Week 15-Artist Conversation- “Mixed Aesthetic”

 This week I attended the “Mixed Aesthetic”event. There were many very talented artist that had their work displayed. Most of the art work look like pre-production art works before they actually get animated for animated movies. Other works were just master pieces of art and the artist showing off their talent as artist. You can see the time and effort every artist put into their work to make them into master pieces. I love how the artists were very detail in each other their work. Can’t wait to see whats next in every artist creation and I hope they have a bright future ahead because they all have an amazing talent. I wish I was able to talk to a few of the artist who created these master pieces so I can give them a complement of every piece of art they made.

 

 

 

 

 

Week 15- Classmate Conversation-Florenz Baltazar

This week I met Florenz Baltazar. He’s a first year at CSLUB and majoring in nursing because he wants a career in nursing. On his free time he likes to hang out with friends and play video games on his WII U such as Pokemon. He is from Cerritos and loves Korean BBQ. If he could travel anywhere in the world he’ll like to go to Japan because of the culture and advance technology.

Extra Credit – Art Experience Feedback!

This semester of art 110 has been a blast. From all the art experiences I have 3 favorite and 3 least favorite.

3 Favorite:

• Plaster Casting: It was very exciting creating a player cast of my whole entire arm. I still have the cast and it is up on display at my house.

• Snapchat:
  • It was fun creating a story of all the actives we do in Art 110 and making some stories silly with some drawing in the snapchat features.
• Graffiti Writing:
  • I have never spray painted before so it was a very fun experience for my because I was able to create a bubble art image of my name. I have it ready to hang on my wall.

3 Least Favorite:

• Landscapes with a Cropse:
  • I did ok when I did this project but I didn’t really know how to create a good photo of my own death…
• Automatic Drawing:
  • I didn’t really understand how this was art… Had a hard time understanding the concept of this project cause most of every picture create was just random lines and circles.
• Moonbase Alpha:
  • It was fun creating a character but was frustrating linking everyones profile to mine and other people linking my profile to their page. I thought to was going to be a game we were going to all play with our character but it didn’t end up as expected.

Overall Art 110 was a fun class and a easy A so IDK how someone would give up an opportunity to get an easy A while having fun with art. I would recommend other to take this class and I would take this class again.

Week 14 – Art Experience – Sketching in the Garden

This week we went to the Japanese Garden to draw and take some photographs of representational and abstract objects. I enjoy this activity because it made me think outside the box of viewing certain things in the garden. It was fun finding things to draw and take photographs of. When I was drawing, it brought back the childhood hobby I used to do when I was younger. I was never the best artist but I drew the best I could and whatever came to mind so doing this again was very enjoyable. Overall I liked this activity and would do it again. 

Week 13 – Classmate Conversation- Christian Aguirre

Christian Aguirre (Far Right)

He’s a 3rd year here at CSULB. He’s a Film major. On his free time he’s enjoys watching movies. Favorite movies is tombstone (critt 1994) and whiplash. He wants to start a career  as a writer for tv shows (comedy) or a history teacher. His dream car is a Ford GT. If he could travel anywhere in the world he would go to Greece because he was to see the ancient temples. His worst nightmare ever is when he saw a lot of nuclear missiles launching

Week 13 – Artist Conversation- Nick Bamford

Artist: Nick Bamford

Media: Neons Lights, Black Light, Contemporary Art, Ceramics, Sculptures

Gallery: CSULB School of Art, Gatov Gallery West

Website: N/A

Instagram: @nickbamf4d

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Nick is a graduate student at CSULB. He has attended Yale University and UCLA. He from Huntington Beach, not far from Long Beach. On his free time he likes to create more works of art because it takes up most of his time anyway. He doesn’t really like planning thing out, just doing something that comes off the top of his head at that moment.

FORMAL ANALYSIS

By looking at his art, it is very different from what I have seen. For example the use of neon lights and black light was very cool. It gives the sculpture a very distinct look to it with the glow from the black light and the color to stand out from the neon lights. The objects he used for his sculptures were very recognizable such as a shopping cart, cages, spoons, ETC

CONTENT ANALYSIS

Nick Bamford explores different meaning in his art. He tries to find objects and create another function or use for it. He thinks outside the box. He shows very well that normal, everyday objects or even the most random objects can too be considered art. He wants people to interpret his art and find their own meaning.

SYNTHESIS

My final thoughts on Bamford art works are that his pieces were great. I love how he set up the pieces with neons lights and used a black light to make the sculptures glow with the material he put on the sculptures. It was also fun to glow in the dark from the black light because my jacket kinda glowed from the black light. I would recommend people to visit his exhibit, it was a blast.

