GraceAnn FitzMaurice 31 August 2015 Journal response 1
As a student that only did the bare minimum of art to get me through high school, I have limited experience and knowledge on the subject. Seeing an abstract piece is sometimes puzzling for me because I do not know how to fid the meaning of the image. Reading this already began to inform me on how I should act while viewing any artwork in the future.
The reading explains that pictures have a length and width but no depth. When I look at a picture I see the background first and then the main subject. I believe that pictures can contain depth when showing a background and different levels of a scene. I know that a picture is a thing you hold that and the depth that is seen is not tangible, otherwise it would be known as a different form of art such as sculpture. To say that a picture has no depth makes it easier to understand the difference between a three-dimensional piece of art and two-dimensional piece of art. Although paintings and drawings came way before photography because photography involves technology that was not invented for thousands of years after the first painting, I feel that history would be better understood with photos instead of paintings. Paintings and drawings are dependent on the eyes of the artist; each person could see the same scene and create it differently in a picture. With photography the only thing that could change the same scene would be the angle the picture is taken at and still it would be more reliable than a hand made picture.
The first piece of art found today was a picture of a hand over forty thousand years ago. These pictures of hands were created so early in time; it makes me wonder if these paintings were meant to be art when they were created. The first paintings are all similar because they are outlines of hands and arms. In the time of these paintings those could be used for something other than art. These painting could have been measurements or writing. If these were not created at the time to become art, does it still count as the first piece of art or does the pictures of the animals count as the first pictures found? I personally believe that even if these hands and painting were not created for artistic reasons they can still be considered art now. I believe if someone can look at them and see something artistic or special in them, they then can be considered art.
Chapter one, as well as the attached reading really sparked my interest for art and the rest of this course. Reading this chapter honestly has opened my eyes to something so beautiful. As someone who can appreciate beautiful art, I thought I knew the meaning of each work of art.
I thought that every piece of artwork was just simply created. The artist would sit and let their imagination wander. Which I'm sure is still a way of expressing their emotions and talent. But I never pictured that someone would add certain strokes, dots, lines etc. to portray a meaning or a story.
Some pieces of art are created to tell a story and explain something to someone. Especially the art from the past. That art may not be as beautiful as some of the paintings we see today, but those art forms, for many people, was a way of communication.
Something I also found really interesting was when artist started "realism". It is so cool to me that suddenly, people recreated the arts of the world and put that on paper. Now people have paintings hung on their walls of landscapes for decoration, and at one time, one person decided it would be interesting to recreate.
I now feel like when I'm looking at art I will have a different interpretation. I may not be thinking of what the artist planned, but in my own way I will create my own story or message with their art.
As a person who is very interested in both viewing and creating art, I realized how little I actually know about art, after reading this first chapter. I am a person who loves to create pictures and designs, by using acrylic paints and canvases. I never, however, have put much thought into what was I was doing. I always just painted what I wanted, how I wanted, without having a basis as to what type of art I was aiming to create. I now know, however, how many other art pieces I have been missing out on. By reading this first chapter, I was able to learn about many different aspects of art that I have either never heard of before, or that I have never put much thought into. Take scrolls for example, I knew they were used in ancient times to create pictures on them, but I didn’t know that they were attached to a spindle that would reveal a different scene each time it was unrolled. Also, I always believed that a mural was a picture that had a sticky back, which would be placed on a wall as a design, usually in a bedroom or a dorm room. I didn’t know that it could be absolutely any painting attached to a wall. I never realized how vague the definition of a mural actually was. There is so much about creating and understanding art that I can know, but that I have never spent the time to actually learn about. Considering that I am a person who truly enjoys art, both creating and observing it, I should spend more time learning about what art, and its history, consists of. I should venture out, away from my typical canvas art and random sharpie drawings that I do, and try creating something new. Not only that, but I should also become familiar with all the different types of art, which I have never put much thought into. I have never been able to look at a picture and say “this picture is abstract” or “this picture is an impressionism picture,” but I would like to eventually be able to do that. I would like to look at a picture, exactly how this chapter says to do so, and depict the picture seen. I would like to pick out what part of the picture is the foreground, and which is the background, what types of colors were used, and explain the type of art that it is, and where the tradition of that art came from. I will study these different types of art more, so that I can eventually become at least vaguely familiar with them.
I have never considered myself to be a very artistic person. I never put much effort into the art classes that I was required to take, and I stopped taking them as soon as my requirements were fulfilled. With that being said, this first chapter helped me to realize that there is a way to look at art that might help me to see more than just the image itself.
