Survival Research Laboratories

SRL was created in the year 1978 by Mark Pauline.SRL ws the founder of industrial performing arts. The SRL headquarters are located in Petaluma Ca. SRL makes shows about what the world would look like if it were devistated by robots and machines. About 1 to 2 robots are created per year. Because of cost they are hard to get completed. They are made by scientists who make industrial machines only they are programed to do something different. They are made to fight and hit eachother by remote control. No one buys these machines so they are stored and worked on in his spare time when he is'nt busy working and paying the mortgage. Stu Walker is a 6 legged robot that is controlled by a guinea pig. Currently the spine robot is in the making. The flame whistle boeing is a jet engine combined with a flame throwing whistle. It sounds like a picolo pete to the audience. Humans do not act in these shows and the purpose is to demonstrate tools and techniques. They are theatrical and act out military and science technology. I saw a giant chicken robot in a fight video with a punching robot. The shows are dangerous and contain alot of special effects. I tried to find out ticket information but was'nt able to find anything out. The last show was staged in October 2010 at the Sonora County Museum from 3pm-5pm and was free to the public. The show featured two new robots. Spine and a Baseball Bat machine. People who create the machines say this is all about doing what needs to be done and not about being childish. Some people see these creations as toys but they are'nt because they weigh tons and cost 60k and up.    

London punk fashion designer Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne is a British fashion designer born in 1941. Her styles are punk and new wave fashion and very high priced. People were tired of the hippie, torn look and needed a new trend. When she was a young school girl her family did'nt give her much spending money so instead of clothes she would buy a yard of fabric and a pair of shoes. She made all her school clothes. There was'nt anything that she could'nt make herself. She used razor blades, safety pins, spikes, and chains along with outrageous hair and makeup to make her fashion statement. She was'nt really interested in designing until she met Malcom Mclarn of the Sex Pistols. She helped him design his clothes and when they decided to marry she made the wedding dress she wore. Together they made a name "Red Label" and began opening boutiques. Vivienne has flaming red long hair and when asked to appear in the movie "Sex in the City" she said no but gave Carrie Bradshaw a wedding gown to marry Big in. Vivienne is interested in bigger roles in television. She is currently struggling to start her own show called "Get a Life". She loves frilly dresses but says that those are only for girls with curls. She says that plain clothing will not make you more stunning but more of a clone and why would you want to be that. Her clothes are for people who want to be freakishly beautiful goddess's. She is currently doing everything she can to find out how to save the enviorment. People are only a generation away from being endangered species. She said to stop buying clothes because this is enviormentally harmful and thinks that the art and cinema of now are boring, not real, and lying. She says that we need to be more real and aware.  

Kelly Osborne wearing Vivienne Westwood

My Earth Art Project

The upside-down tree
According to African legend, the Baobab wanted to become the most beautiful tree of all. When it realized that this was not possible, it put its head into the ground, so only the roots pointed heavenward. Another legend holds that when the Baobab was planted by God, it kept walking, so God pulled it up and replanted it upside down to stop it moving.

Goldworthy is a land artist

In July of 1956 Goldworthy was born in Scotland. He is a sculpter, photographer, and land artist. When he was 13 he began laboring on a farm. As he worked he saw art everywhere around him and got ideas. This is a photograph of a tree with a spiral of ice going around the trunk. To do this he actually took segments of ice and put them together. Just water and ice, no glue. All the natural materials he used include leaves, ice, rocks, flowers, and mud. He sometimes uses pins to put leaves together to make the snake that was swimming down the river and pinned twigs together to form an unusual spider web. He compared his work to picking potatos becuase the labor of his work is repetitive. You can learn about him in the documentary "Rivers and Tides" 2001 by Thomas Riedilsheimer. When looking at his portfolio I looked at alot of arches he made. Arches are used throughout early history because of there great strength and beauty. Many were constructed without cement because the stones lock them self in place. He is a very talented rock balancer. He made large pinecones out of stacks of sheet rock. His work has gone all the way out to the North Pole. There he made more of those arches and rings from blocks of ice. He made a giant's head in a garden out of mud and plants. He chooses very vibrant autumn color leaves to arrange in circles and displays feathers in a very elegant designs. When he puts several of those arches close together they remind me of the slinky toy. He was definity an outdoors man who really appreciated the beauty of nature. And most of his materials did'nt cost anything.  

