blog entry #1 the big three

Jackson Pallock

his life and his art were entwined in a very abstract way. His art expressed his untamed mannerisms, and yet they called him "the sign of progress" for modern art. He's art represented freedom, &self expression. he was the "giant of american art", but he was very insecure. he said "i don't paint nature i am nature." the free swirling lines he painted were, in my opinion, like his deepest inner most thoughts, his back thoughts were like the uncontrollable, unreachable art that he painted. "No.14 (grey)". they said he was a [wild painter because he painted on the floor, and a and a tough painter because he used cheap paint,but those paints gave him the affects he wanted]. he did is pieces in stages which is easy to see in his painting "No.9" you see layers of yellow, white, black, blue, red,and orange. he thought that if he had more success he would have more confidence which would lead to less depression and less drinking, none of this was true. i feel like in his state of depression and rage he was deeply misunderstood even by his own self, he didn't know what he wanted. he was so wrapped up in his physical image he had to obtain so he let is art work show the true him, the outraged unfathomable mindset he wanted to release, but he was so insecure so hung up on the words of others he couldn't allow himself to do that.

-nastashia archie

Museum vist and Art review assignment

I viewed the artist David Aylsworth with the title Murmuring Low (Remix) dated 2008. Mr. Aysworth used the materials of a canvas to bring his work to life with the size of 5/2 by 456, David Aylsworth's canvas are records of painterly activity. In this paining his shapes are defined only by slight shifts in white and the raised edges of brushed-on oil paint. Mr. Aylsworth also uses chromatic geometric forms that compete for dominance or interlocking planes. Mr. Aylsworth alsused vibrant colors of blue, green, yellow and pink to bring his piece out. While researching and looking at Mr. Aylsworth's works the meaning comes through his work as references to show tunes from broadway musicals specifically in the titles of his work. The artist uses alot of Linear Perspectives and to me his work is non-representational because it is just like the painting in our text book by the artist Beatriz Milhazes's "Carambola" on page 30

nastashia archie Art Museum project

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LSC –North Harris
Art Appreciation Spring 2012
Museum visit and Art review assignment

Instructions: Take as much time as you can to look around the museum until you find a
work of art that you are drawn to or are most interested in to write about. You can pick
absolutely any work of art in the museum.  It is extremely important that you complete
this writing in the museum, DO NOT rely on your memory! If you can, take a photo of
the art that you choose. In most cases they will let you shoot without a flash. Then post
the photo on the blog where you will also turn in the review. This post is due by Monday
2/20.


Basic info:
Artist’s Name (if available):  Domingo Garcia
Title: Adios Mahatma Gandhi
Date: 1988
Materials: oil on Masonite
Size:


Part 1:
Formal (Visual) Analysis –Describe the piece visually and be as descriptive and detailed
as possible. What are the size, colors, materials, or sounds?

- he outlines Gandhi's body with a black background, and shades his face in white and his sash in brown using oil paints



Part 2 :
Finding Meaning- Use titles, text, symbols, how the subject matter represented (abstract,
representational, nonrepresentational), role of the art, the cultural origin, or any other info
you can to try to find the meaning of the work.

-this abstract piece of Gandhi depicts him as being a great leader. his stern face and the glare in his eyes gives off the impression he is not one to be messed wit. his black background against is white tented face is used to bring out a dramatic, serious and dangerous warrior a leader like is coming out of the shadows after a great battle "the last man standing" he focuses on his gave because as you work your way down the picture his body becomes more and more abstract, basically saying his body isn't really important to the feel of the picture and that's not where your focus should be. Gandhi represents "Indian freedom".

As the moment i saw this painting, i was like, "This is the One!" The bright colors; red and and black caught my attention and as well as the expression of the painting. This painting;"The corn poppy" was made by Kees Van Dongen. Kees Van Dongen was a dutch painter. He style was based in fauvist portraits. This painting was made with oil on canvas and was made in 1919. This is definitely representational. Early in Van Dongen artistic years, he drew paintings of sailors and prostitutes. This to me seems like a prostitute leaving a hotel or something. Just loved her red hat, the dark black eyes and her white pale face. 

