Reflection

I really enjoy this course. Definitely meet my expectation and more. At the beginning I think in less interaction with art for the reason of be online course, but no we have the experience to visit galleries and know a lot of different artist. Now I think art is everything that a person can create for demonstrate their filings. I the beginning I didn't have any particular artist in my preference but know I like Picasso and now I have more interest for know more about him. Taking a online course is the equivalent of more of the work that we have in a regular class. I definitely gin to take a online course again but having a balance with the traditional.

self-portrait

I select this particular work of arts because the two paintings represent real women. I feel the nature of the photo make an impression in me. The other don't have a real face is very interesting work ,I choose that one because is different  I use charcoal because that is the first thing that represent myself I always have a pencil on me. The first challenge for me was make the sketch, its hard when you want to said everything in just one portrait.  But I try to go very simple and just be myself. The portrait represent my self-showing how simple can I be. I use value for this portrait. Was real fun make this self –portrait. I think my final work reflect myself.

 

13 and 14 week video review

The video Displaying Modern Art: The Tate Approach, talk about the intellectual and aesthetic issues associated with the display of art, using rooms in the Tate Modern as case studies. The exhibition style Alfred Barr established during his transformation of MOMA in the 1930s, the video shows how Tate curators developed a new method utilizing theme-based museum sections. I like when they mention Critics that Tate Modern's thematic presentation of art requires that viewers have no knowledge of art. They believe art should be more than entertainment. That give me confident to create my project. In the video An Acquiring Mind: Philippe de Montebello and The Metropolitan they talk about the  tenure of Mr. de Montebello guided the acquisition of more than 84,000 works of art, demanded innovation in conservation techniques, and oversaw the doubling of the physical size of this world-renowned cultural institution.  In the video The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art they explain what is lowbrow. Its influences include comic books, B-movies, rock ’n’ roll, surfing, hot rods, and Cold War imagery. Art historians call it Pop Surrealism; practitioners call it Lowbrow. With dozens of artist and gallery curator interviews, along with hundreds of examples, this program chronicles Lowbrow’s evolution, its iconoclasm and often antagonistic relation to Abstract Expressionism, as well as the rise of female artists to its forefront. This videos help me to create my plan for get start in my project. They guide me to understand the purpose of the project. 

Module Twelve - Blog: Video Review

I choose this two video because both are like a sequence of each other.  In the second video Uncertainty: Modernity and Art they mention the abstract art before the abstract expressionism. In the video Abstract Expressionism and Pop: Art of the '50s and '60s  they said “Abstract Expressionism was born from a joining of attitudes in American art and European avant-garde art, but was later rejected for its nonfigurative and seemingly egocentric character in favor of the ultra-objective phenomenon known as Pop Art”.  They talk about Abstract Art vs. Figurative Art and Color in Kline's Art.  Frankenthaler's "Mountains and Sea".  The Impact of Frankenthaler's Work was mention too in this video. They explain to the abstract expression of Rauschenberg vs Warhol and Lichtenstein’s Style and Themes.

 In the second video they show How Instead of offering an idealized or ennobled vision of humankind, modern art an instrument of the tumultuous 20th century communicates chaos, anxiety, and above all, uncertainty. In this program, Matthew Collings contrasts the works of Pablo Picasso with the abstracts of Paul Klee and Piet Mondrian and the architecture of Le Corbusier; tells how the Nazis tried to eradicate modern art’s uncertainties with some crushing certainties of their own; and shows how modern art’s relationship with modern life changed. In this video they explain the meaning of modern art and the different stages in the history. They mention the china and the isolations of art and globalization. They finishing mention the journey of the art to this days.

They are related to the reading in chapters 23 and 24 because in the book they start from the modern to postmodern and them present the modern art too. Both theme present in the videos. This video definitely help to understand better the history of art. In my opinion they are great videos.

Module Eleven - Blog: Video Review

I choose the video The Mystical North: Spanish Art from the 19th Century to the Present, because I speak Spanish and right know I’m enroll in Spanish classes related to this theme. This video are very helpful for me in both classes. Northern Spain has produced some of the world’s most celebrated artists, including Picasso, Miró, Dalí and Goya, who foreshadowed modern painting with his dark political consciousness. Goya is known as the father of modern art. In this video the talk about Antoni Gaudi is work was inspired by God's Natural World. Gaudi was the Inventor of the art of the future. Other artist present in this video was Picasso's brothel paintings are "soaked in memories of his Catholic past." Salvador Dali was a surrealist painter. Francisco Franco create a repression of artistic expression. Santiago Calatrava create a blend of Spain's past and future.

