Pre-work - 31 January 2021
CHARGE YOURSELF
(San Fransisco - 2017)
Shantell Martin is a free-form artist. She has 92Y Gallery in New York City, the iconic Albright Knox Gallery, and the MoCADA Museum, Martin has carved a path for herself that is as intellectual as a producer and visual artist. Shantell Martin’s signature is black and white drawings.
Her work is a free flow of thoughts. She believes in herself and she is my role model because of her free-form drawings. Why she does this and how is her mind this free?
MAMAN
(1982)
Louise Bourgeois created this sculpture at the age of 71. It is made of bronze and stainless steel. It is 30ft by 33ft in dimensions.
The material she uses for creating art inspires me. In this work, she has referred to the spider as her mother.
KRATOS
(Basement wall - 2016)
I painted my wall during summer vacations. It is 6 sqft in dimensions. Black, red and blue acrylic paints were used.
This is my favorite because the strokes in this art are fearless. Blending blues and red in the last graffiti symbol represents the strength of overpowering.
WAYS OF SEEING
Seeing is natural. It depends on habit and convention.
Appearances that travel is called reality.
The camera is the mechanical eye that constantly moves and shows us what is not visible to the human at the time.
The paintings come to us as their uniqueness can only be seen in one place.
The paintings at art galleries are supported by well-researched texts to evidence that the paintings are original.
The camera has made the art reproducible thus its value is going down.
When the meaning of an artwork can be manipulated:
when it becomes transmittable.
when something is kept beside it.
People's opinions/perspectives of the artwork differ.
NUDE is being oneself or being open. NAKED is when others see you NUDE.
To be naked is without cover. To be on display means one's skin is the only cover that cannot be removed.
Some parts like the hair on women's bodies are not painted as men think of it as a sexual monopoly to have body hair. This way the MALE SPECTATOR is made to feel dominant.
The female viewers had no similar sexual arousal after seeing the nude paintings as they think that the paints were exaggerated.
"Women were being humiliated." one said.
Day 1 - 1 February 2021
WARM-UP
Reflection-1
We had an intense discussion. From what I drew from the group discussion is that EVERYONE is an artist, a programmer creating a website, a chef who cooks, or a painter who paints on the canvas. There are numerous nouns from which an artist can draw his/her inspiration. Daily life routines can inspire an artist. For creating an artwork, the artist requires a material that may or may not be available to him. Mood and skills play a major role in the outcome of the art. Art is created to express oneself.
TEAM WORKING
INFORMATION
Google Sheets - Link
Miro - Link
Google Slides - Link
Pinterest board - Link
MAIN INQUIRY
PINTEREST BOARD (VISUALS)
DELIVERABLES PHASE - 1
Friday Activity
VISUAL ORGANISER
ESSAY
Pre-work questions
PHASE - 2
Beginning
I chose this piece because it looked simple yet communicative.
Recreating the Artwork
Annotations
Interpret
About the abstract:
I tried to show the nature of water.
In the second one, I tried to represent the smooth movement of the lines with a single stroke.
The third one, I had no brush with me so made it using the next color from the original one according to the color wheel.
Using only triangles and laying emphasis on the grass.
Step 5: Thematic Communication
Georgia O’Keeffe was a realist but when she understood abstraction, she moved onto modernism. In modernism, she combined the art of realistic landscape and abstraction. O’Keeffe painted Lake George in 1922. She wanted to escape reality. The hustle of daily life and all the people rushing for work. She used shades of blue to show concentration, relaxation, and calmness. The water in the lake is painted so still, that it shows there is no movement, no wind in the surroundings. This stillness is the complete opposite of the busy life in the city. The white color of the fog depicts the purity of the environment, i.e. the air is not polluted. Whereas, there is smoke on the city road from the motor cars that makes it difficult to breathe. Through symmetry, she wants to show the stability she aspires in her life.
Step 6: Conclude
Visual language is a language that does not require education to understand. What a person feels when s/he sees an artwork is a language in which that visual piece is speaking. Lake George is an oil painting on canvas. The main element of this painting is its colors. O’Keeffe has used the blue color that calms down our eyes the moment one views it. This relaxes our minds and tells us to look at the painting with soft eyes.
Then comes the symmetry, it stabilizes the mind and gives a sense of balance to the viewer. After the user has connected with the vibe of the painting, s/he starts noticing the flawless mountains and still lake. The stillness of the river takes the viewer into the picture where s/he wants to go, leaving behind the hustle and bustle of the city. The painting had done its job by taking the viewer to the painter's point of view. The colors force the viewer to concentrate on the artwork. This way, without any text the viewer understood what the painting wanted to tell him/her. It wants him/her to concentrate, relax and come out the noisy life.
Visual and Material Culture
A. The artwork of a place and of a time represents its ideology. In 1920s Europe, the creative expressions depicted the evolution from realistic art to modern abstract to surrealist art. The European people made their dresses according to the dance they did. Thus, a style of dressing depicted the time when a form of music or dance was popular. Women who went to nightclubs had special outfits which identified them as alcoholics.
B. Yes! There was a direct influence of the world war that ended in the late 1910s. New art movements began which led to the discovery of new art forms like modern art. The jazz Age started in New Orleans, spread around the globe after World War 1 ended. Jazz music and dance became very popular and also started to influence the fashion sense of European people. New buildings were constructed after the destruction caused by the War. These buildings were based on the ongoing movements of the time, like Art Deco.
PHASE - 3
GROUP DISCUSSION 1
GROUP DISCUSSION 2
GROUP DISCUSSION 3
FINAL PRESENTATION
PROCESS
We didn't sleep the night before our final presentation. Each one of us was on call.
Vishal and I were editing while Yukya, Navya, and Rohan were working on the voice-over.
We had not one not two but many disagreements during that night. It was almost 4-5 a.m. when we had an argument about changing the whole script of the video. We had to split up into two groups to think and understand each other's points of view.
Here Vishal and I created music that woke us up. It was beautiful. We had added it with the INDIAN PAINTINGS.
FINAL VIDEO
RESPONSIVE WITING
Art and Design: An ongoing debate.
For me, it was in 11th standard when I thought I wanted to be an “artist,” when really, I discovered that my skill set was better suited to the design. Why? Because I enjoyed the process of solving problems. I wasn’t that much interested in presenting unanswerable questions for the world to gaze & ponder.
What I Understood from reading all the given articles is that – the main difference between art and design – is that art asks questions, while design answers them. Design is there to fill a need. Art fills no need except its own internal need to exist and challenge the viewer.
Based on my interpretation I have provided a few of my viewpoints differentiating between Art & Design
Art inspires wonder and awe. When you look at a painting, sculpture, collage, your mind starts to churn amazing new ideas, and you get inspired to ponder upon all the endless possibilities that have now been introduced to you by the artist and his/her work. Now that's the magic of art.
Designers have no time for that. If people are in awe of your design, that’s cool, but it’s not the main reason you created it. You design to make people’s lives better in ways they don’t necessarily see or appreciate, but without which they would be lost.
Art has no process that can be replicated across the board to achieve an optimal result. There are, however, rules in design. Even if the result is “ugly,” there’s an underlying structure there that solves a problem. There are the physical rules of design: the grid, the color wheel, the rules of composition, and layout.
Imagine if you brought home a chair that was in an art exhibition, and you sat on it. It now has lost its value as art and is just another chair. Art is much more dependent on the context in which it exists than design is
In the end, I would say that art and design are both vital to human culture and progress. I love and enjoy them both, but at heart, I am a designer….
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