Color Wheel

The color wheel allowed me to see color change as a whole. I used primary colors that radiantly changed morphing into its neighbor. I enjoy using these paints because of the richness of and vibrant of the color and its thickness allowed me to apply the paint smoothly.

Making the color wheel was relaxing rather than tedious. I only got frustrated when the paint began to dry while I was still trying to apply more color. It reminded me of painting nails, if you add to many coats when the first to coats are starting to dry than the out come starts to look rough and or bumpy.

I enjoyed this assignment because I think it is important to learn the mixing of paints because painting is a hobby of mine. Understanding the various outcomes of colors you get from three primary colors and the use of applying tint shade and tone is fascinating.

Color

The photo of the Spider-Man and My Little Pony snack boxes are two great examples of using colors to advertise. The images are taken together to compare and contrast the two flamboyant colors. The boxes are similar in the way of trying to sell to the same age group from ages 6-12 with the use of blue for boys and pink for girls. This is a smart was of advertising to a little kid where they are even more susceptible to buying a product thats just based off its color. The representation of dark blue and red would make a boy feel more boyish and the pink and light yellow would make a girl feel more girlie. The advertiser is selling to a particular age group, children, where then its the child's job to sell to their parent. The colors are very saturated and lively making it an eye catcher.

The photo that represents chemicals is very much a contradiction to its point. Looking at the vibrant colors it appears to symbolize fun and a spontaneous attitude. The colors are elementary like and do not come close to representing toxic chemicals that are deadly. The bright colors do catch and appeal to the eye although it miss leads on what it stands for. When bright fun colors stand for toxic colors it can be very misleading especially for young kids and therefor be dangerous.

Christian Andersson's style of work is known to be very sophisticated. The surface of his art is expresses with a strikingly elegant way of execution, where his sculptural and installatory elements contain an aesthetic environment that provokes a seductive visual finish. He has mastered in integrating light and shadows, and surfaces such as mute, transparent, reflective, and fluorescent, this often serves in highlighting a theme that has been central through out art history.

"In the corner of the room a piece of space is enclosed behind a group of film-/photo-studio lights. The space holds what resembles a frozen moment in time; A brick seems to float in the air after bursting its way out from the wall. A hole is gaping in the wall behind the brick and debris are fixed in the air in front of it. The piece becomes a distant yet present collapse of structures. Maybe the structure of the wall is about to fall apart, and we’re watching the ignition spark of that very convergence. We also experience two different time modes colliding; Our real time is confronted with a still, or a motion too slow to follow.

1:1 borrows its language from a mix between classic museum dioramas used to mimic scenes from nature or history, and recent digital effects where the visual reality is further bent by presenting “impossible” pannings and split time lapses.

The brick and the splinters are painted styrofoam models suspended in invisible strings, often used by magicians to create “levitating” objects in card tricks, etc. The back wall with the hole is constructed using wood, plasterboard and styrofoam."


http://www.christianandersson.net/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Andersson

proposal

My performance consisted of writing down an emotion and sharing it with your partner by performing your partners emotion. It took place outside where the performers stepped 15 feet back and express their partners written emotion. I feel that this performance was successful and I liked the outcome I received from the Victor and Vicki. It allowed them to express what there partner was feeling or thinking 1 min prior to swapping the sheets of emotions. They seemed have fun and performed it as I expected.

Directions
1. Write an emotion on piece of paper
2. Fold up the sheet of paper
3. Go outside
4. Give your paper to your partner
5. Both you and your partner step back 15 steps
6. Open up the note and make that emotion
7. Performance is over when you both can see each other emotions

In response to Vicks performance I was not really clear on the concept of the performance. After the third time he explained the directions I realized that the simplicity of is was made it hard to comprehend. I had fun with ducking and clapping while not touching the wall. The idea did seem to be more creative then the actual performance.