Week 12-Classmate Conversation-Amber Bolden

This week I met Amber Bolden. She’s a freshman here at CSULB and a film major. What her into film because she was a photographer but she knew that she likes being behind a lense. Her favorite movies are  action, and classic films. On her free time she likes to volunteer, takes photos in LA, hang out with friends, and stay busy. If she could travel anywhere will be India because it’s a very different culture from ours. Experience at CSULB because it’s better that high school because you feel more independent than being stuck at home doing nothing. Feels like a little vacation here at CSULB. Favorite car is a jeep. She works at Victoria secret and hates LA Traffic, who doesn’t?

Week 12-Art Experience-Location Based Gaming

This week we did location based gaming with an app called Geocatching. When I attempted to find three different Geocatch’s, I couldn’t none of them. One of them people commented that the catch was gone and the other two I couldn’t locate at all which was unfortunate because it was really fun walking around campus trying to locate the Geocatchs. This was a fun but difficult art experience, wished I would of found a catch. When I placed my catch, I just placed a coin and paper clip in my catch and hid it under a bush next to a tree. It was pretty exciting cause if anyone find its and needs a paper clip, they have one now. The idea of location based gaming or story telling by location is cool idea because if you go some place new or a spot that you usually hangout, you can find out history of that place just by being there and looking at your phone. It would be cool every little location that had history can tell you a story on your smart phone.

My Attempts at finding a catch

My Catch: 33.77839258743443,-118.11312377699294

Week 12-Artist Conversation-Jennifer Chen

Artist: Jennifer Chen
Exhibition: Succession
Media: Digital Printmaking/Painting
Gallery: CSULB School of Art, Gatov Gallery West
Website: none
Instagram: none

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Chan is a graduate student at the School of Art at CSULB where she is graduating this semester. She was also an undergraduate in Biology. In the fall, she is planning on teaching Art 270 at CSULB which is titled “Intro to Printmaking”. Uses gloss to make he photos stand out, only uses cameras for tools to take her photos, and likes to use good lenses.

FORMAL ANALYSIS

Chan uses googles maps in her art work and then she paints over the map to create a cool 3D effect. Google Earth 3D effect helps here give her work that extra 3D look. She puts more detail in what she thinks what’s important in the photo for example the houses will be more detailed than the trees or the trees would be more detailed than the houses/buildings. Chan uses photoshop a lot to put all the photos together and then creates large digital prints.

CONTENT ANALYSIS

Her work focuses on different sites such as historic landmarks, monuments, and landscapes. She wants to show the landscape before something man or nature changed it in a massive event. She uses maps to show the audience an aerial view of the landscape of what was before and what’s left after.

SYNTHESIS

In my opinion,  I thought the pieces were very interesting in how you had to look at the photos for quite a while to see the detail in the landscape where Chan tries to point out the disturbance that has occurred that made the landscape change. Her art work is really cool and I would recommend people to visit her art show.

Week 11-Art Experience-Turning Pages

• How can we document ephemeral experiences like Turning Pages?
  • I believe we can document an experience is mentally. Always keep the experience with you so can know you’ve done something different. If you create something big, other people would take pictures of you can share it with others which would spread around social media.
• Can Words & Pictures capture an experience?
  • They could but something pictures could show very little in what’s going on, depending on the photo, and can show the audience a wrong message. Words could also we flaw because someone could lack detail of the event and people wouldn’t get the big picture.
• Does the style of the words or images matter? For example, a blurred photo is less precise but might capture more of the experience of motion of a dancer, musician, or other active event. A poem might be a less precise description of an event, but it might offer access to the feelings of the art.
  • It could and could not matter, depending on the event. Words and photos can show how great and event was and how it would be very cool if you were able to experience it too but sometimes words and images could lead the audience in a word path because of the lack of detail given to them.
• Can you think of other ways to share an experience with people who weren’t there to share in it live?
  • People go view a experience like that live or go do it themselves so they can know how it feels to do something different.
• Does the act of trying to document an experience take you out of the experience? For example if you’re trying to photograph something as it happens, does the camera insert an experiential distance between you and the event?
  • I kinda believe that it does take you out of the experience. Even though you are there watching the and taking pictures of it, it take you out of the experience because you are more focus on capturing a perfect image of the event than actually watching the event with you’re own eyes.

My overall experience with this activity was fun. I’ve never done something like this which we all did something different than no one ever does in the computer lab. By not taking pictures in the first experiment, it help everyone including myself focus on what they were doing and experience the difference they are doing but taking pictures in the bookstore, you just let you capture the different things people do in the bookstore. A new insight I have that in the library where you should be able to read books anywhere but what we found out as a class that we’re not able to read in the computer lab as a big group cause we’re causing a disturbance by reading… Something for everyone to think about for nature spaces.