NippleJesus (Blog 5)

I really enjoyed reading this story. The way the story is told takes you through the exact same emotional path he had throughout his experience with NippleJesus. As I read I found myself explaining the piece to myself, defending it as people from the story questioned it. It is easy to understand why he got so protective of the piece, he spent all of his time defending it to others, and creating the reason behind it for himself. I think he thought the reason behind it was to show that even those people who are higher up, like the Vicar and the politician, choose to get close to the painting and look at the boobs, and are therefore, just as perverted as they claimed Martha was. I agree with this to an extent, but I think this was mostly his own insecurity. A large bald man with tattoos who uses the word fuck or fucking in every sentence has probably never been thought of as an authority figure like a Vicar or a politician. Because of this he probably wants those people who he perceives as looking down on him, to be exposed as the creeps he has always thought they were.
 I disagree with his reasoning behind the painting, however, and adapted my own as I read.  As a Catholic, I liked the idea of artwork like this because it shows that Jesus came for us, lived with us, and was killed by us. Almost as if he is made of our imperfections. So that's what I was thinking as I read along and then just like Dave, I got pissed when I found out she was happy someone smashed it. I understand that she wanted to use the footage to prove her point, but that just seems a little messed up. She had to have worked very hard on the piece, and she created something beautiful, and instead of letting people make their own impression of it, she wanted it destroyed so she could prove her point.That doesn't seem like art to me, art should be up to the viewer.

Blog Cuatro

The author is praising Yoko Ono for creating nothing, but asking us to create ourselves. Ono's art is an interpretation of the world around us, or a challenge to see and hear the beauty in the world around us. This differs from traditional artists who challenge viewers to see their interpretation of the world around them. I agree with the authors reverence for this type of art. It is nice not being told by an artist how to feel about a certain situation, based on their interpretation of it. It is sometimes easy to tell the attitude an artist has about a certain subject matter based on their artistic representation of it, and I think this can cloud the real beauty of art.

I dont agree with Yoko Ono as a person however, and I think that what this author is missing is that Ono maybe even more conceited and artistically pushy than the traditional artists she opposes. I think that Ono shields a lack of artistic ability behind this deep philosophical idea that art is everywhere and we should create it ourselves. I think that is a true idea, but she could easily take a gorgeous photograph of a landscape and leave it at that, an interpretation up to the viewer. Instead she just tells you to do things, making herself seem like this genius artist when she is really creating nothing. I would not be so hostile towards her as a human if she had not abandoned her own child as well as the child of her third husband. The woman received a ton of money and she couldn't even financially help Juliane Lennon? That seems a little unkind to me. In the same token if my husband stole my child, I would never stop looking for her. It is unbelievable to me that she did not search harder for her daughter, and let John Lennon do the searching for her.

Overall, her ideas are good if you can look past her personality.

Response to photo assignment

What was the same about the experience?  What was different?  

This time I was a lot more focused on the subject matter of the pictures. Last assignment I picked a theme and went with that the entire time.  This time I had to fill certain requirements so I was more selective about what I took pictures of. I was also less focused on aesthetics this time, although I didn't completely ignore it.

Which process was more enjoyable for you and why?  

The first process was more enjoyable because I could take pictures of things I saw that were interesting, instead of just trying to fill requirements. However, I did like when I found cool images that fit into the requirements.

Which images are your favorites?  Why?

My favorite images were the Ants Eye View which was the picture of a plant. I liked this one because it fit the requirement but  I also thought it was a really cool picture in general. I also liked that it was a nature shot that was supposed to be from the view of an ant, because then it made it even more like it was actually an ants view. 

PHOToGRAPHY

Assymetrical

An image from the point of view of a bird

Radial Image

A stable image

Person and their surrounding space

An unstable image

An image from the point of view of an ant

Symmetrical Image

Person up close

Nature on Campus?

Blog Three

Big Ideas and Artmaking

This article discusses the definition of a big idea and how artists use big ideas. I think this is an interesting thing to think about because it can actually help develop ideas for different pieces of art. For example, if you are interested in flowers you can think of how you are going to use them  (as either a theme, a subject, or a big idea)  and hopefully develop more ideas from there.I think the biggest thing I found useful was the explanation of the differences between terms.

