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The Artist Sarah Sze is 45 years old and she lives in New York. Sze uses ordinary objects to create sculptures. She studied architecture and painting, so for her it is easy to make up something in her mind and then make it tangible. She said that sometimes “what you can do in a drawing you cannot do in a print and what you can do in a building you cannot do in a drawing”.  That is a good point because in a print we cannot touch or see something the way that the artist is trying to transmit because people would interpret it in another way.  For example, the sculpture that she build in the video that I just saw is called “Model for a habitat,” the place where she exhibited this artwork was in a high line in Manhattan it was there for a year. She did this 3D sculpture because she wanted to make a location where people could observe the birds the insects and all those details that were around this place. The artist seems to be very energetic and likes the idea of nature and wild life that was a reason that she created that artwork in that place. The purpose of her sculpture was for people who were walking around this place took a minute or two to stop by and appreciate this work and saw all the things that were around it. For example, the nature, the birds, the insects, the flowers the grass, etc. She put that sculpture where people have to walk though it the walking space itself become the negative space in the sculpture. The process of making the work was pretty long because first she had to do the entire sculpture in a model. She used wood, strings, color tapes and cardboards as a guide so in that way she was able to figure out one point prospective. After doing that she was able to do it with metal in the place that she wanted. I think that she did a wonderful work because people who walked around that place, seemed to be interested and curious about that work. For me this was a very interesting video because this is my first time that I see how artists make their artwork.  It is interesting and easy to understand when you see what they are pretending to do with the art that they create. Sze said “I’m interested to take a public piece and have it feel intimate. When you get there, you feel slightly embraced by the piece itself—slightly nested—which plays on the idea of the habitat." According with the video that I saw she did a good job because she reached her goal the people who took the time to appreciate her work felt that way.

 

 

 

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The artist that I was assigned is Paul McCarthy, he does all kinds of art really.  He looks to be in his mid 60's and mainly does installation pieces, sculpture, and large scale vinyl inflatable pieces.  Earlier in his life he did a lot of performance art and short films.  Although the films were quite abstract and he likes to make very large installations where you can view loops of the film that are started at different times, side by side.  He said that he thinks of his films more like a painting than a regular film because there is next to no narrative in the sense of a story line but you can extract a narrative form the madness much like a still painting.  His process seems to have evolved slightly from what it was when he was a collage student doing performance pieces to some of the things that he does now.  He said that when he was younger he would just grab what was in front of him and find some way to use it.  He would wrap his head in scotch tape and cover it in butter.  There is a video of him crawling face down on the ground behind an open bucket of paint and smearing the paint with his face and body.  In some of his more recent works he said he has done a great deal of planning for certain parts of it to get a desired result.  He also said that he still just dives in and things sort of take shape in the middle of everything.  One idea that he says he took on in one of his short videos was the idea that people become their parents when they have kids.  He said it was being conditioned by your surroundings.  The video was just him and another person acting like a dis-functional father and son, where he was playing the father.  So he seemed to pretty much just come right out and say that he felt like he had become his father.  Some of his newer works are quite large sculpture installations and a lot of the subjects of the sculptures are large figures in American politics.  He says that he thinks of these people as real people at times and as caricatures or cartoon characters most of the time.  He has made bobble head looking sculptures of President George W. Bush that look like he's having sex with a pig.  I have seen some of his installations and I’m not really a big fan of a lot of his work.  A lot of it seems to be vile and disgusting for no reason other than to be vile and disgusting.  He did say one thing that I thought was very well said and made a very good point.  He said he doesn’t feel like he has a responsibility to his audience, his responsibility is his idea.

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The first painting is found at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The name of it is The Manuscript Leaf with the Presentation in the Temple, from a Book of Hours. The artist is Alice M. Dike and it was painted in 1927. The foreground can be the green tile in the front, the middle ground can be the people and the table, and finally the background can be the colorful diamond like designed screening in the back. There is definitely overlapping when it comes to this picture. You can see how the people overlap some of the other people and you can also see how the people overlap the table.You can see the depth of the picture from the table in the middle. The picture was painted at eye level. In my drawing a drew a storage room that I have in my house. This was drawn from eye level. In the storage room is a small table on the left hand side, a longer bench like table in the middle, and a small toy chest on the right hand side. In the back is the wall that houses one big window.

