For this project I used the same idea of quaking from my own pictures, drawing my friend Maggie. I decided on a portrait because I hardly ever actually do images of people faces, so I wanted to round out my portfolio. I originally had oil paints in mind for this portrait, but then decided that pastels would be easier to layer and work with. I am very happy with the face and hair, however the clothing still needs some work!
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On Saturday, October 8th, I visited the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to see the exhibition of The French Horse from Géricault to Picasso. The emblem of the horse is a very important aspect of French history, particularly in the 19th century period. In this exhibit the motif of the french horse is shown in a huge variety of media, style, and context. Some artists include Pablo Picasso, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Antoine-Louis Barye, Edgar Degas, and Théodore Géricault. One of the most notable was Pablo Picasso’s piece depicting the basic image of a horse, highly abstracted into basic form, consisting mostly of line quality and implied motion. While I appreciate the this work on an artistic level, it is easier for me to appreciate the hyper realistic paintings (often oil) showing horses looking completely real. The level of skill and talent this must take absolutely blows my mind.
Art censorship can be interpreted so differently among cultures, backgrounds, and environments. In this connection assignment I read two articles describing the censorship of art that in both New York and in Russia. One article, The Art of Controversy, details the events of the “Sensation” art exhibit in New York that received great amounts of criticism and hate due to its highly controversial content. Pieces such as a 9 pint blood sculpture, a cut open pig, and a abstraction of the Virgin Mary mixed with dung and pornographic images. The reception of these pieces resulted in mass retaliating by christians and parents, claiming these things should not be displayed in a public place or funded by public government money. This entire document raises all of the questions of how in depth the government can use public discretion, as well as the almost impossible question of what to do with public funding.
The second article showed a comparison between American and Russia by in depth describing how the Russian government began to heavily censor art that challenges religious ideals of a group. This includes jailing artists who break laws against religious hate in place since 1996. This provides perspective as to what Americans call censorship. When art exhibits are condemned or threatened to be condemned, artists in Russia can actually be tried against the law and banned from art or imprisoned for their work. This boils down mostly to the American debate of hate and distaste in competition with the first amendment of the Constitution securing freedom of expression. Many of these questions are a continuous hot topic, as the answers as very muddled and unclear. Whatever the actual answer, artists should have the freedom of expressing the images they feel is under their own freedom. If that means that there must be more precautions in how art is displayed and who is viewing it, it is worth guaranteeing artists their ability to create what they feel fits their message and content. Art is also one way to push the limits of society, and without this healthy pushing society could come to a cultural still-water. Over the summer i completed two water color and pen pieces, both experimenting in styles of painting and drawing I had never really explored before. Overall I am happy with the experience that working in this new way gave me, and I hope to maybe reincorporate in my future works.
This year of art has been full of crazy fast learning. The huge variety in media and topics that we touched on in class was so cool and I learned about kinds of art I had never really focused on before. Before this year I had never worked with oil paint, so being able to actually paint with it was an awesome learning process. I also learned the importance of mark in a piece and its continuity. I saw the most development in my art process with the field of sculpture. Going into this year I saw sculpture as something that my teacher would make me do and I would just try to get through it without actually enjoying or exploring it. Sculpture ended up being perhaps my most successful area this year. My very favorite piece that I made (maybe ever) is the dress of mature and trash, I could not be more proud of the result of all the time i spent on it. On thing I feel I can still learn much about is composition. My compositions are always okay, but never any better than that. Learning how to arrange and crop is ver important and I need to work on that in the future. Because I have been able to explore so many different things this year, I feel like I have a better and more knowledgeable background to further my art adventures. I now know for sure where I want to pursue art, using the realism and figure skills learned with contrasting patterns and painting from other lessons. I had so much fun this year and I can't wait to continue!
From September 2015 to June 2016, there is a clear difference between mark, proportion, and composition in my figure drawing pieces.
Sunday April 3rd I visited the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts to see one of its special exhibits, LIGHT AND LINE: E. S. Lumsden’s Visions of India. This exhibit showed beautiful pieces created with black ink etchings on laid paper. These images often depicted landscapes of southern Asia, mostly India. Seeing these pictures was so amazing because I just fell in love with their simplicity and detail all at the same time. It was also just perfect that we are just now entering the Indian section of our global and artistic studies.
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