Logo

While thinking about what I should create to represent myself the first thing that came to my mind was my initials and heritage. I thought the process of creating took a little time because I did not know if I wanted to do bubble letters or leave them italic looking. I then started to do the bubbles and liked the way it looked.
While I was thinking  about doing this I came up with my initials because to me that is how I am represented by my name. I also thought of my heritage because I am proud to be an Italian. If I wasn't i do not think I would be so obsessed with pasta and that would be horrifying. My most important discovery during this project it that it take a few time to get to the end product. Watching the videos it takes even more than a few times which I am use to because of working with children and experiencing things by doing them myself. Some things work for me that may not work for others. It takes time to create things to perfection. I thought it was interesting thinking about how long it took them to create their logo of just circles and the right way it had to be created and how thick, how big, and the color of it should be. I enjoyed creating a logo and I think it would be interesting to do this with children in a class room explain to them that it describes who they are and it does not have to be their initials it can be anything.

Art Gallery

    James Rosenquist  an American, Born 1933. Nomad, 1963. This piece of art work the James Rosenquist designed caught my eye right when I walked down the stairs of the art gallery.  I intrigued by all of the different color and shapes that were appearing in this piece of art. With out knowing the history behind this art work, it seems as if he was remember or thinking about having a picnic somewhere. Now I can be completely wrong but I see a picnic bench with the background layer having some sort of spaghetti.  I can imagine myself on a picnic on a nice cool day eating a plate of spaghetti. Now I do not know if it because my obsession with spaghetti that this art work caught my eye but I do know I starred at this art work trying to figure out the true meaning to it.

Another artwork that I felt a connection with was by Janine Antoni from Bahamian, born in 1964. The work of art was done in 2009 names the Inhabit. This work of art brought me back to my days when I was a younger girl and play dolls all the time. It is an actual ironic piece of art work because the girl standing through the doll house is larger than it and I remember I always wanted a doll house bigger than I was. I look at this art work that she is stringed from the wall going through the doll house to show that maybe all she does is play with her doll house so she needs something to hold her up and keep her awake. I know that I would spend hours in my room playing with my doll house.

Two art works that I would like to learn more about was a piece by Lee Bontecou who was born in America in 1931. When I looked at this art work I first though of a volcano, but  there is just something about this art work that I feel there is more to it with the abstract of the different browns and the rising of the different levels throughout the work.  

A)     Robert Raushenber an American that was around from 1925-2008 created a work of art named Ace in 1962.  This piece of work had an impact on me because it took me awhile to look at this art work between all the colors and that are going on in this photo. Without knowing any history behind this art work it seems as if there are a lot of different object that are on this photo.  The different colors alone are so intriguing between the dark and bright colors I can also see myself learning more about what exactly Robert is trying to show through his art.

Another art piece that had an impact on me was the Head by Roy Lichtenstein  and American that lived from 1923-1997. I do not know why but this work of art reminded me of the Mona Lisa. I feel like I would just get excitement and energy just by looking at the bright color red head lady.

   Another one I would like to learn more about would be by Andy Warhol an American that lived from 1928-1987. The piece is called 100 cans. Now I am not sure but I once heard a story about a man that ate soup like every day for so many days and I am wondering if this is the work of art that I heard about. I would like to learn more about this work of art and find out if there is truth to what I heard in the past. I will defiantly be doing some researched to find out more about these two works of arts.

color wheel

Creating the value scale and the color wheel was a little nerve racking because I wanted to be perfect. I have to learn that all art work is not perfect. I would like to get a little better at creating a value scale but for my first one I did not think I did so bad.
The media that I enjoyed the most was the paint. The Charcoal was extremely messy and time consuming.
The most important study in these creations is that you have to know what colors make certain colors and that charcoal can be hard to make a dark black.
The most important parts of the videos was to pay attention to see what colors make which colors. It also helped the understanding of how to use the paint and charcoal.

