Library Seminar 3D

        Digital files can in fact create a 3-dimensional solid object. By panoramic digital photography, online software's are able to create a 3-demensional model of the the object it exams. This postmodernistic form of art is now pushing artists imaginations to unprecedented limits. Preceding this from of 3D design, clay molds were often used to represent historical monuments. The precision that comes along with this new technology creates near exact replicas of the object it scans. In the lecture held at Loyola University's Library, the example displayed was a short video from former President Barack Obama. They used the latest in the most cutting edge scanning technology to then 3 dimensionally sculpt Obama. This not only creates a precise clone and history of an object of sentimental value but can be used medically as well. Despite artistic use this form of scanning can now produce tissue with blood cells, low-cost prosthetic parts, bones, and even heart valves. Many uses are available for this technology but the influence it has on art is still so young it is for now left up to the artists to etch into a new unique form of expression.

The Art of Data Visuailzation

               Data is a result of research alluding to a clue of the end truth, it connects deeply with culture. How does data inform the truth? Humans evolved to see the truth as a pattern in order to survive. Behavioral changes are forever altering via the way data is presented in front of our eyes. Seeing not to confirm but to learn, every pixel is connected to form a specific data gathered realty. perhaps avoid over simplification but also over ornamentation creates the beauty found within data visualization. The majority of time spent is usually getting design out of the way. Style and aesthetics cannot rescue failed content. It is the byproduct of truth of the work that makes visualizing data precisely the history and foundation of science. Data is measurements of human systems.

Postmodernism

"We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning"

     My collage centers a photoshopped picture of Einstein. He is wearing the the latest in trending technology; the snapchat glasses. Above him there is a photo of Adam and Eve picking an apple from a tree. This is no ordinary apple though, it is the the brand logo from the most influential technically advanced company today, Apple Inc. I pasted this photo on four pieces of different colored construction paper that is supposed to be a computer monitor. The upper right hand side of the collage features a burning tree. The lower right hand side shows a question mark, and the top and bottom left hand side hold natures most empowering size to scale, mountains. Last but not lease there is a thought bubble pasted on Albert Einstein with a few of the mathematical equations he used that lead him to his Theory of Relativity. 

         Connotatively: Einstein, Adam and Eve, and Steve Jobs all play into the theme of the impairment technology has upon its victims. Knowledge is "a familiarity, awareness, or understanding of someone or something, such as facts, information, descriptions, or skills, which is acquired through experience or education"(Wiki Definition). My visual analysis is Adam and Eve plucking the seed of 'knowledge' in the form of Apple computers brand logo of a bitten apple. This represents the rush of information obtained within the reach of our fingertips via an IPhone. Knowledge is unnecessary to obtain when individuals now have a device that enables them to access what humans would formally call a 'memory'. Thinking with only the frontal lobe of the brain hinders ones sense of surroundings and simple understanding of why they do what they do. The question mark on the collage alludes to a never ending conclusion and the burning tree is almost a sarcastic impression. With so much knowledge we find no meaning with whats important in life, the health of our plant. The tree on fire represents the ignorance and greed that comes along with this information. We have tangible evidence and scientific facts that concluded our planet is damaging itself at a rate that is irreversible but until humans have to change is when they will do so. I believe this motto of thinking is best perceived through Einstein at the center. His pure innate knowledge contrasted by technological advances that narrow the chances of true pioneers our century will ever see. In the simplest form, all of this accesible information has lost the innocence that knowledge once loved.



      
   

       

Postmodernism

Postmodernism 


          First came the age of Realism, the era that attempted to make art and literature resemble the real characteristics of life. Preceding realism came modernism in the early 19th-20th century. Modernism was a philosophical art movement that was bent in all directions due to the new and upcoming westernized culture. Finally Postmodernism rose. Where "postmodern cultural forms reflect the dislocation and fragmentation of communities-splintered into small groups"(Postmodernism). Each group had its own private language, style, culture, isolating from the normalities humans previously scene. I interpret it as a clique, for example Off-White and Anti-Social  Social-Club (clothing brands) develop there own interpretation of art and bring it forth into a lifestyle around clothing. Depending on the city, habits, or persona of an individual, it boils down to who they are wearing which develops a shape of that individual. Postmodern artist are weird, according to the norm. These modern day artist are meant to be weird and different. Style and art cannot be created from nothing. It is those who "plunge into the unknown and represent it" that are the pioneers in the colorful world that encompasses us today. Unfortunately it can get extravagant and unnecessary from many outside influences. Practicality is commonly lost in the westernized world where the average human lives as though a king would several centuries ago. It is finding and innovating something never scene before and having the motives to bring it fourth to life that surround the theme of postmodernism.