The performance I performed from Vickies proposal had a much different concept than Vicks. The partners interacted with each other more creating a more emotional and authentic performance rather than just taking directions. I had to create a rhythm while doing crunches with my partner. It was fun new and a i had fun with exploring a different way to create a rhythm.

Fluxus

Fluxus is a network of artists, composers, and designers that blend different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. The media the artists use consit of visual art, music, literature, urban planning, architecture, and design. The word Fluxus originated from Latin which means "to flow". Fluxus was loosely organized by Maciunas. The community that was formed from this art period was small but formed into a global network of artists and composers who already where working artists before Maciunas met them.

Fluxus encouraged the "do it yourself method" where the artists preferred to work with any materials available. They either created there own work or collaborated with their colleagues. The fluxus style valued simplicity over complexity. Fluxus is similar to the earlier movement of Dada. Fluxux emphasized the concept of anti-art and took bigger risks of focusing over the seriousness of modern art just like Dada. Fluxus artists used their minimal performances to highlight their perceived connection with everyday objects. Fluxus art was usually presented in events which was defined as "the smallest unit of a situation. The events consisted of a minimal instruction allowing the event to be open to accidents and other sporadic outcomes.

There are four key factors that define the majority of the Fluxus work. First off Fluxus is an attitude where it does not stand as a movement or style. It is intermedia, the creators like to see what happens when they use different medias to intersect the piece. They use everyday objects that are found consisting of sounds, images, and texts to create a new combination of objects, sounds, and texts. The work is simple, the art is small, the performance is brief and the text is short. It is fun and humorous.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxus

Playing with Behaviors of Everyday Laife

The performance that I experienced today was very interesting and exciting. I enjoyed this fun creative activity. My partner and I both responded the same way, a little confused but open to the idea. When Leslie made a face in her mirror I copied that face as best as possible as we both walked apart. By the time we got so far apart that we could barely see each other in our mirrors I was deeply interested. The fact that i was making eye contact with someone so far away from the point of view of standing 30ft away facing back to back looking in a mirror from behind, was fascinating. We both laughed at the fact we where performing such a new "out of the box" assignment. I did not know what to expect in this project since it was so new to me. I only expected the sensation of having fun. Although I did think the activity would last a bit longer.

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even

From 1915 to 1923 Duchamp worked on creating The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even very carefully throughout the years. The piece was executed on two planes of glass using materials of lead foil, fuss wire, and dust. Duchamp made lots of notes and studies and complex theories about how the piece works. He published the notes and studies as The Green Box. The notes describe his piece depicting the "Bride", thats found in the upper panel, and her nine "Bachelors" found in a gathering in the lower panel around lots of mechanical devices having erratic encounters. The Bride is very mechanical looking like shadings of geometric forms. She is connected to her halo with a cloudy form stretching across the top. There is a chocolate grinder that contains three drum- like forms around a circular platform with three small legs that are supporting her structure. " The Large Glass is a picture of the unseen forces that shape human erotic activity- the realm of ego, desires, and other mysteries"(Stafford). Duchamp calls the boundary between the bride and her Bachelors "the garment of the bride" which might refer to her clothing but also to the boundary of her body. The Glider introduces chances where the bachelors slide back and forth between them and the Bride. The Scissors that are powered by two huge blades are for threatening the Eyewitnesses. Duchamps art is not simply interpreted considering the notes and diagrams he made for his project as a guidebook actually complicates it more. He describes elements that were not in the final version and don't seem to exist.

I appreciate the creativity, brilliance, and dedication that went into this piece. I find the piece so interesting that makes me find me find the artist more interesting. Yes the piece is complex and deep but that only reflects the artist mind which is now more interesting to me. I think anyone has the capacity of inventing a creative process like Duchamp you just have to have the patience and a really good since of realty to get abstract minded. It got the recognition because it was purely original and and complex. Duchamps piece can be looked at in several different ways, as for me I see this only being a visual interpretation of the human nature.