Thematic Portfolio #2: Images From Images Project

write a short reflection about how the work turned out. What do you think are the successful aspects of your work?

It turned out better than i had expected. It started off slow but when i got all the key details done it got a lot easier. It was hard trying to find something in the note cards that would be perfect together.

Thematic Portfolio #1: Tiny Pictures Project

Planning the Symbolic Still Life Project

Describe briefly your plan for The Symbolic Still Life project. Explain what kinds of objects you think you will use and why...how do they relate to some aspect of your theme. How will you arrange them and why? What materials will you use for this project and how big will you be working and why?

I will be using the painting of a church that i made sophomore year, the nutcracker, a cook book, and a guitar. they will be draw onto black paper to make it stand out more. i will not be making a very big picture because i want to be able to focus on the details. i will be using colored pencils.

Planning for Opposites Project

Describe briefly what you plan to do for the Opposites project. Be sure to describe your intentions, how your concept relates to your theme, and technically how you plan to create the work.

My intentions for this project is to show that on one side...
someone can be good on the inside and bad on the outside
and on the other side is that...
someone can be bad on the inside and good on the outside.
It is to show that no one is as perfect as they may seem. It relates to identity because you are who you are no matter how good/bad you may look or how good/bad you are on the inside.

Essential Questions

Essential Questions:

How do artists develop content and ideas for their work?

They brainstorm and write down their ideas before they start their projects.

What kinds of techniques, behaviors, and habits allow artists to turn their ideas into meaningful works of art that engage the viewer?

They write down everything that comes to mind and fully push themselves into the idea that

they have chosen.

Statement of purpose:

What questions can you formulate about your theme (at least 4)?

Who am I?

I am many things

What makes me what I am?

what makes me who I am is what I do in life.

Why makes me so different?

Everyone is different in their own unique way.

Where am I from?

I am from Boston. But that is not where I feel that I am from. I am from France.

How does your theme connect to your life?

The theme connects to my life because I was adopted and to me my identity is not complete.

How does your theme connect to the world around you?

It connects to the fact that everyone has their own identity and life.

What kinds of images come to mind when you think about your theme?

Images that come to mind are sports, the activities I do, what my birth-mother looks like, showing how my

Identity has changed over the years.

What kinds of art or visual information (advertising, tv, film) have you seen that relates to your theme?

There isn't really anything that I can think of right now that could relate to my theme.

Why did you choose this theme and how can you envision exploring it through works of art over the course of the term?

Without knowing who my birth-parents are in order to know who I am. There are many things that can

make up ones identity. It is endless, because everyday you learn something new.

Observations on the History of Oil Painting

Who have been the major players throughout the history of oil painting? Why is this so?
- Claude Monet
- Leonardo Da Vinci
- Henry Matisse
- Van Gogh
- ...because they are all men and they are white
Who seems to be missing from the history of oil painting? Why is this so?
- Mary Cassatt (because she was a female)
- JoAnn Bernard (because she was African American and a female)
Where in the world did most oil painting taking place?
- Italy
- France
- United States of America
Where did all these oil paintings go? Why? How does where these paintings “live” affect who learns about them and why?
- they are now in museums. people who are interested in learning about art history or art in general go to art museums.

Surface and Textures set-up pictures

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My White Objects Painting

What is a portrait?

1. What is a portrait? a portrait...
- ...is a portrayal.
- ...is where the face and its expression is predominant.
- ...is an accurate discription of a mood.
- ...is a painting of a real, rather than an imaginary, person.
- ...usual shows just the face, but can include a part or all of the body.
- ...is intended to show likeness, personality and even the mood of the person.
2. (Describe how the artist uses color, composition, and subject matter (objects, setting, clothing, etc.) to communicate something about the person whose portrait they’ve made OTHER than what the person looks like.)

Title: Madame X

Artist: John Singer Sargent

Year: 1883 -1884

*How does this artists use the concept of portrait? How does the artist work within the tradition of portrait-making?

This artist uses the concept of portrait by portaying the person by the way he positioned her and it the position also shows the mood of the painting. The painting is a full body portrait. The facial expression in the painting emphasizes the mood in the painting.

Title: Self-Portrait

Author: Chuck Close

Year: 2000 -2001

* How does this artists use the concept of portrait? How does the artist work within the tradition of portrait-making?

This is a self-portrait of Chuch Close himself. It is a portrait of a real person. This self-portrait is the traditional making of self-portraits with a bit of a twist. It is the tradition of portrait making because this self-portrait is an image that portrays him and also the usual self-protraits shows his face/his expression/his emotion clearly.

Title: Shiva at White Castle Creek

Artist: (unknown)

Year: (unknown)

*How does this artists use the concept of portrait? How does the artist work within the tradition of portrait-making?

Though this painting is in black and white you can clearly see what the artist portayed. He used the position to show some the mood of the painting. the position of her hands looks like she is praying. What also really help find the mood is the black, grey, and white colors. Looking at the girls face you can see the emotion that the artist is trying to portray.

A Sense of Place

Title: Psychodrama
Artist: Edward Hopper
Date: 1927

Title: The Rehearsal
Artist: Edgar Degas
Date: 1875

Describe the moods of the two paintings:

In the painting "Psychodrama " by Edward Hopper the mood is...

