2nd Art Event- Fore-edge Painting

On Thursday in the Library there was an exhibit for fore-edge painting. When I showed up to the library for this art event, I honestly had no idea what I was walking into because I did know what this art event was for. However, when I walked in I was really surprised and blown away by these works of art. I had never heard of fore-edge painting before and I thought it was a really cool type of art and a really cool idea. 

It was a really idea idea to depict and picture on the side of the book and I can only imagine how long and how difficult it would be to do this type of work. It's so tiny but it is so detailed and intricate. Also, the work that is on the front and the back of the book works well with the picture that is on the pages. The colors and the design coincides with what is on the pages. 

This type of art kind of reminds me of the little books I would make when I was little where you flip through the pages and something inside moves as you flip through.  I feel like the books have so much meaning and are so old and this art on top of it just helps give it even more meaning. Below are some of my favorite pieces from the exhibit (sorry my phone was cracked and the picture quality is not that good). 

Joyce Yu-Jean Talk

The talk with Joyce Yu-Jean was really interesting. It was nice to have a more intimate discussion with not a lot of people. Joyce talked about the various things that make her more creative. One of the things that she said that struck me was the input and output. How she needs to consume things in order to become more creative and to make her artwork. Obviously when we make art our ideas and creativity usually come from the things that we have read or seen in the past and it helps us to come up with our own ideas. She talked about how she does that before she starts a project and she reads more and observes things more for the purpose of creating something. I don't think a lot of people look at reading something or just observing others or things in our surroundings for the purpose of eventually creating something out of it.

I also think that the idea of her art is really interesting and something different, or at least something that I have not really seen before. I think the projections that she creates even sometimes using old art is a very interesting take on art. It's not your typical painting or sculpture or drawing. I think it could really help grasp the attention of our generation because it incorporates technology and things that we can relate to. Now I feel as though many people like to look at things through a digital medium and this is a way for people to do that.

After listening to her talk for a little bit, it made me want to go to art museums more and find more of an appreciation of art. It also made me want to take some time when I can and just observe the things around me more and take everything in. I think sometimes we don't take a second to appreciate the things that are around us and especially with our phones we are constantly interested in things on our phones instead of what is going on around us.

Escaping Flatland

This article honestly confused me and I felt that it jumped around a lot. I think one main point that the article was trying to convey is that two-dimension takes away from 3-D and what things actually are or look like. Most pieces of art are put onto a two-dimensional space. The things that are put into the piece of art are usually 3-D things. For example, if someone paints a picture of the Eiffel Tower, that is a 3-D object that someone is placing onto a 2-D space. It's not the same as the real thing and actually looking at the real thing. In a way it takes away from the meaning and from the true beauty of something by shrinking it, adding colors and placing on a different medium.




I liked the example of the railroad in this piece and the part when the author states, "in flatland, after all, every opportunity to spread additional information over an already-available dimension must be cherished." On a piece of paper or in a screen there is only a limited amount of space that information can fit onto. After awhile if there is too much information on a piece of paper or on a screen then it gets too confusing and too much to look at. The railroad map in the piece looks extremely confusing. There is so much information and so many things overlapping each other that it becomes all bundled together and just becomes a mess.

Postmoderism Visual Analysis

The color scheme of my piece is triadic because I use blue, red and a gold (yellowish) color. These colors form a triangle on the color wheel. I also used the sparkles to add some texture to the piece. It also adds a contrast to the other side of the piece that has more of a definite shape. There is a rectangle on one side and then the rainbow piece in the middle helps split it up. On the other side are different types of shapes. Then I added ink over top of all of this. I added splattered the black ink over top of one side of the piece. This gives it a more rustic feel for the work. It also makes it a little more modern and makes the piece more postmodern because it becomes more confusing.


The quote that I used for my piece is "You are born modern, you do not become so." The first thing that came to me were images of different celebrities. Some that were modern celebrities and others that are older but have made an impact on us as a society. They are the ideal "beautiful modern" people. The connotative meaning of this piece is that it makes you feel a little confused and that there are two sides to everything. The ideological meaning of this piece is that maybe being a celebrity isn't all sparkling and shiny as it seems. The black spots over the gold piece makes it tone the gold down a little bit and adds some confusion over top of the piece. There are two sides to being a celebrity. One side is the bright side and the good things that come out of it. The other side is that part of the glitz and the glamour but that it is not all that it seems to be, and sometimes can affect a person in a way that others don't realize. We see the celebrities most of the time happy and looking their best, when in reality that is not always the case.

Postmodernism

One of my favorite lines in the Postmodernism Intro, is "all the world's cultures, rituals, races, databanks, myths and musical motifs are intermixing like a smorgasbord in an earthquake." This line really helps you picture all of these things coming together and creating this weird and crazy world. A question I had from this article is: Is art, in all its different forms, the reason for this phenomenon? Or did art just conform with this idea of Postmodernism?

In the next article about American and Disneyland, I found it really interesting how Baudrillard compared America to Disneyland. Then at the end, said that LA was basically Disneyland. That LA is made up of all of these fake realities, its basically just filled with movie scripts and movie clips and none of it is actually reality, just like Disneyland.

Color Podcast

"What is color?"

Something that I have thought about a lot. I remember in Chemistry class in High School my teacher tried to explain to us how we basically see colors, and how colors on shirts are actually missing the color of the shirt but we see that color. Color is something that is so confusing and I still do not understand what our teacher was trying to tell us. The point it, most people just see colors and don't actually think about where the colors come from or how we actually see color. It's weird to think that hundreds of years ago no one understood this concept of color and where it came from.

The story about the monkeys was very interesting and just shows how complex and compelling colors actually are. They were able to wrap the red color gene into a virus and put in into the monkeys. It's weird to me that we actually have certain genes in that allow us to see color. To think that there are a lot of people that actually cannot see certain colors is very weird to think about. Also, the fact that people are not allowed to get this to fix their color blindness confuses me. If it could help people and they did not find a lot of problems with it then I don't know why humans are not allowed to get it.

This podcast of color reminds me of the argument over whether or not that dress is white and gold or blue and black. 

I see this dress as gold and white and I don't get how people can see it differently. It's crazy that we all see different shades of colors on things. When this started I would always try and see it as the colors of blue and black and never could but I knew people that could see those colors and didn't see gold and white. Colors have always amazed me and how many different colors we can see or the different colors that we can see.

Lastly, thinking about the fact that some women have that fourth cone that could make you see even more colors. However, some women can't use their fourth cone. It makes you wonder if you possibly know one of these women? Or what do these colors look like to them?

Color

In the first picture that I took, the white in the back looks a little yellow. The white object in the front looks much brighter but also has a little bit of a blue tint to it. When looking at these two things separately they look white. However, when you put them together you can see that even white has different variations. When these two objects are put together they no longer both look white. They have a tint of white along with tints of other colors.

In this picture I moved the objects to be in a different type of lighting. The object in the back now has a little bit of a pink/red tint to it. It looks darker than in the first picture. The object in the front has shadows on it now which cause it to look darker but it also has a little bit of a grey tint to it. Now that these objects are in different lights they show even different colors. While they are still considered white when they are alone and show white in these pictures, you can see that other colors appear in each object.