Collection #12

David Gilbert- Studio, 2011

I think this is a very cool peice of art, David Gilbert uses the artists habitat as his mediam for his work. He will stage a studio and then create the light and photograph it to have a really cool looking photo to show you the crazyness of a real studio, but also the things around that are used to inspire the artist and the actual setting of where the artist would work! All the objects work together to help you understand the story. In this scene there is lots of colors and it reminds me of a kids birthday partty!

I also love all the hearts around and the randome things laying on the floor like the lamp, tools, and string!

David Gilbert was born in 1982 and lives in Los Angelos, CA. In 2004 he went to Tisch School of the Arts, New York Unversity and in 2011 he went to UC RIverside in CA. He is a newer artist and just started to gte noticed in 2010.

Darwin Martin House

Friday we went to the Darwin Martin House. It was such a beautiful and different house from all the other homes in Buffalo. Darwin Martin worked with Frank Lloyd Wright to make this house of everyones dreams. It was so advanced for homes of that day because it had a kitchen inside, when that was uncalled for back then! The house was made out of bricks that were aupposed to look like silk wrapping around the house, it was framed with tons of beautiful stainglass windows, and had a not so obvious hidden entry to be something different than Victorian style. He wanted his home to seem like something that sprouted up from the earth, and nature was something very important to the house, where they had huge planters and plants all around with all the newest technologies. The inside of the house was a very open floorplan but still seperated diffferent rooms with lowing the cielings instead of using walls. If the cielings were low that meant to walk through.

I really enjoyed this tour because I love walking through cool homes in general, if its Mumford, a open house, or just my friend's house I think houses are all so unique and different. It;s cool to see things in houses you never could have imagined on your own, like how did Wright come up with this plan? It is so unique and a masterpeice!

It is so cool that they are doing all they can to restore this to its original beauty, The tour lady said it was abandoned for 17 years (or maybe it was 14?) and then the house kind of fell apart. They have put alot of money and hard work into it, $44 million so far and they are still expecting to put another $11 million into it!

It was a very nice tour and such a beautiful day for it, was definitly a great way to end the semester, and I got my mom a beautiful wooden lantern with the stainglass pattern on it so she can enjoy some of the beauty of this house!

Collection #11

This is the picture I chose for my collection this week, it is 12"x16" acrylic on canvas, done in 2010 by Maya Hayuk.

Maya Hayuk loves symetry and bright colors. She likes to embrace sexuality and spirituality in her work. She does huge murals alot. But also works with other artists and musicians. She has worked on Album Covers and stage sets for well known artists like The Beastie Boys, Rye Rye/M.I.A., TV on the Radio, Oakley Hall, Dan Deacon, and many more. She went to Skoowhegan School of Painting and Sculpting in 2011.

I like this painting of the Elephant because of the bright colors and eyes, I also like the interesting patterns, they remind me of something that would be in Henna art or something! Because of the eyes that she painted on, all the other dots she uses make you think of eyes so you end up seeing/imaganing more than the four eyes that are actually there. I think this peice is very fun and young vibe!

Chevy Sonic Street Art

The other day I saw a commercial for Chevy Sonic and it briefly said that they made a street art car and said go to letsdothis.com to see more. So when I did I found this cool video. It kind of has to do of our ongoing topic of 'Is it considered art?' I think just because a robot did it, Jeff Soto, a muralist artist, was still the one who was driving the car and they had to plan the movements the robotic arms would go before too. So I do think this can be considered art.

Jeff Soto is a muralist painter that graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 2002. He also has his work in the Jonathan Levine Gallery in New York City. He started seeing graffiti around when he was 13 and started becoming curious and interested. At first he was sceptical that a robot could do what a human could. But decided to give it a try. The robot was nto easy to control but he thought that was part of the fun, and made things up as he was going. He didnt habe it all planned, and said, "I love that about art making, embracing the unknown." This robotic art car seems strange to a lot of people, but could be a new style of art coming up. Technology is becoming more and more important in people's lives now, they want things fast and perfect and maybe artists will begin to use technology more to make new and exciting art. They can make things bigger and faster than ever before.

But this isent like the car did all the work, Jeff Soto also got out an started painting himself. I think it makes it cool how him and the car kind of worked on the mural together.