Two great dresses by the designers of Alexander Mcqueen worn by Kate

James Turrell

James Turrell is an earth/land artist born in 1943 in Pasadena California. At the age of 16 he became a pilot licensed and flew supplies to miners.He has also built small planes. He has taken many photographs from the air of the Arizona desert. He is a perceptual phycologist who studies different dimensions. He has spent the last 30 years of his life building an observatory. The observatory is inside of Roden Crater. It is located in the Arizona desert in Flagstaff where many other unactive volcanos reside. He had to live in a house near the crater for two years. It is very desolate and the roads are dirt. He has spent millions of dollars to shape the crater. There are tunnels entering the base of the crater that are layed out like finely tuned optical instruments. At the end of the tunnel is a key hole of light and then the sky leading to the inside of the crater. The construction crew has shaped the bowl of the crater perfectly smooth and round. He is creating a temple of light. His light installations are in Germany and Sweden. The material he works with is the light. He has an incredible skill of capturing the light and confusing the eye so that one does'nt know if he is in the light or outside of the light. The light creates a misty feel and plays on the surfaces. He can make something flat into something 3-D with the light. In 2003 Henry Art Gallery installed a permanent Sky Space installation by Turrell. Over 50 homes have these sky spaces for meditatian. The rooms are closed with a hole in the cieling to see the heavens. The light changes color inside these domes and fools the eye. Turrell says that he feeds on the light because it is vital to our bodies to produce vitamin D. 

Stelarc

Stelarc is a performance artist. He was born on an Australlian island called Cyprus. Stelarc believes that the body is obsolete. It has no strategy or personality. It is only a sculpture to redesign. It is like architecture in a space. The body is not an object of desire but is to preserve, transfuse, sustain during comas, and do stem cell research on. He does not really act but he feels pain and demonstrates technology. In art school he realized that he was a terrible painter. Stelarc has put hooks in his flesh and suspended himself 25 times. He has suspended himself inside, outside, from trees, above streets and buildings. He has a third robotic arm which he performs with. It operates through body movement and a computer. He has a six legged walking machine that he rides on top of and works the controls. In 1993 he did a stomach sculpture by swallowing a camera and taking pictures. He has a third ear that is implanted and developing on his arm. He would like to implant a mic into it and attach a bluetooth that is transmitted to the internet to hear with his ear. His future plans are to create robots the size of specks that can be swallowed. these tiny robots will assist the body in fighting bacteria and disease and probably won't be felt by the body. Some of his designs are being used by NASA.

Donatella Versace

Donatella Versace is an itallian fashion designer. Her brother Gianni Versace is the founder of the versace name. She is a 52 year old platnium blonde with very long hair. Her skin is very golden tan because she loves the sun. She has two children. On July 15 1997 Gianni versace was murdered. Donatella became the owner of 20% of the stock market and Vice-President of the Versace brand clothing. Her brother Santo became 30% owner and Donatella's daughter Allegra owns 50% of the market. She made a cameo appearrance in the films "Zoolander" and "The Devil Wears Prada". Donatella only uses and is the first to put well known public celebritys in her fashion shows. Donatella chose to place some of her good friends,Jennifer Lopez, Madonna, Christina Aguillara, Beyonce, and Demi Moore on the A-list. She became really popular when she designed the famous Versace Green Dress,  known as the Jungle-Dress which was worn by Jennifer Lopez at the Grammys in 2000. The dress looks merely like a swimsuit cover-up or a robe. The versace perfume Blonde was named for her by her brother Gianna. Many of her her clothes are very revealing while others are stricter with alot of buckles and large buttons. The divas are always eye-catching show stoppers when wearing Versace clothes. The stars are doing many of their performances and walking the red carpet in her styles. 

alexander mcqueen shoes and bags

Alexander Mcqueen

Alexander McQueen was born on March 17, 1967.Mcqueen was openly gay and called himself the pink sheep of the family. At age 16 he decided to pursue a career in fashion design, learning tailoring on Savile Row and pattern making from costumiers Angels and Bermans. He showed his degree collection fresh out of the Central Saint Martins Masters program in 1994, which was bought  by the fashion editor Isabella Blow of Tatler, a British fashion magazine. His winter show of runway fashion is very over the top even for Hollywood. His shoes are a glamorous lace-up combat boot with a high wedge and wavey design on the back. The label is known for its dramatic, gorgeously, razor cut, constructed pieces, combining elements of British tailoring with French couture. Signature looks included billowy dresses cut in hourglass silhouettes, frock coats paired with skinny pants, sharp, angular suiting, feathery boas and zippers, and darkly romantic gowns covered in intricate embroidery and lace. Gucci Group bought 51 percent of Mcqueens label in 2000. In 2004, McQueen designed his first menswear collection and was named British Menswear Designer of the Year by the British Fashion Council. He won four awards for British designer of the year. He made suits for Prince Charles. The brand introduced fragrances in 2003 and 2005 (Kingdom and MyQueen) and in January 2006 launched McQ, a more affordable, denim-based ready-to-wear line including menswear, womenswear, and accessories. McQueen flagships stores are in London, New York, Milan, Los Angeles, and Las Vegas, and franchised stores are in Istanbul and Moscow. Tragically, McQueen was found dead in his London apartment in February 2010. The cause of death was suicide. He hung himself in a wardrobe. His mother Joyce died just several days before and his friend Isabella Blow, who launched his fashion career died 3 threes earlier. The editor of Vogue said he knew no bounds and conjueered up collection after collection of extraordinary things. He was said to be married to film-maker George Forsyth in 2000 on a yacht owned by the prince of Gambia in Ibiza. Close friend Kate Moss was a bridesmaid. But then in an interview said he was dating a porn star. His fashion is displayed in a NYC art museum for the world to marvel and always remember the fashion icon.

