The Draft-Sheridan/Sheridan-Draft Collective Exhibition (USF Centre Gallery)
The art that stood out to me the most were:
Thumb
Artist: Jeff Sheridan
Graphite & Ink 2009
The picture is of a fingerprint which looks like the patterns of oak trees, when they are cut through the middle. The thumb stands alone, and blends in with the surrounding trees.
Monolith #2
Artist: Jeff Sheridan
Graphite & Ink 2009
I thought this piece was very interesting. The poles that hold the power lines together, look like trees coming up from the ground, and they form a cross. I also liked how the frame of the picture was made of wood, with nails sticking in it. I thought this gave the work a more sacred touch.
Untitled Collage #1
Artist: Scott Draft with contribution by Chelsea Gorslone
Mixed Media 2009
I felt this piece brought a new meaning to the word "collage." It starts off with a photo in a frame. Some parts of the photo are covered with white poster board, which is then colored on with colorful markers and ink. Then the glass cover of the frame is put over the work, and the artist outlines the picture with a black marker on the glass. This gave it a layering-effect.
Friday, October 30, 2009
Thursday, October 29, 2009
3rd Artist Review
USF Polytechnic Campus Design Presentation: with Architect Santiago Calatrava
USF is constructing a new Polytechnic campus in Lakeland. They have hired architect Santiago Calatrava to design this project. Calatrava is known for many famous buildings like the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Light Bridge in Jerusalem, Israel. Calatrava presented various models and drew some images that expressed his concepts behind the polytechnic campus. He said that it was an honor to visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern University, and that is where he gained his inspiration for this project. At the end, Calatrava showed a video on the 3D model of his design, and it just brought everything to life. His work is truly a master piece, and his presentation really inspired me. This 45 million dollar project will open in Summer 2012.
USF is constructing a new Polytechnic campus in Lakeland. They have hired architect Santiago Calatrava to design this project. Calatrava is known for many famous buildings like the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Light Bridge in Jerusalem, Israel. Calatrava presented various models and drew some images that expressed his concepts behind the polytechnic campus. He said that it was an honor to visit Frank Lloyd Wright’s Florida Southern University, and that is where he gained his inspiration for this project. At the end, Calatrava showed a video on the 3D model of his design, and it just brought everything to life. His work is truly a master piece, and his presentation really inspired me. This 45 million dollar project will open in Summer 2012.
2nd Artist Review
Art Lecture with Shawn McCarthy
Shawn McCarthy is an artist who graduated from Yale University. What he considered art and an inspiration to him, were comic strips and cartoons. In his lecture, McCarthy talked about some works of art that he really enjoyed. For example: Forever Free by Michael Ray Charles, and the Houndini Album cover by Frank Kozik. He was also influenced by Henriette Valliem who did French comics.
McCarthy hated Philip Gustons work but later on during his career, he began taking some of his ideas and formed them into his sketches and eventually got into etching. Most of his sketches have a story/narrative behind them. He mentioned that he listens to music when he draws, and listens to Podcasts while using ink. Also he sometimes uses sculpting to make 3D sketches.
Overall I thought his presentation was informative and somewhat personal, but I felt that his reasons behind some of his paintings were more perverse and immature. He also seemed very nervous, and that didn’t help him out either.
Shawn McCarthy is an artist who graduated from Yale University. What he considered art and an inspiration to him, were comic strips and cartoons. In his lecture, McCarthy talked about some works of art that he really enjoyed. For example: Forever Free by Michael Ray Charles, and the Houndini Album cover by Frank Kozik. He was also influenced by Henriette Valliem who did French comics.
McCarthy hated Philip Gustons work but later on during his career, he began taking some of his ideas and formed them into his sketches and eventually got into etching. Most of his sketches have a story/narrative behind them. He mentioned that he listens to music when he draws, and listens to Podcasts while using ink. Also he sometimes uses sculpting to make 3D sketches.
Overall I thought his presentation was informative and somewhat personal, but I felt that his reasons behind some of his paintings were more perverse and immature. He also seemed very nervous, and that didn’t help him out either.
Minor Project #2
For our Minor Project #2 I choose to revolve my presentation around The Center for Land Use and Interpretation. Here I saw an exhibit in LA that expresses the liminal and static space of a car. Most cars are parked for more than 90% of their time, and parking is something all drivers want to have, but want to think about as little as possible. So my presentation involved that class breaking of into groups and driving around the Fine Arts parking lot to find the “ideal parking space.” What I would have changed about my presentation would be the abstract map that I drew of where the parking space was. I think I could have put a little more into the drawing to make it seem more of a map.
