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Final Exam

Titled: A Man and His Boy’s Dream Backyard by Danial Cox

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Virtual Sketchbook 4

Jackson Pollock went from studying with Thomas Hart Benton and using abstract imagery in his painting to removing all imagery in his famous “drip” paintings because Thomas Hart Benton was an old-style regionalist painter. During the recession, Jackson Pollock learned about other new age styles. He started to make his best “drip” paintings when he was sober and married Lee Krasner. I think Pollock stopped using the imagery in his paintings because Pollock couldn’t see the images in his head without being drunk. Pollock’s brain was so jumbled without alcohol, all he could put down on a canvas was random drips. I would have loved to meet Mr. Pollock in today’s world with today’s medical technology.

Titled: The Mess Inside my Medulla Oblongata by Danial Cox 2019.

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Virtual Sketchbook 3

Title – Abduction of Deianira by the Centaur Nessus

Date – ca. 1630

Artist – Alessandro Varotari, known as II Padovanino

Media – Oil on canvas

           Alessandro Varotari’s painting Abduction of Deianira by the Centaur Nessus is made with oil on canvas. The painting is depicting a Greek myth. The myth is of the centaur Nessus who has the torso, head, and arms of a man and the body and legs of a horse. Nessus is attempting to abduct Hercules’ wife Deianira. Hercules then shot Nessus with a poison-tipped arrow wounding him mortally. Nessus can be seen writhing in pain while carrying Deianira away from Hercules. Hercules is in the background on the opposite side of the river surrounded by trees against a blue, cloudy sky. Varotari wanted the viewer to be drawn to Deianira. She is nude, with a beautiful, bright red cloak behind her, along with subtle hints at her status such as the gold bracelet and the pearls in her blonde hair. These features draw the viewer’s eyes directly to Deianira and the center of the painting.

           Abduction of Deianira by the Centaur Nessus is considered a Baroque artwork because of the twisting, athletic poses and dramatic angles of the characters. I think Varotari was trying to put the Greek myth of Hercules and Nessus into a visual painting, as Varotari was traditionally known as a copyist. Varotari clearly got the point across with this painting. I do not know much about Greek mythology, but with a little bit of research I can see the entire story in Abduction of Deianira by the Centaur Nessus.

           I think Abduction of Deianira by the Centaur Nessus is very interesting. The fact that Varotari could produce this quality of work in his time blows my mind. I picked Abduction of Deianira by the Centaur Nessus because it jumped out at me. The contrast between Nessus’ dark body and Deianira’s bright white highlighted body was an eye-catcher. Deianira’s red cloak also brings contrast to the painting between the colored cloak and the neutral colors of the rest of the painting.  

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Virtual Sketchbook 2

1. Journaling

A.    Unity and Variety

a.     Unity is the appearance of one. Variety is the opposite if unity. When variety is present you would see a diverse population. An example of unity would be a formation of soldiers in the US Army. They all are wearing the same uniform. An example of variety would be my wife’s closet, she has such a diverse collection of clothes! 

B.    Balance

a.     Balance is the placement of parts to achieve equivalency. An example of the balance that I see in everyday life would be my car. If I cut the car in half down the middle of the hood, it would have two separate parts, that are mirror images of each other. 

C.    Emphasis and Subordination

a.     Emphasis is the attention-getter. Subordination is the lesser interesting parts around the area of emphasis that keeps people from getting distracted. An example of emphasis and subordination that I see in everyday life is the big green street signs I see on the highway. Were used to seeing the green trees off to the side of the road while driving, until a big, bright green road sign shows up to tell us where to go. They design these signs to be bright green and huge to get our attention as drivers.  

D.    Directional Forces

a.     Directional forces are the “pathways” that artists put into artworks to guide the viewer to where they should be looking. This could be actual or implied lines. An example of directional forces are trail markers on the Appalachian trail. The markers guide the hiker where to go.  

E.    Contrast

a.     Contrast is placement of not alike things together. An example of contrast is most of the buildings on the Bradenton SCF campus. The buildings have a dull base color, but the roofs are bright blue.

