The artist Paul Villinski caught my attention out of all the other many, many artists. The colors that he used really grabbed my attention. The pieces he made interested me a great deal. How the object is being destroyed fading into butterflies. Even the black angel wings he made out of leather gloves. He works with mostly aluminum shaping them into butterflies. The wire pieces that he does turning them into a body. Then with the body is a butterfly somewhere or even a kaleidoscope of butterflies coming out of him. I learned that a group of butterflies are called kaleidoscopes. Paul Villinski wants to show us through his art that "we are not alone."
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There are a lot of artists that inspired me, some who expressed it through words or even the actual that they did. Erin Hanson is a poet who did a series of poems based on society. One poem was about welcoming someone into society as if it was a cult. These rules you have to live by and the fact once you are in there is no going back. I based a piece on that, forming a more 3D piece based on the idea and meaning of that piece. I really grew with the meaning towards my art piece a lot this year. Starting with this piece and continuing on. I never have thought so deeply in my life allowing myself to go to those places in my mind that i normally avoid because well yeah. I have never really reflected my state of mind on my art work. I think also i found that i am more into working with 3D art than just painting a pretty picture and calling it a day. This is another piece that really made me go beyond my thinking comfort level. Erin Hanson hides her feelings in poems where as i hide it in my writing of my own. I layered what i never have said as the background then added onto it. She inspired me to use words beyond what most people use. I grew with meaning, i grew with using different images to form meaning. I even grew with myself understanding who i am as an artist. The Project was about what is something that you never got the chance to say. I Tried so hard to allow myself to release that part of me but i just couldn't do it. So instead i decided to show why i don't say that stuff instead. A wall that i put up in my mind to not allow people to cross into that part of me. I made it damaged to show that people have tried and it just ended in failure it ended with another hole inside of me. On the other side of this wall i made the sky so pretty to show that it's a interesting place for people to want and try to see what's on the other side. But the grass is all destroyed from the people who come and ruin things in there path. That is why i don't allow them to enter because it's all i have left that i don't want destroyed. Apart of that is from is my writing, i used that as the background and made it backwards because not many people who see what part of me has been put in it.
This project was very touchy for me, i had so many issues with it from the beginning and to the end. I couldn't bring myself to express what i have never gotten the chance to say. It's a part of me that will probably never be shown. Love is the drug that caught my attention, I love the colors and just how breath taking beautiful it all is. I wasn't sure if this was my favorite but the more I looked at it the more I couldn't stop admiring it. This tree is my second favorite one, the tree is very pretty and I like how it reminds me of spring. All the good things as well how it's so full of color. It's titled Mike Kelley. I honestly don't know what this is, let alone what I should think of this. It's a bit strange and I don't like it very much, it's a weird form of some bird, chicken thing. For this project I had some struggles of coming up with what I should do. I have a project similar to this before so I was not really into doing a repeat. In the end I managed to get it done. The idea of this project came to me when I was talking to someone. I decided I wanted to use seashells somehow because they seemed like a cool non- traditional object. Someone said that the seashell is the skeleton of a sea creature which formed the idea of using that for a human skeleton. I ended up going with a scull. I used some shading by using darker grey shells for the shadow parts and the more white, pink colors for the rest of the skull. There was a conch shell that was broken in places, you could perfectly wrap your hand around it on the inside like a handle. I thought it would make a cool handle for a sword. Then I got the idea of, well how did this guy die so I used red yarn for the sword, red representing blood. It was challenging to get it to be angled just right and I made a decision to show the sword going through the skull. I made the end a basic point for a regular sword and not a cliché pirate looking sword so that you won't automatically assume that this is a pirate skull etc. For this project I already had this amazing idea that I so badly wanted to do. Thankfully I was able to find a principle that it could fit under, and that category was Text. What I created was a frame capturing the reality of our society. How they tear us all down on our self image, that no matter what it's never good enough. They make us feel that every time we look into a mirror it's broken, that it's not correct yet, that we are not aloud to love our self for who we are. When I was planning this I was making this piece to burn some anger off. The thoughts were loud in my head on how strongly I felt about this. Because it seriously hurts teenagers even ones that are bit older than teenagers. But as I began to make this project I found that the reason changed on why I made this piece. An adult asked me about the project I was planning and of course I proudly explained to her all about it, what I got was confusion and a look of "that's pointless and a waist of time" look. Then as I continued the project, buying supplies I found myself having to explain the project to other adults and I got the same look. Even when I explained it to my parents they didn't seem to think it was that bad. That the reason teenagers are so harsh on our image is because we are immature or something. This of course made me angrier, then it turned into me wanting to make this to show adults that don't understand a basic look on how it feels to be so torn down. It shows what goes on in a everyday teenagers life. The project started out rocky, breaking a mirror isn't as easy as I thought it would be. What ended up happening was it completely shattered. Thankfully, with some help I was able to get a few big broken pieces. Then I threw it all together, I made sure to get a white frame, with a white background. I wanted it to be plain because in society it's like you have to be plain in order not to be dodged. The text was all my wording. I decided to have the first paragraph be an acceptance letter, locking you into the system. Then the second paragraph is a reminder, meaning that you tried to break free, do your own thing but society basically pulled you right back in. Then the last paragraph is a final warning, this is society showing it's true colors, meaning you have to do this or we will turn you into someone with mental problems it seems like. Then the ones who do accept society as there own tear others apart it seems like. It's such a brutal thing. The end piece just looked amazing, I showed a few of my friends outside of my art class and it gave them chills on how accurate it all was, this is when I knew I was finished and I wouldn't change a thing. Welcome to society, Here is your starting package. What your wearing is acceptable but not for this year. It's okay to feel beautiful but not all of you. I can almost see your bones you're halfway there. Your height is almost acceptable but we can fix that. Here is a label there is no taking it off. Welcome to society, there is no turning back. Reminder: Look at yourself, that's the only amount you are allowed to love. Everything else is not enough without our help. Love Society Final Warning: Look at yourself, that's the only amount you are allowed to love of yourself. The rest will not be good enough for our standards. -Society What the article said I would have to greatly agree with what he is saying. Art supplies are expensive and will add up after time even though some of those supplies are basic things you could easily make. Example a canvas, you could make this canvas as big as you wanted to. As well this also teaches students limitations and how they could easily work around it. I hate paintbrushes, also they take forever to clean and get ruined by the end of a semester. So for a project that I did in art 2 I used dandelions which I thought was a lot of fun. Also wouldn't it be cool to say you made this piece of art from scratch. It really makes the mind think on different ways to get your hands on materials other than going to a art store and making it easy. What's art without a challenge. Making a sculpture of an animal out of silverware is a great way of using objects without buying art supplies from an art store. This picture was made out of floppy disc , and of course paint. Even a bowl made out of old magazines that you have laying around your house can easily turn into this beautiful piece of art. Pressing old stuffed animals to make a print is another thing that is not using art supplies from some art store.
