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Post Critique Response - Time
Honestly, I didn’t expect this to flop as hard as it did.
I feel really ashamed? I don’t know, I expected it to be received better than it did. I guess I shouldn’t have given the project meaning. It’s fine though honestly.
I got a lot of wonderful feedback. I wanted the video to have audio, but like I explained to my classmates, I just can’t find things gross. Small sounds like gulping, eating, munching and crunching...I just don’t. When I removed most of the audio, I wasn’t thinking about my auidience, I was thinking about what I was happy with. Oh well. I’m disappointed, but it happened.
If I had another chance to present it, I know what I’d fix.
A lot of people hated the music, a lot of people hated how it was filmed, and a lot of people wished a lot of things were different and that there was a consistency. I guess I didn’t think about this. I’ve never worked with video stuff before, but I didn’t expect this to be a total flop.
Well, I know what to fix whenever I come to this piece again.
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Project 4: Place/Space Post Critique
What sucked for me on this project is I thought I’d have more time to work on it. Sadly, on Wednesday, my great uncle had a heart attack and 911 had to be called. Thus my project was put on hold. I took it with me, but we spent Thanksgiving break with him. I did my best to try and do amazing painting, and after hearing the critiques, I’m left uneasy with how I feel about them. I thought they were decent. I haven’t done landscape paintings, but I have done observational paintings and studies of paintings. Painting isn’t my favorite thing in the world, but I do enjoy doing it when i get the chance.
I did enjoy when they pointed out seeing faces in the space piece, relating it to gods. I never intended anyone to see any faces, but people were able to think abstractly enough allowing their minds to see faces and such.
I think everyone particularly was attracted to that one.
I do wish I had gotten the chance to do the screen prints honestly now that I think about it. I thought it’d be fine without it, but nobody understood the context or were able to relate the images to each other. But honestly, I actually find that interesting.
If i were to continue this line, they would have the screen prints on them.
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Project 4: Research Journal #3
Dewey Albinson
Village Scene,
Approx. Late 1930s-early 1940s
Form: Oil on canvas
Content: The original title was Farm Scene, Italy. The artist's son does not believe it is one of his father's works done during the period when he lived in Italy however. He believes that the original frame that was used was re-purposed without the old name being replaced. It was finally concluded that this painting might be a small area of Quebec.
Process: Oil painted onto a white canvas.
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Project 4: Research Journal #2
Camille Pissarro
La Place due Théâtre Français
1898
Form: Oil painting
Content: One of 15 paintings in a set he started creating in 1897 after his two sons died at different times, but horribly. In this particular work, it has a theatre in the background called “the circular Place du Theatre Francais.” It is placed the foreground, from which the street starts to go off into the horizon line. This depicted area of the city had high-class shops and was the heart of consumerism in the capital. The streets were depicted wet with rain.
Process: Just painted with oil. Nothing else.
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Project 4: Research Journal #1
A French Market Place
David Cox
1829
Form: Watercolor over graphite, medium smooth white wove paper
Content: A watercolor + graphite plus drawing in a small french city. It is completely nameless, thus leaving the location a somewhat mystery, and just showcasing the bustle of people hustling, buying items and other items they need, want, etc.
Process: He sketched out the location first using graphite, then watercolored over it.
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Space Proposal
So in 4 acrylic paintings with printed drawings onto it, I will develop a space/time series. I’ll be creating a fantasy world in which my Original Characters (OC) will survive and live in. I’ll be creating a world known as Mobriteru. It means ‘Land of Darkness’ in their language. Through these paintings, they’ll have detailed backgrounds, but it’ll be an expression of backgrounds. Something I never truly work on, but my OCs will be in the works as well..
For the first painting, I image their backs are turned to us, looking over a bunch of hills into the vast great beyond.
Second one, possibly a tavern scene? I want a village scene
Third one is unknown for now. Possibly them talking to maybe a shop keeper.
Fourth one, I was thinking something that of a boss fight? Something with scenery, but still creating a space where the mind can travel to.
