Concentration 9 & 10

I was pleasantly surprised by this unit. I actually liked doing the plaster forms. I'm particularly happy with my first piece - the one where I injected red die on a condom filled with water and then put it inside a condom filled with plaster. I also like the red rim - I think it gives some dimension. I'm a little disappointed that the second one broke but I think its okay.

Intro to AP3D

My AP3D Goal:
I think my main goal for AP3D would be to remain calm. I'm pretty nervous about taking it just because I haven't worked in 3D since middle school so I really don't know if I will be good at it or if I like it. I think I have to adopt the mindset that things will go wrong when I create 3D art and that its just part of the process.

My personal goal:
I think this year everything is about balance. I feel like I am being pulled in a million different directions between school, family, and friends and so I have to find a way to fit it all in while making sure I have some non stress time to myself so I don't crash and burn (which I know will happen inevitability but I want to reduce the amount of times it happens). But I figured the way that I will remain sane is by making sure I have at least one night in alone on the weekend so if I want to I could watch a movie by myself or get work done that I'm feeling extra stressed about.


What is art?
Art for me is the purest form of letting yourself be completely vulnerable with creativity.

What is form?
The form of a work is its shape, including its volume or perceived volume. A three-dimensional artwork has depth as well as width and height. Three-dimensional form is the basis of sculpture.

There are some other terms commonly used to describe form and shape in composition; these have to do with what kind of representations the forms have. If we can recognize every day objects and environments, we refer to the images as being realistic, or naturalistic. However, if the images are difficult or impossible to identify in terms of our normal, daily visual experience, we may refer to the images as abstract.

Form and shape can also be described as either organic or geometric. Organic forms such as these snow-covered boulders typically are irregular in outline, and often asymmetrical. Organic forms are most often thought of as naturally occurring.

Museum Art Gallery Visit 3

While we were in Williamstown we also went to the MASS MoCA, a small kind of hipster, modern museum hidden in an old building. My mom and I went there just thinking we would check a Museum art gallery visit off the list - little did I know this exhibit would end up being so incredibly helpful. What we didn't know going in was that most of the museum was filled with 3D pieces, leaving me with many take aways.

The first thing that I noticed was that the lighting of the rooms really changed the interpretation of the art pieces. If you look at these photos, you can see that there is some sense of electricity. I feel like if the art gallery people lit the room normally, we would loose that sense of energy. It was almost like the whole room was a art piece itself. It was really a full body experience which I thought was really cool.

Another take away was the use of movement could take a piece from being interesting to downright terrifying. As you can see in the video, there was a table set up with little mundane objects. Alone the piece would have been fine. However, above the table was a robotic bird flying around in circles over your head. It made it feel like you were in some sort of nightmare as the music was also selectively picked to fit the intensity of the piece. It was probably one of my favorite parts of the entire museum as the flying crow almost commanded you to pay attention to it.


My last take away was that deceiving the eye can be one of your most powerful tools. Some of the first art pieces I had seen looked like just normal objects with nothing interesting about them. But then you would read the description and see that the deflated basketball was actually made of glass or that the rubber bands were also made of glass. It was so interesting because the artist got the texture completely right and you would have no idea unless you looked closer.

Another way one artist would trick your eye was by these really interesting drawings. They were drawn on bent glass but it looked like they were just drawn on a normal canvas. I realized that it must take so much talent and patience to do one of those pieces but they were some of my favorite in the gallery.

Museum Art Gallery 2

When I was visiting Williams College this summer for my mom's 30th reunion, one of her former classmates rented out the Clark Museum just for her class. The Clark Museum had just put up a new exhibit which featured nude painting from various eras in Europe. As I strolled through this intense exhibit with some of the most brilliant and education human beings in the entire world, I ended up having some very interesting conversations. Unfortunately, they didn't allow me to take photos.

I was talking to one of my mom's close friend Jen about how the depiction of women have changed in from then to now. For me personally it was very interesting comparing these two times. Today, within the click of a series of buttons, I could send a nude image to over 100 boys in my contacts. However back then (sorry don't remember the dates), men had to travel to private rooms where these erotic images were stored. It was a cultural taboo to go to these "art brothels" but today it can become almost like a competition to see who can get girls to send the most nudes.

This striking contrast has circled through my mind throughout my summer, even though it has been over a month since I was there.

I think what was also interesting about this exhibit was that the focus was on the theme rather than the aesthetic of the art itself. Of course, it was an art gallery like there is going to be focus on the art but when the guides were taking us through they really wanted us to look at the big picture. If you asked me what medium most of the pieces were in - I couldn't tell you. But I think that represents a bigger point. Art can be examined and different levels. It just depends how far we want to zoom out.

Overall, my trip to the Clark Museum was a fantastic experience.

concentration 9

concentration 10

Museum Art Gallery 4

1. I think this kid is going to be an art student. First of all this kid - is only in the third grade. They are able to think conceptually on a much higher than any of the other kids that I saw - like wow. Secondly, I can recognize that they drew a bird and the ideas and the concept behind their idea. I'm impressed.

2. On a relative scale, the art produced in our SAS art room is very very very good.
I'm going to be honest when i say that I never really feel like my art is very good - there are a couple of pieces that I like but other than that I don't like a lot of my art work. Seeing these kids' art work made me realize just how talented the people around me are. Of course, these are 8 year olds but still, I think we take our talent for granted.

3. My favorite are pieces came from the kids who didn't over do it. I think I sometimes overthink my artwork and then I make them complicated but really I think when I make art, I should internally simplify whatever I was going to create and then work off of the rudimentary idea.