Contours...

"COLE" Contour

"COLE" Blind Contour

"SHOES" Contour

"SHOES" Blind Contour

the kILLERS

I'm listening to the killers right now. They're pretty amazing homework music. Funny story: So they came to Boise last year and we were wanting to go and decided not to and heard it was a great concert and now we're depressed that we missed the show.

Conceptual Art Questions

Conceptual Art Questions

1.) The viewer is an important element in conceptual art because of the viewer’s mental participation. Conceptual Art is nothing without the viewer because it relies on the effect of thought and question.
2.) It was very difficult for people to accept “The Fountain” by Duchamp because it was not accepted as a sculpture. Before the fountain, people just thought of art as being a beautiful painting or sculpture. Also, people probably thought that he did not truly make anything because of it being a “readymade.”
3.) The questions that Duchamp poses with his “ready-mades” are, “can this be art?” For example: for the Fountain, Duchamp presents the statement, “this is a urinal” as a question. Can this urinal be artwork?
4.) It is difficult to categorize conceptual art in the context of traditional art because; it is not art that is based off of tradition or culture. Conceptual art is viewed the same way Duchamp’s fountain was viewed.
5.) My favorite quote from the reading is at the very end of the reading. “Conceptual art asks questions not only of the art object but also of the person who looks at it. It draws viewers’ attention to themselves, making them self-conscious (page 6).” I found this to be interesting because, it is such a solid answer of what conceptual art is. It seems like throughout the reading, there are many descriptions and definitions of conceptual art but, at the very end he sums everything up in that quote. If conceptual art is done right, the viewer is left asking the questions: Why is this art? Who is the artist? What is the context? Who am I? What do I represent?

List for Transformation

Journal Exercise: Create to lists of words for the Transformation Project

Spaghetti

Formally	Function
Yellow	Food
Thin	Protein
Long	Nutritious
Hard	Fattening
Strand-like
Can be soft

Cardboard

Formally	Function
Brown	Protection
Rough	Shipping
Tough	Storage
Straight	Mailing
Box	Moving

Chair

Formally	Function
Brown	To sit on
Wood	Comfort
Shaped like a chair	When feet are tired
Hard	Used at work
Comfortable	Used at home
Uncomfortable	Used when tired
	Used when eating

Egon Schiele

I love Egon's work because I have started getting really into contour drawings. He was one of the only people that I was able to find who had a fairly large selection of work contour work. He had so many self portraits to choose from but, I liked the one below the best. Its so simple and I think that is what makes it stand out from the others. I actually enjoy his black and white contour pencil drawings better than his color ones. However, I liked the colored painting below. I'll post one of mine soon...

Self Portrait


Girl in Underclothes

LIFE

Random Sketches....

The 3-D Experience: A Warm Up Excercise

I just got my scanner working... Here's my 15 sketches:


Assignment