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The drawing on the top left hand side  was found on the modern museum of art. It has no specific title but it seems like it can be called (Green Cabin). The author's name is Amy Gartrell. The medium on this drawing are ink, gel-ink pen, and pencil on colored paper. This drawing has foreground, middle ground and background. For the foreground I can say that it is the snow on the bottom of the drawing, for the middle ground I can say that the cabin is the middle ground and as the background for me is the tree. There is overlapping in this drawing, I can see clearly that the cabin is covering the tree giving depth to the drawing. This was drew on the eye level and the main object to focus is the cabin. About my drawing I can say that these are some of the house furniture. I drew them on a lower eye level. There is no overlapping but there is depth.

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Space, Overlapping,Scale and linear perspective

I took this painting from the Google art project link. The name of this artwork is “Landscape (1878)” by George Inness. In this painting spaces are very visible. The foreground of the painting is the trees and the hill in the left hand side. I describe this as foreground because this part of the art looks nearest to and in front of the viewer. The middle ground of the painting consists with people, dog, trees, river, shore, may be houses in the far away and so on. This part is in the middle of the painting and the area between the foreground and the background.  The Objects in this area look smaller and looks behind the foreground. Finally the background of the painting is the sky. The sky seems all way behind of everything else. There are some overlapping appear. Trees are overlapped. We see sky is behind of the trees and it was created by overlapping. The hill in the left side is also overlapped. We cannot see the anything behind the hill. There are also some examples of size relatives or scales. If we notice, we can see different sizes of trees, mountains, houses and so on. In the front objects are more visible and gradually it seems like disappearing. In some case we just guess, but cannot see the solid figures of objects. The painting is in the above of eye level. We can see the roof of the houses; the people are also in the above of the eye level. The painting has one vanishing point. If I make an image of converging lines, it apparent that, those lines meet at a single vanishing point the middle of the horizontal line. The combination of foreground/middle ground/background, overlapping, scale and perspective make the painting more clear. Without those elements the painting would look like flat, rather than presenting depth.

perspective drawing: (kitchen)

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The piece one the right by Yosa Buson greatly shows space and perspective skills used in art throughout history. One can see in the piece that we are far away from the city located in the background, looking from the foreground next to some trees and rock formations. In the middle ground one can see the faded path leading to the city walls. How this depth can be seen is by the way the artist positioned all the part of this painting. The trees and rock formation in the front look as if they were painted more heavily compared to the rest of the piece. This makes that foreground seem to overlap whatever is happening in the background. This also goes together with augmenting the size of certain things to create depth. In this painting, the trees and rocks in front are much bigger than the city buildings, which in reality wouldn't be common. Lastly, all the lines in the foreground seem to be pointing towards the background. The rocks and trees slanting towards in the direction where the painting seems more dim, creating a vanishing point.

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Hello there fellow bloggers!
For this week's assignment I chose a film negative by Walker Evans. It is titled "Cityscape with Step-Back Building", and it was photographed in New York City from a rather high elevation.

This piece shows a dark and dreary New York City right in the middle of The Great Depression (1929-1930). The artist uses two point linear perspective, which we know because we can see the corners of the buildings. Therefore, there are two vanishing points in the photo. The first one is just off the page located down the main avenue on the right of the photo. The second is even more difficult to find, however, it is clearly towards the upper left and if we trace the lines of the buildings and sidewalks we will meet there.

Though "Cityscape" is a photo, the artist nonetheless makes sure to utilize every bit of space. Besides linear perspective, I notice a lot of overlapping. I also love the background used, which showcases relative size / scale. The photo is black and white, which I believe sets the perfect tone for Depression-Era New York City. They may have still been building skyscrapers in 1930, but because of the tremendous poverty, they had an extremely difficult time renting out the offices. It gave an empty, hollow feeling to the big city, one that I think the artist captures wonderfully.

