Monday, December 13, 2010

SKIT FOR ART MINI-MASTERS

    Ooohhh! What’s in my back pocket? Oh its one of my paintings. It is the Apparatus and Hand. I did it during World War 2. Cubism was my favorite type of drawing. It was 1926, when I got expelled from my Art school. I straight away left for Paris and there I met Pablo Picasso.
    Why did you name it the Apparatus and Hand?
    I thought it sounded cool.
    What is the painting about?
The “Apparatus” was the geometric figure, which is much like the human form. The figure of human arms, legs, an eye, and a head. The triangular being up on what appears to be a cane, which was in my work representing sleep. And the hand is just a hand.
What types of paintings were you doing at that time?
Cubism was my main focus at the moment.

    The painting that I chose is called “The Apparatus and Hand.” I chose this painting, because when I was looking through the paintings that I wanted to do, this one caught my eye because of its use of colors. Dali has made different types of paintings also. His most famous painting was called the “Persistence of memory.” This painting also used cubes like the apparatus and hand.

Monday, October 11, 2010

Abstract Painting, Kandinsky

In this painting, we had to make a painting of any emotion. As you can see, it stands out, and this is a picture of power. Before we painted these, we made a small version on a small paper. After we chose our best painting, we made a bigger version of it, and as you can see, this is the bigger version of my art piece. I learned that colors make a gigantic difference to your work, and that color shows your emotions. For this art piece, I had to find out how to make an unknown shape, and make random colors to fit it. I have improved my powers of observation, when it came to making random shapes, and getting random colors to do it. In this piece, I mainly used my visualization to see how the colors fit, and how the shapes fitted together. While doing this project, I learned that dark and light colors together make a very good product. Kandinsky did an art work with different colors and odd shapes, and I followed him, but in different shapes and different colors.
If I were to used this in my everyday life, I would mainly use this in designing things, and now that I have learned that different shapes and compositions and completely different colors make a very nice product, and still meaning something when you visualize what is happening in the painting. I think I am going to use this a lot more in my future life if I am to become a designer.

Sunday, October 3, 2010

Colors and Emotions

While I was doing my art work, I used oil pastels to help blend in the warm and cool colors. I learnt a very important skill, I learn how to blend, and how colors makes a big difference to your emotions. While I was working on this assignment, I learnt a lot of new things. I felt for one of the first times, that I actually wanted to make a good artwork, and I felt enthusiastic. While I was working,  I was a problem solver when it came to blending, because I learnt that blue and green together makes a great combonation. I was very satisfied with the final result, because after class I took a quick picture, and showed it to my parents, and they were surprised, and said that they should fraim it. I can't really connect this with any other subjects, but I can connect it to a real life situtation, example: artists use colors on peoples faces to describe their emotions.