Leah's 2-D Design Blog

Going to the BMA on Thursday during class was definitely a lot of fun. Although we didn't have as much time to see all the artwork that the museum has on display I got to look at some pretty awesome pieces. The assignment this week was to choose three works of art and to sketch them in our sketch book, find the focal point, composition, eye path, and to say what interested us about the work of art. Below will be the three works of art that I chose to study. Rorschach by Andy Warhol, 1984 The first piece I decided to sketch was Andy Warhol's Rorschach. I chose this painting because I've always had an interest in modern and contemporary art and I really admire Andy Warhol's work. I thought this painting was interesting about it's an ink blot, like the one's that they use during therapy sessions. I liked the idea of the ink blot because usually when psychiatrists show you an ink blot they ask you "What do you see?". This goes back to my point in a ...

This is the piece of the painting that was carved out At first when the video started I was very confused because it shows a man carving out the face of a woman from a European painting, as the film continues that piece of the painting becomes a work of art itself. As this is being shown the narrator of the film starts to say that he wants us to consider the way in which we see paintings and art now. The narrator continues on with saying that everything is based on perspective and everything is within the eye of the beholder. I agree with this completely because everyone just like no two experiences are exactly the same, no two perspectives are the same either. The film continues on and it talks about the mechanical eye which is referring to a camera. The narrator is reads line from a manifesto by an old Russian film director named Dziga Vertov, he uses first person to give the camera personification and therefore a perspective. As the narrator mentioned, things can be seen diffe...

This passage was about the imagination. The author speaks about Dante and how he is presented with scenes that act as quotations or representations of sins or virtues. Dante describes these visions that were presented to him and the author writes "they were film projections or television images seen on a screen that is quite separate from the objective reality of his journey beyond the earth." Dante, the poet is trying to direct Dante the actor to depict this visual content through this process of visual evocation. The author writes "Dante is attempting to define... the visual part of his fantasy, which precedes or is simultaneous with verbal imagination." In the next paragraph the author begins to describe two different processes of imagination. One, that starts with an image and arrives verbal expression and two, starts with verbal expression and arrives an image.  The author goes on to talk about how the idea of the God of Moses does not tolerate to be depicte...

In Jerry Saltz's article, in the first couple sentences he mentions two curators whom make a bold statement of "art has the ability to change the world". After reading this article, I couldn't help, but agree. While reading this it took me back to a time when I was taking an art history class in high school. Our first class period, my teacher asked us what we associate art with. We went around the room and the similar answers came about, such as "paintings, museums, sculptures, etc." Then my teacher approached a desk, knocked on it and asked, "Now, is this a piece of art?" No one is my class rose their hand except for me. She asked me why I rose my hand and I said "Because anything can be art." Art can be a simple desk, a song, a painting, a poem etc. and all these things have the ability to change the world in small or big ways. Saltz addresses the fact that art may not be able to change global warming or cure a disease, but it does cha...