Reviewing Peer Responses to Artwork

1.         http://meghankelley.blogspot.com/

http://julielaforest.blogspot.com/

2. I did agree with the elements and principles listed for the images and yes to the next question as well in that I did see other elements and principles in the images. Meghan Kelley realized that and used the same image for multiple elements and principles and for Julie Laforest, she had pictures that represent multiple elements and principles such as her unity picture represents more than just unity.

3. There were no images in my peer’s blogs that were the same as mine while only one person went to the same gallery as I did. I found that their decisions in the art works that they choose were well founded based on their reasons for choosing them that they answered in the questions.

4. There were two images that caught my eye and they were by Gustave Courbet in Julie’s blog and Lee Bontecou in Meghan’s blog. My connection to both of them actually in the way they both convey depth and substance using their respective medias. I want to know, for both of them, why they were created and then for Lee Bontecou’s work I want to know why it is untitled because it feels almost incomplete to me without one

5. I thought this was a decent process while I do believe people should review their peers work, I believe that there should be less formal constraints on it and more of a free way to review and post about it. I found this to be valuable to my learning experience because it gives you a better whole understanding and it opens your mind to alternatives that you may never have considered.

6. I found the comments helpful because they helped me to see what people thought of my work. The person who did comment on my work was very positive about it and seemed to achieve a deeper understanding by reviewing someone else’s work.

Video Review

Blog video review

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Through the Eyes of a Sculptor

·        I learned about the progress a work for stone carving takes from being development of the idea to the delivery of the statue to the owner

·        There are teams of artisans with each doing a different important job to help the process move along such as enlarging the model and the refining and growing of the clay model. 

Glass and Ceramics

·        Learn about how glass is made and how it can be used to create sculptures

·        Learn about how exactly stain glass is made and fashioned together

·        Learn about some of the uses of ceramics such as medical uses

·        Learn about how glass can be used in many different ways for heating reflection and retention and how certain kinds of glass windows absorb sound vibrations

·       Learn how there is a kind of safety glass that when it breaks, it will not shatter

Installation art

·        I learned about what installation art is and how it is more of an interactive art because of its use of space and perception

·        I learned that installation art can be a long process for example, it took Mike nelson months to create it, months to find the materials and months to install it in a gallery

2.  The videos relate to the text because it gives you a deeper understanding of the text and helping you learn the material that much better.  The videos cover the parts of the material in the chapter and it is good supplementary material. How the sculptor works helps us to understand about the process of how sculptures are made and about the media the sculptor uses. We learn more about the media of Glass and Ceramics and how it is as much of an art for creating it as any other fine art.

3. I, personally, enjoyed the films and the added material they provided for the understanding of the material. I would say that they do add depth to the topics discussed in the videos. They give you a greater look at all different aspects of the topic and give you the ability to decide how you feel about the topics and their place in either the fine arts or crafts or both.

Responding To Artwork

 

 

In order from Left to right:

Ivan Albright; Follow Me; 1947 lithograph; 41.275 x 31.115 cm

Albert Bierstadt; The Marina Piccola, Capri; 1859 oil on canvas; 140.97 x 217.17 x 13.34 cm

Andō Hiroshige; Maisaka Station from the series: 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road; CA. 1835 multi-colored woodblock print; 26.03 x 38.1 cm

Batuz; No. 131; 1982 dyed pulp on board 391.16 x 177.8 cm

Charlotte Spaulding Albright; Untitled (Branches over Stream); CA. 1908 platinum print; 16.51 x 11.43 cm

Lorraine Archacki; Quake; 1981 oil pastel and ink on paper; 53.02 x 55.88 cm

A.  Follow Me by Ivan Albright made an impression on me because it resembled the style of drawing that I do. It is interesting how the lower half of him is made up of intricate intertwining lines to from almost a cover of sorts. IF you look closer though, you see there is more to the work such as a chest and a goblet with a bottle of wine in it. What truly stood out to me was the intricacy of the work itself. The Marina Piccola, Capri by Albert Bierstadt made an impression on me as well.  What made an impression on me with this work is not one thing, but the whole of the work. From the use of light, the landscape, the motion given to the seas and the wave it is breaking on the rock, the place itself which is Capri and the simple depiction of activity there.  The size of the work also impresses me because he was able to fill the entire canvas with supreme detail. 

B. One of the works that I felt a connection with was Maisaka Station from the series: 53 Stations of the Tokaido Road by Ando Hiroshige. I felt a connection with this work because I love this style of art work among other things. I love the feel of the natural theme of the work, the serenity represented in the colors of the water/bay and the mountain jutting from the water and the seamless relationship between them. This work evokes emotion from me that is pleasant and content and that is what drew me to this work. Another work that I felt a connection with is No. 131 by Batuz. I don’t know what intrigues me about this work but I am just drawn in by the depth of the color and then lost in its subtle changes from darkest to lightest, relatively speaking. Whenever I look at it I find myself directed to the center rift by the alternating color and then I follow the rift through the work and back up the colors. This piece does not have very many things to look at but it has great depth and it is calming to look at.

C. A work that I wish to know more about is Untitled (Branches over Stream) by Charlotte Spalding Albright. I want to know why she didn’t give her work a name, why she choose that spot in particular, what propelled her to create a print of that spot. All the questions I have for this work relate to where and why whether it was a question mentioned above or one of the many other questions I have. I also have the question of what a platinum print is, for I know what a print is and what platinum is but I cannot see a reason for specifically using platinum or why it was specifically mentioned. Another work I have questions about is Quake by Lorraine Archacki. I want to know what it was created about, was it an earthquake as its title could possibly represent? Could that be a building on the left in the corner or sorts? Are those cracks in the work representing a separating of an earthquake or just a representation of the motion of shaking? I have these questions and many more I wish answered for sure. I am always interested in the reasons behind why a work of art is created.