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3 Place Ideas
Idea 1:
I could possibly start my idea with string. Going from end of a room to another, with pictures of a beautiful Earth to more industrial Earth to the Earth we know now (which is dark and gross). There would be more than one strings all overlapping, possibly representing multiple cultures intertwining with others as being completely taken over. Or even using strings that don’t even have pictures? But colors that represent cultures and countries being destroyed and their lives, but they all interconnect with how Earth looks now.
Idea 2:
Possibly making a collage of all of the places I’ve been to. Showing how beautiful Earth could be. Colorado, Utah, Arizona, California, Montana, Washington DC, Washington, etc.
Idea 3:
A painting of a fantasy world, possibly a few of my OCs fighting a dragon or doing something adventurous. Something cute. I’m thinking an actual acrylic painting, forcing me to use assets that I haven’t used in a while. I was thinking a bigger canvas size for this one. But I was thinking either oil or acrylic painting.
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Identity: Post-Critique Response
When everyone approached my tiny little page, it made me happy. 100% of the class interacted with it and actually read it. I don’t think there was a single person who didn’t read it. Not to mention, I found myself smiling through the whole thing.
When everyone had interesting reactions to it, I didn’t know how to feel at first. People were giggling at it. Possibly they’re uncomfortable, I assumed, which I was validated later on. Just the questions were so “shocking” as one of my classmates had said.
My biggest concern was if everyone was going to complain about size, which thankfully became a small debate. Some were happy and content about its size, while a few others, including the teacher, were not happy about the size. I preferred it to be small. It was meant to be almost like a magazine page. Or a smaller journal that a child would run into, with just more..adult-based questions. I could say that this was one of its weaknesses, but I considered its size a strength.
Nobody really had any other complaints, except maybe making it even more annoying than what it already was. Like once again, size was mentioned, but I’m fine with its size. If it were placed in a gallery, I want people to get up close and personal. If I had thought about it more, I probably would have placed a marker and a sheet of paper allowing people to mark what they got. There was also one recommendation of making a series. Like doing at least a minimum of four and making it into a small booklet.
Doing the project allowed me to have further insight on my classmates. I’m extremely emphatic, which is why I had no problems understanding some artworks, while others left me feeling a little lost.
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Identity Proposal
(reposting it here in case Teacher can’t find it)
My Identity Proposal is that I’m going to make a kind of identity ma using my OCs and cosplaying as them. It’s a mix of all 3 ideas. It will involve story parts as the characters I’m using will be OCs created by me that I’m working on in my life. So I plan to use them while coming up with ideas for the map. It will involve cosplaying as well. The cosplay itself will be of me dressing up as my OCs. I don’t really own a lot of things my characters wear, thus I shall make use of whatever I have to wear in their style. I will also be taking photos of myself as these characters. I’ll be dressing up as 12 characters and narrowing it down to maybe 5 possible choices? Or maybe make use of all 12 characters if I have the room, which is extremely unlikely. 5 seems like a good number. Most identity maps have 3-5.
The overall length and width of the project will be possibly 24x11(?). I’m unsure at this moment. I want it to be big enough to be readable, but I also want it to be big enough to be usable to anyone using it. Usually when I would use Identity maps, I would circle them. When I go to print, I’ll decide then. It’s like an activity, so I’d want people to participate in it.
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Project 3: Research Journal #3
Holley Portraits
Daniel Eatock
May 2007 – ongoing
Form: ink pad, your thumb, white paper(?)/canvas, photocopier, black ink pen, light box or window
Content: It’s a self portrait in a more abstract sense. You start out anywhere you want to and work your way to the center. Can have multiple access points, but all must lead to the center. You’d write anything you wanted into it, but it must make up your thumbprint. This thumbprint showcases how much they love their life growing up and not a single line is anything depressing or shows signs of how they feel. However, that doesn’t mean that any of the other thumbprints aren’t. Some have red ink and some are different colors. Colors tend to vary I noticed, depending on the topic.
