Beall Center Museum!!!

Here arriving at the Beall Center Museum with just me and Keno.  This was last week on Wednesday 11/30/11.

I really liked the background here.  The graffiti is an awesome type of artwork. I really disagree when people think its just vandalism.  But if it werent being done as a crime and on an appropriate wall it wouldnt be considered vandalism!

This was the coolest part of the museum I thought.  Different colored lights really attract my eyes and they mixed it with a different style of art.  It really looks awkward in this picture but if it was live it would feel different seeing this room.

Here again is some nice graffiti.  People are allowed to use the computers there :)

Photography Proj.

So the day started with carpooling with my buddy Andrew to my friend Keno's house.

Here were some of the pics i took of the sun while I was on La Palma Ave.

This was a pic of Subway because I love healthy food!  My diet food is all about Subway.  Buffalo chicken sandwich is my favorite!

Here we are just barely entering the freeway and Keno is finally with us.

This here I was trying to capture the 5 South freeway sign.

Here I liked the trees and the view of me in the side mirror of Andrew's car :)

I liked how the sun was really bright here but it was still a chilly day.  Probably around 68 degrees.

These were some random palm trees I liked.

I took a picture of how our freeway side was not traffic but the other side going our opposite way is super traffic.

This was pretty cool to me because it was on UCI's campus.  I barely see fruit being grown in school campuses.  And these oranges even looked like they are ready to be eaten.  Yummy!!!!

I took this picture because this is the time we were heading home from our road trip.  I wanted to show a reflection of me also in purpose :p

Day at Bowers Museum

So I went to the Bowers Museum to capture some photos of some interesting artwork.

I pretty much saw lots of historical artworks of different cultures.  In my perspective the one below is an African child herding some animals.  Its probably a cattle.  It seems as this poor child is doing chores.  This captured my eye because of the shading and the background shows some details of the painting from a further view.  He did that so well and that is why I liked it.

This picture below are some tools African used.  I am not sure if I am right but its just seems as if these tools were the African culture.  The clothing, tools for herding, and other anonymous things that I dont really know what it was used for but it got my attention.

This soul boat I found really awesome because it seems like the boat was structured that you could put in the lake and it would actually float.  What was cool was what the boat carried.  It carried many ancient passengers and it was too bad I didnt get to take a pic of boat from a different view.

NO ELECTRICITY!!!

So it was a pretty boring day without electricity.  I started when i woke up on Saturday 12/3/11 at 10 am.  I woke up and pretty much ate a quick breakfast.  I ate a bowl of cereal and went back to sleep.  I finally fully woke up around 2 in the afternoon.  I just played with my dog and walked him till 3.  I went home again and layed down and did my homework till 7.  I found myself starving because I only had that bowl of cereal and I couldnt use the microwave to heat up leftovers.  So for food I ate lots of chips, cookies and candy.  I then ran to the gym without driving so I could have some cardio.  I got to the gym and lifted weights.  I ran back home back home and felt nasty.  But still not breaking the rule, I just changed in my sleeping clothes and went to sleep.  I turned off  my computer and cell phone just incase I would get tempted.  I then went to sleep and woke up starving.  The first thing I did was turn my phone on and saw so many unread text messages.  Overall, I hated that day and I will never wanna experience it again.

Art Presentation

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni

6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564

Why?

• I chose this artist because he is well-known
• influenced a new style of art
• very original

 by Jacopino del Conte

Facts as an artist:

• influenced the development of Western art.
• Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer.
• Michelangelo was considered the greatest living artist in his lifetime
• first Western artist whose biography was published while he was alive 

The Pietà (1498–1499)  

• housed in St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City
• This famous work of art depicts the body of Jesus on the lap of his mother Mary after the Crucifixion
• Balances the Renaissance ideals of classical beauty with naturalism

The Statue of David (1501-1504)

• The statue represents the Biblical hero David
• represents the defeat of Goliath(Greek myth)
• David's pose not really obvious that he's heroic
• symbolize the defense of civil liberties embodied in the Florentine Republic

 Sistine Chapel

•  is the best-known chapel in the Apostolic Palace
• Took about 4 years to complete
• one of his most famous painting
• The first mass in the Sistine Chapel was celebrated on August 9, 1483

last week's class

Last week in class we watched a movie about an ex soldier from the military coming back to his old life as a stock broker.  His wife is begging him to come back to his job because he has been taking a break for four weeks.  He chooses to follow a different path in life.  He quits his job and leaves his wife.  Later on he finds another girl that he engages but she gets killed by his ex wife.  She then said "You took my husband away."  That is what we focused on to get into our lesson.

Potluck and videos

Last week's class was probably one of the funnest days.  I walked in the room and I see the food in the middle of the room.  I brought cookies to class that I bought from Staters.  My friend Andrew brought chips, and Keno brought a party platter and cupcakes, and another friend of mine name Susan brought pbj sandwiches.  We had some fun creating videos and pigging out on food.  Glen even made videos with our group.  At the end, Glen let us off early and I went home.  Hopefully we would have more days like this later on the semester!

