Blog Post 3

This piece of artwork is called “Marilyn was Here” and was done by Richard Lindner in 1967. I found this piece on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website and it stuck out to me the most, because of the colors and it seemed different then the other collages of the website. In the description it included that Lindner captures pictures of American and British Pop artists, and that this piece “portrays her as both sexual vixen and national icon.” For “sexual vixen” it can be the way her body is shaped and portraying her characteristics and for “national icon” it can be the American flag next to her body. The medium of this artwork is watercolor, ink, graphite, cut and pasted printed-paper, fabrics and garter belt on paper. What I found interesting was that it was just the middle of her body, not including her head or the knees and down. The different colors, drawings, and paper that made up the body made it look intriguing. The colors are a combination both primary and secondary, with the darker colors as the back ground and the body being lighter, it makes the angle of the body stand out. The first part of the piece that caught my attention was the middle with the yellow space.  Overall, I think this is a great piece to look at and try to see the story behind it.

Assignment #3

This a painting called Marquette for Affairements by Jean Dubufflet. The painting seen here is using different principles of design. One design used is the rule of odds. As you can see there seems to be two odd shapes that appear to look like two heads and there is only two of those which is an odd number. I also see the use of visual rhythm. You can see the repeated use of the colors red and blue. You can also see the repeated use of odd different shapes through out the painting. To me the balance of this painting is approximate symmetrical because there are differences seen on both side of the painting. Although there are differences on the painting, the differences are slightly different and seem to balance each other out so it seems to be symmetrical. The painting doesn't really seem to have a focal point because the painting seems to have these colors and shapes put about just everywhere and kind of makes you look just about anywhere in the painting. The emphasis of the painting I think are the two shapes that appear to look like heads because looking at the painting it tends to catch the eye first.

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Using the museum link on our blog I was able to come across Eduardo Paolozzi’s collage. The composition is cool because it’s not like other forms of art and it has rainbow colors that capture your attention. Unlike other form of arts that usually don’t use all those primary and secondary colors all at once. The collage definitely uses the rule of odds, using three goofy looking dogs on top. The backgrounds on top where the dogs are unified in one color, wiggly line and shape to form the background and make the dog stand out. Since the dog is a different shape and the different colors. There is visual rhythm in this piece of art, the little squares in the bottom are repeated and the colors also repeat but in different places. The collage has organic and geometric shapes. The geometric shapes are the repeated squares, the little ones and big ones. The dog on top has organic shapes because of his hat, nose and mouth. In my point of view the whole collage is an asymmetrical symmetry. If you cut the collage in half, the two sides don’t correspond to on another in size or shape in the top. Since there is three dogs on top if it is cut in half, one side has more of the dog than the other since the last box the dog is kind of fading away. In the bottom the shapes stay consistent, they are all squares but the colors are not the same nor are the patterns inside the squares. To me the focal point and emphasis is on the first dog to the left and the square that is black and yellow. I think that because since the dog is still in it’s original form you can automatically see it, unlike the last box where the dog is already fading away and loosing it’s color. The black and yellow box also stands out the most because it’s the black makes the yellow pop out, it kind of even looks like an eye. I think the whole collage is on eyelevel. I don’t think there is scale or proportion really going on in this collage. But this college reminds me of one I did in my art class in high school of mickey in different colors.

The image above is a collage by Thomas Hirschhorn and I got this great collage from the MoMA website. What was used in this collage was cut and paste paper and also a felt-tip pen in order to create this collage. The meaning of this collage is the extreme brutality of war by putting pieces of images together. In this collage what I sense to see the most is repetition, I say this because as we can see there is a lot of images of mouths. I also believe this would be the artist focal point where he would want us to focus the most. When I look at this collage  and see the mouths I'm thinking what the artist emphasis is trying to show us is that what we say can hurt us as also being part of the brutality of war.. Although there is repetition I believe this collage also has unity. Although the images are different piece that was used it still brings out the collage as one making it out to be the brutality of war. If you look very closely and was to visual cut the collage in half we would see that  the balance is asymmetrical of this collage, on the left side it seems like the artist used more of the bigger images and on the right side theres more of smaller cut images. I honestly love this collage a lot and also the meaning the artist Thomas Hirschhorn tried to show us.

