Thank you WARP Professors!

Thank you to all the WARP professors, I learned so much from all of you! Thank you  for your patience, advice, and time. I hope to have you all as teachers again ! You are all truly amazing, have a great winter break! I'll see you all in the Spring ! 

Small works - Pattern and Ornament

These are the completed small works

Small works process

These were the beginning steps of my small works, my circle and square I decided to start of drawing my symbols and reducing and transforming them to make them look more visually appealing.

After I did this I then outlined it in black and scanned it. I then had to cut the image in half and printed the two halves on transfer paper since printer paper is only 8.5x11 I scaled up both halves so they could stay the 10 inches they were required to be. I then ironed it on to the fabric and framed them.



For the triangle I decided to take  different approach since I love working with clay thats what I did. One of my symbols was a cow skull with roses so I blew it up and made it in the triangle. I started off in clay then made a mold and then casted it in plaster. I was really scared it wouldn't work because my original piece had a lot of high points and some undercuts.

Step 1 of in depth project taking pictures

These are a few of the pictures I took one is my dogs fur one is my cats fur, and the one on top is a fence that I cut out and put on top of the other images. This is when I cut it up and rearranged it into a tile that I could repeat to make my wallpaper.                        

sorry I forgot to post this earlier.. and sorry my steps on the blog are a little out of order.

Step 3 and 4- Silhouette of the In-depth project

These are the shapes I saw in my wallpaper that I found most interesting I then tried to figure out how to make them look good together. 

This is what I wanted my final cardboard piece to look like.

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.

WARP First Post

Labels Help You Organize

All blog posts must be labeled with two keywords, which blogger calls Labels. When faculty visits your blog for evaluation purposes, we will use the labels to quickly find your work. If you do not use the keywords properly, we will not be able to find your work. Proper set-up and maintenance of your blog falls under the Research and Participation part of your grade which counts for 30% of the overall semester grade. 

Topical Keywords

The first set of keywords correspond to the module we are working in. We will refer to these as topical keywords since they correspond to the topic we are exploring over the two-week periods. Your first group of posts will be labeled under Topic: Creative Impulse since this is the first topic (Topic #1). Here are the topical keywords you will use through out the semester:

Topic: Creative Impulse

Topic: Pattern and Ornament

Topic: Rhinoceros

Topic: Narrative

Topic: Landscape

Topic: Zine

Categorical Keywords

The second set of keywords will organize your posts according to kind. Here are the Keywords you will use for Labels:

Exercises - tag for posts documenting all assigned exercises. The first one will be the paper folding exercise from the first class. 

Readings - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to the assigned readings. The first ones will be for "The White Bird" and the Jerry Saltz article from Vulture.com. 

Small Works - tag for posts documenting all assigned small works. The first blog post labeled Small Works will contain images and accompanying descriptions of the three small works you complete for the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1). 

In-Depth Projects - tag for posts documenting all assigned In-Depth projects. The first blog post labeled In-Depth Projects will contain images (or video if appropriate) and accompanying descriptions of the more robust work you produce in response to the Creative Impulse Module (Topic #1).

Outside Visits - tag for posts containing your two paragraph responses to all required visits outside of the classroom. These include visits we do together as a class [during class time] or individually outside of class time. 

Please be sure to use both a topical and categorical keyword when labeling your posts.