My final project "The end"

After thinking long and hard on a final project, It finally came to this. The bird symbolizes me, now grown as I am about to fly from the nest for the first time (the nest symbolizes the end of Art class) I picked the dark blue background because I wanted a color to stand out, and I thought the blue was a great choice. Its a bittersweet feeling as I will definitely miss the class, but now I have a hobby to fall back on. :) 

Extra-credit: Bodyless Art

This week Extra credit assignment was to paint a portrait that evokes the idea of body. It is “bodyless” because I can not show a human shape in it. So I've decided to paint a picture of a basketball court. I got my idea from watching my boyfriend play, and I noticed all the circles and half circles. Also the day was so perfect because the weather was warm and the fall colors on the trees were pretty. In my picture I've incorporated a basketball being thrown in the air about to land in the basket and a pair of sneakers jumping but of course NO body :)

The Werewolf gene. (Movie Poster)

In the spirit of Halloween, My movie is about a werewolf killing people in a small town of Washington. The werewolf only transforms on the full moon. Jack Michaels is a high school student who while walking in the woods one day getting home from school gets attack by a monstrous werewolf and now has the genes of turning into one himself. 

MOMA visit in the city

This week I took a trip to the MOMA museum to see Willem de Kooning's exhibit. It was my very first time in the museum and the first thing I sorta observed was the difference between MOMA ps1 in long island city and the MOMA in the city. As I walked to his section of the exhibit, the first thing that popped out at me were the bright colors of some of his work. The color he put together worked so well with each other, something that's difficult for me to do. But I loved the different color schemes he used. My cons about his work are in fact that I don't understand some of his pieces, mostly the story he's portraying in his art. Except of course his still life. 

The double Portrait/Tree of my future.

This week's project is a diptych double portrait. We were assisted to compose two painting of our inner self portrayed one as a hero and the other as a loser (due next week). I was a bit confused on how to start the painting, I didn't have a theme and it was difficult for me to think of one. But after ALOT of re-reading the assignment paper, I came up with a metaphor in my painting. I call it the tree of my future, where I have a apple tree sprouting out of my head with the apples being my future goals. I consider this project my favorite one by far.

The Pointillist way.

This week's assignment I'll say was a bit difficult. Difficult in the sense of being so tedious. I had the choice of either writing about my self portrait or my pointillist painting I created (the difficult one). The self portrait took me 10-15 minutes tops, but the pointillist was the hardest. The steps I took on completing the painting was:
1. I took a picture of my boyfriend's living room. (I did my assignment there)
2. I researched online about everything that had to with that particular style.
3. Drew the living room and got started.  
My problem was painting dot after dot which took FOREVER with my medium paint brush. But after everything was done, I loved the way it came out. My first pointillist which I'm proud of, my next one will be much better though. Enjoy!

Fitting Room art.

            Yesterday in painting class we were given an assignment. My paint professor gave the class individual pictures drawn by other art students in a different class on their view of New York. We were told to either finish the artwork or paint our interpretation including the "New York" theme. My assigned portrait (viewed at the bottom) looked like a fitting room which included clothes & hangers & the fact that it stated it was a fitting room :) I found mine to be extremely easy (thank God) because New York is known for the fabulous stores. So I painted a fitting room in a Christian Dior store. It's not an actually Dior fitting room, of course but  a girl can dream. I also put into my painting a modern looking dress with the same color red strips, and I based my painting of the store under construction due to the Sept 11 tragedy. With the cracked walls, the "Dior NY" sign on the floor and ceiling water stains. 

(My lovely portrait)

Visit to the Guggenheim.

It is said that a picture is worth a thousands words or live life for the moment. These sayings take meaning when visiting Lee Ufan’s exhibit. It is very simple but gave impact on the display of art and at the same time making the viewers interact with it. In a way it makes you live the moment of art work.

 Lee Ufan’s work is not the type to drown your visual senses with elaborate colors or with hidden works. Its uses a monochrome style and instead of over powering one of senses, it grabs us a whole. It’s in this processes that viewer experiences, the real world experience.

In the exhibit every piece had its own way, though very simply, of conveying a sense of spirituality. Best example of that was the rock sitting on the shatter piece of glass. These are items that everyone interacts with daily. But it’s the way they are juxtaposed that gives it meaning. It makes you travel to the moment in life whether good or bad and relive it. The time you broke a window or your last car accident. It took the moment that you “lived life for the moment” and that significant meaning/spirituality that came with it, and made you relive it.

(My weird drawing of what I've seen)

(Rocks on top of pillows)

Some of the artist I've seen in class.

John Pilson:

http://www.johnpilson.com/

http://photo.bard.edu/faculty/profiles.shtml?id=3418153

http://5b4.blogspot.com/2007/08/interregna-by-john-pilson.html

 Lara Favaretto:   

http://www.franconoero.com/artisti/lara-favaretto

http://www.friezefoundation.org/commissions/detail/lara_favaretto/

nine/eleven

Ten years later as America grows stronger over terrorism, we remember that horrible day where many lives were lost. As the ten years rolled, I've gotten the chance to visit two exhibits about 9/11. The first was at LaGuardia community college where I attend classes, and MoMa ps1 in Long island city. As I was trying to find comparison between the two, I truly couldn't. I found the MoMa exhibit to be a bit boring and had nothing to really do with what happened on that dreadful day and almost forgetting to mention that I couldn't take pictures. But I did find some work that caught my eye. The artist John Pilson with a photo titled "plane" in the picture the reflection of the plane as it would look like flying into a window. That blew my mind because I can't imagine myself being in that situation. Another by artist Lara Favaretto, titled "Lost and Found" where there was a real big suit case on the floor. As I read the description it explained where the

slogan "if you see something, say something" came from in 2002. 

The Exhibit in LaGuardia stood out to me more with the overwhelming descriptions and stories of each art piece. Artist Michael Richards had a studio in the WTC 92 floor, He passed away working over night doing  a piece on world war 2. In the picture it's a pilot with planes flying into him from every direction. Which from my point of view seemed ironic. 

Another were pictures of victims posted up by family members trying to located their loved ones at the site. That section of the exhibit truly put a lump in my throat. While some just gave me goose bumps. The artist Cris Cristofaro hung up empty body bags and on the description stated that "the bags on the wall mimicked the towers with the bags opened revealing bodies that never came.