Photobucket Reflection

Working with photo bucket was interesting. I feel like there are a hundred different types of technology that students and teachers can use creating slide shows. I never heard of photo bucket until this class. Once I got the hang of things it was easier to use.  It was fun and interesting taking pictures of things and researching to find out if the picture fits with the right element/ principle. Some of the pictures I have taken throughout the year that I know would work really well with this project so I used them. I like having the time to think about what belong to each element/principle. This was an interesting and engaging project.

http://s1269.photobucket.com/albums/jj597/nicole4287/AED%20200/?albumview=slideshow

Color

Color has an effect on our emotions in many ways. When growing up many children are directed into colors by someone telling them how it is suppose to make them feel or they have an experience of something happening and they always seem to put colors that were involved together with the experience. I feel as if the colors red, orange, and yellow give off the color of fire, even when you think about fire trucks, fire engines, and fire alarms many are all red. So when some sees the color red they automatically would think danger. Red can also mean the color of an apple that many would think about teachers being involved with the color red. Even when thinking of the color blue most would think that blue is cooling or calming because of thinking of water or the sky. I feel as if color is shaped on us when we are children and it follows us around our whole lives.
 I would say the most intriguing color would have to be blue because I never looked at blue as being a calming color. I always thought of it as cooling color because of our sky and water. But when it come to calming I find it amazing what it does to students in a classroom. I noticed when you have a group of six-year-old sitting in a room with a cooling color such as blue it tends to calm them down and helps them work well in their environment . Then when you start to add in the vibrant colors things start to get a little crazy. Being school to become a teacher I have noticed in classrooms that teachers try to stay away from a lot of bright colors. I never knew that about the more cooling colors.

The biggest impact the color video had on me was when Titian was painting the virgin Mary with all the different colors. If I did not watch the video I would think that it was just one red color on the robe and I would have never of seen the red in the hands. I wonder if  a lot of painters redo their work before it is completely done?

The biggest impact the feeling video had on me was the "Mona "Lisa" that  there Leonardo just wanted to paint a ordinary women who was not a saint, smiling. What was her story? She was just an ordinary genuine women. I always wondered what the importance of this painting was. I think it is very true that just looking at her is intriguing.

Aesthetics

From each video the key concepts that I have gotten out of watching them was learning how to understand and look at works of art. I learned that people look at works of art such as a sculptors of a women as being hideous because they do not understand that making a piece of art being realistic is not producing art in the right way. Once someone can look an an unusual piece of art as beautiful they are looking at it more in creative way. Art becomes creative by imagining pieces of art work as a reward after seeing what the image really means or looks like.



 A philosopher in this video that I agree is important to aesthetic is John Dewey from the 20th century, 1934. John Dewey  believed looking at art was from society as a whole and it makes the life of people. John Dewey said, " Feelings aroused by a work of art are not purely personal experience, they must be of a universal nature". This meaning that everything that is done in the works of art is from real life experiences. I have always followed the roles of John Dewey throughout my career in college because I believe that everything someone does in life can be a learning experience.

I thought that is was interesting that both Changqeux and Ramachandran's scientific views of aesthetics and art was when they both talked about the human brain. I never thought of it as someone looks at a piece of art through the human brain.  Someone may look at it one way and explain it another because of their instincts tell them what it should look like or someone feels other people think it looks like.  Ramachandran explains that looking at a piece of art is like solving a problem. People want to always get a reward of understanding or seeing images inside of an image. He says, that it is "pleasing to the eye." I feel as if he understand the way of looking at art and I am hoping that I can get a better understanding by being in this class as he did by getting interested in different types of art.

The videos relate to the readings because they both give a better understanding of how to looking at art. I never understood that the themes can be the same but have different purposes because the art can have a different symbol, or meaning to it. Just because the themes are the same does not mean the purpose of the art work has to be the same. An artist may have a piece of art work that is explaining something or a symbol for something while another with the same theme may just me an experience that has happened in their life during the same time period.

I feel that the videos help me understand art in a more effective way. I would just look at art as a painting someone did. Not really understanding why they painted or sculpted the works of art. Art comes in all form such as music, painting, experiences, history, and symbols. I am starting to get a better understanding that art is in different forms.