The project I felt was the most successful was Chelsea Huchro’s project. I thought it was a great idea to have the class try on different glasses with different prescriptions, to get the “abstract view” of her artist’s work across.
The project I felt was the most successful was Chelsea Huchro’s project. I thought it was a great idea to have the class try on different glasses with different prescriptions, to get the “abstract view” of her artist’s work across.
10/28/09 Class Blog for Project 3
The song that I choose in class was Broken by Lifehouse. Here are the lyrics:
The broken clock is a comfort, it helps me sleep tonight
Maybe it can stop tomorrow from stealing all my time
I am here still waiting though i still have my doubts
I am damaged at best, like you've already figured out
I'm falling apart, I'm barely breathing
With a broken heart that's still beating
In the pain there is healing
In your name I find meaning
So I'm holdin' on, I'm holdin' on, I'm holdin' on
I'm barely holdin' on to you
The broken locks were a warning you got inside my head
I tried my best to be guarded, I'm an open book instead
I still see your reflection inside of my eyes
That are looking for a purpose, they're still looking for life
I'm falling apart, I'm barely breathing
with a broken heart that's still beating
In the pain there is healing
In your name I find meaning
So I'm holdin' on, I'm holdin' on, I'm holdin' on
I'm barely holdin' on to you
I'm hangin' on another day
Just to see what you will throw my way
And I'm hanging on to the words you say
You said that I will be ok
The broken lights on the freeway left me here alone
I may have lost my way now, haven't forgotten my way home
The 3 artists that I thought related to this song were:
1. Salvador Dali- “Melting Clocks”
In this painting I felt that the melting locks related to the song when they say "The broken clock is a comfort, it helps me sleep tonight.”
2. Rigos Rivas- “Familia”
This painting represents a moment frozen in time which I think relates to the theme of the song.
3. Hildegard A. Weiler-“Tom - I Am Light, I Am Love, I Am Strong” Weiler works on “healing paintings” that I thought went with these lyrics: “I'm falling apart, I'm barely breathing with a broken heart that's still beating, in the pain there is healing, in your name I find meaning”
Monday, October 12, 2009
CH 1: The Art Of Making A World
In Chapter One of The Accidental Masterpiece by Michael Kimmelman, the reader gets an inside view of the life of Artist Pierre Bonnard. The narrator starts us off with some comments of what Picasso thought of his work: “Don’t talk to me about Bonnard… He is not really a modern painter.” Kimmelman then goes on to say that Bonnard was thought to be too soft. His paintings are tender and require patience.
Deeper into the chapter the reader gets a better understanding of Bonnard’s work. We find out that he had two lovers but the one woman he could not leave was his wife Marthe. Bonnard actually painted Marthe nearly 400 times! His ex-lover Renee later commits suicide and his wife insists that he throw away all the paintings he did of Renee. We learn that Marthe became more paranoid throughout their relationship and she did not want Bonnard socializing with other people too much. Even though Bonnard didn’t seem to mind, there is one piece of evidence that shows his annoyance with her at one point of their relationship. He wrote in a letter to one of his friends that Marthe wasn’t letting him do much outside their home. Really the only time he ever got to be alone, was when he would take his walk in the morning and think about what he wanted to paint next. One of Bonnard’s most recognized paintings is Nude in the Tub. This scene includes Marthe getting ready to take a bath. One can tell that her face is a little blurred. Actually in most of Bonnard’s paintings of his wife, he blurs out her face. One critic described Bonnard’s repetitive use of Marthe in his work as: “the promise and the memory of the delights of handling her flesh, or bringing his body into contact with her body. He conveys that it is too precious, too fragile for him to dare to take hold of it: he holds back, leaving the flesh to be caressed by the light that plays over it, invades it, infuses and floods the surrounding space.”
In addition, Bonnard’s work was compared the work of Joan Mitchell. Kimmelman described them as “being in their own little world, where they were both inspired by ecstatic flights.” In one of Mitchell’s paintings, After April, Bernie, Kimmelman comments that they are abstract Bonnards. Both of their pictures provide a silence and warmth to them.
The question that is still yet to be answered is: Was Bonnard suffocated by marriage? There is one self portrait of Bonnard that could possibly express how he felt during his marriage with Marthe. It shows him as a skinny shadowboxer, fighting off demons. Besides this self portrait, Bonnard also put himself in some of his paintings. For example in one that he painted of Marthe looking at a tea cup in the kitchen, you also see Bonnard behind her. He his watching the viewer, who is watching Marthe, who is watching the cup. Or in other works, he will put an image of his thumb or finger to show his presence in the room. Overall, Bonnard explored his world everyday, and as he did so, it became more and more fantastical.