Maya Lin

In 1981 at the age of 21 Lin, an undergraduate, won a public design  competittion for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The memorial is in Washington D.C. and honors the U.S. armed forces who fought and died in the Vietnam war. The memorial is 246 feet and 9 inches long. It is "V" shaped and sunk into the earth to symbolize the the gravity of the deaths. She also designed the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. She is known well for her architecture and lanscapes. She also loves art and could'nt choose between the two. In 2009 she did a series of three installations called "Wave Fields". The first field was done in Michigan on 11 acres. She studied wave patterns and sculpted them from the earth and planted grass over them. You can walk across them and hide in between the waves. Her work was all about the patterns of the earth. It is never flat or straight. It always bends and shifts. She has made these maps of the continents out of cardboard. The edges are cut at different hieghts to show mountains, valleys, and rock formations.

Lauren Bon

I keep thinking how is a cornfeild a work of art? I call it agriculture. Maybe its the corn itself or maybe its the community putting their thoughts and ideas together to create something out of this public park space that looks like nothing. Not a Cornfeild caused quite a stir in the art community. Lauren's idea in 2005 was to plant a million kernals of corn on a brown 32 acre lot. It would be irrigated by the LA river. It would run for one corn cycle. At the Ace Gallery of Los Angelos she put on another exhibit in which she used 33000 lbs. of the kernals from the corn feild and called it "Bees and meat".10,000 live bees, 90 miles of irragation stripping, 9 foot corn stalks and areal dried lamb carcus were just a few things Lauren used in her exhibit. She carved a maiden out of bees wax and made a chandolier from jars of honey.

Chico Macmurtrie

Chris Macmurtrie has created the manmade body for you to experience. If you love those inflatable snowglobes and santa clauses at christmas time you'll love this. They are much larger then those yard inflatables and seem to have a life.They are as large as your whole house. Their muscles are moving and contracting. They are breathing air. Their cells are growing into the shapes of animals, humans, and agriculture. The inflatables mimic the life of a creature in a very raw form. The installions are pumped up with air as soon as you enter a room like a motion senser activating it to start filling with air. You get to stand their and watch it become something that at first you could'nt as it lays limp and flat on the floor. The sixteen birds are gracefully flapping their wings as they migrate across the cieling. The forest of telescoping Totem Poles is a large artery across the floor made of brown twisted, knotted rubber and nylon. The vessels burst full of blood and rise across the floor. The rush of air causes these trees to sprout and head to the cieling. The trunks start to look like people. You can see faces and body parts of people start to sway, wiggle, and dance. The Totemobile is a real life transformer. A chrome car starts to to stand up and looked to me like a giant robotic cat. After it is fully standinding it starts to divide and begins to take the shape of a collision that is straightening itself out to its original form before and accident. It was almost as though I was looking at "Christina" that crazy haunted car. The love the floating tree. It was very enviormentally pretty. It reminds me of those cell phone towers that look like trees. It made the returning birds a home after the water cleanup act. The aluminum is light enough to float and the grass makes it alive habitat for the birds to raise thier young and survive in the city. It protects them from boats and humans. I like the idea of this floating island and hope this idea will catch on in big cities. The inner space was great too. You are walking through a tunnel that could be an artery, or a skeleton, or a space ship. or some sort of space that you are inside and people are looking at you. They are on the outside of the space and you are the inner space. You are the point of the art piece the inner space. I thought the Piplotti Rist video was awesome and the Gary Hill video was some type of device used in torture chambers to drive people crazy. 

Robert Rauschenberg





Born October 22, 1925 and died May 12, 2008 of heart failure. Robert was an American with Indian ancestry. In the 1950's he made a transformation from abstract expressionism to pop art. His most famous artworks are combines of painting and sculpture. He also did photography, printmaking, papermaking,choreography, and performed. He went to art school in Paris and worked in New York. He used to go for a walk and look for interesting objects and shapes, such as trash, or photographs and give them a new look or change them into something different that you would not recognize. Much of his artwork is done and appears like a collage with paint and photos and then a clay sculpture is added to the picture to make something stand out from it. His work is colorful and seems as though he wanted to have fun with it like a child in art class. In 2007 the Merce Cunningham Center used Roberts artwork as a backdrops on stage for the performance of "Xover". His best known objects are Monogram and Canyon.
Mr. Rauschenberg’s work gave new meaning to sculpture. “Canyon,” for instance, consisted of a stuffed bald eagle attached to a canvas. “Monogram” was a stuffed goat girdled by a tire atop a painted panel. “Bed” entailed a quilt, sheet and pillow, slathered with paint, as if soaked in blood, framed on the wall. Six of his pieces were done entirely out of cardboard boxes layered and spread out on the wall as a hanging. I like his style. I would like to try a version of my own that would resemble his work. I like how how combined all his media into one piece. When he became rich he gave millions of dollars to charities for women, children, and medical research.