Collection #9

Gallex by Laura Redburn, available as a print, 2012

I loveeeee this peice of art! It is so cool! I love the way the building is very odl looking and looks like it was taken with a old camera, and the different colorful paper rain drops, all over a beautiful pale women with red lipstick. It is so neat!!! The way the raindrops cover her face conceals her in a way.

This artist goes be Cardboard Cities and is currently studing a BA in illustration in Cardiff. She completed a ND in graphic design in 2008.


All of her work is dream like collages, and they are all very interesting and fun to look at, to see more go to her website: http://cardboardcities.co.uk/post/20008133787/gannex

Letter Press

In class Friday we watched the film Proceed and Be Bold. It was about a man named Amos Kennedy who gave up a lot to follow his dream. He used to work for ATT which I didn't even know ATT has been around that long. But he was making good money there but was not happy. So he learned about letterpress and was fascinated by it, and he used it to make bold statements and question people's actions. He was happy then, and still is even though he is living somewhere that can barely be called a house. I admire what he did, because it is something very few people have the courage to do. He risked everything for something he wasent positive was going to work out. I would never be able to do what he did because I like living comfortably too much and want financial security, like most people.

I think that his posters are really neat looking and especially like the ones where he uses different colors and fonts to overlap words, like the poster above. The texture is also cool!

I think that he is a very unique person, who likes his overalls and pink shirts! And that he has the courage to make art his life and make sacrifes for it, he is definitly someone to admire!!

Collection #8

I always loved collages, I think they are the coolest thing, and so fun to make! So this week I decided to collect a art collage! The artist's name is Francisca Pageo, asd she is from Spain.

I like how her collages look like she used really old magazines or photgraphs to cut out the subjects. Like this face looks like it could have been off a beauty magazine from the 60s! And the gray colored paper reminds me of an elephant. The teal colored papers look like drips, And the top looks like an old camera? Collages are cool because you can see different things in them and everyone has a different interpratation. Kind of like when you look at clouds and everyone sees something different!

This collage is Untitled. Collage 24x32cm. done in March 2012

Albright Knox Gallery

I loved going to the Albright Knox museum, it was only my second time there, the first was 4th grade. It was cool to see really famous and expensive art up close. We looked at a Picaso that didnt seem like it would be a Picasso. There was two girls in it, one looked like she was a servant but painted more Eygptian style and the other was a front view of a girl that was like Greek/Roman style. We also looked at a huge painting that people have argued that a toddler could do but you can tell it was thought out a little. The painting took a long time and some of the paint splatters were big and some were small, the colors went well together. And the orange paint really made the peice work.We also saw some miminalist paintings like the ones Herb and Dorothy would collect, one was orange plexiglass hooked to the wall that made the wall glow orange, and one was two rectangular blocks. We saw that you don't actually have to create everything to be an artist, if it's your idea then you are the artist. The person who made the orange plexiglass art didn't actually make it and probubly didnt even hang it but it was still his idea and plan. We also saw a big mural of just pencil lines by the staircase. The aritst died before it was produced but it was still his concept which makes him the artist. Another big glowing neon sticks sculpture that was upstairs is another example of this. He didn't make the glowing sticks but it was still his plan. Another thing that I learned was great art isent always planned out exactly, things can happen unexpectedly and it can come out greater than planned. We looked at a huge oil painting where the artist covered it with newspaper and the print accidently got printed on to it, it looked very cool but was not planned. He even named it with something to do with the print. Another thing we looked at when we were there was a room with projecters and red colors going across a screen with glass throwing in the background. It was kinda spooky like a haunted house. And I felt bored after being inside. It did nothing for me, just thought it was weird. We also looked at some photographs that went around the room where the aritist was everysingle person and acted out a play. It was really neat!! I definitly would go back to the ALbright Knox it was fun and exciting!

Collection #7

The peice of art I decided to collect this week is titles Violet Berry and done by Maria Aoaricio. She works with photographers and then uses a needle and thread to add visual element to the photos, it's reallly neat. This would be cool to see in real life since it is multimedia art.

The way that she builds the thread up in the empty space really makes you aware of it. It looks like a jungle gym on a playground that you just want to climb. It's very cool looking and is something I would like to try out with a photograph and needle and thread!

This is another picture of hers I wanted to share... you can see the connection that this couple has and the way she threaded there faces together is like showing a magnetic field that they have going on. A plain photograph can't show how much these two people are drawn to each other, but adding the thread really shows you what's going on, and their love.

