Week 11 - Visual Culture / Visual Literacy

This week on Art 100, we learned there are 4 types of literacy. The 4 types of literacy are text literacy, visual literacy, network literacy, and one that Glenn made up education literacy. I do not believe the education literacy is going to fail. However, I do believe it might improve because of the amount of people using computers and technology. We are in the generation of technology and computers are smarter than most of human beings. This could be a problem because their would not be any "teachers". Computers will teach in the future and we will learn from them. We also saw some clips of The Reader which is about a women who rather admits she murdered someone, but does not want to admits she cannot read or write. I'm pretty sure this movie's setting was a long time ago because most people can now read and write. Back then people were less educated and I do not think people should be ashamed back then. On the other hand, today I believe it is ashamed if you cannot read or write. With new technology, there is no reason why people cannot read or write. We also saw some commercial and it was very funny and I thought it was interesting. Lastly, we saw more presentation. It was better this time, however this time were shorter presentations.

Romare Bearden vs Fred Tomaselli

Romare Bearden and Fred Tomaselli almost have identical paintings. Both of their work have many different faces, eyes, nose, and mouth. They both mixed and matched every part to someone's face, eyes, nose, or mouth. It is very interesting to see. However Fred Tomaselli's painting looks more as a painting than Romare Bearden's painting. It is because Romare Bearden has a dark shading due to his pencil he used to draw his painting. On the other hand, Romare Bearden only used paint to draw his painting. Fred Tomaselli's painting has much more of a color than Romare Bearden's painting. Fred Tomaselli used more of a red tone and Romare Bearden used more a dark tone. In Romare Bearden's painting I believe he used the dark tone because his people in this paintings look African American. Where as, Fred Tomaselli looks like a different kinds of race, but made into one white man. Although I like both of the artists' paintings. I like Fred Tomaselli's painting because it is cool because he painted only one man, only his face and his shoulders with differents kinds of body parts and other kinds of objects. It looks kind of weird because this is a human being, but we do not see this in a human. We only see this in art.

Week 10 - Avatar and Presentation!

This week in Art 100, I was very excited to get to see part of Avatar. I have not seem the movie and I have heard it is a good movie. I would like to see it now since I kind of watched it during class time. At first I was not sure if it was Avatar. I started to question if it was Avatar or not, however as the movie went on and I notice the theme was the same as Avatar. Even though I just watched little clips of the movie, it seem really awesome. I wonder if our world is going to be like that in 100 years or so. I really want to see the movie now. After the movie we talked about the movie by going back to reality. Jake is paralyzed and in this world where he becomes an avatar, he could walk and run. He could do whatever he can with this avatar. So in this case where Jake is paralyzed does he see reality as him running and walking or is his reality when he is paralyzed. After we had a class discussion we then went to the presentation. To be honest the presentation needs to be better. I could hardly hear the speakers and to me it seemed like a boring lecture. Now I do not know if mine is going to good, however I will do my best. Please speaker louder! So we can all hear you. I hope we have more class meetings like this and hope the presentations will get better.

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres vs Berthe Morisot

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's and Berthe Morisot's painting are both oil on canvas. They painted these oil paintings around the same year and both paintings have a girl. Now Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's oil painting of the girl looks very realistic and posing for the painting. On the other hand Berthe Morisot's oil painting of the girl does not look realistic and looks like the girl did not pose for this painting, an ideal image on the painters head. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's oil painting used very dark bold and dark colors. The room is very dark and I believe it looks like she is thinking. However Berthe Morisot used very light colors and the girl is tying her hair. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's oil painting does not really look like an oil painting. It's very sharp and has the image of the real girl in the painting. Berthe Morisot's oil painting does look like an oil painting with the lines all around the painting. Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's oil painting of the girl looks like she is rich or have a rich family. Her hair is very perfect and I am guessing somebody done her hair for her. She also have lots of accessories and furniture that many rich people had at that time. On the other hand, Berthe Morisot's oil painting of the girl does not look very rich. She is doing her own hair and does not have very nice accessories along with some furniture. One thing I noticed is Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's painting of the girl has a mirror and Berthe Morisot's girl painting has a hand held mirror. I like Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's oil painting of the girl because the girl looks realistic, however I like Berthe Morisot's oil painting because it looks like a real oil on canvas.