Process: An ink pad is used to create a stamp of one’s thumbprint. They impress it onto a sheet of paper that they later photocopy and enlarge to the size of their face. Using normal print handwriting, they make a text and follow the lines of their thumb to write things about themselves.
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Project 3: Research Journal #2
PPG HOUSE PARTY
Nivetha Kannan
March 2016
Form - Graphic Design, paper, ink
Content - Quite similar to what I want to do, the overall piece is a Magazine Quiz/Identity map. It showcases the Powerpuff Girls from Cartoon Network in a 2016 GIRL'S WORLD Magazine, when they were trying to restart the Powerpuff girls after the show ended in 2005. It starts off at the top asking “Your BFFs would say you’re:” and it leads you down a path. When I took it, I got “You’re a Leader,” however any child would see it as being “confident.” There are only two options though and being “fearless” as type of answer just doesn’t feel right for anyone. It’s forcibly sending people to being down to “You’re a leader.” It’s a feel good quiz though, so anyone would be happy with this answer, but let’s say you wanted to try for Buttercup and chose “fearless” then it’s even got a answer of “Busting someone’s kneecaps.” It’s almost like the Quiz wants you to not choose Buttercup and if you do, it symbolizes the child as being violent. Most of the choices leading to Buttercup are violent as well. There are very few answers that make Buttercup seem more violent than just antisocial and no parent would get that unless they actually have watched the Powerpuff girls themselves.
Process - Made it all on a computer using Adobe Creative Suites (Illustrator)
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Project 3: Research Journal #1
The Last Supper
Nataliya P.
2011-2012
Form - A blank Moleskin notebook ( 240 Pages 120 Sheets ), using ink and sometimes paint and graphite on others.
Content - Each page is consistent with a person or anthropomorphic type humanoid eating a dish. She shows 17 pages of The Last Supper. Ironically, the actual The Last Supper, by Leonardo Da Vinci only has Jesus’s twelve Disciples, but this showcases various animals and various different meals in 17 different pages, and 29 different characters. Some are similar to each other, it just depends on the page. What is even more disturbing about this is it showcases cannibalism in some of the pieces. Like with the Frog, when you look at his sandwich, you can see a frog inside of it. Possibly dead, but it’s quite morbid when you think about it. Even some of the other pieces have blood inside them. When you look at the other pieces, some even have political figures within the pieces; possibly problems with the political government in Moscow?
Process - Would draw with graphite first, then ink over it. Sometimes even going so far as to paint some of the pages, while leaving some of the pages blank black and white, like above.
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Time Proposal
My proposal for time is similar to what I had for idea 3 in the time ideas:
“I like to drink a lot of drinks. That can range from milk to soda. I’m thinking perhaps of collecting these bottles and maybe throwing them together in one big recycling bin and throughout the semester, I record what I drink. And every week the bin gets fuller and fuller. To show how much liquids I’ve put into my body that isn’t water. If I do get water bottles and drink out of those, I will also add those as well”
Instead of me using them in a recycle bin, it’s a recording of me drinking a drink every few days. I’ll be using my DSLR to video record the entire progress. It’ll show all the different kinds of liquids that go into my body, while also showcasing different variants in colors. You’ll get to see different things on my face as well, such as lipsticks or if I ever wear makeup and small details like that.
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Language Proposal
It’ll be about sexual harassment in the sense of silence. “Silence is louder than words” and being able to bring about a form of meaning, and not allowing the audience to gain any sort of comfort from trying to find words. There will probably and most likely not have words inside the piece. An example of what’s in my head will be the fact of I was sexually molested on the bus, but I was silent throughout all of it. What will I do to showcase this? By wearing the outfit I was molested in. I can remember it, i can remember that day breath by breath and it lives on in my mind everyday. I plan to showcase this in my piece.
