby”. Face Off. 3 Oct. 2008
Danby, Ken. “The official Ken Danby Website.” The art of Ken Danby. 3 Oct. 2008
Duval, Paul. “Ken Danby: The New Decade” Don Mills: Moos Publishing, 1984
“Ken Danby.” Ken Danby –Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. 10, Sept, 2008. Wikipedia Foundation, Inc. 5, Oct, 2008
Background Information
•Name: Ken Danby (Kenneth Edison Danby)
•Date of Birth: March 6, 1940
•Place of Birth: Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada
•Death: September 23, 2007
•Nationality: Canadian
•Family members:
•Father- Edison Danby
•Mother- Gertrude Buckley
•Brother- Marvih Danby
•Son- Noah Danby (been in various commercials, movies and television shows)
Education
• Student at the local Technical and Commercial High School
• (September, 1958) Ken received his parents' permission to go to the Ontario College of Art.
• His first year at the Ontario College of Art was an important growth experience.
• However, Danby's second year was less successful because most classes are learning abstract paintings.
•(April, 1960) Danby left Ontario College of Art when he had completed the second year of college.
Job History
•During the next few years after he left his college, Danby worked briefly as a set designer for a Sault Ste. Marie television station and at CFTO studios in Toronto.
•Then he had window displays for a women's wear chain and designed labels for a packaging company.
Philosophy/Quotes
• "My paintings explore my first-hand experiences. Yet, what you see is not simply what I saw… but how I want you to see it."
• "Don't cater to the audience. Inspire the audience."
• "Understand who you are and who you want to be, and thereby learn how you may best relate to others."
• "My paintings don't simply represent what I see, they present viewers with what I want them to see."
• "Everything I paint is the result of my personal visions and experience."
Three pieces of art work:
1. “Stampede”
2006, acrylic polymer on canvas
36 x 96 in. (91 x 244 cm)
2. “Breakers”
1988, oil on canvas
66 x 88 in (152.4 x 223.5 cm)
3. "Face Off”
1997, egg tempera
28 x 42 in (71.1 x 106.7 cm)
Critic's review of Ken Danby
1. "Danby's not only a part of Canadian art history, he helped mold it. His paintings are some of the clearest links to this country's tradition of landscape painting and the popularity of his work confirms that the love affair is still going strong." -Flavio Belli,Director & Curator, Carrier Gallery
2. "He is one of our nation's foremost realist painters. His images, which often depict familiar and cherished Canadian themes, have earned him an international following. - Her Excellency the Right Honourable Adrienne Clarkson,Governor General of Canada
How does this artist inspires me?
•Realistic
•He always captures the perfect moment to paint (make you feel like you are with him when he paint it.)
•Choices of colour
•Sketches/Studies
How will it help my own work?
• More realistic
• Capture a movement
• Sketches more and studies more
Bibliography
Danby, Ken. “Ken Danby”. Face Off. 3 Oct. 2008
Danby, Ken. “The official Ken Danby Website.” The art of Ken Danby. 3 Oct. 2008
Duval, Paul. “Ken Danby: The New Decade” Don Mills: Moos Publishing, 1984
“Ken Danby.” Ken Danby –Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia. 10, Sept, 2008. Wikipedia Foundation, Inc. 5, Oct, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Feedback of AVI4M Art Questions
1. What is the subject matter of such a painting or is there any such thing?
This painting is very colourful which it creates contrast. Lots of different lines and shape are use in the painting. It’s an abstract painting, which there is a lot imagination and it helps to catch people’s attention. There is no such thing in real life because is very unrealistic painting and mix with different objects.
2. Why do you think that this painting got such a hostile reception at New York’s 69th Regiment Armory Show in 1913?
At that time, American likes/believe in realistic art, but Marcel’s “Nude Descending a Staircase” is Cubism, which is unrealistic and full of imagination.
3. Comment on the method that you perceive was used to create this picture.
This picture uses a lot of lines which it create shapes like rectangles and squares. With the addition colour to certain area, it makes the whole pictures more interesting. The principles of design rhythm, proportion, repetition are used in the picture to create interest.
4. How does the title of this painting relate to the actual subject matter portrayed on the canvas?
In the painting “The persistence of Memory”, the clock represents the time has past by and the person in the middle is getter old. Which shows that as time pass by, memories are not certain in our head any more and can not be relied on.
5. How did Man Ray create this photo? Why do you think such a photograph was created? Can you think of a similar type of photo used in schools?
