For my home project, I am still not certain as to what I want to make. I may try to redo one of my summer projects, specifically the watercolor grid and geometric diagram of a cone. However, I may work with calligraphy to see what kind of compositions I can make up with a set amount of words on a page.
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Ed Ruscha is known mostly for his art and how it focuses on using words and color to portray his content in a very engaging way. I feel that I can take away from his work since I have been working on using words in combination with images and a great emphasis on color to create a piece that can portray the desired content. "Rather than simply painting a word, Ruscha considered the particular font that might add an elevated emotion to the meaning much like the way a poet considers a phrase. By painting a word as a visual, he felt he was marking it as official, glorifying it as an object rather than a mere piece of text." (The Art Story).
The first article, "Horror Is a Constant, as Artists Depict War," written by Alissa J. Rubin, talks mostly about the real-world conflict with war and how it is portrayed through different art forms. What I found very interesting was how they differentiated between art and journalism on this very pressing topic. An important question that was posed stated, "Are gore and blood the most important things to portray, or is it the moment of utter grief that follows?" I think that both can be very effective if portrayed in the proper way. There are places where gore can be very effective, but also the heavy feeling following it can make audiences react stronger to than the other, and vice versa.
The second article, "When Modern Art Met Modern Warfare," is taking the lives lost and creating a mass response and feeling from the public to capture the lives lost. They take the deaths and are able to make people connect to them in a way since a good portion of the public has their own personal connection to the war and to those who had died. The artwork in this article to me seemed different than the ones featured in Rubin's article. Rubin's article was more explicit and direct whereas I feel that this article was portrayed through a much more modern perspective. |
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