Choice Project Artist Reflection

Astronomical Art: this time, my choice project would have some aspect of universe.

Claude Monet

I like how he used colors to connect sky and the sea. And especially, the boat that used, made this work masterpiece. I want to use a ship instead of boat and surrealistic relation with sea and sky on my choice project. Monet usually used reflection in his works, however I would not use it because of a certain reason which is the sea has to be visualized as universe at the beginning. Instead to show that the ship is on the water, wave must be involved.

Vincent van Gogh

It is really similar with the Monet's style. However, this painting shows more precise goal for my choice project. The same color used on the sky and the harbor to make union for overall painting. Stars are very important, either. They are only light in darkness. Like showing the path, where to go.

Vocabulary
• Abstraction– begins in reality. Seeks the essence of an object. May be expressed
through simplification, stylization, fragmentation, re@assembly, and/or
distortion. Refer to artists such as Hundertvasser, Paul Klee, Beatriz
Milhazes , early Wassily Kandinsky, , Georgia O’Keeffe (abstract works only)
• Non@objective abstraction –Abstraction which does not refer to an object. Refer to
artists!such!as!Jackson!Pollack,!Lee!Krasner,!Joan!Miro,!Alex!Jawlensky,!later
Wassily!Kandinsky,!Sonia!Delaunay,!Robert!Delaunay
• Texture!– refers!to!the!sense!of!touch. Visual texture!looks!like!it!feels!a!certain
way. Actual!texture!really!does!feel!a!certain!way.
• Rhythm!– repetition,!but!not!exact!as!in!pattern,!of!an!object. Helps!move!the!eye
through!an!image.
• Movement!– refers!to!the!path!the!eye!takes!through!an!image. May!be!achieved
through!repetition!of!line,!shape,!color,!texture.
• Unity!– pulls!different!elements!of!a!composition!together. May!be!achieved!with
effective!movement!and!rhythm!in!an!image.
• Organic!line!@@ line forms!an!irregular!shape,!or!one!that!might!be found in!nature,
rather!than!a!regular,!mechanical!shape
• Geometric!Line—line!that!forms!a!straight,!geometric,!or!regular shape
• Color!Scheme—use!of!deliberate!color!relationships!for!mood!and effect.
• Some!Sample!Color!Schemes!Include:
o Complimentary—pairs!of!opposite!colors!on! the!color!wheel:green@red,
blue@orange!and!yellow@purple.!!Complementary!colors!are as contrasting
as!possible!(ie!there!is!no!yellow!at!all!in!the!color!purple).
o Analogous!Colors—Colors!related!on!the!color!wheel!within the same
mixture,!creating!harmony!and value!in!the!color!scheme.
o Tonal! range!@@ the! range! of!tones in!an!artwork! from!light! to! dark.! !A!wide
tonal! range! would! include! all! tones! from! white! to! black.! ! A! narrow! tonal
range!would!include!only!pale!tones,!only!mid!tones!or!only!dark!tones

MoMA; Investigating Abstraction

Alfred Stieglitz, A sequence of ten cloud photographs, 1922

This photograph does not look like a kindergartener's work. It is obvious everyone can take photographs. However, to get this photograph, a person has to be focused, fast, and experienced. Likewise painters, photographer is an artist, too. They have to have extraordinary talent of seeing through subjects. Anyway, the editing is well done, either. The artist made the object warmer, softer, and more dramatic than reality. Finding an appropriate color (dark yellow, brown, and yellowy gray) for the object is the first step, because color mixing has to show good unity of color to make similar texture of object (cloud) in reality. The brighter color behind the darkness represents the light from moon, and to be realistic the cloud is dense and darker, even though it's in front, because of the background.

Gino Severini: Danseuse, 1915
I guess this is a non-objective abstraction, may be it does, but the props does not look like an 'object' in reality. Anyway, naturally transforming color makes it an expert art work. I think the artist wants to show the Earth on a 2 dimensional vision. Such as, yellow triangle: desert or mountain, blue: wave or sea, green: hill or field, and etc. If this work has been colored with 'a' color, it would look awkward and unnatural.

Alvin Langdon Coburn, Photograph, 1916-17

Contra-construction, 1923, Theo Van Does
This work makes me think about kitchen, a nice and colorful one. Three major colors with white and black are united well.

Kseniia Ender, Kompositiia (composition), 1918

This painting is what i have chosen for my project. Its precise style is making the painting much better. However, I would not use that style, because i think it would take too much time. Using dots looks helpful to unify different colors and create nice abstraction work. And the most importantly, white sillhouette looks like a bird. And I thought it would be great if I use this bird to show the Hunger game's logo (which i like). Therefore, I decide to use style what Nancy has used before on the portrait unit = sponge. I think the use of sponge would make the project as a masterpiece. However, I was confused about how I will paint the whole painting. At the beginning, I have thought about: same style, or basic painting style, or active style. Anyway, the reason I chose this work is obviously the bird. The brightest color and strong character impressed me. I would paint him/her with red rather than white, because I want to symbolize a phoenix. And usually phoenix symbolizes immortality(?) and LIFE, and this is my concept for the project.

