Tesch - recreate a work by Egon Schiele in your sketchbook
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Answer the following two questions in the comment box below.
1. What is the central idea of your concentration? (500 characters or less)
2. How does the work in your concentration demonstrate the exploration of your idea? You may refer to specific images as examples. When referencing specific images, please indicate the image numbers. (1350 characters maximum)
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ReplyDeleteWhat is the central idea of your concentration?
The central idea for my concentration is information graphics with the influence of watercolor. I was really striving to create fine art elements within a commercial prompt. The commercial aspect was important to me because as a graphic designer I wanted to appeal to the industrial side of the arts rather than just the fine art. This quickly proved to be an exceptional challenge because infographics as a whole present a different idea with each piece of information.
How does the work in your concentration demonstrate the exploration of your idea? You may refer to specific images as examples. When referencing specific images, please indicate the image numbers.
In my concentration, water color [sic] and natural textures were the primary theme that connected my pieces together. I started out with ambient brush strokes overlaid over a sharp threshold of lines as shown in [images] 1 and 2. When I continued to develop and ponder over my concentration I started incorporating the ambience and natural patterns of the watercolor restricted within the hard lined shapes of the object. The background was almost as important as the information itself in my designs. Originally being exclusive to vector art I began experimenting with watercolor in the information as well as the background. By creating sharp contrast between vector art and watercolor I successfully brought attention to my concentration; together, they form a more effective piece both visually and readably. I also considered format, shape, and size an important decision because each aspect significantly contributed aesthetically to my pieces. In addition to the visual aspects, my choice of information developed greatly over the course of this experience. I wanted to attempt many types of information from maps such as [images] 3 and 8, to timelines such as [image] 9. I really wanted to discover how my stylistic approach could be applied to a variety of informational types.
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ReplyDeleteWhat is the central idea of your concentration?
The central idea for my concentration is information graphics with the influence of watercolor. I was really striving to create fine art elements within a commercial prompt. The commercial aspect was important to me because as a graphic designer I wanted to appeal to the industrial side of the arts rather than just the fine art. This quickly proved to be an exceptional challenge because infographics as a whole present a different idea with each piece of information.
How does the work in your concentration demonstrate the exploration of your idea? You may refer to specific images as examples. When referencing specific images, please indicate the image numbers.
In my concentration, water color [sic] and natural textures were the primary theme that connected my pieces together. I started out with ambient brush strokes overlaid over a sharp threshold of lines as shown in [images] 1 and 2. When I continued to develop and ponder over my concentration I started incorporating the ambience and natural patterns of the watercolor restricted within the hard lined shapes of the object. The background was almost as important as the information itself in my designs. Originally being exclusive to vector art I began experimenting with watercolor in the information as well as the background. By creating sharp contrast between vector art and watercolor I successfully brought attention to my concentration; together, they form a more effective piece both visually and readably. I also considered format, shape, and size an important decision because each aspect significantly contributed aesthetically to my pieces. In addition to the visual aspects, my choice of information developed greatly over the course of this experience. I wanted to attempt many types of information from maps such as [images] 3 and 8, to timelines such as [image] 9. I really wanted to discover how my stylistic approach could be applied to a variety of informational types.
1. The central idea of my concentration is structured vs. non-structured. I used coffee mugs to illustrate this idea simply out of my love for coffee and coffee mugs. I wanted to try a concentration that invovled two of my favorite things: 3D art and coffee! The structured vs. non-structured theme is meant to mirror the two personalities I tend to switch between, there is never any gray area when it comes to my personality, I am either black or white, happy or sad, nice or mean, messy or clean, and I could go on forever but my mugs illustrate this part of me in a tangible way that is not as easily explained by word of mouth.
ReplyDelete2. 11 out of 12 of my pieces are made out of red clay and one out of white clay. Every single one of my pieces were made on the wheel. I illustrated the difference between structured and non-structured through structure, texture, and glaze. The majority of my contrasts are structural like Image ?(the two bright blue, little mugs,etc.) but I also had textual differences like image ?(plain peacock green/shredded peacock green). My white mugs show the contrast through glaze, with one being an image of a perfect little paradise and the other, though the same color scheme, can hardly be seen as a scene at all because of how skewed it is. Each mug was inspired by something different and range in sizes, thickness, etc. each mug illustrating structured vs. non-structured in its own way.
