Wednesday, May 14, 2008
The ORDOVER Gallery
The second museum that I attended was the Ordover gallery in the San Diego's Natural History Museum. I also absolutely loved this gallery of photographs. I loved the colors and the incredible capture of nature in every image.
The first image that I looked at was in the Gallery Beyond the Object: Two Artists-Two Pathways- A Shared Vision. The artist is Robert Walter and the photograph that caught my eye was "Shoreline" (A beach rock from Cambria, CA).
This photograph did not look like a photograph at all, it looked like it was a painting. The texture of this image popped out like one could really go over and feel a rough surface. The image looked like it had glitter shimmer sprinkled all over it, but it was really just the incredible reflection of the water. The colors were so bright yet did not take over and contrasted well with light greys of the rock. The dark black shadow crevices create lines that draw the viewers attention from one side of the image to the other, while still not over taking the fabulous colors. This artist had a few photograph similar to this one and I wouldn't mind having any of them hanging over my fire place :-)
The second exhibit I viewed I think was the National Geographic Nature exhibit. I love photographs of animals, so I absolutely loved this one. It was difficult to just choose two to write about.
The first one was one that many people in the class wrote about. When they were sharing what they thought about it, I was just like oh it's just another penguin photo. I've seen it a million times, but when I actually went to the gallery and saw it with my one eyes I loved it. It is the photograph by Ralph Lee Hopkins called "Penguin Parade." I'm not sure if it was just the freshness of the ice glowing back at you or the adorable little penguins marching in a row that captured my smile. I really felt like I could actually picture the coldness to the point where it actually gave me goosebumps!
The first image that I looked at was in the Gallery Beyond the Object: Two Artists-Two Pathways- A Shared Vision. The artist is Robert Walter and the photograph that caught my eye was "Shoreline" (A beach rock from Cambria, CA).
This photograph did not look like a photograph at all, it looked like it was a painting. The texture of this image popped out like one could really go over and feel a rough surface. The image looked like it had glitter shimmer sprinkled all over it, but it was really just the incredible reflection of the water. The colors were so bright yet did not take over and contrasted well with light greys of the rock. The dark black shadow crevices create lines that draw the viewers attention from one side of the image to the other, while still not over taking the fabulous colors. This artist had a few photograph similar to this one and I wouldn't mind having any of them hanging over my fire place :-)
The second exhibit I viewed I think was the National Geographic Nature exhibit. I love photographs of animals, so I absolutely loved this one. It was difficult to just choose two to write about.
The first one was one that many people in the class wrote about. When they were sharing what they thought about it, I was just like oh it's just another penguin photo. I've seen it a million times, but when I actually went to the gallery and saw it with my one eyes I loved it. It is the photograph by Ralph Lee Hopkins called "Penguin Parade." I'm not sure if it was just the freshness of the ice glowing back at you or the adorable little penguins marching in a row that captured my smile. I really felt like I could actually picture the coldness to the point where it actually gave me goosebumps!
MOPA
When I went to MOPA there were three different galleries. I had an interest in two of them and wrote a little bit on 3 different works of art.
The first exhibit I went into was the HUMANITAS- Images of India by Fredric Roberts. I loved this gallery! I really do have a fascination with images from India. Their culture is just so bright and mysterious it brings the colors out in the prints so vibrantly. Roberts states how is photographs, "tell a story of beauty and grace, work and family, spirtuality and devotion." Every image tells a spactacular story and I found two that really sparked my interest.
The first print is called,
"Dark Eyes"
The photograph was up close look into the eyes of an Indian woman. I loved how the image was blurry around the edges and a softly focused face in the middle. The expression on her face was amazing as she starred straight into the camera with a little smirk on her face. Her dark brown eyes and dark skin complement each other and compared to the bright color of the jewel on her forehead really make the contrasting colors come to life. To finish it off the cropping makes it really come together to make a fabulous photograph.
The second print is called,
"Woman in a Truck" 2003
This photograph really attracted me because of it's unusual point of view. It's not very often when you see a pretty woman through the side planks of an old truck. I love how you can see her vibrant eyes peaking through with the sharpness of this woman's nose ring. Also with the sharpness you see her age through every wrinkle on her face and hands. I love the cropping in this photograph as well. The horizontal lines of the truck complement the vertical line of her body. The hand in the very top right corner gives you an interesting feeling of holding on tight.
