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Critique Questions1.) My clay sculpture is pretty neat and well executed, I made sure to not touch the clay and add fingerprints to it. You can see some marks on the plate where my fingers pushed it in. Also, two of the three bars are identical sizes, the third is slightly smaller because the clay roller wasn't set correctly.
2.) The most difficult part of the project was the plate because it was supposed to be thin, but getting every side even was difficult. Before the plate went into the kiln, it was cracked but so far it has not broke. 3.) My colors work nicely together, I have a sand brown color for the cake part and light yellow for the icing topped with a deep yellow and spotted light green lemon shavings. The plate contrasts this yellow centered project by being grey-blue. This really makes the bright yellow lemon bars pop. 4.) I think my sculpture is interesting from most views, it is a simple rectangular shape, but it has the little shavings of lemon on the top. There is also a smooth versus rough texture on the cake part of the lemon bar and lemon sugar part of it. When the pieces are stacked together, the whole piece looks much better. No longer is it just a rectangle, it's a stack of bars on an disorderly fashion. 5.) Sculpting something can be easier because you can have molds, or many different tools to help perfect the sculpture, but because you can't focus on your piece from one angle, you have to keep up with every side. I didn't have too much of a problem with it because mine was small and pretty simple, but I can see where some people might have a problem. 6.) I created texture both through some colors and through sculpting. I used the rough side of a sponge to create a rough cake look on the sand color. I tried to keep all of the top smooth to make it look like smooth icing. I painted the top of the sand color darker to make it different and appear as though there is a different texture. I also added a little bit of green on the lemon shavings to add some minor texture appearance. 7.) I don't think anyone is going to try to eat it, but it does look like a lemon bar and I don't think I have to point it out. I achieved this with the rough texture and the minor color differences with the touch of green and small shading. Many foods aren't usually dark yellow anyways, so it's hard to not see it's not a lemon bar. 8.) If I did this project again I would first make the third lemon bar even to the other two. I would also make the lemon shavings smaller. With the colors I would make the cake part lighter to resemble a cake a little more. I would also make the plate thicker so it doesn't crack. A incomplete painted version of the above photos (without poly acrylic coatings)
Print #1Print #2Print #31.) Registration and Carving: I think my registration marks were great. It was as simple as tracing the linoleum so it's hard to misregister. The carving of the linoleum was harder. There were some spots that I could not carve any further, but that was mainly due to rolling issues. As a whole I think I carved pretty well. I don't think I went too deep and the shape is well defined.
Burnishing and Ink Coverage: This is where one of my problems arose. Some of my ink coverings were not very thorough or too thorough, and ended up causing this unwanted texture that looks dotted. Also, I think I pressed the brayer roller too hard causing some of the ink to go into the carved areas and when I pressed it transferred onto the paper. When I pressed the linoleum onto the paper I made sure to press and use my hands to roll the ink onto the paper. Sometimes this didn't quite help. 2.) Texture: I like how I made sure to not leave the trees just green, but I had some black lines going through them and they might be too large, if they were too thin they would just fall apart. I also did the same thing for the dark water and it is supposed to imitate the water falling. The texture defines the trees apart from the straight, orderly building. Color Harmony: Most of my colors worked well together. On one side I had white, light grey, dark grey and black which flow. I also had a sort of "triangle" of colors on the color wheel, although it might be a stretch; tan represents orange, the water represents dark blue and the trees are a shade of green. On a color wheel these 3 colors roughly represent a triangle on the color wheel, which is an example of color harmony. Balance: I purposefully made the bottom left and right more random with flowing shapes and the middle and top left straight and orderly. This both does not put the main focus directly in the middle, creates a balance of entropy and order, and organizes the paper into a couple of sections. 3.) In order to make my print better I should have spent more carefully rolling the brayer and equally painting each section of linoleum. Also, because there is a middle ground of not too much but not too little paint that should be applied to the linoleum, I should have spent more time controlling how much paint I was using to stop the "staticky" look of some parts of the paint. Joseph William Turner and Pablo Picasso
Gabriel Malinowski Art II, Period 4 May 16, 2019 Part 1: History Pablo Picasso The first of the two artists I received is Pablo Picasso. Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 and died on April 8, 1973. He was born in Spain and he grew up learning to draw figures and paint from lessons from his father. Picasso had many different “eras” throughout his lifetime, including his Blue Era, Red Era, African Art and Primitivism, Cubism and Surrealism. The medium he known most for is his paint, but also liked to use clay and scraps in his sculptures. Picasso’s main influence on the art world is through his Analytic Cubism and belief in the freedom of art, meaning anything can be art. You can see in a lot of his paintings use abstract techniques with sometimes very few colors or very many colors. One could say he influenced modern art, as you can draw similarities between his works and works that are considered modern. Many of his pieces are also held at the New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Joseph William Turner The second artist I received is Joseph William Turner (abv. J. M. W. Turner). Turner was born on April 23, 1775 in London and died on December 19, 1851 also in London. Turner