Racial Integration Presentation

Web Design: Racial Integration Presentation: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_HFCYz4x6o"

Racial Integration Presentation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_HFCYz4x6o

Edvard Munch, "The Scream", was done around 1893–1910.  He was born on a farm in Loten, Norway, in 1863, and was the second of five children of Christian Munch, a doctor in the Army Medical Corps, and his wife Laura. The family moved to Oslo, then known as Christiania, a year later and had not been there long when the first disaster struck. Munch was just five years old when his mother died of tuberculosis. His aunt moved in to the family home to take care of the young children. Nine years later his elder sister Sophie succumbed to the same illness.  "The Scream",  by Edvard Munch is a disturbing icon of modern art that we all can identify with. We know what it is to feel as the subject does and his plight generates fear and sympathy in equal measure.  The painting screams the mood of severe anxiety that Munch was feeling and experienced at the time he painted this piece of work.  I can relate to this painting because I myself have experienced some sort of anxiety in this life.  He was a very disturbed artist who was a part of the expressionism era.
"My friends walked on and there I still stood, trembling with fear - and I sensed a great, infinite scream run through nature."
- Edvard Munch

reference:  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/munch.html

andy warhol

Andy Warhol is by far my favorite artist because he could take a simple
image and add another dimension to it with just color. Andrew Warhola
(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987), known as Andy Warhol,  was
a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art.  After a
successful career as a commercial illustrator, Warhol became famous
worldwide for his work as a painter, avant-garde filmaker, record producer,
author, and a member of highly diverse social circles that included
bohemiam street people as well as Hollywood Celebrities.  He could
manage people and relate to anyone and anything.  He was a very ecentric
person that didn't stick to just one genre.  I admire him for that because so
many artists are just a graphic designer, painter or sculpter.  I think his diverse
thinkingand his approach to things in the art world. 

grafitti artwork crimes

LAS VEGAS - Authorities are offering a $2,500 reward for information about vandals who
spray-painted graffiti over prehistoric rock art at the Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area in Nevada. The federal Bureau of Land Management and supporters of Red Rock Canyon say spray paint covers pictographs drawn by ancient inhabitants and petroglyphs scraped long ago into rocks at the scenic preserve about 17 miles west of the Las Vegas Strip. Federal archaeologist Mark Boatwright calls the damage severe and estimates restoration will cost $10,000. Friends of Red Rock Canyon and the Conservation Lands Foundation are offering the reward. BLM rangers are investigating. Officials say a conviction under the Archaeological Resources Protection Act could result in five years in prison and a $100,000 fine. I am a huge fan of griffiti art, but disagree with the act when it is used out of context or destroying something that is pre-historic.  It suprises me that artists would draw over something where the ancient inhabitants already made there mark.

Blueprints Tutorial In Photoshop

This tutorial was really interesting and useful.  I enjoy using special effects in
photoshop to think outside the box when creating artwork in photoshop. This
just starts simply with an image then desaturating the image and going into filter
distort to then fine edges.  Secondly, you then go to adjustments and invert the
image to change white to black and black to white.  Thirdly, create a new layer
above your image and fill it with the color (#??????) then set the layer mode to
“linear dodge”.Create a pattern over the image and turn the opacity down to about
30% and change the blend mode to overlay.  I found this to be quite creative
because you can even add your own spin with blueprint rulers along the sides
indicating a measurement. Photoshop is a powerful tool in the digital aspect of art.

"Obscure-Jerzy Goliszewski"

Sunday, November 21st, 2010

"Obscure-Jerzy Goliszewski"

SPACES - Cleveland, 2220 Superior Via., Cleveland, OH 44113

Jerzy Goliszewski is interested in permeability or the lack thereof. There are typically elements in his work that invite the viewer into and through a surface or the viewer is reflected or repelled by the surface. His first project is visible from outside SPACES. The larger front windows have been skinned in a vinyl lattice that mimics front porch lattice. This helps obscure the view of the gallery’s interior from those standing on the street. Inside the space, light streams in and viewers get a mildly fettered view of the street as if they had scampered beneath a porch. I personally liked visiting SPACES this semester because this was by far one of the most interestingdisplays of Obscure artwork that I have ever seen. Jerzy did an excellant job creating a sense of abstract obcurity through the use of lattices. It was mixed media taken to the next level.