WOVEN

As I'm finishing my visual analysis, I realize how important the WOVEN concept is. I research about the artist and his other works just to get to know it better, I write about how the title explains the work, I just write about the painting, I read the textbook about analyzing visual works. So many different ways of communicating are used everyday. It's everywhere!

Art of the Analysis

The more I write my analysis of The Avoider, the more I think about how analysis really can be an art as well. It may be easy to analyze a painting, but how you express it is very important. You can go through and just make a simple list of what is going on, but that would just be boring. It takes a lot to really create a beautiful analysis.

3D Street Art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNYtd0Ayt0

Found a stop motion video of the creation of a pretty large piece of street art and what happens once it is finished. It really plays tricks on your mind.

Ga Tech Night at the High

Just in case anybody wanted to go... There's a Georgia Tech night at the High on Sep 30th. Admission is free and there will be food and drinks. Also, Stingers will be shuttling people from Tech Square. Here is a link to the facebook event. Sorry it isn't official but it's the only thing I've seen so far.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=127640773954586

Visual Analysis

Analyzing the Baptism of Christ in class was a very interesting activity. It was great preparation for the rhetorical analysis assignment due next week. I began analyzing the painting I chose for my essay and found it was much easier to do after analyzing the Baptism of Christ and Las Meninas. Writing the last three and a half pages of my essay will go by very fast because for me it is easy now to analyze paintings. Also, the reading in the textbook provide great framework and guidelines to analyze artwork. I'm actually now excited to write about The Avoider by Michael Borremans.

High Folk Art

I went to the High again this weekend and spent more time in the folk art exhibition than I ever have before. I always just briefly visited this area of the museum, but yesterday I really took the time to analyze all of the art there and realized how much I enjoy it. The modern and contemporary art will always be my favorite, but I have a new found appreciation for one of the top five folk art collections in the United States. These two are definitely the ones that caught my interest the most.

Headed for the Higher Paying Jobs - Thornton Dial

                                        

Con[q]uest of the Moon #1 - William Hawkins

I love the use of color in the two. It really grabs your attention and the content really holds on to it for extremely long periods of time, as I experienced.

Las Meninas

The reading of Foucault's analysis of Las Meninas was a perfect way to apply the past readings to an assignment that we will do in the next couple of weeks. Foucault did an excellent job of analyzing and describing the visual composition of the piece. Because the image of the actual work of art was not until the end of the piece, I did not know at all what it looked like. I did have a very accurate idea of the content and composition thanks to Foucault's description. The explanation of the context and the people in the painting also helped to have a complete idea of the painting and what everything means. It is a beautiful work of art accompanied with a wonderful description and analysis.

Browsing...

I was looking at the collections that the High has on its website then wandered over to a few other museum websites. My favorite was definitely MoMA in New York City. I've been once or twice before but haven't been in a long time. It was interesting to see all the different pieces they have. I love the variety of all the works of art. Modern art is definitely my favorite genre, so seeing an entire museum devoted to it is great.
Looking at the pieces, my mind kept returning to the Sontag essay we read last week and the need to critique and make comments about every work of art we see. What I love about modern art is that it's easy to just look at without analyzing it or trying to find meaning in it. Yes, it is possible to analyze it and find symbolism in it, but it is also extremely easy to not do it.

The High Museum

My recent trip to the High Museum was not my first. In fact, it was probably my 20th. I love the museum, and I go all the time. I love seeing all of the new exciting temporary exhibits as well as my known favorites. Every time I go I'm able to go right back to my favorite works of art that I have grown to love. My absolute favorite at the High is in the modern and contemporary art exhibit. It is very hard to pick a favorite but The Avoider by Michael Borremans grabs my attention every visit. Its size and simplicity are the most powerful things about it. When walking by, you have to look at it and notice the man in the portrait. Its plain background and great use of colors just forces you to look at it. The modern and contemporary art exhibit is definitely my favorite in the whole museum and I always spend most of my time there. I could spend hours in there studying every piece over and over. I can't wait to go back to see it all again.