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This 2D painting I have selected from The Metropolitan Museum Art gallery. This painting is known as “The Environs of Paris” by Camille Corot (French, Paris 1796–1875 Paris).The medium of this painting is oil on wood. The subject is a view of the rue Brancas near the artist’s home at Ville-d’Avray, southwest of Paris, which is visible in the distance.Style of this art is  representational  or naturalistic as it’s something we can see in real life.I am saying it naturalistic because it looks real but not exact like photographs. The emphasis of this piece of art is the sky as it’s bright color is drawing the attention first than any other parts. However, while making shades the artist did an excellent work .This art is linear perspective of one point. It guides my eye to the vanishing point. The lines of  trees both from left and right sides are moving towards a same way that has a single vanishing point. Things that are closer to us seem larger while they get vanished from our view as it goes further and further away. The scale or relative size is different too as the different trees or hills have different shapes. The trees and hills are overlapping at the same time the hills are overlapping the sea as well. The foreground of this painting is the front right part where we can see bunch of trees are situated. Middle ground is the  street  and the background is the sky, all of these together creating space and depth.The horizontal line and the cool colors are making this art calm.

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The drawing that I chose to write about is called "Large Walchensee Landscape" the medium is dry point and the artist is unknown.  This piece creates space quite well.  The artist did a very good job of creating a lot of depth while only using one color and not a lot of detail.  The foreground is the hill that extends towards the viewer in front of the patch of trees in the center.  The middle ground encompasses everything from the patch of trees to the base of the mountains.  The background is the mountain range in the far back of the work.  Because the artist only used black there is not a lot to say about color as far as atmospheric prospective goes.  Even though there is not a tremendous amount of detail the artist does a very good job of using diminishing detail to create atmospheric prospective.  The mountains in the far back are lighter than the mountains in front of them, which is the only way that you can tell there are multiple levels of mountains.  Overlapping is also well used to show that the trees are in front of the mountains and relative size really helps to show how far the mountains are behind the clump of trees.  This is another example of how just because there aren't a ton of photo realistic details that doesn't mean that a work isn't detailed or doesn't have depth.  I really have a great appreciation for works like this because I think that it's really difficult to make something that seems really from what are basically scribbles.

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This piece is a drawing by Claude Monet called Maisons prés de la mer. In this drawing the artist is creating space by using linear perspective. This is when the artist is creating a illusion of distance. This is done by using a vanishing point. Here I can see the side of the house and the front of the house. Next to that house I can see other houses along side of it. On the left of the drawing there seems to be a gray wall going down opposite side of the houses. The wall and the houses are both going down and fading to the background. In the background of this drawing there lays the vanishing point. Monet also shows creating space by using relative size or scale, which is when an object gets smaller the further distance it is. Here Monet does this when the houses. The first house looks average looking but as you look further down the houses next to it look smaller then that first house. Monet does this to show distance. The same thing with the gray wall on the opposite side, it gets smaller as you look towards the background of the drawing. The middle ground seems to show the most of Monet creating space. In the middle ground you can see as the objects in size get smaller which makes them seem distant, giving me as the viewer a sense of distance.

The painting I chose for this week's blog post is called "Sunrise" I found this painting on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's website, it is an oil on canvas painting that was made around 1646-47 by the artist Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellee). This art work shows many aspects of space and perspective.The foreground to this painting is the place where the  man is standing by himself and the animals, the middle ground is where the man and woman are on the river riding a horse and guiding the animals somewhere. I think that the background for this painting is where the grass and trees are on the other side of the river and also I think the mountains in the back also are a part of the background as well as the blue sky and the clouds. The things in this painting that show relative size and scale is the animals and the trees the trees look like they are getting smaller almost like they are walking towards the main point in this painting the place where ones eyes goes first in the painting which is the couple on the horse and the dark trees. The style of this art work is presentational because the artist is trying to make the painting as real as possible, for example the animals and people in the painting and the surrounding landscape look very realistic,and this art work resembles forms in the natural world. On both sides of the river there is some form of visual rhythm with the repetition of the accented shades of the trees and of the surrounding mountains also there seems to be a balance and calmness throughout the painting. I chose to draw the table and tv that are placed in front of my bed my eye level is directly ahead looking upward above eye level.

