Landscape: Museum Response- "Visionary Metropolis"

I'm reusing this photo from a previous topic because
I went to the Wolfsonian already. I'm all about recycling!
Thanks

This painting was definitely my favorite of the exhibition, as it is really haunting and I love the use of color. Honestly, it's quite hard for me to really seriously look at floor plan's, but the one's in this exhibit were pretty interesting. I do like the use of line thickness to communicate different things, for example it the line weight is thicker it usually mean's the wall is thicker. Things like this make me think about how I can incorporate that into my artwork.

The drawing's were also quite beautiful as well. I mean they made me hate myself, in a "you have to improve!" way, but honestly all the best art should. I find that, after going to all these museum's, i'm in the mindset of "It's seem's so easy for them". I think I need to get better at both analyzing work in a 'detached' way, and to have more confidence in my work. Overall, I liked the exhibition, it gave me a perspective on observational drawing/painting and portraying landscape's in my work.

Landscape: Museum Visit Response- History Miami Museum

So I went to "The discipline of Nature" exhibit, and I have a lot to say about it.

I have to be honest and say that I resonated with the drawing's the most during the exhibit. That is not to say that Parker's architecture was not amazing, I'll elaborate more later in this response, but the drawings he did are just really pleasing to look at. I read in of the the excerpt's about parker that he really connected with nature and tried to build around it. It's really clear, I think, to see Parker's intentions while looking at his drawings, and I really admire that.

Ok, now I have to talk about the scale models. I absolutely loved them, honestly I wouldn't care if there was no actual building that this is the model of, I'm happy with this just being a work of art by it's self. I think i'm in love with the whole aesthetic of this, the whole model being made of wood and the abundance of negative space. These scale models just look so delicate, like they might fall apart easily, but I think that's one of the reason's they work so well. Overall, I really liked the exhibit, even though the gallery itself seemed a tad bit unorganized.

Pattern and Ornament: Outside Visit- Exhibition at PAMM (Substitution for Rhinoceros Outside Visit)

  I wound first like to go off by saying that I absolutely loved the Routes of Influence exhibition, as well as the Basquiat exhibition. It sadden's me that I can only write about one of the exhibitions but, C'est la vie.

  The first thing I saw while walking into the Ornament and Empire exhibition was this huge 'Boat' looking sculpture. The sculpture was very curious because the closer you look, the more hidden easter egg's you find, and I most likely didn't find most of them myself! The most obvious thing that I saw, that related to this topic, was the patterns that trailed across both the the exterior and the interior. And then, If you look even closer you see the "cross-hatched"design that is subtly over the more obvious exterior pattern.

 


  The paintings were definitely my favorite part of the exhibition. The way pattern is portrayed I find really beautiful. The painting's stuck with me a lot more than the sculpture, probably because I am more connected to painting, but overall I just find them very compelling. For example, the painting to the right with the woman was very interesting. The fact the the woman is just a silhouette with this incredibly detailed head ornament was kind of ironic to me because usually the ornament is the thing that is blurred and pushed to the background.

Pattern and Ornament: Outside Visit- Wolfsonian

Today I want to the Wolfsonian museum! the artwork was really amazing, and am definitely ready to talk about it.

The artwork had me looking at it for quite a while. I just loved
the way it's presented! This work is the definition of defying the
'rules'. Usually the eye is drawn the lightest part of the piece, yet in this piece
you're eyes are drawn to the darkness. Of course this is because of the fire,
but the fact that the fire is in the middle of darkness it so you can't look away. Yes, very inspiring.

The Artwork was so beautiful! Walking through the exhibition, I was so enamored by the work (especially the paintings). Actually I might have paid more attention to the paintings, but the other work was very interesting as well!

I liked that the different rooms tackled different times end evolutions of art. Also the diversity of different mediums was fascinating. There was even stain glass work! I did find it funny that a few of the rooms were exhibiting household items. Maybe funny is the wrong word, but that aged items art exhibited in galleries seems really ironic. I wonder what the people who used these household items would think about that...

I think the last room with the landscapes was probably my favorite. It had so many amazing landscapes paintings. I personally have a hard time painting landscapes so I admire work like this. Anyway, the museum was amazing, and i'm glad I had the opportunity to go.

Creative Impulse: Outside Visit- ICA

Today I went to the ICA to examine the works of Susan Te Kahurangi King and Ida Applebroog.

Ida Applebroog

Image 1

Image 2

Ida Applebroog’s work was very interesting to see. Her work has a very childlike quality, yet they also have a sick and melancholic feel to them. While looking at her exhibit at the ICA, I noticed that her work seems very simple, but in actuality is very complex. Walking into the exhibit, the first thing I saw was a column of Zine’s(Image 2). If you read them chronologically, they tell a story through drawings. The interesting thing about the Zine’s is that they do not spoon feed you the story's; the story's can be interpreted differently by each person who read's them. This was also interesting because I felt the same way about Applebroog’s painting’s. 

Susan Te Kahurangi King

Image 3

I felt that Susan Te Kahurangi King’s work was similar to Ida applebroog’s. They both have that child like quality, but of course they are also very different. Almost every artwork, that was King’s work, was incredibly busy. There was a lot going on in each drawing, and I often found myself scavenger hunting with each piece(refer to image 3). Out of curiosity, once I got home, I did a little reading on King and found that she is mute and that her drawings are how she share’s her world with others. Even though I do not fully understand it, I definitely have a respect for her work.

WARP First Post

Labels Help You Organize

All blog posts must be labeled with two keywords, which blogger calls Labels. When faculty visits your blog for evaluation purposes, we will use the labels to quickly find your work. If you do not use the keywords properly, we will not be able to find your work. Proper set-up and maintenance of your blog falls under the Research and Participation part of your grade which counts for 30% of the overall semester grade. 

Topical Keywords

The first set of keywords correspond to the module we are working in. We will refer to these as topical keywords since they correspond to the topic we are exploring over the two-week periods. Your first group of posts will be labeled under Topic: Creative Impulse since this is the first topic (Topic #1). Here are the topical keywords you will use through out the semester:

Topic: Creative Impulse

Topic: Pattern and Ornament

Topic: Rhinoceros

Topic: Narrative

Topic: Landscape

Topic: Zine

Categorical Keywords

The second set of keywords will organize your posts according to kind. Here are the Keywords you will use for Labels:

Exercises - tag for posts documenting all assigned exercises. The first one will be the paper folding exercise from the first class. 

Readings - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to the assigned readings. The first ones will be for "The White Bird" and the Jerry Saltz article from Vulture.com. 

Small Works - tag for posts documenting all assigned small works. The first blog post labeled Small Works will contain images and accompanying descriptions of the three small works you complete for the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1). 

In-Depth Projects - tag for posts documenting all assigned In-Depth projects. The first blog post labeled In-Depth Projects will contain images (or video if appropriate) and accompanying descriptions of the more robust work you produce in response to the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1).

Outside Visits - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to all required visits outside of the classroom. These include visits we do together as a class [during class time] or individually outside of class time. 

Please be sure to use both a topical and categorical keyword when labeling your posts.