video reviews

The first video, Prairie style, I learned about an artist named Frank Lloyd Wright.  He was the founder of the prairie style architecture.  He believed that you should incorporate nature and its surroundings in your architecture.  This relates to our readings in that it has some of the similar ideas as green architecture.  Wright would use as much earth as possible to make the house and nature one. I thought this video was very descriptive about the artist and the people he influenced.  It helped me see that architecture isn’t just the building itself.

The video, architecture: science of design, taught me something the text pointed out.  It discussed how environmental factors need to be considered when creating buildings like skyscrapers.  The wind can cause buildings to sway.  One of the most interesting things about this video that I liked was the segment on smart houses.  The things that these houses are designed to do are outrageous.  I definitely enjoyed this video because it kept me engaged.  It taught me that again architecture is not just the building itself but everything inside of it.

The third video was my least favorite.  I felt it was a little dry and hard to stay focused, however it was very informative.  This video relates directly to our reading because it focuses on the Roman development of columns and arches.  I thought the Queens house was very basic in the fact everything was so precious and boxed off but at the same time it was very elaborate with the designs on the columns and the arch ways.

I choose to watch imperial Rome, ancient architecture and technology.  I picked this because I like the use of technology with architecture from the previous film.  This video again relates to the reading because it talks about the Roman architecture.  I found it remarkable the elaborate aqueduct system that was created to supply the water to various places.  It was no surprise to me that it ran directly to the palace.  I wasn’t aware that they used to get water easily from a local spring but it dried up.  I also found interesting the development of Port Ostia.  Since I go to school for history and geography this naturally caught my eye.  It made a lot of sense why this port became so important and this video did a great job explaining it.

blog comaparison

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I thought that the artist that created the slideshow used very creative examples that were found all over his everyday life.  It felt like he took time to find these exact elements and principles.  Some of the pictures in his slideshow did she several different elements and thems.

The second project we did not pick any of the same images, however the reasons that we felt like we could relate were similar.  The person whoese blog I picked felt like that could relate to a sculpture of a mother and a child based on her own personal expeirence with her children.  I agreed on how the artist is able to form a speacial bond between themselves and the veiwer.

The sculpture of the mother and child really interests me.  I would like to know the background of the sculture because I to feel like I can relate with my own children in that way.  I would like to know what the mother is feeling in this particular artwork. 

One of the reoccuring themes in this course is that art is based on interpretation.  I think it was a great idea to veiw our peers thoughts on certain artworks.  Some of the opinions they have are not something that I would consider sometimes.  I find it interesting for them to break down how and why they feel the way they do about a certain artwork.  I think it is helpful for my learning expeirence to open up my eyes to other peoples thoughts and opinions.  By people critiqing my responses it allows me to see where they come from and to show how several poeple can look at the same artwork and have radical interpretations based on their personal background.

art gallery

I must admit I have not been to an art gallery since I was in grade school.  I enjoeyed going there and looking at the various artworks.  I did get yelled at for writing down stuff in pen, I was not aware that pen as a writing utensil was not allowed in the gallery.  One of the artworks that caught my eye was Jackson Polluck, Convergence 1952.  It was oil and canvas.   I'm attracted to artwork that looks like splatter and graffiti.   I feel like I can relate to the level of creativeness.  I liked Paul Cezanne self portrait, it was a lithograph.  The eyes in the picture felt like they were luring me in.  I liked the picture zimzam that I did not get the name of the artist because that is when the security was approaching me about writing in pen.  I liked the exhibit with the room full of the whole punched magazine clips from Vik Muniz.  It was a very simple picture from far away, just solid colors.  When I looked closely I saw that there was various words and pictures on them.  This artwork I would like to know how long that took.  It was over 1000 peices of each color and looked a lot more creative once you looked in depth to it.  One of the rooms had a displey of two apple juice boxes that did not have an artist.  I am not that educated on art but I found that odd that they were in there.  While it was startically placed, I did not feel that there was any effort involved in it.  I liked Max Backman Hotel lobby Oil on canvas.  I learned by visiting the musuem that I relaly enjoy oil and canvas paintings.  This painting caught my attention from the dark deep colors.  The man in the center really stood out to me.  I would like to know the reason he made this. 

logo

Creating this logo opened my eyes to see what I valued the most in life.  At first it was hard to start but as the thoughts kept flowing it became easier.  My finally image as you can see posted below has mi vida es me familia written in the center of the heart.  It trasnlates to my life is my family.  I outlined the heart with black to show that my heart is strong and never letting my family go.  I choose spanish because my husband and children are hispanic.  The rays of sunshine coming off the heart are in green and yellow.  This shows my pride in my Irish heritage as well as symbolize happiness.  Green and yellow are my favorite colors and represent life and energy which I believe I am full of.  I did this project in crayon to show although I have a family I am still young at heart.  I learned from all the resources that a logo should stand out.  It should be easy to copy and it should also be postive.  I think that my logo did this in creating a postive image of what I value in life.  I think that the videos were very educational.  It showed the power a logo can really have if created right.

materials

I thought creating the scale and the color wheel was a fairly easy task.   I think it brought to memory on how to work with various mediums.  I enjoyed working with the paint because it brought back the sense of creativiety i felt in my childhood that I haven't used in a while.  The most important studies in this creation I think was following directions.  I think it was important to make sure that you follow all the details so that it comes out right.  As I stated in my posts for the chapter reviews I thought the videos were a little dull.  While they did teach important facts, they were really dry and to the point.  The one video that  I uploaded did show anything, it was just audio.   I wasn't sure if it was just my computer or how it was supposed to be.

Elements and Principles

While making this project, I used the pictures I took from my trip to St Louis and from the pictures I took from a birthday party I went to with my kids.  It took me a while to actually get this posted to my blogger because when I was using photobucket, I was trying to post it directly from the site, but for some reason, it wasn't posting.  So I had to take the embed code and post it directly here.  I did my best and im pretty sure I have everything labeled and is correct.  I hope you enjoy.

video response

In the first video I watched, Aesthetics Philosophy of Arts, I learned several new things.  I wasn't aware of famous pholosophers writing books of interpretation of art.  I learned that Plato had very low opinions of artists.  He wrote a book called the republic that basically said that artist copy reality.  That they are mearly only making a copy of a copy.  I learned that Arisotle felt different.  He believed that peots were artists becuase they had to create things because they weren't possible know how they are.  I learned that over time art evolved, it used to be in the middle ages just mearily reading and not asthetics.  The first video taught me that art is an expression of emotion.  The other video,  Neurology taught me several things as well.  I wasn't aware that true art should not be realistic to attract people but rather be aesthetically pleasing.  This means that the art should apeal to the eye and exxagerate, distort and even alter to produce and image that people will like.  I also learned that there are eight laws of art that one must follow to achieve something that is aesthetically pleasing.  I did however remember learning this in a highschool art class before but the video went much more in depth