After reading this chapter, I can see that art is more than a background and an image on top. Whether it is a mural, an ancient scroll, a simple painting or anything of the sort, the viewer can benefit from looking at the piece in different ways. I thought it was interesting when the chapter mentioned that it is important to look at art like a young child. This encourages you to search to find more than what is right in front of you.
As I mentioned previously, I do not know much at all about art. I feel as though this section as well as the readings we will be assigned in the future will teach me a great deal about the actual depth that some art has, and lack there of in other pieces.
I found that I am interested in the story that some artists may be trying to convey through their work. After this reading, I expect to be able to look at art and try to understand what the artist is getting at, and from that be able to create my own ideas about what the art could be.
I grew up in a very artistically blessed family. My father is a very skilled architect, my uncle is a graphic designer for the top advertising agency in the world and my aunt is a professional photographer with her own business. On the other side of the family tree is me; I can’t even draw a circle. I have no talent and trust me I’ve tried, there is none. I have always been aggressive towards art because I never understood it. After reading the first chapter of the book my eyes have been opened a little to how art could have a different impact on me if I view it differently. Despite my close connections with artists I never understood the deep meanings really lingering behind the finished piece. I knew in each piece there was importance and reason and a story however I never dove into each specific aspect. The reading made me realize that I actually knew less about art than I thought I did, which didn't make me feel that good. It made me want to ask my family about their own history behind each piece. History and art have always gone hand in hand but thinking about it in more modern ways never occurred to me. I want to explore art and what it might mean to me. I am excited to see if there is a type of art that I can relate to whether it be through its physicalness or it’s history. I would like to be able to relate to art and I think that it could help me broaden my ideas. I understand why aesthetics is a core because honestly otherwise I would have never even looked into understanding art or is effects and importance.
Max Kraimer CORE Aesthetics 105 Chapter 1 “Painting and the Pitoral Art”
Of all CORE classes Art: Aesthetics was the one that I truly dreaded. Finally going into my sophomore year I got the courage to take it to get it over with. One could say that I am not artistic, and I would agree. I have never taken any art classes besides the ones I was forced to take in middle school. After reading the first chapter, “Painting and the Pictoral Art” I started to understand the importance of Art throughout all cultures and time periods. The writer says early on that “Picture-making is not only about depiction; it’s about truth.” I have never really thought art as a symbol of truth, but as the writer explains that each significant photo is an “assertions of human will and belief”, and “alternate worlds and alter egos that we encounter in the painted image.” Not being someone that truly admires art, the fact that a picture can tell you so many things such as a time frame and emotions during that time is really cool.
I also thought it was amazing how pictoral art, made before real paint equipment could come out as masterpieces. Chinese scroll art was painted by hand placing the pigment straight onto the twenty-foot long scroll. The fact that they had the ability to hand paint each figure is wild. Even after all these years and with the improvement in art technologies, some of the earliest artwork is known to be the most beautiful.
When you really break up art you can see an array of topics. For example, the writer talks about subject. The writer lists that Portrait, Genre, Religious, mythological, literary, and Historical Landscape are all aspects of the pitoral subject. Within each subject there is Imargery that can be broken up into more topics such as: Representational or Figurative, Abstract, Abstraction, and Non-objective of Non-figurative. These gives a wider range on how just one style of art can branch off.
As I said before I have never been artistic and I have never really thought about it being an artist either. But, after this reading I can understand why so many people admire art and I am interest in learning more in future readings
I think painting and art aren’t just about creating the perfect picture; it’s about expressing emotion and capturing moments. I think everybody wants to make him or herself known for one thing or another and leave a mark on the world. With art it seems that you can make the crazy things seem possible and the impossible seem attainable. The chapter talked about paintings as the truth. Artist put their art out in the world to get judged and criticized and many pieces of art contain very real emotions and truths in artists’ lives. I think, based on this information, this is how I should act. I think everybody, including my self, should put everything upfront and in the open and tell the truth. There will always be a fear of judgment and criticism, but at least if we tell the truth we know that we are living our best life up front.
The chapter also talked about the differences in vacationing photos and Chinese scrolls. I really liked the imagery in that section. The author compared thumbing through photos and unwinding a delicate piece of history. I think this showed me what I can know. I can either stay in the present or I can learn from the past. In the present, you only know things from day to day experiences. If you learn from the past you can base what you do in the present off of history and past knowledge. I think that is really wild. Knowing that so much happened in the past that we can explore and learn why things today are the way they are. I also like the idea that we can see how art grew and change. What started off as cave paintings grew into artwork hung in the most reputable museums. The most famous artists learned from the past and then created their own styles.
