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Art Activity Two- Artist Talk

Bonnie Rychlak is an independent curator, art consultant, lecturer and visual artist. Her presentation was mainly focused on the most famous sculptures she had made in the past few years. Most of her sculptures were made with wax. She was especially interested in Water and the art idea related to it. Besides, she preferred green and blue when she pick wax color. When I first looked at it. I almost thought those sculpture was made by jade.

She started her presentation with series of Down the Drain. Because this is the project barely got people’s attention after Sandy. These works represented the art in everyday life and brought people’s attention on our everyday issue.

However, my favorite series is “pools”. With in this project she shaped lots of different pools and set them on a mirror. I believe that those mirrors could help her to accomplish the idea of “water”.

My favorite one was the waterwork 5  in 2001. The aluminum stick was simple and vivid. semitransparent color gradation of Cast resin worked perfect with mirror. Both Cast resin and terry cloth could remind me the swimming experiences. And I enjoyed a lot.

The last part of her presentation focused on photo narratives behind glasses. 

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The type of the glass reminded me of the rain. No matter what kind of material or thesis she picked for typical projects, I could all get the main purpose of those works. She has always been so fascinated with the idea of “water”. I think to have an unchangeable idea with the entire project could help people understand her work better.

Art Activity One- Light scape review

Today I saw two light scape project in front of Monty. One is “You and Me” made by India Duncan the other one is a Yoga project by Jerome Eckert-Nathan.

India’s project mixed the idea of hand draw “paper-cut silhouette” and real African landscape. In both parts, there were two main characters in the scene and claps hand with each other. It is a common sense that claps hands represents the idea of friendship. Shows with the song, I could get a fresh feeling of the entire project.

Comparing with the idea of pure and fresh in India’s project. The breath sound in yoga project provides a more excited and intense feeling. Jerome Eckert-Nathan made a connection between different people doing same pose. It reminds me the Black or White MV by Michael. Changing faces or people images could always provide a fancy feeling for me. Jerome Eckert-Nathan mixed the real image and cartoon portrait, which even made it more like a thriller to me. Multiple cells showed the same image could give a grand impression and increasing cells and regular action all tells a military tone.

This two project expressed the opposite feeling. Thus, it is complementary to show in the same place. 

LOGO PRACTICE

original logo

my version

Mel Marcelo (Artist Post 3)

He is a young vector artist from San Diego. He was especially good at illustration work. Unlike most the previous artist I posted on blog, he is too young to mentioned in wikipedia or other official encyclopedia. Thus, his personal information is limited online. But since I'm so fascinated with his work I would still introduce his work for my artist post.
Here is some of my favorite work of Mel Marcelo.

His work is really detail on the muscles. Besides, He was really good at using bright colors and high contrast. I found that Japanese carton have some influence on his work as well.

you can found more information and his artwork in flickr.com

Music Impression

Self-Potraits

people can always show their style with their work. As for my self-potrait, I think different picture I took could tell something about my interests at the time.

Tony Robbin (Artist Post 2)

Tony Robbin 

 

Tony Robbin is an American artist who born in 1943. He participated in painting, sculpture and conupter visualizations including 2D and 3D. Tony also found the 4D computer visualization in 1981. He explain 4D as "Many spaces in the same place at the same time" The experience of sculpture work heavily influences the 4D elements in his digital artwork.

The work I choose above is the most organized piece in the reading. Most of the works in the reading focus on only the combination of different colors or the organization of the structure. However, Tony’s work focused on both.

This work is was not an "original" piece of work. This work was down by Adobe Illustrator. He did not create all the elements in this work. This piece collects and combines all the best elements of his earlier print work. One of the most important jobs of digital art was to re-create and re-analyzed existed art.  This is also the biggest difference between digital art and traditional art. For a painting or drawing. Being original means to create every part of work himself. However, in the case of digital art, people can choose existed art elements and create another work, which still remains to be “original”.

PS practice

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adjustment assignments

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after

I used Brightness& Contrast to lighted up. Then I used the curve to make it looks more nature.

I tried Hue Saturation and shadows, but it does not do to much for my image. 

Lillian F. Schwartz

Although I noticed that there was classmates already wrote about LillianF. Schwartz, but I felt like her work does catch my attention the most. She was born in 1927 in America. During the World War II, she was training in anatomy and biology. Both of this education background would be find in her most famous work Mona/Leo(1987).

http://lillian.com/

 

Comparing to other people who believing that the Mona Lisa is a self-portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci, Schwartz showed this idea using her anatomy and biology knowledge. Although she made none of this two work, the idea of combination proved her imagination. Besides, I believe this work showed the private idea of “Photoshop”. PS was not developed until 1988. Lillian Schwartz first noticed that the play with the existing artwork with computer could also create a new one.

Today, people would universally recognize her as a pioneer of computer-mediated art. But the most important lesson I learned from her experience and this work is that any education background which seems not directly connected to the art could left a interesting mark in artists’ work.