my zine

My zine (comic) is very time consuming it takes quite a while to make a picture mostly the painting but that got quicker after one of the teachers showed me a quicker way of doing it.  But still I have only dun 3 out of  8 pages but other then that it looks great tho I wish I had decided on a quicker way of doing it instead of having to stay here from 9 till 7 trying to get it done.  But it will look great when it's done my comic is a red and brown  comic because my charaters main colour is red.

my zine ideas

my zine idea is more like a comic book i have a story i rout up and shortened it in to a comic the idea is to mack it a red and brown book.  I drew all the pitchers by tracing around other pitches then get real background mostly because it took to much time to drew it myself.  Every pitcher tacks quite a wheal to mack and is very time consuming I'm here from 9 to 7 five days a week just doing my comic and i have only dune three pages and am straiting my forth out of 8 with three days to complete it.  But despite that it's looking good.  That half page is meant to be connected to the first page but i made the first page over a inter A4 sheet without thinking.

Seraphine Pick

I found Seraphines painting stile to be quit strange.  I like who she can change from a realistic painting to fantasy tho i find her fantasy paintings to be rather crepe i pacifically like her realistic ones and how differently there painted to the others as if someone else had painted them.  I admire how she can change from one stile to anther.  And all her paintings are unplanned she starts unsure of how its going to pan out and adds on as she gos on.  Not thinking of the meaning behind it.  That is something i and I'm sure many others have trouble with over thinking and trying to explain the meaning be hind a pace of work.

illustration

 
 this is a illustration by Lesley Grainger it is a rather  sweet and very simple stile of text and image a blue painted back ground with what looks like flowers that a child has cut out and colored in and only one word on the painting nothing flash about it and it is not to cluttered.  This is a painting that i think is meant to inspire our young children. 

this is a illustration by Patric Sandri this is a cool painting it shows all the new ideas he hast to come up with and his inspiration swirling around in his head i like that i find it rather interesting.  And the black rely makes all the other colourise stand out.  It is a rather simple painting with nothing to flashy in it.  

this is a illustration by Michael Wertz this is a very brit and colorful pitcher  with unrealistic cats it is very cultured and full of brit colors so it drowse your eye and makes you look at everything i love how the cats become some of the righting it makes it look more interesting making the cats have a roll to play.

text and image

on our first day back at school we sore a power point could text and image.  It started with the earliest tip of text and image which was the bible.  Back in the early stiles of righting they used illuminated lettering which was  hand righting.  We then looked at a page of William Blake's book could Milton which is a novel of a poem to see a different stile of text and image the book has a image on one page and text on the other.  Another still of text and image is different album covers, magazine covers and different loge designs playing with text to mack it more interesting even adding hand righting to mack it more different to catch the publics eye and mack better sals.  Another thing that people use a little to much these days is sex sails even it has absolutely nothing to do with the merchandise.  Another thing about text and image is that different types of text is fashionably throe the time peered.  Even your children's first attempt at righting is a form of text and image.  These days text and image is all around us one women Jenny Holzer even projects righting on wales in times square her words rely mack you think "protect me from what i want"

guest speaker

today we had a guest speaker Mark and he came to talk to my class about space but he mostly torked about buildings on of the termes he menchend was function.  The function of a building depens on what you you disingd the building.  Arckitechers haft to thingk adout wat the function of the buildings going to be an plan the disin to that function.  For example Mark torked about thes bildings they ons made couled modernist buildings.  Thes buildings wore ment to mack ever body they baleved that if people moved in to these homes that there lives would get insnly beter but that faild fast.  

Christ Redeemer

The scalpcher Christ the Redeemer was built in  Brazil in 1931.  In 1889 Brazil became a republic country which meant now laws about the separating of church and state so a group of people started a partition and tyred to get danishes and signatures of people how supported the aider of building the scalpcher.  The scalpcher is trying to indicate Christianity sins its a scalpcher of Jesus and he is in the pose of the christen cross, the arms open wide is meant to indicate peas.  I think the idea of creating this scalpcher was to bring back Christianity to Brazil. 