1. The central idea of my concentration began as the concept of structured vs. non-structured. I used coffee mugs to illustrate this idea simply out of my love for coffee and coffee mugs. I wanted to try a concentration that involved two of my favorite things: 3D art and coffee! The structured vs. non-structured theme is meant to mirror the two extremities of my personality. There is never any gray area when it comes to my personality, I am either black or white, happy or sad, nice or mean, messy or clean. My mugs illustrate this part of me in a tangible way that is not as easily explained with words.
Delete2. 11 out of 12 of my pieces are made out of red clay and one out of white clay. Every single one of my pieces were made on the wheel. I illustrated the difference between structured and non-structured through structure, texture, and glaze. The majority of my contrasts are structural like Image ?(the two bright blue, little mugs,etc.) but I also had textual differences like image ?(plain peacock green/shredded peacock green). My white mugs show the contrast through glaze, with one being an image of a perfect little paradise and the other, though the same color scheme, can hardly be seen as a scene at all because of how skewed it is. Each mug was inspired by something different and range in sizes, thickness, etc. each mug illustrating structured vs. non-structured in its own way.
The central idea of my concentration is based on memories I have of my dad before he passed away and the legacy he left behind. There are many objects that hold fond memories of him for me and are extremely sentimental. I used many of these to base the images off of. I chose to use photography to capture my memories because my dad gave me my first camera a year before he passed away. Photoshop was also a very important tool in the process.
ReplyDeleteThe underlying theme of my concentration is memories of my dad. It began as very obvious memories. Image 1 incorporates two bottles, a bottle of Jameson Whisky, a bottle of Opus 1, a certificate and a group picture of my dad and his lifelong friends he grew up with. After doing this project I felt that I was exposing too much in the image. The piece seemed too obvious and was highly sentimental. I decided it needed to be a design based image with a secret memory behind it that only I really know. My dad collected old Toyota Land-cruisers so I went out and photographed them, I used circle parts of one of the Land-cruisers to make a collage (image 7). When I see things that were my dad’s and remind me of him it creates a collage of memories in my mind. Image 7 of the LC parts reminds me of the many rides and conversations we had it in, creating a collage of memories. My dad owned a package store for many years, I incorporated wine bottles, corks and cigar boxes (image 5, 6, 10, 11). I have many childhood memories in his store of hanging out with my dad and grandfather, dusting shelves and bottles, watching the news and using the price gun to price wine bottles.
The central idea of my concentration is based on memories I have of my dad before he passed away and the legacy he left behind. There are many objects that hold fond memories of him for me and are extremely sentimental. I used many of these as a basis for the images. I chose to use photography to capture my memories because my dad gave me my first camera a year before he passed away. Photoshop was also a very important tool in the process.
DeleteThe underlying theme of my concentration is memory and sentimentality. The body of work began as very obvious memories of my father. My dad owned a package store for many years. I have many childhood memories in his store of hanging out with my dad and grandfather, dusting shelves and bottles, watching the news and using the price gun to price wine bottles. Image 1 incorporates two bottles, a bottle of Jameson Whisky, a bottle of Opus 1, a certificate and a group picture of my dad and his lifelong friends he grew up with. After doing this project I felt that I was exposing too much in the image. The piece seemed too obvious and was highly sentimental. I decided it needed to be a design based image with a secret memory behind it that only I really know. I began to just use images of wine bottles, corks and cigar boxes from the shop to create these design based works of memories (image 5, 6, 10, 11). My dad also collected old Toyota Land-cruisers, so I went out and photographed them. I used circle parts of one of the Land-cruisers to make a collage (image 7). When I see things that were my dad’s and remind me of him it creates a collage of memories in my mind. Image 7 of the car parts reminds me of the many rides and conversations we had it in it.
1. What is the central idea of your concentration? (500 characters or less)
ReplyDeleteThe central idea of my concentration is a mixture of ideas reflected by a mixture of materials that I used. I was very inspired by the lack of identity people had in the 18th and 19th century. The whimsical and over the top lifestyle of these aristocrats overshadowed who they actually were as an individual. Their material goods were what defined them as a person. I tried to convey this lack of identity by adding the heads of different animals onto these characters. These scenes also encompass how the elite class of each time period hides behind their wealth and power. I used both colorful paint and patterned paper in my paintings to reflect the very excessive and busy style of this time period.
2. How does the work in your concentration demonstrate the exploration of your idea? You may refer to specific images as examples. When referencing specific images, please indicate the image numbers. (1350 characters maximum)
The major theme throughout my concentration was the loss of identity in material goods. I used Marie Antoinette as my inspiration as I felt that she accurately embodied the definition of excess. When most people think of her they do not think of who she is or what she did, but rather how wealthy and over the top she was.