  

Counterfactual Identity part two

On the morning of March 15 I the warrior mermaid princess gaze into the mirror and braid my long bueatiful hair and place a seashell helmet on my head. I feel victory in my heart and know that the coral reefs will be safe and live in peace again. I go to the talapia army and ask a million sea snakes to fasten a million clam shells to the heads of a million talapia fish so that they can push the water. We will swim together so fast that we will create a wave 500 hundred feet high. Then a million sharks and pirranas will follow to clean up the filth. Neptune rose his pitch fork in the air and the rows of talapia began from 20 miles out in the ocean to move the water up. Row by row the wave became higher and taller. The sea level behind the fish sunk to a couple feet as the wave in front became a towering 300 feet. They needed more whales with their tales swimming backwards to follow behind and give them an extra 200 feet. The water crashed onto the village and swept their homes away. Next the mall was smashed down to the ground and all the cars sailed away from the parking lots. The people of Japan were not able to fight the water and surrenderd to rebellion becuase they did not have enough boats to fight all fish. They also had no electricity. The sea won and it was karma that some day they would win. I tell the fish that we now have a boundary agreement and thay will not trespass. We are happy now but someday and evil one will again try to conquer our ocean. We wish them well and hope they will rebuild there homes and live peacefully with us but until then this is war.

Counterfactual Identity part one

Long long ago far far away in a galaxy, on the planet earth lived the peaceful creatures of the sea. In the lush green kelp forests, Neptune and his children ruled all the Atlantic, Pacific ocean and all the seas of the world. For a hundred years the poor defenseless creatures were enslaved and prisoned by the evil Japanese Empire to perform tricks in shows and live in aquariums until they die of starvation, old age, and disease. Millions of species were caught by fisherman invaders and killed to make sushi, canned fish, and restuarant dishes. Their bodies lay dead stacked on top of eachother in fish markets and recieve no respectable grave. The people of the world saw the "Dolphin Cove" documentary about the senseless slaughtering of the mammels and could'nt do anything. Green Peace filmed the whales dieing on the back of ships and did'nt stop it. The oceans rebel talapia have been multiplying for a 100 years to create an army powerful enough to overturn the evil empire. I am the beautiful red haired mermaid daughter of Neptune who has decided that the day has come to rebel. I have spoke to the counslers and have made a course of action to destroy Japan for a decade of hurt they have caused my children and families. We will begin March 15 to create a wave so large that it will kill 10,000 men, women, and children of Japan. There will radiation and suffering to all those that survive. To be continued.

My collage titled "Dreams Versus Reality".

My everyday life reminds me of a Francisco Goya painting which I included in my collage. There is me at my desk very tired from studying, doing my daily chores and working. The bats and owls symbolize my bills, struggles and hard work that does'nt pay. The left side represents the good life. Being Katy Perry perfect and being able to buy anything I want.

Doctrinal Nourishment: Art and Anarchism in the Time of James Ensor

Ensor created Doctrinal Nourishment in 1889, at the height of the political instability, economic inequities, and social unrest associated with the monarchy of Belgian King Leopold II (r. 1865–1909). Using caricature,  humor, and the deliberate distortion of form, he lampooned the Belgian monarchy, military, government, and clergy as a pack of bloated, self-satisfied tyrants, sitting, bare-bottomed, on a high wall and emptying their bowels into the open mouths of a ravenous crowd.  Doctrinal Nourishment exposed autocratic rule as little more than a foul diet obediently swallowed by the masses, laying bare not only the brutality of Leopold’s regime, but also the people’s blind willingness to accept it.
This painting reminded me of war and the people around the world struggling everyday for world peace. It wasnt pretty like alot of art but it was real and had a message.

Casket

The casket was donated by Lynda and Stewart Resnick. LACMA opened the Resnick exhibition pavillion. The Resnicks are business partners and own many companies such as FIJI, POM wonderful, and Teleflora to name a few. They are huge art collectors and have donated huge galleries to the museum. The casket is made of silver, garnets, and emeralds.

