B.A Portfolio: week 10 works

This weeks work I'm continuing the idea of exploring our cultures obsession with youth and beauty with more of the same technique as lasts weeks. I have decided in order to show that eventually the beauty will fade with a progression of the photos starting with none burn and ending with nothing but ashes. I also want to keep photo copying the figure over and over so as the image itself will eventually become degraded.

B.A Portfolio: week 10 critique

Having others from outside of the class come in to critique my work was really helpful and encouraging. Many seemed to really like the message I am trying to express and had some really good suggestions as to how to further it. It was suggested in order to show how beauty fades with time it would help to display the images in a linear timeline sort of style so that it creates a narrative of the ageing time lapse. Another way to do this, as suggested, is to show the flowers at different stages of wilting and decay. Also useing women at different ages was suggested though I don't think I will do this as I like the repetiveness of the same figure as a representation of mass produced beauty using the same idea as Andy Warhol with his soup cans. I also thinked the idea of doing different amount of burning of the images to show a decaying with starting with no burn mark to eventually nothing left but ashes.

B.A Portfolio: week 10 reading

Artists Packet

 The reading this week was rather informative for me as I did not know the steps or process of getting ones work into a gallery. Its interesting how even as an artist, one still has to create a resume in order for their work to be considered fro a gallery. This makes it seem like any other type of job. The exercise in the beginning of making a time line of the things one has done is, to me, a wonderful exercise for someone to do even if it's not for a job. It allows one to look back and realize what they have done like how someone can lay out all their past work and begin to see a connection. The idea of an artist packet is to make oneself seem committed and desirable to an art gallery. This packet ends up representing the artists and their work so it is important to create a good packet. This includes getting high quality image of ones work whether from a professional photographer or doing it themselves. The packet needs to be professional so that it reflects well on the artist and their work. A poorly put together packet leads the gallery to think the artists isn't committed or responsible thus making them unappealing to the gallery.

B.A Portfolio: week 9 works

This week I want to continue will the issues of our societies obsession with beauty and how it is temporary and will eventually fade. I still wanted to parallel it with the temporary beauty of flowers. This week I wanted to add another layer of meaning by exploring what different flowers and their colors symbolize. I want to use this symbolism to showcase traits that I feel are more valuable than beauty. In this weeks works I used pink carnations that symbolize gratitude.

B.A Portfolio: week 9 reading

Reading Right

 What I picked up from this reading is that reading is important in every field even in the art field. As the reading stated that with contemporary art, there is a focus on being original and innovated. In order to do this and artist must read and learn techniques and works that have already been done thus making art history important for any artist to learn. Reading also allows for artist to discuss art intelligently with each other, an ability that is greatly admired by others in the every field. I think knowing art history and its iconography is important in enhancing the meaning in ones works because certain icons and symbols can be used to help the viewer understand the message the artist has placed before them. Also mentioned in the reading was how not over thinking ones work and create a balance between the analytical side and the creative side of the brain. With this balance is allows an artist can bring their knowledge and their intuition together in a way that allows them to put everything in to their work. 

B.A Portfolio: week 8 works

This weeks works I wanted to express how in our society we value beauty and constantly adorned ourselves with different objects to obtain high standards of beauty. I chose to cover the faces with flowers because universally flowers are regarded as being beautiful. I also chose flowers because though they are beautiful eventually they wither and die. I did this to parallel with the fact that beauty doesn't last forever as everyone grows old. For some of the images I want to keep the image pretty as a subtle way of expressing the above thought. With the others I wanted to make it a bit more obvious how beauty fades by experimenting with ways of destroying the images as to take away some of their beauty.

B.A Portfolio: week 8 critique

In the one on one critique we discussed me simplifying my work by creating more works with one or to elements rather than creating a few complex images. It was suggested that in doing this it would help to find the meaning with in my work. We also talked about how the images seemed to be about how we adorned ourselves with certain things many of them from nature. This could lead to a possible exploration as to why we adorn ourselves with objects and why with things from nature. We also discussed how to play with the prettiness of the images. There's the possibility of creating the images where they become ridiculously pretty or to make the images pretty and the destroy them.