Saturday, September 25, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
The Exquisite Corpse Two
The Wounded woman disturbed the guillotine with blond hair
I found this sentence to be very difficult, it just sounds so serious, and there aren't any guillotines around Huntsville.
Walking around, this bush reminded me of my sentence in that the very tops were lighter in colour reminding me of the blond hair part of the sentence, and the bush as a whole looks scruffy and disorderly, almost as if it were disturbed.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Friday 9/10/10 Lecture Summary
Creativity
To be creative one must be:
Aware
Willing to learn
See beyond
Curiosity
Fluency
Attempt ideas
Whole self
Observant
Action
But there are some creative blocks that can get in the way
Physical
Intellectual
Expressive
Emotional
Environmental
Cultural
Creative killers
The creative process
To understand the problem
Devise a plan
Germinate for how long
How
Adapt
Modify
Magnify
Minify
Substitute
Rearrange
Reverse
Combine
Carry out the plan
Examine
Revise
Carry out the plan
Examine
Outside input
Revise
Present
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Thursday, September 9, 2010
Friday 9/3/10 Lecture Summary
What is Art?
As a class we talked about several things that could classify something as art
-An artist thought of it
-People like the way it looks
-Effort was put into it
-Someone made it
-It expresses emotion
To Represent or RE-Present?
-Representation- one thing stands for another
The styles of representation:
-Naturalistic – as in nature
-Realistic - true to life
-Stylized – simplified to emphases important details
-Abstract – highly stylized (may not be recognizable) nonrepresentational art
The Scale of Representation
As a class we categorized different pieces of art by the different styles of representation from naturalism to abstract
Reading Assignment Summary week of September 3rd
The role of art
What do artists do?
-Artists record
-Give tangible form to the unknown
-Give tangible form to feelings
-Offer an innovative way of seeing, a unique visual take on the world
Creativity
Who is creative?
Are artists more creative than other people?
How did they get that way?
Does everyone start out having it?
Can a person become more creative – less?
-Sensitivity – heightened awareness of what one sees, hears, and touches, as well as responsiveness to other people and their feelings
-Flexibility – an ability to adapt to new situations and to see their possibilities; willingness to find innovative relationships
-Originality – uncommon responses to situations and to solving problems
-Playfulness – a sense of humor and the ability to experiment freely
-Productivity – the ability to generate ideas easily and frequently, and to follow through on those ideas
-Fluency – a readiness to allow the free flow of ideas
-Analytical skill – a talent for exploring problems, taking them apart, and finding out how things work
-Organizational skill – ability to put things back together in a coherent order
The role of the observer
How do observers of art educate themselves?
The more one puts into it, the more one gets out of it
Art and beauty
Should all art be beautiful?
Art and the real world
Should art mimic the real world?
-Naturalistic – images that look very similar to the real world
-Illusionistic – Images so natural that they trick us
-Stylized – close to abstract
-Nonrepresentational art – no reference to the natural world of images
-Expression – artist’s unique view of the world
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Cardboard Object Progress Report
After two days of working on my nut (still not sure what kind of nut it is) iv'e finally finished creating the four individual parts of the nut (it's a big nut) and now I'm going to have to start connecting the four different parts of the nut, it's turing out much larger than i originally thought it was going to be. Overall the project is working how i wanted it to, the different nut parts are just a little less round than i had hoped but I'm sure I'll be able to fix that problem a little later.
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