Arshile Gorky

I went to the Philly Art Museum earlier today, and was checking out some of the current exhibits. One that really caught my attention was an abstract artist Arshile Gorky. He had a very cool style with very bold colors that take a little to look into. One of his pieces, Abstraction With a Palette, was featured at the museum and was one of my favorites of his. Due to a plane crash in 1962, 15 of his paintings were destroyed, which makes his pieces even more rare and valuable. 

Collections

I am fairly happy with the outcome with my project. It was tough figuring out a way to make a pile of chopsticks exciting and not boring to look at. After playing with a few designs, different resolutions, and some crafty arranging of sticks, I am overall pleased with the results. Though for some reason, I cannot upload it onto blogger right now. I'll work on that

Tank Man Update

Wasnt completely satisfied with my first one, so I updated a few of the squares in the whole image. I like it a little more

Cous Cous Kid

Cous Cous Kid is an English visual artist who mixes photography and computer art. His pieces usually are based around women of some sort and very elaborate and vibrant backgrounds and designs around. He also does a lot of work with both pens and sharpies for backgrounds or to draw on some of the models he uses. Very cool stuff

http://www.stumbleupon.com/s/#1HJnr5/www.couscouskid.co.uk//topic:Arts

Finally got the dog image up

Photoshop

Is impossible. The things Jille was doing in class, do not make sense when I try them at the tech center. How do you feather edges? I'll finish them in class so I can get some help

The Met

For my first time in NYC, I visited the Met. Overall as a museum, its a mess. So unorganized and hard to find anything, but that doesn't mean it wasn't great to wonder around. There were a ton of great pieces from throughout history that I came across. The first thing I really checked out were the Greek and Roman sculptures. Though we have all seen images of these sculptures hundreds of times, it is still amazing to see in person. I really found interest in the massive, old European paintings. The detail and technique is just incredible. I don't get how they mixed their own paints and did so much more just to prepare for the work than we do now. Although I wasn't a fan of NYC in its entirety, the Met is a good hidden treasure there.

A poor man's Shepard Fairey