LACMA

There are two Ardabil Carpets that were first walked on in a mosque in Iran. One is on display at the museum. These carpets have an inscription and signature done by a Persian poet. It reads: I have no refuge in the world other than thy threshold. There is no protection for my head other than this door. The work of the slave of the threshold Maqsud of Kashan in the year 946. These rugs have been replicated many years for being the most entriquet of rugs designed. It is estimated to be 500 years old.
In October of 2007 Back Seat Dodge 38 was installed in the Los Angelos Art museum. The display is of the artist and his date making out in the back of a car with the headlights turned on. They are drinking beer and having a good time. The boy is made of chicken wire lying on top of a plaster casting of his girlfriend up at a necker’s spot on Mulholland Drive. Kienholz created the sculpture in 1964 and sold it to the museum in 1981.
Tim Burton  is coming to LA in may. I really love him. I love his way of thinking. Its really dark and twisted. I love Corpses Bride, Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, and Edward Scissorhand the most. I am a huge fan and plan on going in May to see his gallery. He is a producer and the artist of a book called "The art of Tim Burton" released in 2009. I would like to buy the book. His characters are so cool.

LACMA

Ansel Adams was an american photographer from 1902 to 1984. He is very well known for his black and white photographs of Yosemite National Park. The tone in his work is very brilliant. He spent much time camping and hiking and loved nature.
Urban Lights by Chris Burden

'Urban Light' lights up the screen

Chris Burden's outdoor sculpture at LACMA has a featured role in 'No Strings Attached.'

January 25, 2011|By Jori Finkel, Los Angeles Times

It looks like the perfect spot for Valentine's Day. At least that's the idea in "No Strings Attached," the new Ashton Kutcher and Natalie Portman movie about a couple who denies being a couple until someone makes a startling/inevitable declaration of love.
The setting for this confession, familiar to many locals by now, is an artwork by Chris Burden called "Urban Light": some 200 vintage lampposts arranged to create a forest of lights that you can walk through on the campus of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art or drive by on Wilshire Boulevard.

LACMA

The Bellelli Sisters is an unfinished work of art created by Edgar degas. While Edgar was finishing his artist training he lived with his aunt Laura Bellelli and her husband, a baron, named Gennaro. They had two daughters named Guilia and Giovanna, Edgars Italian cousins. Although Edgar was known for his paintings of dancers he also did portraits. He painted the Bellelli family in their home. The Bellelli Sisters portrait was not discovered until the end of Degas long life in his apartment when his belongings were sold. I think he was very close with the family and spent alot of time with them.
Le Trahison is a painting of a pipe.  Below it, Magritte painted, "Ceci n'est pas une pipe" French for "This is not a pipe." The painting is not a pipe, but rather an image of a pipe, which was Magritte's point:
Soap Bubbles 1733 is a painting done by Jean Chardin This is one of several versions of Soap Bubbles, Chardin's earliest work to include human figures. He usually painted still lifes. At the Norton Museum he painted a dead rabbit and some flowers. This painting was hard to do becuase the bubble was only air and Jean found this to be very challenging.
Here Comes the Bogey Man was painted by Francisco Goya. He was born in Spain and became a painter of royalty. He painted portraits for the court. This painting is a black and white showing the backside of a bogeyman since noone knows really what he looks like frightening two screaming children who are jumping into their mothers arms. Goya also enjoyed sketching frighting figures, one of monster biting off the head of a small man.

Claude Monet

Claude Monet called Oscar by his parents was born in paris in 1940. His style of painting was impressionism which is painting with the effects of light with broken color and rapid brushstrokes. I thought his painting “Impression Sunrise” was very beautiful and I’d like to hang it in my own home. He painted it in 1872. His paintings were of nature and beautiful ladys in the gardens. Some of the paintings were of his wife Camille (Lady in the Green Dress) and of his daughter Jean Monet (Jean on a Hobby Horse). In 1879 he painted his wife dieing in her bed. Kind of odd I think. After his wife passed his art became even lovelier. He painted a large collection of waterlilies. He even painted a portrait of himself. He had a very thick long white beard. He died of lung cancer in 1926. Im not sure if he smoked but he lived a long life of 86 years. His painting of “Effects of Sun in thre Fog” sold for 20.1 million U.S. dollars in 1904. I love his art!

matrix

Posted on January 26, 2011 by jill6131

well as far as I remember the machines had taken over the world becuase the humans had made them too smart. The humans don’t realize that they are all actually hooked up to those computers. The world they see is a computer generated sort of cyber home and work enviorment.The people are laying in pods and are making electrical impulses with there brains for the machines to feed on. I wish I were Trinity being kissed by keanu. I totally agree that the wool is being pulled over our eyes and that we were born into slavery. Thats how I feel about this life. I think the broken man and the bird symbolized a man dieing and going to heaven and the bird was his guardean angel and when he was with god all of his questions were answered. Or maybe the bird  was just a vulture waiting to pick out his brains.