Home work 3

This is what I found from the museum link and Roberto Ossaye makes this art and it is found in Art Museum of the America. I feel like this a collage art since it looks little different from the regular artwork.  There is some geometric shape that made by all the glass and bottle in that art and I think Roberto Ossaye used rule of odd just to make it more interesting. The spoons in the glass and the unopened bottle make it unity. The variety in this art is the color of each bottle and cups. I think the focal point of Roberto Ossaye's is the center of the art the yellow cup with different color, color of this cup or glass is primary warm color, which is yellow in this. The angel of this art is neutral positioning because I can look at this art as “eye to eye” and the proportion and scale of this art is bigger than its usual. As we know that bottles and glass are not that big as it shown. From the way he the artist (Roberto Ossaye) made this art I think he loves to drink or may be he is giving a tangible feeling and idea behind this simple act, but its not just about that glasses and bottle I feel something more than that in this art with that shape of spoon and other orange thing in the other glass. The color of this art is both primary and secondary and shapes are geometric.

HW #3

 

 

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         This is photomontage from Museum of Modern Art Web site. It was made by Aleksandr Rodchenko. There is one thing I can easily recognize about design principles which is balance. The photomontage is balanced by crossing half line. It is showing symmetrical balance. Left and right side of shapes are perfectly matched. However, I can also see asymmetrical balance as well from the color of shapes. On the top of it, there are four squares at the both sides. At the bottom of them, there are small triangulars, arrows, letters and small shape like mountain. At the bottom of it, there are also squares. The artist used different color which is black and red. Even though, they are same size, black looks heavier than red. There are also different figure on both side. On the left side has woman with face of man. On the right side, there are three men with some kind of net material. This also shows asymmetrical balance. Among of the three mans, there is one man is extremely bigger than other figures. The fiure is even bigger than net material. He is pointing to the face of man on the left side with his gun. It shows proportion and scale. The artist also shows focal point. The arrows are pointing into the bottom where figures are placed. By making the figure with big size, it shows also emphasis. There are also rhythm with repetition of colors and shapes. The colors repeated with black and red. Both sides of shapes are also repeated. There is also unity with same shapes. I can see variety with different figures.

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This piece of painting I found it on museum of modern art. This Painting was created be Sarah Morris. This painting you could see that the lines are making shapes you could see triangles, hexogen, parallelogram and a diamond. These lines belong together the lines is making the painting come together, this painting is a unity. I feel that this painting has a little of variety as you could see in the shapes that looks like a hexogen in the inside of that hexogen there are different colors and shapes. In the painting there is emphasis and focal point I felt that the painter Sarah Morris wanted you to focus at a certain place and I think that certain place is where all the hexogen are all-together. This is a two-dimensional because it’s a painting. In this painting there are visual elements, which are line, shape, color and a little bit of a pattern. There’s a lot of lines n this painting. The color makes the painting really come out there so many colors it catches your eyes. There are warm and cool colors you could see the red which is a warm color but other then that you see green, light green and a little bit of white. The reason I pick this painting was because of the lines and color. Painting like this always catches my eyes cause of the colors. Im always looking at pictures with a lot of colors its very interesting the way they look. As you could see this painting had unity, variety and emphasis and focal and it also had visual elements.

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This is a collage made by Harry Callahan.  Right off the bat I see, Unity, Variety, Repetition, Balance, and Proportion.  There is a sense of unity in this work that comes from the fact that all of the photos are black and white, and all of the photos are of at least some portion of women’s faces.  There is variety in the sizes of the photos and in the scale of the features in the individual photos.  There is a feeling of repetition simply because there are small black and white photos covering almost the entire work.  I don’t think the same picture is ever used more than once but there are a lot of very similar photos and a lot of photos are used in similar ways.  This is also a unifying feature of the work.  The work is balance.  It has approximate symmetry the top corners seem to be slightly shaded, which makes the middle of the piece stand out a bit.  The clippings in the middle are smaller and more densely placed.  To me this makes the looking at the outer edges much easier than looking at the ring around the center.  As far as proportion there is a wide variety in the relative sizes of the different clippings.  Some of the larger clippings are zoomed in photos of lone features, and some of the smaller clippings are photos of whole faces.  So individual eyes and mouths are larger than entire faces, which is clearly not proportional.