Big Idea: An overall idea that an artist uses in all works
Theme: a prevailing idea throughout some works
Subject Matter: the focus of certain works

The main thing I found confusing about this, or rather something I didn't completely agree with. Is that artists even have a big idea in the first place. How often do artists really think about what the theme of a piece is going to be before doing it? I think sometimes artists want to say something with their work, and sometimes they start painting, drawing, writing, ect., and it just comes out. Maybe that is because I am a mediocre/bad artist but who knows. 

Interpreting Connotations in Visual Culture

This article discusses the connotations and denotations in artwork. The thing I found most applicable was the connotations and denotations in advertisements. I definitely think advertisements are designed to portray a certain image, even if they don't come out and say it. The example with the pasta makes perfect sense and it brings to mind countless other examples that sort of click with this idea.

I didnt necessarily agree with this theory as it applied to general artwork, or artwork that didnt already have an agenda. I guess the artist has the same power to push something on the viewer by using the connotations of images, however I dont think every artist does this. I definitely think to push a message in this way it has to  be intentional. With both advertisements and artwork I think this type of intentional message sharing can backfire. For example if you are trying to show that a product is really Italian or in an artwork you are trying to portray someone as being Italian and you inadvertently use too many objects to do this, it may seem fake and make the person or product seem fake Italian.

I dont know if that makes sense, but that's the beauty of art; everyone sees something different when they look at it. 

"Ladies and Gentlemen, behold: The Enemy" - KIDD

This article was an interesting and thought provoking look at the intricate details that go into design.And, most importantly, how we can design things to show the reader what we want to show. Firstly, what is the importance of the direction of text?

Is higher importance placed upon words that are to the

Left

or words that are on the

Right.

The author seems to think there is a hierarchy of importance for information starting with left and going to the right. Due to this he suggest that as designers we place information we want the viewer to think is the most important on the left. The same goes for top to bottom, top information being more important than bottom.

Next, he discusses how to make certain items seem larger or smaller, and how that can affect the viewer of the artist. This can help to visually communicate the importance of something, which can become a problem when you have something that is in between big and small.

This information is helpful when deciding how to arrange information to portray a message, which is the most important aspect of design. 

THE HERESY OF ZONE DEFENSE
© 1995, by Dave Hickey

The second article I read today, relates basketball to fine art. Honestly that;s all I can get out of it, because it seems to end the comparison at; the rules of basketball are liquid and encourage creativity, while the rules of fine art are more stringent. 

I almost have to disagree with this theory. I think that fine art does follow rules (or patterns) but I do not think they stringent or never evolving. I think, similar to basketball, as soon as a move is seen by another player/ artist it can be copied and repeated until it almost becomes a new law. There was a first person to draw an abstract flower, a  first person to score from a layup, and now those techniques or "plays" have been copied and repeated so much that it takes more than just a layup and more than just an abstract flower to wow the viewer.

WELSCHER

The last article is about the difficulties that go into animating a face. This is something I can sympathize with, as someone who has attempted to draw a face before. I think it is very interesting to think about the light coming from within the face. Compared to thinking about that, the light on the outside of the face is significantly less difficult.

The hardest thing about capturing a face and portraying on a screen, is capturing the emotion within the face. Which is what the author describes when discussing the light from within the face. This is something I agree with, but have found that luckily, using context clues the emotions of the face can be read by the viewer. Take Yoda in the original Star Wars movies, his facial expressions are very hard and often unreadable without the context clues of the situation he is in. So, despite the difficulty that creating a human face entails, there is a bonus that the human face has predictable responses to common situations. This is a huge help to designers.

Introduction

Pelican on Tampa Bay

Dear Readers,

That could be the corniest line ever. My name is Kelsey Shalvoy and I am a Junior at Ohio State studying marketing and design. For an art education class I have created this blog, which I will update weekly with (hopefully) interesting comments and art.

 Favorite Types of Food:
It is hard for me to pick a single top five foods that I love, however I can narrow it down to my top 5 favorite food types.
1. Cheese - I love cheese of all kinds, and eat it on everything
2. Bread- Bread is pretty much a staple in every meal I eat
3. Fruits- I love apples, clementines, and blueberries
4. Meats- Unfortunately I am a sucker for fried chicken
5. Veggies- Baked asparagus