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graffiti

Posted on January 27, 2011 by jill6131

I think the cave paintings in Lascaux are acient graffitis. Todays graffitis are so different because so much has changed. We don’t hunt and look at the mother nature around us. Today we are surrounded by the dull gray and black city and like to see just a patch of grass, a tree, a flower bed, or just a clear blue sky and see all the way to the mountains. The world today is torn in half by the way we look at graffiti. As children in school we were encouraged to paint murals and become artists. Everybody said thats so pretty what you made. When we grew up they only say that if you graduated art university or have a license to advertise. They have some beautiful drawings and just like to share with us in a public places. these places look awful already anyways so why not add a picture. tagging is’nt the same though as graffiti because a tagger uses names and letters to express himself. Looking at just names though is kind of unsightly. And if it is’nt a place, direction, or business then it is just adding confusion to the already to many signs, billboards and banners. I ran out of page. To be continued.                                                                                                                               

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Venice

Posted on January 30, 2011 by jill6131

I went to Venice Beach today and paid 14 dollars for parking.I did’nt know dogs were allowed so I left mine at home. I saw a two headed turtle. I ate a frozen banana. I saw the artist Batz work. She paints cute owls and trees. I really admired one painting and almost took it home. It was titled “My Gangster Puppy”. My artwork is kind of putrid so I really enjoy what everyone else does. I liked starry starry night painted on the side of a building. It was a pretty good copy of Vincent Vangos famous painting. In my picture the guy was sitting on top of the other guys shoulders like they were having a chicken fight. He said please don’t photograph me because I don’t ordinarly do this with guys. A drunk tried to read my mind but he was a 100 % wrong. He was just begging for change. I was feeling very good today so I did’nt need to visit the cannabus doctor.

Vermeer

Johann Vermeer also called Jan Vermeer was a starving Dutch artist in the 1600′s. He had eleven children and did not make much money. little is known about his life. His paintings were not well known and mentioned until 200 years after his life. His work is very realistic and portrays the movement of light as it starts from one side of the room and travels to the other. He paints people that are middle class such as “The Girl with a Pearl Earring”. Most of his 40 or so paintings are indoors. Another of Vermeers paintings,”The Girl with a Red Hat”, portrays his use of very rich and expensive colors. He uses velvety reds and cornflower blues. Very bright colors make the woman looks as though she is 3D steping out of the canvas to look deep into your eyes. Vermeers painting was classified as baroque because it was new and different from the religous art and landscape paintings. It reflected the everyday ordinary things one did at those times in there life such as writing a letter or holding a balnce. I like the way the daylight comes through a window and fills a room in all his pictures. This picture is titled “ The Concert”. 

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The Dot

Posted on February 2, 2011 by jill6131

Well I was wondering what was “the dot” so I researched and found a book by that title written and illustrated by Peter H. Reynolds. It was nominated for an excellence in childrens literature award. I hope this was what you were talking about in class. I was able to view only 6 pages of the book. It was about a young art student and a teachers clever and encouraging words to motivate her student who said she could not draw and stared at her blank page of paper. I guess I will have to visit the library in order to finish reading it and she what a good artist she became.

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Deja Vu

Posted on January 31, 2011 by jill6131

Today I was watching a movie and planning my trip to the Norton Simon museum. The movie I was watching  is called Vanilla Sky and stars Tom Cruise, Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz. Tom was showing Penelope a painting called Vanilla Sky. It is a painting done by Claude Monet. That is who I am doing my report on. I am looking forward to getting up close and personal with his work at the museum.

Norton Simon Museum

The first interesting painting I looked at was “The Vicarage Garden Under Snow”.Vicent Van Gugh painted a pheasant working in a field. It was a gloomy gray painting. The reason this caught my interest was because they x-rayed the painting and found another one underneath. I painting of a women sitting at a spinning wheel. Maybe he was short on money and could’nt afford canvas so he painted over pictures he did’nt like. Pissarro has a strange unusual brush stroke I noticed in a painting of lady’s wearing sweaters. They looked very fuzzy in cashmere. I don’t understand how he does that with a brush. But after checking out the whole museum me and my daughter liked Edgar Degas the best. He worked with clay, chalk, pastels, and paint. It seems that he loved the ballet and admired a womans work. I thought that his scultures were kind of clumpy. He never used tools to smooth the clay in numerous statues. The statue of a fourteen year old girl on the otherhand was very well shaped and realistic. ”Dancers in the Wings ”, shows two little girls adjusting their butterfly wings and getting ready to dance. This painting was made out of nine seperate strips of canvas overlapping to create a large piece. Again maybe the artist had not enough money to buy his canvas. The painting was not centered so the little girl was cut off as though looking through a doorway, an interesting view.

