This poster was designed to show 10 different "Modern and Post Modern" art styles. Abstract, Color Field, Impressionism, De Stijl , Post Impressionism, Ashcan Art, Fauvism, Graffiti, Surrealism, and Pop Art. I created a simple, yet straight forward. I decided to make a simple, light grey to dark grey radial gradient for the background. I then made made a grid of masks revealing various images of each art style, along with it's characteristics. Finally, a set sideline title to make up for the negative space.

Modern & Post Modern Art Styles

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 2
• At 4/10/2015
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This Presentation demonstrates the origins to the art style of "Graffiti". This presentation hold basic information about three different graffiti artists. Click here to view the presentation.

Modern/Post Modern Art - Graffiti

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 2
• At 2/26/2015
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Resource sites:

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

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/b/bosch/index.html

http://www.hieronymus-bosch.org/

http://www.biography.com/people/hieronymus-bosch-9220497

Hieronymus Bosch (Surrealist Artist)

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 1
• At 1/22/2014
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                                       Green Bar

Artist:                Susan Rothenberg (American, Born 1945)

Date:                 2008                                                      

Medium:           Oil on canvas                                      

Dimensions:     88 x 66" (223.5 x 167.6 cm)              

  My first impression about this painting was very surprising. I wasn't actually trying to feel the emotions that went through this painting, but I was surprised of how simple and strong this painting was. It shows 2 pairs of handicapped legs and a arm. The first pair of legs set in the middle of this piece shows tire marks at the top as if it had been run over by a car. You can also see two hands at the top-right corner trying to assemble these parts back together. I also noticed that there are a lot of negative space throughout this painting. This could represent that there aren't many people who are disabled, considering there are only two pairs of legs.

                           Bitches Brew     

                         

Artist:                Jutta Koether (German, Born 1958)

Date:                 2010                                           

Medium:            Synthetic polymer paint on canvas, applied materials, and liquid glass

Dimensions:       36 x 44" (91.4 x 111.8 cm)      

   

   This painting also had a great impression but took me a few seconds to understand it. This painting shows a cup, or pot-like object holding a series of make-up products and girl necessities. This painting exaggerates a cluttered, messy feel of make-up, and other beauty products. I saw this as woman's face made up of useless make-up. Despite the painting's name, this piece delivers a great message.

                         Presentation

Artist:                Dana Schutz (American, born 1976)

          

Date:                 2005                                           

Medium:            Oil on canvas                           

Dimensions:       10 x 14' (304.8 x 426.7 cm) 

  The scene of this painting that expresses is a badly injured man being watched by a series of people. What first came to mind was how in medieval times, a criminal would be publicly executed for a crime. The injured man in this painting seems embarrassed having his weak body shown in front of many people. I felt as sorry for this man, but I also curious of why these people would decide to see this man in pain.

Narrative Art (MOMA)

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 1
• At 12/13/2013
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      This contraption is called the "Phenakistoscope". It was made by physicist "Joseph Plateau". Joseph and his sons showed this invention in 1832. This creates an illusion of motion by using a "persistence of motion principle". This principle was already known by a Greek mathematician named Euclid and Isaac Newton. This principle was only truly known when Joseph Plateau introduced this invention.
        The phenakistoscope works by having two discs placed on one axis. One disc has slots around the edge, and the other has a series of drawings placed in a circular formation. These two discs both spin in the same direction.

Optical Devices - Phenakistoscope

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 1
• At 11/20/2013
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           The final drawing I made was set in a dark arena. The background is made with cage bars with chains wrapping around them. The chains help the viewer lead its eyes to the main part of the drawing; this also creates great focal points leading to the main chess piece. The foreground of the drawing shows a “Bishop” chess piece being annihilated by the main piece, the knight. I emphasized the feeling of defeat by having the bishop shattered into pieces; this creates movement and rhythm by repeating the broken pieces. The broken pieces also form a line at a 45-degree angle leading up to the knight; This also creates another focal point leading to the knight.  The knight is also angled at a 45-degree angle and is placed above the bishop to show power over its opponent. I drew the knight with the most value to force the viewer's eyes to the main piece.
             To show realism in this drawing, I tried preventing myself from making too many outlines. As I look at a real knight chess piece, the values shown in the real chess piece shows value with only shadows. The proportion of the chess piece is the key to creating a highly realistic drawing. For example, the base height the chess piece is about the same height as the horse head. The width of the base is same size as the length of the body. The piece also has an exact amount of five horse hair strands running down the back of the chess piece. 
             Value also shows a key aspect in realism too. The left side of the chess piece is much brighter than the right side because the light is coming from the top left corner of the drawing. The main chess piece is centred  to the right side of the drawing while the demolished bishop is centred at the bottom of the drawing. A scoreboard is placed in the middle of the drawing, but chains holding the scoreboard lead the viewers eyes down to the main piece. I drew value 

            The vertical steel bars in the background are repeated to form a square arena to show pattern. By making many steel bars like this, it represents a feeling the arena will be repeatedly used for battles like this one. I noticed there was a large area of negative space near the middle of the drawing; I then drew a scoreboard to cover the negative space. There is also many other negative areas throughout the drawing, for this reason, I drew small shattered pieces leftover from the demolished bishop scattered around the chessboard.

Chess Piece Composition (Knight)

• Artwork Visual Arts Year 1
• At 10/24/2013
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                                                                                                    Original Image

    Group Drawing

The "Year 1" CyberARTS class created a group drawing using "charcoal". We made a famous piece by "Daumier" called "The Third Class Carriage".

Daumier - The Third Class Carriage (Group Project)

• Assignments Visual Arts Year 1
• At 10/04/2013
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