Cardboard sculpture - final step

My cardboard sculpture didn't come out exactly how i wanted it to, but i am going to keep working on it. Also transportation was very hard to take this 3 foot sculpture on bus and train without it breaking.. next time I may have to uber it over LOL.

Art and Design in the Modern Age exhibit

The Art and Design in the Modern Age exhibit  was very interesting to me. All the art told a story, it showed how people were living at that time and how we still have the things they made just more mass produced and evolved. The pieces in the exhibit varied so much which make every piece more interesting to look at, they had posters, paintings, sculpture, architectural pieces, like chairs and lamps ad so much more!
All the art there shows how the artists responded to the social and technological changes from the Industrial Revolution, without all their ideas we would not have a lot of what we have today. All the works revealed how people living in this period viewed the world and how they saw their place in it. What I really enjoyed about this exhibit is it wasn't just paintings or what people normally would call "art" it has innovations and things people needed back then to make their life more livable and simpler.

Wallpaper - Step 2

Small works - Quilt

Meta Assignment: Prompt #1

1) AR and TR are most important to me because I feel like we need to see others art and do research on what we're doing so we do not mess it all up. I then think from the research we get to Ex, we need to experiment different ways of doing things or we will never learn. Within Ex, I also believe G and FR are very similar because you need to set goals in order to make something you'll be proud of, and I believe you have to be Focused when you are trying to deliver your goals. Under E though you need to use D because you should always be documentation of your work process. After you get your goals across you should show it to an audience PR, and get their opinions and thoughts and critiques of your work and finally after that you should R, reflect on what everyone told you and use it to improve on your next piece.


2) The areas I am most engaged in are by topical and artist research, exploring others art always inspires me. I also love to experiment with different techniques I love to learn new and old ways of art. The aspect I'm least engaged in is the documentation, I always forget to document every step as I'm doing something. This affects my creative process because I have a hard time recreating things or techniques because I didn't properly document every step of the way.

CAM Raleigh: Ornament and Pattern -- Reading

      This article shows the importance of pattern, design, and ornament, how they are essential to our lives. The author talks about how Ornament and pattern are  like form-based languages — the visual articulation of ideas. I agree with this  when we see patterns and designs we make up our own meanings, they show us something new. The Latin root of the ornament- orno - means to equip, to adorn, and by extension, to honor.
      Back in the day ornaments had great sentimental meanings or would be used in culture or religion. The article talks about the different types of ornament there are and how they change over time. But they never disappear, ornament and pattern is everywhere we look, its what we are accustomed to. This article also gives a better understanding about what we have been learning in class. After reading this you really realize how important pattern and ornament are important to us.

50 shapes developed as a personal language

Ivins, William M. ""Ornament" and the Sources of Design in the Decorative Arts." Reading

Ivins starts by talking about the craftsmanship of things and what schools are teaching.  I like how he continues to go back to compare the craft to music. How people don't necessarily write the music but they can play it, just like in art. We are taught a certain technique and suppose to mimic it. There is nothing we make that hasn't been made before. Ornament's however, are made from men who have the greatest popular fame as engravers and etchers of pictorial prints, their ornaments are  "original" or variations or just mostly copies. Most ornaments are made by man, learned in the different crafts they were working in, their designs however were more for the purpose of letting it be engraved by other hands.
 But the earliest  most influential ornament, was designed by painters because the decoration on the flat surface was copied by engravers and draftsmen and it spread broadcast through the community. But that changed and then from time to time new decorative elements would appear an they were utilized and adapted  by the designers . This has lasted till present day, the great succeeding styles in any class of "work of art" being most instances either initiated or disseminated by the specialized designers. The several great styles of the English eighteenth century are not even known after the actual makers, but by the names on the pattern books.
 My favorite section of this reading is when they said "The museums here for a generation have been aware that the whole of art is not to be found in sculpture and painting, and most  important and valuable collections of furniture, woodwork, pottery, plate, and textiles have been formed at many places, notably at the Metropolitan Museum, the collections of which have been made extraordinarily rich through the generosity of the late J. Pierpont Morgan and his son. These collections are having a most gratifying effect upon the prevailing standards of craftsmanship in this country," I like how this has an effect on people because there is such a craft and skill to make furniture, woodwork, pottery, plate, and textiles.
 I agree with the author when he says ", it would seem as though the development of design in this country must of necessity fall behind the development of craftsmanship until such time as those collections are supplemented in our public institutions by collections of the drawings, prints, and book decorations made by the great masters of ornament, and the public is taught their use and value" I think it is very important for everyone to learn about the masters who have just been forgotten but techniques and crafts and designs are still used.