The second video The Impact of Cubism Influenced by the works of Cézanne, African tribal art, and the art of the Iberian Peninsula, Cubism the most influential style of the early 20th century offered European artists unfamiliar, nonclassical ways to represent form and space. The video study Juan Gris’ The Breakfast Table (1915), from the Centre Pompidou, Paris.  Marcel Duchamp’s Sad Young Man on a Train (1911), from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Robert Delaunay’s Champ de Mars (1911), from The Art Institute of Chicago, Sonia Delaunay’s Electric Prisms (1914), from the Centre Pompidou, Paris Kazimir Malevich’s An Englishman in Moscow (1913-14), from the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Umberto Boccioni’s Farewells (1911), from the Museum of Modern Art, New York. I choose this video because I found fascinating the cubism. With the video I have more opportunity of learn more about the cubism.

Both video as always are related to the readings. The videos explore more the themes present in the chapters. They help me to depth my understanding. I like the videos because the places presented transport me to the moment.

Mask Making

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I chose this mask because I like the colors of the mask and the (2) mask because said is one of the oldest one. Very basic but I appreciate a lot of happiness and history in that one.

 Mask 1 Artist: Azteca

Title of work: The mask of Xiuhtecuhtli

Date Cultura Mixteca-Azteca, 1400-1521 d. C.

Source of picture (URL),http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiuhtecuhtli#cite_note-Matos_Moctezuma_2002.2C_p.476-7

 

Mask 2

Artist  Neolithic Era 

Title of  Work The stone Mask

Media

Date the pre-ceramic neolithic period dates to 7000

Source of picture http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e_%22Bible_et_Terre_Sainte%22

 

Mask 3
Artist  South  America
Title of Work  Unknown
Date Unknown
Source of Picture http://masksoftheworld.com/rich-masquerade-in-the-andes/

In my mask I use the element of colors and shapes. When I create this mask I feel desire of create more mask Its amazing how many different mask we can create just changing colors and shapes. In my mask I like to show the elements of nature.

 

 

 

Module Ten - Blog: Video Review

 

I choose the video African art because I found the reading in the chapter 18 very interesting, and I feel desire to know more about that. In the video I learn about African Art, Cultural Meaning, and African Rock Art. Also how Egyptian and Saharan art and architecture show influences of agriculture. Traditions of African Ethnic and the Magic and Religion in African Art. I learn about the design of the African mask and the elements. The next video that I choose was the Buddhism, is a theme very popular and I feel it’s something good deep in the understanding of the Buddhism.  In this video the key concept learn was India Bodh Gaya and how the Buddhism was spread in the world. They show the Sanchi a center of Buddhist art and architecture. I learn more about the Borobudur Temple in Indonesia. Something amazing was the Chuang Yen Monastery in Carmel, New York, the Chuang Yen Monastery is a complex of buildings dedicated to Buddhism. The video was much related to the reading in the text. They show real images that transport me to that time. Definitely they deep my understanding in the African art and Buddhism.

module nine/art making

Use my hand for make a drawing was very interesting. I use pencil, because was most accessible to me in the moment. Creating a drawing with my non dominat hand was a little more easy that I thought.  I have to put more attention doing the lines. At the end they almost looks like the same.  Just with a little differently in some lines. I definitely consider using my non dominant hand to make a drawing in the future.

Module Nine - Blog: Video Reviews

 I choose the video Velázquez and  Leonardo da Vinci: The Mind of the Renaissance. The first one Velazquez was very related with the Spanish class civilization of Spain that I already take last semester. I remember his name that give me interest in watch the video and learn more about him. The second one about Leonardo Da Vinci I found the title very related to the chapter. In the video about Velazquez  I learn about how he chronicled the life and times of his friend King Philip the Fourth, who built the core of the Prado collection , with El Greco, Goya, and Picasso, comprises the quartet of the greatest painters of Spain. Velazquez is an idealist from a vantage point above reality. Paintings of the Villa Medici in Rome reveal a tactile reality and roots of Impressionism. Returning to Spain, Velazquez paints his finest works like "Las Meninas" and "Phillip IV." He was miraculous at painting the truth with his technical expertise. The second video about Leonardo Da Vinci I learn about all his life.  Painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and student of anatomy, physiology, botany, architecture, hydrodynamics, aeronautics, and other disciplines, he was the quintessential "Renaissance man."  Da Vinci become first painter, engineer, and architect to the King. Leonardo dies in 1519 at the age of sixty-seven. The videos was very related to the chapters the talk about the renascences. They definitely deep me in more understanding. In this occasion I understand better the concepts  of the video for the experience that I have reading the text and my course of Spanish.