In addition, my project's name will be Mr.C between Baby B and old D.

It means life is a Choice between Birth and Death.

My Portrait

• How this image is expressive of the subject of the portrait?
• How has your use of composition and light contributed to the expression in the image?

Extreme close up portrait

The most basic thing to think after I saw this picture, was a hand of person who is looking for something. The path of fingers pointing and focused inside wall emphasize my opinion.

Symbolizing object

The keyboard symbolizes one of my importance and messy wires give confusing emotion.

Close up Portrait
The background and snow on the body create freezing mood, however the major color used and his smile makes the photograph bright emotion.

Unusual angled Portrait
The subject's arm shape is showing comfortable but a bit awkward expression. His inexpressive face and shading on the subject make dark expression.

Portrait without face

The background is bright and so the subject is, too. The subject's way of standing is looking comfortable and usual life.

Symmetrical Portrait
Mirrored two subjects look like they are facing opposite each other. This photograph shows anger and jealousy expression.

Balanced Portrait
Face expression is hidden by the subject's hands. However for entire subject, the subject is showing his nerve and considering expression. 

Symbolizing object

The subject symbolizes the person who is related to banana. For me, I took this picture because I hate them. A bit darken banana gives negative look.

How close or far away is the subject? What details are emphasized? What is present in the background, if anything? 

What is the focal point or emphasis or each of these photographs? What do you look at first? Then describe the path that your eye follows.

What is the mood or feeling created by these photographs?  What does the subject's expression say about him or her? Include visual facts that support your answer.

What do you know or feel for the subject? How has the photographer presented this information visually.  

The subject is not far or close. Subject in the photo is realistically took. It emphasizes his yellowy golden eyes the most in detail and mainly his body is emphasized the most than others because it is the subject. In the background, there are lots of lights and snow, it looks like a winter night of a capital city. Two red and blue lights look like they are symbolizing the police. So, I think he is a police or he is a criminal. The first element I look is his face and goes into his eyes secondly. Then to his hair and whole body to the bright red and blue lights. Then mood of this photograph is coldness and darkness. His calm but a bit sensitive facial expression emphasizes and exaggerates the mood of coldness. The detail brown eyes create mysterious character on the photograph, too. The subject feels like a lonesome bachelor, because of his beard, aggressive eyes and color of his hair and clothes.

 Alex Holzknecht

The distance between viewers and the subject is very close and this photograph emphasized difference between a baby and a man. There is nothing on the background, and I think photographer created it on purpose to emphasize humans' face more than anything so viewers can focus on them only. The focal point of this photograph is edge of the man's face, because there is considered as the divider of subject and the background and the part has the brightest light than any part. Of course, I look and the man's face first than anything because it is on the center of the photograph and has the largest area of overall photograph. And then my eyes go to the baby's face next, especially, I would see his eyes and front face than anything because there is a lot of light and darkness changes and it is closest to the man's face. I think there is no mood at all. If there is one, it would be a very complicated mood such as depression. Because I think this photograph is showing growth of a person, but there is nothing but pitch black background after the man. I think the black background symbolizes the death of a living thing. And there face expression is not positive or negative at all, so it is hard to conclude exact mood of this photograph.

Brothers by Deskounlmtd

The subject and viewer are not far away from each other, but they are not close at all, neither. This photograph emphasized a boy and his environment. The background is a field behind the boy. This photograph focused on the boy especially,

 Colton Witt

Modern gladiator by Jeroen Oosterhof

Steve McCurry: Yanesha, Peru

Steve McCurry: Los Angeles, California

Cezanne Reflection

I used acrylic paint  because I could paint better that oil painting, and NOT to make the same mistake I have made before. Oil painting is quite dangerous and troublesome for me, so I chose acrylic paint. I chose yellow color to represent a golden apple, however it was the first challenge of making color gold. And the result was unsatisfied. Most importantly, it was difficult to chose the color for background and leaves, because I couldn't decide the color of them. I wanted to try in many ways, but they did not overcome my expectation. Therefore, I chose blue and green, the basic colors for leaves, because I thought they would be the most comfortable and the easiest element. But when I finished painting leaves and background, they were too simple  as a work. After considering and considering, I thought it would become another picture if I use a lot of colors everywhere to make an effect like a storm. And it did. Rough and violent stormy brush touches show the path to audience and creates mysterious mood on the painting. I used union of warm and cool color on leaves, but they were not as successful as I expected at the beginning. And the most important thing in my head is the faded small apple. Because of this element, the warmth and coldness were not divided into two different picture. I think it is the connector of bright color and dark color of the painting. That's why I think it is the hidden screw of my painting. The motif of my painting is supposed to be the apple, but it can be  the background. I chose apple to be the motif and maximized its existence, but after I finished drawing, the background became emphasized, either. The stormy brush touches would make audience focus on itself. Therefore, I think there is two different motives in my painting. It is kind of strange.