was born into a lower-middle class family, and was a child prodigy. By age 14 he was already enrolling into the Royal Academy of Arts. His style is very “classical” meaning it has a very washed feel, many of his colors were blended and objects were hazily able to be seen. Turner used mostly watercolors, which obviously made it easier to blend his colors. A lot of his paintings and watercolors are seascapes with boats. Most of his artworks are catalogued in the Tate Gallery in London. Turner’s art can be considered Romantic, as it’s part of the Romanticism Era, spanning from 1800 to 1850. His impact on the art world are specific to being a founding member of English watercolor sea landscapes and romanticism. Part 2: Style Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso painted many paintings that would be considered realistic paintings, but his most famous style is analytic cubism, is a very abstract style of painting. For Picasso’s analytic cubism he would identify the contrasts of light and dark in order to “cube” in the colors. Picasso would often stand in different positions to gain a different perspective and create strict polygons. His brush strokes never followed any rules. For example many of his paintings a viewer is able to see his stokes and how they are sometimes parallel, perpendicular, or even diagonal. His strokes are definitely not consistent. He also used a style known as Impasto, which is the use of thick paint in order to create an effect of topography. In summary, Picasso did not follow many rules and paintings were very abstract. Joseph William Turner The first thing to mention about Turner’s art is his use of bright and white colors. He was often criticized for using bright colors, at the time dark was the popularity. Turner would paint large areas very fast with a loaded and hard brush. He was also a man of risk because he did not underdraw, meaning he did not use pencil to outline his shapes. This is mainly because of his long research in watercolor, where he learned to not use pencil. Part 3: Artworks Pablo Picasso This piece by Picasso is called Mediterranean Landscape and was painted in 1953. Picasso uses a lot of defined shapes and many bright colors. The piece also has unusual perspectives and points of view, like the roof of the red building tilting towards the middle, but the small overhang next to it point up towards the edge of the paper. The sidewalks of this seascape are mostly triangles, in fact there are a lot of triangles in this piece. This could artwork is a good example cubism because of its abstract and defined shapes. Cubism does not deter Picasso from shading, because he still does here, there are shadows in the water and lighter areas on the top of objects. Joseph William Turner This painting is called Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth and is made with oil paints. It was exhibited in 1842. This piece is a great summary of his style, his paints are very washed and mixed, one could say abstract. This style is very different, however, from Picasso’s abstract. Here there is no defined shape, if you didn’t know the title, you probably wouldn’t even see the steamboat in the middle of the painting. The art can be described as a vortex, with spirals spiraling towards the middle. It is said that the meaning of the painting is “humankind’s futile efforts to combat the forces of nature.” Bibliography Khan Academy (2015) Who is JMW Turner? Khan Academy. www.khanacademy.org/humanities/becoming-modern/romanticism/england-constable-turner/a/who-is-jmw-turner The Art Story Contributors (2016, January 15) Joseph Mallord William Turner. The Art Story Contributors. https://www.theartstory.org/artist-turner-jmw.htm Biography.com Editors. (2014, April 2) Pablo Picasso Biography. The Biography.com Website. https://www.biography.com/artist/pablo-picasso The Art Story Contributors. (2011, November 22). Pablo Picasso Artist Overview and Analysis. The Art Story Contributors. https://www.theartstory.org/artist-picasso-pablo.htm Pablopicasso.org. (2009). Mediterranean Landscape. Pablopicasso.org https://www.pablopicasso.org/mediterranean-landscape.jsp Tate. Snow Storm - Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth. Tate https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/turner-snow-storm-steam-boat-off-a-harbours-mouth-n00530 1.) The rhythm of the stacked books works well, the difference in placement makes the movement seamless. You can follow the chalk illustration up from the base to the top.
2.) Value was very important to show how the books stand out from underneath each other. For example the bottom most book is darker where the yellow book covers it and it shows the depth. I chose to color the bottom of some of the books black to show the small shadow they cast on objects below them. 3.) The bright colors of the books stand out from the background. I specifically chose the opposite of blue, the bottom book against the orange background. Also by exaggerating the colors the books look "cartoony", which wasn't the end goal, but it still looks good. 4.) For the most part, the craftsmanship is good, there were times during I had to go back with my thumb or some type of blending tool because while touching the paper I smeared it. Even though it would be unpractical I could have worn gloves to prevent it getting on me. Along with smearing, I tracked some of the blue and black to lighter parts that I had to cover up as well. I sort of rushed finishing the background, you can see the white spots, the books also had some white spots that I could have gone over some more. 5.) I think I achieved foreground and middleground. I didn't see too much background, but that was mainly due to the picture I went off of. The large yellow book kind of serves as a foreground, being the lightest, and the biggest, while the books on top serve as a middleground. 6.) I found that I tracked chalk elsewhere, which was a challenge to overcome. I also got a lot of chalk on me. However, blending colors to make shadows with the chalk was easy because of how "blendable" of a medium they are. Luckily we had an option of chalk pencils, because with the normal chalk, which comes in big bulky pieces, I could not recreate the illustration because of how many sharp 90 degree angles and small marks I needed to make. |
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