I love seeing emotion on a canvas. Whether it is a portrait or an abstract painting, I think they convey emotion. I don’t think an artist ever creates without emotion. They aren’t ever sitting in front of their choice medium with a blank face and no emotion. I think every artist runs on emotion. This showed me who I am. I love to express emotion in my artwork. I like to show people what I was feeling or thinking. Even my choice music represents this. If I’m having a bad day I could be listening to a sad or slower song. When I’m having a good day and I’m super happy, I am listening to more upbeat fast songs.
The cave paintings really interest me as well. The men and women living in that time didn’t have any prior examples of art. They used what they had and created art. I don’t think you have to have all of the correct supplies to create a piece of art, I think you have to have an idea and a passion.
Chandler Cobb In high school, I was required to take three art classes. I took your basic art class where we did pottery, painting, drawing, and sketching. We covered everything. I then went on to take jewelry, ceramics, and fiber arts, and then a photography course the following year. Other than that I really don’t have an artistic background. I don’t think of myself as an artsy person. On the other hand my mom is very passionate about photography. She loves taking pictures of everything and then spends hours and hours playing around editing them and its cool having those to look back on as I grow up and be reminded of those memories. Sometimes I wish I had the same passion she does. I think this course is going to be very eye opening and help see how people do get so passionate about art because it’s going to teach me how art as so much more depth than I ever thought it did. The first chapter talked about how art shows the truth and how a picture can express it more truth to something than just the naked eye. You see stuff you might not see just looking. This interests me and I’m looking forward to learning more about it. Another thing this chapter showed me is how many different elements there are to art. When the author gives the breakdown and what each thing means it listed more than I ever knew existed while makes me believe there is more to know about art than I thought there was. This chapter opened my eye to the fact that there is a large amount of emotion in art. When an artist is painting for example, what they paint can show what they feel. The colors can also show you an insight to their emotions. If they’re hurt or happy it can be seen in their work. I want to find out if this can happen for everyone or do you need to have artistic talent? If I draw something with it show my emotions the same as it would for a famously known artist? When I heard that aesthetics was a core class I was like why, like what is this course going to give me that is related to my major which is business? I was very hesitant. If this wasn’t a core class I probably never even would have considered taking it but seeing how much depth there is to art and how much the author had to say in just one chapter, I can start to see why this is a required course. Many people including myself only see the surface of art and I think this course is going to show me that there is so much more than just putting a brush to a canvas and painting something.
Anna Strang To me, art is a way of getting rid of stress or anxiety and allowing me to feel relaxed. If I am feeling overwhelmed or I am having a bad day, I would grab a sketchbook or a canvas and start painting different types of patterns or inspirational quotes. I would work quickly in order to reduce my anxiety levels fast. By finishing a painting I would feel satisfied about completing a project and all my problems seemed to melt away. After reading chapter one I have learned that painting is not only used to relax the artist, but is their paintings are used to show the artist's truth. For an observer to truly understand the artist’s truth, the artist must take their time and get their point across the canvas. As someone that likes to draw and paint, learning that quality is better than quantity will help me become a stronger artist and allow those that look at my work to get the full affect of my paintings. Chapter one also taught me to keep an open mind. When you first look at a painting you might think the artist meant something, but after fifteen minutes of examining the painting you realize the artist meant something completely different. Every painting is different, even if it is created by the same artist. Each painting has a different truth and to fully comprehend the meaning/ truth of a painting the observer needs to understand that a painting is not just a bunch of shapes; a painting is what the artist sees or believes to be true about the world or that paintings theme. By keeping an open mind and observing a painting for more than thirty seconds, then the observer will truly see what the artist was feeling and seeing at the time the painting was created. Chapter one was informative and by continuing to read the A Beginner’s Guide “Preface” & “Painting and Pictoral Art,” I believe that I will become a better artist and fully understand paintings created by other artists.
Art has never really sparked an interest in me whatsoever. I am not what so ever an artistic person, never was. The last art class I took was in elementary school, which was along time ago. However, I love photography and art graffiti.
While reading chapter 1 and even going out to buy my sketch pad I realized art is like a whole other world. While reading some of the terms in chapter 1, I felt like I was reading another language. I also thought I was going to run in and out of Michaels when buying my sketch pad, but apparently I was wrong. It took me at least 15 minutes to pick a sketch pad, I honestly did not even know they have different types of paper.