the Taj Mahal

The Taj Mahal was made in India it took twenty two years to create it was finished in 1648 C.E.  During the time the Taj Mahal was being made the queen Mumtaz Mahal was dieing so the emperor built the Taj Mahal in memory of her and she was to be berried in the Taj Mahal but she died before it was finished.  The large stretcher was made to indicant power.  The fact that it was the queens death someone with leadership and power meant she was given a resting pleas to show her wealth.

self portrait

this is a self portrait of me i made the back ground by poring blue paint on the door and spreading it around with cardboard then i did the same with the red and scraped it around in wave patterns which relates to the painting convention abstraction  i was originally trying to mack purple but i thought this looked better then i waited for it to dry.  after it dryad which took like most the day because i spread the paint to thick i gridded up the door the squares wore 5cm then i coped the photo graft which i also gridded the squares wore 3cm on to the door then started painting i painted the clothes first, neck, hair then i got started on the face i painted the white side forest i no you cant see by the photo but the white side you can see all the paint strokes but on the brown side its all neat and you cant see the strokes.  After that i pot some caramel colors on my back ground to bring in some of the skin colour and to finely end it i rubbed out the grid.  All in all this all took about three days.  My idea was to create realistic portrait paintings which relates to the painting convention figurative.  the artist I'm trying to relate my art work to is Gerhard Richter my first painting i started with and am trying to relate my aether paintings to is the painting coled Bette which is a self portrait of a girl but in stead of looking at you she is looking away from you

girl with a pearl earring copy

The girl with a pearl earring as you can see has been coped on to a book cover just like many famous paintings and pitchers have been coped on books covers, Cd's covers, or have just been coped.  Dose that mack it lose its value wall i think it dose because there is more then one which macks them fake  and it is leas special now because of that.  It is no longer one original panting which means en one can cop it for their own yous.  But on the aether hand you could get a copy on a post cared and that would higher its value and meaning because more people around the world would see it making it more wall known

Greorges Braque Man with guitar

abstract art is not an accurate copy of an image.  like this painting Man with guitar by Greorges Braque.  The image is mad of different parties, shapes  and unrealistic curlers making it very hard to mack out what is happening in the painting.  Abstract art is meant to get your attention and a emotional response from you which is why most abstract art is foll of bright curlers for example this painting man with guitar it has bright red and orange in the center to drow your eye and over power all the gray and green around it to mack the to figers stand out and often every things out of preposition like this painting which is made out of different shapes and the to figers look totally unrealistic.  Abstract artist drawer from the hart and sole instead of what you see is what you get.  Our liking for abstract things happened back wen the Vikings mad the Veins a small hand haled sculpture of a women but her body is way out of proportion shes missing arms you cant see her face and the rest of her body is huge showing that even back then we were interested in out of proportion things and our love for it has grown all our lives we seem to crate unrealistic paintings, drownings and scultures there was one period in 480BC wen the Greeks created a realistic scalper the Kritios Boy but soon after they finial accomplished their goal and created a realistic sculpture they changed it back to abstract sculptures.  We just seem to find real life art work to boring

lunch on a skyscraper by Charles C Ebbets

this photo was taken in 1932 the photo shows 11 men eating lunch siting on a girder with their feet dangling down hundreds of feet above new York city.  this photo was taken on the 69th floor of the GE building wall it was still being constructed.  This photo represents the working community showing how people   yest to and some times still do haft to work.  the men in the photo obviously ignore wear there having there lunch as you can see the 11 men are eating a sandwich, smoking, and enjoying a well deserved brake completely unfazed that there dangling hundred of feet above the ground.  The health and safety of the work's these days are quite different from then.  People would have a hart attack  if they sore workers up on a skyscrapers without a harness.  The business would be hammed hard and the boss and work's would probably be fired as to back in 1932 wen it was perfectly all right.