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What we learned in class on monday was how we view and distinguish 2D art work foreground, middleground and background and also overlapping scale, relative size,linear perspective one point and two point and also vanishing points. The 2D art work I chosed is from the MET museum and its by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and it's called the Harvesters.

What we learned in class on monday was how we view and distinguish 2D art work foreground, middleground and background and also overlapping scale, relative size,linear perspective one point and two point and also vanishing points. The 2D art work I chosed is from the MET museum and its by Pieter Bruegel the Elder and it's called the Harvesters. when we look at this painting we see that this painting has a foreground, middleground, background, relative size and vanishing point. When we look at this painting the foreground would be where the harvesters are all relaxing and gathered together and also that big tree in the front where one of them seem to be napping or something next to it. The middle ground to me would be the part that’s green with grass right in the middle with a couple other trees. As the tree’s go more further back we can see that they’re relative size because they appear to get smaller and smaller. The background would be the land with the water all the way in the back and the gloomy sky. By this point in the background the trees are at vanishing point.

Now going on to my drawing please don’t laugh it because I can't really draw but i tried the best i can. I decided to draw my kitchen since thats where I am doing my homework. I used the linear perspective one point so you can see that the cabinets are more towards the background and the dining table and the refrigerator is more foreground.Sorry the picture quality is bad my ipad has a terrible camera.

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After drawing my blog post # 6, I feel like a professional drawer because I wasn’t aware that I could draw like that. I guess that I owe that to the techniques that I have learned in this class. I know that my drawing is not that good or pretty but for me it is beautiful because it is the first drawing that I feel proud of. As you can realize my drawing contains overlapping because there are many objects over the big square that is the table. It also has relative size or scale because the two objects that are in the right part  of the table are the same size but for the fact that one is in front of the other makes the one that is in front  look bigger and the one that is behind  look smaller. This drawing is asymmetric. For me the focal point is the table that is in the middle. The subject is this drawing is above eye level because when I was drawing this I was sitting in front of the table. The style of this artwork is Representational because you can say exactly what it is (I guess).  It doesn’t have any color but I used the technique of shading. I also used lines, there are horizontal, vertical and curves lines. It also contains geometric shapes such as the squares the circles and the triangles.

This painting is called “Christina’s World”.  It was painted by Andrew Wyeth in 1948. The Medium used in this painting was tempera on panel. This is a very simple painting but it is very straight forward about what we have learned in class. For example, this is a 2D painting, in which the foreground is the lady that is lying on the ground. The middle ground is the empty space in the middle where we can also see the green grass, and the background is those houses that are back there. In this painting we can also appreciate relative size or scale because the houses that are in the back look smaller compared to the lady that is on the ground and as you keep looking until the last thing that you can see, everything is getting smaller, the last thing that we can see is a house and probably all those houses are the same size but somehow they look smaller because they are in the background. In this painting there is not overlapping at all. The visual balance is asymmetrical because both sides are different. This painting is representational because that landscape looks very real. The artist didn’t play much with color because as we can realize the most predominant color is the green. What the artist used in this artwork is the monochromatic technique because he played with the variation of the color green. As we can realize there is a place where the green is a little be softer compared with the rest.