Lovely Lovely

The beauty in art is still important the reason why is Art is important because it displays the expressions of individuals and generations within society. Art brings beauty, asks questions and makes sometimes uncomfortable statements. Art is important because it belongs to all of us as an expression of our innate, human drive to find and make meaning.   Hirst strives to make the audience annoyed, horrified and angered whether its looking at a sawed-in-half calf or at an assistant-made spot painting. The power to make so many people so angry has to be an artistic victory on some level. No matter how fast and fickle the art world seems to be, Hirst seems to have the power to consistently monopolize art world discussion even if it is a negative one.

Museum Review

Pablo Picasso
Spanish 1881-1973
Two Women in Front of a Window
1927
Oil on canvas
38 1/2 x 51 1/2 inches (97.79 x130.81 cm)

The visit at the Museum of Fine Art
1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, Texas 77005

Q1:   The painting by Pablo Picasso had a super effect on me , the colors of his works had a vivid shades and the expression of the painting holds me as a slave to trying to figure out what else I can find out.  The painting is hold a conversion between two women: my thoughts are they seem to be in big verbal battle. 

The interesting thing about Picasso is that he changed styles all through his life.
Picasso explored many styles throughout his painting career. He was a child prodigy in art and his earliest works had a classical, academic style. He painted more realistically during his Blue and Rose periods- each of which was characterized by paintings with blue and rose-colored hues. Later, Picasso experimented with both analytical and synthetic cubism. In his cubist paintings he painted people and things as abstracted shapes-- circles, squares, and triangles. In addition to painting, Picasso experimented with other art forms like sculpture.
Besides Cubism, which he invented in cooperation with Georges Braque, he painted in different styles, all his own, not having any -ism names.
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Q2:    The painting is a abstration it attract a viewer to the women in the window.  It resembles real things in the real world, the more it is

Musuem vist and Art review assignment

The artist's name :Agnes C. Sims
Title of the piece:Petroglyph Painting
Date:1938
Materials used:Unstretched linen, Petroglyphs, RED, BROWN,YELLOW PAINTS
Size:22x14


Part 1: The piece was beautiful there was an aztec look on this painting, there was a great aray of colors ms. sims used browns, reds, and yellows in this painting.There were deers, and native americans, and tee-pees throughout the whole painting. Ms.Sims used linen that was unstretched so that she could get a look that she had come to love when she moved to Santa FE. She used a new techinique she developed using paints, petroglyphs, and different materials.



Part 2:This piece is Representational/ Abstract This piece is a conbination of both of these you can tell some of the figues and some are abstract. The cultral origin is from Mexico, and the Aztec Indiands

I found this piece at the Pearl Fincher Museum of Fine Arts Northwest by Barbara Bush library and it was a fassinating piece.

Sandra ThomaArt Appreciation 1301

Museum vist

Basic info:

Artist’s Name (if available): Domingo Garcia

Title: Adios Mahatma

Date:1988

Materials: Oil & Masonite

The drawing by Domingo Garcia stood out to me when I looked at because it was drawn after his passing.  Because of that the colors were black, red and shades of different other darker colors.  The pictured shows how he lived his live and his facial expression explains it all. I think this picture is nonrepresentational because it shows him how he dressed everyday but in this case the colors were darker then usually to represent his passing.

Art porject

                                Empress Eugenie

Artists: Franz Xavier Winterhalter
Title: Empress Eugenie Oil Canvas Painting
Date: 1854
Materials: Canvas Oil paint
Size: 400 x 600

I like the painting I thought it was very neat and I thought the empress was very pretty are the painting made her look that way. I read underneath the painting she was one of the most Beautiful woman to acceded on the French throne. It also said that she was one of the most fashionable in her time to. I think the painting reflect that a lot with the beautiful lace dress she has on. I also like the way she posed for the painting. I speaks beauty!!!!

Beauty in Art

        I have always believed that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  I hold the that the saying that one man's garbage is another man's treasure.  The artist that caught my eye the most would have to be Jules Olitski.  To have a respected painter of his time period to say that he is the greatest painter alive is a great feat.  His paintings are mostly abstract to me becuase I dont know the artist.  Eventhough i cant manke out alot of his paintings they still called out to me.  I googled his paintings and I didnt se alot of the ones in the video.  I guess they still havent gotten to be as popular as his older stuff.  I also liked his comment of "why should the old masters have all the fun", I get it.  Im gonna do me and forget anybody who doesnt like it.  Beauty has always been around us, it just takes a trained eye and mind to bring it forth to those that dont see it. 