F.     Repetition and Rhythm

a.     Repetition is when an artist intentionally uses the same shape or item repeatedly. Rhythm is repetition of dominate and subordinate elements. Repetition can be seen in the light poles around the SCF campus, it’s the same light pole roughly every 50 feet. An example of rhythm is the sounds of music.

G.    Scale and Proportion

a.     Scale is the size relation between items. Proportion is the size relation between parts to the whole item. An example of scale is the when we are adding picture the Microsoft Word documents, we might have to scale the picture to not be bigger than the rest of the document. An example of proportion is the size of the scaled picture compared to the size of the whole document.

2. Writing and Looking

A.    Donald Judd’s sculpture Untitled (Figure 4.14), contains a neutral white background, bright blue steel as the contrast point and repetition of the same shape. As you get higher on the sculpture the horizontal plexiglass piece seems to be getting more transparent, that is because the angle of the piece is different in the viewer’s eyes.

3. Connecting Art to Your World

A.    Color has affected me by allowing me to see different objects. For example, when I was in the Army, I worked on air conditioning systems. If you touch this red transformer than you would be shocked and probably die. So if I couldn’t see the different hues then I could have potentially touched that particular transformer and gotten very hurt.

4. Art Project

 5. Photo/Design

Logos

·       Asus

·       Asics

·       Reebok

·       Logitech

·       Apple

·       Toshiba

·       Xbox

·       Proair HFA

·       Nine Line Medivac

·       Tervis

How do you know about these logos?

·       These are the logos I see in my surrounds every day. They are in my living room and on my person. 

How do you understand the value of logos?

·       The value of logos is the fact that they are the first thing people see on most products. Logos give the company a face that consumers will remember when shopping. The logos are put onto advertisements for the companies, in order to get the consumers attention.

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Virtual Sketchbook 1

1) The artwork I was assigned was #12. The artwork is called Woman of Willendorf. Five facts I have found about the artwork and artist are as follows.           The statue is also called Venus of Willendorf or Nude Woman (Kuiper).

     The statue was found in 1908, even though it is dated back to circa 28,000 to 25,000 BCE (Kuiper).

     The statue stands four inches tall (Kuiper).

     The statue was sculpted from yellowish limestone, tinted red by traces of ochre (The Venus of Willendorf (25,000 BCE)).

     The statue has been classified as belonging to the Gravettian or Upper Perigordian culture of the Upper Paleolithic period - the final period of the old Stone Age (The Venus of Willendorf (25,000 BCE)).

When I first looked at the statue, I saw an obese old village lady. I thought she from around the renaissance time period. Now knowing the sculpture is from 28,000 to 25,000 BCE, I can easily see why there was a lack of detail because the artist was probably using rocks to design this piece of art. Through my research, I found out the woman had her hair in braids hence the braided head.   

Work Cited

Kuiper, Kathleen. “Venus of Willendorf.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 11 July 2018, www.britannica.com/topic/Venus-of-Willendorf.

“The Venus of Willendorf (25,000 BCE).” American Gothic, Grant Wood: Analysis, www.visual-arts-cork.com/prehistoric/venus-of-willendorf.htm.

2) The pictures that I see every day is a thin wrap of my dog named Eeyore. It’s printed on Lustre Paper. The position of the picture is right as you walk in my front door. It is there so when someone enters my home they know we have a large dog. I think it’s very beautiful and appreciate the work the photographer put into the image. I think it’s beautiful because it was a gift and it highlights the personality of our loving and crazy American Bully. 

3)  I’m a 26 year old white male. I grew up as a Navy brat but was born in New Jersey and lived most of my life in Florida. For fun, I love to work on cars and spend time with my wife and children at Disney World. The only organization I’m a part of is Student Veterans of America. I am a retired veteran and now go to school full time and do not currently work. The thing that I think makes me uniquely me is my personality. I am always making jokes trying to get people to laugh and I am very sarcastic sometimes people have a hard time telling if I’m serious or not. 

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