Chapter 1 opened a whole new world for me. It really showed me everything I have been missing out on. I found it interesting that there are various of ways a meaning to a picture is communicated to its viewers. The section THE TOOL KIT: PAINTING AND PICTORAL ART really caught my attention while reading. It was all new information. It was eye opening to read many of the terms for art. Lastly, I realized how much of a picture I probably have missed by just glancing at it or looking at it for a short amount of time. My reaction to a picture could be completely different if I look at it correctly for a while then when I just look at it for a minute. I think the important thing is to keep an open mind, looking at every art piece as a new one not comparing them to another. Every artist has their own meaning and own reasons for why they did what they did in their art piece. By keeping an open mind you and not comparing you really can take the time to look at every single detail of the art piece and understand the point of the art piece.
I thought the cave painting were amazing. I do not know much about art but I think it is amazing for the art to be that old and still look like that. If that is so old, they must have not had much art examples to go off if even any at all.
Kristin Portsmouth Aesthetics Response 1 August 31, 2015
In my family, I am known as the artistic one. Whenever we need a new piece of art to hang on the wall my mom comes to me. In my living room alone, there are four pieces of my artwork hanging on the walls. If someone were to go through my notebooks, they would find doodles and sketches lining the edges. All throughout middle school and high school, art class was my favorite time of the day. It served as a break from all the stress from my other classes. Art really helps me relax and it is an easy way to express how I am feeling. When I found out art aesthetics was a required course, I was actually very intrigued and eager to take this class since I enjoy art so much.
Something I have always struggled with when dealing with art is trying to find the artist’s meaning behind their artwork. I tend to look at paintings and sculptures and create a very literal meaning. Doing so, I never came up with the profound, philosophical meaning my teachers were normally looking for. When reading this article I learned that one must be very open-minded when looking at artwork. This quotation from the reading really captured my attention, “In the presence of abstraction, I remind myself, think like a nine-year-old. Be on the lookout, and when you see, shout out, ‘I’ve found it!’ ” This stood out to me because I feel it can work for any artwork and not just abstraction. From now on, I am going to try this method when viewing artwork. I feel that I can learn so much more if I take time to really understand and see the picture that was created before me.
Another section of the reading that I really liked was when the author compared the snapshots from one’s vacation to unrolling a silk scroll painted with a beautiful landscape or parade. The author states, “The photo snapshot and the silk scroll carry with them entirely different philosophies of human experience.” I find this to be so true because behind every picture, painting, or scroll there is a memory or experience that is completely unique to that artist. If you gather all the artwork one artist has made in their lifetime, you can easily find what they find most interesting or what matters the most to them. I truly love that artwork can be so personal; you don’t have to do it to impress anyone but yourself.
Dustin Wade Prof. Nicole Foti CORE Aesthetics 105: The Artistic Impulse August 31, 2015
Chapter 1: Pictoral Art
I’ve always admired art growing up, it’s a reminder and representation of one’s self and their surrounding atmosphere. I know this because I dabbled in the art of animation growing up in high school and would occasionally draw in my free time. Although mine was never as good as anyone else’s, it was always nice to see others succeed and depict their lives in a way through art. I mean, that’s what people have been doing throughout history.
The chapter on pictoral art really explains how art has been a basis for understanding since the very beginning. Many cultures around the world have and still to this day express themselves with many different mediums of art. Whether it be paintings and sculptures of the past or today’s produced movies and photographs, these depictions of art can be understood by anyone around the world that takes that closer look.
What I found most interesting about the reading is that it teaches the reader how to actually “look” at art. Now whenever I’ve seen some types of art I would just look at it for a few seconds and quickly decide if it’s nice or not. Then based off that decision maybe go back and have a second look. But this reading made me realize that maybe there’s even something greater behind it all, even the ones that don’t grab my attention. Maybe there are symbols and messages within the work that aren’t supposed to jump out and say “Here I am!” to grab attention. That maybe all art deserves that second look.
But there are those works of art that make me question why it should actually be considered art. After reading the section about “the symbolism of dung,” I was reminded of this time where I’ve walked around a museum in New York City once. Where next to a large painting of a man’s face made from tiny little dots, which obviously requires a huge amount time and effort, was a small white canvas with just a single blue line going down the middle. I was completely dumbfounded at the fact that these two works of art would be even displayed next to each other, let alone the second one even being considered something that deserved to be in the museum. I’m still confused on the subject of art, but this chapter has in a way enlightened my thought process and made me realize that I shouldn’t be so quick to judge.
