Exhibition Night!!

The exhibition had a lot more guests than I thought it would! (I also thought I'd be one of the few who actually invited their parents...)

Sadly, I was an idiot and forgot my camera... But it was fun to show my parents what we've been doing all semester. They really seemed to enjoy the clay characters the best. ^_^

I think my baby nephew enjoyed the show, too, but not for the art... He got a kick out of flirting with all the ladies! :D

(BTW, the look on my dad's (who could usually be described as a proper gentleman...) face when he saw Brian's "washroom" video, and the "orgy under the blanket" video was HILARIOUS!! XD )

Stencil

Took me a lot of tries to come up with something that looked OK, so by the time I did, my stencil looked like CRAP!!! :^(

AND THEN PAINT FROM THE STENCIL GOT ONTO MY CARDBOARD. UGH.

Last Stabbinding book!!!

Color/Texture Accordian Book

Mark Making Device

My Hair!! :D No, actually not ":D" .... It was a pain to clean out of my hair, and I had to have a friend help me get all the braids out... :/ Oh, and never try the "windmill" with clothespins tied to the end of your hair. Just a heads-up.

BTW, Thanks Meredith; I stole the picture from you!

I'm not sure I actually liked how my marks came out, since they weren't anywhere near as bold as other people's.

Sontag Writing Assignment

purpose of photo: A picture of my friend as he helps me babysit my nephew. Kaden (nephew) really liked him, and they even had matching hair-dos! They were just too cute together. Meant as a cute picture to help me keep track of my nephew's growth, and to have something of my friend who is being deployed soon.
emotional connection: One of my closer friends, along with my nephew. Photo makes me smile every time I look at it.
context intent: Meant for me and my close relatives to view.

Purpose of photo: Show how much spray paint got on me during project.
Emotional Connection: Milah took the photo of me, so we were actually joking around although she says I "look creepy".
Context Intent: Meant to document work on the Inflatable project, or just to enjoy by friends.

Purpose of photo: Meant to be funny, and no other reason whatsoever.

Emotional Connection: No emotional connection, except for maybe to pity the rat?

Context Intent: Meant to be viewed by whoever finds this amusing, as often as they want. 

(2D) Representational Object Drawings

Gesture

Silhouette

High Contrast

Geometric

(3D) Clay Characters

I started off trying to make something completely different and complicated, but when I realized that there was really no way for me to make that idea work with what I had, I trashed it and grabbed the first thing I saw off my desk: a face mask, left over from when we spray painted the inflatable. So, taking a giant wad of newspaper, I made a short, fat creature with a giant mouth. The mask made me think of crazy doctors (especially with Ryan's Zomb-bear just across the table), so i gave him a mean expression and put the mask across his face to wear.

He's a red neck, don't make fun of him for only having one "tooth"!

Looks a bit more like a mad scientist now...

I had been hoping that people would realize that you could pull the mask away from his face to see that he was laughing at you.... But i guess most people didn't want to touch.
I wasn't sure how to fix that for the exhibition, until Ryan came along and suggested that the creature simply wear the mask as a hat. Thanks, Ryan! ^w^

As for his name.... The first thing that popped into my head: Mark the Mask.

"That's Pretty Good for a Girl"

Essential [ Identity ]

• personal
• body
• sexuality
• iconography
• affirm female attributes

Maternal/Techniques Unique to Women

Activist Performance
       Sisterhood

Distinguish Art of Men vs Women

12/3 Lecture (w00t last one)

=D Yay, last lecture. Now, if only it will start.... Oh, here we go. Wait, no, another movie... And this one has music! Yay... Oh, ok, his name is Jackson Pollock. Made them 60 years ago...

Jackson Pollock was the epitome of American modern art.  "Jack the Dripper"
JP : art :: B-12 : military    Abstract Expressionism    painting 1950 - 1980's

"Action Painting"

Pollock had HUGE paintings. He would lay the canvas on the floor and walk around then. He said that painting wasn't about thinking, it was about being.

Abstract Expressionism only took place in a very narrow window of time. Very dogmatic, debatable.


Cy Twombly (<--- ugh)
totally opposite of Jackson Pollock.

Bryce Martin (is that right...?)
Ultra-Minimalist. You can do anything in art. Did ultra-minimalist paintings in one part of career, and color abstract loopy things in another part.

...

Dude. Morris Lewis' veils of paint look awesome. He used acrylic paint, which was invented around this time... It wasn't believed to be good for painting.

The Painted Word

Author: Tom Wolfe
Satirist, makes fun of art world.

Pop Art
Andy Warhol
Marcel Duchamp