Rhinoceros: In-Depth Project

Rhinoceros- Small works

Rhinoceros- Small works

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.

Response: The Rhinoceros

  I think it is easy to forget that people did not always have access to things like the internet, or anything visual for that matter. In 'The Rhinoceros" text, it's quite easy to understand that the people of this time had this non-visual handicap. Honestly, this text was very difficult for me to read, because of all the imagery. I actually have a comparison, this text distantly reminds me of Edgar Allen poe's writing, although "the Rhinoceros" takes this to a whole new level. Poe's work and "the Rhinoceros both go into extremely vivid detail in wanting to totally immerse the reader and, in this case, describe something for you to get a clear picture in you're head.
  This text was easy to understand once I was able to put myself into 1515. I just had to push out my prior knowledge. If I didn't know what a Rhinoceros looked like, I would picture it differentially if I was just going off the text. I picture i've a lot bigger, and a lot more dangerous looking. This reading definitally gave me a more objectifing view of this topic and how to approch it

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.