FORM: My language project is going to be portrait drawing and photography. I still haven’t decided on the size, but I still want it to be big. Extremely big. I want it to almost be seen as loud. But yet silent. It’ll be a digital painting, but with monochrome colors, almost to express graphite. It’ll also have mixed media involved due to the fact I plan to bring in outside materials into it. Like neon colors, vibrate colors on a monochrome base, and the collage style usage of photography and digital media. I just want it to be silent, but loud. It’ll be displayed on a canvas styled piece, perhaps on a wall or being able to place somewhere easily accessible.
PROCESS: By taking a photograph of where I sat on the bus, then drawing over it; Not literally, but I just want to be able to showcase the moment in time I was sexually molested. A reference of what an idea I want to follow is from the graphic designer, Adolie Day. She takes pictures and draws over it. So a mix of both.
CONTENT: My intended meaning is to make my audience visually uncomfortable. I enjoy relishing in the fact of being uncomfortable and leaving my audience uncomfortable. I want to showcase the moments of my sexual harassment. I plan to use everyday materials and involve them into my piece, because the bus is something people use everyday. I want to showcase that sexual harassment happens everyday through me as a portal. Showcasing what happened to me can help people relive their moments of unhappiness and be able to relate. Colors were in my mind at the time and as I relive this event everyday, I wonder how that person is doing and I truly hope he receive the help he received. By using neon colors, that provides uncomfortable meanings, but I just want to shove this into people’s faces and make them go, “oof” in a literal sense of the word.
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Project 2: Research Journal #3
Language of Colour, Pink
Rob and Nick Carter
2017
Form - neon tubed lights, mounted on aluminium box.
Content - Each of the words on the pink aluminium box represent something that is associated with the word pink. Like for Lady, red and pink are usually associated with girls and ladies.
Process - I believe that the artists drilled holes through the aluminum, and put the wire through. They bound the wires together with pink electrical tape as well, I’d assume and through the neon lights. But most of the wire work is on the backside of the piece.
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Project 2: Research Journal #2
Violins, Violence, Silence
1981-1982
Bruce Nauman
Form - The piece is made up of Clear, neon glass tubing.
Content - Starting with the Violins, it flickers down to Silence, then up to Violence, then flickers to the other Violin, then the whole piece lights up, remaining like that for about 15 seconds, then flickers towards Violin and repeats it’s pattern. The piece has 3 words, each in a mirror form and a readable format. Starting with violin, it must mean something about music. Then we go towards silence. Then violence. In many meanings, it could mean that it’s the start of a performance, where the violinist strikes the violin with a single note, then the audience goes silent. Then the violinist just goes flat out crazy on the violin, representing violence. But since the piece itself is silent, except for the buzzing sound coming from the neon lights, it could be the “violence” that the piece itself is talking about. Assaulting the ears with neon silence, alongside flashing our eyes.
Process - By making its dimensions 60.5″ x 66.2″ x 6″ and allowing there to be triangle formations inside the piece, I believe this makes his work easier for wires to connect and have a simplistic form to transition between one another. It appears that the piece is also connected by wire between each of the clear slides.
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Project 2: Research Journal #1
Barbara Kruger
Untitled (It’s a Small World But Not if You Have to Clean It)
Dimensions: 143 x 103 in
1990
Form - Photograph silkscreen on vinyl.
Content - Shows a woman enhancing her envisionment of the world with a magnifying glass. You can tell she’s a married woman due to the ring on her finger, but with that ring. Is it really a wedding ring or a promise ring? With this statement it could also represent her living a life of unhappiness at home with her husband. Feeling discord with him with the statement, “It’s a small world, but not if you have to clean it.”
With how much harm has been done to Earth, it’s no surprise that the Earth is going to have trouble being cleaned. But with the smirk on her face, it’s almost like she’s happy with not being able to clean it.
Process - Took a photograph of a woman, then computer enhanced it to have imaging on it.
I chose this image because of how it represents how most people see the world. A place for their trash. I mean, I store most of the stuff in my room, but when it comes to outdoors, I always pick up after myself and nobody else. It symbolizes this in this exact piece. By taking away the comfortable feeling that we’re fine with the way we live, we’re actually not. We’re destroying our home. Our Earth. I love how it symbolizes it in such a ironic piece.
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