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                                                       "Heroic Landscape with Rainbow"
                                                         Created by: Joseph Anton Koch
While searching through the Metropolitan Museum of Art website I decided to choose the 2D landscape painting above since it has a good image of space and perspective. This drawing has a foreground, middleground and background. The clouds and the sky is the background of the painting. The trees, the lake and the small buildings is the middleground of the painting. On the other hand, the people, the goats, the trees and plants is the foreground of the painting. Not only do you see space which I described above, but you can also see relative size/scale, When you look at the trees, the mountains/cliffs there are different sizes that can relate to one another. What I mean by this is that there are bigger trees,bushes, and plants than others which makes them look far way from eachother. Also there are some buildings and mountains bigger than one another due to the distance of each. In addition there are certain objects overlapping eachother but you can still see them since there are just overlapping and not blocking one another. These overlapping objects are the bushes that is located on the middlegroud of the painting. They are located on the side of the small little buildings and you can see that the bushes looks bigger than the small buildings because of the linear perspective in the painting. However the depth and linear perspective of this painting is very important to focus on because it makes the painting look more realistic and gives the audience an idea of scale, the three main areas of artwork and the differents form of shapes. To end this, below there is a sketch drawing made by me of my kitchen/ dinning room from eye level which also relates to shape and perspective.

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The work of art I chose from the Metropolitan Museum is "Landscape With an Aqueduct" by Theodore Gericault. It was better for me to type in “landscape” since it consist of better examples of proximity and space.

As you can see, this piece of art explicitly shows the three areas of proximity and space. The foreground is the whole left side of the painting. The tree overlaps the gray clouds so it appears closer. So does the architectural structure, it also overlaps the bridge, cutting it off. I noticed the colors used in the right side are lighter since it seems there is sunlight reflecting on them. So the left side is composed of darker colors and it helps create the illusion of them being closer. The middle ground is the bridge in the water and that architectural structure on the greenish mountain/hill. The background is the sky and the huge grey mountain behind the architectural structure. As you can see the first greenish mountain, the house that looks like a castle seems to be over lapping the grey mountain. This creates a sense of depth and makes it look like the mountain is further away. The hill/mountain all the way on the right also looks smaller and further away creating relative size. If you squint you painting also use trees and they also keep getting tinnier as they keep getting further away. To me the dark seems to be taking over the bright side. I think that the huge mountain is blocking the vanishing point. This piece of art has two-point perspective. You can see the corner of the two architectural structures in the middle. I think this painting is at and above eye level. I really like this painting it's so nice and soothing. 

Here is my drawing I did of my kitchen :)

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I decided to search for a landscape painting only because what is a better example of an artist creating space. Space will most likely be found in replicating nature, open fields, hills, mountains and so forth. The painting I chose was found on the Google project link painted by Dario de Regoyos y Valdes and titled "Landscape at Hernani". The medium used was canvas on oil, created in 1900. In our class session we learned about where things are placed on a composition to create space and how to identify its location. This painting clearly has a foreground, middle-ground and background. The foreground is showing the open field of grass, while the middle-ground is showing us the village of home/houses. I feel that the horizon line falls somewhere in between where the roof tops meets the mountains. The background is the area where the mountains and sky is painted so realistically. This painting is a two point perspective due to visible corners on the buildings. I'm a little torn trying to figure out if I'm correct in saying the artist painted this piece eye level. Which clearly shows the distance and depth of space in this piece. The scale of the mountains which are huge if standing by one was painted small in the background to also show distance. Also the scale of the trees and even in the size of the bridge shows us the artist was painting from a distance creating space on his canvas. The drawing I included below is my creation and understanding of creating space in a drawing of my living room. Now I'm no artist or dream to be but I think its good enough to get my point across.  