The way she threads these photographs makes you feel like your being pulled into them and understand whats going on.

Maria Aparicio lives and works in Chile. In 2008 she recieved a degree in Architect at the University of Chile. She always loved visual arts which is what got her interested in Architect. Then, in 2011 she recieved her Masters in Urban Design at the University of Barcelona, Spain. Since she is a new artist she has only had a few shows but had one last month at the Savage Art Gallery in Tulsa, Oklahaoma. And a show this month in Toronto at The Drake Hotel.

She uses other people's photographs which she mainly finds on Flickr because she doesn't have the time now and is not that good at photography yet to use her own, but someday wishes too. She uses photos that have cerain geometric patterns, that she can see the need for connection.

Her art is very cool and I suggest you all look at more of it!

CEPA/Hallwalls Galleries

Last time we had class we went to both CEPA and Hallwalls which are both photography based galleries. CEPA was started by Buff. State students and Hallwalls was started by UB students and they both were opened about 40 years ago. CEPA is in a really cool building called Market Arcade off Main St. When we were there we had the chance to see what it's like for the gallery to figure out where they want to hang the art, and it was all still on the ground. They were doing an auction in a few weeks and still waiting for some more art to come in before they hung it up. There was a guy telling us all about CEPA and its history, and how a lot of artists became famous because of CEPA. This gallery has opened a lot of doors for young college aged students. And we found out that its only $35 to become a member and they have a member's show where they take a piece of art from every single member and display it, which could help your career out. I was hoping to get more of a chance to see the artwork downstairs and in the other rooms but we kind of just got the history about CEPA instead of actually seeing what was there now. The only artist we really got to look at was Milton Rogovin at 100 Photographs by Aaron Ingrao, which was like a timeline of photographs describing Milton's life, about how he was a doctor, but then he became a communist so they wouldn't let him be a doctor anymore so he became an artist.


After CEPA we went to Hallwalls which is located in a church on Delaware. We looked at a show called Our Time by Sarah Baker. She is an independant woman who knows how to get what she wants and has a weird idea of art, but it is still art. The thing I liked most was the two walls with the big blown up faces, I don't know if that was something she did but it looked really cool. She made a soap opera with Buffalo actors and actresses that was playing when we were there, I on;y saw a couple minutes of it but it looked like a real soap opera. She also had a weird fasination with Airport Plaza Jewelers. There was a room dedicated to it where there was a huge photo with her and the owner with their signatures. Also she had an old style TV in the middle of the room that had the commercial she did with them and an interview with her as the guest star on the Kiosk Presents. I just thought that whole show was weird!! It just seemed tacky..

Collection #6

Infini, by Fabiola Govare, 2012, 100x81, paint on aluminum plate, lacquered finish

Fabiola Govare used to be a dancer, and that is how he fell in love with painting, because of the movement. His whole website is in French so I had to use Google Translator to figure out what it said. He has a passion for art and he loves to use color in all of his paintings. When I see all the faces with all the different colors it represents diversity and culture to me. It is all beautiful.

Scary Art

Friday in class we looked at a slideshow of scary art. Honestly I don't really like art that is scary but pretty, appealing art. But there is something about things that are weird that you can't look away.

I came across an artist named Francesco Sambo who is from Italy and a digital artist. He has a series called Bestiario, that has 9 human/animal collaberations. He makes the human body look so animalesk it's weird, but very interesting.

He also did a series called the dark side where he has pictures of weird alien hoolow eyed babies which all have something creepy going on. Ones a clown, one has a chain around its neck, one has a knife, They are all very creepy but very well rendered.

The more of his art I see the creepier it gets. He also has a collection called Masquerade, which is all kinds of creepy tatooed guys in masks doing creepy things. In the one picture the man is licking a huge knife.

And the last collection of his I'm going to share is his self portraits. They are not the run of the mill self portraits though. They are dark and weird!

Even though this man is dark and creepy, He is definitly an artist who has an amazing imagination. I would  never be able to think of the things he does. It makes you wonder how sane this person is.

Collection #5

I fell in love with this painting at first sight! It is beautiful and colorful and has texture. The patterns of the flowers are amazing.

Its title is Flowers for Jolie. It is painted in acrylic on a wood panel by a artist from South Caroline named Lulie Wallace.

