Research on Artist Portfolios - Eric Kubli

http://digitalarts.bgsu.edu/portfolios/ekubli/index.html

I choose my friend Eric Kubli's web portfolio because after looking at many other portfolios, Eric's really stuck out and grabbed my attention. And when I say it grabbed my attention, I mean that it grabbed my attention in all the right ways. To start out, everything on his site was working properly, all his images opened, everything was organized in an easy way to read and to locate things, and was really nicely done. Finding my way around the site was very easy, where as other sites didn't always work, things didn't always load, and I ended up in weird places and couldn't navigate back.  Also, Eric's site was very visually pleasing as well. It was very simple, but in a good way. It wasn't cluttered or too busy, it was excellently simple and too the point. Like when you hold the mouse over the tabs at the top, the little person on the left, that is a cartoony drawing of Eric, changes into different poses, or into different cloths or props. I just really like the way that he did that because it makes the web portfolio more personalized, and less generic. Over all, I think everything is really great... everything works, he has many examples of his work, he has works from other studio areas, he has a little information about himself and it's not too much, and he has his resume/ his contact information. Everything fits together and nothing seems out of place. I think this is a very successful web portfolio!

(the picture to the left is taken from Eric's web portfolio)

Research on Sculptures - Alberto Giacometti

The following work from Alberto Giacometti is very unique. I like how the figures are some what simple.

and yet it seems like there is more to them, like some kind of hidden meaning.

I'm not sure why, but I really like how the feet of these figures are kind of attached to

the ground. It makes me think that these figures are trying to go somewhere, and yet

they can't because they are attached, or weighted down by something and

can't go where they want. And for some reason, these figures give me the feeling of aliens

or something. The figures look human, but yet they also seem not that human.

I think I like them more because of the not-human feeling that they have.

Research on Sculptures - Louise Bourgeoise

I think that this sculpture is kind of funny. I mean more that it has humor... when I saw it I smirked right away. Which I like because, I enjoy the humor in all sorts of things. But I really like how the figures are enough life like, and yet seem playful and cartoony. I also like the expressions on the figures faces, I like how they all look so happy. Happy even though this situation seems kind of strange, but I think their expressions give the piece more of a feeling of light heartedness maybe?

I also like that sculpture at the top because it seems kind of unexpected. I like how it's something that usually is pretty tiny, and yet she takes it and makes it strangely large.  I like that it's simple, and unusual... in a good way.

Research for Sculpture - Mark Di Suvero

Mark Di Suvero has a very interesting style in my opinion. He uses very straight and sharp edges. I like that he sticks being sharp rather than having different curvy shapes as well.

I like the way that the work catches your eye and really takes you through the whole thing, my eyes really flow over the whole piece rather than just parts.

I think that I like his work because it reminds me of the one art work that is in front of the new addition of the Toledo Art Museum. When I was little I took a lot of art classes there,

and when my mom dropped me off, we always drove by this one sculpture, and I always liked it because it looked like a fancy playground. I don't think that the sculpture I'm thinking of is from Di Suvero,

but it remind me of it. And it's interesting to remember what I thought about it when I was little, to my thoughts on it now.

Research on Sculptures - Henry Moore

After looking at many images of Henry Moore's, I see a lot of the same shapes and motion through out his work. I really like the way that his sculpture have a lot of movement and feeling to them. He also uses negatives spaces to support the actual sculpture, which I think is an excellent way of using the area and space around the piece. I also like how his work is pretty abstract and yet you still know what it is. I like abstract art, but I'm not a big fan of abstract art when you have no idea at all what it is. But Moore's work is has a good amount of being abstract, and being some what realistic.

video art quiz

1)Name an Early artist mentioned in the article for CONCEPTUAL WORK performing in front of the camera.
Describe a work.  (2 points)

Les Levine... He did a piece where he went and video taped homeless people in a part of New York City.


2)Name an artist mentioned who deals with PERSONAL NARRATIVE. Describe a work.  (2 points)
Bill Viola... The article said that he did a lot of work with single-channels, and also worked with
"technical mistakes" in his piece called Information. With that he could control a bunch of images.

3)Describe the piece you were most interested in viewing after reading this article. Look the work
up on the links, and expand on Rush's comments. (2 points)

I'd have to say that after reading this article, I was interested in seeing the work from the people from
the 1990's, especially after reading the description of Cheryl Donegan's "Head". It sounded very strange, and
I wanted to look for it right away. After I found it and watched, it was just very weird. I guess I didn't
really understand why she did this or anything, besides that she using this as a metaphor and pretty much
showing sex acts without showing sex. Atleast I think that's what she was going for.

4)What do you better understand now about Video Art? (2 points)
I think that people use video art as just an expansion of regular art, and by this I mean that I think using
video art is a way of showing what you're trying to get across, just in more detail.
An image can say a lot, but sometimes it can't say everything that you need or what it to, and because of
that I think that's where video art comes in.