Module Eight - Blog: Video Reviews

I like the video and how they explain what really mean the title More Human than Human. In this video I learn about the unrealistic human images. This video answer one of a question that I always have about the exaggeration in some arts. The professor studies the various Venus statues made by ancient humans was incredible how he compare and studies the brain of our ancestors.  The video was related to the chapters they explain about the exaggeration I read in the book but understand better with the video. I choose the video born of the middle age because I think is like the continuation after the Paleolithic and Neolithic.  The title suggest to me that idea. I learn in the video about the introduction to medieval Europe by showing surviving traces to provide a feel of medieval style and practice and by tracing the roots of the fall of civilization and the onset of darkness. Also the fall of Rome and the development of fortified monasteries and their gradual transformation into centers of prayer, work, and the study of ancient learning. With the acceptance of eastern peoples into the Church of Rome, Europe achieved its frontiers. This is relationated to the lectures they talk about the roots of that civilization.  The two video help me to understand better the importance of history and art.

Video Review module 7

I choose the video , Architecture: The Science of Design  and imperial Rome, Ostia, and Portus: Ancient Architecture and Technology . In the first video I learn about the importance of Skyscrapers, the intelligent home . Also I learn about concrete, a construction material that has become the symbol of modern architecture and is undergoing constant improvement. The second video is about  the technology behind the architecture that characterizes Imperial Rome and its transshipment centers, Ostia and Portus. Maps, city models, footage of historic sites.the construction of aqueducts, harbors, multistory tenement blocks known as insulae, the Servian and Aurelianic Walls, the Baths of Caracalla, the Pantheon and its puzzling portico, and other marvels. The use of brick-faced concrete is given special emphasis. In addition, the architectural record provides insights into life in ancient Rome and its environs. This video are related to the reading because they talk about the importance of the science in the architecture. For me videos help me in the understanding of the different aspect important and needed for the architecture. The part of the skyscrapers call my attention because before watching the video I don't any idea of the importance of the winds in architecture. I choose the video for the titles when I saw the word Rome I think in the beginning of the architecture and science make think in something modern. I think I choose a great and useful pair for my understanding of architecture.

Peers Reflection

I enjoy to receive great comments on my blog about my projects. Also I enjoy to appreciate my peers blogs. I feel this activity was helpful, we can read different points of view . I like this sharing activity.

module 6

 In the video Through the Eyes of the Sculptor I learn  about Emmanuel  Fillion he share how he start to work with art since he was a kid. He start to show his interest in stone carving and restoration at 15 years old. During the video we learn how a restoration is made. In the video the show a trip to  Tuscany to find the perfect marble block. Also in this trip other artist talk and talk also about Michangelo. Then he came back and start to work with clay to beginning the process to create the sculpture. The process was very complex but very interesting. The video was related to the readings in chapter 11 or 12 but in the video we visualize how hard is created a sculpture in the eyes of a sculptor. In the video they talk about the history how they doing centuries ago.
In the video Glass and ceramic they explain to us how the glass is made. They show two traditional glass making techniques: glass blowing and the art of stained glass windows. In the video the talk about the daily use and later transport us to the architecture with glass. For me was always surprising how the heat is necessary for work the glass. The video was great to complete more  our readings. We can visualize how art fine and craft are connected. Very clear for my understanding.

Art Gallery Visit

This visit was very interesting , I can not believe that I don't  visit the art Gallery before . I  Visit the art gallery with my family. My five- year-old also really enjoy the visit . Two of the works that most impressed me was the work (3) Bois Tiger de Fer,1964 by Jesus Rafael Soto and (5) Etude pour "Le Chahut ,1889 by Georges Seurat were not the most colorful or the biggest but I really caught my eye . The work of Jesus Rafael Soto impressed me very much to see the full impact of a wire can be achieved with imagination , it was like tridimensional , for me could be a long time watching the art and always found something new. The other art work by George Seurat  impressed me much as it was like being transported to work at a time in which the dance was magical . The two master pieces That I feel the connection was  (7)Abstract Art in five tones and complementaries 1943 by Joaquin Torres Garcia   and (6) Francis Picabia  Figure triste 1912. With Joaquin Torres Garcia work first thing that caught my attention were the words in my native language Spanish l , the work definitely is created to represent the Hispanic side was one of the first I saw when entering and one of my favorites. The other was that I felt connection Path Bordered by Grass, 1956 by Jean Dubufett that work  connect me to a warm place and made ​​me think in blossom, spring, warm . The two artwork I would like to investigate more of Anselm Kiefer 's (7,8) would inadvertently two works  of the same artist came into my favorites. When I get to the second floor and see that art was totally impressed the style of the art work made every person to stop and admire. Definitely I hope come back to the art galley and investigate more about her.

