Art Application

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Shernel Woodman

Principles of Design

“Train of Thought” by Leo Bridle

Simple Outline

“A Journey for Love”

I. Leo Bridle and Ben Thomas were the film makers.

a. I believe they are in their late 20s and early 30s, and they graduated from the Arts Institute at Bournemouth.

b. From the United Kingdom.

II. The basic structure of the artwork is Film.

a. Material used was digital compositing software and all the animations were done by hand and not the compositing software.

b. The subject of the seemed to be the young artist and he seemed to have been in search of someone. Everything seemed to be between and a gray/sepia scale with a design using cut outs and wooden toys.

III. I think this whole film was based on love.

a. My 1st idea is that he is trying to find the woman he loved. He may have seen her before at the station and drawn her out of memory and may have come back to find her there. When he didn’t, he hopped on the train in search for her only to come up empty. I believe he used his drawing pad as some sort of map as to where she may have been. When he doesn’t find her, he returns to the station once again and this time, he finds her. He then realizes that she may be an artist as well and may have gone through the same processes to find each other.

b. My 2nd idea is that he may have drawn her as well as the other drawings in his book subconsciously and realized this was a woman he had to meet. He then returns to the train station, which is the setting of his drawing. When she doesn’t come, he hops on the train and then goes in search for the woman that he loves. When he doesn’t find her he returns back to the station and that is where he finally sees her. They go towards each other and hold hands, seeming like they both went through the same measures to find each other.

I think the way the film makers used photography and film made this a very interesting form of media. Everything looked cartooned and real at the same time. The train station and the train themselves looked like they were made out of wooden toys and the people all looked like cut outs that were animated to look like they were moving, inside of their cut out frames. This was a well done film and they filmmakers did a wonderful job. I must say it sure caught my attention.

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Linda Hoffman-Ostroff

Techniques, Materials, and Form

Introduction to the Drinking Maiden Exhibition

Story Style

"A Maiden in Born"

My color is milky white and thus a maiden is born... I was created by the great sculptural artist Ernst Wenck in 1901. He created my soft white body by using his strong meticulous hands. He is indeed an artist. I was created in a time when conservatism was not very popular. Because of my intricate detail and the delicate image I carry I became a model for porcelain miniatures.

If you study my structure you see the qualities that may have lead to my continued popularity. I lean forward and you see the muscle tone of my leg by the light that is reflected from my body. My body is heavy while I lean so far forward and place the weight of my body on my knee. You can see my smooth silhouette. My arm and leg conceal my privacy. This image of me captures my long wavy hair and cast a heavy bun on the back of my head. I have small facial features and they project from my sculpture in a way that makes me fragile and still.

I have reached the cold wet refreshing spring water. I bring it to my soft white face and the next moment in time is captured.

Carrsandra Thompson

What is Art? Who Makes Art?

Wimp.com/“How to be Alone “by Tanya Davis

Poetry

“You”

To be alone sounds so sad and blue

But that existence does not have to be true

Be patient in finding what is inside of you

There are so many hobbies that you can do

Spending time alone doing things that you like

Like reading, dancing and riding a bike

For all of the things that you do and say

Learn to be happy with “you” everyday

Chris Kelly

Principles of Design

“Design and the Elastic Mind” by Paola Antonelli

Compare and Contrast

“Innovation”

“The word design is both a verb and a noun, thus design is both a process and a product” (Sayre 5th ed). Design and the Elastic Mind is an exhibition, at the New York Museum of Modern Art, of approximately 200 pieces involving science and technology. Paoloa Antonellie, the shows curator, described the pieces as “running the gamut from minute chemical innovations to cutting-edge computer and sophisticated data visualizations, effectively chronicling the expansive breadth of design today”.

The pieces in the exhibition are all different in their design, materials, and purpose, but they all have a scientific or technology aspect about them. One piece in the exhibition is titled “Mapping the Internet”. This piece is a colorful representation of the major internet connections around the world. This piece is described as a graphical map, with the brightest nodes, representing the locations with the most incoming and outgoing connections. This piece was designed for aesthetic purposes. It shows one of the modern world’s most innovative technologies, the internet or a representation of it, in a colorful creative way.

Another piece in the exhibition is titled “Bees”. This piece is a very intricate handmade glass device with two separate chambers. The piece is described as being a prototype for a medical diagnostic device. The device was designed to assist with diagnosis of diseases by utilizing bees heightened perception of odor. The process involves a patient blowing into one end of the glass devise, and bees trained to detect a certain disease entering another separate chamber guided by a trained odor response. This piece, unlike the previous piece is an actual device that serves a purpose. Even though they are both beautiful in their design, one piece services dual purpose by having functionality.

Shawn New

Essential Elements of Art

Build a Bot Website

Design Analysis Style

"Mechanical Personalities"

This site is an interactive experience designed to challenge the notion of beauty, while at the same time allowing the creator to defile the sacred images of our society. The designer of this site is merely a facilitator, providing the viewer with the tools to create. Here, meaning is derived through use of proportion, color, space, unity and balance.

On a blank grid, the viewer assembles a bot from a selection of body parts -- an eye from one source, an ear from another. All of these are taken from popular icons - Darth Vader is one example. By enlarging a particular feature, the viewer-artists can create dominance and a focal point for her/her work. And because the pieces can be resized, the viewer-artist is using proportion. However, while this principle is often used to create a sense of depth or size, with the bot the proportion is distorted. This is a desired effect for this exhibition; the popular icons that society worships are larger than life. We give them a disproportionate amount of validity.

The bots are composed of 3-dimensional illustrations, yet they never come off as more than a 2-dimensional collage on the screen. This is significant, because it speaks to the lack of depth our sacred icons have. The bots also lack unity and balance, and it is through this that the site designers again reinforce their message. Finally, the colors of the various parts do not match; the left eye is a difference color than the right eye, the skin tones vary from part to part, etc.

The point here is to distort the elements of design to attack the popular images of our culture that are so burned into our minds. By deconstructing them and reassembling them as something grotesque, the creator can see them for what they truly are.

Karen Hughes

What is Art? Who Makes Art?

The Blue Chicken, by Spassmonkey

Adjective Style: sonorant, unfocused, stagnated, faded, spectacular, upbeat, solitary, eremitic, intoxicating, stark, unblemished, alabaster, dazzling, enlightened

"A Bird's Eye View"

The sonorant, external stimulus emanating from "The Blue Chicken", artwork by Spassmonkey, slams into my unfocused retina. It vibrates to my stagnated cerebral cortex allowing filtration through my being, a sorting of the senses is occurring. The fourth role of the artist, "to help us see the world in new and innovative ways", has been accomplished and a transformation for this viewer is achieved. I am jousted out of my complacency, uprooted from narrowed expectations of art, and forced into seeing life anew (Sayre, 3rd ed.)