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.