- quiet

- peaceful

- lonely

- a little colofrul around the person and around her it seems lifeless

In the painting "The Rehearsal" by Edgar Degas the mood is...

- full of life

- musical

- a happy ambiance

- bright

- energetic

Where Are You At?

What has been the most challenging aspect of the course so far?
I would have to say that the most challenging aspect of the course for far is trying to get the right color and shadow.
In what areas have you progressed the most and how have you progressed?
The area I have progressed in is mixing the colors. The way I have progressed is that I work fast and thing about the detail after I get the basics.
How does looking at examples of painting from throughout history affect us as painters today?
We see that many painters had different ways of painting, different color combinations, different reasons for painting what they did and they had different ideas of what to paint. I think that painters today seem to combine all the different ideas, colors, and textures to paint what we see or imagine.

SOME famous paintings

Nighthawks
- Find out who made it and where they are from?

This artist is Edward Hopper and lived from 1882 to 1967. It was made in 1942. He is to be known as to the first significant American painter in twentieth century art. His art is the "New Realism". Edward Hopper spent years in France before moving to the United States and developed his new techniques.

- What is the painting about?
The scene was inspired by a restaurant in New York's Greenwich Village. When he made this painting the light of the restaurant is the only one left still burning in the sleeping city.

Creating the Illusion of Surface and Textures

Title: Still Life With a Ginger Jar
By: Paul Cezanne
Value
(Painters use highlights (tints), mid-tones, and shadows (shades) to represent the planes they see in a form. They also vary between these three values to show the surface of an object changes across its surface.)
In this painting you can see the shadow of all the different objects. using the shadow you can see the folds of the textures. In the white cloth you can see some greenish-blue highlights. In the white cloth there is also a mixture of greyish-green mid-tones and light black shadowing in the foldes. When you look at the fruit you can see in where the light is coming from because of the direction the shadows of the fruits are going. Also he used the light brown highlights, mid-tones, and dark brownish-green shadowing to show that the drawer of the cradensa in open.
Edges
(Painters vary the way they represent the edge of an object to capture its essence whether that is what the object is made of or its weight, etc.)
When you look at the two different clothes; blue and white clothes. You can see that the blue, black, and a bit of white is heavier than the white cloth. The blue cloth actually looks more like a fancy table cloth where as the white cloth just looks like a simple light weight cloth. When you look at the green object infront of the dark green vase, the painter makes it look likes its heavy, maybe just as heavy as a bowling ball. Now when you look at the two vases; dark green vase and the blue, beige and white vase. It seems like the green vase it much heavier than the blueish-beige vase.
Brushwork
The reason why i think that the green vase looks heavier than the blueish-beige vase is because the impasto (real texture created by layering paint on top of paint to build thickness) brush strokes create the illusion of thickness.
The blending for the cradensa seems to be blended with a dry brush (when colors are mixed together using a dry brush to create a subtle change in color) Where as the white cloth seems like it was blended wet paint into wet paint. (when colors are mixed together on the canvas with short brushstrokes) What i like about the fruit is that it seems to use both a dry brish and wet paint into wet paint.

Composition

QUESTIONS:
A.) In which painting does the composition take the painting beyond being just a picture of everyday objects?
I would have to say that the painting that intregued me the most was the "Custard Cascade", painted by Will Cotton in 2001.

Title: Custard Cascade

Artist: Will Cotton

Date: 2001
B.) Which composition is the most interesting and why?
It is just so realistic. I would probably have to say that if i could eat art for dessert I would eat, "Custard Cascade" (2001) by Will Cotton, because I adore sugar, frosting, and candy's. Those aren't the only reasons why I like this painting. This composition interests me because I want to know why Will Cotton desided to paint it. Also, it makes me wonder where and what was going on when he painted it. It makes me want to know if he painted this composition to represent birthday(s), holiday(s), or any other celebration(s). . . or maybe he just painted it because he really likes sweets.

Studies in Smallness Paintings

my finished paintings.
I struggled with trying to get the right color for the background because i'm still not quite comfortable with mixing oil paint colors. But, I felt successful about getting the deatil of the seashell because of i was able to create the right tints and shades.

Color Mixing Chart

Reflection on Studies in Smallness

What was hard?:
The hard part was trying to get the right color of the set-up backgound. It was also hard to continue painting the next day when the shadow and the position of the set-up changes.

What was successful?:
The successful part for me was making the details at the end. It turned out much better than I thought it would.

Studies in Smallness: set-ups

White Objects Thumbnail Sketches

Marandi vs. Van Gogh: COLOR

Title: Still Life
Date: 1955
Artist: Giorgio Morandi

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Title: Irises

Date: 1890

Artist: Vincent Van Gogh Title: Sunflowers

Date: 1888

Artist: Vincent Van Gogh

WHAT I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THESES PAINTINGS --

Giorgio Morandi's paintings are uses some detailed but doesn't use as much as Vincent Van Gogh's paintings do. Giorgio Morandi uses some white and a lot of warm colors. Which is opposite from the variety of colors that Vincent Van Gogh uses. Vincent Van Gogh uses a lot of dark hues for his paintings where as Giorgio Morandi's paintings uses a lot of tints. Giorgio Morandi's two painting are simple looking while Vincent Van Gogh's two paintings are vibrant and seem to have more meaning.