GraceAnn FitzMaurice
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Journal response 1
As a student that only did the bare minimum of art to get me through high school, I have limited experience and knowledge on the subject. Seeing an abstract piece is sometimes puzzling for me because I do not know how to fid the meaning of the image. Reading this already began to inform me on how I should act while viewing any artwork in the future.
The reading explains that pictures have a length and width but no depth. When I look at a picture I see the background first and then the main subject. I believe that pictures can contain depth when showing a background and different levels of a scene. I know that a picture is a thing you hold that and the depth that is seen is not tangible, otherwise it would be known as a different form of art such as sculpture. To say that a picture has no depth makes it easier to understand the difference between a three-dimensional piece of art and two-dimensional piece of art.
Although paintings and drawings came way before photography because photography involves technology that was not invented for thousands of years after the first painting, I feel that history would be better understood with photos instead of paintings. Paintings and drawings are dependent on the eyes of the artist; each person could see the same scene and create it differently in a picture. With photography the only thing that could change the same scene would be the angle the picture is taken at and still it would be more reliable than a hand made picture.
The first piece of art found today was a picture of a hand over forty thousand years ago. These pictures of hands were created so early in time; it makes me wonder if these paintings were meant to be art when they were created. The first paintings are all similar because they are outlines of hands and arms. In the time of these paintings those could be used for something other than art. These painting could have been measurements or writing. If these were not created at the time to become art, does it still count as the first piece of art or does the pictures of the animals count as the first pictures found? I personally believe that even if these hands and painting were not created for artistic reasons they can still be considered art now. I believe if someone can look at them and see something artistic or special in them, they then can be considered art.
Marisa Siino
ReplyDeleteChapter one, as well as the attached reading really sparked my interest for art and the rest of this course. Reading this chapter honestly has opened my eyes to something so beautiful. As someone who can appreciate beautiful art, I thought I knew the meaning of each work of art.
I thought that every piece of artwork was just simply created. The artist would sit and let their imagination wander. Which I'm sure is still a way of expressing their emotions and talent. But I never pictured that someone would add certain strokes, dots, lines etc. to portray a meaning or a story.
Some pieces of art are created to tell a story and explain something to someone. Especially the art from the past. That art may not be as beautiful as some of the paintings we see today, but those art forms, for many people, was a way of communication.
Something I also found really interesting was when artist started "realism". It is so cool to me that suddenly, people recreated the arts of the world and put that on paper. Now people have paintings hung on their walls of landscapes for decoration, and at one time, one person decided it would be interesting to recreate.
I now feel like when I'm looking at art I will have a different interpretation. I may not be thinking of what the artist planned, but in my own way I will create my own story or message with their art.
As a person who is very interested in both viewing and creating art, I realized how little I actually know about art, after reading this first chapter. I am a person who loves to create pictures and designs, by using acrylic paints and canvases. I never, however, have put much thought into what was I was doing. I always just painted what I wanted, how I wanted, without having a basis as to what type of art I was aiming to create. I now know, however, how many other art pieces I have been missing out on.
ReplyDeleteBy reading this first chapter, I was able to learn about many different aspects of art that I have either never heard of before, or that I have never put much thought into. Take scrolls for example, I knew they were used in ancient times to create pictures on them, but I didn’t know that they were attached to a spindle that would reveal a different scene each time it was unrolled. Also, I always believed that a mural was a picture that had a sticky back, which would be placed on a wall as a design, usually in a bedroom or a dorm room. I didn’t know that it could be absolutely any painting attached to a wall. I never realized how vague the definition of a mural actually was. There is so much about creating and understanding art that I can know, but that I have never spent the time to actually learn about.
Considering that I am a person who truly enjoys art, both creating and observing it, I should spend more time learning about what art, and its history, consists of. I should venture out, away from my typical canvas art and random sharpie drawings that I do, and try creating something new. Not only that, but I should also become familiar with all the different types of art, which I have never put much thought into. I have never been able to look at a picture and say “this picture is abstract” or “this picture is an impressionism picture,” but I would like to eventually be able to do that. I would like to look at a picture, exactly how this chapter says to do so, and depict the picture seen. I would like to pick out what part of the picture is the foreground, and which is the background, what types of colors were used, and explain the type of art that it is, and where the tradition of that art came from. I will study these different types of art more, so that I can eventually become at least vaguely familiar with them.
Kirsten Hansen
ReplyDeleteI have never considered myself to be a very artistic person. I never put much effort into the art classes that I was required to take, and I stopped taking them as soon as my requirements were fulfilled. With that being said, this first chapter helped me to realize that there is a way to look at art that might help me to see more than just the image itself.