Museum visit and review assignment

           My visit to The Fine Art Museum  on  February 16,2012
was a very breath taking experience , because I could recognize many
painting my telling my daughter if the paintings were Abstact ,Representational or Nonrepresentational

My Artist name is Origin Roman
Title Portrait Figure of a ruler.
Date C.A.D.200-225
Materials Bronze
size 82x49   3/4x171/2 inches
 
 The Portrait Fugure of a Ruler Is a statue that has been beheaded and his right leg has been cut off.
The statue has a left leg ,but no foot ,and his right leg has been amputated.up to his thigh.The statue has
been tortured . He also has a hole in the middle way of his back. I t appears to have been a hole from a gun.
The size is this statue portrait is larger than life size.The color is a bronze . It took iron to make this portrait.
The sunds of this portrait is very painful until he may have passed outor perhaps even died from these injuries .I  don't know why he is out his clothes.This portrait is totally representational because youcan tell
the statue is a man..The man is pointing at something with his right hand .he has his left hand resting on his hip.This portrait was from the early romans culture.

Museum Visit

LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY
American, 1848 - 1933
Manufactured by TIFFANY STUDIOS
New York, 1902 - 1932
A Wooded Landscape in Three Panels
c. 1905
Glass, copper-foil, and lead

86 1/2 x 131 9/16 x 1 3/4 inches

This spectacular window is a unified forest scene spanning three panels. Like a living landscape, during the course of a day the scene changes in appearance, responding to the light surrounding it.

A Wooded Landscape is far more complex than most stained-glass windows, which are pieced together in a process similar to solving a jigsaw puzzle. Instead, by layering different textures, thicknesses, and colors of glass on top of each other within the window—just as an artist might layer paint on a canvas—Louis Comfort Tiffany created subtle color combinations that change with variations in light. During his lifetime, it was said that Tiffany “painted” with glass.

I totally agree with this review from the museum.  As I was walking through the museum the only thing that really caught my eye was this art work.  Maybe it is because I have a fascination with stain glass windows and work.  I always wanted to live in a home with stain glass windows, it gives me the feel and illusion of church.  I saw plenty of other works, but I have to say that when I came to this one I really felt like it was the only one I would like to hang in my home.

The size of the piece was about six feet by ten, it looked like the material was wood, copper, and glass.  Do not ask me how they get those colors in there, all I can say is that they are quite beautiful.  I would like to say that piece is representational because when you look at the title and the picture you can make a sense of what it is.  I would like to include another description as well.

a Wooded Landscape is far more complex than most stained-glass windows, which are pieced together like jigsaw puzzles.  By layering multiple pieces of glass on top of each other, just as an artist might layer paint on a canvas, Louis Comfort Tiffany produced subtle color combinations within the window that change with variations in light  Like a living landscape during the course of a day, A Wooded Landscape changes in appearance, responding to the light surrounding it.  

I really enjoyed my trip to the museum and the art work that they had on display.

Museum Art Review

"Rue Ravignan"- Maximilien Luce

     On my trip through the museum, the painting that interested me the most was "Rue Ravignan, Paris" by Maximilien Luce. He made the painting in 1893 and he used oil paint on a canvas that was 21" across. He was known as a neo-impressionist artist and use the style of pointillism in most of his paintings, which was making a whole painting out of a series of dots. His painting stood out to me the most because neo-impressionists usually painted cheerful, urban scenarios, but this was not the case in his painting. He still chooses an urban setting and uses the pointillist style like his counter parts, but the difference is that he turns the elegant, beautiful street of Rue Ravignan and turns it into a dreadful place full loneliness and sorrow. Somehow he still manages to keep some of the vibrant colors that you would see in a normal painting of this type however. Under close observation, you see series of dark reds and blues that make up the silhouettes and also yellows and turquoises to make up the small lit up areas down the street. They seem to mark the different aspects of the painting because when looking at the painting a little farther away, all the colors blend together and show the distance of the buildings from each other and also the intensity of the lamps down the sidewalk. He also seems to use one implicit point of perspective for this painting, you may notice as you follow the rooftops and street lamps that they all meet up at the last street lamp on the street. Also at that point it seems that everything is being sucked in by the darkness and the lamps lights, the working class,  are struggling to keep the darkness, the aristocrats, from taking over this once joyful scene. The overall seen here is very abstract because many who have been on this street know that the seen he is depicting is not very accurate for this place. Many of them would describe the scene as beautiful and luxurious. During Luce's life, however, he was known as an anarchist and so the message I believe he is trying to show here is his hatred for the mix of beauty achieved by the wealthy aristocrats present on the street of Rue Ravignan and showing how it would be without order, just a sad, lonely place that no one would want to end up at. He had developed a great interest in the French working class men and women, sometimes depicted in his work, since he was young and would participate in anarchist groups. Therefore, this painting could be his way of striking back at the French upper class which usually roamed Rue Ravignan in Paris.