This artist studied art at the College of Charleston, which is the school my twin sister goes too!All of her paintings are of flowers in vases and they all are bright and colorful with unique patterns!

Here is her website: http://luliewallace.bigcartel.com/category/painting

The Blind Artist

This week I wasn't sure what to write about but decided to write about blind artists. Especially a man named John Bramblitt, who was left blind at age 30 from complications of epiletsy. He was so depressed for a while after it happened, but then learned to paint. Art turned his world around, he could tell the difference of colors by the texture and had a lot of emotion to put into his painting. He can feel a persons face and be able to paint them very close even though he never saw them before.

Here is a video if him talking about his art and shows some of it: http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-18563_162-20037973.html


And here is some of his work and a picture of him teaching younger kids his techniques

This goes to show you that just because someone may have a disability doesn't mean they can't be a artist. John Bramblitt is very talented and he wasn't blind until he was 30 and before that he had no idea how to paint. His paintings are very colorful and filled with emotion!

His story is amazing!

Collection #4

I'm in Charleston, SC for Spring Break. So I decided to collect something from here for this week. I've been walking by a lot of galleries but haven't had much time to go look around, so instead I looked up the local artists on Etsy. Her name is Faith Evans-Sills and she grew up in New York City, but her dream was to live on the ocean and paint so she moved to Charleston.

This is called Our Love and was done on 14 by 11 canvas.

The artist wrote this poem about her husband when painting it.

::Our love is....

a soul mirror,
life's sweet blossom,
my sun and moon,
a gentle touch,
a refining fire,
a soothing balm,
my thoughts echo,
a cleansing elixir,
resounding friendship,
the warmest embrace,
an honest reflection,
God's gift,
a deep gaze,
a joyful breath,
wild abandon,
a safe haven,
a counter balance,
a quenching well,
a quiet whisper,
my candle's light.::

UB Anderson Gallery

Last friday we went to the Anderson Gallery. It was hidden away in a unsuspecting place but very established! I was sick this day so didn't spend any extra time to walk around afterwords but luckily we had a good tour! We learned Martha Jackson really was the person to make this gallery so succesful in the first place. Back in World War II art scene she was one of the most well known art dealers around. She is from Buffalo, and she used her families trust funds to start her art collection which she would sell and buy more to get the collection around today.


In 1990 the Anderson Galley was opened. When Anderson retired in 2000 it was donated to UB, where it continue to be a educational gallery with many historical and new pieces arriving!

When I was there we saw three artists; Chunwoo Nam, Kevin B O'Callahan, and Harold Cohen, as well as an exhibit called Craven's World with artifacts and art peices from all different times and places that bring our world together!

Chunwoo Nam  was an Asian artist who does work that makes a statement on the impact of globalization, environmental issues, social and economic impact worldwide. He did a very interesting  work where he took China and the USA to compare them. He showed that they have their conflicts but they also work together to maximize their profits. He did most of his work in lithographs which is a type of printmaking. He is a newer artist and all of his work made a statement and that was explained through the title.

The next artist we saw was Kevin B  O'Callaham who was born in 1902. He did a lot of his work during the Great Depression where he would go in to all kinds of work places to sketch and took advantage of all different kinds or angles and views! He was known for his positive and negative space which was very effident from far away as well as up close. I loved all his detail its amazing how he could do that in his prints. They were so good!!

The last artist we saw was upstairs and that was Harold Cohen. He was a very educated man who was interested in building health awareness and medical things, making them fun but educational!!

This gallery was a good experience, I would like to go back when I was feeling better though because I didn't want to get out of bed that mornings, but it is free so it's nice to know I can go back whenever!!!

Collection #3

I was looking around online and I found this Bulorussian artist named Leonid Afremov. I found some of his paintings and had to zoom on the tiny and hard to read signature and keep trying different things until I finally found some info on him! He was born in 1955 and his works are very different from other artists. He works with oils and a palette knife. He does not do many exhibits and stays away from galleries. Instead he sells his work on Ebay. His early paintings were influenced by Marc Chagall and Modigliani. He just wants the world to see the world how he sees it! All his paintings have a watery look to them and are very vibrant and colorful! The way he uses the palette knife makes it look like little squares of glossy paper cut out and put all together to make a picture!

Los Angeles 1930, cannot find date done.