I knew that a flamboyant Marie Antoinette-inspired scene would accurately represent materialism, but I felt that these busy scenes would not represent their loss of identity. So to display this loss of identity, I decided to add different animal heads to each character. Throughout literature and art, animals have always been used as comparisons to show a loss of humanity and individualism.
When I started, I felt as if each piece required very busy and bright painting techniques to get across my point (as seen in images 4 and 10). However, as my paintings evolved, I found that a more neutral color palette with a simple image would be just as powerful (as seen in image 1). Throughout my concentration, I felt that my ideas and concepts became more refined in accurately displaying a lack of identity within the elite class.
The central idea of my concentration is a mixture of ideas reflected by a mixture of materials. I was inspired by the lack of personal identity of the upper class during the 18th and 19th century. The whimsical and over the top lifestyle of these aristocrats often overshadowed who they actually were as an individual. Their material goods were what defined them as a person. I used heads of different animals onto these characters to convey a lack of human identity. These scenes also encompass how the elite class of each time period hides behind their wealth and power. I used both colorful paint and patterned paper in my paintings to reflect the excessive and busy style of this time period.
DeleteThe major theme throughout my concentration was the loss of identity through material goods. I used Marie Antoinette as my inspiration as I felt that she accurately embodied the definition of excess. When most people think of her, they do not think of who she is or what she did, but rather how wealthy and over-the-top she was. I knew that a flamboyant Marie Antoinette-inspired scene would accurately represent materialism, but I felt that these busy scenes would not represent their loss of identity. I decided to add different animal heads to each character to strip them of their personal identity. Throughout literature and art, animals have often been used as comparisons or human representatives. When I started, I felt as if each piece required very busy and bright painting techniques to get across my point (as seen in images 4 and 10). However, as my paintings evolved, I found that a more neutral color palette with a simple image would be just as powerful (as seen in image 1). Throughout my concentration, I felt that my ideas and concepts became more refined in accurately displaying a lack of identity within the elite class.
1. What is the central idea of your concentration?
ReplyDeleteThe central idea of my concentration is focusing on my irrational fears throughout my life. Each painting is a different fear of mine that have given me anxiety at one point or another. Some of these fears I have overcome, but most still sit in the back of my mind.
2. How does the work in your concentration demonstrate the exploration of your idea?
Every piece in my concentration is focused on a different fear of mine that I have had throughout my life. Each work helped me understand how irrelevant my fears are which helped me get over them in a distant way. I wanted to show how fears affect people’s lives, specifically mine, no matter how rational they are. In each painting, I used several different textures by incorporating paper into the pictures. This physical appearance tied all of them together, as well as added to the craziness of my fears. My most irrational fear out of these is most likely Vacuums (image 1), a childhood fear of them eating me or sucking me up. Image 9, the hospital shows my anxiety of being in hospitals and doctors in general, which was a major anxiety of my childhood to this day. They all have an aspect of abstract, to show the surrealism and irrationality of the fears. My concentration overall, as I went further into it, taught me that my whole life I have had unreasonable anxiety, in image 10, the self-portrait is exhibiting my fear of myself being afraid and my overall anxiety. All the works have the same eerie feel to them and demonstrate how I feel about each in an exaggerated, but accurate, form.
The central idea of my concentration focuses on my irrational fears. Each painting is a different fear of mine that has given me anxiety at one point or another. Some of these fears I have overcome, but most still sit in the back of my mind.
DeleteEvery piece in my concentration is focused on a different fear of mine that I have had throughout my life. Each work helped me understand how irrelevant my fears are which actually has helped a little in getting over them. I wanted to show how fears affect people’s lives, specifically mine, no matter how rational they are. In each painting, I used several different textures by incorporating paper into the pictures. This physical appearance tied all of them together, as well as added to the visual craziness of my fears. My most irrational fear out of these is most likely vacuums (image 1). I had a childhood fear of them eating me or sucking me up. Image 9, the hospital shows my anxiety of being in hospitals and doctors in general, which was a major anxiety of my childhood and continues to this day. They all have an aspect of abstract and surreal, to show irrationality of the fears. My concentration overall, as I went further into it, taught me that my whole life I have had unreasonable anxiety. In image 10, the self-portrait is exhibiting my fear of myself being afraid and my overall anxiety. All the works have the same eerie feel to them and demonstrate how I feel about each in an exaggerated, but accurate, form.
