So which artist or artist on the website did you respond to? (name them)
What is it (BE SPECIFIC!!!!) that excites you or interests you about this work?
Lastly, write a description of their work so that we can imagine the pieces even without SEEING them. Imagine that you are describing this work to a friend who won't get to take a look at the actual pieces.
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The artist on the website that I most responded to was the 2-D pieces done by Jessica Scott in the 2008 Studio Art 2-D Design, the first one listed.
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw her work it excited me because her work was making like graphic design "yearbook" pages that all had to do with the number 13. This excited me because for one it is graphic design and I what to hopefully major in that in college. Plus I am in Yearbook now and so that part of it excited me to. Also just the whole color scheme, title names and fonts, the way the collage of pictures and designs for the background and the design of the page pulled you in in an mysterious way, and just the overall layout of the pages excited me, too.
Her work can be described as a vibrant mass of color scheme along with fading out/in, overlapping, partly hiding: pictures and designs and maybe "clipart" that fit together and was arraigned together in a collage, that all went together and fit in a series of pages that had the theme of 13 on it. And the color scheme went along with each page as the sub theme for each 13 page ranged in something that had to deal with the history of the United States, what words use and have 13 letters in them, a title cover called: Superstition, what shape a 13 or 13's could/can make, what could be true or not true of the number 13, a table of contents, the number 13 used or how it is just in another religion, letters to an editor using graphics of when stamps were only 13¢, just another walk through history, and the number 13 in sports-travel-and flicks.
The artist that I most responded to was from Preforming Arts, Lakeland, Florida and submitted their portfolio to 2D AP Art in 2003. I liked the style they had in painting and drawing... it wasn't too realistic, it incorporated shapes/designs throughout the background, and it used great color. That's what excited me about this artist.
ReplyDeleteOne of this artist's peices used teal, black, gold, and white. When I first looked at, it looked like bubbles. When I looked at it longer, I could see straight lines and geometric shapes. The composition worked together.
My favorite artist on the AP website is Lindsay Schmidt in the 2006 2D Art Concentration.
ReplyDeleteThe composition of her pieces are very strong and appealing to the eye. Although seemingly abstract at first glance, every piece is a part of a sign. She uses bright, primary based colors to attract the eye, also using white to make things stand out. What most intrigues me about Lindsay's work is that she uses ordinary street signs to make a social statment about the business of modern society.
Through high quality photographs and use of photoshop's filtering techniques, Lindsay created collages of street signs. Sometimes she just used the signs, sometimes people were incorporated, sometimes she juxtaposed the business of the signs with a sign of nature.
Melissa DeMaagd said....
ReplyDeleteI really liked Wesley Strait's 3D concentration. I like how he used a centration that was inspired by the works of Andy Goldsworthy, Clyde Connell, and Christo's. All of these artists use material from nature such as rocks, sticks and trees. He used the tools of the earth, and created a variety of miniature shrines, towers, and dwellings.
This work inspires me because he used nature, as an inspiration and as the materials in his pieces.
I also find inspiration in nature :)
I responded to many of the artists on the website, but the work that I was most attracted to was done by the artist, Brian Hillner.
ReplyDeleteHis work was initially photographs of urban settings, but most specifically of a bridge. He would use an exact-o knife to cut away the extra pieces leaving the sharp lines and angles of the bridge behind. The pieces had a very urban colorful feel, though originally his work started out as black and white but then shifted half way through to incorporate more colors. One specific pieces showed the side of a building looking upward through the rails and metal bars of the fire escape. The metal was black, but the building and the spaces between the bars and the sky were all bright, surreal colors. Yellows, purples, pinks, and blues. None of the colors had a natural feel like a green might have had, which makes perfect sense.
The reason I was so pulled in by Brian's work was because of the urban feel. I tend to respond to architecture and buildings and the bold, in-your-face, simplistic colors on complex structures. It's a beautiful contrast that leaves me in awe.
(Another concentration of art that I found interesting was a collection of miniature architectural models. It was a practical, but still had a feel of art)
I liked a piece by a girl named Emily. It was a picture of a older woman drawn on what looked like a photo of a younger her. I was head of this old lady printed on the top of the photo.
ReplyDeleteI love Carolyn Getz!
ReplyDeleteOh my goodness, the color and composition in these pieces is simply fantastic. I love the expression that bleeds through the hues that she chooses, and the way that it comes out via every day entities such as applying mascara and brushing your teeth.
There's profound ideas in a pair of paints around one's ankles, to a child on the telephone. I love the simple ideas that are conveyed in getting dressed for the morning, and these pieces capture the every day miracles that I am positively smitten with.
My favorite concentration that I looked at was the 2D Concentration by Joel Bobeck.
ReplyDeleteI thought it was neat how he chose something so random like honey bees and their environment, and their habitat. I think that his inspiration from nature is nice because usually that is something so small that we usually look past.
I really like how it goes from being completely animated, to being abstract and very natural and realistic.
Annie Bruckner is awesome.
ReplyDeleteI've always loved architecture and all the pieces are of different urban places. And though at first thought, city buildings are all grays, steal, brick, aka colorless, the pieces are really colorful. They give a sunset or sunrise quality because of yellow lighting and other colors flowing through the pieces. She said her concentration was about the relationship between people and buildings, and it really comes across well through the pictures. The people drawn by the buildings are black and see-through, mostly just lines over top of the acrylic building images. It shows the temporary nature of humans beside the luminance of buildings. There is also a lot of use of shadows in the pieces and amazing lighting. You feel like you are in these places, only... they are better than a photograph. Much better. Because of the paint she could make the colors more enhanced and make the people more like see-through ghosts.
I looked at Laura Sorg's work she made beautiful dresses out of materials usually not used for clothing even though they may not be functional they were really enjoyable to look at and at a first glance you would never guess the materials she used. They were elegant with a lot going on.
ReplyDeletei liked Amber Cancino's concentration. i liked how she played with shadows, i think that when people use shadows in their work is almost always looks cool. and used paper to create the shapes, and i think that looks great and very delicate, i would never have the patience to make anythhig out of paper like that. and i think it looks cool.
ReplyDeleteShe used to paper to make decorative work with designs that resemble and abstract from cast shadows.
-- I liked Mckenzie Wallace and her photography pieces the best.
ReplyDelete-- I think the thing that excites me most about Mckenzie's work is because it's all photography. I have never really seen a concentration or collection of photographs from another high schooler and hers are truly extravagant. All though some of them are a little eery and creepy, she definitely did a great job of showing what she was trying to show. Her main theme was to show her struggle to emphasis her identity. I also love how she used herself in the the pictures, it made it so much more personal to her.
-- Her work was all self-portrait photography... the main subject of each of the pictures were herself. Most of them were very bright with a little taste of vintage/old. They had a mix of scenery ranging from a bedroom, to a chair with a plain background to a forest. In most of the pictures she had a mask on that resembled an animal, like a deer, bunny or cat. She never showed her whole face in any of the pictures but i think that was her intent, she was trying to show the struggle of finding your identity and she showed that by wearing various masks and hiding or cropping her face from the picture. Each picture had two sections to it, it would usually be that the first picture was of a simple object and in the next picture she would be in the picture with that object over her face. All in all, she did an amazing job of capturing what she was hoping to capture, in a very unique way.
i had 3 favorites and im gonna post some pictures (if i can figure out how) on my blog...so you guys should check them out!
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