The next gallery that I enjoyed and thought was very different was the FLESH- Portraits by Gary Schneider. This gallery was very interesting because it wasn't just plain ol' photographs hung on a wall. The room was very dark and all the images had a dark background with a piece of the body in a monotone color. He had DNA samples, blood samples and x-rays all blown up at least by 5 times. The images that I choose to write on was the
"Genetic Self Portrait: Hands"
This was a gelatin silver print of a pair of hands enlarged at least by 5 times. This photograph was kind of hard to explain or even hard to tell what exactly it was at all. It's easy to see it's a hand, but its hard to see how it was done. It looks like he had is hand pressed up against a glass with some kind of liquid on it so that you could make out his individual prints. The actual prints are very sharp with the liquid around them being very blurry and out of focus. I love how the left and right hands are on separate canvases and how each hand is right in the middle of that canvas. I think I would actually hand these on my wall at my home or business.
The first exhibit I went into was the HUMANITAS- Images of India by Fredric Roberts. I loved this gallery! I really do have a fascination with images from India. Their culture is just so bright and mysterious it brings the colors out in the prints so vibrantly. Roberts states how is photographs, "tell a story of beauty and grace, work and family, spirtuality and devotion." Every image tells a spactacular story and I found two that really sparked my interest.
The first print is called,
"Dark Eyes"
The photograph was up close look into the eyes of an Indian woman. I loved how the image was blurry around the edges and a softly focused face in the middle. The expression on her face was amazing as she starred straight into the camera with a little smirk on her face. Her dark brown eyes and dark skin complement each other and compared to the bright color of the jewel on her forehead really make the contrasting colors come to life. To finish it off the cropping makes it really come together to make a fabulous photograph.
The second print is called,
"Woman in a Truck" 2003
This photograph really attracted me because of it's unusual point of view. It's not very often when you see a pretty woman through the side planks of an old truck. I love how you can see her vibrant eyes peaking through with the sharpness of this woman's nose ring. Also with the sharpness you see her age through every wrinkle on her face and hands. I love the cropping in this photograph as well. The horizontal lines of the truck complement the vertical line of her body. The hand in the very top right corner gives you an interesting feeling of holding on tight.
The next gallery that I enjoyed and thought was very different was the FLESH- Portraits by Gary Schneider. This gallery was very interesting because it wasn't just plain ol' photographs hung on a wall. The room was very dark and all the images had a dark background with a piece of the body in a monotone color. He had DNA samples, blood samples and x-rays all blown up at least by 5 times. The images that I choose to write on was the
"Genetic Self Portrait: Hands"
This was a gelatin silver print of a pair of hands enlarged at least by 5 times. This photograph was kind of hard to explain or even hard to tell what exactly it was at all. It's easy to see it's a hand, but its hard to see how it was done. It looks like he had is hand pressed up against a glass with some kind of liquid on it so that you could make out his individual prints. The actual prints are very sharp with the liquid around them being very blurry and out of focus. I love how the left and right hands are on separate canvases and how each hand is right in the middle of that canvas. I think I would actually hand these on my wall at my home or business.
Review: Guest Artist- Diane Willow
April 9th 2008
In class we had a guest artist come and talk to us about her different works. It was very nice to have an artist come to us instead of viewing a video and just letting them tell us what they think we would want to know. We got to ask her any question that we wanted so that nice and refreshing.
I really liked her art when she was working with science, it was very interesting to see how she made things move when people would enter her exhibits. I think it would be so neat to enter a room and have my presence make leaves on the ceiling move around. I liked her work over all.
In class we had a guest artist come and talk to us about her different works. It was very nice to have an artist come to us instead of viewing a video and just letting them tell us what they think we would want to know. We got to ask her any question that we wanted so that nice and refreshing.
I really liked her art when she was working with science, it was very interesting to see how she made things move when people would enter her exhibits. I think it would be so neat to enter a room and have my presence make leaves on the ceiling move around. I liked her work over all.
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
TODAYS WORK
Today I worked on a family photograph from a photo shoot I did earlier this weekend. This family has two very young boys so getting them to look at the camera with a ton of other stuff going on is definitely a challenge. What I did here was take the photograph of the family sitting on another part of the beach and then copy them into a more appealing portion when in photoshop. I also was not as happy with the older boys face so I took a different photograph of his face and put it into the newly formed one. Wow! I think it was harder to describe what I just did, then to actually do it. I then added a fun border with different brushes and textures. TAKE A LOOK!
PROJECT 2
My second accordion:
In this project I made a birthday card for my good friend and incorporated photographs that she had previously taken and ones that I had taken. It was a difficult one because I am not used to using other peoples photos as well as, learning to work with only a certain number and size.
REVIEW: Richard Monrach
I really thought this artist was pretty cool. I loved the way he used light to create an entire image of one would see with the naked eye. He transformed images from a plan ol' picture to a powerful statement that was hard to keep your eyes off of. I believe that he found a "niche" and went with it so that he could change the world views with one photograph at a time. Most people that have this niche I find to be boring and simply "taking a snap shot" of the terrible things of this world, but Richard finds his way to bring the important scary thoughts to real life so that people can no longer just dream about them.
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