1) The central idea of my concentration is growth. Without growth in the world, there would be no progress, no transformations in nature, and no air for us to breathe. The human race takes advantage of this growth, it fuels our entire being. That is why I chose this concentration idea because without it we would not have intricate works of nature or even human thoughts.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I played off of the artistic ideal of art through growth. Specifically through my use of natural materials, such as deer antlers. I portrayed the ideal that art can be made naturally. In many situations, with few additive materials, I was able to sculpt with Earth-made clay, wood, branches, and antlers. It was truly a challenge to incorporate natural materials in the manner that I did.
2)My works focus on art through nature. The biomorphic antler sculptures and their natural movement with colorful pallets give nature a new outlook. One has to focus on what is is truly made of, in order to understand the central idea behind it. Antlers are natural byproducts of mammals, and in a very organic method, I was to able to utilize empty space and dramatic sculptures. Although these sculptures do not directly portray growth, they embody the idea of growth through their natural origin. (Images…)
The series of natural carved pots are molded and shaped into the idea of this upward growth that the antlers had also. In the same way that an antler grows upward, my clay figure pots suggest the upward growth of a seed toward sunlight, with a very earth-bound color pallet (Image…). On the contrary, the wood grain of the other carved pot suggests the trunk of a tree, with the sporadic color pallet that the biomorphic antler sculptures possessed.
A natural leaf erupting from the body of a peach, reaching and yearning for sunlight. This outward growth or fungal decay ties very closely with the carved wooden stump (Image..). Each piece ties in some aspect of natural growth, whether through fungi, orchid shaped structure, wide reaching octopi tentacles that erupt from a table, or a growing, spotted sea anemone. I wanted to represent all aspects and environment of this wide-ranging, continually growing and morphing life that we live.
Specifically, the “freak of nature” sculpture ties all this into place. A clay, carved human face with trees and vines erupting from his cranium, very accurately portrays the growth of humans with nature. Although we alter it to our ways, it is still God-made and not something that we ourselves could create with our own hands, only replicate.
The central idea of my concentration is growth. Without growth in the world, there would be no progress, no transformations in nature, and no air for us to breathe. The human race takes advantage of this growth, it fuels our entire being. Through my use of natural materials, I portrayed the idea that art can be made naturally. In many situations, with few additive materials, I was able to sculpt with Earth-made clay, wood, branches, and antlers.
DeleteMy works focus on art through nature. The biomorphic antler sculptures and their natural movement with colorful pallets give nature a new outlook. One has to focus on what it is truly made of, in order to understand the central idea behind it. Antlers are natural byproducts of mammals, and in a very organic method, I was to able to utilize empty space and dramatic sculptures. Although these sculptures do not directly portray growth, they embody the idea of growth through their natural origin. (Images…)
The series of natural carved pots are molded and shaped into the idea of this upward growth that the antlers had also. In the same way that an antler grows upward, my clay figure pots suggest the upward growth of a seed toward sunlight, with a very earth-bound color pallet (Image…). On the contrary, the wood grain of the other carved pot suggests the trunk of a tree, with the sporadic color pallet that the biomorphic antler sculptures possessed.
A natural leaf erupting from the body of a peach, reaching and yearning for sunlight. This outward growth or fungal decay ties very closely with the carved wooden stump (Image..). Each piece ties in some aspect of natural growth, whether through fungi, orchid shaped structure, wide reaching octopi tentacles that erupt from a table, or a growing, spotted sea anemone. I wanted to represent all aspects and environment of this wide-ranging, continually growing and morphing life that we live.
Specifically, the “freak of nature” sculpture ties all this into place. A clay, carved human face with trees and vines erupting from his cranium, very accurately portrays the bond of humans with nature. Although we alter it to our ways, it is still God-made and not something that we ourselves could create with our own hands, only replicate.
ReplyDelete1. The central idea of my concentration is order in chaos. These projects allowed me to experiment with two of my favorite and most important elements of art—color and structure. I wanted to show that beauty can be found in juxtaposing a relaxed, unconstrained style with repetitive, tedious details.
2. All of my projects share a common theme of finding order in chaos. In some pieces, such as images and , the order is more obvious; however, in others, images and , the order underlies the chaos but vaguely seeps through. For my concentration, the process is just as important as the end product. In images and , I started with basic shapes, pallet knifed over them, and then used gel medium to pull the shapes back through. Throughout my pieces, I used a variety of materials including gold leaf, oil pastels, colored pencil, gel, and templates to create different textures and overall feels. At the same time, I explored color schemes. In image , I used brighter colors but in images and , I used neutrals. I discovered that neutrals with a pop of color are very pleasing to the eye.
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