I can't find the exact date but a lot of his paintings are reacent. Like in the 2000s.

"I tried different techniques during my career, but I especially fell in love with painting with oil and pallette-knife. Every artwork is the result of long painting process; every canvas is born during the creative search; every painting is full of my inner world. Each of my paintings brings different mood, colors and emotions. I love to express the beauty, harmony and spirit of this world in my paintings. My heart is completely open to art. Thus, I enjoy creating inspired and beautiful paintings from the bottom of my soul. Each of my artworks reflects my feelings, sensitivity, passion, and the music from my soul. True Art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression."

~ Leonid Afremov

Collection #2

For my second item in my collection I would like to do my favorite painting, Wind from the Sea by Andrew Wyeth.

Wind from the Sea, Andrew Wyeth, 1948, Tempera, 19"x28".

Wyeth painted this picture in the Olson House, which is where he painted over 300 of his pictures.

I really like this picture because of the way he painted the curtains, I think it is amazing and you can actually feel the wind.

This is the actual window Wyeth painted from.



Burchfield Penney Arts Center

On Friday we all went to Burchfield Penney Arts Center and my first impression was how it was very very different than the Buffalo Arts Studio. It seemed a lot more established and formal. They had a gift shop and a more finished look to the building. All of Charles Burchfield's paintings were in big frames and look very properly framed. But I really enjoyed the Charles Burchfield exhibit.

Charles Burchfield was born in Ashtabula, Ohio in 1893, and raised in Salem, Ohio. In 1921 Burchfield got engaged and moved to Buffalo, where he was a wallpaper designer for H.M. Birge. Then he wanted to do painting full time so he moved to Gardenville, NY and raised his family there.
He painted a lot of watercolors, and they all had to do with the weather, which he documented everyday. You can tell by looking at his paintings; the time of day, weather, season, and everything that was going on. I loved Charles Burchfield's paintings. I thought they were so beautiful. It was neat to see all his notes and if you looked close at the paintings you could see little notes under the paint and the initial drawing.

First we saw Burchfield's earlier works, which were very good but when we went through the next room to see his later works, you could see how much he improved. There was more color and more detail and he would take older paintings and add to them, and even use his wallpaper techniques to add on paper to make them bigger.

When I look at Burchfield's paintings online I don't like them nearly as much as I did when I was there. They look so much better in person and the online photos do not do him justice.

Next we saw Jackie Felix's paintings, which I didn't like. You could tell by her paintings that she had a hard life. It seemed like she went through abuse by the weird dolls and all the sexual paintings. You could feel her anger by all the big crazy brush strokes. She used bright colors and her paintings were not easy to ignore. She does a good job of giving a message, although sometimes it's not clear to what exactly everything means. There is a lot of ways to interprupt it. Over all I would much rather look at Burchfield's paintings than Jackie's.

Collecting Art

In class last friday we talked all about collecting art. We saw how Herb and Dorothy Vogel started collecting art when they realized the art out there was better than there own. I wish that they still would have tried to work on their art because it takes practice and learning to get better at art sometimes. But they then made a life long routine of going out to art galleries and shows and familiarizing themselves with the artists around New York city. And started collecting the minimalistic style that they liked. They started collecting that art because all the pop art of that time was extremely expensive and they wanted to be collectors themselves. They were really drawn to this type of art and ended up buying so much to fill their entire apartment. Then the donated all there art to the National Gallery of Art even though they had many money offers. The Gallery could only take 1000 peices of art so they decided to start a program to donate 50 art peices to each of the 50 states. (Website showing the 50 for 50; http://vogel5050.org/) When the Gallery cleared out the Vogels home they were hoping that they would get the home they never had with a couch and proper furniture, but the Vogels suprised them and bought more art, only to fill up their home once again. Personally, I wouldn't want to live their, it reminded me of the show Hoarders when I first saw it, but that is what makes them happy, and if they didn't collect all that art and give up everything for it the National Gallery of Art would never have that great collection. They made a sacrifice for art which is pretty meaningful.

In my life I've collected lots of things. My family has a cottage up in Long Point Beach, Canada so when I was little I was always bringing buckets of rocks, shells, and just random little things I found; like popped ballons, feathers, ribbons or beach glass. When I finally would get too much my dada would secretly throw away all the rocks and I would just keep bringing back more. I still will pick up rocks when I go, and my parents bought me a rock tumbler for Christmas this year, which didn't work as well as I hoped. I always want to make something with the rocks; like a picture frame or glue them all over a wood box. But for now, there sitting in some old jars and glasses in my room.