Colors

Are the colors we see tricks of the imagination? 
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         Humans see seven colors of the rainbow, with an infinite number of shades. At age 23, Issac Newton began pondering the question of where colors come from, an internal light inside of the head? or if they exist in the external world?. To test this observation, Newton poked a pin in his eye. This lead to no conclusion but without question his next observation involving a prism is world famous. He called it a colored image of the sun. At the time people believed white light was a holy pure candid color given by god. The prism essential generated the colors form the white light-adding impurities to the light. He further tested his observation with a second prism and found nothing happened. The first prism divided light having white light constituted of all colors, putting us on the road to discovery that colors are wavelengths of energy.


       Whether color is a physical thing in the physical world or simply created in our mind, I believe these are questions only the gods know. Scientists believe colors are an objective reality, but humans perception of colors are truly tricks of the imagination because there are no perfectly objective view of colors. Furthermore, the color black humans observe when the sun goes down has been recently claimed to be an actual substance that we simply cannot see. Dark Matter is a force that repels gravity known as Dark Energy. A thought to ponder when the discussion of color arises.

Whitescape

Whitescape

                                                    

   The image scene on the left has a more orange-red tone, the image on the right has more of a blue-gray tone. In the photo in the left the inconvenient adaptable apple product looks more white contrast to the note card in the right photo which has a whiter tone. 

 

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BMA

André Masson- There is No Finished World

              What separates man from beast? I kept asking myself this when viewing this painting. Although the tone is somewhat generally negative, it doesn't fail to include the perception of good just as much as bad. It almost speaks as if the battle between the morality of good and bad are in a continuous fight. There are cry's of doom with many characteristics that emphasize the devil according to the bible. I am not for one to take this as a coincidence, the symbols are too evident. While all of the melancholic shapes take form, when closely observed you can see either souls or certain life forms trying to break away from an inseparable pest. A pest that thrives off the odd nature of a human at rest. The painting is rather a simple yet intricate piece all in one. Three beast like figures swaying within what looks like a chamber. The center of the painting a small shaped object. If looked at closely and then from a far it could possibly be concluded that this center object is the chamber in which they are all trapped and suffocating. The majority of hybrid mythological creatures were intended to be bad, causing harm to others which is why I think Masson chose to mix man with beast. This was painted just after many gruesome wars which is dully why man is depicted as lost creatures sitting and waiting to find there potential souls again.

Henri Matisse- Festival of Flowers

            Granted I am fifty percent french, I assume that's why I am so attracted to their art. This is an oil painting depicting the change in seasons. The focal point are two women but more importantly the flowers and choice of colors from left to right as a whole set the tone. The change in seasons from winter to spring is usually thought of as winter-white to spring-yellow. That is exactly was is happening here. The white shades and blackish white ground from left to right slowly brighten, turning to multi-color flowers and even a desert with a pale blue sky. The parade is also marching in celebration of the change is season. The flowers grab the eyes as if there are telling an enlightening story, one to look forward to and take the path down. The overall approach of the painting is a positive one. As in poetry winter is associated with death and spring with a new begging.

Jackson Pollock- Water Birds

          Jackson Pollock creates art that speaks the unspeakable. I chose this as my third option because chaos has never looked so beautiful. On the bottom left hand side of the painting there is a bird and toward the bottom right you can observe one of its feet. The painting oddly gives me the feeling of a bird/duck who has dunked its head under the water searching for food. The bird may not know exactly what it is seeing but it can feel for other life around him. The bird seems to be undergoing the feeling a human has when gravity pulls water into the nose upside down, a brain-washy feeling. The colors are very light contrasted with black splatters that gives it a very natural feeling. There seems to be nothing automatic about this piece which is truly where art is created to me.Despite all what speaks to me I just simply enjoy observing most of Pollock's work and to see him in BMA was a dream.