After reading this chapter, I can see that art is more than a background and an image on top. Whether it is a mural, an ancient scroll, a simple painting or anything of the sort, the viewer can benefit from looking at the piece in different ways. I thought it was interesting when the chapter mentioned that it is important to look at art like a young child. This encourages you to search to find more than what is right in front of you.
As I mentioned previously, I do not know much at all about art. I feel as though this section as well as the readings we will be assigned in the future will teach me a great deal about the actual depth that some art has, and lack there of in other pieces.
I found that I am interested in the story that some artists may be trying to convey through their work. After this reading, I expect to be able to look at art and try to understand what the artist is getting at, and from that be able to create my own ideas about what the art could be.
I grew up in a very artistically blessed family. My father is a very skilled architect, my uncle is a graphic designer for the top advertising agency in the world and my aunt is a professional photographer with her own business. On the other side of the family tree is me; I can’t even draw a circle. I have no talent and trust me I’ve tried, there is none. I have always been aggressive towards art because I never understood it. After reading the first chapter of the book my eyes have been opened a little to how art could have a different impact on me if I view it differently.
ReplyDeleteDespite my close connections with artists I never understood the deep meanings really lingering behind the finished piece. I knew in each piece there was importance and reason and a story however I never dove into each specific aspect.
The reading made me realize that I actually knew less about art than I thought I did, which didn't make me feel that good. It made me want to ask my family about their own history behind each piece. History and art have always gone hand in hand but thinking about it in more modern ways never occurred to me.
I want to explore art and what it might mean to me. I am excited to see if there is a type of art that I can relate to whether it be through its physicalness or it’s history. I would like to be able to relate to art and I think that it could help me broaden my ideas. I understand why aesthetics is a core because honestly otherwise I would have never even looked into understanding art or is effects and importance.
Max Kraimer
ReplyDeleteCORE Aesthetics 105
Chapter 1 “Painting and the Pitoral Art”
Of all CORE classes Art: Aesthetics was the one that I truly dreaded. Finally going into my sophomore year I got the courage to take it to get it over with. One could say that I am not artistic, and I would agree. I have never taken any art classes besides the ones I was forced to take in middle school. After reading the first chapter, “Painting and the Pictoral Art” I started to understand the importance of Art throughout all cultures and time periods. The writer says early on that “Picture-making is not only about depiction; it’s about truth.” I have never really thought art as a symbol of truth, but as the writer explains that each significant photo is an “assertions of human will and belief”, and “alternate worlds and alter egos that we encounter in the painted image.” Not being someone that truly admires art, the fact that a picture can tell you so many things such as a time frame and emotions during that time is really cool.
I also thought it was amazing how pictoral art, made before real paint equipment could come out as masterpieces. Chinese scroll art was painted by hand placing the pigment straight onto the twenty-foot long scroll. The fact that they had the ability to hand paint each figure is wild. Even after all these years and with the improvement in art technologies, some of the earliest artwork is known to be the most beautiful.
When you really break up art you can see an array of topics. For example, the writer talks about subject. The writer lists that Portrait, Genre, Religious, mythological, literary, and Historical Landscape are all aspects of the pitoral subject. Within each subject there is Imargery that can be broken up into more topics such as: Representational or Figurative, Abstract, Abstraction, and Non-objective of Non-figurative. These gives a wider range on how just one style of art can branch off.
As I said before I have never been artistic and I have never really thought about it being an artist either. But, after this reading I can understand why so many people admire art and I am interest in learning more in future readings
I think painting and art aren’t just about creating the perfect picture; it’s about expressing emotion and capturing moments. I think everybody wants to make him or herself known for one thing or another and leave a mark on the world. With art it seems that you can make the crazy things seem possible and the impossible seem attainable. The chapter talked about paintings as the truth. Artist put their art out in the world to get judged and criticized and many pieces of art contain very real emotions and truths in artists’ lives. I think, based on this information, this is how I should act. I think everybody, including my self, should put everything upfront and in the open and tell the truth. There will always be a fear of judgment and criticism, but at least if we tell the truth we know that we are living our best life up front.
ReplyDeleteThe chapter also talked about the differences in vacationing photos and Chinese scrolls. I really liked the imagery in that section. The author compared thumbing through photos and unwinding a delicate piece of history. I think this showed me what I can know. I can either stay in the present or I can learn from the past. In the present, you only know things from day to day experiences. If you learn from the past you can base what you do in the present off of history and past knowledge. I think that is really wild. Knowing that so much happened in the past that we can explore and learn why things today are the way they are. I also like the idea that we can see how art grew and change. What started off as cave paintings grew into artwork hung in the most reputable museums. The most famous artists learned from the past and then created their own styles.