I do collect things, especially when I was younger with stuffed animals, Barbies, procelain dolls, hairs accesories, jewelery, crazy socks, candles, stickers, and bottle caps. Now that I'm older I think it would be fun to collect some art. I might wait till I have a house though so I can have room to hang the art up all around. I would like to save up for a big painting!

I think that Herb and Dorothy were the biggest art collectors of all time, and they influenced many people!!!!

Looking forward to going to the art exhibit friday!!!

Collection #1

My first image in my collection is Falling Into Love by Mark Warren Jacques, 2010.

This is acrylic and ink done on a 11''x13'' canvas board.

I chose this as my first image because I really like all the colors and how you can imagine them spinning to the center. It's titled falling in love and I think the title matches the piece because it is like falling in love. Everything is bright and wonderful and you feel like your spinning when you fall in love!

Mark Warren Jacques was born in Columbus, Ohio in 1984 and now lives in Portland, Oregon.
His friend, Howard Hurst says, "Mark’s paintings trace the lines that connect us all into playful lazy circles." I think his work looks sort of psychadelic.

Here is a video of Jacques talking about his art, and how he thinks it's weird to sell art.
http://vimeo.com/1714290

“I am a painter, a dreamer, a reader, often a thinker, ambitious, and living for love and beauty. My work is a major connector between my body and my mind. Sometimes life is pretty wearing on the soul and the body, so the work becomes a resting place." Mark Warren Jacques

Buffalo Arts Studio

On Friday we went to the Buffalo Arts Studio. I've only been there once before, when I was in Art Appreciation last year. I like this gallery and really want to take a class there, maybe this summer. When we were there we looked at three artists; Megan Greene, Esther Neisen, and Balint Zsako. They all had a common theme of things representing humans mixed with nature.

The first artist we saw was Esther Neisen, an artist from Buffalo. Her pieces all had insects in them, which represented her family members. She worked with multimedia to make a family tree sort of thing. At the top of most of her works there was big circles that either had a red circle, for the people who passed away, or insects which I interperated as important family members. Then branching off she had white circles with I couldn't tell if it was sillhoutes of countries or insects, or both. The art that was done like this I felt was very simple looking but had a lot of meaning for her put into it. It isen't something that I would buy to hang up on my walls but that doesn't mean I didn't like it. I thought that it was fun to learn what the meaning behind it was. And once I understood them better I appreciated it more. She also had two light boxes with insects that if you looked closely were made of negatives of family photos and educational material which were neat too get close to and really look at that tiny pictures!

The next artist we looked at was Megan Greene, who is from Buffalo but now lives in Chicago. I thought that her work was absolutley beautiful! It is something that I would want to hang in my house. She took pictures of birds from the book "Birds of America" with paintings by John James Audubon and altered them too look very appealing. She turned the pictures upside down or sideways. I brought my boyfriend, Shawn, with me and he didn't like how all the pictures were sideways or up side down. But I think that she wanted them that way because that's the way that they looked the prettiest, and they might not be as interesting if they were all the right way. You could tell by looking at each picture that she had spend a lot of time on each one. They all had beautiful shapes, girly things like jewels, and dolls, and arms and colors that all blended together very nicely. I really enjoyed this artist for the realistic but abstract-edness!

The last artist we looked at was Balint Zsako, who was born in Hungary but now lives in Brooklyn. When I first walked into his exhibit area I loved the colorfulness of all the pictures. They were very fun to look at but something younger kids shouldn't look at! His pictures were very illustarative looking because of the colors and amount of detail. When I saw the people in the pictures they looked to me like they were all filled with colors to represent something in nature. Like this painting below reminds me of a sunset!

His paintings represent guilt and pleasure which I think he did a good job at. When you first look at the paintings your first impression is there colorful, child like and fun. But once you actually realize what is going on you realize it's not just that but there is a dark side of the art too.

I looked up this artist and he also has a very different style for some of his work. It has the same idea behind it but it is not bright colors or illustrative looking. I would say some of his other works look like renaissance with a twist. Then he also has these paintings of "heads" that are faces with weird expressions or just filled with color. He sculpts too!!