This article was very...confusing, she used big words and put those big words together and complicated what seems like a pretty basic topic. So what I could understand seemed interesting. I never really thought of an art education having to be made up. Honestly I thought art teachers made up the units and went with it. Also I never knew there was such thing as a art textbook. Honestly I don't see a problem about educating principle's of art. It shows how the art made today have evolved from the past. It's good to be educated on that kind of stuff, shows the importance of how you can evolve your own art today.
For this project I chose the word silence. With the follow up question, What is silence? After deep thinking and exploring other peoples views on silence there is never any silence. Nobody could be talking but there is always a hum in the air or even the sound of floor boards squeaking from someone moving around. I thought it would be cool to find a way to show that there isn't such thing as silence. Even if the person viewing the art disagrees with my interpretation it's still makes them think and form there own opinion. I have this book that I tore apart, the reason being is I looked up to this book series, I looked up to the main character. The ending silenced her. I self reflected realizing that silence can come from death even if the person that died isn't real to begin with. When the main character was silenced it brought silence to my words. This happened about two years ago. Now I think on just because this character died her words still live on...that doesn't sound like silence to me. Then someone told me to bring her back to life. So that's exactly what I did. By doing so I rewrote the book in a creative way. Starting with the cover I covered it with the extra pages. What extra pages? The extra pages I tore out of the book in pure anger. In the end it turned out like so. These pages are scenes I had loved and I still do love. The whole entire cover front and back is covered. Every book has a title right? Since I covered the real title also I don't want anyone to know immediately what this book is underneath. I bet some people could easily figure it out if they read the pages but that's part of the fun. Anyways I decided to give it a new title instead of leaving it blank. Un-silence the silenced. Like I have said before there is no such thing as real silence. The pictures above are just a few of the things that I put into the book. The mountain picture I drew with chalk pastels. I drew a bunch of pictures in the book. Some are flowers, city life, a tree and many more. The middle picture with the purple writing I did a lot of those. I wrote over the words with my own, describing the main character, showing how she still is alive. The last picture is black out poems. I only did a few of them because I found that I wasn't very fond of them, the challenge wasn't in my liking. I didn't do every page, I felt that leaving some of her adventures and words lets her live on.
The reason I chose these drawings and choice of words was this is my way of putting life back into this character. Un-silence the silenced. I agree with most points in the article but there are some ideas that could be improved. Honestly I feel that art is what the artist chooses to express in there mind. Yes, every piece of art has meaning to it. Even when a student makes a piece of art just for a grade they still self consciously have a meaning to it. The student may not even know it until questions begin to ask, "why did you make this art?" "what inspired this art?" This also makes the student think and tend to realize they expressed their emotions and or the meaning into the art without realizing it. Also if there is meaning there is emotion which can be a very tricky thing to handle for a student. I feel that teachers should indeed work meaning into the lessons but I also think she shouldn't push it. Hidden emotions can be hard for students to express. Yes, they tend to express it in art openly. Some students from the gecko they have a statement and or a meaning to express to the public eyes. They are not afraid to share what they have created. Then there are the students who would like to keep those feelings to themselves. I speak from experience that the student wants to put meaning in to but doesn't want to answer the deeper questions. It's a hard thing to handle because they could be scared. So when a teacher goes up to a student asking about the meaning behind it they should be careful to approach it. If a teacher ends up helping a student to the point that it's decoration that shows the student isn't into the art. This is when the teacher needs to find a different project or a different idea for that student if they don't want the student making decorations. In the end art is art, it's a way to express emotions that are hidden. Even if the art is a cartoon to hang on someone's wall. Art is also a cool object for people to observe and get what they want out of it. I agree with the article when it says that teachers should teach shading and detail in warms-ups. Then if a student wants help to improve there artwork then off to the side the teacher could give pointers and tips. That is another thing about meaning, some students may want to put meaning and have this idea but isn't that artistically talented yet to do so. This painting of this girl by Sal Jones, for example. It has depth of meaning in it. But to others it could just be a girl. Also it's not wall decoration it's from the artist and there mind. This is also why I noticed from the article it talked about how teachers are telling the students what to do to the point it's considered decoration. But what if the student has an image in there mind with meaning but again they don't have the talent like the painting above. So in the end I think the teachers should enforce meaning but help the students when they have an idea.
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