Tuesday, April 13th:

Today's class was focused on finishing our absent image projects along with our tessellation's. We learned about different artist such as Steve Lambret and Mcgee who are members in street art. They love bringing in everyone's attention, but just artists. For homework we need to come up with five ideas for our own street art project, and for me, this will be interesting. .

Stealing the Mona Lisa

Notes:

The article expresses the feelings of how art makes one feel. Especially, how it feels when someone, or something, is looking at you and you don’t know it.

“Why is art made? To stop or prevent bad things from happening”

It is really personal when someone looks at you. Because you don't know what is going through their minds while speculating your every action, it becomes a very personal and self conscious moment. This becomes the relationship between the spectator and spectacle where there can be a reaction on either side. I believe the use of images is not to distract people but to capture them and to make them look at something and formulate a reaction.

The past couple of classes we had all of our focus on the outside mural project. We formed four groups, each with a different design focus, and started to make stencil cut outs for the brick wall for which we were assigned. Unfortunately, this mural project failed due to the owner going back on his word. It would have been an exciting project because I have never worked in the media. Last class, on April 6th, we learned about a technique in photoshop called "clone stamp tool" which drags color from areas around the specific area desired. We chose an image for homework to use this technique on and it is interesting to see how insignificant/ awkward the background is. Even when the focus image is erased, the landscape/ background is still known.

Response from Mexican Mural

Five essential elements for the Mexican mural Movement:

1. proud and heroic

2. public education

3. traditionalism and modernism

4. for and illiterate audience

5. spiritual quality

The mural for the city of Syracuse has to be able to show relations and ties to the people living there while also symbolizing a fresh, inspiring and new vision. The Mexican mural movement was a highly religious act whereas this mural would not be. However, they are both used for the public eye and can tell stories through images.

Readings from Joseph Kosuth's One and Three chairs

1. There are 5 chairs in Kosuth's artwork. The physical chair, made by the maker is the first chair that is counted because its a tangible thing. The second chair is the chair we can touch and sit in, making it an actual thing. The third chair is the chair the maker was thinking about while making it, having it be the image of the chair in our heads. It is the chair we picture, which brings me to the fourth chair- the image of the chair that we imagine that is a chair. And the fifth chair is the chair the maker wants us to believe is the appearance of the chair.

2. I believe Plato wouldn't believe any of the chairs were the real chair. The wooden chair is tangible, but that doesn't make it any more real that something you imagine, being the photograph or the definition. What is real anyway?

On tuesday's class I learned how to write my own artist statement while incorporating the use of another viewers perception as well. We did exercises to help us generate ideas and be "creative thinkers". There was also a demonstration on how to matte our mural design and artist statements'. The exercises made me think a lot more critically about what i want to say about my mural and they were fun.