After looking at the Art Show I enjoyed walking around looking through the artist's studios too. One of them really caught my eye. Rosemarie Bauer Sroka was working on a series called water that was awesome! It was very relaxing to look at I wanted to buy it, paint my room blue and then hang it up!

I really enjoyed the Buffalo Arts Studio, and definitley will go back there for there next show! I think Esther Neisen, Megan Greene, and Balint Zsako all deserved to have there works hanging up there!



Beauty Doesn't Make Art, Art

Well after taking me a day and a half to remember my gmail email and password, I finally have logged into blogger the night before class! Now its on auto remember so that won't happen again!!!!

So I'm looking at my notes from last class and I remember us discussing the debate over what is art and what is not. I was researching on Google and came across this video named What is Art, and What is Not?



This man, Milton Glaser talks about how he distinguishes art. He says that art is something that has helped culture survive, and he also talks about beauty and art.

         "I also believe, curiously, that beauty, which is very often something we confuse with art, is merely a mechanism to move us towards attentiveness. You realize we all have a genetic capacity and need to experience beauty, but beauty is not the ultimate justification for art. It is merely the device by which we are led to attentiveness."- Milton Glaser

He goes on to say that he's decided that he distinguishes art and not art by if it grabs your attention it's art, if it doesn't, it's something else.

I agree with Milton Glaser on his conclusion of what art is because it is not all about beauty, art is something that will grab your attention.

An example of something that grabs my attention is the "Vanitas: Flesh Dress for an Albino Anorectic" by Jana Sterbak. In 1991, this artist took 50 pounds of raw flank steaks and stiched them together to make a dress. It was most famously displayed at the National Gallery of Canada in Ottawa. It was meant to show the contrast between vanity and bodily decay. But this made a lot of Canadians upset, and they protested the work by mailing in food scraps!

Some things will really make you question yourself on what is considered art, but by reading and learning about it all, it helps you have a more open mind. I know both Milton Graser and Jana Sterbak have helped me change my mindset a little bit tonight!

Thoughts on First Class

This isen't my first time in AT-280, but my second. Last time around I didn't try to do well in the class, it was just a class I picked up because my Grandma and mom thought I would enjoy it, which I probouly would if I put some effort into it. But I messed up and stopped caring, and got a D- which took away my chance to get into Dental Hygiene in the fall. So a class I didn't need for major is the one that ruined my chance of getting into the program I wanted, so I'm here again to retake it.

Don't get me wrong though, I like art, a lot. In high school I graduated with my Advanced Regions focusing on art. I took studio art, media arts, drawing, illustration, ceramics, sculpture, painting, and my senior year I was in Portfolio, a small class of I think 5 students where we worked on making up a Portfolio. But I still haven't learned how to put feelings or emotions into my art, I can sit and draw for hours but there is no meaning. I want to learn to understand art more and appreciate it, instead of just looking at work and thinking its pretty.

It's important for us to study art and look at pieces from all different time periods, it could be a few hundred years ago or something that was created last month but that doesn't make one more or less important. It is very cool that we get to go so many places this semester to see every kind of style out there and be proud of the people from our home town that will be in some of these galleries. Since I went to some of these places fall of 2010, when I was in Tom Hughes class,  it will be interesting to go back again to see how things are different! And it's exciting how there will be guided tours, because in Hughes class we would just go to the galleries and walk around on our own, that was still fun. But, it will be a different perspective for someone who knows more about the art to be able to walk us around and explain it to us. I think that will help me appreciate and learn more!

As far as my favorite artist. I don't really have one yet, but I know this semester will open my eyes to new things! If I had to choose someone now I would have to say Andrew Wyeth. I remember when I was in studio art back in 9th grade and my teacher Mr. Lafever would take one class each week to do a slideshow about an artist and show us their most famous pieces, and I always remember the picture of the window open and the curtain blowing, it is probubly my favorite painting. It's named "Wind from the Sea". His painting are all painted in darkish colors but they look very realistic. I just think they are very beautiful!

Andrew Wyeth mostly worked in a realistist style. He was a very well known artist in mid 20th century. A lot of what Wyeth learned was from his dad, who was also an artist.

After having our first class, I know that I'm going to try hard this semester, it is my only class so there is no reason to not do well this time around! I'm new to blogging but I hope to get better at it as well !