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Art Material Exploration #1: Exploring Value and The Subtractive Color Theory

Create the Value Color and Color Wheel was very interesting. Realize this work was a litter hard especially the wheel of color. I enjoy more the Value Color for me was something very relaxing. After do this value color I going to try to practice more with the graphite. I like the wheel of color but not too much. I have to mix more than one time to get the colors. I don't know if they give the incorrect magenta but was very hard get the red. In  the store they have a lot of different tones of color depending on the brand. I start to find the color of wheel more complicated from the first moment in the store. The most important discovery of this work is the lot of different colors and shades that can we have just with a pencil and three primary colors. We don't need to have 20 bottles of paint for have 20 different colors. Its easy if we buy the colors already mixed but its fun and interesting if we make them. Watching the video was very interesting, I found very curious the comment of the video when they said "Your art teacher lied about the primary colors". They really put me to think about that. The video of the Value Scale was great they help mea lot to complete the chart. Great activity to learn something of art.  

PhotoBucket Project

 I like too much this project. I always take photos but never realize about the elements and principles. Everybody have an artist inside, I notice that we always have elements and principles in our photos but never pay attention. After this project I'm always to reflect in the elements and principles used. We just need to be created. http://s738.photobucket.com/user/julissa731/library/?view=recent

Color Theory and Emotional Effects

The color is one of the visual elements that give much pleasure. Various studies suggested that color affects a wide range of psychological and even physiological response. Color is a function of light. without light there can be no color. The color properties are Hue, Value and Intensity. Hue is the name of color according to the categories of the color wheel. Value refers to relative lightness or darkness. Intensity refers to the purity of color. Light and pigment  depends on whether and artist is working, colors behave different. Colors harmony sometimes called a color or scheme , is the selective use of two or more color in a singe composition. Colors harmonies also apply to the pictorial arts, although they may be more difficult to spot because o difference in value and intensity. For me one of the most fascinate me is the optical effects of color. Colors can play tricks to our eyes. One of the effect are the simultaneous contrast. Some colors seem to advance other to recede. Color can be mixed in light or pigment, but the can also be mixed with the eyes.  When small patches of different color are close together, they may blend to produce a new color. For me this something fascinating how the psychological or the how the mixed in our eyes can make a new color.
 In the video color they said  Color is perhaps the most powerful artistic element, but it is also the most difficult to control.  That something that really impact me because Its the first time I think in the way. The artist was very carefully chosen the color for her painting. The color is one of most biggest challenge on her paint. In the video Feelings: emotion and Art  they talk about the idea of using art to explore the human condition rather than the divine was a significant departure from the predominantly religious artwork that preceded this secular revelation. In this video know more of Goya was very impact for me, last semester I take the course of civilization of Spain and they talk briefly from Goya I was very impress with his paint about death.  Now I understand how he try to show his feeling about the problems of his time. I enjoying how this course go together with other class.

Video Review

In the first video Philosophers theory on aesthetics, I learned about the history and different points of  view of Arts from the artist the ideas of key figures in the shaping and understanding of aesthetics, Plato, Francis Hutcheson, and Kant  to Leon Battista Alberti, Stendhal, and Tolstoy.  The second video Carta Neurobiology and art and aesthetics, I learn from the presentation how the brain play an important place on art. This video was very impressionist for me something I said art is a paint a photo something like that. But know I saw the people study the brain for connect with the art is a something different for me. I just beginning the class and start to understand better what is art. In the cnn article I read this at the end I found have some information relation with the second video.
I feel Plato 4th Century B.C. is most important because he was early in the history. Also I like this line "There is a beauty by which all things are beauty." He have the idea that everything have beauty just you have to founded, that's my personal opinion. He present symmetry in his art. For me was very impressive all of is work he can make perfect art using his brain nothing of technology in that era. About  Changeux was interesting how he study the brain, how he compare the symmetry with the bones of the head.  How he make the comparation symmetry vs. aesthetics. Ramachadran present the point of culture and humans. He talk about how the brain respond to art. In addition the most interesting for me from Ramachadran was when he talk about the eight laws of art. Wow! art have laws too. The article the videos and the readings are all connected. They present different point f view of Aesthetics and how brain, history and culture are all involved in art. The films and the articles help me to understand and get connected to the text. They have almost the same topics but have different point of views. But they demonstrate that art is history, cultural is neurological and very important  in our society.

Hi! I already have my gmail account. Start the blog was very easy. I hope to learn aspect of art useful in my future. Is my first time taking a 100% online, Its a little hard at the beginning but I hope to continue fallowing the instructions they are explain in a easy way.