Art Gallery Visit #1

A.) Which artworks make an impact or impression on me? Why?
There were many artworks that made a large impact on me.  Outside the art gallery when entering there was a gentleman named Art Hilger that was working on wood sculptures. They were fascinating!  He had numerous sculptures on display to be purchased.  He used a special chainsaw to create different wooden sculptures as requested by the customer.  He wasn’t available for many questions, but I did find this information from asking around to the other personnel inside the gallery.

Another artwork that made an impression on me was the artist Marge Hilter.  There was a small room in which she had displayed all of her paintings and she had used photographer skills to capture such beautiful images.  One image that stood out was photo that had three ducks in them.  The picture captured the smallest details of the animal- down a small hair on its nose.

Another one of Marge images that captured my attention was an image that had a small lake and captured a beautiful rainbow.  You could see every string of grass and the reflection of the rainbow off of the lake. 

B.) Which artworks do I feel a connection with? Why?
I felt that I made impeccable connection with a painting that won an honorable mention in the gallery’s contest named “Trees” which is an acrylic painting by Lisa Schreiner.  I felt like I was right there with her when she captured this special moment-and I could actually imagine it.  There were two other paintings that I had felt a connection with “Emerging Light” by Frank Russo, and “Diner Stool” by John Gerovac.  Both of these artists actually worked as a team to capture these special moments when they started working together three years ago.  I felt a connection with these images because I loved the concept how the artists worked together.  My finance and friends have similar hobbies that we do as a group instead of alone.  The images they captured where purely blissful.  The rainbow reminded me of how when I was a child and my great Italian full blood German grandmother had me believed there was gold at the bottom and would collect photos of rainbows.  The diner stool reminded me of an old fashioned restaurant my father took us too as kids- that we adored.
C.) Which artworks would I like to know more about? Why?
There was such a large selection of different illustrations, sculptures, and paintings on multiple levels of the art gallery.  I visited specifically on an evening that were new exhibitions being shown.  Clayton Rickard revealed his newest painting called “Trickle.”  The artist wasn’t as informative as I would have liked him to be when discussing his meaning behind this painting.  He incorporated a mixture of beautiful colors in what seems to be a view of a mountain and large water fall.  I wanted to know his inspiration behind this painting was.

The next painting I would like to know a bit more information about was Brenda Cretney’s watercolor painting “Cowboy’s.  There was an information description on how the painting was created with the water colors but not a meaning behind it.  Is there somewhere that she used to go when she was a child?  Are those men related to her?  I’d love to know!  The painting was also quite famous at the gallery, it wont 3^rd place in a viewers choice contest.
Another painting that I would like to know more information about is “Blue Moon #6” by Andy Russell.  This painting to say the least was surreal.  He used acrylic painting to use the glazing technique to achieve luminosity.  He had study abroad and incorporated his dream into his painting.  My question is when he is dreaming and creating these illustrations are there specifics places he visit within these dreams?  Many of the illustrations incorporate a fantasy feel, I would like to know if this is the only paintings he creates or does he have other concepts.

I attached a slideshow with as many pictures as I could obtain.  Many of the different parts of the gallery you were unable to take pictures, and I could only obtaining so many offline due to copyright.  I hope you enjoy them!

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Slideshow Blog

Attached is my slide show for this weeks photo bucket project.  I actually enjoyed taking pictures of the different elements required and incorporating them into the project. Also, in creating the slideshow I was creating a better understanding of all of the elements. I had over analyzed the pictures itself at first so I did get off to a rocky start- but this I can admit is one of my favorite projects so far I've done on my fourth year of college.

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Unfortunately I was unable to combine my albums.  The only problem that I did have with the project is being able to navigate efficiently on the photo bucket website.

Post Four

1. Discuss what you thought about creating the Value Scale and Color Wheel.
I thought creating the value scale was quite difficult compared to creating the color wheel.  I found it quite difficult to make the shadings gradually fade perfectly.  Creating the color wheel was actually fun, I was able to learn about about the different colors.

2. Which media did you enjoy working with the best and why?
As mentioned in question number one, the I enjoyed creating the color wheel the best.  It wasn't as complex, and you were able to mix your own colors and also create them by mixing different colors.

3. What was the most important discovery in the creation of these studies?
The most important discovery I had found in created these studies was in the color wheel, I was fascinated by how I could create a new color by just mixing two colors or even three.  Each of the different combinations I tried with just a change of one color, created a new color.

4. What is the most important information you learned from watching the videos for this project? What is your opinion of the videos?

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Re: Third Post on Color

1. Describe Color and it's effects on emotions. Use the appropriate vocabulary of color in your posting.

Color is an element that can make or break a painting with the emotion it possesses.  After reading the text, and watching both videos I learned that color can simply do a lot more than just emit, transmit or reflect light.  It shows pure emotion which is beautiful. 

2.What is a theoretical aspect of color that most intrigues/fascinates you? Why?

The theoretical aspect of color that intrigues me the most is the emotion that color can inflict on an individual.  It can bring a artists audience to tears or have them express saw raw emotion which was shown in June's oil painting in which she is reflecting on a trip to Venice.  To still being quite foreign to the subject of art- it is so incredible that someone can be affected by the color of paint in a painting that a artist uses in a negative or positive way.

3. In the Color video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?

The artist Rothko actually made the biggest impact on me in regards to color.  The artists goal was to provoke an emotional response- and that it surely did.  With this specific artist his paintings reflected a specific emotion and also what his meaning was behind the painting I found to be quite interesting to say the least.  He used such distinct bold colors to reflect his emotion.  

4. In the Feelings video, what made the biggest impact on you in regards to color and it's effects on emotions?

What had made the biggest impact on me while watching the feelings video- is not specifically what the was said during the pieces but how the different artists used colors to express their emotions.  The artists that made the biggest impact to me was Goya.  Some of his objects to me almost seemed hellish like.  It was quite fascinating how he used color to express his emotions and feelings during the stages of his life.

Re: Second Post

       In a way I do not know where to start with this second blog after watching both videos.  I have obtained a lot of interesting qualifying information from watching Aesthetics Philosophy of the Arts and also Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetics.  Below I will mention what I found to be interesting and entertaining about the topics. 

      What seemed to be a continuing trend between both the videos was an explanation of what art means to each of speakers and also various artists.  In the video Aesthetics’ Philosophy of the Arts gave an elaborative explanation of different artists points of views in pertaining to aesthetics.  The artists ranged from Kant whom is from the 18th century era to 20th century Tolstoy.  Both Danto and Nemaha give detailed descriptions of these different ideas that each of the artists represents which are actually really informative.

       The second video Neurobiology Neurology and Art and Aesthetics actually kept my interest more than the other.  Ramachandran made the concepts interesting despite his strong accent.  He had explained the different laws of aesthesis, which included grouping or binding, peek shift, and also symmetry.   The most interest fact/opinion that I had learned from both of these videos is that Rama believes that each person processes images differently and some images stimulate a person’s brain and some do not in way.  He described it as the artists basically try to distort they paintings to make them seem more beautiful to the brain.  Changeux also had shared a similar opinion to Rama in regards to art.  He believed that esthetic is defined by emotion and reason.  Infuriately I did find it quite difficult to understand Changeux due to his accent.

       These videos relate to the information we have covered thus far because it all correlates to art.  Each speaker had a similar but also different opinion on the topics and it was great to see how each speaker thinks and distinguishes art.