I love seeing emotion on a canvas. Whether it is a portrait or an abstract painting, I think they convey emotion. I don’t think an artist ever creates without emotion. They aren’t ever sitting in front of their choice medium with a blank face and no emotion. I think every artist runs on emotion. This showed me who I am. I love to express emotion in my artwork. I like to show people what I was feeling or thinking. Even my choice music represents this. If I’m having a bad day I could be listening to a sad or slower song. When I’m having a good day and I’m super happy, I am listening to more upbeat fast songs.
The cave paintings really interest me as well. The men and women living in that time didn’t have any prior examples of art. They used what they had and created art. I don’t think you have to have all of the correct supplies to create a piece of art, I think you have to have an idea and a passion.
Chandler Cobb
ReplyDeleteIn high school, I was required to take three art classes. I took your basic art class where we did pottery, painting, drawing, and sketching. We covered everything. I then went on to take jewelry, ceramics, and fiber arts, and then a photography course the following year. Other than that I really don’t have an artistic background. I don’t think of myself as an artsy person. On the other hand my mom is very passionate about photography. She loves taking pictures of everything and then spends hours and hours playing around editing them and its cool having those to look back on as I grow up and be reminded of those memories. Sometimes I wish I had the same passion she does.
I think this course is going to be very eye opening and help see how people do get so passionate about art because it’s going to teach me how art as so much more depth than I ever thought it did. The first chapter talked about how art shows the truth and how a picture can express it more truth to something than just the naked eye. You see stuff you might not see just looking. This interests me and I’m looking forward to learning more about it. Another thing this chapter showed me is how many different elements there are to art. When the author gives the breakdown and what each thing means it listed more than I ever knew existed while makes me believe there is more to know about art than I thought there was.
This chapter opened my eye to the fact that there is a large amount of emotion in art. When an artist is painting for example, what they paint can show what they feel. The colors can also show you an insight to their emotions. If they’re hurt or happy it can be seen in their work. I want to find out if this can happen for everyone or do you need to have artistic talent? If I draw something with it show my emotions the same as it would for a famously known artist?
When I heard that aesthetics was a core class I was like why, like what is this course going to give me that is related to my major which is business? I was very hesitant. If this wasn’t a core class I probably never even would have considered taking it but seeing how much depth there is to art and how much the author had to say in just one chapter, I can start to see why this is a required course. Many people including myself only see the surface of art and I think this course is going to show me that there is so much more than just putting a brush to a canvas and painting something.
Anna Strang
ReplyDeleteTo me, art is a way of getting rid of stress or anxiety and allowing me to feel relaxed. If I am feeling overwhelmed or I am having a bad day, I would grab a sketchbook or a canvas and start painting different types of patterns or inspirational quotes. I would work quickly in order to reduce my anxiety levels fast. By finishing a painting I would feel satisfied about completing a project and all my problems seemed to melt away. After reading chapter one I have learned that painting is not only used to relax the artist, but is their paintings are used to show the artist's truth. For an observer to truly understand the artist’s truth, the artist must take their time and get their point across the canvas. As someone that likes to draw and paint, learning that quality is better than quantity will help me become a stronger artist and allow those that look at my work to get the full affect of my paintings.
Chapter one also taught me to keep an open mind. When you first look at a painting you might think the artist meant something, but after fifteen minutes of examining the painting you realize the artist meant something completely different. Every painting is different, even if it is created by the same artist. Each painting has a different truth and to fully comprehend the meaning/ truth of a painting the observer needs to understand that a painting is not just a bunch of shapes; a painting is what the artist sees or believes to be true about the world or that paintings theme. By keeping an open mind and observing a painting for more than thirty seconds, then the observer will truly see what the artist was feeling and seeing at the time the painting was created.
Chapter one was informative and by continuing to read the A Beginner’s Guide “Preface” & “Painting and Pictoral Art,” I believe that I will become a better artist and fully understand paintings created by other artists.
Art has never really sparked an interest in me whatsoever. I am not what so ever an artistic person, never was. The last art class I took was in elementary school, which was along time ago. However, I love photography and art graffiti.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading chapter 1 and even going out to buy my sketch pad I realized art is like a whole other world. While reading some of the terms in chapter 1, I felt like I was reading another language. I also thought I was going to run in and out of Michaels when buying my sketch pad, but apparently I was wrong. It took me at least 15 minutes to pick a sketch pad, I honestly did not even know they have different types of paper.
