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Crayon Fire Sculptures by Herb Williams
Herb created sculptures made with Crayola crayons that look
like wild fires. His work was made to bring awareness to the city about wild
fires and was places in their town where a fire took place. Over time the
crayons used in the sculptures will melt and be transformed into a colorful mess.
Relates to this class because it is someone making art to bring awareness and
is using a different technique than what is familiar. This teaches you about
design and creativity and the power of transformation.
10/19/11
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Surreal by Tiago Hoisel
This is an image that looks like President Washington
leading strange creatures on land attached with a ball and chain. One is an old
patriotic Pinocchio with a cash drawer, followed by a pig with a safe on its
back, next a camel with what seems to be some type of mill, and lastly former
presidents with a factory inside them making smog clouds. Other things like Osama Bin Laden, a
little green mad, a Buddhist figure, a dragon, and stock Market symbols are in
the picture as well.
This is relative to the work we made in photoshop for our
own Surreal image. It shows us that even though it may not all make sense when
picked apart, each item is important for so that the work conveys a true
meaning and point.
9/7/11
Gonorrhea Guru and The Third World Struggle by Umman
Turkoglu
This seems to be a collage of images to represent the danger
of STD’s and how they can be spread so easily because there is little treatment
for diseases in third world countries. It combines photographs, magazine
clippings, as well as hand drawn and painted methods.
One of our first projects was to create a montage, and
inspiration for that work came also from collages, here all the different types
of mixed media used is appropriate to show this works message.
9/8/11
Map Collages by Matthew Cusik
Here the artist has taken old maps, of various colors and
shades and used them to create extremely detailed images of people. Each part
of their face is cut out precisely so the coloring of their face comes together
realistically.
This relates to again to another form of collages and
montages by taking apart one thing and using it to create something completely
different from it.
9/17/11
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no artist or title, caption is: The sun crashed
down to the ground… Bondi is getting hot.
This work seems to be made on photoshop. The
background of the setting sun and ocean is real, while the surrounding cars,
town and people are drawn. Together they are combined to create the powerful
image of the bright sun as a man is watching it, and covering his eyes from the
glare.
In class we were able to scan images we drew ourselves, and in this case it
looks like this is what this artist did.
9/28/11
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no artist/title/caption
This is an image that has been morphed with photoshop. It
included flowers in a field, with some type of distorted rainbow water. It
looks very eccentric and the colors of each layer mesh well together to create
a wholesome art piece.
In class we learned how to layer different pieces on top of
one another so that both images can be seen transparently. It gives the allusion
that the flowers are growing inside this bubble pool filled with swirled
colors.
12/1/11
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caption “Heaven and Hell”
This a picture of a door with a glass cut out, portraying a
blue heavenly serene place. It seems that the sun is shining through it, so
that the glass reflects the sun’s bright orange glow on the door adjacent to
the original, creating a red firey reflection that looks like the door to hell.
Using Photoshop the artist may have made the colors brighter by saturating them,
and contrasting the other shadows so that the main focus is on the door and its
firey reflection.
10/3/11
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Composite Photograph Made from 500 Self-Portraits by Tiemen Rapati
This work was done by the photographer taking 500 pictures
of herself and then morphing them all to create one image that combines
everything.
This relates to our class because one of the assignments had to do with
creating a self-portrait of ourselves and this is a version of that. Here it
shows the change and depth of her face throughout the 500 times the photograph
was taken. When all put together they make something blurry but focused on her
main physical features.
12/3/11
Aaron Chang Gallery in Solana Beach, artwork by Aaron Chang
He travels the world and creates artwork of exotic places
such as beaches in Hawaii and Tahiti that conveys a tropical and serene feeling
through surfing. Some of his art is photography and others are paintings. This
gallery focused primarily on the beach aspect including waves and sunsets.
This can relate to what we have been learning because I was
able to speak to Aaron Chang himself, and I was able to see hear his own reflection
of his work which I considered to be somewhat of a personal statement.