Henri Matisse and Susan Rothenberg

This canvas painting is made by Henri Matisse and it is drawn using oil.  This art style is sorta abstract because the other people around the boy is far away.  I depict that the two other women are the teachers.  And also is it just me or is that square object in the middle is a window?  But when I look closer is abstracts me to thinking that its not.

This is another canvas painting but its done by a different artist named Susan Rothenberg.  I felt as if these two paintings were both abstract.  The painting is called The Ponytail but it looks like the a women face in a side angle vision.  Maybe the artist wanted to show a big picture of something but wanted us to figure out what stuck out the most; and maybe she is telling us that its the Ponytail.

Henri Matisse's known for his use of colour and his fluid and original draughtsmanship.  Susan Rothenberg's style is a unique combination of representational and nonrepresentational traditions.  She potrays not complete figures but fragments, but of representation that seem to surface like memories in a nonrepresentational painting.  In the other hand, Henri shows the whole painting but makes is abstract.

Kitagawa Utamaro and Edgar Degas

This woodblock print is called Hairdressing, from Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft.  This is by Kitagawa Utamaro.  was a Japanese printmaker and painter, who is considered one of the greatest artists of woodblock prints.  In my opinion, a mother is combing her daughters hair like her hair.  The mother's hair is probably styled like that because it is part of her culture.

This Pastel work is done by an artist named Edgar Degas.  This artwork is similar to the Kitagawa's because the actions in the picture is similar.  In this artwork I believe that the housemaid is combing the daughter of the mothers.  But instead of having clothes, this women is nude.  Differentiating between these artworks tells you how Japanese's culture is more shy and casual.  In nude painting, it sems like its an American family.  Its sorta saying how American are not as shy as other cultures.

Utamaro's women are slightly stylized.  They do not strike us as particular people drawn from life but as types of women drawn from the imagination.  Their robes, too, are stylized into a series of sinuous curves.  Edgar Degas works in a naturalistic style.  The women seems like a particular person, probably a model who posed for him in his studio.

Art lecture week #4

Last week we watched two movies in class and discussed its similarities.  The movies were: Inception, which was filmed in 2010, and the Matrix, which was filmed in 1999.  We compared about how both stories were about reality and dreams.  In Inception, Leonardo is teaching Ellen Page how to architect the world in their dreams.  In The Matrix, Morpheus trains Neo how to fight in a different world.  These movies are both alike because they both have a "different" world.  We used these videos to discuss in class about what defines reality.  Glen then asked the class a question which was; "How could one tell if something is real or not?"  A student answered how our senses of emotion depicts reality.  "We smell, taste, see reality."  After our discussion we then planned a potluck that is going to happen for next week's class.  We are going to eat and make videos using our laptops.

Class Discussion

During our third week of class we learned about this pebble.  This pebble is called Makapansgat.  We learned that this pebble is a type of art but not made from a human being.  At first we all thought it was carved by a person but really it was created from water erosion.  We got to a certain debate about what objects can be referred to as "Art".  In conclusion, Glen says that "Art" is really based on human made creations.

 

The Trajan font is also what we talked about in class.  This font is very popular in the movie business because it creates such a ancient feeling when its being read.  Trajan is a over used in many DVDs.  We also watched and learned about how the trajan font is getting old.

Overall, we took plenty of notes in class about different time eras.  Glen showed a variety of art styles throughout different eras.  He asked us what kind of art we were interested in.  People said gothic and others said graffiti.  The only thing that dissapointed me about this class discussion is that Glen said we are no longer doing the field trips.  This is just a couple of few things we learned in class.

My first day of Art class!

Well class was not what I had expected it to be.  My friends and I were expecting to at least learn the basics of drawing.  What really shocked me was when Glen told the class that we are not really going to draw.  I walked in the class and sat down to a video that was already being played.  The video was about a group of people lip syncing to "Mr. American Pie."  It was somewhat awkward to me because I didn't know the purpose of watching the film.  We also watch another video titled "The Remix Culture."  That video was about remixes created by other students about the orginal "Mr. American Pie" video.

After learning a little bit about the videos, we took roll.  This roll call was not any ordinary one.  We all got into groups of four or more and interviewed a little bit about each other.  After listing down some facts, each student would have to introduce a different student in their group.  I thought that this was the best part of the class because I met new friends.  Another reason why it was fun because it was time consuming.  This took about an hour and really helped speed the class.  After taking roll, we took a break that helped us stretch and relax because its not easy to respect a class when its three hours long.  We got back from break and talked about the syllabus, class activities, and class expectations.  Our class is basically based on our blogs.  We post all our homeworks on our blog and use the blog website to see daily information about the class.  Another interesting fact that I heard about this class was that we were going to have class field trips.  Some field trip activities included: hiking, going to the beach, and potlucks.  Hearing about these class activities really got me excited to be in the class.  Even though we are not going to draw much in the class, I am still excited to learn what Glen has for us!