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The start of the rain
by Hernan Bas
2004

In class when professor said we have to draw something I almost ready to give up on this post blog because I never draw anything other than a stick man and at our school in India art class is only for boys I didn't know why but thats the school rule. But i gave a try and i draw something i know its so horrible as compare to other but this is my first time drawing and i little happy about it.
             The second picture I chose a drawing titled "The start of the rain by Hernan Bas in year 2004, it is 2D form because it is a drawing, he used both warm and cool color in here. This art is representational because I can tell what exactly what it is. In this art background is the sky, sun, and the trees and middle ground is the lake, and the girl and the rain drop are the foreground. Here the lady is overlapping because her body covered the water and the tree we can't see tree and water through her body. Trees and the sun is the best example of relative scale because trees at front looks huge but as it goes background of the art it looks smaller and smaller even the sun in real it is a huge planet but since it's very far from planet earth it looks small. The rain drops doesn't looks normal its seems it is pouring not just raining and the lady is not afraid of getting wet she is enjoying it. In the water i can see the reflection of the trees and sky. It's sunning and raining at same time that's the beauty of this art and as unusual the sky looks so red. This art is linear perspective of one point and I can see vanishing point all the way deep from the sky and it is eye level.

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When you told us that we had to draw something from our house, I really didn’t know what to draw because I’m not a good drawer. It took me a while to figure out what I wanted to draw. I went around the house to see what I could draw, I sat on my bed and I look up and I see what’s in front of me which was my TV and dressing table so I decide to draw that. As you could see on your left in my drawing I really tried my best to draw but that what came out. I pick out a drawing that’s called “the overlook” by Frank Magnotta. I found this drawing on museum of modern art. In class we learned about four new word which was “foreground/ middle ground/ background”, “overlapping”, “relative size” and  “linear perspective”.  In the drawing that I pick it shows foreground/middle ground/ background. As you could see the background is that little hill which is in the back and the foreground is the tree which is in the front and the middle ground is the river and the little hills because its in the middle so I’m guessing they both middle ground. In the drawing it show overlapping too with the trees, they are tress in fronts of tress which its overlapping. There is relative size in the drawing because the picture keeps going back and back and that is called scale its big in front and it keeps getting smaller while it goes back.

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The artwork I chose is from the MOMA called "Landscape, Provence” by André Derain in 1925. The medium of this piece is oil on a canvas. This artwork shows the three areas that determine proximity and space, which is the foreground, middle ground, and the background. The foreground is the yellow that looks like it is in the beginning of the artwork as if you are about to walk through it. The foreground was the first area I noticed because the yellow ground looks like it is the brightest spot in the piece. The middle ground is the trees, the grass, and the hills that are further back from the foreground. Lastly, the background is the sky, mountains, and the trees that are way back in the distance. The small mountains and trees make the artwork look almost realistic, by having the colors and shadows of each shape. There is overlapping in this piece from the foreground all the way to the background. The trees are all overlapping each other making it look as if there might be a small forest in the background. I believe that the artist used two-point perspective to start with the foreground then made his way to the background and adding each detail. Looking at his artwork I see that this can be relative size, in which if I were to go where he drew and painted this I would see how big everything is and relate it to his artwork. After class, I realized how important foreground, middle ground, and background, is to make a painting or drawing look more realistic and give it that 3D effect.

 This is by drawers that is directly in front of my bed and I used the two point perspective to draw the drawer then added the smaller drawers as well as everything on top.

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       I found this artwork from MoMA. The title of the art work is Landscape at Bondensee. The artist name is Max Kaus from German. It was created in 1927. Medium is drypoint. When I found the artwork, I didn’t know about drypoint. I searched web site to find out what it is. It is printmaking technique that digging with sharp materials into the plate. It is very interesting that the technique can make this wonderful image. There are three areas in art work which are foreground, middle ground and background. Foreground is showing road and a big tree. Middle ground is showing  a tree.  Background is showing mountains. I can see overlapping with trees. Especially, there are a lot of trees overlapped behind the tree from middle ground. I can also see mountains overlapped on the background. There is scale in the art work. The road becomes narrow until it disappears. The size of trees is big on the foreground. The trees are standing with the line. They become smaller until I can see tiny dots. There are also a lot of mountains on the Background. The size of mountains is tiny compare to tree on the foreground.  The road shows linear perspective. There are two points perspectives. There are two roads separated. The two roads become narrow and vanished.  The eye level is looking down from higher place. 

 My drawing in my kitchen.