O.MEDRANO

     For starters, this was kind of a difficult read. Just for the fact that there was so much information to take in it kind of felt never ending to me. But in all, it was a good read. Robert Harbison talks about gardens from around the world and how he sees them in his eyes in full detail. It's almost like he's painting the picture for your mind to see these gardens with his words. Just like painting, he says we should read into gardens, be close up to them and study them. He also tells us we should go out and experience them for ourselves.      With reading this I must agree with Robert Harbison. Sometimes we tend to take nature and gardens for granted. I feel that nature and gardens are indeed beautiful and we should go out more and experience them a lot more, while we still can. Soon enough we either won't have them at all or they'll be so fake that we won't be able to get the real feeling of a real garden again.

    This article is about the rhinoceros, it was a new animal to everyone that no one has seen so it became a big buzz around town in eroup. Everyone began to sketch and draw this thing they've never seen, Durer and others made woodcut, but Durer was most impressive to everyone because he caught the chsracter of the animal remarkably well, even if he misinterpreted some of the anatomical detail.     I feel this all about what we did in class when we had to come up with details of an animal and you guys had to make something from just our details. It's all about communication, how someone can be discriptive as possible for someone can make their own interpentaion of it.

     This article was interesting because it talks about 2 photographers, one that basically faked his pictures with Native Americans and one that really lived in the culture and gave the realness of the crow tribe. I don't believe Edward Curtis did it for the culture but only for money. He just really staged all his pictures to show what he wanted to viewer to see. Where Richard Throssel was really taking pictures of his tribe and was trying to show everyone what was going on and happening within.      I understand Curtis and his business mindset, where he basically faked it till he made it. But then I just think of him as a culture vulture because he was photographing Native Americans for over 30 years but I'm sure he didn't really care for them or understand them. He was just there to get good photographs for a great payday. Even more so he stole one of Throssel picture to sell it as one of his. Furthermore,  I believe what Throssel did for hi...

     This article was very informative, it gave me more ideas for the smalls works, which I really needed. She talks about past generations and traditions, along with background history of patterns and ornaments. She goes into detail about how the simplest patterns on paper can become a building or some sort of structure. I feel the pictures in the article were a great help as well. letting you see the thought process of some of the patterns and ornaments. Like the delftware pattern in the bread or the logotype for the Brooklyn Museum, I thought those were great.      I think this article is very helpful for our current small works and in-depth project. It gave me an understanding that even if I feel I have nothing, I still can build something from it, just like free play of the imagination.

     Although this was a difficult read, it was a good one. Ivins talks about ornaments and craftsmen. He brings it to light how the craftsmanship and skill is just as important as to music and composers. he compares both amazingly, my favorite part when he says "The sounds produced by the performer at the piano correspond to the articles produced by the craftsman, while the musical score, the creation of which demands truest invention and greatest constructive imagination, passes from hand to hand in printed or written form just as the engraved and drawn designs for craftsmen did in former years prior to the invention of photographic process reproduction." I feel it's true in every sense, cause I'm sure when a composer takes him time with a musical piece and really give it his or her all he wants it played to the very best of it ability that he's imagined it.      I feel like he wants future makers and craftsman to know their craf...

      In the article  John Berger talks about a man-made bird, that is mysterious in a sense because it is not known how it's truly made. but still, has a sense of natural beauty because of its simplicity. worked with a kind of love that makes it become more than just a bird. a  white bird which now provoke an aesthetic emotion. he goes into further detail comparing it to outside nature and art.      After doing some research and finding the bird, it makes you respect the craftsmanship it takes to make something like this. I see how this could be compared to the beauty of nature and art. also when talking about nature and art he states " Art does not imitate nature, it imitates a creation" which I feel that was perfectly said because I feel that nature is all around us, it's everywhere. so its nature that we see around us that gives us our inspiration to actually create. you can't help but agree with his word about art at the end 

     In this interesting article Jerry Saltz talks about how it's unfair to exclude outside artists from today's museums and not consider them real artist because they're " so-called "outsider," "self-taught," and "visionary". He goes on to name a few artist that have made incredible work, better work that should be in museums like the MoMA. This article fights for the for the museums and other to kill the term "outsider" and to let everyone's work be shown.      I strongly agree with this article, I believe everyone deserves a chance for their work to be shown. Regardless if they were taught in a school setting or just learned by themselves. Us artist just have to continue this fight and stand our ground until they give in. It's crazy to see this in the art world just because some artist haven't had " preapproved training". All artist should be given a chance or at least be considered to be put in shows a...

Labels Help You Organize All blog posts must be labeled with two keywords, which blogger calls Labels. When faculty visits your blog for evaluation purposes, we will use the labels to quickly find your work. If you do not use the keywords properly, we will not be able to find your work.  Proper set-up and maintenance of your blog falls under the Research and Participation part of your grade which counts for 30% of the overall semester grade.  Topical Keywords The first set of keywords correspond to the module we are working in. We will refer to these as topical keywords since they correspond to the topic we are exploring over the two-week periods. Your first group of posts will be labeled under  Topic: Creative Impulse  since this is the first topic (Topic #1). Here are the topical keywords you will use through out the semester: Topic: Creative Impulse Topic: Pattern and Ornament Topic: Rhinoceros Topic: Narrative Topic: Lands...