Post #12

This artist would be considered postmodern because his artwork involves things that is in today. Another reason why Tom Friedman would be considered a postmodern artist is because his sculptures are made up of everyday objects. Tom has artwork that is made out of pencils and only pencils. He also have an artwork made of cigarette butts. This guy is awsome with his artwork. By far one of the best.

Post #11

This wonderful piece of art was created by an artist who's name is Tom Friedman. He created this in 1996 and it is untitled, but in parentheses it reads (Polystyrene Tower. This guy was born1965 in St. Louis, Missouri. Friedman is still alive today. I chose this artwork because it looked interesting. This piece of art looks as if something was pouring out of another something, but no one knows where its coming from. Its pretty interesting

Post #10

This stereotype is about emo/gothic people. It says that this guy likes to dress as an emo boy & make fun of emo's by acting out the stereotype. In my perspective, this artwork is saying that all emo's/ goth's  are depressed. Notice how they have the word depressed in parentheses. I think they put it like that to say like emo's don't even know what depress means because some of them are cold blooded. This would be a stereotype because it seem as if all emo's are depressed, but little did we know they aren't.

Post #9

Ms. Coffee, I couldn't find a postmodern piece of artwork. I really didn't understand the concepts of the postmodern visual strategies that were discussed in class because I wasn't there. With the websites that you gave us on the back of the blog assignments, I still couldn't seem to find what was instructed to find because I don't know how to use those websites. I couldn't even find nothing on Google..I know that its go to be something out there about postmodern strategies, but I just couldn't find anything.

Post #8

This past quater I really learned more about art. I learned about and now understand the elements of art and principles of design. The seven elements are line, color, texture, space, form, and shape. The principles of design balance, rhythm, empahsis, unity, movement, pattern, and variety. The best part of being in art class is the class projects. The best project was the accordin book. Art class at Westinghouse is much harder than the art class in grammer school. I didn't really like the reading assignments that were given, but I guess it's going to "better" us.

Post #7

In the process of the Elements and Principles Accordion book project, I have learned and understood the elements and principles better. I also now know how to create an accordion book. The most enjoyable and interesting part of this project was when we was able to be creative and imaginative. Even though the books came out very nice, there still were some difficulties. The most challegeing part was making the poem and trying to get all of the elements & principles in the book. Most of them came naturally. If I was to make another book, I would make the emphasis really pop out. Also, I would use more brighter colors. Other than that I feel that my book was well done.

Post #6

This handmade book is made by a Chinese person. In my opinion, Chinese people are very sophisticated. I chose this book because it is very unique and so different from what we are doing. More challeging. In this book, from what i can see, it looks as if this person likes polka dots and lines. Also, I chose this handmade book because look at the top, it's eye catching. On this book, it has numerous famous pictures from back in the day it look like. This person did well with their book and was being creative. Just like how we are in Art class

Post #5

In this drawing, i see color, shape, unity, and line. It's obvious that color is used in this drawing. There are a various amount colors used in the drawing. If you look closely, you will see that there are circles and some triangles made up from the different lines that intersect. That brings me to the unity and line. Unity because the lines are intersecting, forming other shape which is creating other shapes. Bringing them together.

Post #4

In this painting, the elements of art that is used are color, shape, and I think value. I say color is used because obviously as you can see there are multiple colors in the picture. Shape is used because when you take a look at the painting, the colors are making circles into one small dot. Lastly, I see a little bit of value in the painting. For instance, you see the red shading into orange which is shading into yellow. Also, you see blue shading into green which is fading into yellow as well. Blue also shade into purple if you look towards the middle. These are the elements of art that are being used.

Post #3

The name of this piece of art is called The Starry Night. The Starry Night was created by an artist named Vincent Van Gogh. This painting one of is his most famous paintings, and demonstrates his transition from impressionism to expressionism. At the time that Van Gogh painted this night scene, he was institutionalized in France. Some believe that the raging stars unfurling against the night sky parallels the artist's slipping sanity. This painting reminds me of Georges Seurat. Reason being is because in this painting it looks as if it was painted using dots like Seurat did. In my paradigm, this is a creative, nice piece of artwork.


-Why do you think he created this painting?
-Do this artwork look like it is created using dots, or any other technique?

Post #2

In my opinion, I feel that this article "Race & Gender Criticism" is unfair and kind of racist. In around the 1970's, art was being taken over by the white people and male-dominated. Women was often depicted as seductive sex objects rather than as complete and independent individuals. There were 3 women  without color, no men of color, and one woman of color, out of seventy-one artists. Don't you think this is kind of racist? I do. If there was an art work of women in color they would group it to the side as feminist.

What do you think about this and why?

My 1st Art Experience

The 1st time I had an experience in art, that I can remember, was when I was kindergarden. I was about 6 years old, and we were making a Mother's Day gift for our parents. I decided to make my mother a card. The card had my hand prints in the inside of it saying that I love her and the hands prints are like memories. On the outside of the card was a picture of me and my mom. I was younger and so excited to give her the gift, but I did good and kept it a secret until Mother's Day. On Mother's Day I gave my mother the card and she was estatic. She didnt even know that I had made the card for her. It was unexpected. This is the 1st art experience that I remember.