John Berger

 Mr. Berger in 'ways of seeing' questions the assumptions many make about European art. Specifically how observing these paintings one is seeing them in the context of their own life. What is striking is the point he laminates about how originally the paintings were an integral part of the buildings that were being designed. For many European cathedrals the building fulfills the persona of the painting, giving the art more context and feel. Everything around the imagine is part of the art itself, from the gothic architecture to the size, space, and detail of the building.
Mr. Berger discusses many other things in 'ways of seeing' but chooses a large portion to narrow in on the differences the effects a camera can have. He discusses paintings such as landscape paintings. In landscape paintings details can be shown through costume details, social customs, and usually presents itself as a story. And he discuses a film sequence, where details have to be more specifically chosen, giving the painting a bigger feel. The last detail that moved me was his point on noise. When looking at a painting in silence you will imagine it in your own way. In his example on Von Gogh, he then tells the audience to look at Gogh's painting again but now with the fact in our minds that he has killed himself after paining it. Our brains then subconsciously add music in our minds to fit the emotion he felt. Something I had never picked up on.

Gwen Hardie
By: Maverick Shaw

       Upon arriving to Gwen Hardie's art showing, I had never seen her work or heard of anything quite like it. I've always been a huge astronomy fan and the first thing I noticed was a galaxy-like theme. Spherical oil canvas's across the room from darker ones to brighter ones. They were the most extraordinary pieces I had ever seen and it was only until moments of taking it in that I began to see and imagine things that the pieces made me the think of. Beginning with her choice in color. While observing the brighter one to the right she was speaking about, it hit me, how I couldn't distinguish between day and night on the canvas. When I made that distinction I thought to my self how there really is no day and night. A quite obvious distinction but her work disconnected me for a brief second from such a pythagorean right and left world. Instead for a brief second it made me feel much more interconnected within one another and our race as a whole. Whether it was the theme of start dust or it just coincidentally popped into my head, she displayed a feeling to me that we truly were all created from the exact same substance and our meaning lays somewhere between God and being star dust.

Visibility

            Dante 


"The soul imprisoned in the corruptible body"

This speaks in many ways toward the gift of free-will. Every decision we make is faced with a choice. Is it not true that this so called "choice" has a small voice in our heads telling us whether or not it will truly be making the best version out of or selves? Although choices can be much more difficult to make than others, somewhere along the lines our heart can guide it with the help of faith. Dante felt great pain from his beloved beatrice when she passed away and from then on out felt his feet were stuck in cement; or so much is soul imprisoned in a body only capable of corruption.

           Art is much like making a choice, we have no knowledge as to why our paint brush is directing that way but our heart subconsciously guides it. The thought process is incomprehensible; what makes human an individual but simultaneously connected.

      In parallel, when reading a book our mind creates these inconceivable images of the humans we are reading about. If a digital film arises before the the reader is able to read the book, the characters will already have a set face and descriptive form about them. Our mental cinema is the catalyst of the things we dream, paint, and express. Without it we would be no different than a simple computing machine.

   

The Whole Ball of Wax

The Whole Ball of Wax

         Humans are a species in which seeing is believing and evidence is truth. Although, what many humans often condone is how God works through people instead of supplying the tangible evidence many demand. Art to me is best understood in that way; the tangible evidence is within reach of everyone’s fingertips. From the second the first human learned to carve images into rocks to watching my mother write out her weekly grocery list. Art can be found within every crevice of this earth. In Jerry Saltz's article, The Whole Ball of Wax he begins to unravel the hidden feeling captured behind why our conciseness laments one thing art and another not.

          One example that struck me in Saltz's article was the comparison made between two pets, a cat and a dog. When the owner tells the dog to come, the dog joyfully trots over to express his love. When the same remark is made to the cat, the cat shows his admiration in a drastically different manor, as one would imagine with less affection. Although the communication is the same the responses between the two pets makes it seem as if "the cat has placed a third object between you and itself". Much how with art, the third object has to be peeled, pulled, and picked away at in order for a better understanding. Art may not be able to change the world in a day, but through thousands and thousands of year’s art has been the only influence in recording the way of life in any specific time era.

      Jackson Pollock personally shifted my whole entire view on art. He found a non-automatic way with the canvas and had he knew what he was painting he wouldn't have ever made a single mark.