Dia:Beacon

Dia:Beacon was really interesting because of its location and the size of the pieces that were inside. There were pieces I had learned about previously and there were pieces I have never seen before. The size of the pieces were really key to many of the pieces and the amount of light that lit up the rooms was incredible.

Book Project

Final product of Book Project

The concept was to show different kinds of love, child's love, happy love, loneliness from love, a man's love, a woman's love. This book showed that there was no specifics for who was speaking about love.

Word Exercise

Book Project

Seasons of Love
You are as the sun,
You brighten and warm me,
And the rain
For you wash away my fears,
And like hail
When you come down hard upon me
and hurt me
But only because my love for you is so intense.

You are as the snow also
For your love settles on me
so gently.

But what of the clouds?
You take this form also
For you mist my mind
And I am enclosed in your ideals.

By Marguite Darken

The book will show all different representations of the seasons that the poem mentions. I will use a dark black figured shadow as well. The pictures will each have a couple of layers of things like rain and snow.

Project #2

For my second project I plan on taking a picture of myself and making it into a puzzle. I will print out a large picture of myself and cut the picture into puzzle pieces. The pieces will be backed with cardboard or foam board. I will also make a box for the puzzle pieces.

Project #1 Illustrator

My final project finished in Illustrator

Comparisons

Cui Xiuwen is a very interesting artist because she uses herself in each picture and sometimes uses multiple shots. She is the main focus of the picture but she uses other elements to connect herself to the backgrounds she uses. She uses blue, red, and white as the main colors that connect her pieces. Typically she uses perfect bright blue skies as a piece of her background.

Unlike Xiuwen, Cindy Sherman uses very dark pictures that are typically based off of something a viewer may recognize. Sherman dresses up to become a person in a portrait or someone that looks like they are right out of a horror film. Her pictures seem sad, gloomy, and sometimes a bit scary.

Frida Khalo was a different artist all together, much different from the other two women. She painted herself to look ornate and beautiful. Frida used a variety of colors that make her portraits fun and visually appealing.

Exercise

Second Exercise
outlining a coffee cup

Learning the Photoshop

This is an exercise we did in class to show what we've learned in Photoshop. I took the two pictures I didn't use for the project and put them together.

This is the picture I've decided to use for my first project. I'm going to change it to look different then how it looks now. I'm going to clean up the wall behind the figure. Maybe take out the little bit of golden blanket on the bed. I'm really nervous because I've never really used Photoshop before. I'm thinking about using extreme light that would show off the pizza box either from the right of the picture of the box would give off the light. I want to change the background possible but I'm not sure to what exactly yet.

Artists

Gregory Crewdson
I like how his images seem like paintings but are actually photographs with his painting on top. The pictures are very dark and surreal. The figures are creepy and distant from each other.

Teun Hocks
Hocks work is amusing and his process are interesting. He paints the background and paints highlights on the photographs. The figure never gives you a sad feeling, instead it's like a connection.

Jeff Wall
Has very interesting pictures, very minor changes were done. His pictures have very neutral coloring and rare bright colors as well.

Cindy Sherman
I love how she dresses up and becomes part of the scene. She uses a variety of angles and color styles making each one of her pictures very different.

Inspiration

(I hope to be able to do this one day)