Deeper into the chapter the reader gets a better understanding of Bonnard’s work. We find out that he had two lovers but the one woman he could not leave was his wife Marthe. Bonnard actually painted Marthe nearly 400 times! His ex-lover Renee later commits suicide and his wife insists that he throw away all the paintings he did of Renee. We learn that Marthe became more paranoid throughout their relationship and she did not want Bonnard socializing with other people too much. Even though Bonnard didn’t seem to mind, there is one piece of evidence that shows his annoyance with her at one point of their relationship. He wrote in a letter to one of his friends that Marthe wasn’t letting him do much outside their home. Really the only time he ever got to be alone, was when he would take his walk in the morning and think about what he wanted to paint next. One of Bonnard’s most recognized paintings is Nude in the Tub. This scene includes Marthe getting ready to take a bath. One can tell that her face is a little blurred. Actually in most of Bonnard’s paintings of his wife, he blurs out her face. One critic described Bonnard’s repetitive use of Marthe in his work as: “the promise and the memory of the delights of handling her flesh, or bringing his body into contact with her body. He conveys that it is too precious, too fragile for him to dare to take hold of it: he holds back, leaving the flesh to be caressed by the light that plays over it, invades it, infuses and floods the surrounding space.”
In addition, Bonnard’s work was compared the work of Joan Mitchell. Kimmelman described them as “being in their own little world, where they were both inspired by ecstatic flights.” In one of Mitchell’s paintings, After April, Bernie, Kimmelman comments that they are abstract Bonnards. Both of their pictures provide a silence and warmth to them.
The question that is still yet to be answered is: Was Bonnard suffocated by marriage? There is one self portrait of Bonnard that could possibly express how he felt during his marriage with Marthe. It shows him as a skinny shadowboxer, fighting off demons. Besides this self portrait, Bonnard also put himself in some of his paintings. For example in one that he painted of Marthe looking at a tea cup in the kitchen, you also see Bonnard behind her. He his watching the viewer, who is watching Marthe, who is watching the cup. Or in other works, he will put an image of his thumb or finger to show his presence in the room. Overall, Bonnard explored his world everyday, and as he did so, it became more and more fantastical.
Monday, October 5, 2009
Project #2: The Range Project Proposal
My approach to this project is to revolve the theme around a building. I would like to use this art work in my Architecture Portfolio, so relating it to a significant piece of architecture seems like a good idea. I am really interested in the stained-glass at the Norte Dame Cathedral in Chartes, France. I like the geometry of the shapes and the colors used. For the project, I would like to draw four images of the stained-glass. The first in graphite, the second in charcoal, the third in pastel, and the fourth in water colors. My intention is for the viewer to focus more on the shapes and the colors used on this stained-glass, rather than the intricate details that are within the outlines.
Various Modern Artists who make stained-glass: Joseph Dwight, Scotty Griffin, and Andrea Kelter. (http://www.aisg.on.ca/index.shtml)
My approach to this project is to revolve the theme around a building. I would like to use this art work in my Architecture Portfolio, so relating it to a significant piece of architecture seems like a good idea. I am really interested in the stained-glass at the Norte Dame Cathedral in Chartes, France. I like the geometry of the shapes and the colors used. For the project, I would like to draw four images of the stained-glass. The first in graphite, the second in charcoal, the third in pastel, and the fourth in water colors. My intention is for the viewer to focus more on the shapes and the colors used on this stained-glass, rather than the intricate details that are within the outlines.
Various Modern Artists who make stained-glass: Joseph Dwight, Scotty Griffin, and Andrea Kelter. (http://www.aisg.on.ca/index.shtml)
Notes on The Accidental Masterpiece
Chapter 1 The Art of Making A World
- Picasso wasn’t a big fan of Bonnards work, “He is not really a modern Painter.”
- Bonnard was thought to be too soft. His paintings are tender and require patience.
- His paintings made most of a relationship that to outsiders seemed tragic.
- Painted wife, Maria Bourism (Marthe) nearly 400 times.
- Compared Mitchell and Bonnards work as similar.
- Bonnard explored his world everyday, and as he did so, it became more and more fantastical.
- Painted big bowls of fruit sitting on a table with a window open.
Other Artists Mentioned in
- Paul Gauguin- was a leading Post-Impressionist Painter. He was also an influential exponent of wood engraving and woodcuts as art forms
- Joan Mitchell-was a ‘Second Generation’ Abstract Expressionist Painter. She was one of her era's few female painters to gain critical and public acclaim.
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