Reflection

If I could do one of the projects again it would be the collage, because I think I would do it better. Of all the artists we researched I think Sara Sze has the most interesting art, I did not do her for sculpture only because I could not find enough information about any of her works. Her work is very interesting because it is  so strange.

Sculpture

Title: Gridlock

Artist: Chakaia Booker

Country: USA

Time: 2008

My First Impressions: At a first look this apears to be a worm of some sort made of metal, but looking  for longer it could also be like the title suggests high traffic with every thing crammed in as close together as possible.

What I learned: After reading it does not say what it is but my second guess seems to be right, this is made of Tire and Metal, is one of 10 sculptures in an exhibit this exhibit is an entire city.

Works of Art I know

Title: Nude Descending a Staircase

By: Marcel Duchamp

Country: France

Time: 1912

My First Impressions: This looks like a painting of some sort of a robot walking down some invisible stairs. The figure seems metallic and lifeless. It looks like the golden figure is moving so fast that it is seen multiple times. The painting seems to be cubism.

What I have Learned: I have learned that Marcel made this painting from a picture of a naked woman descending a staircase. He made it with cubism, the title was so provacative that there were demands for him to either change the title or not submit it to a galery.

Portraits Blog

By: Vincent Van Gogh

Title: (Given title not sure about the actual one) Vincent Van Gogh's Self-Portrait

Country: Paris, France

My First Impressions: When I first looked at this I saw that he looks almost sad and happy, he also has a very perplexing look in his eyes something that I can't quite identify as anger or fear or happiness or anything. He seems almost confused, also I see that he is painted in thick brush strokes and light dainty ones but big thick heavy strokes stand out the most. The look in his eyes and face is something that is made partly with the colors and also with the shadowing. The shadowing makes it hard to see exactly what his face is doing because the shadows say on thing and the image itself say another.

What I learned: I learned that Van Gogh painted somewhere around 30 self portraits in a short span and that of them all this one has a unique color palette containing the entire scheme while others were mostly light and hot colors. 

Works of Art I know

By: Pablo Picasso

Title: Woman with Crossed Arms

Country: Spain

My First Impressions: When I first saw this painting by Picasso I thought that the woman looks very sad and this is made more evident because the blue is a very sad color. The woman also looks cold another effect of the blue. She seems very still more so than in other paintings because she has no motion and nothing looks like it has moved. 

What I Learned: I have learned that this painting was one done in Picasso's blue period a time when he was probably very depressed because a friend of his had committed suicide. 

I see the light drawing

3. The story I'm trying to tell in my collage is one night when there was a meteor shower.

4. I used value in my drawing to show the tint and shading of night.

5. The most challenging aspect of this drawing was the people they are still not quite right.

6. The most successful aspect of this drawing is the meteors I think they come across well.

Story Collage

3. The story I'm trying to tell in my collage is the first time I went Scuba diving

4. The most challenging aspect of making this collage was the people figuring them out was the hardest but then they were easy.

5. The most successful aspect of this collage was the turtle.