Blog Post #3 Reading and Response

I chose to view this blog to see what they thought art might be.

1. The person shares a site that has all these art and it's called VVORK and describes how he/she thinks is art. He/she takes some pictures that VVORK has and says how it has "electrifying sense of originality and spirit" which may relate to emotions being described what makes it art.

2. It has evidence that contains pictures.

3. I guess it makes it look unique that make the person think is art. It has unusual things people may not often see. Like a square clock hanging on the wall but is broken. And a bunch of televisions that shows a mouth chewing bubble gum.

4. Art was described to be electrifying and spirit. I know for sure it has to do with emotions.

5. I did not think the response to what is art is effective. It was a short comment and it had mostly pictures of art pieces but did not describe how it seems to be art. All it said was how exciting it was and basically makes emotion.

6. I think at this point art, does not have to be in museums. Because in the pictures, it shows the art kept in places that were wide spaces and something a museum would look like. I think art is anywhere and anytime.

Blog Post #2 Response

This looks either a painting or made digitally. It's a picture of a man's back turned with a sign that says, "The end is over." It's different how I thought art is. I know not all art is about fashion. It looks dark, eerie in a way. My perspective in art is mostly beauty but this man shows a hint of sadness and the words, it automatically makes me think. What end is over? It should mean the world maybe? Society? But it did say the end is over, so it must mean something good, because endings can be bad. I'm a bit torn between something, I do think art is beautiful but there are ones that does not look so beautiful. In the eyes, maybe but I still think art is beautiful. When I took the poll, what is "Not-Art?" and saw the results many people took, it appealed to me that most of the people voted that art must evoke an emotion. The poll's questions were not entirely true in this picture. It wasn't expensive, nor held at the museum. And I thought it seemed true that it must have something with emotions that expresses art and I think that's one of what art is and it should have emotions.

This is Art (To me)

This picture has some photography in it as well as showing the effects with the flowers, the model and her make-up. What stands out the most to me is the clothes. The main focus should be the clothes. Without the outfit, it probably would not go well with the whole thing the picture contains. I have always thought fashion is art because I think that it's expressive in many ways that express people's thoughts and feelings so they can wear it to show it and it can be real. Clothes can be designed and be made real. It can be made uniquely, like the picture. It's different from what we usually wear that it's rare. The picture shows beauty also, and I think art is beautiful.

Argument Collages Artist Statement

1. I made a collage based on the three arguments I came up with that has to do with Proposition On my first argument I wrote that cruel meat could make you sick. I had a woman look like she’s thinking and had a thought bubble that I put a picture of a caged pig and asking, “Can cruel meat make me sick?” It’s pretty much a simple picture. Everything is white on the background; it’s just the woman and her food. She has the meat in front of her and she wonders where the meat came from and if it came from a farm that abuses animals. I want people to do the same thing and also wonder what kind of meat they are eating, if it’s really safe to eat.

2. Doing the first argument collage was pretty much easy. I made the picture taller enough for the thought bubble to fit. Everything is layered for the pictures to blend and go well with each other. There was no actual meat that came with the picture of the lady thinking so I had to look for a picture of a steak. I had pictures of the pig in the thought bubble and used layer mask. I used a big bold text to make it seem more like an ad and I thought it might be catchy. The same goes for the second collage; I just cut and pasted chickens and chicks. And some of them may be identical. I also used the speech bubbles to really make it easier to say what my argument is. I had the farm in the background; I had the farmer there and the chicks and chickens free in the open space. My collages are plainly simple. I didn’t use anything special, mostly layer masking and layering the image. Lastly I put the animals close to each other in one whole image. Like Ted’s campaign ad that he showed us with Obama and it had all these smoky effects with two other people I can’t seem to remember whom and the were all blended together. I used that and I had the animals coming together, layer masking it and using the brush that seemed blurry to make it look blended.

3. I didn’t seem to make any changes. At least two of the image I made, the 1st and 2nd argument were similar because it had thought and speech bubbles. They seemed plain. But I’m very satisfied with my work. I thought that the 1st argument looked more like an ad I would see anywhere. The white background and the big black text. It may seem plain but I like how it looks catchy and it gives out the message “Can cruel meat make me sick?” and it seems likely people will want to read it and think for themselves about meat. Especially the effect on the image of a pig in her thought bubble. I made the 3rd argument a whole lot different. Because I didn’t just cut and paste the images, I made the blend. It had that dramatic effect with the animals to feel sympathy. And it had “Save us” on the picture, which shows a sympathy feeling in it. I thought that the second image was a bit more humorous, because it had the farm chickens talking saying “Cage-free” and the farmer happy. I think I would have changed that image, because it doesn’t really show how it benefits the farmers it just says it. Everything seemed rushed, because I really needed to finish the work and I’ve been very behind. Overall I’m satisfied with what I made and I don’t think I was to ever change it. Maybe a little.

Argument #3

Argument #2 Collage

Argument #1 Collage