My Art

My favorite piece from this semester was easy for me, the Ruscha/Rosenquist assignment! As soon as we discussed the assignment in class, my creative juices started flowing. What with the government shut down on everyone’s minds, I had been especially interested in the National Parks closing. As soon as I had my social issue, I began brainstorming. My brainstorming filled a page, and then another.. and I was more than excited to start my project! After speaking to Anna, she informed me that they were still drilling for oil in 12 of the parks, yet they were closed to the public. this got me interested in focusing on the ‘oil’ aspect.. and sparked the idea for using some… substitutes for traditional paint. I was very happy with my finished piece, and although motor oil dripped down the walls of the fine art building for a few weeks, I really enjoyed having created a piece that represented a social issue that I was passionate about.. and the ideas for the content all came from my imagination.. I really felt like this project sparked my creative traits for a few weeks, and really got me working on my art. 

Marci Hohner 

Shel Silverstein

This piece, “The Thinker of Tender Thoughts” by Shel Silverstein, has always been one of my favorite pieces of art. My mother is a 4th grade teacher and absolutely loves old TV shows that carry subtle but important messages about how to be a good person and what-not. Shel Silverstein’s poems and art commonly have themes of being a free person or being a good person, but always stick to the comical side. Looking at it later in life, the message behind “the Thinker of Tender Thoughts” almost makes me want to cry, as it is so simple and relatable. Simple as lines on paper, the look on his face when he decides to fit in by cutting his wily hair is so expressive and content, whereas many other pieces that address this type of theme treat the “trimming” stage (“giving in to the man”) as a very negative thing.
I hope kids still have to read Shel Silverstein’s work because it is some very pure, happy work. I haven’t kept up on children’s book but I’d guess that few works surpass Shel Silverstein’s work in honesty, morality, and meaning.

“I will not play at tug o’ war.
I’d rather play at hug o’ war,
Where everyone hugs
Instead of tugs,
Where everyone giggles
And rolls on the rug,
Where everyone kisses,
And everyone grins,
And everyone cuddles,
And everyone wins.”

Chris Van Allsburg

Children’s book author and illustrator, Chris Van Allsburg’s art haunted me as a child. Almost photorealistic, the images in “The Mysteries of Harris Burdick” are bleak and… mysterious. Black and white and very simple, they make you think. For example, the picture posted here says “the fifth one ended up in France”. The audience assumes the “fifth one” is another nun in a flying chair. There is no more explanation and there won’t be. Like a few other books that we read in our childhoods, this one skirted the edge between children’s book and down-right gloomy.

Van Allsburg also illustrated for Jumanji and The Polar Express.

post of my stuff

(sorry for the low quality of the photos)

This is my work of art; I created it almost two years ago, and removed them the past summer. I decorated one of my closets at my apartment which I placed a chair in there, pasted random magazine pages at the background, and placed a light in there. I used to read books and use computer at there.(i know that sounds pretty weird) 

second post: Gemma

Gemma is a 18 years old Australian artist who has great talent in art. I saw her art of works through Tumblr (http://gentle-insomnia.tumblr.com) which I was improved of her art skill and the images of her works. I would consider her as a minimalist as her works are clear and simple.

first post: Junaida

Junaida is a Japanese artist who lives in Kyoto, Japan. I always obsessed with his art of works because they are ideal and fantasy that are as same as fairy tale. His drawings always contain many western buildings which usually mixed with in an object. On the other hand, I like how he uses the colors for his works which created a smoothy image.

if you would interested in this artist, you should go to his website: http://junaida.com

Noon

“Noon” by Lee Krasner

Lee Krasner was an abstract expressionistic artist who lived from 1908-1984.  Her birth name was Lena Krassner.  She lived in New York and studied at The Cooper Union and the National Academy of Design.  She was married to Jackson Pollock, another abstract painter, for roughly ten years.  Most of hers and Jackson’s paintings look like this, with splotches of paint blending together to create a mass of color rather than a shape.  I like “Noon” in particular because the colors remind me of a beach party and the short, thin strokes produce a calming effect.  Though not a fan of abstract art, I might hang this on my wall.

Damien Hirst

Damien Hirst is a member of the Young British Artists, a very influential group of artists in Britain, and is considered the most wealthy living artist in Britain.  It is said that he prefers to sell art directly to the public and forego galleries.  One of his auctions raised $198 million for only 218 art pieces. His field of expertise is in installation art, making displays and incorporating them into a given area.  His works are more scientific than artistic, displaying dead animals preserved in formaldehyde.  His most famous and my personal favorite is “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living”, which is a tiger shark preserved in a display case.  While the title doesn’t really have anything to do with the display itself, it can still be applied to psychology.  For a living person, no matter how much they think about death, they can never truly experience it or understand it until they are dead, which is in itself also a physical impossibility because logically dead people don’t think.  I find the general meaning behind it interesting and very thoughtful, but would still consider it more a science project than art.  Interestingly enough, Hirst tried his luck at painting and received “the most negative response from the general public in all of Britain.”

Here is his website: http://www.damienhirst.com

Loui Jover

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Loui Jover is a very diverse artist. The type of art he creates varies from cartoons, to realistic drawings to ink paintings done on articles of newspaper or old text books. Jover describes the theme of his art as “there is a fragility to these images that I find interesting (as if the wind may blow them away at any moment) and the hand drawn stark black lines against the intricate printed words of the book pages offer a strange fusion and depth that seems to give the images a kind of ‘meaning’ and back story, even though unconnected in a contrived way.” The faces that the men and women, but usually women, have an expression on their face that Jover would describe as day dreaming or even soul searching.  I admire Louis Jovers art because of its whimsical theme that carrys across all of his paintings he does with ink.

 

Second Blog Post

For my second blog post, I would like to talk about local artist Brandon Vosika is a Seattle artist and collage artist who uses mostly recycled materials when creating his art. Brandon also uses watercolors and pen when creating his pieces. The use of uneven proportion in the faces and bodies of Brandon’s characters is so appealing to the eye. Instead of just staring at a characters face, you have to scan the entire picture plane to see where the eyes are and the nose ends up. Just as the unknown artist in “Vesperbild” contoured the body of Jesus Brandon Vosika stretches the heads of his subjects, makes arms and fingers drastically skinny to give the subject some character. Whether it gives the character a sense of creepiness or makes the subjects look more inviting it depends and varies on what is distorted. It makes me think that things drawn in organic form though they are simple to identify do they still draw as much emotion as something distorte

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