Edgar Degas

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The painting “The chestnut gatherers” was nice. Georges painted a set of four paintings each of which was one season. This picture of autumn used very warm tones of reds and the leaves scattered on the ground were very soft and detailed. He also painted a purple sea titled “The Violet Waves”. Bonnard I thought his pictures were blurry and you could see a clouds view of Paris. Not a detailed picture. Jean Frederic Brazille was friends with Monet and used to loan him money. Jean and Monet were working closely with Pierre Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley. Jean’s subjects were a collection of mostly woman and them washing themselves. I was disappointed to see the Claude Monet painting at the museum because I was expecting to see color and their was only this gray  painting of the sea. Pierre painted alot of nudes, men and women. Alfred was a French landscape painter. His painting of the snow was cold, slushy and gave me a gloomy feeling. Picasso’s painting of a woman’s head, I thought, should have been called a horse’s head because it was shaped that way. His art reminds me of a cluttered desk top. Everything seems to overlap and its just unusual. Picassos’s mistress painting was similar to poses in other paintings, only difference that she was painted green and abstractly. Rousseau did’nt even start painting until he was 40 years old. They had on display his painting of cute monkeys in a lush, exotic forest. Diego Rivera had a way of painting cala lilies very good and the mexican girl had cute little feet.   As I walked into the 17th and 18th century of paintings I felt a little creeped out.

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Thomas painted the men and women of his era with these strange collars called ruffs. These collars are very round and ruffly and I’ve never seen them before except maybe on a queen. Verspronck’s work showed alot of breast. The dress was usually worn off of one shoulder. Fragonard was a fun and romantic artist. The man and women were usually playing in “The Swing” and “The BirdCage” in a garden wonderland. The angels are particularly frightening to me. Some looked very angry and were inflicting pain on people. Im not sure they are good. I wonder if they really saw the angels or wether they were just make believe. I don’t like angel paintings. They gave me the creeps. I really liked Aelbert Cuyp. His artwork was just yummy. I thought I was at the buffet and getting ready to eat. Best looking food I ever saw. People like Agnes Martin and Josef Alker don’t even deserve to be called artist’s. There work just looked incomplete and it was never finished. There wasn’t any idea. It was like looking into an empty box. There probably is, I’m just guessing, a million paintings of Madonna and Child. Not really a new idea. Downstairs was really interesting. The Asian art shows how the people who did’nt wear much would dress themselves up for ceremonies. Their headdresses are tall and pointy. Their bodies are draped in beads and jewelry. Alot of statues carved from stone are half human with the head of an animal. Oh and lastly we stared at “The Mulberry tree” painted by Vincent Van Gogh. The paint was very very thick and swirly. We walked through the garden.

Vincent Van Gogh

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This painting was done when Vincent was ill. He severed his own ear lobe when he attempted to lash out at Gauguin with it. Gauguin was a french impressionist painter who studied the tihitan people and their way of life. Vincent was diagnosed with epilepsy and uncontrolible, erational behavior. He was comitted to an insane asylum. Afterwards he was sent home. His doctor Mr. Gachet cared for him for two months and then found him dead from a gunshot wound that Vincent did to himself. The paint on this painting, “The Mulberry Tree”, was so thick and swirly. He used alot of paint and just squeezed it on heavy. it was vey grooved and rigid. I liked the painting. It caught my interest.

Wyland's world

Marine life artist Wyland is an accomplished painter, sculpter, photographer, writer and scuba diver. This is Wyland’s newest 2011 painting of the bottle nose dolphins. You can feel a moment when your swimming with them in warm and clear waters. They are weightless and curious about their underwater world. This painting sells for $1997.50 at the Wyland Gallery in Laguana Beach. I love his artwork and so do people around the world. If you really want to see a brilliant display of color and marine life art then you should go see his shop. You can feel all the motion of the ocean, the swaying of the trees, and gaze at the moon. Very tranquil and other artists galleries are near by too.

Amy Brown

Amy Brown‘s world is one of fantasy and art. Amy is, without doubt, the most highly talented fantasy artist in the world today. She was born in Bellingham, Washington in 1972 and, like all talented artists, learned to draw at a very young age. The main influences in her fantasy art has come from the illustrations of Brian Froud and Arthur Rackman. I wonder if 200 years from now I will walk into a museum and find Brown’s and Wyland’s paintings. Brian and Wendy Froud have illustrated many books. “The Fairies Oracle” has over 200 illustrations. He uses a combination of acrylics, watercolors, and airbrushing. He was born in England in 1947. The Frouds illustrations brought to life the world of fairies and goblins that have inspired movies like”The Dark Crystal” and “Labyrinth”. Arthur Rackman lived from 1867 to 1939. He was very well known for illustrating many of the books you grew up reading. For example, Rip Van Winkle, Gullivers Travels, Mother Goose, and Alice and Wonderland. The way he did his work was first in pencil, then ink pen. He would erase the pencil and add details and sometimes wash with a little color. Most of his art look like black and white drawings.