Paul Noble vs Sol LeWitt

These drawings are both architecture drawings. Paul's drawing of his architecture drawings looks like a barbie doll house. It is very open yet looks very cool with how many floors there is and it does not look very simple to build. The support for the building looks very cool. He used different supports here and there throughout his building. On top of that, he even have a helicopter. What happens if it rains in his house? There seems to be no walls around the house so wind, rain, and snow can come inside.  Sol LeWitt's drawing of a room is very unique. It looks so REAL! Looking at the description is shows that she used white crayon and black pencil. How can see make it look so real? Her drawing of this room looks like when see first moved here and did the walls maybe. There are no furniture and very simply. Or it might be her ideally room and how it should be. Same goes with Paul, he might of drew that because he wants a house like that with a helicopter on the roof. I like Paul's drawing of the house better. It is very unique and I would like to live there. No house would look close to his in this century but it could be a good home.

Raymond Pettibon vs Elise Engler

Their art murals look very similar. One is from the east coast of New York and the west of coast of Los Angeles  however they have the same idea and picture. Elise drew same little animals on her mural and Raymond used very large animals with no heads or a mans face. Elise's drawing almost looks like words with art. They are straight and a lined while Raymond's drawings are all over the murals. It almost looks like Elise's drawing is telling something with the use to the same little pictures. There are many different kinds of drawings on hers almost telling a story. She used many different kinds of color with a white base to make it stand out. Raymond's drawing is mostly black and white and very bold. There are some color which makes them stand out. But the interesting part is the animals have maybe his face or no face. He changed them into weird animals. I like murals a lot because they are big paintings. It is not one big picture. In these art pieces there are something going on everywhere on their work. I like Elise's drawing better because it has small drawings and very clean. Raymond's drawing is not bad but it seems very dark and shows some negative drawings.

Week 10 - Drawing

This week in Art, we learn about the gestalt process and why we need to turn it off when we are drawing. We need to turn off the gestalt process in our brain because when drawing we define what we are drawing too hard. Then we believe drawing is hard or I suck at drawing. Everyone is good at drawing, it is just that they need to turn off the gestalt process before drawing. I notice that when drawing give the given image, when the first image was shown everyone thought of as easy because they were lines. As the the second image was shown it started to get harder and harder to draw. When the third images was shown, I heard a big sigh. Somebody in the class did not turn off gestalt process. The third images were hands. I have to admit hands are hard to draw. It was good that the image was upside down because nobody have guess on what we were drawing. It helped a lot to turn off the gestalt process. My finial project came out pretty good, however the body and the hands were huge when the head and the face was small for his body. I think that was because we drew it from an upside down view. But overall I enjoy drawing and I will always remember to turn off my gestalt process.

Lights Off

This was a cool art project! I do not believe society can pull a day without can electronics or lights. Society now lives among them and attached to them. We find it so fun and excited when there is a black out among of neighborhood. Everyone comes out and get together and maybe watch the stars for once. It is so rare that society come out and get together because of electronics. It is also rare to see the stars in the sky, light pollution. I have to admit it was very hard to go one night without electronics and electric. I mostly cleaned my room and went to bed earlier. It was even harder because down the hall my family was using electric and electronics. I could hear them laughing because the television was on. Most of my time was wondering why we live in a world with these devices attached to us. Society has changed in many ways. Soon enough the world is going to taken over by electronics and computers. They will be running everything and society should fear this.

Finding Art

This is not our art we found on Cypress College Campus, but it is somewhat of our piece we chose. When we are born, we are given an equal amount of power. We got this idea from this art piece that our group chose. Everyone is created equal, however it changes with our roles in life. On Cypress College rarely we see a normal car on campus. However students often find Campus safety cars and police cars drive on campus for the safety and protect of fellow students. They drive on campus to get to a destinations at campus the fastest. I believe this is fair, but they have a good amount of power among society. Some of them do abuse it, and it is wrong. How can a role or a job earns so much power? The students here at Cypress College will soon find it a normal behavior among society and soon want to drive on campus. Students fantasy are only met on video games; they came drive anywhere and run over people. Money is also gives some power. It gives power because money buys anything. Get in trouble? Buy a lawyer and nothing will happen.