Shocking horror

This is a Self-Portrait with Death Playing the Fiddle by Bocklin I would have thought that background would have darker black but it more brown.  It looks like there is alight shining down on the skelton, it like to me he is painting himself or how he see himself the position of the hand they both seem to be holding the paint brush and the vilon kind in the same way.  On his jacket to the left there is this white line maybe he got some white paint on himself.  On the skeleton the is a hole in the skull make you think what happen was that person hit in the head.It almost if the skeleton is try to talk to him or whispering in his ear because the way the head is tilted.

Museum Homework

Jindrich Stysky; Untitled from Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream, 1933. Photomontage/Collage


There was something about this piece by Jindrich Stysky that interested me. It's very dark and twisted and upon researching more of Stysky, It draws a thin line between what would be considered porn and what others see as art. The photo tells a story of lovers. The woman, Emilie, dies and upon departing this earth, she appears in her ex lover's dream. This picture is very erotic, showcasing a penis as well as a woman's vagina but I see something deeper in this collage which was featured in the Erotic Review of the early 1930s. The first thing that caught my attention about the piece was the skeleton (before I even noticed the penis). To me it signifies death and then to see a semi-naked  woman laying next to the skeleton, it made me think of two lovers who had been murdered.  Once I read the actual caption about the photo, I started to think if the man died within his self after Emilie passed away (the skeletal remains wearing boots as representation of a dead man)  and he missed the passion and eroticism that the two once shared (that is why she appeared in his dream, scantily dressed).  I believe that in the dream, Emilie appeared how the man loved to see her the most. 

Museum Visit

Adios Mahatma

By Domingo Garcia

Oil on Masonite

Roughly 80 inches by 24 inches

This was the second piece to catch my eye but spoke more volumes since the guard didn't let me photograph this one. It depicts Gandhi overlooking a world surrounded in darkness as he maintains a brave stance. The colors are more vivid in the actual painting the red around his clothes are a deep dark red that swirls into the light blue and white swirls which give him a ghostly yet powerful essence. The sounds that come into mind is  moans of agony and screams for help in the background and a small voice crying for Gandhi.

This is representational, it attracts viewers with the negative space in the eyes and the line that brings your focal point from his red garment up to his face. This is Latin Art by an artist who paved the way for  Puerto Rico  artist.

(Side note anyone see the King Tut thing they have going on?)

Museum Visit

"The Yellow Scale," oil on canvas. Frantisek Kupka. 1907

On my visit to the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, one piece truly spoke to me; "The Yellow Scale" by Frantisek Kupka.

Pt.1: To describe the piece, it is of a stern looking man holding a cigarette. His eyes gaze towards the viewer as if we are interrupting his leisure time. The positions of his hands seem to affirm his agitation. The entire piece is composed of different tones of yellow, which includes reds and yellows. Although the piece is entirely composed of yellow, you are not lost in it. For instance, his face is accented with greens and reds which complements his yellow surroundings.

Pt.2: The piece is a representational work of art. The artists purpose was to attract the viewer to the piece with the yellows used. However, once the viewer has taken notice of the man and his serious face, the viewer feels the need to turn away from the piece.

Lovely lovely

Mother with children (La Promenade) by Renoir in the back to the right there are other people but the artist doesn't put the faces on all of them but as you come closer than you can start to see faces on the people.Then if you look to the left he has the trees and the blue sky coming behind them. To me its looks as though this might have been a Sunday afternoon and they were taking a walk.The artist really put emphasis on the mother blue coat, that really stands out in the picture.The twin on the left looks like she puzzled on her face and she is hold somthing to keep her hand warm, the other is holding on to her doll and her cheeks has arose color in them. I like the way his brush strokes on the girls coats trees and sky he put to me just enough color in the.  On the mother her collar and cuffs are really white. the girls and has brown eyes and mom has black.  If you really look the doll has stripes on her tight blue.  I really like this painting and to me it is very lovely.