Self Portrait

Portrait of Francesco delle Opere 
1494

Perugino Vannucci

Category: 

painting

Dimensions: 
w440 x h520 mm

Self-Portrait 
1889

Vincent van Gogh

Category: 
Oil on canvas

Dimensions: 
w540 x h650 mm

Self-portrait wearing a Hat and two Chains
(Around 1642 - 1643)

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

Category: 
Painting

Dimensions: 
w548 x h720 mm

I looking at Art Powered by Google to get these self-portraits, since it is exam week it is a little hard to get to the art gallery. I hope to soon make it there to look at art work again, since I did get a membership!

Self Portrait

 (side view)

Nicole Lattanzio

Media: Pencil

Year: 2012

1. Why did you select the inspiration pieces?

 I chose the self-portraits because all them men look so serious, I believe there are times to look serious. I feel that self-portraits represent you and if being serious in the picture means that either at the moment they wanted to be represented as serious or they are always serious people.

2. Why did you select the media to create your self-portrait?

  I used a pencil because I like sketching with pencil, I feel that I chose this media because it is a utensil that I have used while driving. 

3. What challenges did you face in creating your self-portrait and how did you overcome them?

 The challenged I faced while during my self-portrait was doing at as a side view, I would next time do a picture that is a frontal view.

4. How does this piece represent you?

    This piece represents me because it is me! I took a picture of myself and then drew myself. 

5. What elements and principles of art did you apply in this work?

  I used line throughout my project. I used repetition with the shape of my eyes. 

6. Did you enjoy working on this project?

 It was interesting to draw a picture of myself, I think the last time I did this was in Elementary school, doing it in a college level course is more complicated because of following different elements. 

7. What do you think of your final artwork?

 I think my final work is pretty close to the original picture, I  am satisfied with my self-portrait. 

Course Evaluation

1. What were you expectations for this course and where they met?

 My expectations for this course was to get a better understand in art, yes they were met now when I look at a piece of art work I see it in different ways such as the elements and principles. 

2. Now that you've been through this course, What is art? How would you define it now compared to your initial posting?

 Art is the expression of an artists skill and imagination from his/ her paintings or sculptures. I define it now different because in my initial posting I would have said art is a piece of work an artist produces.

3. Who was your favorite artist in your original posting and who is your favorite visual artist now? If there is a difference, why do you think so? If you have the same favorite artist, why do you think so?

   My favorite artist is Michael Angelo and I have always enjoyed his art work. I think that he will always be my favorite artist because of his creativity.

4. Now that you've completed this course, how do you feel about taking an online course? Is your answer the same as it was in your first posting? How is it the same or different?

I feel that online course give you time and flexibility to work on homework, yes my answer is the same because I wrote about having the time to do work at all hours of the day.

Questions about the course

1. Which assignment did you ENJOY working on the best? Why?

  One of the assignments that I enjoyed the most was the mask making, I thought it was interesting watching the videos about different types of mask and then coming up with my own ideas on what type of mask that I wanted to do. 

2. Which assignment did you ENJOY working on the least? Why?

 The assignment that I did not enjoy the most was all of the videos, some of the videos were extremely long and it took a lot of time watching them. Some of them were interesting but ones that were extremely long got to be a little agitating. 

3. How did you like using ANGEL?

 Using angel was nice. I enjoy having the opportunity to get to reflect and respond with other students. Not every class you get to do this and on angel it gives the opportunity.

4. If you had the opportunity to change this course:

What would you keep? Mask Project

What would you remove? Long Videos

What would you add? Nothing

5. Would you recommend this course to your peers?

  I would recommend this course to peers that are not taking too many classes, it is a class that needs to be kept up on and planned out. 

6. Please list any other comments you would like to share.

        Thank you for getting back to me when I emailed you as soon as you could, not too many professors get back to students as fast as you did!

Please be honest with your answers. I use student feedback and input to improve this course. Your input is very important to me and is greatly appreciated

Article Critic

The project that I reviewed was Beauty of Italy, this title of the exhibit caught my eye right away. Probably because I have family that came straight from Italy. I selected this project because I have always been interested in going to visit Italy and seeing where my family is from. Whiling writing my critique article I found it difficult to relate events to the exhibit. I thought that memories by doing a project on Italy a long time ago would be the best relationship to the exhibit. I thought it was interesting critiquing my peers work because I got to see what they chose, what things they seemed to have problems on and it they matched up to my problems while creating an exhibit. I also thought that it was interesting on seeing what type of PowerPoint was used for the projects. This is because I seemed to have the hardest time figuring out if it fit my theme. I would like to see what my peers critique on my work because I feel as if sometime we think we are doing something to perfection and  other people can pick up on things that were left out. I rate my article about an 8 I feel as if it was a little difficult to write an article about someone else work. I enjoyed looking at projects that were made and figuring out which one I wanted to write about. I thought of what interested me the most theme wise.

Video Blog

Greenberg on Art Criticism: An Interview by T. J. Clark ›

Writing about visual arts is much tougher than writing about literature♣ or music said Clement Greenberg.  Reading  and understanding what is separable. If you are really good you are not going to be liked by many people.  Writing about music you are a formalist. Learn to ask anything but always have to be good.  Greenberg says that the best critics in the past such as Ruskin were not philosophical but knew the nature of the value judgment. Greenburg believes in modern spacialization, like physical scientist, finding it down on the object.

I believe this video relates to the Art Criticism project because I believe that everyone can be critics but not everyone is going to critic the same project the same. Someone may love something and look at it completely different than someone else.

I thought the film was interesting not only was it interesting to see Greenberg smoking during his interview but he has some good perspectives on critiquing art work.  He says that certain artist proves themselves and that is enough. I found it interesting to hear him talk about how artist prove themselves. More needs to be said by thinking but he says that it needs to be cut.

An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance

The Renaissance is marked by a renewed enthusiasm in the arts.  Many Italian artist contributed to it, such as Giorgio. Ancient Romans create art from natural beauty. East to the Byzantine Empire is then focused on religious themes. Giotto was one of the first artists to revive the realistic style. Ghiberti creates a beautiful door panels of Biblical scenes from the Book Genesis with vision of the human form.  Leonardo da Vinci applies science and math to his art. The figures appear to be naturally in their surrounding in “The Last Super”.

This video could relate to our art criticism because it explains the art work that is done between the different artists. This video explains what the artist have done in their art work such as using line and talking about adding depth and realism.

I enjoyed this video because I enjoy hearing about the Italian Renaissance because I know one day that I would love to visit Italy and look at all of this art work. I have always had an interest in art works in Italy and hop to one day see the different art works that are there.