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

Shepard Fairey

Shepard Fairey is a modern street artist who originated in using stickers and went from stencils to great works. Most have seen his work with the company Obey. He has done work for Obama's campaign and has done many works for various artists and music legends. He works a lot with spray paint but does computer work too on some pieces. 

Features of his works usually reflect modern events going on, whether it be war or an election or a great musician. His backgrounds are known for intricate, complex patterns. He does a simple palette of colors, but is usually connected to the works message. Since he started out doing simple spraypaint stencils, his pieces include some form of stenciling in it. Lets see how I can recreate.

Patterns

Wolgin

I finally ventured off the the Wolgin show at Tyler this past Friday. I was enthused to check out the Wolgin exhibit because of how important it was and that it was actually being held at Tyler. I liked looking at the pieces included and seeing how the artist came up with half the ideas. One of my favorite things about art is trying to put myself in the artist's state of mind which created such works. I just explored from piece to piece, staring into them looking for more than what might have been there, but in doing so, I feel I understood them well and appreciated them more than when I first walked in on the show.

Fun on Illustrator

The portrait with illustrator was a lot of fun. It resembles the paper one we had to make, but this was much more entertaining. Next are the patterns..

Bradley N. Litwin

          Bradley is one crafty man. He introduced to us all of his mechanical art, which isn't normally thought of in that way. I mean you go to museums to see pieces being hung on walls or sculptures resting in place, but when do you see a machine in motion? It is never thought of as an art but it truly is one with how intricate and precise the different parts, sometimes in volumes of 50,000+, are arraigned in motion. 

          Another really cool part was about how he was going through the evolution of computer art back from when it printed in 80 dots per inch to modern software. It makes you wonder about what could be developed in the next ten years. We'll see when it comes around.

this dog has got to be miserable

Hidden in Plain Sight?

http://www.artnewsonline.com/issues/article.asp?art_id=2747

This is an article about Jackson Pollock's work and how it has a Rorshach quality about it. There is an upcoming book about Pollock called Tom and Jack which talks about the relationship between Jackson Pollock and his teacher Thomas Hart Benton. But in this article, it speaks of how Benton found a signature in one of his works, and other things such as symbols in different pieces. It is a controversial topic because most scholars think this is crazy and that people are just looking at Pollock's pieces too deeply. It is a very interesting article that makes you look into crazy art like his for deeper meanings or images.