Dali Atomicus by Philippe Halsman

         "Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.   It is not seeing itself," wrote Susan Sontag.  This quote explains as you can see in this photo how Philippe Halsman sees Salvador's panting and not the way the rest of us would see it.  "The modern way of seeing is to see in fragments.  It is felt that reality is essentially unlimited, and knowledge is open-ended.  it follows that all boundaries, all unifying ideas have to be misleading, demagogic; at best, provisional; almost always, in the long run ,untrue.  To see reality in the light of certain unifying ideas has the undeniable advantage of giving shape and form to our experience.  But it also - so the modern way of seeing instructs us - denies the infinite it represses our energy, indeed our right,to remake what we wish to remake - our society, our selves.  What is liberating, we are told, is to notice more and more" wrote Susan Sontag in Philippe's photo the laws of physics does not seem to work this photo seems to escape reality showing the creativity that there is no right or wrong answers that a pitcher can be what ever you what it to be..  Philippe was trying to mimic the style of Salvador Dali's painting of a naked lady with evil cats. That is why after seven years he asked  his friend the painter Salvador Dali  if he could take the photo of him. All Salvador was asked to do in the photo was to jump up in the air - the whole process had to be done 26 times until they got the shot that they wanted.
To create this photo Philippe asked his wife, who he called his first assistant, to hold up a chair to the left of the camera. Then his second and third assistant were asked to throw the cats and a bucket of water and two boards randomly beside Salvador. He changed the camera to a low shutter speed which changed the effect of the water.
When the picture Dali Atomicus was published Philippe was told off by cats lovers.

Cindy Sherman

Fore ground - a pot and a mug
Mid ground - a cupboard and a woman
Back ground - an empty jar and dish washing liquid
Center of focus - the woman
Framing - in the kitchen, woman wearing apron, kitchen supplies
Pose - woman looking over her shoulder nervously with her hand on her stomach like she feels sick
Gaze - not looking at the camera, looking outside the frame (looking at door, someone coming in to the room or someone coming out of the room)
Expression - not happy, a little worried
Viewpoint - slightly low
Depth - the depth was shown in the foreground with the pot looking very large, background looking very light

Everything in the picture seems to come to a stereotype of where a woman's place is meant to be - in the kitchen. The hand on her stomach could mean that she is pregnant - a 50's shot of a woman's role - as a housewife and mother.  The woman is looking over her shoulder away from the camera. It appears like she is trying to hide the fact that she's glancing at something she isn't suppiosed to.  Also her kitchen space is very confined which you can see because the kitchen supplies are all clashed together making it look like a very small place.  It looks like she is not happy or comfortable as a house wife - if you look at her posture and tiny space.

The Mona Lisa

The Mona Lisa as everyone should well know was drawn by Leonardo Da Vinci between 1505-1514.  The woman sitting in this portrait is said to be La Gioconda a 24 year old Florentine woman but there has been some debate that the Mona Lisa was a series of sketches Leonardo had created over time or that it was a portrait of himself.  This painting without a doubt has to be the most famous painting around.  What makes it famous is her smile so faint and mysterious that you can't pinpoint her mood and the fact that she isn't looking straight ahead like she is distracted by something in the background and you start to wonder what that is.  This by far is not like normal portraits.
Leonardo Da Vinci was interested in capturing the inner thoughts and emotional responses of the human mind. Leonardo planned to show "the emotions of the mind" by placing his sitter in a beautiful landscape and focusing on such a mysterious facial expression.
I have always been fascinated by the Mona Lisa probably because it is so different from other paintings. I never could understand peoples' fascination on her smile so I guess you could say I was always fascinated because I thought it was kind of strange (bland).

Week two poetry response

We went to see two poets and a singer. The first guys poetry kind of creeped me out because it was about people being killed and the bombing of buses and I had to catch a bus to get home and that was all I could think about but he did make one comedy poem about a pear and I liked the comedy but not the poem.
The singer was up next and I loved it. The guy could sing and I liked the songs, they sounded really good.  I loved the first song. I think it was called Goldfish.
Then we had the last poet who was a girl. I think she did hers on culture. She would speak a strong word and do a lot of hand movements to emphasize it. I didn't like all the swearing done by both poets but other than that I think all of them were really good

First week at MIT

The first day was orientation so we mostly just spoke and drew pictures about ourselves.  On the second  day we went to the horticulture department to buy New Zealand native plants to sketch.  When we returned back to school we had to draw the plant without taking the pencil of the paper which was easier than I thought it would be.  On the third day we had to do drawings where you couldn't look at the paper while you drew which I thought was hard until they asked us to draw with our eyes shut only touching the plant that was hard.  On the fourth day we read about John Wolseley afterwards we did some paintings outside with mud which I thought was kind of strange but after that we went back inside to paint with ink which was fun.  And on the fifth day I made this blog.