This photo is created by having objects on photosensitive paper and put it into light for a period of time. I think Man Ray created this photo to create mysterious feelings and allusion. An allusion of ghost feeling or something is there watching us to make us curious or freak out. This type of photo could be used for the background of our stage for talent show or M.A.D night.
6. Why did DeKooning choose to paint such an usual-looking woman. What do you think he was trying to say?
DeKooning chose to paint such an usual looking woman to show the struggles women have and the difficulties they are going through that make her different pieces of information/clues for viewers to see and understand. I think he is trying to tell us that, in the world there is always poor, and every minute there is someone that is suffering and we should value what we have.
7. What do you think this sculptor is trying to say about the use of his material in this sculpture?
The sculptor uses stainless steel to create Cubi XXVL because Smith is trying to say that on the surface the sculpture has all sharp and shining edge to it, inside there is another story to it.
8. What trend do you think this sculptor was trying to reverse in the general creation of sculpture?
Calder is trying to reverse that sculpture does not always has to be realistic, sometimes with some imagination, it would create more interests.
9. Why do you think Louise Nevelson call this sculpture “Sky Cathedral”?
Louise Nevelson calls the sculpture “Sky Cathedral” because every piece of wood in that sculpture represents something that is important to her and as she building that sculpture she feels like is building something up (important/powerful like cathedral) to the sky(reach up/hope).
10. What is feeling is Moore trying to express in this sculpture? What does he mean by saying that his works are true to their material?
The feeling that Moore is trying to express in this sculpture is mother love. What he means by saying that his works are true to their material is that he puts feeling into that piece of art work while he is making, to show the mother’s love towards her kid. So the material is true as its feeling of the sculpture of the mother and kid.
-Sarah Zhou
This painting is very colourful which it creates contrast. Lots of different lines and shape are use in the painting. It’s an abstract painting, which there is a lot imagination and it helps to catch people’s attention. There is no such thing in real life because is very unrealistic painting and mix with different objects.
2. Why do you think that this painting got such a hostile reception at New York’s 69th Regiment Armory Show in 1913?
At that time, American likes/believe in realistic art, but Marcel’s “Nude Descending a Staircase” is Cubism, which is unrealistic and full of imagination.
3. Comment on the method that you perceive was used to create this picture.
This picture uses a lot of lines which it create shapes like rectangles and squares. With the addition colour to certain area, it makes the whole pictures more interesting. The principles of design rhythm, proportion, repetition are used in the picture to create interest.
4. How does the title of this painting relate to the actual subject matter portrayed on the canvas?
In the painting “The persistence of Memory”, the clock represents the time has past by and the person in the middle is getter old. Which shows that as time pass by, memories are not certain in our head any more and can not be relied on.
5. How did Man Ray create this photo? Why do you think such a photograph was created? Can you think of a similar type of photo used in schools?
This photo is created by having objects on photosensitive paper and put it into light for a period of time. I think Man Ray created this photo to create mysterious feelings and allusion. An allusion of ghost feeling or something is there watching us to make us curious or freak out. This type of photo could be used for the background of our stage for talent show or M.A.D night.
6. Why did DeKooning choose to paint such an usual-looking woman. What do you think he was trying to say?
DeKooning chose to paint such an usual looking woman to show the struggles women have and the difficulties they are going through that make her different pieces of information/clues for viewers to see and understand. I think he is trying to tell us that, in the world there is always poor, and every minute there is someone that is suffering and we should value what we have.
7. What do you think this sculptor is trying to say about the use of his material in this sculpture?
The sculptor uses stainless steel to create Cubi XXVL because Smith is trying to say that on the surface the sculpture has all sharp and shining edge to it, inside there is another story to it.
8. What trend do you think this sculptor was trying to reverse in the general creation of sculpture?
Calder is trying to reverse that sculpture does not always has to be realistic, sometimes with some imagination, it would create more interests.
9. Why do you think Louise Nevelson call this sculpture “Sky Cathedral”?
Louise Nevelson calls the sculpture “Sky Cathedral” because every piece of wood in that sculpture represents something that is important to her and as she building that sculpture she feels like is building something up (important/powerful like cathedral) to the sky(reach up/hope).
10. What is feeling is Moore trying to express in this sculpture? What does he mean by saying that his works are true to their material?
The feeling that Moore is trying to express in this sculpture is mother love. What he means by saying that his works are true to their material is that he puts feeling into that piece of art work while he is making, to show the mother’s love towards her kid. So the material is true as its feeling of the sculpture of the mother and kid.
-Sarah Zhou
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