In Depth Project

The udder bra, supposed to represent how humans take cows milk and turn it into a business. They impregnate cows, because that is the only way they produce milk, and then they take the milk away from the baby and give it to people. That is why I have a baby cow trying to reach the milk from a bottle but he can't reach it. 

In Depth Project Process

Process of making the In depth project,  first making plaster and filling up a bottle of milk only a quarter of the way and making udder/nipples in a glove using the fingers as the udders! To later put on the udder bra!

The start of the udder bra, I first covered it in fabric that has cow print, then got the plaster nipples I  made from the glove and put them on the bra. This is suppose to symbolize how people use cow milk as if it was their own. Not realizing that there is a baby cow not getting any milk because you are drinking it. That is why I have the Milk bottle half empty, and will have a baby cow hanging off the side of bottle not being able to reach his own milk.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Plaster/glove finger nipples !

Small Works - With the required items

We were given 5 materials at random from a table by pulling names out of a hat. My materials were tissue paper, string, glue stick, Elmer glue, and a water jug. We were suppose to make another variation of the variations we just did. Since my other pieces focused on the cow legs and udders, I decided to go more into the udders. So I got the tissue paper and string and wrapped it around and formed out some udders. The paper is a very bright pink, which makes me think of inflamed udders, also the string around it I feel gives it some anxiety to look at, also reminds me of the fishnets from the other small works. 

This was the beginning of the water jug, first I cut it in half with a chainsaw (horrible idea, couldn't find jigsaw) then used the handle and top mouth part as the nipples, and put them on the top half of the jug. I then got the bottom of the jug and put it on top and made it into a lamp shade, again focusing on how cows are treated as products, especially their udders. It used tons of glue, tissue paper, string, and energy! 

The start of the  making of the lamp shade on the left, trying to work with the tissue paper to make it look more like a lamp shade. (Also featuring my cat Ringo.)

All Small Works together for critique on Tuesday.

Small Works - First 3 variations

 For the Small Works, we were suppose to find some folk art at our house. I picked this ceramic cow I have, one of many others.

 Three Variations of the original piece :

 I originally had the idea to make a cow leg/udder lamp. Since what caught my attention first about my original piece was the udders and legs because they were in fishnets. Which got me thinking how cows are exploited and treated like products, hence the cow leg lamp.  In the picture I started to form the leg lamp in clay. I later molded it and tried casting it in plaster. But didn't work out to great. The feet of the lamp got stuck in the bottom of the mold and was impossible to get out, so when I casted it in plaster it was missing its feet, unfortunately. I then made a bigger lamp again out of clay but pottery clay, and didn't make a mold of it, but since I could not fire it, it got to dry and broke a lot.

I also wanted to paint a few pictures of my piece, to show more detail and show the exploitation so I drew it out first, before I started to paint it. 

The beginning of a clay cow figure, I wanted to have the cow standing on four legs instead of the two, like in the original art. To make it look more like an animal but I also then added a dress and a hat to humanize it. 

All Original Small Works together: 

Edited: 9/7/16

ICA Response

      Susan Te Kahurangi King's artwork is very inspirational to me. After reading her story and looking through her exhibit  and learning that she is severely autistic, I was amazed. Her art makes you want to just stop and stare, and get lost in her piece to figure out what could have been going through her head while she was making these. I like how in her art, she uses such vibrant colors. Color always attracts me and she knows how to use them very well.

      Ida Applebroog's art really speaks to me, I love how she makes art on how she feels about the role mass media plays in desensitizing the public to inequity. I also make art like this but instead of gender, sexual identity, or politics, I do animal rights. In her art and my art we both try to get people to see the ugly truth that the media and big corporations try to hide.





Edited 9/7/16