week 11: self portrait

1. Artist: Frida Kahlo
Title: Self Portrait with Monkey
Year: 1938
Media: oil on canvas

I chose this one to mainly focus on in drawing my portrait. I liked how it was just not the artist in the picture but also other things were included that showed who she was and her other interests.









2. Artist: Vincent Van Gogh
Title: Self Portrait with Grey Felt Hat
Year: 1886/87
Media: oil on pasteboard

I chose this picture as my second inspirational piece because it looks like a natural painting like it was just taken, and no posing was involved. I am not good at posing for pictures, which you will see when you get to my picture.









3. Artist: Paula Modersohn Becker
Title: self- portrait
Year: 1906
Media: oil on canvas

I chose this as my final inspirational piece because like the other two it is also a natural picture that shows who she is and not someone she wants to be or someone other people want her to be.

I really did not enjoy working on this project, this is my worst part of art classes, drawing people. I had a hard time  drawing myself because i am not good at drawing to begin with and i am definetly not good at drawing people. I chose to use colored pencil to draw and create my self portrait, because it is the media that i am most comfortable with. I had problems finding colors to color in my picture. i could not find a color that went for skin, and colored pencil really does not blend very well, so i had to do my best to make it work. In this work i used the elements and principles: asymetrical balance, space, unity, and line. This piece represents me because it has me holding my son which represents motherhood, caring, and responsibility.

week 11: Extra Credit Course Content

the assignment i liked the best was photo slideshow we had to create. Although trying to find things that match the elements and principles of art was some what difficult, it was fun because i enjoy taking pictures. The assignment that i enjoyed the least was the art curator one. I found it to be the most difficult for me and it was not very interesting for me to do. I have taken many online classes before using angel- so i did not have any problems with using it. I would keep everything for the course but the art curator project and all the videos. Too many videos!! I would maybe add a sculpting project like creating something out of clay- i always liked that in my art classes. I would definetly recommend this course to others.

week 11: Art criticism

For this project i chose to review three exhibits: Green, The Beauty of Nature, and How Bizarre...How Bizarre. I chose the exhibit Green to critique because i felt it was a better exhibit and i would have a lot more to say about it.The How Bizarre one- was missing a lot of detail so it was very confusing, and the Beauty of Nature exhibit did not have the curators thought in it. The only trouble i really had was just figuring out what to say in two pages. I ended up writing a little under two pages, but felt i covered all topics. I didn't mind critiquing a peers work. I like when others critique my work because it gives me different ideas and thoughts that i may have missed or not known. I would like to read the critiques people wrote about my exhibit. I would rate my article as a 8. I felt i covered everything i could and was completely honest, but i felt i did not write enough. I did not enjoy making the exhibits but i did enjoy critiquing them and seeing everyone elses exhibits.

week 11: Reflection

My expectations of this course were to learn more and appreciate more about art. I feel that my expectations were met, i learned about a lot of different artists and i have a better understanding about what goes in to making different styles of art works. I would still define art as anything that a person sees as art. Van Gogh was my favorite artist in the beginning of this course. Now i would have to say i do not have a favorite artist. I cannot choose just one but i have favorite pieces from most artists. I do still like older works compared to newer ones. I think my choice of artist has changed to undecided because i have gained a better understanding of all styles of art. I feel the same as i did before about taking an online course. This is the forth one i have taken so i knew what to expect.

week 11: Last Video Review!!

The three videos i chose this week were: The Critics: Stories from the inside pages, Greenberg on Art Criticism: An interview by TJ Clark, and Greenberg on Pollock: An interview by TJ Clark. I really had no thought or extra help in picking these videos, i just randomly chose them. I probably would have found these videos more interesting had they not been the last video review for the class, i was so happy to get these videos over with! This weeks videos had to do with art criticism. The main focus throughout the movies was how not everything that we think is art, is actually art. The first video went into more detail than the other two about how things are critiqued. The other two video discussed Greenberg's critiquing methods and how he viewed Pollock after his death and art. Overall they were good videos and im sure they will be helpful for my project due this week.

Week 10- Project 4

My theme for the exhibit was called Nature Affected. I chose this theme because i love being outdoors and it was originally going to be called art in nature. I decided to change because i thought it would be more interesting to do one on how people and other things affect nature. I chose to add some paintings in which nature was not affected for comparison. I set up my exhibit by grouping them by mediums and artists. I had some problems trying to find works that i wanted to use, especially finding the information to go with them. This was my least favorite project to do for this class. I felt like i had a hard time with it. I kept finding pictures that i felt matched my theme, then i kept on second guessing myself, so i hope it looks alright and people can understand it.

week 10 video review

The first video i watched was The Lowdown on Lowbrow: West Coast Pop Art. This video was ok, not that interesting to me and a little hard to understand. The video defined Loowbrow as a person regarded as uncultivated and lacking in taste. Lowbrow is also known to many as Pop Surrealism. There were many influences in this type of art such as pop art, comic books, car culture, flok art, and people like Robert Williams.
The second video we had to watch was Displaying Modern Art: The Tate Approach. During the 1970s an art style became popular, making art come off the walls and become busy and noisy. This style was broken down into four sections; Landscape, still life, history,and nude. Gender, ethnicity, and sexuality all began to come into the picture and take over in popularity. Like the first video, this one was not very interesting to me and harder to understand than the following two.
The third video we had to watch was called Bones of Contention: Native American Archaeology. This video was about Native American bones being collected and examined by museums. Anthropologists have been saying for many years that Native American remains should be returned to ancestors and not kept in museums. Laws such as NAGPRA in 1990 have helped protect Native American remains. The Smithsonian currently has over 18,000 Native American bones stored there. The first thing that needs to be done in order to return remains is to determine tribal affiliation, which is one of the hardest processes because there are so many different tribes. I enjoyed this video because it was interesting to me, as i am majoring in anthropology, and knew a lot of this information already. It is always interesting to see how Anthropology can relate to different things, including art.
The final video we had to watch was George Eastman House: Picture Perfect. I enjoyed this video, which furthered my knowledge about him and his importance to art. I learned about him in high school, when i went on a field trip to his house. I thought his house was really interesting. It started being built in 1902, and now is a fifty room estate. George Eastman was the father of photography and he invented film, the motion picture. Kodak is one of the most well known film industries. This name was created by George Eastman. George Eastman always wanted to be in control. When he got sick, he decided he wanted to be in control of his disease, so he took his own life.