5)Based on Rush and this article, what makes Video Art vs. an "artful video"? (2 points)
I think artful videos are just things that look nice sometimes and didn't have a meaning of any kind. Video
art has a meaning, someone wanted to say or show something. I think that sometimes there might be a blurred
line between the two, but I think there are some videos that are/ should be considered video art because of the concept.

Research for self portrait - Eric Kubli

http://digitalarts.bgsu.edu/portfolios/ekubli/about.html

Eric Kubil is a friend of mine that currently is a Digital Arts major here at BGSU. On his portfolio page through the school's website, he has little drawing of himself. Granted, they aren't really titled anything and they aren't really official self portraits... but they're still little drawing of himself. They are in a cartoon style, but yet they are some what realistic and actually really do look like him very much. Each drawing not only looks like him, but each one tells a little story. He doesn't use a lot of detail, or a lot of colors, but because they are more simple I think that they are stronger on a whole.

Eric manages to use just the cloths, body language, and hand gestures to show his identity. I think each one says something about himself, and the sense of humor that he has about everything.

I really enjoyed looking at these because I think they all really match him. I've known Eric for a couple of years, and each one really does say something about him. I like how he kept things simple and didn't over do them. I like how really felt that these drawings were him... every time I looked at one I really did see him. I think it was very helpful to see his drawings of himself because of this is a perfect example of doing things in your own unique way, instead of classic head shot painting, or something of the like, for a self portrait.

Research for self portrait - Norman Rockwell

http://www.auburnschools.org/carywoods/mawebb/intro-triple-self-portrait.jpg

Norman Rockwell's self portrait is another favorite of mine. He tells a story with just one painting. This painting really grabs my eye and takes it through the painting, and then back over it again and again to find little details that I didn't see the first time around. He gets the people and the things with them to look so realistic, and yet just enough of that cartoony feel so that it is playful and fun.

This work really shows Rockwell's identity because it shows how he works, and what is important to him. He very clearly shows how he works and how he views himself. The painting also shows how he does his work, and that is so much of who he is. If he saw himself as being the best fisherman ever, he would have painted his self portrait of himself in the middle of a lake, in a boat, with a fishing pole in hand. I think that a big part of identity is how we view ourselves, and even how we think other's view us. Norman Rockwell, from this self portrait anyways, seems to be very down to earth, and simply shows what he does and how he does it, and there isn't anything to hide from that.

I like this self portrait because I think it truely lets the view to see Norman Rockwell, and how he does his work. I had a friend tell me once that she thought it was really interesting to watch me make one of my ceramics project because she saw me be very comfortable and could watch the light bulbs go off in my head when I knew something to do next. I think that this self portrait is just like that. It gives a little insight of how he works, how he plans things out, how he over comes some kind of problem. I think showing that, and showing how he views himself is very interesting.

Research for self portrait - Andy Warhol

This self portrait of Andy Warhol is one of the many ones that I found while looking. I think that this one is one of my favorites because I feel like I understand more of what Andy Warhol was about. The idea of pop art, and how he invented it almost single-handedly. This self portrait, in a way, kind of sums up his work, and I think tells about himself. In this self portrait, he uses so many colors that go pretty well together. I think that some times people try to use a lot of color and it looks funny because it's all jammed into one place, but all of these colors flow together nicely. I also really like how it isn't just one print with one picture. I think that it really brings home the feel of pop art and what it's about with the use of multiple images.

I really like this piece for many reasons, one being that I have always really liked Andy Warhol's work. It isn't boring, he has a sense of humor, and he uses a lot of color. I feel like I try to make my work with that as well... I don't want it to be boring, and I like to make things funny because I think their funny. I also really like the color, and the use of so many. I think I relate to that because I never can make up my mind some times between a couple colors, and because of that I some times tend to use them all instead of picking just one. Granted, I'm not really sure that's why there are so many colors in this work, but who knows it could be.


I think that this self portrait does have a lot to do with identity because I think it sums up his work and himself pretty well. Pop art was about taking popular images and making them into art and repeating them. Andy Warhol became famous, and he did to himself what he did with others and other objects. I think that has something to say about how he thought of the world around him.

http://media2.moma.org/collection_images/resized/615/w500h420/CRI_61615.jpg

blog #1 - The First Day of Class

I am studying to be an artist because I have always really loved art. My Grandma used to have a craft shop that I always would be at with her while she painted, and I have always grown up with a lot of support to be creative. From childhood, I've always gotten in trouble for drawing on my notes in class, making little sculptures out of my crayons and markers, and what not. I really enjoying drawing and making funny little creatures and monsters and things. From a Digital Arts perspective, I really want to learn how to draw on computers, animate my ideas, and really learn how to use the computer as a working tool. I'm really excited for this class because I don't have that much computer knowledge at all, and I'm really excited to learn about it!