Pointillist

Pointillism is a technique of painting in which small, distinct dots of pure color are applied in patterns to form an image. Georges Seurat developed the technique in 1886, branching from Impressionism. The technique relies on the ability of the eye and mind of the viewer to blend the color spots into a fuller range of tones. It is related to Divisionism, a more technical variant of the method. Divisionism is concerned with color theory, whereas pointillism is more focused on the specific style of brushwork used to apply the paint. It is a technique with few serious practitioners today, and is notably seen in the works of Seurat, Signac and Cross. Edward McCarthy is a living example of a pointillist painter. The Ben-Day Dots printing process, named after illustrator and printer Benjamin Henry Day, J., is similar to Pointillism. Depending on the effect, color and optical illusion needed, small colored dots are closely-spaced, widely-spaced or overlapping. Magenta dots, for example, are widely-spaced to create pink. 1950s and 1960s pulp comic books used Ben-Day dots in the four process colors (cyan, magenta, yellow and black) to inexpensively create shading and secondary colors such as green, purple, orange and flesh tones.

Top Ten

Sculptures are 3d forms of art made of materials that are casted, carved or molded out of clay, marble, jade, bronze, or wood. These are the top ten statues in history. They are Savanah  bird girl, Hermes, The discus thrower, Lady Justice, The Kiss, Ceasar Augustus, The Pieta, The Thinker, Venus De Milo, and Statue of David. Michelangelo revealed the statue of David in 1504 during the rennaisance period. Peita was also his creation made of marble. Pieta is a statue of Mary holding Jesus on her lap after he was crucifiied. The Thinker and the Kiss were sculpted by Auguste Rodin during the 20th century. It is said that the Thinker was origonally called The poet and was a sculpture of Dante Alighieri who was wrote the greatest Italian literature called Divina. I tired to read these poems but they are written in Latin and when translated are hard to understand like a Shakespeare play. The bird girl sat in the Bonaventure cemetary as a grave stone and was never noticed until 1994. A photographer snapped a picture of it for a book cover and adjusted the lighting to make it look like moonlight. This became the picture on the front of the novel “Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Lady Justice represents fairness and law to us. Her name is Dike and she is the daughter of Zeus. She holds a sword and a scale and sometimes weres a blindfold in European countries.

sketching

sketching is an unfinished work of art. There are many techniques of sketching and can be accomplished in watercolor, graphite, clay, and pastels. Many famous sketches can be seen in the sketch books of Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, and Leornardo D Vinci. The artist will quickly catch an impression with a sketch, just like a photograph ,then later they can add colors and details. Not all artists do sketches first. Hatching is a technique using parallel lines close together either light or heavy. This creates light and dark shading. Cross hatching is vertical and horizontal lines crossed by diagonal lines. This usually adds depth and interest to a sketch. Contour hatching is diagonal lines crossing to form diamond shaped fragments or curved lines crossing to add contour to a human figure. Scumbling or ramdom hatching is small scribbles or lines grouped together to illustrate a rough textures or broken surface. Stippling is small dots placed close together or far apart so that the sketch looks smooth and either light or dark in color.

Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov is an American- Russian conceptial artist born in 1933 in the Ukraine. conceptial art is a concept or idea that is more important than the sculpture or the painting materials being used. Conceptial art is dependant on the text that surrounds the art. It emerged in the 1960′s. Ilya graduated from an art institute in 1957 and his sole means of support was illustrating childrens literature.
 
In 1985 Ilya completed “The Man Who Flew into Space From his Own Apartment”. Between 1983 and 2000 Ilya completed 155 installations around the world. Installations are three dimensional artforms that transform a viewers perception of space. Ilya’s installations speak about the hard living conditions in 20th century Soviet Union as well as around the world.

January 13, 1990 | SUZANNE MUCHNIC, TIMES ART WRITER

Soviet artist Ilya Kabakov has arrived in Los Angeles with a big load of garbage. Getting the trash out of Moscow wasn’t easy. Soviet customs officials didn’t understand why he wanted to export the accumulated debris from his studio, and they feared that it might actually be valuable. As it turns out, the officials were right. The aluminum cans, broken combs, match boxes, keys and wads of paper that Kabakov transported to the United States are symbolically valuable art materials.

aestetics

Aestetics is an artistically beautiful or pleasing appearrance. Some say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder and others says it is on the inside and can't be seen. All things are different but they in there own uniqueness are truely beautiful. Aestetic art prominantly uses the theme of nature in its most sensual form. During the Victorian period wood furniture was carved with flowers, feathers and birds. China was painted with peaceful garden villiages, and roses. Dresses were embroirded and fabric was printed to create something beautiful. The Japanese made the blue china, decorative vases, and very best silk screens. Real means that the art is true, existant, not artificial, and genuine. So I guess real art is what you actually saw and realistically not so much abstract which is something else. The realists were on the opposing side of the romantists. The realists chose to paint ordinary, life situations and sometimes ugly images. The romantist painted things that were emotionally strong, somewhat ficticous and suggested the awe and power of nature. I think the flowers are naturally beautiful and that is real beauty but then thier beauty is enhanced by photography and then it becomes aestetic beauty. I think alot of people are aestetically beautiful through alot of cosmetic surgery but I also believe that people are naturally beautiful. The arrangement of things can be beautiful. If you have a mess it is'nt as eye pleasing as things in order although it is still the same things. 

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