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Unattainability

This piece represents everything I once thought I wanted my life to be and how that has changed. In the past, I wanted to marry a nice man now I know it is a possibility for me to marry a woman. Before I wanted to be a lawyer to impress my family now I want to become one to solve injustice in this country. Before I was told I needed a man in my life and that being with a woman isn't "natural." Now I know what might be "natural" is different than what is to others. Overall, I now know that I have to reach the unattainable and be myself unapologetically.

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ART PROJECT: "Pancreas"

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WRITING, THINKING AND LOOKING CRITICALLY 

The artist Jackson Pollock's transition from using abstract imagery to entirely forgetting all imagery in his infamous drip paintings was a completely deliberate and conscious artistic choice that many questioned at first. He studied with artist Thomas Hart Benton. He started to work with figurative and symbolic components. Despite Pollock's artwork during this time, his interest in Surrealism, Pablo Picasso, and Joan Miró guided him to test out abstract art. It was not an accident that led the artist to abstraction but his own curiosity and trusting his artistic instinct, which is all anybody can do. In the end, he stayed true to himself. Art is not one single thing. It is everything. Art is the past, present, future, and everything in between.

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Visual Analysis

The Met website has its art organized into different categories. I chose the European Painting categories, leading me to the painting of my choice, "Masquerade Ball at the Ritz Hotel, Paris," created by Raimundo de Madrazo. It is hard to imagine what this art piece would be like in person because simply looking at its image, you cannot see the texture, size, and many other elements you can only experience in real life. 

Questions:

What is it made of?

Canvas and Oil paint

How big is it?

35 x 47 in. (88.9 x 119.4 cm)

What colors and shapes are used?

It is a black and white painting with geometric shapes in the depicted architecture and organic with the plants and humans.

What subjects (if any) are 

represented?

Women and men are dancing, plants, and a grand arch.

How was the work designed?

Is it balanced?

No, it is not. There are more subjects on the right side than on the left.

How does it make you feel?

This painting makes me feel joy, a simple but powerful emotion. Seeing the people dancing and having a great time with those they love in a beautiful place is like joy, simple but powerful.

THINKING:

Our lives are boring routines. We live the same thing over and over again. We wait for the little excitements or milestones in our lives to bring us joy, and I believe the painting addresses this. The masquerade ball depicted is one of those things that we look forward to that make our boring lives a little more exciting. The artist conveys this through the movement and emotions they are expressing.

Last Part:

Raimundo de Madrazo was a Spanish painter that came from a long line of artists. He was known for his realistic style shown in the painting above. I picked this painting because it felt real. The event depicted could happen in everyday life, maybe not in this period but in the year commissioned.

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This painting represents Florida and how important my home is to me.

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Connecting Art to My World

Color dictates everything. It controls our mood, hunger, and motivation. I have always been a fan of bright colors. I always felt happy when surrounded by color, and just like colors amplified my happiness, they also affect me when I become depressed. As a teenager in today's world, it is easy to fall into a stage of depression, and whenever I do fall into the bottomless pit, the first thing I do is close my blind turn off all the light, bathe in the darkness, and forget all of the light that was one there. I eventually learned that I have to choose my environment. I have to open the blinds. I cannot exile myself from everyone who brings color to my life. I have to embrace the darkness and the light. With that being said, if I had to pick a color scheme for my life, it would be a mix of bright colors (sage green, periwinkle, blue, pink) and darker colors (black and brown).

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Writing and Looking

Damien Hirst, Posterity - The Holy Place (Fig. 4.7)

Posterity by Damien Hirst contains an ongoing unique pattern, full of bright complementary colors, distinct shapes and lines, and hidden figures (butterflies).

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Journaling

Garbhadhatu Mandala

Unity and Variety: Creating a whole picture that is one and/or adding juxtaposition.

The Last Supper

Balance: the different distribution of all aspects of an art piece.

Deer in the Forest

Emphasis and Subordination: The artists ideas that are shown through their artwork in specific areas.

Storm on the Seas of Galilee

Directional Forces: The way elements in an art piece are angled or move according to the viewer.

Warhol Pattern

Repetition and Rhythm: When an object or shape is repeated it an arrangement of sorts.

The Bean

Scale and Proportion: The sizes of different elements and how the conflict with or compliment each other.

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Photography/Film/Digital/Design

GROUP 4:

Interactive design is the interaction of the given design with its patrons. Examples of this could be an app, website, etc. The main objective of interactive design is to help the patron reach their goals in the easiest and most effective way.

TOP FIVE BEST INTERACTIVE DESIGNS, ACCORDING TO AVERY POWELL

https://www.google.com/Links to an external site.

https://www.tiktok.com/Links to an external site.

https://www.dictionary.com/Links to an external site.

https://www.canva.com/Links to an external site.

https://www.amazon.comLinks to an external site.

My favorite interactive design from the list above would be Google.

An interactive design, in my opinion, helps the user achieve their goal in the least amount of time without sacrificing quality. The purpose of this website is to make the world's information organized and easily accessible to everybody. I believe it does fulfill its purpose because, before Google, people had to go to the library or take forever looking through an encyclopedia to find facts on a specific subject. Now it takes mere seconds to find anything. The search engine has made our lives much easier, allowing us to be more informed.

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Self-Portrait

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WRITTEN SELF PORTRAIT

Hello everyone! My name is Avery, and I am a 17 year old girl. I am from Parrish, FL, and I am Italian and Irish. In my free time, I love to go to the movie theater and write scripts. I am a member of many clubs and Parrish Community High School, but I spend most of my time as the President of Key Club and a member of National Honor Society. I currently work at the Grove Restaurant as a host and have been there for about a year. I do not know what makes me unique because I do not even know who I am yet, but if I had to say probably my love for writing.

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Art and Writing

This artwork has been in my house since I was a little girl. It hangs in the hallway across from my room, so I walk by it every night. I never actually stopped to appreciate it until now. My mother bought it at an art fair from an artist selling prints of their work; therefore, this piece was made digitally, and the only materials required to create it were a specific printer and paper. I believe this piece is beautiful because when I look at it, it reminds me of a love you can only find in fictional stories. I think this because, behind the couple, the background of the art is comprised of pages from a book.

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First Art Works: Guernica

The art piece I was assigned was Guernica by Pablo Picasso, which debuted in 1937.

1. This piece is one of Picasso's best-known works, and many still believe it was the most compelling and influential anti-war painting ever created.

2. Picasso painted Guernica as a commentary on the Bombing of Guernica on April 26, 1937. Guernica was a Basque Country town in the northern region of Spain, bombed by the Nazis and Italian Fascists.

3. The painting was shown at the Spanish display in the Parish International Exposition that year, along with other locations globally, bringing awareness to the Spanish Civil War.

4. Picasso's works are broken into periods. His most famous periods are the Blue Periods (1901-1904), the Rose Period (1904-1906), the African-Influenced Period (1907-1909), the Analytic Cubism Period period (1909-1912), and the Crystal period (1912-1919).

5. Pablo Picasso was usually referred to by his last name, because his full name is 25 words long.

At first glance, the first thought I had about this painting was anguish, and as I took more time to dissect the piece, I realized it was more than that. This work is not just anguish but the loss of hope due to miserable chaos. At first, this painting is just shapes, but the longer you stare, the more you see. What stuck out to me was the man at the bottom with a broken sword in his grasp, representing that same loss of hope I previously discussed. Overall, this is a beautiful painting that creates a picture of the ugliness of Mankind.