New Work Inprogress, Including Smaller Works

Still working on the tape layering, also wondering if I want to stay with the same color scheme.

New Work Including The Smaller Works

Artists Statement

I truly enjoy the process of layering tape, and being able to cut away new and old layers of tape. Working with my hands and expressing myself, I found that I can manipulate tape in many ways even using the crazy color schemes I chose.
I used strong bold colors such as bright red, black, gold, silver, and neon green. The reason I chose these colors's were because I found them to be relatable to everyday objects and things around us that we take for granted. This was also the reason I started experimenting and working with tape. They are both ordinary everyday materials that can be layered and morphed using lines and symbols to create a work of art. I hope that my work can create a sense of chaos, and how that feeling of craziness was implemented in the carving of the tape.
Another way I manipulated this material was by incorporating small details and designs throughout the carvings to help symbolize the feelings and emotions such as anxious, busy, and stressfulness of life. Our lives are like roads that are meant to be traveled, and sometimes they lead to mysterious places, ether way everyone has their own road and they are always complicated.
As for this work, I decided to change everyday materials to convey the craziness of life around us, while also creating intriguing patterns that have many different levels to help catch the viewers eyes. Lastly creating a work of art using tape to create straight lines was enjoyable because it solelt depended on the line-work of the tape. Hopefully each line can lead the viewer to a different place in their minds, memories, or lives.

 

In Progress Photos

But is it Art ? Responce

But is that Art?

Chapter 7: Digitizing and disseminating:  

1.       Select one of your own works and relate it to a specific idea presented in this chapter? If you cannot find a connection, describe why your work is divergent.

            Throughout reading this chapter, I read about Bill Viola whom has worked with the latest video technologies (supplied with equipment by SONY) in experiments before broad release. His work explores modes of perception through editing and installation displays. Viola creates entire atmospheres by projecting video images onto walls or across people in the gallery. I really enjoyed reading about his travels and works and I believe this work is similar to one of my video works that I recreated Nightfall by Bas Jan Adner. The similarities of our work is mainly the fact that we both used Video production to manipulate and transform our videos, for mine I took out the sound, and color, and for Bill Viola he created and added the sound and the imagery.  They both differ from each other, but also  incorporate many of the same techniques.

 

Pick one work in this chapter and answer the following questions. What ideas drive the work selected? Who was it created for? What purpose does fill? What questions does it raise?

            The work I chose to write about is Bill Viola’s The Crossing.  From reading about this work I believe the idea that drove this work were his the combined astonishing visual imagery with texts and readings. This piece fills the entire room with harrying sounds of wind and storms created through electronic static.  All of these elements were electronically created to portray this sense of storminess. I really enjoy how his work was a video piece, and believe this helps portray the essence of a rainy stormy day. I believe this work was created for everyone, and portrays his efforts and purpose of trying to manipulate both sounds and visual imagery to portray the sense of reality.  I feel like people would ask questions such as “ Why not record a storm? How hard is it to create a virtual storm? Why is there a person in the water, and what does he represent?  And I feel like the reason for that person in the storm is to resemble the choices and roads you chose in life. Thus I would definitely suggest taking a look at some of  Bill Violas video works.

 

2.      List any ideas that are new to you in this chapter.

 We can explore genres and painters and zoom in to scrutinize details. The Louvre’s Website offers spectacular 360 degree panoramas of artworks like  the Venus de Mio. Such tours may become ever more multi- sensory by drawing on virtual reality (VR) technology, which includes things like goggles and gloves. Lighting and stage set designers like architects, already use this technology in their work. Pg 178

 

            Notes:

·        It is not just visual art that has been made more widely accessible by new technologies of reproduction. Operas, plays, and ballet performances are regularly broadcast on TV, and more people know the music of Bach and Beethoven from CDs or radio than from live concerts in churches or symphony halls. Pg 178

·        Viola contradicts McLhan’s view that the medium has inherent possibilities to alter perception, because he believes an artist must work in advance to achieve enhanced perception. Pg 191

Work In Progress shots

But is that Art? Response's

But is that Art?

Chapter 6: Cognition, creation, comprehension:  

1.       Select one of your own works and relate it to a specific idea presented in this chapter? If you cannot find a connection, describe why your work is divergent.

            Throughout reading this chapter, I read about Diego Velazquez's  work Las Meninas, 1656. In this painting the artists depicts himself creating a painting? creating the question, is it this painting? Throughout viewing this image I feel like this work differs from most if not all of my works. When I create a work using the same medium (paints) I would have never incorporated myself in the work because I feel like it would take away from the essence that I would be trying to portray. Although the work " does depict many modes of visual reality, including pictures, doorways, people, and even light itself." pg 164 Which are a lot of similar elements that I would incorporate in my paintings, I believe It all depends on the work , and your intention for the piece. As for Diego Velazquez's work he presents a kind of "paradox or conundrum to viewers. It is hard to interpret because of visual puzzles it raises. Regardless there are similar and different qualities from this work that can relate to some of my paintings. Mainly his use or reality.

Pick one work in this chapter and answer the following questions. What ideas drive the work selected? Who was it created for? What purpose does fill? What questions does it raise?

            The work I chose to write about is Andy Warhol's Brillo Box. From reading about this work I believe the idea that drove this work was " that this, too, can be art'- unlike the ordinary soap-pad boxes in a grocery store." Pg 149 It seems like this work was created for everyone, and that the purpose of this piece was to change people's perceptions of art. This is apparent because  "Sometimes critics can advance interpretations that artists themselves reject. The book describes interpenetrations as explanations of how a work functions to communicate thoughts,  emotions, and ideas. A good interpretation must be grounded in reasons and evidence, and should provide a rich, complex, and illuminating way to comprehend a work of art. Sometimes an interpretation can even transform an experience of an art form (such as these Brillo Box's) from repugnance to appreciation and understanding. " pg 150  Questions that this work could raise would be "Does art bear a message in the way language does? What must we know to clarify an artworks meaning: external facts about the artists lives, or internal facts about how their works were made?" And what aesthetic feeling can you convey from this piece if any.

 

 

2.      List any ideas that are new to you in this chapter.

            People have debated for centuries about the meaning of some works of art- for example, the Mona Lisa's smile. Does art bear a message in the way language does? What must we know to clarify an artworks meaning: external facts about the artists lives, or internal facts about how their works were made? Can we just look at an artwork for enjoyment?

            Notes:

·         Gender and sexual preference- together with nationality, ethnicity, politics, and religion- all seem to have some impact on the meaning of art. pg 148

·         Buddhist art can't have a Christian meaning, nor would Brillo Box make sense to people in ancient Athens. But Australian Aboriginal dot paintings might resemble modern art canvases from Paris and New York, but the artists aim and intentions are very different. Pg 149

·         Expression and the cognitive theories of art hold that art communicates: it can communicate feelings and emotions, or thoughts and ideas. Interpretation is important because it helps explain how art does this. Art acquires meaning in part from its context. Pg 149