Chapter 1 opened a whole new world for me. It really showed me everything I have been missing out on. I found it interesting that there are various of ways a meaning to a picture is communicated to its viewers. The section THE TOOL KIT: PAINTING AND PICTORAL ART really caught my attention while reading. It was all new information. It was eye opening to read many of the terms for art. Lastly, I realized how much of a picture I probably have missed by just glancing at it or looking at it for a short amount of time. My reaction to a picture could be completely different if I look at it correctly for a while then when I just look at it for a minute. I think the important thing is to keep an open mind, looking at every art piece as a new one not comparing them to another. Every artist has their own meaning and own reasons for why they did what they did in their art piece. By keeping an open mind you and not comparing you really can take the time to look at every single detail of the art piece and understand the point of the art piece.
I thought the cave painting were amazing. I do not know much about art but I think it is amazing for the art to be that old and still look like that. If that is so old, they must have not had much art examples to go off if even any at all.
Kristin Portsmouth
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August 31, 2015
In my family, I am known as the artistic one. Whenever we need a new piece of art to hang on the wall my mom comes to me. In my living room alone, there are four pieces of my artwork hanging on the walls. If someone were to go through my notebooks, they would find doodles and sketches lining the edges. All throughout middle school and high school, art class was my favorite time of the day. It served as a break from all the stress from my other classes. Art really helps me relax and it is an easy way to express how I am feeling. When I found out art aesthetics was a required course, I was actually very intrigued and eager to take this class since I enjoy art so much.
Something I have always struggled with when dealing with art is trying to find the artist’s meaning behind their artwork. I tend to look at paintings and sculptures and create a very literal meaning. Doing so, I never came up with the profound, philosophical meaning my teachers were normally looking for. When reading this article I learned that one must be very open-minded when looking at artwork. This quotation from the reading really captured my attention, “In the presence of abstraction, I remind myself, think like a nine-year-old. Be on the lookout, and when you see, shout out, ‘I’ve found it!’ ” This stood out to me because I feel it can work for any artwork and not just abstraction. From now on, I am going to try this method when viewing artwork. I feel that I can learn so much more if I take time to really understand and see the picture that was created before me.
Another section of the reading that I really liked was when the author compared the snapshots from one’s vacation to unrolling a silk scroll painted with a beautiful landscape or parade. The author states, “The photo snapshot and the silk scroll carry with them entirely different philosophies of human experience.” I find this to be so true because behind every picture, painting, or scroll there is a memory or experience that is completely unique to that artist. If you gather all the artwork one artist has made in their lifetime, you can easily find what they find most interesting or what matters the most to them. I truly love that artwork can be so personal; you don’t have to do it to impress anyone but yourself.
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ReplyDeleteDustin Wade
ReplyDeleteProf. Nicole Foti
CORE Aesthetics 105: The Artistic Impulse
August 31, 2015
Chapter 1: Pictoral Art
I’ve always admired art growing up, it’s a reminder and representation of one’s self and their surrounding atmosphere. I know this because I dabbled in the art of animation growing up in high school and would occasionally draw in my free time. Although mine was never as good as anyone else’s, it was always nice to see others succeed and depict their lives in a way through art. I mean, that’s what people have been doing throughout history.
The chapter on pictoral art really explains how art has been a basis for understanding since the very beginning. Many cultures around the world have and still to this day express themselves with many different mediums of art. Whether it be paintings and sculptures of the past or today’s produced movies and photographs, these depictions of art can be understood by anyone around the world that takes that closer look.
What I found most interesting about the reading is that it teaches the reader how to actually “look” at art. Now whenever I’ve seen some types of art I would just look at it for a few seconds and quickly decide if it’s nice or not. Then based off that decision maybe go back and have a second look. But this reading made me realize that maybe there’s even something greater behind it all, even the ones that don’t grab my attention. Maybe there are symbols and messages within the work that aren’t supposed to jump out and say “Here I am!” to grab attention. That maybe all art deserves that second look.
But there are those works of art that make me question why it should actually be considered art. After reading the section about “the symbolism of dung,” I was reminded of this time where I’ve walked around a museum in New York City once. Where next to a large painting of a man’s face made from tiny little dots, which obviously requires a huge amount time and effort, was a small white canvas with just a single blue line going down the middle. I was completely dumbfounded at the fact that these two works of art would be even displayed next to each other, let alone the second one even being considered something that deserved to be in the museum. I’m still confused on the subject of art, but this chapter has in a way enlightened my thought process and made me realize that I shouldn’t be so quick to judge.